Alessandro Albini received his PhD in 2020 at the University of Genoa, Italy. His research interests are related to artificial robot skin technologies and their applications to human-robot interaction and robot control. During his PhD, he worked on methods to process and classify large area tactile data and on the development of tactile feedback based control laws for robots.
He joined the Soft Robotics Lab as a Post Doctoral Researcher in September 2020. He is currently working on robotic tactile perception under the supervision of Professor Perla Maiolino.
Recent Publications
A proxy-tactile reactive control for robots moving in clutter
Caroleo G, Giovinazzo F, Albini A, Grella F, Cannata G et al. (2025), 733-739
BibTeX
@inproceedings{aproxytactilere-2025/1,
title={A proxy-tactile reactive control for robots moving in clutter},
author={Caroleo G, Giovinazzo F, Albini A, Grella F, Cannata G et al.},
booktitle={2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems},
pages={733-739},
year = "2025"
}
Safe and Effective Collaboration With a High-Payload Robot: A Framework Integrating Novel Hardware and Software Modules
Sidiropoulos A, Dimeas F, Papageorgiou D, Semetzidis TP, Doulgeri Z et al. (2024), IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 31(3), 38-47
BibTeX
@article{safeandeffectiv-2024/9,
title={Safe and Effective Collaboration With a High-Payload Robot: A Framework Integrating Novel Hardware and Software Modules},
author={Sidiropoulos A, Dimeas F, Papageorgiou D, Semetzidis TP, Doulgeri Z et al.},
journal={IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine},
volume={31},
pages={38-47},
publisher={Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)},
year = "2024"
}
On Feedback Error Learning for Adaptive Soft Robot Control
Veronese NE, Albini A, Yao Y, Rocco P, Maiolino P et al. (2024), 00, 793-799
BibTeX
@inproceedings{onfeedbackerror-2024/4,
title={On Feedback Error Learning for Adaptive Soft Robot Control},
author={Veronese NE, Albini A, Yao Y, Rocco P, Maiolino P et al.},
booktitle={2024 IEEE 7th International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft)},
pages={793-799},
year = "2024"
}
Improving the Loading and Sensing Performance of a Soft Actuator Using an Internal Spine
Dragu C-M, Albini A, He L & Maiolino P (2024), 00, 623-628
BibTeX
@inproceedings{improvingtheloa-2024/4,
title={Improving the Loading and Sensing Performance of a Soft Actuator Using an Internal Spine},
author={Dragu C-M, Albini A, He L & Maiolino P},
booktitle={2024 IEEE 7th International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft)},
pages={623-628},
year = "2024"
}
TactGen: Tactile Sensory Data Generation via Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Transfer
Zhong S, Albini A, Maiolino P & Posner I (2024), IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 1-14
BibTeX
@article{tactgentactiles-2024/1,
title={TactGen: Tactile Sensory Data Generation via Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Transfer},
author={Zhong S, Albini A, Maiolino P & Posner I},
journal={IEEE Transactions on Robotics},
pages={1-14},
publisher={Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)},
year = "2024"
}
A tactile feedback insertion strategy for peg-in-hole tasks
Gibbons O, Albini A & Maiolino P (2023), Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023), 10415-10421
BibTeX
@inproceedings{atactilefeedbac-2023/7,
title={A tactile feedback insertion strategy for peg-in-hole tasks},
author={Gibbons O, Albini A & Maiolino P},
booktitle={IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023)},
pages={10415-10421},
year = "2023"
}
EDAMS: an Encoder-Decoder Architecture for Multi-grasp Soft sensing object recognition
Shorthose O, Albini A, Scimeca L, He L & Maiolino P (2023), Proceedings of the 6th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft 2023) , 00, 1-7
BibTeX
@inproceedings{edamsanencoderd-2023/5,
title={EDAMS: an Encoder-Decoder Architecture for Multi-grasp Soft sensing object recognition},
author={Shorthose O, Albini A, Scimeca L, He L & Maiolino P},
booktitle={6th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft 2023) },
pages={1-7},
year = "2023"
}
Touching a NeRF: leveraging neural radiance fields for tactile sensory data generation
Zhong S, Albini A, Parker Jones O, Maiolino P & Posner H (2023), 205, 1618-1628
BibTeX
@inproceedings{touchinganerfle-2023/3,
title={Touching a NeRF: leveraging neural radiance fields for tactile sensory data generation},
author={Zhong S, Albini A, Parker Jones O, Maiolino P & Posner H},
booktitle={7th Annual Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL 2023)},
pages={1618-1628},
year = "2023"
}
Tactile sensing for physical human-robot interaction in shared payload tasks
Grella F, Sagar K, Canale R, Jilich M, Albini A et al. (2023), 131-157
BibTeX
@misc{tactilesensingf-2023/1,
title={Tactile sensing for physical human-robot interaction in shared payload tasks},
author={Grella F, Sagar K, Canale R, Jilich M, Albini A et al.},
year = "2023"
}
Voluntary Interaction Detection for Safe Human-Robot Collaboration
Grella F, Albini A & Cannata G (2022), 00, 353-359
BibTeX
@inproceedings{voluntaryintera-2022/12,
title={Voluntary Interaction Detection for Safe Human-Robot Collaboration},
author={Grella F, Albini A & Cannata G},
booktitle={2022 Sixth IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC)},
pages={353-359},
year = "2022"
}
