Papers
173
Total Citations
10,629
H-Index
42
About
Giuseppe Oriolo is a distinguished Italian roboticist whose research has profoundly shaped our understanding of robot modelling, motion control, and autonomous navigation. Best known as a co-author of the landmark textbook *Robotics: Modelling, Planning and Control* (2009), which has accumulated over 2,500 citations, Oriolo has helped define the educational and theoretical foundations of modern robotics for an entire generation of researchers and engineers. His scientific contributions span several interconnected domains. In mobile robotics, his work on dynamic feedback linearization for wheeled mobile robots — cited nearly 800 times — provided elegant and practically validated solutions to the notoriously challenging nonholonomic motion control problem. His parallel investigations into visual servoing, particularly exploiting epipolar geometry for camera-guided nonholonomic robots, demonstrate a sophisticated integration of perception and control theory. Early contributions to simultaneous map building and autonomous navigation further cemented his relevance to real-world robotics applications. Oriolo has also made meaningful inroads into medical robotics, addressing remote-center-of-motion constraints critical to minimally invasive surgery, and has explored underactuated manipulator systems with free joints. With a body of work spanning foundational textbooks to cutting-edge surgical robotics, his research continues to influence both academic inquiry and practical robotic system design worldwide.
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Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1Robotics: modelling, planning and control2,507 citations · 2009
- 2Robotics1,177 citations · 2008
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- 4Feedback control of a nonholonomic car-like robot550 citations · 1998
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- 7Control of Wheeled Mobile Robots: An Experimental Overview199 citations · 2001
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