S. Boudet
Papers
12
Total Citations
1,498
H-Index
11
About
S. Boudet is a robotics researcher whose work spans vision-based robot control, medical robotics, and sensor fusion — areas where their contributions have left a meaningful and lasting mark on the field. Perhaps most notably, Boudet was among the key contributors to the development of **2½D visual servoing**, a hybrid approach that elegantly sidesteps the limitations of both position-based and image-based visual servoing techniques. First introduced in 1997–1998 and formalized in a landmark 1999 paper, this framework has accumulated over 940 citations, establishing it as a foundational reference in robot vision control research. Beyond visual servoing, Boudet made significant contributions to **medical robotics**, co-developing the HIPPOCRATE system — an intrinsically safe robotic arm designed to assist physicians in performing ultrasound examinations and arterial plaque reconstruction, with key safety and force-feedback capabilities earning nearly 190 citations. Their work on **impedance-based fusion of visual and force control** (2002) further demonstrated a talent for integrating complementary sensing modalities into coherent, practical control architectures. Additional contributions include multi-camera visual servoing and constraint incorporation in vision-based control, reflecting a consistently rigorous and innovative approach to making robots more perceptive, safe, and clinically useful.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 12 1/2 D visual servoing943 citations · 1999
- 2Hippocrate: a safe robot arm for medical applications with force feedback189 citations · 1999
- 3Impedance based combination of visual and force control97 citations · 2002
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- 5Multi-cameras visual servoing46 citations · 2002
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- 72D 1/2 Visual Servoing37 citations · 1998
- 8HIPPOCRATE: an intrinsically safe robot for medical applications29 citations · 2002
- 92D 1/2 visual servoing with respect to a planar object19 citations · 1997
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