Jorge Hermosillo

About

Jorge Hermosillo is a versatile robotics and artificial intelligence researcher whose work spans autonomous navigation, nonholonomic control systems, cognitive robotics, and precision agriculture. He is perhaps best known for his foundational contributions to the CyCab platform — a bi-steerable, differentially flat robotic vehicle designed for safe autonomous navigation in pedestrian environments. His series of papers on the CyCab, including trajectory tracking via flatness-based feedback control and motion planning for bi-steerable cars, established important theoretical and practical frameworks for this class of nonholonomic systems, collectively earning well over 100 citations. Beyond vehicle robotics, Hermosillo has made meaningful contributions to cognitive robotics, exploring how artificial agents can develop internal models, sensory-motor schemes, and mental imagery for anticipatory behavior — work that bridges neuroscience-inspired theory and embodied AI. His 2016 paper on self-organized internal model architectures reflects a sustained interest in grounded cognition and biologically plausible computation. More recently, his research has extended into precision agriculture, with a highly cited 2019 study applying deep convolutional encoder-decoder networks to aerial fig plant segmentation, demonstrating his capacity to translate robotics expertise into impactful applied domains. With a citation portfolio exceeding 200, Hermosillo represents a productive bridge between theoretical robotics and emerging real-world applications.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   The CyCab: a car-like robot navigating autonomously and safely among pedestrians

   56 citations · 2004
2. 2
   Fig Plant Segmentation from Aerial Images Using a Deep Convolutional Encoder-Decoder Network

   42 citations · 2019
3. 3
   Feedback control of a bi-steerable car using flatness application to trajectory tracking

   26 citations · 2004
4. 4
   The Cycab robot: a differentially flat system

   22 citations · 2002
5. 5
   A Self-Organized Internal Models Architecture for Coding Sensory–Motor Schemes

   17 citations · 2016
6. 6
   Anticipation by multi-modal association through an artificial mental imagery process

   12 citations · 2014
7. 7
   An autonomous car-like robot navigating safely among pedestrians

   10 citations · 2004
8. 8
   Self Body Mapping in Mobile Robots Using Vision and Forward Models

   8 citations · 2012
9. 9
   Motion planning for a Bi-steerable Car.

   7 citations · 2001
10. 10
    Cycab bi-steerable cars: a new family of differentially flat systems

    6 citations · 2002

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