Papers
19
Total Citations
353
H-Index
8
About
Tarak Damak is a control systems researcher whose work centers on robust and adaptive control strategies for robotic systems, with particular emphasis on sliding mode control, fuzzy logic, and intelligent control design for both robotic manipulators and mobile robots. His most influential contribution, "Adaptive Terminal Sliding Mode Control for Rigid Robotic Manipulators" (2011), has garnered over 151 citations, establishing him as a significant voice in nonlinear control theory applied to robotics. Damak has made notable strides in addressing the challenge of uncertain and nonlinear dynamics in robotic systems, developing decoupled fuzzy indirect adaptive sliding mode controllers for MIMO systems and pioneering adaptive control frameworks for nonholonomic wheeled mobile robots under kinematic and dynamic uncertainties. His research consistently leverages Lyapunov stability theory to guarantee controller performance, reflecting a rigorous mathematical approach. Beyond manipulator control, his work extends to mobile manipulators, parallel robot kinematics, and model-free intelligent control architectures. With a body of work spanning nearly two decades, Damak's cumulative contributions offer researchers and students a comprehensive toolkit for tackling real-world robustness and uncertainty challenges in modern robotic control systems.
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Top Papers
- 1Adaptive terminal sliding mode control for rigid robotic manipulators151 citations · 2011
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- 3Robust adaptive control for mobile manipulators28 citations · 2011
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- 5New Forward Kinematic Model of Parallel Robot Par410 citations · 2018
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- 7Robust Control for a Two DOF Robot Manipulator9 citations · 2019
- 8Adaptive sliding-mode control of nonholonomic wheeled mobile robot9 citations · 2014
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- 10Robust Model-Free Control for Robot Manipulator under Actuator Dynamics7 citations · 2020