Papers
14
Total Citations
241
H-Index
7
About
Xavier Lamy is a robotics researcher whose work sits at the intersection of human-robot interaction, physical collaboration, and intelligent control systems. His career has been defined by sustained contributions to the field of **comanipulation** — scenarios in which humans and robots physically share manipulation tasks — with a particular focus on making such collaboration safe, intuitive, and effective in industrial environments. Among his most influential contributions is his early investigation into adaptive impedance control during comanipulation, addressing how a robot can respond intelligently to variations in human arm dynamics depending on posture and muscular co-contraction (53 citations). This foundational work paved the way for practical force amplification systems and helped establish key stability and passivity principles for collaborative robots. Lamy also advanced the concept of **virtual guides** — software-defined motion constraints that help human operators avoid errors during shared tasks — developing probabilistic frameworks and iterative programming methods that allow guides to be defined with minimal laborious configuration (38 and 33 citations respectively). His contributions to robotic skin technology for industrial cobots further underscore his commitment to operator safety (26 citations). Across more than a decade of research, Lamy's cumulative citation record reflects enduring influence on how engineers and researchers design physically collaborative robotic systems for real-world deployment.
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- 2Co-manipulation with multiple probabilistic virtual guides38 citations · 2015
- 3Co-manipulation with a library of virtual guiding fixtures33 citations · 2017
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- 5Robotic skin structure and performances for industrial robot comanipulation26 citations · 2009
- 6Iterative virtual guides programming for human-robot comanipulation22 citations · 2017
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