Karim Bouyarmane
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier, Université de Lorraine, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, Université de Montpellier, Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications, Kyoto Seika University, Oxford Centre for Computational Neuroscience
Papers
24
Total Citations
875
H-Index
16
About
Karim Bouyarmane is a leading robotics researcher whose work has fundamentally advanced the fields of humanoid robot motion planning, multi-contact locomotion, and whole-body control. His research centers on enabling robots to move and interact with complex environments in dynamically consistent, human-like ways — from bipedal walking to ladder climbing and disaster response scenarios. Bouyarmane's most influential contributions lie in formulating robot control as mathematical optimization problems. His work on quadratic programming for multirobot force control (115 citations) extended task-space controllers to centralized multi-robot systems, while his analysis of weight-prioritized multitask control (87 citations) provided rigorous theoretical foundations for humanoid inverse dynamics. His 2012 paper on locomotion and manipulation step planning (102 citations) demonstrated how robots can fluidly transition between contact configurations for diverse tasks, a cornerstone challenge in humanoid robotics. Notably, his team achieved multi-contact vertical ladder climbing with the HRP-2 humanoid (96 citations), a landmark demonstration of acyclic contact planning in practice. His early work on potential field-guided multi-contact planning and free-floating-base dynamics modeling further cemented his contributions to foundational robot motion theory. With over 680 cumulative citations, Bouyarmane remains a defining voice in whole-body humanoid control research.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1Quadratic Programming for Multirobot and Task-Space Force Control115 citations · 2018
- 2Humanoid Robot Locomotion and Manipulation Step Planning102 citations · 2012
- 3Multi-contact vertical ladder climbing with an HRP-2 humanoid96 citations · 2016
- 4On Weight-Prioritized Multitask Control of Humanoid Robots87 citations · 2017
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- 8Multi-contact stances planning for multiple agents50 citations · 2011
- 9Potential field guide for humanoid multicontacts acyclic motion planning37 citations · 2009
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