Papers
7
Total Citations
51
H-Index
5
About
Veronica Nunez is a leading researcher in humanoid robotics, with a primary focus on locomotion and dynamic motion control. Her work addresses the fundamental challenge of enabling bipedal robots to perform complex, agile movements—most notably, the vertical jump. In her highly cited 2005 paper, she introduced a control strategy using sliding modes to achieve a vertical jump for humanoid robots, a problem that requires precise coordination of leg forces and body stability. She extended this work in 2006 with an application-oriented method for planar vertical jumps, and later explored compliant contact to improve jump performance. Nunez also developed a unified whole-body posture controller based on inertial forces, which can treat multiple locomotion modes—walking, running, and jumping—within a single framework. Her research has been applied to popular platforms such as the Bioloid and NAO humanoid robots, with studies on optimum walking and constrained locomotion. With over 50 citations across her most influential papers, Nunez’s contributions are foundational for advancing humanoid agility and real-world mobility.
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Top Papers
- 1Control strategy for vertical jump of humanoid robots15 citations · 2005
- 2Control strategy for planar vertical jump11 citations · 2006
- 3Inertial Forces Posture Control for Humanoid Robots Locomotion7 citations · 2007
- 4Optimum Walking of the Bioloid Humanoid Robot on a Rectilinear Path5 citations · 2017
- 5On the Constrained Walking of the NAO Humanoid Robot5 citations · 2017
- 6Humanoid Vertical Jump with Compliant Contact4 citations · 2006
- 7Whole body posture controller based on inertial forces4 citations · 2006