Nuno Guedelha
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About
Nuno Guedelha is a robotics researcher at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, whose work centers on humanoid robot control, telepresence, and simulation. He is best known for his contributions to the iCub3 avatar system, a groundbreaking platform enabling remote, fully immersive embodiment of humanoid robots. This work, published in 2024 and already garnering 60 citations, demonstrates how a human operator can control a humanoid robot in real time, receiving rich sensory feedback—a major step toward practical robotic telepresence. Guedelha has also made significant advances in bipedal locomotion, proposing a layered control architecture with online predictive planning for position- and torque-controlled walking, which integrates kinematic footstep planning with dynamic balance. His work on self-calibration of joint offsets using accelerometer measurements addresses a critical practical challenge in humanoid robotics, offering a fast, automatic alternative to cumbersome manual procedures. Additionally, he has developed a flexible, open-source MATLAB/Simulink simulator for floating-base robots in contact with the ground, providing the research community with a powerful tool for controller design and validation. Through these contributions, Guedelha has advanced both the theoretical foundations and practical deployment of humanoid robots.
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