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  1. A decentralized approach for the aerial manipulator robust trajectory tracking

    Article • PLoS ONE, March 2024, PLOS

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  2. Exponential and robust position-constrained control of robot manipulators via diffeomorphisms

    Article • ISA Transactions, February 2024, Elsevier

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  3. An integral and MRAC-based approach to the adaptive stabilisation of a class of linear time-delay systems with unknown parameters

    Article • International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, January 2024, Uniwersytet Zielonogórski

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  4. Optimal Elastic Wing for Flapping-Wing Robots Through Passive Morphing

    Article • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, February 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  5. How ornithopters can perch autonomously on a branch

    Article • Nature Communications, December 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  6. Combination of terminal sliding mode and finite-time state-dependent Riccati equation: Flapping-wing flying robot control

    Article • Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part I Journal of Systems and Control Engineering, December 2022, SAGE Publications

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  7. A search algorithm for constrained engineering optimization and tuning the gains of controllers

    Article • Expert Systems with Applications, November 2022, Elsevier

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  8. How ornithopters can perch autonomously on a branch

    Article • August 2022, Research Square

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  9. A PD-Type State-Dependent Riccati Equation With Iterative Learning Augmentation for Mechanical Systems

    Article • IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, August 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  10. Network Adapter for Sampled Linear Systems Under Asynchronous and Delayed Communications: Quadrotor Remote Speed Control Through Cellular Network

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, July 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  11. A Lightweight Beak-Like Sensing System for Grasping Tasks of Flapping Aerial Robots

    Article • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, April 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  12. Quaternion-based state-dependent differential Riccati equation for quadrotor drones: Regulation control problem in aerobatic flight

    Article • Robotica, February 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  13. Aerodynamic reduced-order Volterra model of an ornithopter under high-amplitude flapping

    Article • Aerospace Science and Technology, February 2022, Elsevier

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  14. A 79.7g Manipulator Prototype for E-Flap Robot: A Plucking-Leaf Application

    Article • IEEE Access, January 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  15. A benchmark mechatronics platform to assess the inspection around pipes with variable pitch quadrotor for industrial sites

    Article • Mechatronics, November 2021, Elsevier

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  16. Gravity compensation and optimal control of actuated multibody system dynamics

    Article • IET Control Theory and Applications, October 2021, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (the IET)

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  17. Control Aware of Limitations of Manipulators With Claw for Aerial Robots Imitating Bird's Skeleton

    Article • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, October 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  18. Installation of Clip-Type Bird Flight Diverters on High-Voltage Power Lines with Aerial Manipulation Robot: Prototype and Testbed Experimentation

    Article • Applied Sciences, August 2021, MDPI AG

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  19. Soft-Landing of Multi-Rotor Drones using a Robust Nonlinear Control and Wind Modeling

    Article • June 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  20. Design of the High-Payload Flapping Wing Robot E-Flap

    Article • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, April 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  21. Geometric control using the state-dependent Riccati equation: application to aerial-acrobatic maneuvers

    Article • International Journal of Control, February 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  22. PI-Type Controllers and Σ–Δ Modulation for Saturated DC-DC Buck Power Converters

    Article • IEEE Access, January 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  23. Adaptive Nonlinear Control For Perching of a Bioinspired Ornithopter

    Article • October 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  24. A Bio-Inspired Manipulator with Claw Prototype for Winged Aerial Robots: Benchmark for Design and Control

    Article • Applied Sciences, September 2020, MDPI AG

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  25. A descentralized approach for the aerial manipulator trajectory tracking

    Article • September 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  26. Collision Avoidance of SDRE Controller using Artificial Potential Field Method: Application to Aerial Robotics

    Article • September 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  27. Explicit Aerodynamic Model Characterization of a Multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in Quasi-Steady Flight

    Article • Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics, June 2020, ASME International

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  28. Accurate control of Aerial Manipulators outdoors. A reliable and self-coordinated nonlinear approach

    Article • Aerospace Science and Technology, April 2020, Elsevier

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  29. Adaptive Integral Inverse Kinematics Control for Lightweight Compliant Manipulators

    Article • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, April 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  30. Estimation and control of oscillators through short-range noisy proximity measurements

    Article • Automatica, March 2020, Elsevier

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  31. High-Level Modular Autopilot Solution for Fast Prototyping of Unmanned Aerial Systems

    Article • IEEE Access, January 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  32. Fully Coupled Six-DoF Nonlinear Suboptimal Control of a Quadrotor: Application to Variable-Pitch Rotor Design

    Article • November 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  33. Optimized Thrust Allocation of Variable-pitch Propellers Quadrotor Control: A Comparative Study on Flip Maneuver

    Article • November 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  34. Timescale separation of mechanical dynamics in flexible wind turbines

    Article • Nonlinear Dynamics, July 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  35. Cooperative Aerial Manipulation with Decentralized Adaptive Force-Consensus Control

    Article • Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, July 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  36. Cooperative Aerial Load Transport with Attitude Stabilization

    Article • July 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  37. An Algebraic Version of the Active Disturbance Rejection Control for Second-Order Flat Systems

