Papers
30
Total Citations
756
H-Index
14
About
Elena Panteley is a leading figure in nonlinear control theory, with her research fundamentally shaping the fields of robotics and multi-agent systems. Her work masterfully bridges rigorous theoretical frameworks with practical applications, particularly in the control of nonholonomic vehicles and robot manipulators. A cornerstone of her contribution is the development of cascaded control approaches, as demonstrated in her highly cited 1998 paper on exponential tracking control of a mobile car (146 citations), which provides a systematic method for stabilizing complex, underactuated systems. Panteley has also made seminal contributions to adaptive control, including an adaptive friction compensator for robot manipulators (93 citations) and an adaptive trajectory/force control scheme (33 citations). In recent years, she has been at the forefront of distributed control for multi-agent systems, tackling challenges like time-varying delays and relaxed persistency of excitation conditions to achieve formation tracking and consensus among autonomous vehicles. Her work on consensus with nonholonomic restrictions (36 citations) and leader-follower formation tracking (46 citations) is particularly notable for its use of Lyapunov’s direct method and smooth time-varying controllers. With a career spanning over two decades, Panteley’s research is characterized by its mathematical elegance and direct impact on the reliable coordination of autonomous systems.
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Top Papers
- 1Exponential Tracking Control of a Mobile Car Using a Cascaded Approach146 citations · 1998
- 2An adaptive friction compensator for global tracking in robot manipulators93 citations · 1998
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- 8A separation principle for a class of euler-lagrange systems34 citations · 2007
- 9Adaptive trajectory/force control scheme for constrained robot manipulators33 citations · 1993
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