Papers
132
Total Citations
2,647
H-Index
26
About
Zoe Doulgeri is a prominent robotics researcher whose work has fundamentally advanced the fields of robot motion control, force/position tracking, and adaptive control systems. Her most celebrated contributions center on **prescribed performance control** — a rigorous framework that guarantees robots achieve precise tracking with quantifiable transient and steady-state behavior, even under significant model uncertainties. Her 2013 paper on flexible joint robots with variable elasticity (183 citations) and her pioneering 2010 work on neuro-adaptive force/position control (124 citations) established her as a leading authority in this domain, addressing long-standing challenges such as contact maintenance, overshoot elimination, and guaranteed response speed simultaneously. Doulgeri's model-free control approaches are particularly impactful, enabling high-performance robot joint regulation without requiring knowledge of complex system dynamics — a practical breakthrough for real-world deployment. Her research extends to variable stiffness actuators, redundant robot kinematics with joint limit avoidance, and bimanual robotic assembly. More recently, her comprehensive survey on robotic harvesting systems (86 citations, 2023) demonstrates her expanding influence in agricultural robotics. Collectively, her work has accumulated nearly 1,000 citations, making her research essential reading for anyone studying advanced robot control theory and human-robot interaction.
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- 4Prescribed Performance Tracking of a Variable Stiffness Actuated Robot90 citations · 2015
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- 7A Survey of Robotic Harvesting Systems and Enabling Technologies86 citations · 2023
- 8Kinematic control of redundant robots with guaranteed joint limit avoidance71 citations · 2016
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