Sylvain Calinon

10.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
158 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Sylvain Calinon is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Sylvain Calinon has authored 158 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 120 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 62 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 51 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Sylvain Calinon's work include Robot Manipulation and Learning (115 papers), Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (40 papers) and Robotic Mechanisms and Dynamics (31 papers). Sylvain Calinon is often cited by papers focused on Robot Manipulation and Learning (115 papers), Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (40 papers) and Robotic Mechanisms and Dynamics (31 papers). Sylvain Calinon collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Italy and United Kingdom. Sylvain Calinon's co-authors include Aude Billard, Darwin G. Caldwell, F. Guenter, Petar Kormushev, Leonel Rozo, Danilo Bruno, Micha Hersch, Ioannis Havoutis, Carme Torras and Eric L. Sauser and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The International Journal of Robotics Research and IEEE Transactions on Robotics.

In The Last Decade

Sylvain Calinon

149 papers receiving 5.8k citations

Hit Papers

On Learning, Representing, and Generalizing a Task in a H... 2007 2026 2013 2019 2007 2010 2015 250 500 750

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sylvain Calinon Switzerland 43 4.6k 2.1k 1.9k 1.4k 1.0k 158 6.0k
Aleš Ude Slovenia 34 3.0k 0.7× 1.0k 0.5× 1.7k 0.9× 1.2k 0.9× 638 0.6× 193 4.4k
Tamim Asfour Germany 43 5.2k 1.1× 1.6k 0.7× 3.0k 1.6× 2.7k 1.9× 942 0.9× 327 7.5k
Sonia Chernova United States 25 2.7k 0.6× 2.4k 1.1× 642 0.3× 1.1k 0.8× 600 0.6× 130 4.5k
Sandra Hirche Germany 41 3.4k 0.7× 696 0.3× 1.0k 0.5× 568 0.4× 1.8k 1.7× 378 6.4k
Peter Pástor United States 23 3.1k 0.7× 1.3k 0.6× 1.8k 0.9× 1.3k 0.9× 589 0.6× 30 4.3k
Sethu Vijayakumar United Kingdom 38 2.2k 0.5× 1.4k 0.7× 2.2k 1.2× 1.1k 0.8× 445 0.4× 232 5.7k
Brenna Argall United States 22 2.0k 0.4× 1.5k 0.7× 719 0.4× 719 0.5× 464 0.4× 72 4.7k
Carme Torras Spain 32 1.9k 0.4× 868 0.4× 916 0.5× 1.6k 1.1× 550 0.5× 248 4.5k
Masayuki Inaba Japan 42 4.5k 1.0× 750 0.3× 5.0k 2.6× 2.8k 2.0× 1.4k 1.4× 637 8.7k
Oliver Brock Germany 38 3.2k 0.7× 718 0.3× 2.4k 1.3× 2.2k 1.5× 1.2k 1.1× 139 6.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sylvain Calinon

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Calinon, Sylvain, et al.. (2025). Ergodic Exploration of Dynamic Distribution. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 10(12). 12915–12922.
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Calinon, Sylvain, et al.. (2025). Robust contact-rich manipulation through implicit motor adaptation. The International Journal of Robotics Research. 45(1). 41–59.
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Li, Yiming, et al.. (2024). Representing Robot Geometry as Distance Fields: Applications to Whole-body Manipulation. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 15351–15357. 11 indexed citations
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Calinon, Sylvain, et al.. (2024). D-LGP: Dynamic Logic-Geometric Program for Reactive Task and Motion Planning. 14888–14894. 3 indexed citations
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Calinon, Sylvain, et al.. (2024). Extending the Cooperative Dual-Task Space in Conformal Geometric Algebra. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 14882–14887.
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Hulin, Thomas, Bernhard Weber, Sylvain Calinon, et al.. (2024). A Probabilistic Approach to Multi-Modal Adaptive Virtual Fixtures. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 9(6). 5298–5305. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Jiayi, Sang-Hyun Kim, Vladimir Ivan, et al.. (2024). Online Multicontact Receding Horizon Planning via Value Function Approximation. IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 40. 2791–2810. 3 indexed citations
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Calinon, Sylvain, et al.. (2024). GAFRO: Geometric Algebra for Robotics [Tutorial]. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. 32(3). 184–194.
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Gao, Yongsheng, et al.. (2023). A geometric optimal control approach for imitation and generalization of manipulation skills. Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 164. 104413–104413. 3 indexed citations
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Calinon, Sylvain, et al.. (2019). Improving dual-arm assembly by master-slave compliance. University of Oulu Repository (University of Oulu). 10 indexed citations
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Calinon, Sylvain, et al.. (2019). Gaussians on Riemannian Manifolds for Robot Learning and Adaptive Control.. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Calinon, Sylvain, et al.. (2019). Bayesian Optimization Meets Riemannian Manifolds in Robot Learning. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 233–246. 2 indexed citations
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Giusti, Andrea, et al.. (2018). Flexible Automation Driven by Demonstration: Leveraging Strategies that Simplify Robotics. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. 25(2). 18–27. 16 indexed citations
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Tanwani, Ajay Kumar & Sylvain Calinon. (2016). Online Inference in Bayesian Non-Parametric Mixture Models under Small Variance Asymptotics. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 3 indexed citations
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Malekzadeh, Milad, Sylvain Calinon, Danilo Bruno, & Darwin G. Caldwell. (2014). Learning by imitation with the STIFF-FLOP surgical robot: a biomimetic approach inspired by octopus movements. 1(1). 13–13. 2 indexed citations
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Malekzadeh, Milad, Sylvain Calinon, Danilo Bruno, & Darwin G. Caldwell. (2014). A Skill Transfer Approach for Continuum Robots - Imitation of Octopus Reaching Motion with the STIFF-FLOP Robot. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 2 indexed citations
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Kormushev, Petar, Sylvain Calinon, & Darwin G. Caldwell. (2010). Approaches for Learning Human-like Motor Skills which Require Variable Stiffness During Execution. Spiral (Imperial College London). 2 indexed citations
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Calinon, Sylvain, Paul Evrard, Elena Gribovskaya, Aude Billard, & Abderrahmane Kheddar. (2009). Learning collaborative manipulation tasks by demonstration using a haptic interface. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 1–6. 50 indexed citations
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Calinon, Sylvain & Aude Billard. (2008). A framework integrating statistical and social cues to teach a humanoid robot new skills. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 18 indexed citations
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Calinon, Sylvain & Aude Billard. (2003). PDA Interface for Humanoid Robots. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 12 indexed citations

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