Corrado Guarino Lo Bianco

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Corrado Guarino Lo Bianco is an Italian robotics and control engineer whose research spans motor control, motion planning, and trajectory generation for robotic systems. His early landmark work on variable reluctance direct-drive motors (1993, 136 citations) established high-performance torque control strategies for robotic trajectory tracking, demonstrating his commitment to bridging theoretical modeling with practical implementation. He is perhaps best known for pioneering the η³-spline path primitive for wheeled mobile robots (2007, 116 citations), an elegant mathematical framework enabling smooth, curvature-continuous path generation that has become a foundational reference in mobile robotics planning literature. A recurring theme across his body of work is the challenge of real-time trajectory scaling — reconciling the conflicting demands of time efficiency and constraint satisfaction in robotic manipulators. His contributions in online trajectory scaling using nonlinear variable structure filters, second-order dynamic filters, and discrete-time trajectory generators (2009–2011) offer practical solutions for systems subject to high-order kinematic and dynamic constraints. His recursive Newton-Euler approach for computing generalized force derivatives further enriches the field of robot dynamics estimation. With over 540 cumulative citations, Guarino Lo Bianco's research provides essential tools for engineers designing safe, smooth, and efficient robotic motion systems.

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1. 1
   Modeling and control strategies for a variable reluctance direct-drive motor

   136 citations · 1993
2. 2
   ${ \mmb{\eta } }^{3}$-Splines for the Smooth Path Generation of Wheeled Mobile Robots

   116 citations · 2007
3. 3
   Nonlinear Variable Structure Filter for the Online Trajectory Scaling

   51 citations · 2009
4. 4
   Minimum-Jerk Velocity Planning for Mobile Robot Applications

   48 citations · 2013
5. 5
   Online Trajectory Scaling for Manipulators Subject to High-Order Kinematic and Dynamic Constraints

   44 citations · 2011
6. 6
   A novel second order filter for the real-time trajectory scaling

   33 citations · 2011
7. 7
   Evaluation of Generalized Force Derivatives by Means of a Recursive Newton–Euler Approach

   33 citations · 2009
8. 8
   Generation of Paths With Minimum Curvature Derivative With <formula formulatype="inline"> <tex Notation="TeX">$ { \mmb{\eta } }^{3}$</tex> </formula>-Splines

   30 citations · 2009
9. 9
   A discrete-time filter for the on-line generation of trajectories with bounded velocity, acceleration, and jerk

   28 citations · 2010
10. 10
    G ³ -splines for the path planning of wheeled mobile robots

    24 citations · 2003

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