Quick Overview: Full paper and additional information available at Publication: " Turns out I accidentally reverse engineered their landing controller. (but sort of not really, see article) Original twitter post: ... By Vince Kurtz and Hai Lin, Abstract: Contact-

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Full paper and additional information available at Publication: " Turns out I accidentally reverse engineered their landing controller. (but sort of not really, see article) Original twitter post: ... By Vince Kurtz and Hai Lin, Abstract: Contact- Paper: Code and more: Abstract - Robots must make and break contact to ... Talk given at the Pravartana workshop, held at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, July 23-25, 2014. Slides and code are ... Paper, video, open-source code, slides and more: Intro: 00:29 - Why Legged Robots? 01:15 - Context of ...

Contact-Implicit Trajectory Optimization using an Analytically Solvable Contact Model In this paper we propose a method to improve the accuracy of Simulation vs. experimental results are demonstrated for three non-prehensile manipulation tasks of increasing complexity: (1) ... Supplemental video for ICRA 2021 paper: Yifan Zhu, Zherong Pan, and Kris Hauser. Contact- Planning locomotion strategies for legged microrobots is challenging due to their complex morphology, high frequency passive ... This video presents our work on robust extrinsic dexterity. In particular, we show a novel method for computing robust

In this video, we describe our approach to using non-convex Authors of a recent T-RO paper introduce DiffOG, a differentiable Video for our IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) 2025 paper: "Contact- ICRA 2021 Best Automation Paper Award Finalist. This video shows motions planned through contact- A presentation of our application of Differential Dynamic Programming to implicitly defined dynamical systems, with a particular ...

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Trajectory Optimization with Implicit Hard Contacts
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Inverse Dynamics Trajectory Optimization for Contact-Implicit Model Predictive Control
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Contact-Implicit Trajectory Optimization using an Analytically Solvable Contact Model
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