Papers
12
Total Citations
831
H-Index
9
About
R. Marino is a distinguished control systems researcher whose career spans several decades, with foundational contributions at the intersection of nonlinear control theory, robotics, and power electronics. His most celebrated work, "Feedback Linearizing Control of Switched Reluctance Motors" (1987), has amassed 475 citations and remains a landmark contribution, addressing high-performance motor drives at a time when direct-drive robotics was an emerging frontier. Alongside an earlier companion paper from 1986, this work established feedback linearization as a powerful tool for managing the complex nonlinear dynamics of switched reluctance motors in robotic joints. Marino's research has also made significant strides in elastic and flexible-joint robot control, applying singular perturbation techniques to manage the challenging dynamics of nearly-stiff joints — work that appeared as early as 1985 and continued influencing the field into the 2000s. His geometric approach to singularly perturbed nonlinear systems (1988, 90 citations) further demonstrates his theoretical depth. More recently, his contributions to iterative learning control and adaptive tracking for underactuated mechanical systems reflect a career-long commitment to expanding the toolkit available to control engineers tackling real-world nonlinear systems.
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Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1Feedback linearizing control of switched reluctance motors475 citations · 1987
- 2A geometric approach to nonlinear singularly perturbed control systems90 citations · 1988
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- 4On the controllability properties of elastic robots60 citations · 2005
- 5Singular Perturbation Techniques in the Adaptive Control of Elastic Robots *59 citations · 1985
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- 8On the Control of Robots with Elastic Joints12 citations · 1985
- 9Feedback Linearization Techniques in Robotics and Power Systems9 citations · 1986
- 10On the application of symbolic computation to nonlinear control theory7 citations · 2005