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Sébastien Kleff,
L.
Joseph,
V.
Padois,
"Geometrically Consistent Tactile Servoing via Hybrid Force-Position Control at the Center of Pressure",
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters,
2026.
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A.
Jordana*,
Sébastien Kleff*,
A.
Meduri*,
J.
Carpentier,
N.
Mansard,
L.
Righetti,
"Structure-Exploiting Sequential Quadratic Programming for Model-Predictive Control",
IEEE Transactions on Robotics,
2025.
Paper
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Sébastien Kleff,
A.
Jordana,
N.
Mansard,
L.
Righetti,
"Force Feedback Model Predictive Control: A Soft Contact Approach",
Preprint,
2025.
Preprint
Video
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K.
Wojciechowski,
E.
Gursoy,
A.
Haffemayer,
Sébastien Kleff,
V.
Bonnet,
F.
Lamiraux,
N.
Mansard,
"Learning-Guided Force-Feedback Model Predictive Control with Obstacle Avoidance for Robotic Deburring",
Preprint,
2025.
Paper
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A.
Jordana,
Sébastien Kleff,
A.
Haffemayer,
J.
Ortiz-Haro,
J.
Carpentier,
N.
Mansard,
L.
Righetti,
"Infinite-Horizon Value Function Approximation for Model Predictive Control",
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters,
2025.
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A.
Jordana*,
Sébastien Kleff*,
J.
Carpentier,
N.
Mansard,
L.
Righetti,
"Force Feedback Model-Predictive Control via Online Estimation",
in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA),
2024.
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A.
Parag,
Sébastien Kleff,
L.
Saci,
N.
Mansard,
O.
Stasse,
"Value learning from trajectory optimization and Sobolev descent: A step toward reinforcement learning with superlinear convergence properties",
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA),
2022.
Paper
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Code
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Sébastien Kleff,
J.
Carpentier,
N.
Mansard,
L.
Righetti,
"On the Derivation of the Contact Dynamics in Arbitrary Frames (Application to Polishing with Talos)",
IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids),
2022.
Paper
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Sébastien Kleff,
E.
Dantec,
G.
Saurel,
N.
Mansard,
L.
Righetti,
"Introducing Force Feedback in Model Predictive Control",
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS),
2022.
Paper
Video
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A.
Gazar,
M.
Khadiv,
Sébastien Kleff,
A.
D.
Prete,
L.
Righetti,
"Nonlinear stochastic trajectory optimization for centroidal momentum motion generation of legged robots",
The International Symposium of Robotics Research, ISR 2022,
2022.
Paper
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Sébastien Kleff,
A.
Meduri,
R.
Budhiraja,
N.
Mansard,
L.
Righetti,
"High-Frequency Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of a Manipulator",
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA),
2021.
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Sébastien Kleff,
N.
Li,
"Robust Motion Planning in Dynamic Environments Based on Sampled-Data Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability",
Robotica,
2020.
Paper
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Sébastien Kleff,
N.
Li,
"A sampled-data Hamilton-Jacobi reachability approach to safe and robust motion planning",
Chinese Control And Decision Conference (CCDC),
2018.
Paper
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M.
Khadiv,
Sébastien Kleff,
A.
Herzog,
S.
A.
A.
Moosavian,
S.
Schaal,
L.
Righetti,
"Stepping stabilization using a combination of DCM tracking and step adjustment",
4th RSI International Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics, ICRoM 2016,
2016.
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Authors marked with * contributed equally to this work.