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Emanuele Nicotra

4 accepted papers

2025

Compliance Control with Dynamic and Self-Sensing Hydraulic Artificial Muscles for Wearable Assistive Devices

ICRA 2025

While wearable robots that utilize intrinsically soft materials for actuation offer enhanced safety and biological compatibility, the challenges of sensing and control significantly affect their performance. The control problem in such systems is inherently complex, and the inclusion of 'softness' i

Cited by 1SourceScholar
2024

A Soft Micro-Robotic Catheter for Aneurysm Treatment: A Novel Design and Enhanced Euler-Bernoulli Model with Cross-Section Optimization

ICRA 2024poster

Aneurysms, balloon-like bulges in blood vessels, present a significant health risk due to their potential to rupture, leading to life-threatening internal bleeding. Current treatments often involve delivering embolic materials or metal coils to fill these bulges, occluding them from the pressure of…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2022

Bidirectional Soft Robotic Catheter for Arrhythmia Treatment

ICRA 2022poster

Heart rhythm disorders are becoming increasingly prevalent with population aging. Atrial fibrillation ablation (AFA) is a procedure used to treat an irregular heart rhythm (arrhythmia) that starts in the heart's upper chambers. The AFA works by scarring or destroying heart tissue to disrupt aberrant…

Cited by 10SourceScholar
2022

Hydraulically Actuated Soft Tubular Gripper

ICRA 2022poster

There is an increasing interest in soft robotic grippers as they exhibit an ability to grip objects of differing shapes, sizes, textures, and even deformable materials, all of which present a difficult challenge to traditional rigid grippers. An ideal soft gripper would exhibit universal gripping wi…

Cited by 7SourceScholar