Stefano Battilotti
Sapienza University of Rome, Gestione Sistemi per l’Informatica (Italy)
Papers
9
Total Citations
135
H-Index
6
About
Stefano Battilotti’s research focuses on the intersection of nonlinear control theory and robotics, with a particular emphasis on achieving robust, globally stable performance for complex robotic systems. His major contributions lie in developing advanced control strategies for both rigid and flexible (elastic) joint robots, addressing fundamental challenges like set-point control, trajectory tracking, and disturbance attenuation. A hallmark of his work is the use of passivity-based methods and output injection to design stabilizing output feedback controllers, which are critical when full state measurement is unavailable. His most cited work, "Global set point control via link position measurement for flexible joint robots" (1995, 30 citations), established a foundational approach for controlling these underactuated systems using only partial feedback. Battilotti further advanced the field by solving the challenging problem of adaptive disturbance attenuation with global stability for robots with unknown constant parameters, as seen in his 1997 paper (24 citations). His research on output feedback stabilization and tracking for Euler-Lagrange systems has provided essential theoretical tools for the robotics community, with his combined body of work accumulating over 130 citations and demonstrating a sustained impact on the design of reliable, high-performance robot controllers.
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- 3A note on reduced order stabilizing output feedback controllers23 citations · 1997
- 4Tracking with disturbance attenuation for rigid robots19 citations · 2002
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- 9Adaptive disturbance attenuation for elastic joint robots3 citations · 2002