Omar A.A. Orqueda

About

Omar A.A. Orqueda is an accomplished robotics and control systems researcher whose work sits at the intersection of cooperative multi-vehicle systems, vision-based control, and networked embedded technologies. His most influential contribution, the 2007 paper on decentralized cooperative control for multivehicle platforms (146 citations), helped establish foundational frameworks for networked embedded systems in which multiple autonomous robots collaborate to achieve shared objectives. This work has become a key reference for researchers designing cooperative robotic architectures. Orqueda has made significant strides in vision-based formation control, developing robust decentralized algorithms that enable unmanned vehicles to maintain formations using only relative distances or bearing angles derived from onboard cameras — a practically elegant solution that reduces reliance on expensive sensor infrastructure. His 2006 formation control paper (38 citations) exemplifies this approach. Earlier in his career, he also advanced real-time vision systems for mobile robot localization, with applications demonstrated in competitive robotic soccer environments. Spanning work from autonomous navigation strategies in 2000 through multi-agent systems surveys in 2013, Orqueda's research trajectory reflects a sustained commitment to bridging theoretical control design with real-world autonomous systems, making his publications particularly valuable for students and engineers working on practical multi-robot deployments.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Decentralized cooperative control - A multivehicle platform for research in networked embedded systems

   146 citations · 2007
2. 2
   Robust vision-based nonlinear formation control

   38 citations · 2006
3. 3
   Robust and efficient vision system for group of cooperating mobile robots with application to soccer robots

   18 citations · 2004
4. 4
   Visual tracking of mobile robots in formation

   11 citations · 2007
5. 5
   Robust and efficient vision system for mobile robots control—application to soccer robots

   10 citations · 2001
6. 6
   A vision-based nonlinear decentralized controller for unmanned vehicles

   8 citations · 2006
7. 7
   Vision-based control of multi-agent systems

   2 citations · 2013
8. 8
   Motion planning and control: from virtual environments to the real world

   2 citations · 2003
9. 9
   A Strategy for Safe Goal-Directed Autonomous Navigation

   2 citations · 2000

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