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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Rufus Oldenburger Medal, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Roberto Horowitz is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on engineering, with an emphasis on control and systems engineering. They have contributed substantially in related subfields such as automotive engineering, mechanical engineering, artificial intelligence, and transportation.

Their recent work includes publications addressing topics in control systems, autonomous vehicles, traffic management, and robotic manipulation. Notable papers include:

  • Safety-Critical Control With Nonaffine Control Inputs Via a Relaxed Control Barrier Function for an Autonomous Vehicle, 2022, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • Improving Urban Traffic Throughput With Vehicle Platooning: Theory and Experiments, 2020, IEEE Access
  • Submodularity of optimal sensor placement for traffic networks, 2023, Transportation Research Part B Methodological
  • Geometric Impedance Control on SE(3) for Robotic Manipulators, 2023, IFAC-PapersOnLine
  • A game theoretic macroscopic model of lane choices at traffic diverges with applications to mixed-autonomy networks, 2020, Transportation Research Part B Methodological

The main topics covered by Roberto Horowitz's research include:

  • Iterative Learning Control Systems
  • Traffic control and management
  • Transportation Planning and Optimization
  • Robot Manipulation and Learning
  • Control Systems and Identification
  • Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety
  • Robotic Mechanisms and Dynamics

Frequent co-authors in their research are:

  • Nikhil Potu Surya Prakash
  • Joohwan Seo
  • Jongeun Choi
  • Zhi Chen
  • Ruolin Li

Their work has been published repeatedly in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IFAC-PapersOnLine
  • 2022 American Control Conference (ACC)
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • Transportation Research Part B Methodological

Roberto Horowitz has been recognized by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, having received the Rufus Oldenburger Medal in 2018 and being named a Fellow of the society in 2012.

Best Publications

  • A new adaptive learning rule

    W. Messner;R. Horowitz;W.-W. Kao;M. Boals

  • Stability and robustness analysis of a class of adaptive controllers for robotic manipulators

    Nader Saddegh;Roberto Horowitz

  • Control design of an automated highway system

    R. Horowitz;P. Varaiya

  • Optimal freeway ramp metering using the asymmetric cell transmission model

    Gabriel Gomes;Roberto Horowitz

  • Surface Micromachined Z-Axis Vibratory Rate Gyroscope

    W.A. Clark;R. Horowitz;R.T. Howe

  • Traffic density estimation with the cell transmission model

    L. Munoz;Xiaotian Sun;R. Horowitz;L. Alvarez

  • Optomechanical uncooled infrared imaging system: design, microfabrication, and performance

    Yang Zhao;Minyao Mao;R. Horowitz;A. Majumdar

  • Comparison of four discrete-time repetitive control algorithms

    C. Kempf;W.C. Messner;M. Tomizuka;R. Horowitz

  • CONGESTED FREEWAY MICROSIMULATION MODEL USING VISSIM

    Gabriel Gomes;Adolf May;Roberto Horowitz

  • Distributed learning and cooperative control for multi-agent systems

    Jongeun Choi;Songhwai Oh;Roberto Horowitz

  • An adaptive control scheme for mechanical manipulators. Compensation of nonlinearity and decoupling control

    Roberto Horowitz;Masayoshi Tomizuka

  • An Exponentially Stable Adaptive Control Law For Robot Manipulators

    Nader Sadegh;Roberto Horowitz

  • Learning Control of Robot Manipulators

    Roberto Horowitz

  • A unified approach to the design of adaptive and repetitive controllers for robotic manipulators

    Nader Sadegh;Roberto Horowitz;Wei-Wen Kao;Masayoshi Tomizuka

  • Passive velocity field control of mechanical manipulators

    P.Y. Li;R. Horowitz

  • Stability analysis of an adaptive controller for robotic manipulators

    N. Sadegh;R. Horowitz

  • Highway traffic state estimation using improved mixture Kalman filters for effective ramp metering control

    Xiaotian Sun;L. Munoz;R. Horowitz

  • Behavior of the cell transmission model and effectiveness of ramp metering

    Gabriel Gomes;Roberto Horowitz;Alex A. Kurzhanskiy;Pravin Varaiya

  • Mechatronics of electrostatic microactuators for computer disk drive dual-stage servo systems

    Yunfeng Li;Roberto Horowitz

  • Track seek control for hard disk dual-stage servo systems

    M. Kobayashi;R. Horowitz

Frequent Co-Authors

Perry Y. Li
Perry Y. Li University of Minnesota
Pravin Varaiya
Pravin Varaiya University of California, Berkeley
Masayoshi Tomizuka
Masayoshi Tomizuka University of California, Berkeley
Jingang Yi
Jingang Yi Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Xiao-Yun Lu
Xiao-Yun Lu University of California, Berkeley
William C. Messner
William C. Messner Tufts University
Albert P. Pisano
Albert P. Pisano University of California, San Diego
David A. Horsley
David A. Horsley University of California, Davis
Arun Majumdar
Arun Majumdar Stanford University
Roger T. Howe
Roger T. Howe Stanford University

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