Federico Thomas

Profesor de Investigación

Subline:

Computational Robotics

thomas (at) iri.upc.edu

93 4015757

http://www.iri.upc.edu/people/thomas

Prof. Federico Thomas received the telecommunications engineering degree in 1984 and the Ph.D. degree in computer science in 1988, both from the Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain. He was visiting professor at the university of Massachusetts, USA, and at Oxford University, UK. He was also invited professor at the École Centrale de Nantes, France. His current research interests include Distance Geometry and Clifford Algebras, and their application to Kinematics.

Publications

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Publications

F. Thomas and J. Franch. Formulating the unicycle on the sphere path planning problem as a linear time-varying system. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 41: 3335-3347, 2025.

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F. Thomas. Fixed points in distance recurrence formulas, 19th International Symposium on Advances in Robot Kinematics, 2024, Ljubljana (Slovenia), in Advances in Robot Kinematics 2024. ARK 2024, Vol 31 of Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics, pp. 399-406, 2024, Springer, Cham.

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J.M. Porta and F. Thomas. Finding the common tangents to four spheres via dimensionality reduction, 19th International Symposium on Advances in Robot Kinematics, 2024, Ljubljana (Slovenia), in Advances in Robot Kinematics 2024. ARK 2024, Vol 31 of Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics, pp. 113-120, 2024, Springer, Cham.

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F. Thomas and J.M. Porta. The inverse kinematics of lobster arms. Mechanism and Machine Theory, 196: 105630, 2024.

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S. Sarabandi and F. Thomas. On closed-form solutions to the 4D nearest rotation matrix problem. Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, 47(3): 1248-1256, 2024.

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F. Thomas. New bracket polynomials associated with the general Gough-Stewart parallel robot singularities, 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2023, London (UK), pp. 9728-9734.

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B. Bongardt and F. Thomas. On ellipse intersections by means of distance geometry, 16th IFToMM World Congress on Mechanism and Machine Science, 2023, Tokyo (Japan), Vol 147 of Mechanisms and Machine Science, pp. 533-543, 2023, Springer, Cham.

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F. Thomas and B. Bongardt. Ellipse distance geometry and the design of 3R robots, 16th IFToMM World Congress on Mechanism and Machine Science, 2023, Tokyo (Japan), Vol 147 of Mechanisms and Machine Science, pp. 577-587, 2023, Springer, Cham.

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S. Sarabandi and F. Thomas. Solution methods to the nearest rotation matrix problem in R3: A comparative survey. Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications, 30(5): e2492, 2023.

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F. Thomas and J.M. Porta. The Distance Geometry of the Generalized Lobster’s Arm, 18th International Symposium on Advances in Robot Kinematics, 2022, Bilbao, Vol 24 of Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics, pp. 409-417, Springer.

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Federico Thomas

Profesor de Investigación

Subline:

thomas (at) iri.upc.edu

93 4015757

Publications

F. Thomas and J. Franch. Formulating the unicycle on the sphere path planning problem as a linear time-varying system. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 41: 3335-3347, 2025.

F. Thomas. Fixed points in distance recurrence formulas, 19th International Symposium on Advances in Robot Kinematics, 2024, Ljubljana (Slovenia), in Advances in Robot Kinematics 2024. ARK 2024, Vol 31 of Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics, pp. 399-406, 2024, Springer, Cham.

F. Thomas and J.M. Porta. The inverse kinematics of lobster arms. Mechanism and Machine Theory, 196: 105630, 2024.

S. Sarabandi and F. Thomas. On closed-form solutions to the 4D nearest rotation matrix problem. Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, 47(3): 1248-1256, 2024.

F. Thomas. New bracket polynomials associated with the general Gough-Stewart parallel robot singularities, 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2023, London (UK), pp. 9728-9734.

B. Bongardt and F. Thomas. On ellipse intersections by means of distance geometry, 16th IFToMM World Congress on Mechanism and Machine Science, 2023, Tokyo (Japan), Vol 147 of Mechanisms and Machine Science, pp. 533-543, 2023, Springer, Cham.

F. Thomas and B. Bongardt. Ellipse distance geometry and the design of 3R robots, 16th IFToMM World Congress on Mechanism and Machine Science, 2023, Tokyo (Japan), Vol 147 of Mechanisms and Machine Science, pp. 577-587, 2023, Springer, Cham.

S. Sarabandi and F. Thomas. Solution methods to the nearest rotation matrix problem in R3: A comparative survey. Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications, 30(5): e2492, 2023.

F. Thomas and J.M. Porta. The Distance Geometry of the Generalized Lobster’s Arm, 18th International Symposium on Advances in Robot Kinematics, 2022, Bilbao, Vol 24 of Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics, pp. 409-417, Springer.