Pedro Albertos
Universitat Politècnica de València, Universitat de València
Papers
21
Total Citations
338
H-Index
11
About
Pedro Albertos is a leading figure in control engineering and robotics, whose research bridges the gap between advanced theory and practical, resource-constrained systems. His work is defined by a focus on **multirate and event-based control**, **sensor fusion**, and **robust tracking** for mobile robots and manipulators. A key contribution is the development of **event-based Kalman filters**, which dramatically improve localization for mobile robots with limited computational resources by intelligently scheduling sensor updates, as demonstrated in his highly-cited 2013 papers (48 and 40 citations). He has also made foundational advances in **multirate controller design** for unstable systems and in **sliding mode and linear interpolation-based controllers** for precise trajectory tracking under uncertainty. His impact extends to education, with his work on an open-hardware control platform (58 citations) providing a low-cost tool for students worldwide. With a career spanning decades, Albertos’s contributions—from early work on PD control of flexible-joint robots to recent cooperative localization schemes—have consistently addressed the core challenge of achieving high performance with limited resources, making him a pivotal researcher in modern autonomous systems.
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Top Papers
- 1Low Cost Platform for Automatic Control Education Based on Open Hardware.58 citations · 2014
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- 6Sliding mode speed auto-regulation technique for robotic tracking25 citations · 2011
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