Publications
Journals
I Year
R.S. Dahiya, G. Metta, M. Valle, G. Sandini. Tactile Sensing – From Humans to Humanoids. In IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 26(1), February 2010.
II Year
L. Seminara, M. Capurro, P. Cirillo, G. Cannata, M. Valle, Electromechanical characterization of piezoelectric PVDF polymer films for tactile sensors in robotics applications, Sens. Actuators A: Phys. (2011), doi:10.1016/j.sna.2011.05.004.
Cattin, D.; Adami, A.; Collini, C.; Barboni, L.; Valle, M.; Lorenzelli, L.; Oboe, R.; Metta, G.; Brunetti, F.; Towards Tactile Sensing System on Chip for Robotic Applications, accepted for publication on IEEE Sensors Journal.
M. Barbaro, A. Caboni, P.Cosseddu, G. Mattana, A. Bonfiglio, “Active Devices Based on Organic Semiconductors for Wearable Applications” IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine Vol. 14, 758-766 (2010) .
P. Cosseddu, A. Bonfiglio “Influence of device geometry in the electrical behaviour of all organic ambipolar Field Effect Transistors” Appl. Phys. Lett. 97, 203305 (2010).
L. Basiricò, P. Cosseddu, B. Fraboni, A. Bonfiglio “Inkjet printing of transparent, flexible, organic transistors” Accepted for publication in Thin Solid Films.
B. Fraboni, P. Cosseddu, Y.Q. Wang, R.K. Schulze, Z.F. Di, A.Cavallini, M. Nastasi and A.Bonfiglio “Stabilization of organic thin film transistors behaviour via ion-implantation” Accepted for publication in Organic Electronics.
P. Cosseddu, A. Piras and A. Bonfiglio “Fully deformable organic thin film transistors with moderate operation voltage” Accepted for publication in IEEE Transaction on Electron Devices.
A. Schmitz, P. Maiolino, M. Maggiali, L. Natale, G. Cannata, G. Metta, "Methods and Technologies for the Implementation of Large Scale Robot Tactile Sensors", IEEE Trans. On Robotics - Special Issue on Robot Sense of Touch (G. Cannata, R. Dahiya, G. Metta, M. Valle eds.), to appear 2011.
R.S. Dahiya, G. Metta, G. Cannata, M. Valle (Guest Eds). “Special Issue on Robotic Sense of Touch (Editorial)”. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2011.
B.D. Argall and A.G. Billard, “A Survey of Tactile Human-Robot Interactions”. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 58(10), 2010.
B.D. Argall, E. Sauser and A. Billard “Tactile Guidance for Policy Adaptation”. Foundations and Trends in Robotics, 1(2), 2010.
Conference Proceedings
I Year
B. Argall, E. Sauser, A. Billard. Tactile Feedback for Policy Refinement and Reuse. In Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL'10), Ann Arbor, Michigan, August 2010.
B. Argall, E. Sauser, A. Billard. Policy Adaptation through Tactile Correction. In Proceedings of the 36th Annual Convention of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and bSimulation of Behaviour (AISB '10), Leicester, UK, March 2010.
B. Argall, E. Sauser, A. Billard. Tactile Correction and Multiple Training Data Sources for Robot Motion Control. In NIPS 2009 Workshop on Learning from Multiple Sources with Application to Robotics, Whistler, British Columbia, December 2009.
Biggio, P. Maiolino, G. Cannata. Towards a Skin-Like Embedded Tactile Sensor for Robotic Hands. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction (AISB'10), Leicester, UK, 31 March – 1 April, 2010. Preprint
R.S. Dahiya, M. Valle, G. Metta, L. Lorenzelli. Bio-inspired Tactile Sensing Arrays, in Bioengineered and Bioinspired Systems. In Proceedings of SPIE Europe Conference on Microtechnologies for new Millennium, Dresden, Germany, May 2009.
