Patricio Nebot

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Patricio Nebot is a robotics researcher whose work spans telerobotics, cooperative multi-robot systems, and agricultural robotics. He is perhaps best known for his pioneering contributions to Internet-based tele-laboratories, most notably the UJI Tele-lab, which enabled students and researchers to remotely control and program educational robots through multimodal web interfaces — work that garnered an impressive 160 citations and demonstrated the practical viability of remote robotic programming as a pedagogical tool. Beyond telerobotics, Nebot has made significant contributions to distributed and cooperative robotics architectures. His development of agent-based frameworks for heterogeneous mobile robot teams addressed critical challenges in software integration and cooperative task execution across diverse robotic platforms. His later work extended these principles into agricultural robotics, where he introduced an HLA-based distributed control architecture for robot teams operating in hybrid real-simulation environments, alongside a vision-based navigation system designed specifically for autonomous robots traversing orange groves. Nebot's research also explores optical flow techniques for safe indoor robot navigation and cooperative sensory sharing between robots of varying capabilities. Collectively, his body of work reflects a sustained commitment to bridging theoretical robotics architectures with real-world applications, making meaningful contributions across remote access systems, multi-agent coordination, and precision agriculture robotics.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   A Multimodal Interface to Control a Robot Arm via the Web: A Case Study on Remote Programming

   160 citations · 2005
2. 2
   A New HLA-Based Distributed Control Architecture for Agricultural Teams of Robots in Hybrid Applications with Real and Simulated Devices or Environments

   24 citations · 2011
3. 3
   A New Approach to Visual-Based Sensory System for Navigation into Orange Groves

   21 citations · 2011
4. 4
   Agents for cooperative heterogeneous mobile robotics: A case study

   13 citations · 2004
5. 5
   A framework for the development of cooperative robotic applications

   10 citations · 2006
6. 6
   Agent-based Application Framework for Multiple Mobile Robots Cooperation

   7 citations · 2006
7. 7
   The Internet-based UJI tele-lab: system architecture

   6 citations · 2004
8. 8
   Cooperative navigation using the optical flow and time-to-contact techniques

   5 citations · 2008
9. 9
   An integrated agent-based software architecture for mobile and manipulator systems

   4 citations · 2007
10. 10
    OPTICAL FLOW NAVIGATION OVER ACROMOVI ARCHITECTURE

    3 citations · 2006

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