P. Castillo

4.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
117 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

P. Castillo is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, P. Castillo has authored 117 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 76 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 58 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 38 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in P. Castillo's work include Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems (62 papers), Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (35 papers) and Control and Dynamics of Mobile Robots (26 papers). P. Castillo is often cited by papers focused on Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems (62 papers), Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (35 papers) and Control and Dynamics of Mobile Robots (26 papers). P. Castillo collaborates with scholars based in France, Mexico and Spain. P. Castillo's co-authors include Rogelio Lozano, Alejandro Dzul, Pedro García, F. Blanco, Juan H. Ayala, A. Sanchez, Aldo Jonathan Muñoz‐Vázquez, Vicente Parra‐Vega, J. A. Guerrero and Diego Mercado-Ravell and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Automatica and Cement and Concrete Research.

In The Last Decade

P. Castillo

109 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

Real-Time Stabilization and Tracking of a Four-Rotor Mini... 2004 2026 2011 2018 2004 2005 100 200 300 400
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Real-Time Stabilization and Tracking of a Four-Rotor Mini Rotorcraft
    2004 494 citations P. Castillo, Rogelio Lozano et al. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology profile →
  2. Modelling and Control of Mini-Flying Machines
    2005 404 citations P. Castillo, Rogelio Lozano et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
P. Castillo France 24 2.0k 1.3k 661 514 175 117 2.9k
Guillermo Heredia Spain 31 1.4k 0.7× 1.3k 1.0× 1.2k 1.8× 348 0.7× 204 1.2× 103 2.8k
Mark W. Mueller United States 20 774 0.4× 844 0.7× 759 1.1× 272 0.5× 194 1.1× 53 1.8k
Dongkyoung Chwa South Korea 26 2.1k 1.0× 502 0.4× 549 0.8× 382 0.7× 141 0.8× 93 2.6k
Sidney Givigi Canada 19 464 0.2× 596 0.5× 472 0.7× 531 1.0× 293 1.7× 172 1.6k
Indra Narayan Kar India 28 1.8k 0.9× 279 0.2× 356 0.5× 377 0.7× 264 1.5× 169 2.5k
Greg Horn Germany 5 1.5k 0.7× 314 0.2× 453 0.7× 122 0.2× 148 0.8× 7 2.5k
Toru Namerikawa Japan 22 1.1k 0.6× 479 0.4× 258 0.4× 791 1.5× 167 1.0× 254 2.0k
Mina Kamel Switzerland 18 625 0.3× 962 0.8× 1.1k 1.7× 272 0.5× 114 0.7× 30 1.8k
Cosmin Copot Belgium 17 801 0.4× 472 0.4× 826 1.2× 187 0.4× 191 1.1× 101 1.6k
Juntong Qi China 16 771 0.4× 682 0.5× 576 0.9× 230 0.4× 176 1.0× 103 1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by P. Castillo

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Fields of papers citing papers by P. Castillo

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of P. Castillo

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of P. Castillo. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of P. Castillo based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with P. Castillo. P. Castillo is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Villa, Daniel Khéde Dourado, et al.. (2025). Tension-Based Reconfigurable Multi-Agent Formation for Aerial Load Transportation. IEEE Access. 13. 114098–114116.
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Stoica, Cristina, Antonio Visioli, José Luís Guzmán, et al.. (2025). Hand-drawn animated cartoons for Control Education: insights from the ∞sCaR project. IFAC-PapersOnLine. 59(7). 165–170.
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Mercado-Ravell, Diego, et al.. (2024). Aerial transportation control of suspended payloads with multiple agents. Journal of the Franklin Institute. 361(7). 106787–106787. 8 indexed citations
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Castillo, P., et al.. (2024). Quadrotor Fleet Autonomous Navigation: Fusing Virtual Points Control and Nonlinear Potential Fields. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. 33(3). 903–914.
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Mercado-Ravell, Diego, et al.. (2024). Control and real-time experiments for a multi-agent aerial transportation system. Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering. 46(10). 1 indexed citations
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Castañeda, Herman, et al.. (2024). Observer-based adaptive control for slung payload stabilization with a fully-actuated multirotor UAV. ISA Transactions. 147. 109–117. 5 indexed citations
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Castillo, P., et al.. (2024). Aerial Vision Based Guidance and control for Perception-Less Ground Vehicle. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 2780–2785. 1 indexed citations
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Castillo, P., et al.. (2023). Robust bounded control scheme for quadrotor vehicles under high dynamic disturbances. Autonomous Robots. 47(8). 1245–1254. 1 indexed citations
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Castillo, P., et al.. (2020). User–Robot Interaction for Safe Navigation of a Quadrotor. Robotica. 38(12). 2189–2203. 3 indexed citations
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Castillo, P., et al.. (2019). Quadrotor Aggressive Deployment, Using a Quaternion-Based Spherical Chattering-Free Sliding-Mode Controller. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. 56(3). 1979–1991. 21 indexed citations
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Castillo, P., et al.. (2019). Nonlinear control with integral sliding properties for circular aerial robot trajectory tracking: Real‐time validation. International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control. 30(2). 609–635. 7 indexed citations
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Castillo, P., et al.. (2017). Dual Quaternion Modeling and Control of a Quad-rotor Aerial Manipulator. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems. 88(2-4). 267–283. 36 indexed citations
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Castillo, P., et al.. (2013). Wind Estimation for Accurate Airplane Path Following Applications. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems. 73(1-4). 823–831. 10 indexed citations
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Santos, Omar, et al.. (2013). Energy-based nonlinear control for a quadrotor rotorcraft. 1177–1182. 10 indexed citations
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Lozano, R., et al.. (2013). Bank to turn approach for airplane translational motion in unknown wind. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 1022–1029. 3 indexed citations
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Sempere, José M., et al.. (2004). Inference of Reversible Tree Languages. IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part B (Cybernetics). 34(4). 1658–1665. 10 indexed citations
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Calles, Belén, et al.. (2004). Detection of Functional Motifs in Biosequences: A Grammatical Inference Approach.. 33(1). 72–75. 1 indexed citations
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Castillo, P., M. Petrou, & Sei‐ichiro Kamata. (1999). The Use of Boolean Model for Texture Analysis of Grey Images. Computer Vision and Image Understanding. 74(3). 227–235. 21 indexed citations
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Castillo, P., Enrique Vidal, & José Oncina. (1990). Learning Locally Testable Languages in the Strict Sense.. 325–338. 36 indexed citations

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