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  1. iCub Whole-Body Control through Force Regulation on Rigid Non-Coplanar Contacts

    Article • Frontiers in Robotics and AI, March 2015, Frontiers

    Dr Francesco Nori

  2. Prioritized motion–force control of constrained fully-actuated robots: “Task Space Inverse Dynamics”

    Article • Robotics and Autonomous Systems, January 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Francesco Nori

  3. Communicative lifting actions in human-humanoid interaction

    Article • November 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Francesco Nori

  4. Tools for simulating humanoid robot dynamics: A survey based on user feedback

    Article • November 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Francesco Nori

  5. Control of a two-DoF manipulator equipped with a pnr-variable stiffness actuator

    Article • October 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Francesco Nori

  6. Developmental changes in children understanding robotic actions: The case of lifting

    Article • October 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Francesco Nori

  7. Control of physical interaction through tactile and force sensing during visually guided reaching

    Article • October 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Francesco Nori

  8. