Marco A. Arteaga

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Marco A. Arteaga is a prominent robotics and control systems researcher whose work has fundamentally advanced the theory and practice of robot manipulator control. His research spans adaptive control, robust control, flexible manipulators, teleoperation, and cooperative robotics, with a unifying focus on solving practical challenges that arise in real-world robotic systems. Among his most significant contributions is his pioneering work on robot control without velocity measurements, recognizing that tachometer-based velocity sensing introduces cost and noise complications. His 2004 paper on this topic has garnered 104 citations and spawned follow-on work including cooperative robot control under the same constraint, as well as a 2019 experimental validation study with 44 citations. His early work on passivity-based adaptive control (1994, 56 citations) established theoretical foundations that continue to influence the field, while his research on flexible robot manipulators explored the structural properties critical to effective control design. Arteaga has also made important contributions to bilateral teleoperation under time delay (80 citations) and adaptive position/force control for contact tasks (50 citations), demonstrating his breadth across both theoretical and applied domains. With hundreds of cumulative citations spanning three decades, his body of work represents a sustained and highly impactful career in advanced robotics research.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Robot Control Without Velocity Measurements: New Theory and Experimental Results

   104 citations · 2004
2. 2
   Observer-based sliding mode impedance control of bilateral teleoperation under constant unknown time delay

   80 citations · 2007
3. 3
   On the Properties of a Dynamic Model of Flexible Robot Manipulators

   63 citations · 1998
4. 4
   GPI based velocity/force observer design for robot manipulators

   56 citations · 2014
5. 5
   Adaptive control of robot manipulators based on passivity

   56 citations · 1994
6. 6
   Adaptive position/force control for robot manipulators in contact with a rigid surface with uncertain parameters

   50 citations · 2015
7. 7
   On the Control of Cooperative Robots Without Velocity Measurements

   49 citations · 2004
8. 8
   On tracking control of flexible robot arms

   47 citations · 2000
9. 9
   Experimental Results on the Robust and Adaptive Control of Robot Manipulators Without Velocity Measurements

   44 citations · 2019
10. 10
    Dynamic model and simulation of cooperative robots: a case study

    44 citations · 2005

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