Leila Notash
Papers
23
Total Citations
497
H-Index
11
About
Leila Notash is a leading authority in the field of parallel and cable-driven robotics, with a career dedicated to advancing the design, control, and fault tolerance of these complex systems. Her research focuses on the kinematics, kineto-statics, and calibration of wire-actuated and parallel manipulators, with a particular emphasis on large-scale cable-driven robots. Notash’s most impactful work, an adaptive sliding mode controller for robot manipulators, has garnered over 216 citations, demonstrating its foundational influence on robust control strategies. She is also the inventor of the CAT4 (Cable Actuated Truss—4 Degrees of Freedom), a novel cable-actuated parallel manipulator developed at Queen’s University, which has become a benchmark design in the field. Her contributions extend to optimizing fault tolerance against joint jams and developing neural network-based solutions for the inverse kineto-static analysis of cable-driven robots, accounting for cable mass and elasticity. With a career spanning over two decades, Notash’s work has shaped both theoretical frameworks and practical prototypes, making her a pivotal figure in the evolution of wire-actuated and parallel robotic systems.
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Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1Adaptive sliding mode control with uncertainty estimator for robot manipulators216 citations · 2009
- 2Kinematic calibration of a wire-actuated parallel robot39 citations · 2006
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- 9Configuration engine for architecture planning of modular parallel robots17 citations · 2003
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