Papers
23
Total Citations
192
H-Index
9
About
Nirvana Popescu is a leading researcher in robotics and control systems, with a primary focus on hyper-redundant robots, continuum arms, and rehabilitation exoskeletons. Her work bridges advanced control theory and practical biomedical applications. She has made major contributions to the grasping control of hyper-redundant robots using frequency stability criteria and decoupled sliding mode control, as well as boundary control methods for continuum arms. In rehabilitation robotics, she developed an Intelligent Haptic Robot-Glove for patients with cerebrovascular accidents, and pioneered fractional order control for hand exoskeletons. More recently, she has applied IoT and AI to interpret the affective states of children diagnosed with autism through a machine learning-based mobile application called PandaSays. Her most cited works, including papers on force observer-based control for rehabilitation exoskeletons and spatial weight error control for hyper-redundant robots, have each garnered up to 20 citations, reflecting her sustained impact across both theoretical robotics and assistive technology.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1Force observer-based control for a rehabilitation hand exoskeleton system20 citations · 2013
- 2Frequency criteria for the grasping control of a hyper-redundant robot20 citations · 2010
- 3A decoupled sliding mode control for a continuum arm17 citations · 2015
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- 5Exoskeleton Hand Control by Fractional Order Models14 citations · 2019
- 6A Spatial Weight Error Control for a Class of Hyper-Redundant Robots13 citations · 2013
- 7Boundary Control by Boundary Observer for Hyper-redundant Robots10 citations · 2010
- 8The shape control of tentacle arms10 citations · 2014
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- 10Coil function control problem for a hyperredundant robot8 citations · 2007