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Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Italy
2026

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
93
Citations
33709
World Ranking
260
National Ranking
4

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

Overview

Darwin G. Caldwell is affiliated with the Italian Institute of Technology in Italy. Their research contributions focus primarily on fields related to engineering and medicine, with a significant portion of work concentrated in biomedical engineering and control and systems engineering.

Their scholarly output includes exploration in subfields such as rehabilitation, mechanical engineering, and pharmacology. The main topics covered in Caldwell's work are prosthetics and rehabilitation robotics, muscle activation and electromyography studies, stroke rehabilitation and recovery, robot manipulation and learning, soft robotics and applications, musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, and robotic locomotion and control.

Frequent coauthors include Christian Di Natali, Jesús Ortiz, Matteo Sposito, Vasco Fanti, and Tommaso Poliero, reflecting collaborative efforts across various projects. Caldwell has published extensively in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Wearable Technologies, Frontiers in Robotics and AI, and IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics.

Key recent papers provide insight into current research directions, including:

  • 2022 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, 2022, 2022 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)
  • Motion Planning for Quadrupedal Locomotion: Coupled Planning, Terrain Mapping, and Whole-Body Control, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Robotics
  • Toward Emotion Recognition From Physiological Signals in the Wild: Approaching the Methodological Issues in Real-Life Data Collection, 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Applicability of an Active Back-Support Exoskeleton to Carrying Activities, 2020, Frontiers in Robotics and AI
  • Exoskeleton Online Learning and Estimation of Human Walking Intention Based on Dynamical Movement Primitives, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems

Caldwell's publications provide contributions across a broad spectrum of robotics and biomedical engineering topics, indicating a multidisciplinary approach involving both theoretical and practical elements of robotic systems, human-machine interaction, and rehabilitation technologies.

Best Publications

  • Variable impedance actuators: A review

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

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

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

  • Control of pneumatic muscle actuators

    D.G. Caldwell;G.A. Medrano-Cerda;M. Goodwin

  • Learning and Reproduction of Gestures by Imitation

    Sylvain Calinon;Florent D'halluin;Eric L Sauser;Darwin G Caldwell

  • Development and Control of a ‘Soft-Actuated’ Exoskeleton for Use in Physiotherapy and Training

    N. G. Tsagarakis;Darwin G. Caldwell

  • Variable Stiffness Actuators: Review on Design and Components

    Sebastian Wolf;Giorgio Grioli;Oliver Eiberger;Werner Friedl

  • Robot motor skill coordination with EM-based Reinforcement Learning

    Petar Kormushev;Sylvain Calinon;Darwin G. Caldwell

  • Imitation Learning of Positional and Force Skills Demonstrated via Kinesthetic Teaching and Haptic Input

    Petar Kormushev;Sylvain Calinon;Darwin G. Caldwell

  • 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

    J.A. Saglia;Jian Dai;D. Caldwell

  • Enhanced tactile feedback (tele-taction) using a multi-functional sensory system

    D.G. Caldwell;C. Gosney

  • iCub: the design and realization of an open humanoid platform for cognitive and neuroscience research

    Nikolaos G. Tsagarakis;Giorgio Metta;Giulio Sandini;David Vernon

  • Learning Physical Collaborative Robot Behaviors From Human Demonstrations

    Leonel Rozo;Sylvain Calinon;Darwin G. Caldwell;Pablo Jimenez

  • A compact soft actuator unit for small scale human friendly robots

    N.G. Tsagarakis;Matteo Laffranchi;Bram Vanderborght;D.G. Caldwell

  • Reinforcement Learning in Robotics: Applications and Real-World Challenges

    Petar Kormushev;Sylvain Calinon;Darwin G. Caldwell

  • Improved modelling and assessment of pneumatic muscle actuators

    N. Tsagarakis;D.G. Caldwell

  • Kernelized movement primitives

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

    Claudio Semini;Victor Barasuol;Jake Goldsmith;Marco Frigerio

  • ROSPlan: planning in the robot operating system

    Michael Cashmore;Maria Fox;Derek Long;Daniele Magazzeni

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

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

  • WALK-MAN: A High-Performance Humanoid Platform for Realistic Environments

    N. G. Tsagarakis;D. G. Caldwell;F. Negrello;W. Choi

  • Principles of robotics: regulating robots in the real world

    Margaret Boden;Joanna Bryson;Darwin Caldwell;Kerstin Dautenhahn

  • COMpliant huMANoid COMAN: Optimal joint stiffness tuning for modal frequency control

    Nikos G. Tsagarakis;Stephen Morfey;Gustavo Medrano Cerda;Li Zhibin

  • AwAS-II: A new Actuator with Adjustable Stiffness based on the novel principle of adaptable pivot point and variable lever ratio

    Amir Jafari;Nikos G. Tsagarakis;Darwin G. Caldwell

Frequent Co-Authors

Nikos G. Tsagarakis
Nikos G. Tsagarakis Italian Institute of Technology
Claudio Semini
Claudio Semini Italian Institute of Technology
Sylvain Calinon
Sylvain Calinon Idiap Research Institute
Antonio Bicchi
Antonio Bicchi Italian Institute of Technology
Jonas Buchli
Jonas Buchli DeepMind (United Kingdom)
Auke Jan Ijspeert
Auke Jan Ijspeert École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Giorgio Metta
Giorgio Metta Italian Institute of Technology
Domenico Prattichizzo
Domenico Prattichizzo University of Siena
Ludovic Righetti
Ludovic Righetti New York University
Aude Billard
Aude Billard École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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