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User-centered design of Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT) for people living with dementia (2025)
Journal Article

As the population of persons living with dementia (PwDs) continues to rise, technological advancements offer an unprecedented opportunity to enhance their independence and quality of life while lowering the burden on the caregivers. Notably, the Inte... Read More about User-centered design of Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT) for people living with dementia.

Comparison of motor imagery brain computer interfaces and validation with the OpenBCI EEG electrode cap (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

People with Tetraplegia will typically require costly, round-the-clock care over the course of their lives due to lack of motor function. Brain computer interfaces (BCIs) are capable of identifying imagined motor intention for individual limbs; howev... Read More about Comparison of motor imagery brain computer interfaces and validation with the OpenBCI EEG electrode cap.

Enhancing self-directed upper-limb (UL) exercise practice using GripAble gaming device and Lycra arm sleeve in people with stroke (PwS): An evaluative study (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Background: The national clinical guidelines recommend repetitive task training to enhance UL rehabilitation in PwS. GripAble™ (a self-directed exergaming device) has shown to increase repetitive practice in PwS. Previous studies have shown that a Ly... Read More about Enhancing self-directed upper-limb (UL) exercise practice using GripAble gaming device and Lycra arm sleeve in people with stroke (PwS): An evaluative study.

Implicit aspects of the psychosocial rehabilitation with a humanoid robot (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The paper presents an approach to understanding the emergent dynamics of human-robot interaction in the specific case of a humanoid robot taking the role of a co-therapist to the human therapist in psychosocial rehabilitation by focusing on the nonve... Read More about Implicit aspects of the psychosocial rehabilitation with a humanoid robot.

Transformers and human-robot interaction for delirium detection (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

An estimated 20% of patients admitted to hospital wards are affected by delirium. Early detection is recommended to treat underlying causes of delirium, however workforce strain in general wards often causes it to remain undetected. This work propose... Read More about Transformers and human-robot interaction for delirium detection.

Telepresence teaching in higher education as a reasonable adjustment: Pilot project report 2022 (2022)
Report

Open-source re-configurable interfacing of Tobii Pro Glasses 2 with ROS2 (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Gaze tracking is a powerful assistive tool enabling people with severe disabilities to interact with complex systems intuitively. Among these, screen-based gaze-control is one of the main input tools used with people with severe mobility impairments,... Read More about Open-source re-configurable interfacing of Tobii Pro Glasses 2 with ROS2.

Embedding soft synergies into soft materials for intrinsic compliant robotic hand grasping (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This manuscript covers the development workflow for the prototype of a novel synergy driven soft robotic hand. By embedding the main human grasping synergy to individual soft silicone fingers, we are able to produce a functional under-actuated hand w... Read More about Embedding soft synergies into soft materials for intrinsic compliant robotic hand grasping.

A machine learning model for predicting sit-to-stand trajectories of people with and without stroke: towards adaptive robotic assistance (2022)
Journal Article

Sit-to-stand and stand-to-sit transfers are fundamental daily motions that enable all other types of ambulation and gait. However, the ability to perform these motions can be severely impaired by different factors, such as the occurrence of a stroke,... Read More about A machine learning model for predicting sit-to-stand trajectories of people with and without stroke: towards adaptive robotic assistance.

The case for an intervention scale to design the balance of authority for robotic assistance (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

According to United Nations, by 2050 over 20% of the population will be over 65 years old. Ensuring that our ageing population stays independent and healthy for as long as possible requires higher numbers of health and social care professionals than... Read More about The case for an intervention scale to design the balance of authority for robotic assistance.

A probabilistic shared-control framework for mobile robots (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Full teleoperation of mobile robots during the execution of complex tasks not only demands high cognitive and physical effort but also generates less optimal trajectories compared to autonomous controllers. However, the use of the latter in cluttered... Read More about A probabilistic shared-control framework for mobile robots.

A shared-autonomy approach to goal detection and navigation control of mobile collaborative robots (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Autonomous goal detection and navigation control of mobile robots in remote environments can help to unload human operators from simple, monotonous tasks allowing them to focus on more cognitively stimulating actions. This can result in better task p... Read More about A shared-autonomy approach to goal detection and navigation control of mobile collaborative robots.

An approach to object-level stiffness regulation of hand-arm systems subject to under-actuation constraints (2020)
Journal Article

When using a tool with a robotic hand-arm system, the stiffness at the grasped object plays a key role in the interaction with the environment, allowing the successful execution of the task. However, the rapidly increasing use of under-actuated hands... Read More about An approach to object-level stiffness regulation of hand-arm systems subject to under-actuation constraints.

A bio-inspired grasp stiffness control for robotic hands (2018)
Journal Article

This work presents a bio-inspired grasp stiffness control for robotic hands based on the concepts of Common Mode Stiffness (CMS) and Configuration Dependent Stiffness (CDS). Using an ellipsoid representation of the desired grasp stiffness, the algori... Read More about A bio-inspired grasp stiffness control for robotic hands.

Grasp stiffness control in robotic hands through coordinated optimization of pose and joint stiffness (2018)
Journal Article

This letter presents a novel controller for robotic hands, which regulates the grasp stiffness by manipulating the pose and the finger joint stiffness of hands with multiple degrees of freedom while guaranteeing grasp stability. The proposed approach... Read More about Grasp stiffness control in robotic hands through coordinated optimization of pose and joint stiffness.

On the common-mode and configuration-dependent stiffness control of multiple degrees of freedom hands (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2017 IEEE. Object manipulation using hands is a compelling topic in which the interaction forces play a key role. These influence the stability of the grasp and the dexterity of the hand manipulation. A well-known technique to modulate these forces... Read More about On the common-mode and configuration-dependent stiffness control of multiple degrees of freedom hands.

Experimental validation of motor primitive-based control for leg exoskeletons during continuous multi-locomotion tasks (2017)
Journal Article

An emerging approach to design locomotion assistive devices deals with reproducing desirable biological principles of human locomotion. In this paper, we present a bio-inspired controller for locomotion assistive devices based on the concept of motor... Read More about Experimental validation of motor primitive-based control for leg exoskeletons during continuous multi-locomotion tasks.

Motor primitive-based control for lower-limb exoskeletons (2016)
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Assistive technology forecasts better autonomy for people with lifelong disabilities and for the elderly facing motor decline. As the population of developed countries is becoming greyer, there is thus a high probability of observing a significant in... Read More about Motor primitive-based control for lower-limb exoskeletons.

An oscillator-based smooth real-time estimate of gait phase for wearable robotics (2016)
Journal Article

This paper presents a novel methodology for estimating the gait phase of human walking through a simple sensory apparatus. Three subsystems are combined: a primary phase estimator based on adaptive oscillators, a desired gait event detector and a pha... Read More about An oscillator-based smooth real-time estimate of gait phase for wearable robotics.

Walking assistance using artificial primitives: A novel bioinspired framework using motor primitives for locomotion assistance through a wearable cooperative exoskeleton (2016)
Journal Article

Bioinspiration in robotics deals with applying biological principles to the design of better performing devices. In this article, we propose a novel bioinspired framework using motor primitives for locomotion assistance through a wearable cooperative... Read More about Walking assistance using artificial primitives: A novel bioinspired framework using motor primitives for locomotion assistance through a wearable cooperative exoskeleton.