R.S. Dahiya, M. Valle, G. Metta, L. Lorenzelli, A. Adami. Design and Fabrication of POSFET Devices for Tactile Sensing. In Proceedings the 15th IEEE International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (TRANSDUCERS 2009), Denver, Colorado, USA, June 2009.
R.S. Dahiya, M. Valle, G. Metta. Touch Sensing by Piezoelectric Polymer Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor (POSFET) Devices. In Proceedings of 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Electron Devices and Semiconductor Technology (IEDST 2009), Mumbai, India, June 2009.
R.S. Dahiya, M. Valle, R. Oboe, D. Cattin. Development and Characterization of Touch Sensing Devices for Robotic Applications. In Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2009), Porto, Portugal, November 2009.
R.S. Dahiya L. Lorenzelli, G. Metta, M. Valle. POSFET Devices Based Tactile Sensing Arrays. In Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2010), Paris, France, 2010.
T. Dahl, A. Palmer. Touch-Triggered Protective Reflexes for Safer Robots. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction (AISB'10), Leicester, UK, April, 2010.
S. McGregor, D. Polani. Towards Intrinsically Learned Skin Models in Robots. In Proceedings of The Thirty Sixth Annual Convention of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB10), Leicester, UK, April, 2010.
A Palmer and T. Dahl. Single Camera Depth Estimation in Humanoid Robots using Head Movements. In Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Association (BMVA) Technical Meeting on Robotics and Vision, London, UK, March 2010.
F. Amirabdollahian, B. Robins, K. Dautenhahn. Robotic Skin Requirements Based on Case Studies on Interacting with Children with Autism. In Proceedings of the Tactile Sensing Workshop, held in conjunction with IEEE Humanoids09, Paris, France, December 2009.
G. Cannata, R.S. Dahiya, M. Maggiali, F. Mastrogiovanni, G. Metta, M. Valle. Modular Skin for Humanoid Robot Systems. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Cognitive Systems (CogSys 2010), Zurich, Switzerland, January 2010.
II Year
Dahiya, R.S.; Lorenzelli, L.; Metta, G.; Valle, M., POSFET devices based tactile sensing arrays, Proceedings of 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/ISCAS.2010.5537414, Publication Year: 2010, Page(s): 893 – 896.
R.S. Dahiya, D. Cattin, A. Adami, C. Collini, L. Barboni, M. Valle, L. Lorenzelli, R. Oboe, G. Metta, F. Brunetti, Tactile Sensing Systems based on POSFET sensing arrays, Sensors and Microsystems: AISEM 2011 Proceedings, Springer Publisher, 2011.
R.S. Dahiya, L. Barboni, M. Valle, POSFET touch sensing devices: bias circuit design based on the ACM MOS transistor compact model, Sensors and Microsystems: AISEM 2011 Proceedings, Springer Publisher, 2011.
L. Seminara, M. Valle, M. Capurro, P. Cirillo, G. Cannata, Piezoelectric polymer films for tactile sensors, Sensors and Microsystems: AISEM 2011 Proceedings, Springer Publisher, 2011.
K. Sinha, M. Valle, Bias Circuit Design for POSFET based Tactile Sensing Devices, in Proc. of 7th Conference on PhD Research in Microelectronics and Electronics, Madonna Di Campiglio (Trento) Italy on 3th-7th July 2011.
L. Barboni, R. S. Dahiya, G. Metta, M. Valle, Interface Electronics Design for POSFET Devices Based Tactile Sensing Systems, in Proc. of 19th IEEE International Symposium in Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Sep. 12 - 15th, 2010, Viareggio, Italy.
P. Cosseddu, A. Bonfiglio, R. Neelgund, H. W. Tyrer, “Arrays of pressure sensors based on organic field effect: A new perspective for non invasive monitoring” Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2009. EMBC 2009. Annual International Conference of the IEEE
3-6 Sept. 2009 Page(s): 6151 - 6154
L. Basirico, P. Cosseddu, A. Bonfiglio, R. Neelgund, H.W. Tyrer, “Inkjet Printed Arrays of Pressure Sensors Based on All-Organic Field Effect Transistors” Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2010. EMBC 2010. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Aug. 31 2010-Sept. 4 2010 Page(s): 2111 – 2114.
