activity
20242026
collaborators

7 papers

cs.RO2026

Amortising Trajectory Optimisation for Residual MPC via Implicit Contact Differentiation

Daniel Layeghi, Thomas Corbères, Calum Arnott +4

Differentiable simulation can accelerate contact-rich trajectory optimisation by exposing local sensitivities of task outcomes to controls. Existing approaches either use finite di…

cs.RO2026

CASSR: Continuous A-Star Search through Reachability for real time footstep planning

Jiayi Wang, Steve Tonneau

Footstep planning involves a challenging combinatorial search. Traditional A* approaches require discretising reachability constraints, while Mixed-Integer Programming (MIP) suppor…

cs.RO2026

System Identification under Constraints and Disturbance: A Bayesian Estimation Approach

Sergi Martinez, Steve Tonneau, Carlos Mastalli

We introduce a Bayesian system identification (SysID) framework for jointly estimating robot's state trajectories and physical parameters with high accuracy. It embeds physically c…

cs.RO2025

Very High Frequency Interpolation for Direct Torque Control

Rafael Kourdis, Maciej Stępień, Jérôme Manhes +4

Torque control enables agile and robust robot motion, but deployment is often hindered by instability and hardware limits. Here, we present a novel solution to execute whole-body l…

cs.RO2025

Scaling Whole-body Multi-contact Manipulation with Contact Optimization

Victor Levé, João Moura, Sachiya Fujita +3

Daily tasks require us to use our whole body to manipulate objects, for instance when our hands are unavailable. We consider the issue of providing humanoid robots with the ability…

cs.RO2024

Explicit Contact Optimization in Whole-Body Contact-Rich Manipulation

Victor Leve, João Moura, Namiko Saito +2

Humans can exploit contacts anywhere on their body surface to manipulate large and heavy items, objects normally out of reach or multiple objects at once. However, such manipulatio…