@article {pub3182,
	title = {GUEST EDITORIAL OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE ON WHOLE-BODY CONTROL FOR ROBOTS IN THE REAL WORLD},
	author = {Federico Moro AND Michael Gienger AND Ambarish Goswami},
	year = {2016},
	month = {March},
	abstract = {Research in whole-body control (WBC) aims to contribute to provide robots with those
capabilities that are necessary to move and perform in real world scenarios. Until recent
years, limitations on hardware relegated whole-body control to almost purely theoretical
research. Recently a growing number of experimental platforms have become available
(in particular torque-controlled humanoids). This new opportunity has triggered the
deployment on real robots of the theoretical outcomes of research in the field. This is
backed up by a number of new research projects and initiatives addressing issues in this
domain, including the Darpa Robotic Challenge (DRC). The goal of this special issue is
to provide a clear representation of what is the state-of-the-art in whole-body control,
and to help identifying what steps still need to be taken to have humanoid robots moving
out of research laboratories to real world applications.},
	publisher = {World Scientific Publishing Company},
	journal = {International Journal of Humanoid Robotics},
	volume = {13},
	number = {DOI: 10.1142/S0219843616020011 }
}