Diego Santiago

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Diego Santiago is a control systems researcher whose work sits at the intersection of robotics, teleoperation, and human-robot interaction. His primary expertise lies in bilateral teleoperation of mobile and manipulator robots, with a particular focus on developing stable control strategies that account for the practical challenges of time-varying and asymmetric communication delays. Santiago's most significant contributions center on novel controller architectures — including PD-like, P+d, and P+d+f schemes — designed to achieve simultaneous force and position coordination between human operators and remote robotic systems. His 2018 paper on P+d plus sliding mode control for mobile robot teleoperation has garnered 32 citations, while his 2016 work on delayed bilateral teleoperation of wheeled robots has accumulated 29 citations, together establishing him as a leading voice in this specialized field. Notably, he has extended teleoperation frameworks to the particularly challenging domain of mobile manipulators, tackling high-coupled dynamics and motion redundancy that few researchers have addressed directly. Beyond teleoperation, Santiago has explored human-friendly robotics, including social field avoidance and human-following behaviors. With over 130 cumulative citations across his published work, his research provides foundational tools for remote surgery, hazardous environment operation, and next-generation human-robot collaboration systems.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   P+d Plus Sliding Mode Control for Bilateral Teleoperation of a Mobile Robot

   32 citations · 2018
2. 2
   PD-like controller for delayed bilateral teleoperation of wheeled robots

   29 citations · 2016
3. 3
   Stable Delayed Bilateral Teleoperation of Mobile Manipulators

   20 citations · 2017
4. 4
   Human-inspired stable bilateral teleoperation of mobile manipulators

   18 citations · 2019
5. 5
   Dual Coordination for Bilateral Teleoperation of a Mobile Robot with Time Varying Delay

   13 citations · 2020
6. 6
   Force and position coordination for delayed bilateral teleoperation of a manipulator robot

   7 citations · 2023
7. 7
   Force and Position–Velocity Coordination for Delayed Bilateral Teleoperation of a Mobile Robot

   7 citations · 2019
8. 8
   Null-space based control for human following and social field avoidance

   4 citations · 2017
9. 9
   Delayed Trilateral Teleoperation of a Mobile Robot

   3 citations · 2017

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