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Overview

Rafael Kelly is affiliated with the Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada in Mexico. Their research primarily contributes to the field of Engineering, with a strong focus on Control and Systems Engineering.

The primary subfields of their work include:

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Computer Networks and Communications

The main topics addressed in their publications cover:

  • Control and Stability of Dynamical Systems
  • Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems
  • Dynamics and Control of Mechanical Systems
  • Control Systems in Engineering
  • Robotic Mechanisms and Dynamics
  • Iterative Learning Control Systems
  • Robot Manipulation and Learning

Kelly has authored several recent papers, including:

  • A GUAS Joint Position Tracking Controller of Torque-Driven Robot Manipulators Influenced by Dynamic Dahl Friction: Theory and Experiments (2020), published in IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
  • Energy regulation of torque-driven robot manipulators in joint space (2022), published in Journal of the Franklin Institute
  • Energy regulation for a torque-driven vertical inertia wheel pendulum (2021), published in Control Engineering Practice
  • An Output Feedback Position/Speed Regulator for a Torque-driven Inertia Wheel Pendulum (2021), published in International Journal of Control Automation and Systems
  • A Theoretical Conversion of Torque Controllers for Handling a Position Servo-actuated Robot Manipulator Model (2024), published in International Journal of Control Automation and Systems

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Kelly include:

  • Jesús Sandoval
  • Víctor Santibáñez
  • Javier Moreno-Valenzuela
  • Gabriela Zepeda
  • Luis Cervantes-Pérez

Kelly's publications appear frequently in the following venues:

  • International Journal of Control Automation and Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
  • Journal of the Franklin Institute
  • Control Engineering Practice
  • 2021 IEEE CHILEAN Conference on Electrical, Electronics Engineering, Information and Communication Technologies (CHILECON)

Best Publications

  • Control of Robot Manipulators in Joint Space

    R. Kelly;V. Santibáñez;A. Loría

  • On passivity‐based output feedback global stabilization of euler‐lagrange systems

    Romeo Ortega;Antonio Loria;Rafael Kelly;Laurent Praly

  • Robust asymptotically stable visual servoing of planar robots

    R. Kelly

  • Global positioning of robot manipulators via PD control plus a class of nonlinear integral actions

    R. Kelly

  • Stable visual servoing of camera-in-hand robotic systems

    R. Kelly;R. Carelli;O. Nasisi;B. Kuchen

  • A semiglobally stable output feedback PI/sup 2/D regulator for robot manipulators

    R. Ortega;A. Loria;R. Kelly

  • A tuning procedure for stable PID control of robot manipulators

    Rafael Kelly

  • PD control with desired gravity compensation of robotic manipulators: a review

    Rafael Kelly

  • Global regulation of flexible joint robots using approximate differentiation

    R. Kelly;R. Ortega;A. Ailon;A. Loria

  • Experimental evaluation of model-based controllers on a direct-drive robot arm

    Fernando Reyes;Rafael Kelly

  • Experimental Evaluation of Identification Schemes on a Direct Drive Robot

    Fernando Reyes;Rafael Kelly

  • Control de movimiento de robots manipuladores

    Rafael Kelly;Víctor Santibáñez

  • A Simple Set-point Robot Controller by Using Only Position Measurements*

    R. Kelly

  • PID regulation of robot manipulators: stability and performance

    Jose Alvarez-Ramirez;Ilse Cervantes;Rafael Kelly

  • Brief Semiglobal stability of saturated linear PID control for robot manipulators

    Jose Alvarez-Ramirez;Rafael Kelly;Ilse Cervantes

  • Comments on "Adaptive manipulator control: a case study" by J. Slotine and W. Li

    M.W. Spong;R. Ortega;R. Kelly

  • An adaptive impedance/force controller for robot manipulators

    R. Carelli;R. Kelly

  • Regulation of manipulators in generic task space: an energy shaping plus damping injection approach

    R. Kelly

  • On adaptive impedance control of robot manipulators

    R. Kelly;R. Carelli;M. Amestegui;R. Ortega

  • A measurement procedure for viscous and coulomb friction

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  • Comments on "Adaptive PD controller for robot manipulators

    R. Kelly

Frequent Co-Authors

Romeo Ortega
Romeo Ortega Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
Antonio Loria
Antonio Loria Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Ricardo Carelli
Ricardo Carelli National University of San Juan
Laurent Praly
Laurent Praly Mines ParisTech
Henk Nijmeijer
Henk Nijmeijer Eindhoven University of Technology
Mark W. Spong
Mark W. Spong The University of Texas at Dallas
Andrew R. Teel
Andrew R. Teel University of California, Santa Barbara
Seth Hutchinson
Seth Hutchinson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sebastián Dormido
Sebastián Dormido National University of Distance Education

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