Wei Huo

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Wei Huo is a control systems researcher whose work has made significant contributions to the field of nonholonomic systems, mobile robotics, and adaptive control theory. His research focuses primarily on the trajectory tracking and stabilization of dynamic nonholonomic systems — a class of mechanically constrained systems that includes wheeled mobile robots and free-floating space manipulators. Huo's most influential contribution, "Tracking control of uncertain dynamic nonholonomic systems and its application to wheeled mobile robots" (2000, 81 citations), introduced a landmark adaptive controller capable of handling unknown inertia parameters while guaranteeing asymptotic trajectory tracking with low computational overhead. This work, alongside his 1999 papers on trajectory tracking and adaptive stabilization (44 and 27 citations respectively), established him as a pioneering voice in addressing the notoriously difficult challenge of controlling uncertain nonholonomic systems. Beyond mobile robotics, Huo extended his adaptive control expertise to free-floating space robots, addressing the unique challenge of inertia-dependent Jacobian matrices in unconstrained space environments. His introduction of the Extended Non-holonomic Integrators (ENI) canonical form further demonstrated his knack for developing elegant theoretical frameworks with practical engineering relevance. Collectively, his body of work has garnered over 200 citations, making it an essential reference for researchers working at the intersection of nonlinear control theory and autonomous robotic systems.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Tracking control of uncertain dynamic nonholonomic system and its application to wheeled mobile robots

   81 citations · 2000
2. 2
   Trajectory tracking control of dynamic non-holonomic systems with unknown dynamics

   44 citations · 1999
3. 3
   Adaptive stabilization of uncertain dynamic non-holonomic systems

   27 citations · 1999
4. 4
   Exponential stabilization of non-holonomic systems: An ENI approach

   21 citations · 2001
5. 5
   Tracking control of wheeled mobile robots with unknown dynamics

   21 citations · 2003
6. 6
   Adaptive stabilization of dynamic nonholonomic chained systems with uncertainty

   13 citations · 2002
7. 7
   On stabilization of uncertain dynamic nonholonomic systems

   10 citations · 2000
8. 8
   Predictive variable structure control of nonholonomic chained systems

   9 citations · 2008
9. 9
   New formulas for complete determining base parameters of robots

   7 citations · 2002
10. 10
    Adaptive kinematic control of free-floating space robot system

    7 citations · 2002

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