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Tom Lefebvre

4 accepted papers

2026

Distributionally Robust Control via Stein Variational Inference for Contact-rich Manipulation

RSS 2026poster

Reliable robotic manipulation requires control policies that can accurately represent and adapt to uncertainty arising from contact-rich interactions. Modern data-driven methods mitigate uncertainty through large-scale training and computation, and degrade significantly in performance with limited n…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Introducing KUGE: A Simultaneous Control Co-Design Architecture and its Application to Aerial Robotics Development

ICRA 2025

The increasing complexity of tasks performed by hybrid aerial robotic systems, such as tail-sitters, demands a more integrated approach to their design. Traditional sequential design methods fall short because they separate the control system design from the conceptual design, limiting the poten-tia

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Probabilistic Latent Variable Modeling for Dynamic Friction Identification and Estimation

ICRA 2025

Precise identification of dynamic models in robotics is essential to support dynamic simulations, control design, friction compensation, output torque estimation, etc. A longstanding challenge remains in the development and identification of friction models for robotic joints, given the numerous phy

Cited by 2SourceScholar
2021

Overload Clutch Design for Collision Tolerant High-Speed Industrial Robots

RA-L 2021

Industrial robots can collide due to malfunctioning, wrong user input or unforeseen changes in the environment in which they operate. Different solutions exist to minimize the damage caused by a collision, either absorbed by the environment or by the robot itself. The specific solution depends on th

Cited by 10SourceScholar