Papers
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Total Citations
130
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About
A. Espinosa-Romero is a robotics researcher whose work bridges the gap between low-level robot control and high-level human-robot interaction. Their key research areas include visual servoing, constrained robot manipulation, and spoken dialogue systems for mobile robotics. Espinosa-Romero’s most notable contribution is the development of the Godot mobile robot platform (59 citations), which pioneered a bidirectional interface between sophisticated navigation systems and symbolic spoken dialogue—a foundational step toward natural human-robot communication. In visual servoing, they have made significant advances in uncalibrated camera systems, creating adaptive and sliding mode control schemes that handle dynamic friction and parametric uncertainties. Their 2006 work on visual servoing for constrained planar robots (26 citations) established a complete theoretical framework for simultaneous position-force control, validated experimentally. Espinosa-Romero has also explored higher-order kinematic formulas using dual numbers (2023, 7 citations), extending classical robotics analysis. Their research is characterized by rigorous theoretical development paired with experimental validation, addressing real-world challenges like friction, calibration uncertainty, and time delays in image processing. This body of work has influenced both autonomous navigation and precision manipulation in robotics.
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- 1Talking to Godot: dialogue with a mobile robot59 citations · 2003
- 2Visual servoing for constrained planar robots subject to complex friction26 citations · 2006
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