    Article • International Journal of Control, March 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Hebertt J. Sira-Ramirez, Prof. J.Á. Acosta, Carlos Aguilar-Ibanez

  38. Force Control in Cooperative Aerial Manipulation

    Article • June 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  39. Stabilisation of state-and-input constrained nonlinear systems via diffeomorphisms

    Article • International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, May 2018, Wiley

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  40. Cooperative Aerial Load Transport with Force Control

    Article • IFAC-PapersOnLine, January 2018, Elsevier

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  41. Command-Filtered Backstepping Redesign for Aerial Manipulators Under Aerodynamic and Operational Disturbances

    Article • November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Carlos R. de Cos, Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  42. Relative-pose optimisation for robust and nonlinear control of unmanned aerial manipulators

    Article • June 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mr Carlos R. de Cos, Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  43. Stability of active disturbance rejection control for uncertain systems: A Lyapunov perspective

    Article • International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, May 2017, Wiley

    Professor Hebertt J. Sira-Ramirez, Carlos Aguilar-Ibanez, Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  44. Adaptive output-feedback stabilisation of an uncertain second-order linear systems

    Article • International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, October 2016, Wiley

    Carlos Aguilar-Ibanez, Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  45. A robust decentralised strategy for multi-task control of unmanned aerial systems. Application on underactuated aerial manipulator

    Article • June 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mr Carlos R. de Cos, Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  46. Integral action in first-order Closed-Loop Inverse Kinematics. Application to aerial manipulators

    Article • May 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  47. Adaptive Control for Aircraft Longitudinal Dynamics with Thrust Saturation

    Article • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, April 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  48. Singular Perturbation Control of the Lateral-Directional Flight Dynamics of an UAV

    Article • IFAC-PapersOnLine, January 2015, Elsevier

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  49. Robust control of underactuated Aerial Manipulators via IDA-PBC

    Article • December 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  50. Constrained stabilization of a cart on an asymmetric-beam system through IDA-PBC

    Article • October 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  51. Diffeomorphism-based control of nonlinear systems subject to state constraints with actual applications

    Article • October 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  52. Nonlinear state-constrained control. Application to the dynamic positioning of ships

    Article • October 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  53. Control of a multirotor outdoor aerial manipulator

    Article • September 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  54. A nonlinear hybrid controller for swinging-up and stabilizing the Furuta pendulum

    Article • Control Engineering Practice, August 2013, Elsevier

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  55. Constructive immersion and invariance stabilization for a class of underactuated mechanical systems

    Article • Automatica, May 2013, Elsevier

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  56. Some Remarks on Interconnection and Damping Assignment Passivity- Based Control of Mechanical Systems

    Article • March 2013, Wiley

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  57. On Singular Perturbations of Flexible and Variable-Speed Wind Turbines

    Article • International Journal of Aerospace Engineering, January 2012, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  58. Output-feedback control of the longitudinal flight dynamics using adaptative backstepping

    Article • December 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  59. Control of the longitudinal flight dynamics of an UAV using adaptive backstepping

    Article • IFAC Proceedings Volumes, January 2011, Elsevier

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  60. Non-linear sliding mode surfaces for a class of underactuated mechanical systems

    Article • IET Control Theory and Applications, October 2010, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (the IET)

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  61. Constructive Immersion and Invariance Stabilization for a Class of Underactuated Mechanical Systems

    Article • IFAC Proceedings Volumes, September 2010, Elsevier

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  62. Furuta's Pendulum: AConservativeNonlinear Model for Theory and Practise

    Article • Mathematical Problems in Engineering, January 2010, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  63. On the PDEs arising in IDA-PBC

    Article • December 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  64. Physical ageing of a PU-based shape memory polymer: Influence on their applicability to the development of medical devices

    Article • Materials & Design (1980-2015), August 2009, Elsevier

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  65. A new strict Lyapunov function for fully-actuated mechanical systems controlled by IDA-PBC

    Article • July 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  66. A Nonlinear Strategy to Control Unstable Underactuated Mechanical Systems with Underactuation > 1. Applications to Control Augmentations

    Article • The Open Automation and Control Systems Journal, April 2009, Bentham Science Publishers

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  67. A constructive solution for stabilization via immersion and invariance: The cart and pendulum system

    Article • Automatica, September 2008, Elsevier

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  68. Total Energy Shaping Control of Mechanical Systems: Simplifying the Matching Equations Via Coordinate Changes

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, June 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  69. Interconnection and damping assignment passivity-based control of mechanical systems with underactuation degree one

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, December 2005, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  70. Kinetic energy shaping in the inverted pendulum

    Article • IFAC Proceedings Volumes, September 2004, Elsevier

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  71. Passivation of underactuated systems with physical damping

    Article • IFAC Proceedings Volumes, September 2004, Elsevier

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  72. Position-feedback stabilization of mechanical systems with underactuation degree one

    Article • IFAC Proceedings Volumes, September 2004, Elsevier

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  73. A new swing-up law for the Furuta pendulum

    Article • International Journal of Control, January 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  74. Constructive feedback linearization of underactuated mechanical systems with 2-DOF

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta