Carlos I. Aldana

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Carlos I. Aldana is a robotics and control systems researcher whose work has significantly advanced the field of multi-robot coordination, distributed control, and autonomous navigation. His primary research areas span consensus control for heterogeneous robot networks, bilateral teleoperation, and state estimation for autonomous systems. Aldana's most impactful contributions lie in developing novel distributed control schemes that enable networks of kinematically and dynamically different robots to achieve coordinated behavior — a notoriously challenging problem. His early work on operational space consensus without velocity measurements (2013, 34 citations) established foundational approaches that elegantly sidestep the need for velocity sensors, reducing hardware complexity without sacrificing performance. This theme extends through his investigations into pose consensus with variable time delays (2014, 29 citations) and task space consensus under uncertainty (2016, 25 citations), together forming a cohesive body of work addressing real-world constraints such as communication delays, parametric uncertainty, and sensor limitations. Beyond multi-robot coordination, Aldana has contributed meaningfully to autonomous navigation, developing visual-inertial navigation systems and SLAM approaches that fuse camera and inertial measurements through Kalman filtering and hybrid filtering-optimization frameworks. His more recent work on robust PID formation control for nonholonomic robots demonstrates a continued commitment to practically implementable solutions. Collectively, his publications have accumulated over 150 citations, reflecting sustained influence across the robotics research community.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Operational space consensus of multiple heterogeneous robots without velocity measurements

   34 citations · 2013
2. 2
   Pose consensus in networks of heterogeneous robots with variable time delays

   29 citations · 2014
3. 3
   Task space consensus in networks of heterogeneous and uncertain robotic systems with variable time‐delays

   25 citations · 2016
4. 4
   A Visual-Aided Inertial Navigation and Mapping System

   13 citations · 2016
5. 5
   Robust PID consensus-based formation control of nonholonomic mobile robots affected by disturbances

   10 citations · 2021
6. 6
   Task Space Consensus of Heterogeneous Robots With Time-Delays and Without Velocity Measurements

   9 citations · 2020
7. 7
   Control of bilateral teleoperators in the operational space without velocity measurements

   9 citations · 2013
8. 8
   Monocular-Based SLAM for Mobile Robots: Filtering-Optimization Hybrid Approach

   8 citations · 2023
9. 9
   Control in the operational space of bilateral teleoperators with time-delays and without velocity measurements

   7 citations · 2018
10. 10
    Cartesian space consensus of heterogeneous and uncertain Euler-Lagrange systems using artificial neural networks

    7 citations · 2017

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