Gabriel Abba
Centre Hospitalier Régional de Metz-Thionville, Industrial Union of Metalworkers, Laboratoire de Génie Informatique, de Production et de Maintenance, Laboratoire de Conception Fabrication Commande, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, ParisTech, Laboratoire d'Informatique et d'Automatique pour les Systèmes, École Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Metz, Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Ingénieur, de l'Informatique et de l'Imagerie, École nationale supérieure d'arts et métiers, École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Strasbourg, Laboratoire d'Automatique, Génie Informatique et Signal
Papers
44
Total Citations
2,293
H-Index
13
About
Gabriel Abba is a distinguished robotics researcher whose career has centered on two principal domains: bipedal locomotion and robotic manufacturing processes. He is perhaps best known for his foundational contributions to the stability analysis of walking robots, most notably through his landmark 2001 paper "Asymptotically Stable Walking for Biped Robots," which has accumulated nearly 1,000 citations and remains a cornerstone reference in legged robotics. His involvement in the RABBIT project — a pioneering experimental bipedal platform described in a 2003 paper with over 530 citations — helped bridge the gap between theoretical control frameworks and physical robot implementation. Abba's work on Poincaré methods for systems with impulse effects further deepened the mathematical rigor applied to biped locomotion analysis, while his 2009 book on bipedal robot modeling provided a comprehensive resource for the research community. Beyond locomotion, he has made notable contributions to robotic friction stir welding, developing real-time trajectory compensation and state estimation techniques to overcome the flexibility limitations of industrial manipulators. His broad yet focused body of work, spanning gait optimization, nonlinear control, and advanced manufacturing, reflects a career dedicated to making autonomous and precise robotic motion a practical reality.
Research Focus
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Top Papers
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- 2RABBIT: a testbed for advanced control theory538 citations · 2003
- 3Stable walking of a 7-dof biped robot264 citations · 2003
- 4Bipedal Robots : Modeling, Design and Walking Synthesis91 citations · 2009
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- 7Energy-minimized Gait for a Biped Robot25 citations · 1995
- 8Quasi optimal gait for a biped robot using genetic algorithm22 citations · 2002
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