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Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Mexico
2026

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
76
Citations
28461
World Ranking
635
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Mexico Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Mexico Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Mexico Leader Award

Overview

Leonid Fridman is affiliated with the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico. Their research primarily focuses on engineering with a specialization in Control and Systems Engineering.

They have contributed extensively to various subfields including:

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Automotive Engineering
  • Aerospace Engineering

The scientist's main research topics cover areas such as:

  • Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems
  • Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems
  • Control and Stability of Dynamical Systems
  • Advanced Control Systems Optimization
  • Dynamics and Control of Mechanical Systems
  • Control and Dynamics of Mobile Robots
  • Iterative Learning Control Systems

Leonid Fridman's publication record includes work in significant venues like:

  • IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control
  • Automatica
  • IFAC-PapersOnLine

Among their recent papers are:

  • Barrier Function-Based Adaptive Super-Twisting Controller, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
  • Barrier function-based adaptive higher order sliding mode controllers, 2020, Automatica
  • Robust exact differentiators with predefined convergence time, 2021, Automatica
  • A New Varying-Gain-Exponent-Based Differentiator/Observer: An Efficient Balance Between Linear and Sliding-Mode Algorithms, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
  • Continuous Sliding-Mode Output-Feedback Control for Stabilization of a Class of Underactuated Systems, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Leonid Fridman include:

  • Jaime A. Moreno
  • Christopher D. Cruz-Ancona
  • Manuel A. Estrada
  • Salah Laghrouche
  • Hussein Obeid

They have also authored books published by Springer International Publishing, including:

  • Variable-Structure Systems and Sliding-Mode Control, 2020
  • Sliding-Mode Control and Variable-Structure Systems, 2023

Best Publications

  • Sliding Mode Control and Observation

    Yuri Shtessel;Christopher Edwards;Leonid Fridman;Arie Levant

  • Second-order sliding-mode observer for mechanical systems

    J. Davila;L. Fridman;A. Levant

  • Conventional Sliding Mode Observers

    Yuri Shtessel;Christopher Edwards;Leonid Fridman;Arie Levant

  • Higher order sliding modes

    Yuri B. Shtessel;Leonid Fridman;Alan Zinober

  • Higher order sliding modes as a natural phenomenon in control theory

    Leonid Fridman;Arie Levant

  • Analysis and design of integral sliding manifolds for systems with unmatched perturbations

    F. Castanos;L. Fridman

  • Uniform Robust Exact Differentiator

    Emmanuel Cruz-Zavala;Jaime A. Moreno;Leonid M. Fridman

  • Implementation of Super-Twisting Control: Super-Twisting and Higher Order Sliding-Mode Observer-Based Approaches

    Asif Chalanga;Shyam Kamal;Leonid M. Fridman;Bijnan Bandyopadhyay

  • Observation and identification of mechanical systems via second order sliding modes

    J. Davila;L. Fridman;A. Poznyak

  • Analysis of chattering in continuous sliding-mode controllers

    I. Boiko;L. Fridman

  • Analysis of Chattering in Systems With Second-Order Sliding Modes

    I. Boiko;L. Fridman;A. Pisano;E. Usai

  • Stability notions and Lyapunov functions for sliding mode control systems

    Andrey Polyakov;Leonid M. Fridman

  • Variable Gain Super-Twisting Sliding Mode Control

    T. Gonzalez;J. A. Moreno;L. Fridman

  • Super twisting control algorithm for the attitude tracking of a four rotors UAV

    Laloui Derafa;Abdelaziz Benallegue;Leonid M. Fridman

  • Higher‐order sliding‐mode observer for state estimation and input reconstruction in nonlinear systems

    Leonid Fridman;Yuri B. Shtessel;Christopher Edwards;Xinggang Yan

  • High-order sliding-mode observer for a quadrotor UAV

    A. Benallegue;A. Mokhtari;L. Fridman

  • Integral Sliding Mode Control for Nonlinear Systems With Matched and Unmatched Perturbations

    M. Rubagotti;A. Estrada;F. Castanos;A. Ferrara

  • Super-twisting adaptive sliding mode control: A Lyapunov design

    Yuri B. Shtessel;Jaime A. Moreno;Franck Plestan;Leonid M. Fridman

  • Barrier function-based adaptive sliding mode control

    Hussein Obeid;Leonid M. Fridman;Salah Laghrouche;Mohamed Harmouche

  • Analysis of chattering in continuous sliding mode control

    I. Boiko;L. Fridman;R. Iriarte

  • Variable structure systems : from Principles to Implementation

    Asif Şabanoviç;Leonid Fridman;Sarah Spurgeon

Frequent Co-Authors

Jaime A. Moreno
Jaime A. Moreno National Autonomous University of Mexico
Arie Levant
Arie Levant Tel Aviv University
Yuri B. Shtessel
Yuri B. Shtessel University of Alabama in Huntsville
Denis Efimov
Denis Efimov University of Lille
Elio Usai
Elio Usai University of Cagliari
Alessandro Pisano
Alessandro Pisano University of Cagliari
Michael Basin
Michael Basin Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
Christopher Edwards
Christopher Edwards University of Exeter
Bijnan Bandyopadhyay
Bijnan Bandyopadhyay Indian Institute of Technology Mandi

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