G. Cannata, S. Denei, F. Mastrogiovanni, “Towards Automated Self-Calibration of Robot Skin”, Proc. IEEE Int. Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2010), Anchorage, Alaska, May 3-8, 2010. Preprint
G. Cannata, S. Denei, F. Mastrogiovanni, “Tactile Sensing: Steps to Artificial Somatosensory Maps”, 19th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication September 12-15, 2010, Viareggio, Italy. BEST PAPER AWARD. Preprint
G. Cannata, S. Denei, F. Mastrogiovanni, “A Framework for Representing Interaction Tasks Based on Tactile Data (I) 19th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication September 12-15, 2010, Viareggio, Italy. Preprint
G. Cannata, S. Denei, F. Mastrogiovanni, “On Internal Models for Representing Tactile Information”, 2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems October 18-22, 2010, Taipei International Convention Center, Taipei, Taiwan.
E. Baglini, G. Cannata, F. Mastrogiovanni, “Design of an Embedded Networking Infrastructure for Whole-Body Tactile Sensing in Humanoid Robots”, 2010 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, December 6-8, 2010, Sheraton Nashville Downtown, Nashville, TN, USA. Preprint
G. Cannata, S. Denei, F. Mastrogiovanni, “Contact Based Robot Control Through Tactile Maps”, 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December 15-17, 2010, Hilton Atlanta Hotel, Atlanta, GA, USA.
T. S. Dahl, Hierarchical Traces for Reduced NSM Memory Requirements. In the Proceedings of the BCS SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp165-178, Cambridge, UK, December 14-16, 2010.
G. Pierris and T. S. Dahl, Compressed Sparse Code Hierarchical SOM on Learning and Reproducing Gestures in Humanoid Robots. In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium in Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN'10), pp350-355, Viareggio, Italy, September 12-15, 2010.
Argall B. D., Sauser, E. and Billard, A. (2010) Tactile Guidance for Policy Refinement and Reuse. Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2010), 2010.
B. Robins and K. Dautenhahn (2010) Developing Play Scenarios for Tactile Interaction with a Humanoid Robot: A Case Study Exploration with Children with Autism, 2nd International Conference on Social Robotics, (ICSR 2010), November 2010, Singapore
B. Robins, F. Amirabdollahian, Z. Ji, K. Dautenhahn (2010) Tactile interaction with a humanoid robot for children with autism: A case study analysis involving user requirements and results of an initial implementation. 19th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 10) September 2010, Viareggio, Italy.
Z. Ji, F. Amirabdollahian, D. Polani, and K. Dautenhahn, "Histogram based classification of tactile patterns on periodically distributed sensors for a humanoid robot", RO-MAN 2011, 20th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Atlanta, Georgia, USA - 31 July - 3 August 2011.
Schmitz A., Pattacini U., Nori F., Natale L., Metta G. & Sandini G. 2010, ‘Design, Realization and Sensorization of the Dexterous iCub Hand’, 10th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, pp.186-191, Nashville, TN, December 6-8, 2010.
Schmitz A., Maggiali M., Natale L., Bonino B. & Metta G. 2010, ‘A Tactile Sensor for the Fingertips of the Humanoid Robot iCub’, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Taipei, Taiwan, October 18-22, 2010.
Schmitz A., Maggiali M., Natale L. & Metta G. 2010, ‘Integrating Tactile Sensors into the Hands of the Humanoid Robot iCub’, ICRA 2010 Workshop on Grasping, Anchorage, Alaska, May 3, 2010.
Schmitz A., Maggiali M., Natale L. & Metta G. 2010, ‘Touch Sensors for Humanoid Hands’, IEEE International Symposium on Robots and Human Interactive Communications, Viareggio, Italy, September 12-15, 2010.
