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38
Citations
5804
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4925
National Ranking
189

Overview

Claudio Semini is affiliated with the Italian Institute of Technology in Italy. Their research focuses on engineering, with particular emphasis on biomedical engineering, control and systems engineering, computer vision and pattern recognition, mechanical engineering, and plant science.

The main topics of their work include robotic locomotion and control, prosthetics and rehabilitation robotics, robotic path planning algorithms, modular robots and swarm intelligence, robotic mechanisms and dynamics, soil mechanics and vehicle dynamics, and robotics and sensor-based localization.

Frequent publication venues for Claudio Semini include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • IEEE Transactions on Robotics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Institutional Research Information System (Università degli Studi di Trento)

Claudio Semini has collaborated extensively with several researchers. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Victor Barasuol
  • Michele Focchi
  • Angelo Bratta
  • Giulio Turrisi
  • Darwin G. Caldwell

Representative recent papers include:

  • Motion Planning for Quadrupedal Locomotion: Coupled Planning, Terrain Mapping, and Whole-Body Control (2020), IEEE Transactions on Robotics
  • STANCE: Locomotion Adaptation Over Soft Terrain (2020), Institutional Research Information System (Università degli Studi di Trento)
  • Model Predictive Control With Environment Adaptation for Legged Locomotion (2021), Institutional Research Information System (Università degli Studi di Trento)
  • Feasible Region: An Actuation-Aware Extension of the Support Region (2020), Institutional Research Information System (Università degli Studi di Trento)
  • ViTAL: Vision-Based Terrain-Aware Locomotion for Legged Robots (2022), IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Best Publications

  • Design of HyQ – a hydraulically and electrically actuated quadruped robot:

    C Semini;N G Tsagarakis;E Guglielmino;M Focchi

  • Design of the Hydraulically Actuated, Torque-Controlled Quadruped Robot HyQ2Max

    Claudio Semini;Victor Barasuol;Jake Goldsmith;Marco Frigerio

  • A Survey on Control of Hydraulic Robotic Manipulators With Projection to Future Trends

    Jouni Mattila;Janne Koivumaki;Darwin G. Caldwell;Claudio Semini

  • A reactive controller framework for quadrupedal locomotion on challenging terrain

    Victor Barasuol;Jonas Buchli;Claudio Semini;Marco Frigerio

  • HyQ - Design and Development of a Hydraulically Actuated Quadruped Robot

    Claudio Semini

  • High-slope terrain locomotion for torque-controlled quadruped robots

    Michele Focchi;Andrea Prete;Ioannis Havoutis;Roy Featherstone

  • Dynamic torque control of a hydraulic quadruped robot

    Thiago Boaventura;Claudio Semini;Jonas Buchli;Marco Frigerio

  • Towards versatile legged robots through active impedance control

    Claudio Semini;Victor Barasuol;Thiago Boaventura;Marco Frigerio

  • MACCEPA 2.0: Adjustable compliant actuator with stiffening characteristic for energy efficient hopping

    Bram Vanderborght;Nikos G. Tsagarakis;Claudio Semini;Ronald Van Ham

  • Simultaneous Contact, Gait and Motion Planning for Robust Multi-Legged Locomotion via Mixed-Integer Convex Optimization

    Bernardo Aceituno-Cabezas;Carlos Mastalli;Hongkai Dai;Michele Focchi

  • Passive Whole-Body Control for Quadruped Robots: Experimental Validation Over Challenging Terrain

    Shamel Fahmi;Carlos Mastalli;Michele Focchi;Claudio Semini

  • Model-Based Hydraulic Impedance Control for Dynamic Robots

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  • Planning and execution of dynamic whole-body locomotion for a hydraulic quadruped on challenging terrain

    Alexander W. Winkler;Carlos Mastalli;Ioannis Havoutis;Michele Focchi

  • Stability and performance of the compliance controller of the quadruped robot HyQ

    Thiago Boaventura;Gustavo A. Medrano-Cerda;Claudio Semini;Jonas Buchli

  • Motion Planning for Quadrupedal Locomotion: Coupled Planning, Terrain Mapping and Whole-Body Control

    Carlos Mastalli;Ioannis Havoutis;Michele Focchi;Darwin G. Caldwell

  • HyQ - Hydraulically actuated quadruped robot: Hopping leg prototype

    C. Semini;N.G. Tsagarakis;B. Vanderborght;Yousheng Yang

  • Probabilistic Contact Estimation and Impact Detection for State Estimation of Quadruped Robots

    Marco Camurri;Maurice Fallon;Stephane Bazeille;Andreea Radulescu

  • Model-Based Hydraulic Impedance Control for Dynamic Robots

    Thiago Boaventura;Jonas Buchli;Claudio Semini;Darwin G. Caldwell

  • Trajectory and foothold optimization using low-dimensional models for rough terrain locomotion

    Carlos Mastalli;Michele Focchi;Ioannis Havoutis;Andreea Radulescu

  • On the role of load motion compensation in high-performance force control

    Thiago Boaventura;Michele Focchi;Marco Frigerio;Jonas Buchli

  • Path planning with force-based foothold adaptation and virtual model control for torque controlled quadruped robots

    Alexander W. Winkler;Ioannis Havoutis;Stéphane Bazeille;Jesús Ortiz

  • Towards a multi-legged mobile manipulator

    Bilal Ur Rehman;Michele Focchi;Jinoh Lee;Houman Dallali

  • Motion Planning for Quadrupedal Locomotion: Coupled Planning, Terrain Mapping, and Whole-Body Control

    Carlos Mastalli;Ioannis Havoutis;Michele Focchi;Darwin G. Caldwell

Frequent Co-Authors

Darwin G. Caldwell
Darwin G. Caldwell Italian Institute of Technology
Jonas Buchli
Jonas Buchli DeepMind (United Kingdom)
Nikos G. Tsagarakis
Nikos G. Tsagarakis Italian Institute of Technology
Stefano Poni
Stefano Poni Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Alberto Bemporad
Alberto Bemporad IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca
Ludovic Righetti
Ludovic Righetti New York University
Marco Hutter
Marco Hutter ETH Zurich
Chung Choo Chung
Chung Choo Chung Hanyang University
Perry Y. Li
Perry Y. Li University of Minnesota
Diego Giovanni Manfredi
Diego Giovanni Manfredi Polytechnic University of Turin

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