Vito Cacucciolo — accepted AI-conference papers

2026

Grasping Point Estimation for EA Suction Cup Grippers on Curved Objects

Angelo Catalano, Simone De Carolis, Gennaro Vitucci, Giuseppe Carbone, Mariagrazia Dotoli, Vito Cacucciolo

ICRA 2026poster

Electroadhesion suction cup (EASC) are fully-electrical grippers (no air flow needed) with very low power consumption that can grasp flat to curved objects from the top. They conform to the shape of the object by zipping from the central contact point to their edges, driven by Electroadhesion forces…

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2021

Dexterous textile manipulation using electroadhesive fingers

Krishna Manaswi Digumarti, Vito Cacucciolo, Herbert Shea

IROS 2021poster

Handling of fabric is a crucial step in the manufacturing of garments. This task is typically performed by trained workers who manipulate one sheet at a time, thus introducing a bottleneck in the automation of the textile industry. This paper seeks to address the challenge of picking fabric up by pr…

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2017

Active suction cup actuated by ElectroHydroDynamics phenomenon

Yu Kuwajima, Hiroki Shigemune, Vito Cacucciolo, Matteo Cianchetti, Cecilia Laschi, Shingo Maeda

IROS 2017poster

Designing and manufacturing actuators using soft materials are among the most important subjects for future robotics. In nature, animals made by soft tissues such as the octopus have attracted the attention of the robotics community in the last years. Suckers (or suction cups) are one of the most im…

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2017

Printed Paper Robot Driven by Electrostatic Actuator

Hiroki Shigemune, Shingo Maeda, Vito Cacucciolo, Yoshitaka Iwata, Eiji Iwase, Shuji Hashimoto +1

RA-L 2017

Effective design and fabrication of 3-D electronic circuits are among the most pressing issues for future engineering. Although a variety of flexible devices have been developed, most of them are still designed two-dimensionally. In this letter, we introduce a novel idea to fabricate a 3-D wiring bo

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2016

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

IROS 2016poster

Modeling and control of soft robots is an up-to-date and exciting area of research which has been tackled with complementary approaches so far. In this paper, we modify the existing continuum Cosserat approach optimizing it for soft robot arms which can be discretized in a finite number of sections…

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