Tommaso Belvedere

I am a PostDoc researcher at the Rainbow Team at IRISA/Inria Rennes, France, since June 2024.

My research focuses on developing methodologies to make robots move efficiently, safely, and robustly, with particular emphasis on optimization-based methods such as Model Predictive Control. My work spans multiple robotic platforms including wheeled, legged, and aerial robots. Currently, I am mainly interested in tackling the problem of robustifying robot actions against model uncertainties, and in the combination of heterogeneous control methods (optimization, learning, etc…) towards more modular robotics systems.

In 2025 I have been a Visiting Researcher at the DRAGON Lab of the University of Tokyo.

I was previously a PhD student at the DIAG Robotics Lab, where I worked on the the development of Model Predictive Control strategies for non-minimum phase systems including articulated vehicles, wheeled balancing robots, and humanoid robots.

I serve as an Associate Editor for robotics conferences, including ICRA {2025, 2026} and IROS 2025, and for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).

In the past, I’ve helped in the organization of JNRR 2025 at Inria/IRISA Rennes, of an ICRA 2025 Workshop “Beyond the Lab: Robust Planning and Control in Real World Scenarios”, and a workshop on “Recent Advancements in Aerial Manipulation” held at Inria Rennes