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Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Italy
2026

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
80
Citations
31760
World Ranking
511
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Italy Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Italy Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Italy Leader Award
  • 2006 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to automatic control of mechanisms and robots.

Overview

Antonio Bicchi is affiliated with the Italian Institute of Technology in Italy and has contributed extensively to the field of engineering, with a total of 244 publications. Their research spans several subfields, including biomedical engineering, control and systems engineering, cognitive neuroscience, mechanical engineering, and rehabilitation.

Their work covers diverse topics, notably muscle activation and electromyography studies, robot manipulation and learning, prosthetics and rehabilitation robotics, soft robotics and applications, motor control and adaptation, robotic locomotion and control, and stroke rehabilitation and recovery.

Antonio Bicchi has published multiple papers in well-known venues. Frequent publication outlets include Harvard Dataverse, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), The International Journal of Robotics Research, and Frontiers in Robotics and AI.

Recent notable papers include:

  • Model-based dynamic feedback control of a planar soft robot: trajectory tracking and interaction with the environment (2020), published in The International Journal of Robotics Research
  • On an Improved State Parametrization for Soft Robots With Piecewise Constant Curvature and Its Use in Model Based Control (2020), published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • Exploiting upper-limb functional principal components for human-like motion generation of anthropomorphic robots (2020), published in Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation
  • Grasp It Like a Pro: Grasp of Unknown Objects With Robotic Hands Based on Skilled Human Expertise (2020), published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • Adaptive Feet for Quadrupedal Walkers (2021), published in IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Collaborations constitute a significant part of Antonio Bicchi's work. Frequent co-authors include Manuel G. Catalano, Giorgio Grioli, Matteo Bianchi, Giuseppe Averta, and Federica Barontini.

Antonio Bicchi is recognized as an IEEE Fellow since 2006 for contributions to automatic control of mechanisms and robots.

Best Publications

  • Robotic grasping and contact: a review

    A. Bicchi;V. Kumar

  • Hands for dexterous manipulation and robust grasping: a difficult road toward simplicity

    A. Bicchi

  • Variable impedance actuators: A review

    B. Vanderborght;A. Albu-Schaeffer;A. Bicchi;A. Bicchi;E. Burdet

  • An atlas of physical human-robot interaction

    Agostino De Santis;Bruno Siciliano;Alessandro De Luca;Antonio Bicchi

  • Fast and "soft-arm" tactics [robot arm design]

    A. Bicchi;G. Tonietti

  • Design and Control of a Variable Stiffness Actuator for Safe and Fast Physical Human/Robot Interaction

    G. Tonietti;R. Schiavi;A. Bicchi

  • On the closure properties of robotic grasping

    Antonio Bicchi

  • Adaptive synergies for the design and control of the Pisa/IIT SoftHand

    M.G. Catalano;G. Grioli;E. Farnioli;A. Serio

  • Closed loop steering of unicycle like vehicles via Lyapunov techniques

    M. Aicardi;G. Casalino;A. Bicchi;A. Balestrino

  • Consensus Computation in Unreliable Networks: A System Theoretic Approach

    F. Pasqualetti;A. Bicchi;F. Bullo

  • Symbolic planning and control of robot motion [Grand Challenges of Robotics]

    C. Belta;A. Bicchi;M. Egerstedt;E. Frazzoli

  • VSA-II: a novel prototype of variable stiffness actuator for safe and performing robots interacting with humans

    R. Schiavi;G. Grioli;S. Sen;A. Bicchi

  • Variable Stiffness Actuators: Review on Design and Components

    Sebastian Wolf;Giorgio Grioli;Oliver Eiberger;Werner Friedl

  • Contact Sensing from Force Measurements

    Antonio Bicchi;J. K Salisbury;David L. Brock

  • Introducing the "SPHERICLE": an experimental testbed for research and teaching in nonholonomy

    A. Bicchi;A. Balluchi;D. Prattichizzo;A. Gorelli

  • A Century of Robotic Hands

    C. Piazza;G. Grioli;M.G. Catalano;A. Bicchi;A. Bicchi

  • On optimal cooperative conflict resolution for air traffic management systems

    A. Bicchi;L. Pallottino

  • Safe and Dependable Physical Human-Robot Interaction in Anthropic Domains: State of the Art and Challenges

    R. Alami;A. Albu-Schaeffer;A. Bicchi;R. Bischoff

  • Safety for Physical Human-Robot Interaction

    Antonio Bicchi;Michael A. Peshkin;J. Edward Colgate

  • Decentralized Cooperative Policy for Conflict Resolution in Multivehicle Systems

    L. Pallottino;V.G. Scordio;A. Bicchi;E. Frazzoli

  • On the mobility and manipulability of general multiple limb robots

    A. Bicchi;C. Melchiorri;D. Balluchi

Frequent Co-Authors

Domenico Prattichizzo
Domenico Prattichizzo University of Siena
Nikos G. Tsagarakis
Nikos G. Tsagarakis Italian Institute of Technology
Darwin G. Caldwell
Darwin G. Caldwell Italian Institute of Technology
Alin Albu-Schaffer
Alin Albu-Schaffer German Aerospace Center
Paolo Dario
Paolo Dario Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Fabio Pasqualetti
Fabio Pasqualetti University of California, Riverside
Magnus Egerstedt
Magnus Egerstedt University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Francesco Bullo
Francesco Bullo University of California, Santa Barbara
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli University of California, Berkeley

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