Eduardo Bayo

Eduardo Bayo is a dynamicist known for his work within robotics engineering, and multibody dynamics 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 continues to be evident in ongoing research at NASA-JPL, and within Medicine, Automation and Robotics to name just a few.

Eduardo Bayo was born in Madrid, Spain and received his degree in Civil Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in 1977, his Masters in Engineering Sciences and PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1983. He is currently teaching about steel structures at the University of Navarra^[3] and leading a research team in Spain.

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