Projects

Loco-3D

The objective of Loco3D is to build a methodology to execute a contact sequence, computed with an efficient motion planner, with a powerful humanoid robot inside a complex environment subject to dynamic changes. Planning and adapting complex locomotion patterns is a key problem that prevents from releasing humanoid robots and other legged manipulators in non-conventional factories, such as the assembly workshop of the Airbus A350 and A380 aircrafts in Toulouse, and beyond, the implementation of rehabilitation exoskeletons (e.g. for paraplegic) and the use service humanoid robots in offices, hospital and home environments.

Humanoid Path Planner

Humanoid Path Planner is a software platform aimed at solving motion planning problems for humanoid robots. It is also designed to solve classical (non humanoid) path planning problems.

MeMory-of-MOtion

The project Memmo aims to solve the problem of generating complex movements for arbitrary robots with arms and legs interacting in a dynamic environment in real-time. Memmo will develop a unified yet tractable approach to motion generation for complex robots with arms and legs.

Compliant Feedback Control of Legged Robots

The goal of this project is to achieve reliable locomotion behaviors in semi-structured environments with the humanoid robots HRP-2 and Pyrene. This project relies on model-based feedback control techniques, such as inverse-dynamics and model predictive control.

Publications

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In this paper, we propose a framework to build a memory of motion to warm-start an optimal control solver for the locomotion task of …

Synthesizing legged locomotion requires planning one or several steps ahead (literally): when and where, and with which effector should …

This paper focuses on the motion planning problem of an extensible elastic rod in collision-free or contact space. The rod is assumed …

We present a novel method for computing centroidal dynamic trajectories in multi-contact planning context. With dynamic motion it is …

Despite the great progress in quadrupedal robotics during the last decade, selecting good contacts (footholds) in highly uneven and …

The automatic synthesis of movements for legged robots is one of the long standing challenge of robotics, and its resolution is a prior …

We present a novel method for computing centroidal dynamic trajectories in multi-contact planning context. With dynamic motion it is …

Synthesizing motions for legged characters in arbitrary environments is a long-standing problem that has recently received a lot of …

We present a novel method for synthesizing collision-free, dynamic locomotion behaviors for legged robots, including jumping, going …

Planning, adapting and executing multi-contact locomotion movements on legged robots in complex environments remains an open problem. …