Farbod Farshidian

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Farbod Farshidian is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Farbod Farshidian has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 25 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 13 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Farbod Farshidian's work include Robotic Locomotion and Control (23 papers), Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (11 papers) and Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics (11 papers). Farbod Farshidian is often cited by papers focused on Robotic Locomotion and Control (23 papers), Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (11 papers) and Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics (11 papers). Farbod Farshidian collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Germany. Farbod Farshidian's co-authors include Marco Hutter, Jonas Buchli, Ruben Grandia, Michael Neunert, Fabian Jenelten, Alexander Winkler, Diego Pardo, Fadri Furrer, Mina Kamel and Roland Siegwart and has published in prestigious journals such as ACM Transactions on Graphics, The International Journal of Robotics Research and IEEE Transactions on Robotics.

In The Last Decade

Farbod Farshidian

34 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

Perceptive Locomotion Through Nonlinear Model-Predictive ... 2023 2026 2024 2025 2023 40 80 120
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Perceptive Locomotion Through Nonlinear Model-Predictive Control
    2023 123 citations Ruben Grandia, Fabian Jenelten et al. IEEE Transactions on Robotics profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Farbod Farshidian Switzerland 21 695 677 422 182 166 36 1.2k
Hongkai Dai United States 14 951 1.4× 696 1.0× 289 0.7× 165 0.9× 143 0.9× 20 1.3k
Adrien Escande France 19 916 1.3× 920 1.4× 450 1.1× 187 1.0× 150 0.9× 57 1.4k
Andrés Valenzuela United States 9 793 1.1× 485 0.7× 243 0.6× 133 0.7× 118 0.7× 15 1.1k
Michael Posa United States 13 561 0.8× 575 0.8× 267 0.6× 110 0.6× 95 0.6× 23 910
Gerardo Bledt United States 11 1.1k 1.6× 561 0.8× 268 0.6× 202 1.1× 245 1.5× 14 1.4k
Andrea Del Prete Italy 18 709 1.0× 546 0.8× 214 0.5× 117 0.6× 86 0.5× 48 1.1k
Jared Di Carlo United States 6 1.3k 1.8× 616 0.9× 279 0.7× 240 1.3× 239 1.4× 7 1.5k
Benjamin Katz United States 7 1.3k 1.8× 624 0.9× 280 0.7× 244 1.3× 240 1.4× 9 1.5k
Twan Koolen United States 11 1.3k 1.9× 606 0.9× 214 0.5× 173 1.0× 149 0.9× 14 1.6k
Ayonga Hereid United States 16 890 1.3× 389 0.6× 142 0.3× 120 0.7× 130 0.8× 41 1.1k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Farbod Farshidian

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zhang, Yunbo, et al.. (2025). Diffuse-CLoC: Guided Diffusion for Physics-based Character Look-ahead Control. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 44(4). 1–12.
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Jenelten, Fabian, et al.. (2024). DTC: Deep Tracking Control. Science Robotics. 9(86). eadh5401–eadh5401. 42 indexed citations
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Farshidian, Farbod, et al.. (2023). Learning Arm-Assisted Fall Damage Reduction and Recovery for Legged Mobile Manipulators. 12149–12155. 22 indexed citations
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Carron, Andrea, et al.. (2023). Bayesian Multi-Task Learning MPC for Robotic Mobile Manipulation. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 8(6). 3222–3229. 21 indexed citations
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Mittal, Mayank, et al.. (2022). A Collision-Free MPC for Whole-Body Dynamic Locomotion and Manipulation. 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). 4686–4693. 40 indexed citations
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Farshidian, Farbod, et al.. (2022). Combining Learning-Based Locomotion Policy With Model-Based Manipulation for Legged Mobile Manipulators. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 7(2). 2377–2384. 49 indexed citations
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Jenelten, Fabian, Ruben Grandia, Farbod Farshidian, & Marco Hutter. (2022). TAMOLS: Terrain-Aware Motion Optimization for Legged Systems. IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 38(6). 3395–3413. 48 indexed citations
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Mittal, Mayank, David Hoeller, Farbod Farshidian, Marco Hutter, & Animesh Garg. (2022). Articulated Object Interaction in Unknown Scenes with Whole-Body Mobile Manipulation. 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). 1647–1654. 49 indexed citations
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Farshidian, Farbod, et al.. (2022). Haptic Teleoperation of High-dimensional Robotic Systems Using a Feedback MPC Framework. 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). 6197–6204. 8 indexed citations
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Farshidian, Farbod, et al.. (2022). Whole-Body MPC and Dynamic Occlusion Avoidance: A Maximum Likelihood Visibility Approach. 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). 221–227. 3 indexed citations
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Farshidian, Farbod, et al.. (2021). Combined Sampling and Optimization Based Planning for Legged-Wheeled Robots. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 8366–8372. 11 indexed citations
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Grandia, Ruben, et al.. (2021). Model Predictive Robot-Environment Interaction Control for Mobile Manipulation Tasks. 1651–1657. 27 indexed citations
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Carius, Jan, René Ranftl, Farbod Farshidian, & Marco Hutter. (2021). Constrained stochastic optimal control with learned importance sampling: A path integral approach. The International Journal of Robotics Research. 41(2). 189–209. 15 indexed citations
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Hoeller, David, Farbod Farshidian, & Marco Hutter. (2020). Deep Value Model Predictive Control. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 100. 990–1004. 5 indexed citations
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Farshidian, Farbod, et al.. (2020). Towards Dynamic Transparency: Robust Interaction Force Tracking Using Multi-Sensory Control on an Arm Exoskeleton. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 7417–7424. 25 indexed citations
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Farshidian, Farbod, et al.. (2019). Whole-Body MPC for a Dynamically Stable Mobile Manipulator. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 4(4). 3687–3694. 67 indexed citations
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Kronander, Klas, et al.. (2017). Learning motions from demonstrations and rewards with time-invariant dynamical systems based policies. Autonomous Robots. 42(1). 45–64. 20 indexed citations
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Neunert, Michael, Farbod Farshidian, Alexander Winkler, & Jonas Buchli. (2017). Trajectory Optimization Through Contacts and Automatic Gait Discovery for Quadrupeds. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2(3). 1502–1509. 77 indexed citations
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Winkler, Alexander, Farbod Farshidian, Michael Neunert, Diego Pardo, & Jonas Buchli. (2017). Online walking motion and foothold optimization for quadruped locomotion. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 5308–5313. 33 indexed citations
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Neunert, Michael, Fadri Furrer, Mina Kamel, et al.. (2016). Fast nonlinear Model Predictive Control for unified trajectory optimization and tracking. 1398–1404. 137 indexed citations

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