Papers
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Total Citations
53
H-Index
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About
Ricardo Tapia-Herrera is a pioneering roboticist whose work bridges biomimetic design, rehabilitation engineering, and intelligent control systems. His research centers on developing bio-inspired robots for infrastructure inspection and medical applications, with a particular focus on metamorphic mechanisms that allow robots to reconfigure their morphology for different tasks. His most impactful work, "Pipeline Inspection Tests Using a Biomimetic Robot" (22 citations), introduces a spider-inspired mobile robot for inspecting highway drainage pipelines in Mexico, demonstrating how anatomical principles can guide practical engineering solutions. Tapia-Herrera has also made significant contributions to rehabilitation robotics, designing a parallel robot for ankle therapy and a lower-limb system for hypotonic infants. His expertise extends to control theory, where he has applied Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy models to nonlinear robotic systems, and to haptics, with a two-finger exoskeleton providing force feedback for teleoperation. Notably, his 2025 work on energy-efficient hybrid PID control with exponential trajectories promises smoother setpoint transitions for robotics and aeronautics. With publications spanning from 2010 to 2025, Tapia-Herrera continues to advance the frontiers of adaptive, human-centered robotics.
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Top Papers
- 1Pipeline Inspection Tests Using a Biomimetic Robot22 citations · 2021
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- 6Diseño de un mecanismo para un robot metamórfico para exploración2 citations · 2022
- 7Dynamic Analysis of an Industrial Robot Manipulator Using Dual Numbers2 citations · 2010
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