The scope of the IEEE RAS TC Model-based optimization for robotics is the development and application of model-based optimization techniques for the generation and control of dynamic behaviors in robotics and their practical implementation.
Human-like bipedal locomotion: the role of optimization, learning and motor primitives, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, (editors: Katja Mombaur, Diego Torricelli), 2017
Optimization used in Robotics Research (editors: Kensuke Harada and Yuichi Tazaki) in the Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, Vol. 32(6), July 2014