Papers
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Total Citations
118
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About
Jean-Pierre Richard is a control systems researcher whose work sits at the intersection of networked control, time-delay systems, and cooperative robotics. His most influential contribution, "A Switched System Approach to Exponential Stabilization Through Communication Network" (2011, 88 citations), established a rigorous framework for stabilizing networked control systems under variable Quality of Service constraints, employing a master-slave architecture that elegantly separates remote controller and observer roles from the plant dynamics. This foundational work underpins much of his subsequent research into Internet-based remote control, where unpredictable communication delays pose fundamental challenges to system stability and performance. Richard's research has progressively evolved toward event-triggered observation schemes and data-rate-constrained communication channels, addressing the practical challenge of reconstructing system states remotely with minimal bandwidth. His 2022 paper on event-triggered observation for perturbed nonlinear systems reflects this maturation. Complementing his theoretical contributions, he has applied these ideas to tangible platforms, including unicycle mobile robots and multi-agent cooperative systems, and even extended his expertise to lunar robotic mission risk mitigation. Across his career, Richard has consistently bridged rigorous mathematical analysis with real-world implementation, making him a notable figure in networked and distributed control systems research.
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- 4A Multiagent Methodology for Lunar Robotic Mission Risk Mitigation4 citations · 2009
- 5Remote decentralized control strategy for cooperative mobile robots4 citations · 2005
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- 7Observing a Unicycle Robot with Data Rate Constraints: a Case Study2 citations · 2021
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