Steve Tonneau
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Researches motion planning for legged robots and humanoids, including contact planning and multi-contact locomotion, with applications to animation.
Steve Tonneau's lab at Edinburgh works on legged locomotion & humanoids, planning, control & multi-robot systems and physics-based simulation & animation. 11 papers since 2023, 3 at top venues, mostly T-RO. 3 PhD students and 1 master's student. 6 alumni.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 3/ year
- at T1 venues
- 27%
- PhD students
- 3
- MS students
- 1
- alumni listed
- 6
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 2 papers2026 · T1 1 · collecting
- 3 papers2025 · T1 0
- 4 papers2024 · T1 1
- 2 papers2023 · T1 1
T1 venuesOtherVenues: T-RO
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Planning, control & multi-robot systems6 papers
- planning3 papers
- contact3 papers
- Legged locomotion & humanoids2 papers
- Physics-based simulation & animation1 paper
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20262 papers
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)CASSR: continuous A-Star search through reachability for real time footstep planning
- T-RO (T1)System identification under constraints and disturbance: a Bayesian estimation approach
20253 papers
- IEEE AccessPerceptive locomotion through whole-body MPC and optimal region selection (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids)Scaling whole-body multi-contact manipulation with contact optimization (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL WorkshopVery high frequency interpolation for direct torque control
20244 papers
- IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids)Explicit contact optimization in whole-body contact-rich manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids)NAS: N-step computation of all solutions to the footstep planning problem (opens in a new tab)
- T-RO (T1)Online multicontact receding horizon planning via value function approximation (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE AccessReference-free model predictive control for quadrupedal locomotion (opens in a new tab)
20232 papers
- T-RO (T1)Inverse-dynamics MPC via nullspace resolution (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)Topology-based MPC for automatic footstep placement and contact surface selection (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went6 listed
Apply to EdinburghFall 2027
Not announced yet
Informatics PhD
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- Rolling (funding consideration)
- Opens
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- GRE
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- English
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- Fee
- none
Not yet confirmed for this intake.
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