2026 Bruno Siciliano: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	68	427	386	8	7	469	36176
Electronics and Electrical Engineering	68	985	940	18	18	470	36178

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Italy Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Italy Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Italy Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Italy Leader Award
2009 - Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)
2002 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
2000 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to dynamic modeling and control of robotic systems and for leadership in robotics education.

Overview

Bruno Siciliano is a researcher affiliated with the University of Naples Federico II in Italy. Their academic work focuses primarily on Engineering with a strong emphasis on Control and Systems Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering. Additional subfields of study include Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition as well as Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.

Their research spans several key topics, such as:

Robot Manipulation and Learning
Soft Robotics and Applications
Teleoperation and Haptic Systems
Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics
Robotic Locomotion and Control
Robotic Path Planning Algorithms
Robotic Mechanisms and Dynamics

Siciliano has published extensively in various reputable venues, with notable frequent publications in:

arXiv (Cornell University)
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
IEEE Transactions on Robotics
Robotica

Recent significant papers include:

"Autonomy in Physical Human-Robot Interaction: A Brief Survey" (2021), published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
"Modeling of Deformable Objects for Robotic Manipulation: A Tutorial and Review" (2020), published in Frontiers in Robotics and AI
"Vision-Based Dynamic Virtual Fixtures for Tools Collision Avoidance in Robotic Surgery" (2020), published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
"Hybrid Force-Impedance Control for Fast End-Effector Motions" (2023), published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
"An External Force Sensing System for Minimally Invasive Robotic Surgery" (2020), published in IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

They have collaborated frequently with other researchers including Fanny Ficuciello, Vincenzo Lippiello, Luigi Villani, Fabio Ruggiero, and Pierluigi Arpenti.

Bruno Siciliano has contributed to the literature through books published by established publishers such as Springer International Publishing, Springer Nature, and Advanced textbooks in control and signal processing. Titles include:

Experimental Robotics (2021)
Robotics for Intralogistics in Supermarkets and Retail Stores (2022)
Foundations of Robotics (2025)

Throughout their career, Siciliano has received several honors including Fellowships from the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) in 2009, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2002, and the IEEE in 2000 for contributions to dynamic modeling and control of robotic systems and leadership in robotics education.

Best Publications

Springer Handbook of Robotics

Bruno Siciliano;Oussama Khatib

5515
Citations
Robotics: Modelling, Planning and Control

Bruno Siciliano;Lorenzo Sciavicco;Luigi Villani;Giuseppe Oriolo

4798
Citations
Modelling and Control of Robot Manipulators

L. Sciavicco;Bruno Siciliano;B. Sciavicco

3896
Citations
Modeling and Control of Robot Manipulators

Lorenzo Sciavicco;Bruno Siciliano

1540
Citations
Theory of Robot Control

Carlos Canudas de Wit;Georges Bastin;Bruno Siciliano

1260
Citations
An atlas of physical human-robot interaction

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

969
Citations
Robot Force Control

Bruno Siciliano;Luigi Villani

822
Citations
A general framework for managing multiple tasks in highly redundant robotic systems

B. Siciliano;J.-J.E. Slotine

778
Citations
Kinematic control of redundant robot manipulators: A tutorial

Bruno Siciliano

756
Citations
A singular perturbation approach to control of lightweight flexible manipulators

Bruno Siciliano;Wayne J. Book

716
Citations
Closed-form dynamic model of planar multilink lightweight robots

A. De Luca;B. Siciliano

511
Citations
A solution algorithm to the inverse kinematic problem for redundant manipulators

L. Sciavicco;B. Siciliano

493
Citations
Variable Impedance Control of Redundant Manipulators for Intuitive Human–Robot Physical Interaction

Fanny Ficuciello;Luigi Villani;Bruno Siciliano

442
Citations
Review of the damped least-squares inverse kinematics with experiments on an industrial robot manipulator

S. Chiaverini;B. Siciliano;O. Egeland

399
Citations
Closed-loop inverse kinematics schemes for constrained redundant manipulators with task space augmentation and task priority strategy

Pasquale Chiacchio;Stefano Chiaverini;Lorenzo Sciavicco;Bruno Siciliano

381
Citations
The Tricept robot: Inverse kinematics, manipulability analysis and closed-loop direct kinematics algorithm

Bruno Siciliano

348
Citations
PD control with on-line gravity compensation for robots with elastic joints: Theory and experiments

Alessandro De Luca;Bruno Siciliano;Loredana Zollo

325
Citations
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

312
Citations
A survey of robot interaction control schemes with experimental comparison

S. Chiaverini;B. Siciliano;L. Villani

302
Citations
Six-DOF impedance control based on angle/axis representations

F. Caccavale;C. Natale;B. Siciliano;L. Villani

262
Citations
Global task space manipulability ellipsoids for multiple-arm systems

P. Chiacchio;S. Chiaverini;L. Sciavicco;B. Siciliano

250
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Luigi Villani University of Naples Federico II

Vincenzo Lippiello University of Naples Federico II

Stefano Chiaverini University of Cassino and Southern Lazio

Fabrizio Caccavale University of Basilicata

Ciro Natale University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"

Paolo Dario Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies

Loredana Zollo Università Campus Bio-Medico

Eugenio Guglielmelli Università Campus Bio-Medico

Claudio Melchiorri University of Bologna

Gianluca Palli University of Bologna

External Links

Wikipedia of Bruno Siciliano Personal website of Bruno Siciliano Google Scholar page

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