Eduardo Corral
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3
Total Citations
85
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About
Eduardo Corral is a leading researcher in the field of bipedal robotics, with a primary focus on the dynamic modeling and control of walking robots. His work centers on the complex interactions between a robot’s feet and the ground, particularly addressing the critical challenges of supporting foot slippage and viscoelastic dissipative contact forces. Corral’s major contributions include the development of a general approach for dynamic modeling that incorporates these realistic contact and friction forces, moving beyond idealized models. His most cited paper, "Dynamic Modeling of the Dissipative Contact and Friction Forces of a Passive Biped-Walking Robot" (2020, 59 citations), provides a foundational framework for understanding and simulating passive walking dynamics. He further advanced this work with the development of forward and inverse dynamics for the PASIBOT biped robot (2014, 18 citations), introducing an additional degree of freedom at the supporting foot to accurately model slippage. Corral’s research is instrumental in creating more stable, efficient, and human-like walking robots, with his models directly informing the design of robust locomotion controllers.
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- 2Forward and Inverse Dynamics of the Biped PASIBOT18 citations · 2014
- 3Passive Walking Biped Model with Dissipative Contact and Friction Forces8 citations · 2018