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Tomohiro Kawakami

8 accepted papers

2026

Adaptive Non-Linear Centroidal MPC with Stability Guarantees for Robust Locomotion of Legged Robots

Mohamed Elobaid, Giulio Turrisi, Lorenzo Rapetti, Giulio Romualdi, Stefano Dafarra, Tomohiro Kawakami +4
ICRA 2026poster

Nonlinear model predictive locomotion controllers based on the reduced centroidal dynamics are nowadays ubiquitous in legged robots. These schemes, even if they assume an inherent simplification of the robot’s dynamics, were shown to endow robots with a step-adjustment capability in reaction to smal…

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2025

Adaptive Non-Linear Centroidal MPC With Stability Guarantees for Robust Locomotion of Legged Robots

Mohamed Elobaid, Giulio Turrisi, Lorenzo Rapetti, Giulio Romualdi, Stefano Dafarra, Tomohiro Kawakami +4
RA-L 2025

Nonlinear model predictive locomotion controllers based on the reduced centroidal dynamics are nowadays ubiquitous in legged robots. These schemes, even if they assume an inherent simplification of the robot's dynamics, were shown to endow robots with a step-adjustment capability in reaction to smal

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2025

Humanoid-Human Sit-to-Stand-to-Sit Assistance

Hugo Lefévre, Tomohiro Chaki, Tomohiro Kawakami, Arnaud Tanguy, Takahide Yoshiike, Abderrahmane Kheddar
RA-L 2025

Standing and sitting are basic tasks that become increasingly difficult with age or frailty. Assisting these movements using humanoid robots is a complex challenge, particularly in determining where and how much force the robot should apply to effectively support the human's dynamic motions. In this

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2023

A Control Approach for Human-Robot Ergonomic Payload Lifting

Lorenzo Rapetti, Carlotta Sartore, Mohamed Elobaid, Yeshasvi Tirupachuri, Francesco Draicchio, Tomohiro Kawakami +2
ICRA 2023poster

Collaborative robots can relief human operators from excessive efforts during payload lifting activities. Modelling the human partner allows the design of safe and efficient collaborative strategies. In this paper, we present a control approach for human-robot collaboration based on human monitoring…

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2022

Powerful and dexterous multi-finger hand using dynamical pulley mechanism

Tadaaki Hasegawa, Hironori Waita, Tomohiro Kawakami, Yoshinari Takemura, Tetsuya Ishikawa, Yuta Kimura +3
ICRA 2022poster

A multi-fingered hand that can grasp and manipulate a variety of objects is an option for assisting people in their daily lives. However, the range of torque output that can be handled by the multi-fingered hand is very limited compared to the capability of the human hand. In this paper, we introduc…

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2021

Shared Control of Robot-Robot Collaborative Lifting with Agent Postural and Force Ergonomic Optimization

Lorenzo Rapetti, Yeshasvi Tirupachuri, Alberto Ranavolo, Tomohiro Kawakami, Takahide Yoshiike, Daniele Pucci
ICRA 2021poster

Humans show specialized strategies for efficient collaboration. Transferring similar strategies to humanoid robots can improve their capability to interact with other agents, leading the way to complex collaborative scenarios with multiple agents acting on a shared environment. In this paper we pres…

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2020

Learning of Key Pose Evaluation for Efficient Multi-contact Motion Planner

Shintaro Noda, Masaki Murooka, Yuki Asano, Ryusuke Ishizaki, Tomohiro Kawakami, Tomoki Watabe +3
ICRA 2020poster

It is necessary to use not only foot but also hand, knee and other body parts to support body weight for locomotion in uneven terrain. Such multi-contact motion planning is an important research topic including lots of previous works; however, a problem of computational speed of planning is still re…

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