Publications and Awards
Rehab Technologies Lab is an award-winning research line of IIT and our teams actively support the scientific community with many publications, dissemination talks and other accomplishments.
Publications
2025
Rozlivek J., Roncone A., Pattacini U., Hoffmann M.
HARMONIOUS - Human-Like Reactive Motion Control and Multimodal Perception for Humanoid Robots
IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 41, pp. 378-393
2024
Dafarra S., Pattacini U., Romualdi G., Rapetti L., Grieco R., Darvish K., Milani G., Valli E., Sorrentino I., Viceconte P.M., Scalzo A., Traversaro S., Sartore C., Elobaid M., Guedelha N., Herron C., Leonessa A., Draicchio F., Metta G., Maggiali M., Pucci D.
iCub3 avatar system: Enabling remote fully immersive embodiment of humanoid robots
Science Robotics, vol. 9, (no. 86)
2023
Fussi M., Salvi M., Gesino M., Pattacini U., Maggiali M.
Building a Digital Twin of the iCub Humanoid Robot’s Head
MathWorks
Report
Journal
2023
Bottarel F., Altobelli A., Pattacini U., Natale L.
GRASPA-fying the Panda: Easily Deployable, Fully Reproducible Benchmarking of Grasp Planning Algorithms
IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine
2022
Vasco V., Antunes A.G.P., Tikhanoff V., Pattacini U., Natale L., Gower V., Maggiali M.
HR1 Robot: An Assistant for Healthcare Applications
Frontiers Robotics AI, vol. 9
2022
Dafarra S., Darvish K., Grieco R., Milani G., Pattacini U., Rapetti L., Romualdi G., Salvi M., Scalzo A., Sorrentino I., Tomè D., Traversaro S., Valli E., Viceconte P. M., Metta G., Maggiali M., Pucci D.
iCub3 Avatar System
arXiv
2021
Piga N.A., Pattacini U., Natale L.
A Differentiable Extended Kalman Filter for Object Tracking Under Sliding Regime
Frontiers Robotics AI, vol. 8
2021
Piga N.A., Bottarel F., Fantacci C., Vezzani G., Pattacini U., Natale L.
MaskUKF: An Instance Segmentation Aided Unscented Kalman Filter for 6D Object Pose and Velocity Tracking
Frontiers Robotics AI, vol. 8
2021
Piga N., Onyshchuk Y., Pasquale G., Pattacini U., Natale L.
ROFT: Real-time Optical Flow-aided 6D Object Pose and Velocity Tracking
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
2021
Chevalier P., Vasco V., Willemse C., de Tommaso D., Tikhanoff V., Pattacini U., Wykowska A.
Upper limb exercise with physical and virtual robots: Visual sensitivity affects task performance
Paladyn, vol. 12, (no. 1), pp. 199-213
2020
Bottarel F., Vezzani G., Pattacini U., Natale L.
GRASPA 1.0: GRASPA is a Robot Arm graSping Performance BenchmArk
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, (no. 2), pp. 836-843
2019
Kim W., Lorenzini M., Balatti P., Nguyen D.H.P., Pattacini U., Tikhanoff V., Peternel L., Fantacci C., Natale L., Metta G., AJOUDANI A.
Adaptable workstations for human–robot collaboration: A reconfigurable framework for improving worker ergonomics and productivity
IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine
2019
Nguyen P.D.H., Hoffmann M., Pattacini U., Metta G.
Reaching development through visuo-proprioceptive-tactile integration on a humanoid robot - A deep learning approach
2019 Joint IEEE 9th International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics, ICDL-EpiRob 2019, pp. 163-170
2019
Vasco V., Willemse C., Chevalier P., De Tommaso D., Gower V., Gramatica F., Tikhanoff V., Pattacini U., Metta G., Wykowska A.
Train with Me: A Study Comparing a Socially Assistive Robot and a Virtual Agent for a Rehabilitation Task
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 11876 LNAI, pp. 453-463
2018
Nguyen D.H.P., Hoffmann M., Roncone A., Pattacini U., Metta G.
Compact Real-time Avoidance on a Humanoid Robot for Human-robot Interaction
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, pp. 416-424
2018
Moulin-Frier C., Fischer T., Petit M., Pointeau G., Puigbo J.-Y., Pattacini U., Low S.C., Camilleri D., Nguyen P., Hoffmann M., Chang H.J., Zambelli M., Mealier A.-L., Damianou A., Metta G., Prescott T.J., Demiris Y., Dominey P.F., Verschure P.F.M.J.
DAC-h3: A Proactive Robot Cognitive Architecture to Acquire and Express Knowledge about the World and the Self
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, vol. 10, (no. 4), pp. 1005-1022
2018
Stramandinoli F., Tikhanoff V., Pattacini U., Nori F.
Heteroscedastic regression and active learning for modeling affordances in humanoids
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, vol. 10, (no. 2), pp. 455-468
2018
Vezzani G., Pattacini U., Pasquale G., Natale L.
Improving Superquadric Modeling and Grasping with Prior on Object Shapes
Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 6875-6882
Awards
2025
Rehab Technologies.
ADI Index award - Hannes arm
2025
Laffranchi M., Traverso S., Vaccaro R., Cavallaro L., Canepa M., Boccardo N., Vassallo C., Maludrottu S., De Michieli L., Gruppioni E.
Compasso d'oro international award - Twin exoskeleton
2025
Semprini M.
EMBC Distinguished Lecturer
2025
Laffranchi M.
Member of the Scientific Committee, acted as a reviewer for the scientific projects programme.
2025
Laffranchi M.
Premio ANGI 2025 - Menzione speciale innovazione "Innovation leader award"
2024
Macaluso A., Bottino A., Pratticò F.G., Lamberti F., Galletti C., Storchi C., Podda J., Tacchino A., Brichetto G., Boccardo N., et al.
Best Session Presentation - Executive Control in a Mixed Reality Exergame for Motor-Cognitive Rehabilitation in Multiple Sclerosis
2024
Laffranchi M.
Member of the Scientific Committee, acted as a reviewer for the scientific projects programme.
2024
Vassallo C.
Tornare a camminare grazie a un esoscheletro
2024
Vassallo C.
User-Centered Design and Development of Medical Robots: Rehabilitative Exoskeletons and Prostheses
2024
Franconi B., Cherubini A., Sacchini A., De Giuseppe S., Bunt A., Berettoni A., Modica A., Boccardo N., Gruppioni E., Traverso S., et al.
Winner of the 2024 Cybathlon Leg Prosthesis Race