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M. Guihard is a robotics researcher whose career has centered on the dynamic control and actuation of legged and multi-limbed robotic systems, with a particular specialization in pneumatic actuation — a technically demanding domain requiring sophisticated control strategies to manage compressibility, nonlinearity, and real-time stability constraints. His most influential contributions, each accumulating over two decades of scholarly attention, focus on impedance control frameworks for pneumatically actuated structures, including bipedal and quadrupedal robots. His 1999 and 1998 papers on joint impedance pneumatic control and dynamic control of pneumatic bipeds (each with 22 than citations) established foundational principles for ensuring dynamic stability and accurate force-position tracking in legged locomotion. Guihard further advanced the field through adaptive impedance control, biorobotic foot modeling informed by biomechanical analysis, and modular architectures for coordinating large-scale multichain systems. His development of experimental platforms — including the quadruped RALPHY and the hybrid wheel-leg robot SAPPHYR — demonstrates a consistent commitment to translating theoretical control frameworks into functional robotic testbeds. His body of work offers students a rigorous entry point into the intersection of nonlinear control theory, biomechanics-inspired design, and practical legged robot engineering.