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  1. Perch Like a Bird: Bio-Inspired Optimal Maneuvers and Nonlinear Control for Flapping-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, January 2026, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  2. Completeness of Riemannian Metrics: An Application to the Control of Constrained Mechanical Systems

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, January 2026, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  3. Learning port maneuvers from data for automatic guidance of Unmanned Surface Vehicles

    Article • Ocean Engineering, July 2025, Elsevier

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  4. Unified force and motion adaptive-integral control of flexible robot manipulators

    Article • ISA Transactions, March 2025, Elsevier

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  5. Practical fractional-order terminal sliding-mode control for a class of continuous-time nonlinear systems

    Article • Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, January 2025, SAGE Publications

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  6. Development of Neurofuzzy and Gaussian Regression Models for a Solar Photovoltaic System

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  7. Data-driven learning and control of nonlinear system dynamics

    Article • Nonlinear Dynamics, September 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  8. Lyapunov-based estimation and control of velocity and load in rotating machines via Luenberger globally-convergent observer

    Article • European Journal of Control, September 2024, Elsevier

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  9. Adaptive output-feedback trajectory tracking for a class of uncertain second-order linear systems

    Article • IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information, July 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

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

    Article • PLOS One, March 2024, PLOS

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

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

    Article • ISA Transactions, February 2024, Elsevier

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  12. 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

  13. Geometric Modelling and Control of Flexible Serial Robot Links

    Article • June 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  14. 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

  15. How ornithopters can perch autonomously on a branch

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

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  16. 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

  17. Modeling and Under-actuated Control of Stabilization Before Take-off Phase for Flapping-wing Robots

    Article • November 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  18. 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

  19. How ornithopters can perch autonomously on a branch

    Article • August 2022, Research Square

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. Design, development and testing of a Hybrid Fixed-Flapping wing UAV

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

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  23. Fuselage Aerodynamics and Weight Trade-Off at Low-Speed Ornithopter Flight

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

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  24. 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

  25. 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

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

    Article • Aerospace Science and Technology, February 2022, Elsevier

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. 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

  31. Design and Manufacture of the Wing Folding Mechanism for a Bioinspired Ornithopter

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

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  32. Experimental Investigation of Soft-Landing of Quadrotors via Induced Wind Modeling Approach

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

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  33. Design and comparison of tails for bird-scale flapping-wing robots

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

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  34. Why fly blind? Event-based visual guidance for ornithopter robot flight

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

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  35. 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

  36. 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

  37. 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

  38. 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

  39. 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

  40. Adaptive Nonlinear Control For Perching of a Bioinspired Ornithopter

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

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  41. 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

  42. A descentralized approach for the aerial manipulator trajectory tracking

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

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  43. 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

  44. Effects of Unsteady Aerodynamics on Gliding Stability of a Bio-Inspired UAV

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

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  45. 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

  46. 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, Mr Carlos R. de Cos

  47. 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, Mr Carlos R. de Cos

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

    Article • Automatica, March 2020, Elsevier

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta, Pietro De Lellis

  49. 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, Mr Carlos R. de Cos

  50. 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

  51. 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

  52. Timescale separation of mechanical dynamics in flexible wind turbines

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

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  53. 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

  54. Cooperative Aerial Load Transport with Attitude Stabilization

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

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  55. 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

  56. Force Control in Cooperative Aerial Manipulation

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

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  57. 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

  58. Cooperative Aerial Load Transport with Force Control

    Article • IFAC-PapersOnLine, January 2018, Elsevier

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  59. 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

  60. 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

  61. 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

  62. 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

  63. 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

  64. 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

  65. 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

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

    Article • IFAC-PapersOnLine, January 2015, Elsevier

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

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

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

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  68. 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

  69. 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

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

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

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  71. Control of a multirotor outdoor aerial manipulator

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

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

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

    Article • Control Engineering Practice, August 2013, Elsevier

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

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

    Article • Automatica, May 2013, Elsevier

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

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

    Article • March 2013, Wiley

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  75. 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

  76. Discussion on: “An Immersion and Invariance Algorithm for a Differential Algebraic System”

    Article • European Journal of Control, January 2012, Elsevier

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  77. Discussion on: “An Immersion and Invariance Algorithm for a Differential Algebraic System”

    Article • European Journal of Control, January 2012, Elsevier

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

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

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

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

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

    Article • IFAC Proceedings Volumes, January 2011, Elsevier

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  80. 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

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

    Article • IFAC Proceedings Volumes, September 2010, Elsevier

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

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

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

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  83. On the PDEs arising in IDA-PBC

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

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  84. 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

  85. 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

  86. 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

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

    Article • Automatica, September 2008, Elsevier

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  88. Linealizacion por realimentacion constructiva de sistemas mecanicos con grado de subactuacion 1 inestables con friccion

    Article • Revista Iberoamericana de Automática e Informática Industrial RIAI, October 2007, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  89. 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

  90. 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

  91. Kinetic energy shaping in the inverted pendulum

    Article • IFAC Proceedings Volumes, September 2004, Elsevier

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  92. Passivation of underactuated systems with physical damping

    Article • IFAC Proceedings Volumes, September 2004, Elsevier

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

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

    Article • IFAC Proceedings Volumes, September 2004, Elsevier

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

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

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

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  95. STABILIZATION OF OSCILLATIONS IN THE INVERTED PENDULUM

    Article • IFAC Proceedings Volumes, January 2002, Elsevier

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

  96. A New SG Law for Swinging the Furuta Pendulum Up

    Article • IFAC Proceedings Volumes, July 2001, Elsevier

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

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

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta

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

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. J.Á. Acosta