Patrick Keogh

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Patrick Keogh is a distinguished researcher whose work spans advanced manufacturing robotics, precision motion control, and smart materials engineering. His contributions have significantly advanced the field of robotic machining, addressing fundamental challenges that limit industrial robots in high-precision applications such as aerospace manufacturing. Keogh's investigations into vibration control, error compensation, and joint nonlinearities—including backlash and stiction—have provided both theoretical frameworks and practical solutions for improving robotic accuracy in milling, drilling, and machining operations. His 2020 paper on real-time laser tracker compensation (64 citations) and earlier work on active vibration control demonstrate a sustained commitment to bridging the gap between robotic flexibility and machining precision. Notably, his research extends beyond robotics into materials science, with a highly cited 2019 study on self-healing dielectric elastomer actuators (153 citations) contributing to the emerging fields of soft robotics and medical devices. His development of flexure-based coupling elements and H-infinity optimised control strategies further reflects a breadth of expertise in precision mechatronics. With work dating back to a 1994 symposium on active vibration control, Keogh's career represents decades of impactful, interdisciplinary engineering research.

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1. 1
   Electrical and Mechanical Self‐Healing in High‐Performance Dielectric Elastomer Actuator Materials

   153 citations · 2019
2. 2
   Real-Time Laser Tracker Compensation of Robotic Drilling and Machining

   64 citations · 2020
3. 3
   H-infinity optimised control of external inertial actuators for higher precision robotic machining

   19 citations · 2021
4. 4
   Experimental assessment and feedforward control of backlash and stiction in industrial serial robots for low-speed operations

   17 citations · 2022
5. 5
   Active Vibration Control for Robotic Machining

   17 citations · 2017
6. 6
   Nonlinear flexure coupling elements for precision control of multibody systems

   6 citations · 2018
7. 7
   Photoelectric scanning-based resection method for mobile robot localization

   5 citations · 2021
8. 8
   Iterative Feedforward Control for Bearing-Free Multibody Systems

   2 citations · 2021
9. 9
   The active control of vibration : symposium, 5-8 September 1994, University of Bath, UK

   2 citations · 1994
10. 10
    Tool orientation and path optimisation for error compensation in direct robotic plunge milling

    1 citations · 2025

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