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Lounis Sadelli is a leading researcher in the control and navigation of magnetic microrobots for biomedical applications, with a primary focus on targeted therapy within the human vasculature. His work addresses the fundamental challenge of precisely steering these tiny agents through complex, dynamic physiological environments. Sadelli’s major contributions include pioneering observer-based control strategies that enable microrobots to navigate despite the unpredictable, nonlinear drag forces of pulsatile blood flow—a critical obstacle that his 2016 paper on 2D observer-based control (40 citations) and his foundational 2014 work (4 citations) directly tackle. He has also advanced the field of multi-agent microrobotics, exploring the controllability and trajectory planning of underactuated systems where multiple robots share a single magnetic field, as detailed in his 2019 paper (11 citations). By developing robust control laws that do not require real-time blood velocity measurements, Sadelli has laid essential groundwork for reliable in-vivo microrobotic navigation, bringing autonomous medical microrobots closer to clinical reality.