Gonzalo Garcia

About

Gonzalo Garcia is a robotics and control systems researcher whose work spans mobile robot navigation, reinforcement learning-based control, and bioinspired underwater propulsion. He has made significant contributions to the field of nonholonomic mobile robots, developing novel closed-loop control strategies for point stabilization that manipulate linear and angular velocities to guide robots from arbitrary positions to target points — work that has garnered 41 citations since 2019. Garcia has been a pioneer in applying reinforcement learning to autonomous vehicle control, recognizing early its potential to overcome limitations of classical control systems, with related publications accumulating nearly 40 additional citations. His research extends to spherical robots, including both simulation environments like CoppeliaSim and real hardware implementations using pendulum-based internal mechanisms. Notably, Garcia has also explored bioinspired underwater propulsion, investigating thrust scaling and collision avoidance using elongated fin mechanisms modeled after fish locomotion. His commitment to education is evident in his development of an online virtual control laboratory for mobile robots. More recently, his work on multi-agent deep reinforcement learning for cooperative formation control reflects his expanding vision for intelligent, collaborative autonomous systems.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Simulation and Experimental Results of a New Control Strategy For Point Stabilization of Nonholonomic Mobile Robots

   41 citations · 2019
2. 2
   Reinforcement Learning for Position Control Problem of a Mobile Robot

   29 citations · 2020
3. 3
   Force scaling and efficiency of elongated median fin propulsion

   22 citations · 2022
4. 4
   Modeling and Control of a Spherical Robot in the CoppeliaSim Simulator

   20 citations · 2022
5. 5
   Online Virtual Control Laboratory of Mobile Robots

   16 citations · 2018
6. 6
   Underwater collision avoidance using undulating elongated fin propulsion

   10 citations · 2023
7. 7
   Position control of a mobile robot using reinforcement learning

   10 citations · 2020
8. 8
   Development and Control of a Real Spherical Robot

   8 citations · 2023
9. 9
   Mobile Robot Navigation Based on Embedded Computer Vision

   8 citations · 2023
10. 10
    Cooperative Formation Control of a Multi-Agent Khepera IV Mobile Robots System Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

    6 citations · 2025

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