Papers
15
Total Citations
94
H-Index
6
About
Jean-Guy Fontaine is a versatile robotics researcher whose work spans autonomous systems, legged locomotion, teleoperation, and underwater robotics. Over a career spanning more than two decades, Fontaine has made meaningful contributions to some of the most challenging frontiers in robotics engineering and control theory. His most impactful contribution lies in the domain of cooperative autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), where his behavior-based mission planning framework — his most cited work with 20 citations — addressed complex target detection and tracking challenges central to oceanographic exploration. Complementing this, his work on multi-AUV cooperation further demonstrated scalable approaches to coordinated autonomous missions. Fontaine has also advanced the field of legged robotics, developing theoretical frameworks for dynamic stability through the concept of m-stability and Virtual Generalized Stabilizers, and contributing early foundational work on distributed control architectures for quadruped systems dating back to 1994. His research on underactuated bipedal locomotion tackled the demanding problem of velocity transition control without reference trajectories. Beyond locomotion, Fontaine explored teleoperation systems enhanced by virtual reality, haptic feedback, and tactile sensing, as well as high-performance computer vision implementations. Collectively, his portfolio — accumulating citations across robotics, control theory, and human-robot interaction — reflects a researcher committed to bridging theoretical rigor with practical autonomous systems design.
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- 3Study of a distributed control architecture for a quadruped robot14 citations · 1994
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- 5DYNAMICS AND m-STABILITY OF LEGGED ROBOTS6 citations · 2005
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- 8New designs of fin type propulsive devices of robotic fish3 citations · 2011
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- 10Behavior-based Control: An Approach to Cooperative AUVs Missions3 citations · 2011