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
2024
Poka A., Manara F., Ludovico D., Pistone A., Dal Verme L.D.M.C., Berselli G., Caldwell D., Canali C.
Design of a torsional stiffener for a cable-driven hyper-redundant robot composed of gear transmission joints
International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology
2024
Pistone A., Ludovico D., De Mari Casareto Dal Verme L., Leggieri S., Canali C., Caldwell D.G.
Modelling and control of manipulators for inspection and maintenance in challenging environments: A literature review
Annual Reviews in Control, vol. 57
2024
Ludovico D., Pistone A., De Mari Casareto Dal Verme L., Poka A., Manara F., Berselli G., Caldwell D.G., Canali C.
Reconfiguration of Modular Hyper-Redundant Manipulators via Normalised Manipulability, Workspace Density, and Workspace Volume Percentage Indices
Proceedings - 6th International Conference on Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots, ReMAR 2024, pp. 385-392
2023
Ludovico D., Guardiani P., Pistone A., De Mari Casareto Dal Verme L., Caldwell D.G., Canali C.
A Dual Forward–Backward Algorithm to Solve Convex Model Predictive Control for Obstacle Avoidance in a Logistics Scenario
Electronics (Switzerland), vol. 12, (no. 3)
2023
De Mari Casareto Dal Verme L., Ludovico D., Pistone A., Canali C., Caldwell D.G.
Lyapunov stability of cable-driven manipulators with synthetic fibre cables regulated by non-linear full-state feedback controller
ISA Transactions, vol. 142, pp. 360-371
2022
Guardiani P., Ludovico D., Pistone A., Abidi H., Zaplana I., Lee J., Caldwell D.G., Canali C.
Design and Analysis of a Fully Actuated Cable-Driven Joint for Hyper-Redundant Robots With Optimal Cable Routing
Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, vol. 14, (no. 2)
2022
Canali C., Pistone A., Ludovico D., Guardiani P., Gagliardi R., Dal Verme L.D.M.C., Sofia G., Caldwell D.G.
Design of a Novel Long-Reach Cable-Driven Hyper-Redundant Snake-Like Manipulator for Inspection and Maintenance
Applied Sciences (Switzerland), vol. 12, (no. 7)
2021
Ludovico D., Guardiani P., Lasagni F., Lee J., Cannella F., Caldwell D.G.
Design of non-circular pulleys for torque generation: A convex optimisation approach
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 6, (no. 2), pp. 958-965
2021
Ludovico D.
Modelling and Control of Cable-Driven Hyper-Redundant Robots
Modelling and Control of Cable-Driven Hyper-Redundant Robots
PhD Thesis
Book
2021
Ludovico D., Pistone A., De Mari Casareto Dal Verme L., Guardiani P., Caldwell D.G., Canali C.
Static Elasticity Compensation via Recursive Artificial Neural Network for Long-Reach Cable-Driven Hyper-Redundant Manipulators
2021 20th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, ICAR 2021, pp. 1116-1120
2020
Ludovico D., Guardiani P., Pistone A., Lee J., Cannella F., Caldwell D.G., Canali C.
Modeling cable-driven joint dynamics and friction: A bond-graph approach
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 7285-7291
2020
Canali C., Pistone A., Gloriani C., Guardiani P., Ludovico D., Caldwell D.G.
Rivet inspection with multi-sensor robotic system
INES 2020 - IEEE 24th International Conference on Intelligent Engineering Systems, Proceedings, pp. 61-65
2018
D'Imperio M., Pizzamiglio C., Ludovico D., Caldwell D.G., Genta G., Cannella F.
Advanced modelling techniques for flexible robotic systems
Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol. 49, pp. 381-388
2017
D'Imperio M., Ludovico D., Pizzamiglio C., Canali C., Caldwell D., Cannella F.
FLEGX: A bioinspired design for a jumping humanoid leg
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, vol. 2017-September, pp. 3977-3982
2017
Ludovico D., D'Imperio M., Cannella F.
FLEGX: A jumping flexible robotic leg
Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference, vol. 6
Awards
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
2022
Maludrottu S., Laffranchi M., Vassallo C., Vaccaro R., De Michieli L.
iF DESIGN AWARD 2022 - Twin Exoskeleton
2021
Laffranchi M., Traverso S., Vaccaro R., Maludrottu S., Poli F., De Bartolomeis L., Diamanti G., Gruppioni E., De Michieli L.
Good Design
2020
Laffranchi M.
Robotics 2020 Young Investigator Award
2020
Laffranchi M., Boccardo N., Traverso S., Lombardi L., Canepa M., Lince A., Semprini M., Saglia J.A., Naceri A., Sacchetti R., et al.
XXVI Compasso d'oro
2019
Colombi I.
PhD thesis award in Neuroengineering "MASSIMO GRATTAROLA" (17^ Ed.)
2018
Laffranchi M., Boccardo N., Traverso S., Lince A., Canepa M., Saglia J., Gruppioni E., Sacchetti R., Diamanti G., Poli F., et al.
ADI Design Index
2018
Laffranchi M., Boccardo N., Traverso S., Lombardi L., Canepa M., Lince A., Semprini M., Saglia J.A., Naceri A., Sacchetti R., et al.
ADI Design Index
2018
Laffranchi M., Boccardo N., Traverso S., Lombardi L., Canepa M., Lince A., Semprini M., Saglia J.A., Naceri A., Sacchetti R., et al.
Good Design
2018
Semprini M.
selected as "reviewer of the year" for Journal of Neural Engineering