Zenon Hendzel

About

Zenon Hendzel is a prominent Polish researcher specializing in intelligent control systems, mobile robotics, and mechatronics, whose work has shaped modern approaches to autonomous robot navigation and adaptive control. Based at the Rzeszów University of Technology, Hendzel has made enduring contributions to the development of neural network-based control strategies, most notably through his pioneering application of adaptive critic designs and dynamic programming to wheeled mobile robots — work that has accumulated over 60 citations individually and established him as a leading voice in the field. His research spans fuzzy logic navigation, Kohonen self-organizing maps for collision-free path planning, and the rigorous dynamic modeling of mecanum-wheeled robots using Lagrange equations — a contribution that has proven especially influential as omnidirectional platforms gained practical relevance. His 2017 monograph on intelligent optimal adaptive control for mechatronic systems synthesizes much of this foundational work into a cohesive framework. More recent efforts address robust neural network control under uncertainty, leveraging Hamilton-Jacobi inequality formulations to ensure stability in unspecified mechanical systems. With a body of work exceeding 290 cumulative citations, Hendzel's research offers students and engineers a rigorous yet practical foundation for intelligent mobile robot control.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   An adaptive critic neural network for motion control of a wheeled mobile robot

   62 citations · 2007
2. 2
   Modelling of Dynamics of a Wheeled Mobile Robot with Mecanum Wheels with the use of Lagrange Equations of the Second Kind

   61 citations · 2017
3. 3
   Discrete neural dynamic programming in wheeled mobile robot control

   37 citations · 2010
4. 4
   Intelligent Optimal Adaptive Control for Mechatronic Systems

   36 citations · 2017
5. 5
   Discrete Model-Based Adaptive Critic Designs in Wheeled Mobile Robot Control

   22 citations · 2010
6. 6
   Collision free path planning and control of wheeled mobile robot using Kohonen self-organising map

   18 citations · 2005
7. 7
   Fuzzy reactive control of wheeled mobile robot

   15 citations · 2004
8. 8
   Conventional and Fuzzy Force Control in Robotised Machining

   14 citations · 2013
9. 9
   Neural Dynamic Programming in Reactive Navigation of Wheeled Mobile Robot

   13 citations · 2012
10. 10
    Robust neural networks control of omni-mecanum wheeled robot with hamilton-jacobi inequality

    12 citations · 2018

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