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Palpation force modulation strategies to identify hard regions in soft tissue organs by Konstantinova, Jelizaveta, Cotugno, Giuseppe, Dasgupta, Prokar, Althoefer, Kaspar, Nanayakkara, Thrishantha

“…This paper presents experimental evidence for the existence of a set of unique force modulation strategies during manual soft tissue palpation to locate hard…”
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Modelling the structure of object-independent human affordances of approaching to grasp for robotic hands by Cotugno, Giuseppe, Konstantinova, Jelizaveta, Althoefer, Kaspar, Nanayakkara, Thrishantha

“…Grasp affordances in robotics represent different ways to grasp an object involving a variety of factors from vision to hand control. A model of grasp…”
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A containerised approach for multiform robotic applications by Cotugno, Giuseppe, Rodrigues, Rafael Afonso, Deacon, Graham, Konstantinova, Jelizaveta

“…As the area of robotics achieves promising results, there is an increasing need to scale robotic software architectures towards real-world domains…”
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The Role of the Thumb: Study of Finger Motion in Grasping and Reachability Space in Human and Robotic Hands by Cotugno, Giuseppe, Althoefer, Kaspar, Nanayakkara, Thrishantha

“…It is well acknowledged that the opposing thumb granted humans advanced manipulation capabilities. However, such a feature is not statistically quantified, and…”
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Correction: Palpation force modulation strategies to identify hard regions in soft tissue organs by Konstantinova, Jelizaveta, Cotugno, Giuseppe, Dasgupta, Prokar, Althoefer, Kaspar, Nanayakkara, Thrishantha

“…[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0171706.]…”
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The Role of Morphology of the Thumb in Anthropomorphic Grasping: A Review by Nanayakkara, Visakha K., Cotugno, Giuseppe, Vitzilaios, Nikolaos, Venetsanos, Demetrios, Nanayakkara, Thrishantha, Sahinkaya, M. Necip

“…The unique musculoskeletal structure of the human hand brings in wider dexterous capabilities to grasp and manipulate a repertoire of objects than the…”
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A Methodology for Approaching the Integration of Complex Robotics Systems: Illustration Through a Bimanual Manipulation Case Study by Triantafyllou, Pavlos, Afonso Rodrigues, Rafael, Chaikunsaeng, Sirapoab, Almeida, Diogo, Deacon, Graham, Konstantinova, Jelizaveta, Cotugno, Giuseppe

“…The multidisciplinarity of robotics creates a need for robust integration methodologies that can facilitate the adoption of state-of-the-art research…”
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On the science of grasping : modelling grasp affordances in robotics from human analysis by Cotugno, Giuseppe

“…This thesis investigates the human motion patterns of grasping and approaching, as well as applies the functional features to a robotic grasp a ̇ordances…”
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Object classification using hybrid fiber optical force/proximity sensor by Konstantinova, Jelizaveta, Cotugno, Giuseppe, Stilli, Agostino, Noh, Yohan, Althoefer, Kaspar

“…Intelligent perception to determine the physical interaction between robotic hands and the environment is a topic of great interest for the sensing and…”
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The impact of the roads' slope coefficient in a vehicular energy model by Santamaria, Amilcare Francesco, Raimondo, Pierfrancesco, Cotugno, Giuseppe, De Rango, Floriano

“…The improving of Electrical Mobility (EM) technologies is promoting the birth of novel mobility scenarios where Electrical Vehicles (EVs) are starting to be a…”
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Evaluation of an Industrial Robotic Assistant in an Ecological Environment by Busch, Baptiste, Deacon, Graham, Russell, Duncan, Billard, Aude, Cotugno, Giuseppe, Khoramshahi, Mahdi, Skaltsas, Grigorios, Turchi, Dario, Urbano, Leonardo, Wachter, Mirko, Zhou, You, Asfour, Tamim

“…Social robotic assistants have been widely studied and deployed as telepresence tools or caregivers. Evaluating their design and impact on the people…”
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A Methodology for Approaching the Integration of Complex Robotics Systems Illustrated through a Bi-manual Manipulation Case-Study by Triantafyllou, Pavlos, Rodrigues, Rafael Afonso, Chaikunsaeng, Sirapoab, Almeida, Diogo, Deacon, Graham, Konstantinova, Jelizaveta, Cotugno, Giuseppe

“…The multidisciplinarity of robotics creates a need for robust integration methodologies that can facilitate the adoption of state-of-the-art research…”
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The Impact of the Roads' Slope Coefficient in a Vehicular Energy Model by Santamaria, Amilcare Francesco, Raimondo, Pierfrancesco, Cotugno, Giuseppe, De Rango, Floriano

“…The improving of Electrical Mobility (EM) technologies is promoting the birth of novel mobility scenarios where Electrical Vehicles (EVs) are starting to be a…”
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Autonomous robotic palpation of soft tissue using the modulation of applied force by Konstantinova, Jelizaveta, Cotugno, Giuseppe, Dasgupta, Prokar, Althoefer, Kaspar, Nanayakkara, Thrishantha

“…Palpation or perception of tactile information from soft tissue organs during minimally invasive surgery is required to improve clinical outcomes. One of the…”
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Simplifying grasping complexity through generalization of kinaesthetically learned synergies by Cotugno, Giuseppe, Mohan, Vishawanathan, Althoefer, Kaspar, Nanayakkara, Thrishantha

“…There has been a growing enthusiasm to use anthropomorphic hands of humanoid robots to manipulate every-day objects and tools designed for humans. However,…”
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Extended and Unscented Kalman Filters for mobile robot localization and environment reconstruction by Cotugno, Giuseppe, D'Alfonso, Luigi, Lucia, Walter, Muraca, Pietro, Pugliese, Paolo

“…In this work we compare the performance of two algorithms, respectively based on the Extended Kalman Filter and the Unscented Kalman Filter, for the mobile…”
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