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Xavier Delebarre is a robotics researcher whose career has been dedicated to advancing the field of cooperative robotic manipulation, with a particular focus on two-arm robotic systems and force control. His foundational contributions, beginning in the early 1990s, addressed the fundamental challenge of how dual-arm robots can coordinate to assemble, transport, and manipulate both rigid and flexible objects — tasks demanding precise synchronization between robotic limbs. Delebarre's most influential work, "Task modeling and force control for a two-arm robot" (2002, 25 citations), exemplifies his systematic approach to decomposing complex robotic tasks into manageable phases and defining controlled vectors for coordinated manipulation. His 1991 papers established early frameworks for task description and force-controlled assembly, laying conceptual groundwork that continued to shape his research for over a decade. He also tackled significant implementation challenges, exploring multiprocessor architectures for real-time force control and developing robust hybrid position/force control strategies. Accumulating over 80 citations across his body of work, Delebarre's research represents a sustained and coherent contribution to cooperative robotics. His later work extending force control to deformable objects demonstrates a commitment to pushing the boundaries of what dual-arm robotic systems can reliably achieve in practical assembly and manufacturing contexts.