Papers
53
Total Citations
958
H-Index
17
About
Prabhakar R. Pagilla is a distinguished robotics and control systems researcher whose work spans robot motion control, human-robot collaboration, and robotic surface finishing processes. Over more than two decades, he has made foundational contributions to adaptive control theory, developing novel controllers for robot arms and time-varying mechanical systems that have advanced the field's understanding of stability and real-world performance. His early work on constrained robot motion — including contact transition control and surface finishing processes such as deburring, grinding, and polishing — established him as a leading voice in applied robotics, with several papers accumulating over 40–60 citations. More recently, Pagilla has expanded into human-robot collaboration, examining how cognitive fatigue, operator demographics, and trust influence performance and situational awareness in shared manufacturing environments, with his 2021 study garnering over 100 citations. His 2022 contributions on collision-free trajectory planning and uniform coverage tool path generation further demonstrate his commitment to solving complex, practical challenges in robotic manipulation. With a body of work consistently bridging rigorous theoretical analysis and experimental validation, Pagilla's research has significantly shaped modern intelligent robotics and continues to influence both academic inquiry and industrial automation practice.
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- 3A stable transition controller for constrained robots61 citations · 2001
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- 5Robotic Surface Finishing Processes: Modeling, Control, and Experiments52 citations · 1999
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- 8An Experimental Study of Planar Impact of a Robot Manipulator40 citations · 2004
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