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Overview

Federico Renda is affiliated with Khalifa University in the United Arab Emirates. Their main area of research is in Engineering, with a focus on several subfields including Biomedical Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Condensed Matter Physics, and Ocean Engineering.

The research topics covered by Federico Renda include:

  • Soft Robotics and Applications
  • Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
  • Robot Manipulation and Learning
  • Micro and Nano Robotics
  • Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems
  • Dynamics and Control of Mechanical Systems
  • Advanced Materials and Mechanics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Federico Renda are:

  • Anup Teejo Mathew
  • Frédéric Boyer
  • Costanza Armanini
  • Daniel Feliu-Talegón
  • Vincent Lebastard

Federico Renda has published extensively in several venues, with the most common being:

  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Transactions on Robotics
  • The International Journal of Robotics Research
  • Soft Robotics

Selected recent publications include:

  • Soft Robots Modeling: A Structured Overview, 2023, IEEE Transactions on Robotics
  • Dynamics of Continuum and Soft Robots: A Strain Parameterization Based Approach, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Robotics
  • A concise guide to modelling the physics of embodied intelligence in soft robotics, 2022, Nature Reviews Physics
  • A Geometric Variable-Strain Approach for Static Modeling of Soft Manipulators With Tendon and Fluidic Actuation, 2020, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • Concentric Tube Robots for Minimally Invasive Surgery: Current Applications and Future Opportunities, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics

Best Publications

  • Dynamic Model of a Multibending Soft Robot Arm Driven by Cables

    Federico Renda;Michele Giorelli;Marcello Calisti;Matteo Cianchetti

  • Model-Based Reinforcement Learning for Closed-Loop Dynamic Control of Soft Robotic Manipulators

    Thomas George Thuruthel;Egidio Falotico;Federico Renda;Cecilia Laschi

  • Discrete Cosserat Approach for Multisection Soft Manipulator Dynamics

    Federico Renda;Frederic Boyer;Jorge Dias;Lakmal Seneviratne

  • Soft Robots Modeling: A Structured Overview

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  • A 3D steady-state model of a tendon-driven continuum soft manipulator inspired by the octopus arm

    F Renda;M Cianchetti;M Giorelli;A Arienti

  • Neural Network and Jacobian Method for Solving the Inverse Statics of a Cable-Driven Soft Arm With Nonconstant Curvature

    Michele Giorelli;Federico Renda;Marcello Calisti;Andrea Arienti

  • Dynamics of Continuum and Soft Robots: A Strain Parameterization Based Approach

    Frederic Boyer;Vincent Lebastard;Fabien Candelier;Federico Renda

  • A concise guide to modelling the physics of embodied intelligence in soft robotics

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  • Learning dynamic models for open loop predictive control of soft robotic manipulators.

    Thomas George Thuruthel;Egidio Falotico;Federico Renda;Cecilia Laschi

  • A feed-forward neural network learning the inverse kinetics of a soft cable-driven manipulator moving in three-dimensional space

    Michele Giorelli;Federico Renda;Gabriele Ferri;Cecilia Laschi

  • A Geometric Variable-Strain Approach for Static Modeling of Soft Manipulators With Tendon and Fluidic Actuation

    Federico Renda;Costanza Armanini;Vincent Lebastard;Fabien Candelier

  • Discrete Cosserat approach for soft robot dynamics: A new piece-wise constant strain model with torsion and shears

    Federico Renda;Vito Cacucciolo;Jorge Dias;Lakmal Seneviratne

  • Concentric Tube Robots for Minimally Invasive Surgery: Current Applications and Future Opportunities

    Hessa Alfalahi;Federico Renda;Cesare Stefanini

  • Design and development of a soft robot with crawling and grasping capabilities

    Marcello Calisti;Andrea Arienti;Federico Renda;Guy Levy

  • Design and prototyping soft–rigid tendon-driven modular grippers using interpenetrating phase composites materials

    Irfan Hussain;Oraib Al-Ketan;Oraib Al-Ketan;Federico Renda;Monica Malvezzi;Monica Malvezzi

  • A two dimensional inverse kinetics model of a cable driven manipulator inspired by the octopus arm

    Michele Giorelli;Federico Renda;Marcello Calisti;Andrea Arienti

  • SoRoSim: A MATLAB Toolbox for Hybrid Rigid–Soft Robots Based on the Geometric Variable-Strain Approach

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  • A unified multi-soft-body dynamic model for underwater soft robots:

    Federico Renda;Francesco Giorgio-Serchi;Frederic Boyer;Cecilia Laschi

  • Data-Driven Methods Applied to Soft Robot Modeling and Control: A Review

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  • Discrete Cosserat Approach for Multi-Section Soft Robots Dynamics.

    Federico Renda;Frédéric Boyer;Jorge Manuel Miranda Dias;Lakmal D. Seneviratne

  • Learning the inverse kinetics of an octopus-like manipulator in three-dimensional space.

    M Giorelli;F Renda;M Calisti;A Arienti

  • Modelling cephalopod-inspired pulsed-jet locomotion for underwater soft robots

    Frederico Renda;Frederico Renda;Francesco Giorgio-Serchi;Frédéric Boyer;Cecilia Laschi

  • Modeling and Prototyping of an Underactuated Gripper Exploiting Joint Compliance and Modularity

    Irfan Hussain;Federico Renda;Zubair Iqbal;Monica Malvezzi

  • Sensorization of continuum soft robots for reconstructing their spatial configuration

    M. Cianchetti;F. Renda;A. Licofonte;C. Laschi

Frequent Co-Authors

Cecilia Laschi
Cecilia Laschi National University of Singapore
Lakmal Seneviratne
Lakmal Seneviratne Khalifa University
Matteo Cianchetti
Matteo Cianchetti Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Cesare Stefanini
Cesare Stefanini Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Domenico Prattichizzo
Domenico Prattichizzo University of Siena
Monica Malvezzi
Monica Malvezzi University of Siena
Barbara Mazzolai
Barbara Mazzolai Italian Institute of Technology
Paolo Dario
Paolo Dario Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Binyamin Hochner
Binyamin Hochner Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Fumiya Iida
Fumiya Iida University of Cambridge

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