Publications

2022

H. Li, C. J. Ford, M. Bianchi, M. G. Catalano, E. Psomopoulou, and N. F. Lepora (2022) BRL/Pisa/IIT SoftHand: A low-cost, 3D-printed, underactuated, tendon-driven hand with soft and adaptive synergies, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 7(4):8745-8751.

K. Karacan, H. Sadeghian, R. J. Kirschner, and S. Haddadin (2022) Passivity-based skill motion learning in stiffness-adaptive unified force-impedance control, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).

S. Monteleone, F. Negrello, M. G. Catalano, M. Garabini, and G. Grioli (2022) Damping in compliant actuation: A review, IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 29(3):47-66.

S. Monteleone, F. Negrello, G. Grioli, and M. G. Catalano (2022) dSEDA: A differential series elastic damped actuator, International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 11395-11401.

E. Shahriari, S. A. B. Birjandi, and S. Haddadin (2022) Passivity-based adaptive force-impedance control for modular multi-manual object manipulation. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 7(2):2194-2201.

M. Simonič, A. Ude, and B. Nemec (2022) Hierarchical learning of robotic contact policies, submitted to a journal, under review.

M. Simonič, M. Majcen Hrovat, S. Džeroski, A. Ude and B. Nemec (2022) Determining Exception Context in Assembly Operations from Multimodal Data, Sensors, 22(20):7962.

2021

N. F. Lepora, C. Ford, A. Stinchcombe, A. Brown, J. Lloyd, M. G. Catalano, M. Bianchi, and B. Ward-Cherrier (2021). Towards integrated tactile sensorimotor control in anthropomorphic soft robotic hands, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 1622-1628.

Z. Lončarević, R. Pahič, A. Ude, and A. Gams (2021) Generalization-based acquisition of training data for motor primitive learning by neural networks, Applied Sciences, 11:1013.

R. J. Kirschner, A. Kurdas, K. Karacan, P. Junge, S. Birjandi, N. Mansfeld, S. Abdolshah, and S. Haddadin (2021) Towards a reference framework for tactile robot performance and safety benchmarking, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 4290-4297.

R. Mengacci, G. Zambella, G. Grioli, D. Caporale, M. G. Catalano, and A. Bicchi (2021) An open-source ROS-Gazebo toolbox for simulating robots with compliant actuators, Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 8:713083.

R. Mengacci, M. Garabini, G. Grioli, M. G. Catalano, and Bicchi, A. (2021) Overcoming the torque/stiffness range tradeoff in antagonistic variable stiffness actuators, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 26(6):3186-3197.

R. Pahič, Z. Lončarević, A. Gams, and A. Ude (2021) Robot skill learning in latent space of a deep autoencoder neural network, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 135, art. 103690, pp. 1-12. (open access)

P. Radanovič, J. Jereb, I. Kovač, and A. Ude (2021) Design of a modular robotic workcell platform enabled by plug & produce connectors, 20th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), pp. 304-309.

M. Simonič, R. Pahič, T. Gašpar, S. Abdolshah, S. Haddadin, M. G. Catalano, F. Wörgötter, and A. Ude (2021) Modular ROS-based software architecture for reconfigurable, Industry 4.0 compatible robotic workcells, 20th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), pp. 44-51.

2020

T. Gašpar, M. Deniša, P. Radanovič, B. Ridge, T. R. Savarimuthu, A. Kramberger, M. Priggemeyer, J. Roßmann, F. Wörgötter, T. Ivanovska, S. Parizi, Ž. Gosar, I. Kovač, and A. Ude (2020) Smart hardware integration with advanced robot programming technologies for efficient reconfiguration of robot workcells, Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, vol. 66, no. 101979 (open access).