Zheng-Hua Luo

Nagaoka University of Technology, The University of Osaka

Papers

Total Citations

102

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About

Zheng-Hua Luo is a pioneering researcher in the field of robotics and control systems, with a primary focus on the dynamics and vibration control of flexible robot arms. His most influential work, "Shear force feedback control of flexible robot arms" (1995), has garnered 83 citations and introduced a novel sensor-based output feedback control law that effectively damps vibrations in flexible robots with rotational joints—building on his earlier demonstration that direct strain feedback could achieve similar results. Luo further advanced the field by developing a gain adaptive direct strain feedback control method (2002, 9 citations), which addresses performance degradation caused by tip load variations while maintaining closed-loop stability. His contributions extend to high-speed, high-precision motion control, where he constructed a nonlinear extended state observer (ESO) for general multilink robot manipulators (2000, 10 citations), enabling superior tracking control of two-link direct-drive robots with unknown dynamics. With a career spanning from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s, Luo’s work has been instrumental in bridging theoretical control strategies with practical robotic applications, offering robust solutions for vibration suppression and precision motion that continue to inform modern robotics research.