Currently, there is an intensive development of bipedal walking robots. The most known
solutions are based on the use of the principles of human gait created in nature during …

The upcoming generation of humanoid robots will have to be equipped with state-of-the-art
technical features along with high industrial quality, but they should also offer the prospect of …

Humanoid robots are challenging mechatronics structures with several interesting features.
Choosing a humanoid robot to develop applications or pursue research in a given direction …

The quality of visual feedback can vary significantly on a legged robot meant to traverse
unknown and unstructured terrains. The map of the environment, acquired with online state …

Operating a high degree of freedom mobile manipulator, such as a humanoid, in a field
scenario requires constant situational awareness, capable perception modules, and …

System designers typically use well-studied benchmarks to evaluate and improve new
architectures and compilers. We design tomorrow's systems based on yesterday's …

The robustness of biped walking in unknown and uneven terrains is still a major challenge
in research. Traversing such environments is usually solved through vision-based reasoning …

In this paper, we present a system for incrementally reconstructing a dense 3D model of the
geometry of an outdoor environment using a single monocular camera attached to a moving …

The residual method for detecting contacts is a promising approach to allow physical
interaction tasks with humanoid robots. Nevertheless, the classical formulation, as …

Footstep planning in various three-dimensional environments is formulated as an
optimization problem, which is solved using a particle swarm optimi-zation. The objective …