Alejandro Alvarez-Aguirre

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Alejandro Alvarez-Aguirre is a robotics and control systems researcher whose work centers on a highly specialized and practically significant challenge: enabling reliable remote control of mobile robots over communication networks that introduce time delays. His research spans both unicycle-type and omnidirectional mobile robots, developing sophisticated predictor-based and Smith-predictor compensation strategies to counteract the destabilizing effects of network-induced transport delays on robot tracking and stability. His most influential contribution, "Predictor-Based Remote Tracking Control of a Mobile Robot" (2014, 26 citations), exemplifies his core methodology — designing control architectures that anticipate delay effects rather than simply reacting to them. Earlier foundational work, including his 2007 Smith-predictor paper (23 citations) and discrete-time control studies, established rigorous mathematical frameworks using exact discretization models that have since shaped subsequent research in networked robotics. He has also extended this expertise to multi-robot systems, exploring long-distance synchronization of robot networks and bilateral delay scenarios representative of real-world Internet-connected systems. With over 110 cumulative citations across nine key publications, Alvarez-Aguirre has made meaningful contributions to the intersection of control theory and mobile robotics, offering practical solutions relevant to teleoperation, distributed robotics, and autonomous systems operating over imperfect communication infrastructures.

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1. 1
   Predictor-Based Remote Tracking Control of a Mobile Robot

   26 citations · 2014
2. 2
   Smith-predictor compensator for a delayed omnidirectional mobile robot

   23 citations · 2007
3. 3
   Predictor-based Tracking Control of A Mobile Robot with Time-delays

   21 citations · 2010
4. 4
   Discrete-Time Control of an Omnidireccional Mobile Robot Subject to Transport Delay

   15 citations · 2007
5. 5
   Nonlinear Smith-predictor based control strategy for a unicycle mobile robot subject to transport delay

   8 citations · 2008
6. 6
   Remote Tracking Control of Unicycle Robots with Network-Induced Delays

   8 citations · 2011
7. 7
   Long distance synchronization of mobile robots

   4 citations · 2010
8. 8
   REMOTE CONTROL OF A MOBILE ROBOT SUBJECT TO A COMMUNICATION DELAY

   4 citations · 2010
9. 9
   Predictor Based Control Strategy for Wheeled Mobile Robots Subject to Transport Delay

   2 citations · 2010

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