Papers
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Total Citations
902
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About
Thierry Floquet is a prominent control systems researcher whose work sits at the intersection of sliding mode control, nonholonomic systems, and autonomous mobile robotics. His research has made significant contributions to the development of robust control strategies for complex, uncertain dynamical systems, with particular emphasis on higher-order sliding mode techniques and their practical implementation. Floquet's most influential work, "Sliding-Mode Formation Control for Cooperative Autonomous Mobile Robots" (2008, 344 citations), established foundational methods for coordinating groups of autonomous robots using leader-follower frameworks and first and second order sliding-mode controllers — a landmark contribution to multi-agent systems research. His earlier work on higher-order sliding mode stabilization for nonholonomic systems (2003, 168 citations) cemented his reputation as a leading theorist in robust nonlinear control. Beyond theoretical advances, Floquet has consistently bridged theory and application, demonstrating controllers on real robotic platforms including unicycle robots and car-like systems such as the Robucar. His contributions to unknown input sliding mode observers and integral sliding mode control further demonstrate the breadth of his expertise. With hundreds of citations accumulated across a tightly focused body of work, Floquet remains an essential reference for researchers tackling robust control of autonomous and nonholonomic systems.
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Top Papers
- 1Sliding-Mode Formation Control for Cooperative Autonomous Mobile Robots344 citations · 2008
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- 3A Canonical Form for the Design of Unknown Input Sliding Mode Observers63 citations · 2006
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- 5Performance-based reactive navigation for non-holonomic mobile robots45 citations · 2008
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- 8Integral sliding mode control of an extended Heisenberg system30 citations · 2009
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