Papers
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Total Citations
592
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About
Felipe N. Martins is a robotics researcher whose work spans mobile robot control, multi-robot systems, collaborative robotics, and educational robotics. His most influential contribution, "An Adaptive Dynamic Controller for Autonomous Mobile Robot Trajectory Tracking" (2008), has garnered nearly 300 citations and established him as a leading voice in adaptive control strategies for wheeled mobile robots. Building on this foundation, Martins developed velocity-based dynamic models for differential drive robots and pioneered multi-layer control architectures enabling formations of mobile robots to navigate complex environments while avoiding obstacles — a body of work reflected across several well-cited publications from 2009 to 2015. In recent years, Martins has extended his research into cutting-edge domains, applying reinforcement learning to collaborative robot pick-and-place tasks and machine learning techniques for robot localization in competitive robotics settings. His commitment to broadening access to robotics is evident in his work on junior soccer simulation platforms designed to introduce primary and secondary students to educational robotics. Across more than a decade of research, Martins has consistently bridged theoretical control design with practical robotic applications, making meaningful contributions to both academic literature and real-world deployment of autonomous and collaborative robotic systems.
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- 1An adaptive dynamic controller for autonomous mobile robot trajectory tracking295 citations · 2008
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- 9Motion Control and Velocity-Based Dynamic Compensation for Mobile Robots14 citations · 2019
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