Eduardo Bayo is a dynamicist known for his work within robotics engineering while a Full Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UC Santa Barbara.[1]
He is notable in the engineering field for his research contributions to dynamics and the control of flexible robots. His ideas on the non-causal inversion of these non-linear non minimum-phase systems have had a growing influence in robotics and in non-linear control theory.
His work began with the application of frequency-domain methods to the inverse dynamics of single-link flexible robots. His approach yielded non-causal exact solutions due to the right-half plane zeros in the hub-torque-to-tip transfer functions. Extending this method to the non-linear multi-flexible-link case was his seminal contribution to robotics. When combined with passive joint control in a collaborative effort with my control group, his inverse dynamics approach led to exponentially-stable tip tracking control for flexible multi-link robots.
His paper "A Finite Element Approach to Control the End-Point Motion of a Single Link Flexible Robot" was published by the ASME's Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, and won the best paper award for 1993.[2]
The influence of Professor Bayo’s inverse dynamics work in flexible robots has grown and is evident in ongoing research around the world.