Mostafa Jalalnezhad

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Mostafa Jalalnezhad is a prominent robotics and control systems researcher whose work spans mobile robot control, path planning, and autonomous systems. His research career, spanning nearly a decade, is anchored in developing sophisticated nonlinear control strategies for complex robotic platforms, including wheeled mobile robots, tractor-trailer systems, exoskeletons, and autonomous underwater vehicles. Jalalnezhad's most influential contribution, "Robust Forward/Backward Control of Wheeled Mobile Robots" (2021), has garnered 61 citations, establishing him as a leading voice in robust control design. His early foundational work on backstepping control for tractor-trailer wheeled robots (2017–2019) laid the groundwork for addressing highly nonlinear, underactuated systems using Lyapunov-based methods, accumulating over 40 additional citations combined. More recently, he has advanced intelligent path-planning methodologies, integrating metaheuristic algorithms such as bee colony and genetic algorithms, neural networks, and RRT-based approaches for obstacle-rich environments. With over 180 cumulative citations and active publications into 2025, Jalalnezhad's research bridges theoretical control engineering and real-world autonomous robotics applications, making his work particularly valuable for engineers and students working on motion planning, adaptive control, and next-generation robotic systems.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Robust forward\backward control of wheeled mobile robots

   61 citations · 2021
2. 2
   Control of a tractor-trailer robot subjected to wheel slip

   33 citations · 2019
3. 3
   Complete wheeled mobile robot for a variable parameter linear system with a robust predictive control

   18 citations · 2024
4. 4
   Designing the optimal path curve based on spline functions for mobile robot using the combination of bee colony algorithm and genetic algorithm

   16 citations · 2024
5. 5
   RETRACTED: Examining the performance of Laguerre-based and nonlinear predictive control models for wheeled mobile robots when facing obstacles

   15 citations · 2024
6. 6
   Urban mobile robot routing using fast search random tree method (RRT) in obstacle environments

   15 citations · 2024
7. 7
   Robust finite-time nonlinear control of exoskeleton robots in the presence of unknown friction force, parametric sectional number, and bounded external disturbance

   12 citations · 2025
8. 8
   Adaptive Backstepping Control for Underwater Robots in Complex Environments

   11 citations · 2025
9. 9
   Optimal mobile robot routing with neural network and kernel-based dimensionality reduction in unknown environments

   10 citations · 2025
10. 10
    Modeling and backstepping control of a wheeled robot

    9 citations · 2017

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