Rodrigo J. Velasco-Guillen
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, TU Dortmund University
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About
Rodrigo J. Velasco-Guillen is a robotics researcher whose work sits at the intersection of wearable robotics, elastic actuation, and fault-tolerant control systems. His research focuses primarily on addressing one of the field's most pressing challenges: ensuring the safety and reliability of elastically actuated devices during physical human-robot interaction, particularly in the context of lower-limb exoskeletons and orthoses. Velasco-Guillen's most significant contributions center on the development of stiffness-fault-tolerant control strategies for elastic and variable stiffness actuators. Recognizing that the inherent complexity of elastic actuators makes them vulnerable to technical faults, he has systematically investigated methods to detect, compensate for, and adapt to these failures without compromising user safety. His 2020 and 2024 studies on fault-tolerant control for powered knee orthoses and redundant actuators demonstrate both theoretical rigor and practical implementation. Complementing this work, his 2023 investigation into just noticeable stiffness differences in impedance-controlled actuators reflects a nuanced attention to human perception in robot interaction design. With over 25 cumulative citations across his publications, Velasco-Guillen has established a focused and growing body of work that meaningfully advances the dependability of assistive wearable robots — a contribution with clear implications for rehabilitation engineering and human augmentation technologies.
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