Jorge Palos

About

Jorge Palos is a researcher whose work sits at the intersection of autonomous mobile robotics, motion planning, and intelligent control systems. His most influential contributions address the fundamental challenges of navigating non-holonomic mobile robots — particularly unicycle-type platforms — through complex, obstacle-laden environments. His 2009 paper on distributed receding horizon motion planning for cooperative robots, garnering 60 citations, established him as a notable voice in multi-robot coordination, while his performance-based reactive navigation architecture (45 citations) demonstrated an elegant integration of planning and control into cohesive, modular frameworks rather than treating them as isolated problems. Palos has consistently bridged theoretical rigor with experimental validation, as evidenced by his experimental motion planning work and his sliding mode controller research from 2007. His interests have also extended into precision manufacturing, with a well-cited 2017 contribution applying collaborative robots equipped with laser triangulation sensors to 3D metrology in Smart Manufacturing contexts (30 citations). Further work on algebraic localizability and swarm robotics planning architectures reveals the breadth of his curiosity across robot perception, coordination, and decentralized intelligence. Collectively, his portfolio represents a sustained effort to make autonomous robots more reliable, precise, and practically deployable in real-world settings.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Motion planning for cooperative unicycle-type mobile robots with limited sensing ranges: A distributed receding horizon approach

   60 citations · 2009
2. 2
   Performance-based reactive navigation for non-holonomic mobile robots

   45 citations · 2008
3. 3
   3D Metrology Using a Collaborative Robot with a Laser Triangulation Sensor

   30 citations · 2017
4. 4
   Experimental Motion Planning and Control for an Autonomous Nonholonomic Mobile Robot

   21 citations · 2007
5. 5
   Practical stabilization and tracking of a wheeled mobile robot with integral sliding mode controller

   16 citations · 2007
6. 6
   Localizability of unicycle mobiles robots: An algebraic point of view

   8 citations · 2012
7. 7
   Precise and robust large-shape reproduction using uncalibrated vision

   3 citations · 2009
8. 8
   A decentralized planning architecture for a swarm of mobile robots

   2 citations · 2011

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