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Current position
Research Fellow in Robotics and Automation
Honors & awards
- Best Oral Presentation at I-RIM 3D Conference (Oct 2019)
- IROS Student and Developing Countries, SDC (Sept 2018)
- Women in Robotics Travel Grant (Sept 2018)
- Best Master Thesis of 2015, AEIT (Feb 2016)
Education
- Dept. of Information Engineering and Mathematics, University of Siena and Dept. of Advanced Robotics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT)
PhD in Information Engineering and Science
Nov 2015 - Oct 2018 | Genova, Italy - University of Siena, Italy.
Master of Science in Computer and Automation Engineering
2013 - 2015 | Siena, Italy - University of Siena, Italy.
Bachelor in Computer and Information Engineering
2010 - 2013 | Siena, Italy - High School: Liceo Classico Enea Silvio Piccolomini
2010 - 2013 | Siena, Italy
Selected publications
- Grasp stiffness control in robotic hands through coordinated optimization of pose and joint stiffness.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 3(4):3952–3959
Oct 2018 - Operator awareness in human-robot collaboration through wearable vibrotactile feedback.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 3(4):4289–4296
Oct 2018 - The closure signature: A functional approach to model underactuated compliant robotic hands.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 3(3):2206–2213
Jul 2018 - A bio-inspired grasp stiffness control for robotic hands.
Frontiers in Robotics and AI
Jul 2018 - On grasp quality measures: Grasp robustness and contact force distribution in underactuated and compliant robotic hands.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2(1):329–336
Jan 2017