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    1. KleffTactile icon
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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.
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      Sébastien Kleff, A. Jordana, N. Mansard, L. Righetti, "Force Feedback Model Predictive Control: A Soft Contact Approach", Preprint, 2025.
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    4. WojciechowskiDeburring icon
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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.
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    5. JordanaValue2025 icon
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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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    6. JordanaICRA24 icon
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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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    7. Parag2022 icon
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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.
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    8. KleffHumanoids22 icon
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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.
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    9. KleffIROS22 icon
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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.
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    10. Gazar22 icon
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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.
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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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    12. KleffRobotica20 icon
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      Sébastien Kleff, N. Li, "Robust Motion Planning in Dynamic Environments Based on Sampled-Data Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability", Robotica, 2020.
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    13. KleffCCDC2018 icon
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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.
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    14. Khadiv2017 icon
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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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