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Control at the point of contact.

The work connects dynamics, sensing, and optimization around one practical question: how can a robot remain stable and useful when the world is uncertain?

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Humanoid locomotion

Robust walking and landing stabilization on uneven terrain through impedance, admittance, and momentum-aware control.

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Whole-body balance

Task-space formulations and constrained optimization for articulated robots whose motion, balance, and contact forces must be solved together.

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Interactive manipulation

Force-aware robotic hands, dual-arm teaching, and physical interaction that translate human intent into controlled robot motion.

Selected systems

One perspective, different bodies.

Feedback, dynamics, and constrained control recur across every platform.

Legged systems

Uneven-terrain locomotion

Whole-body walking and landing controllers that coordinate momentum, foot contact, and compliant response when terrain does not match the model.

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Wheeled systems

Ballbot balance and tracking

Projected task-space dynamics with inequality constraints for a dynamically balancing platform under contact-force objectives.

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Manipulation

Force-aware hands and teaching

Multi-finger force control and whole-body direct teaching for robots that must manipulate, interact, and preserve balance at the same time.

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