Publications @ Soft Robotics

Sihan Wang, Liang He, Perla Maiolino, "A Modular Approach to Design Multi-channel Bistable Valves for Integrated Pneumatically-driven Soft Robots via 3D-printing", IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) (2022).
Oliver Shorthose, Alessandro Albini, Liang He, and Perla Maiolino, "Design of a 3D-Printed Soft Robotic Hand with Integrated Distributed Tactile Sensing", IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) (2022).
Si-ao Wang, Alessandro Albini, Perla Maiolino, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, and Giorgio Cannata, "Fabric Classification Using a Finger-shaped Tactile Sensor via Robotic Sliding", Frontiers Robotics and AI (2022).
Alessandro Albini, Giorgio Cannata, and Perla Maiolino, "A Local Filtering Technique for Robot Skin Data", IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) (2021).
Chenying Liu, Perla Maiolino, and Zhong You, "A 3D-Printable Robotic Gripper Based on Thick Panel Origami", Frontiers Robotics and AI (2021).
Alessandro Albini, Francesco Grella, Perla Maiolino, and Giorgio Cannata, "Exploiting Distributed Tactile Sensors to Drive a Robot Arm Through
Obstacles", IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) (2021).
Liang He, Nicolas Herzig, Thrishantha Nanayakkara, and Perla Maiolino, "3D-printed Soft Sensors for Adaptive Sensing with Online and Offline Tunable-stiffness", Soft Robotics (2021)
Sihan Wang, Liang He, and Perla Maiolino, "Design and Characterization of a 3D-printed Pneumatically-driven Bistable Valve with Tunable Characteristics", IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
Oliver Shorthose , Liang He , Alessandro Albini , and Perla Maiolino, "Design of a Multimaterial 3D-printed Soft Actuator with Bi-directional Variable Stiffness", in Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Conference (TAROS), 2021.
Scimeca, Luca, Josie Hughes, Perla Maiolino, Liang He, Thrishantha Nanayakkara, and Fumiya Iida, “Action Augmentation of Tactile Perception for Soft-Body Palpation”, 2021.
Chenying Liu, Perla Maiolino, Yunfang Yang, and Zhong You, "Hybrid Soft-Rigid Deployable Structure Inspired by Thick-panel Origami", International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) 2020.
L. Scimeca, F. Iida, and P. Maiolino, “Efficient Bayesian Exploration for Soft Morphology-Action Co-Optimization,” in IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), 2020.
J. Hughes, P. Maiolino, T. Nanayakkara, and F. Iida, “Sensorized Phantom For Characterizing Large Area Deformation of Soft Bodies for Medical Applications,” in IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), 2020.
L. Scimeca, P. Maiolino, E. Bray, and F. Iida, “Structuring of Tactile Sensory Information for Category Formation in Robotics Palpation,” Autonomous Robots Journal (Springer), 2020.
N. Herzig, L. He, P. Maiolino, S. Abad, and T. Nanayakkara, “Conditioned haptic perception for 3D localization of nodules in soft tissue palpation with a variable stiffness probe,” PloS one 15.8 (2020): e0237379, 2020.