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most citedContact Models in Robotics: a Comparative Analysis

4 citations · 11 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.RO2025

On the Conic Complementarity of Planar Contacts

Yann de Mont-Marin, Louis Montaut, Jean Ponce +2

We present a unifying theoretical result that connects two foundational principles in robotics: the Signorini law for point contacts, which underpins many simulation methods for pr…

cs.CV2025

PhysPose: Refining 6D Object Poses with Physical Constraints

Martin Malenický, Martin Cífka, Médéric Fourmy +4

Accurate 6D object pose estimation from images is a key problem in object-centric scene understanding, enabling applications in robotics, augmented reality, and scene reconstructio…

cs.RO2025

Differentiable Simulation of Soft Robots with Frictional Contacts

Etienne Ménager, Louis Montaut, Quentin Le Lidec +1

In recent years, soft robotics simulators have evolved to offer various functionalities, including the simulation of different material types (e.g., elastic, hyper-elastic) and act…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

Highly-Efficient Differentiable Simulation for Robotics

Quentin Le Lidec, Louis Montaut, Yann de Mont-Marin +3

Robotics simulators have improved significantly in computational speed and scalability, enabling them to generate years of simulated data for complex systems in minutes or hours. D…

cs.RO2024

From Compliant to Rigid Contact Simulation: a Unified and Efficient Approach

Justin Carpentier, Louis Montaut, Quentin Le Lidec

Whether rigid or compliant, contact interactions are inherent to robot motions, enabling them to move or manipulate things. Contact interactions result from complex physical phenom…

cs.RO2023★ 4 cited

Contact Models in Robotics: a Comparative Analysis

Quentin Le Lidec, Wilson Jallet, Louis Montaut +3

Physics simulation is ubiquitous in robotics. Whether in model-based approaches (e.g., trajectory optimization), or model-free algorithms (e.g., reinforcement learning), physics si…

cs.RO2022★ 1 cited

Differentiable Collision Detection: a Randomized Smoothing Approach

Louis Montaut, Quentin Le Lidec, Antoine Bambade +3

Collision detection appears as a canonical operation in a large range of robotics applications from robot control to simulation, including motion planning and estimation. While the…

cs.RO2022★ 3 cited

Augmenting differentiable physics with randomized smoothing

Quentin Le Lidec, Louis Montaut, Cordelia Schmid +2

In the past few years, following the differentiable programming paradigm, there has been a growing interest in computing the gradient information of physical processes (e.g., physi…

cs.RO2022

Collision Detection Accelerated: An Optimization Perspective

Louis Montaut, Quentin Le Lidec, Vladimir Petrik +2

Collision detection between two convex shapes is an essential feature of any physics engine or robot motion planner. It has often been tackled as a computational geometry problem,…

cs.RO2022★ 2 cited

Leveraging Randomized Smoothing for Optimal Control of Nonsmooth Dynamical Systems

Quentin Le Lidec, Fabian Schramm, Louis Montaut +3

Optimal control (OC) algorithms such as Differential Dynamic Programming (DDP) take advantage of the derivatives of the dynamics to efficiently control physical systems. Yet, in th…