@conference {3682, title = {Advanced grasping with the Pisa/IIT softHand}, booktitle = {Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Challenge }, year = {2018}, pages = {pp. 19-38}, author = {M. Bonilla and C. Della Santina and A. Rocchi and E. Luberto and G. Santaera and E. Farnioli and C. Piazza and F. Bonomo and A. Brando and A. Raugi and M. G. Catalano and M. Bianchi and M. Garabini and G. Grioli and A. Bicchi} } @conference {3747, title = {The softpro project: Synergy-based open-source technologies for prosthetics and rehabilitation}, booktitle = {International Symposium on Wearable Robotics}, year = {2018}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01887-0_71}, author = {C. Piazza and M. G. Catalano and M. Bianchi and E. Ricciardi and D. Pratichizzo and S. Haddadin and Luft, A. R. L. and O. Lambercy and R. Gassert and E. Jakubowitz and H. Van Der Kooij and F. Tonis and F. Bonomo and B. de Jonge and T. Ward and K. Zhao and M. Santello and A. Bicchi} } @conference {MGCGBB12, title = {Passive impedance control of a Qboid multi-DOF VSA-CubeBot manipulator}, booktitle = {International Conference of Robotics and Automation - ICRA 2012}, year = {2012}, month = {May 14 - 18}, pages = {3335 - 3340 }, address = {Saint Paul, MN, USA}, keywords = {Robotics}, doi = {10.1109/ICRA.2012.6225082 }, author = {M. Mancini and G. Grioli and M. G. Catalano and M. Garabini and F. Bonomo and A. Bicchi} } @conference {GCGSSBMBP11, title = {Variable stiffness actuators: muscles for the next generation of robots}, booktitle = {Automatica.it 2011}, year = {2011}, note = {

poster presentation

}, month = {September, 7 - 9}, address = {Pisa, Italy}, keywords = {Robotics}, author = {G. Grioli and M. G. Catalano and M. Garabini and F. Bonomo and A. Serio and P Salaris and F. A. W. Belo and M. Mancini and A. Bicchi and A. Passaglia} } @conference {CGGBB11, title = {VSA - CubeBot. A modular variable stiffness platform for multi degrees of freedom systems}, booktitle = {2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation}, year = {2011}, month = {May 9 - 13}, pages = {5090 - 5095}, address = {Shangai, China}, keywords = {Robotics}, author = {M. G. Catalano and G. Grioli and M. Garabini and F. Bonomo and M. Mancini and N G Tsagarakis and A. Bicchi} } @conference {FBCABB-ICRA10, title = {Design and Control of a Novel 3D Casting Manipulator}, booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2010)}, year = {2010}, month = {May 3 - 8}, pages = {4169 - 4174}, address = {Anchorage, Alaska}, keywords = {Embedded Control, Robotics}, author = {A. Fagiolini and F. A. W. Belo and M. G. Catalano and S. Alicino and F. Bonomo and A. Bicchi} } @conference {CGBSB10, title = {VSA-HD: From the Enumeration Analysis to the Prototypical Implementation}, booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems}, year = {2010}, month = {October}, pages = {3676 - 3681}, address = {St. Louis MO USA}, keywords = {Embedded Control, Robotics}, author = {M. G. Catalano and G. Grioli and F. Bonomo and R. Schiavi and A. Bicchi} } @conference {ACBBGSFB-IROS09, title = {A Rough-Terrain, Casting Robot for the ESA Lunar Robotics Challenge}, booktitle = {Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems}, year = {2009}, month = {October, 11 - 15}, pages = {3336-3342}, address = {St. Louis MO USA}, abstract = {

This paper describes the design and implementation of DAVID, a lunar vehicle developed for the European Space Agency (ESA) Lunar Robotics Challenge, presenting severe terrain negotiation and sample acquisition challenges. We discuss in some detail two of the main innovative aspects of our entry to the challenge, i.e. the locomotion system and the sample acquisition system. Motivated by the challenge specifications, a range of different locomotion systems were considered, among which we chose a simple, rugged and effective wheeled system. We provide an account of the choice of five different types of wheels, which were designed, analyzed and experimentally tested in conditions similar to the challenge. The system eventually turned out to be very effective in negotiating 89\% slopes of volcanic terrain on the challenge site, Mount Teide in Tenerife. To reduce the distance to be traveled on the difficult terrain and avoid risks in reaching the lowest parts of a crater, the vehicle was endowed with an innovative sample acquisition system, i.e. a casting manipulator. Casting manipulation is a technique in which the end-effector is thrown, the sample material is acquired, and the end-effector is retrieved using a light tether that acts as a

}, keywords = {Robotics}, author = {S. Alicino and M. G. Catalano and F. Bonomo and F. A. W. Belo and G. Grioli and R. Schiavi and A. Fagiolini and A. Bicchi} }