Papers
38
Total Citations
2,567
H-Index
17
About
Abdelhamid Tayebi is a prominent control systems researcher whose work spans autonomous aerial vehicles, iterative learning control, and networked multi-agent systems. He is perhaps best known for his foundational contributions to quadrotor control, with his 2006 paper "Attitude Stabilization of a VTOL Quadrotor Aircraft" accumulating over 1,000 citations — a landmark achievement that helped establish the theoretical groundwork for modern drone control. By developing quaternion-based feedback schemes that elegantly compensate for Coriolis and gyroscopic torques, Tayebi provided the robotics and aerospace communities with rigorous, practically implementable stabilization strategies during a period when quadrotor research was rapidly accelerating. Equally significant is his sustained contribution to iterative learning control (ILC) for robot manipulators, where his adaptive and robust ILC frameworks — backed by experimental validation — have collectively garnered hundreds of citations and influenced how repetitive robotic tasks are approached in both theory and practice. His later research extended into networked systems, addressing the challenging problem of synchronizing Euler-Lagrange systems under unknown communication delays and input constraints. Across these interconnected domains, Tayebi has built a body of work that is both mathematically rigorous and deeply relevant to real-world autonomous and robotic systems.
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Top Papers
- 1Attitude stabilization of a VTOL quadrotor aircraft1,004 citations · 2006
- 2Adaptive iterative learning control for robot manipulators458 citations · 2004
- 3Attitude stabilization of a four-rotor aerial robot249 citations · 2004
- 4Synchronization of Lagrangian Systems With Irregular Communication Delays122 citations · 2013
- 5Robust Iterative Learning Control Design: Application to a Robot Manipulator111 citations · 2008
- 6Further results on adaptive iterative learning control of robot manipulators104 citations · 2007
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- 8All-pass filtering in iterative learning control49 citations · 2008
- 9Adaptive iterative learning control for robot manipulators*142 citations · 2004
- 10Synchronization of networked Lagrangian systems with input constraints32 citations · 2011