Papers
28
Total Citations
232
H-Index
9
About
Pablo Javier Alsina is a leading researcher in robotics, with a career spanning over two decades and focusing on educational robotics, assistive technologies, and intelligent control systems. His work is defined by a commitment to making robotics accessible and impactful, from the classroom to clinical rehabilitation. Alsina’s major contributions include the development of the Ortholeg, a 20kg powered lower limb orthosis designed to restore walking ability for individuals with spinal cord injuries, and the creation of the Probabilistic Foam method, a novel approach to safe and efficient robot path planning. He has also pioneered accessible robotics education through the EDUROSC-Kids and FOCORE initiatives, which provide low-cost hardware and curricula for teacher training and student learning in Brazil and Latin America. With his most-cited paper garnering 38 citations, Alsina’s research demonstrates a clear trajectory from foundational work in neural network control and mobile robot kinematics to applied solutions that address real-world challenges in mobility and education.
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Top Papers
- 1A Methodological Approach to the Learning of Robotics with EDUROSC-Kids38 citations · 2021
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- 3Powered Orthosis Ortholeg: Design and Development16 citations · 2015
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- 5Robot inverse kinematics: a modular neural network approach12 citations · 2002
- 6A New Robot Path Planning Method Based on Probabilistic Foam11 citations · 2016
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- 9Recognizing behaviors patterns in a micro robot soccer game9 citations · 2005
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