About

Montserrat Manubens is a leading researcher in robot kinematics, with a focus on motion planning, singularity analysis, and cable-driven systems. Her work addresses fundamental challenges in robotic manipulation, particularly for complex multibody systems and aerial robots. She pioneered motion planning approaches for 6-D manipulation using aerial towed-cable systems (65 citations), enabling reliable quasi-static control of flying robots—a critical step for industrial and search-and-rescue applications. Manubens also developed the CUIK Suite (38 citations), an open-source toolbox for analyzing closed-chain mechanisms, which has become a valuable resource for researchers studying parallel manipulators and reconfigurable robots. Her contributions to singularity theory include general numerical methods for computing manipulator singularity sets (25 citations) and a classification framework for non-redundant robots (8 citations), providing essential tools for safe and efficient robot control. She has also advanced cable-driven hexapods by planning wrench-feasible motions that maintain cable tension limits (20 citations). Manubens’ work is widely cited and has practical implications for robot design, path planning, and automation.

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187
Total Citations
23
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🏆 Most Cited Paper
Motion Planning for 6-D Manipulation with Aerial Towed-cable Systems
65 citations · 2013
📈 Most Prolific Year: 2013 (3 Papers)
🤝 Key Collaborators: 8
🏛 Institutions: Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, Instituto de Investigaciones Químicas y Ambientales de Barcelona, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

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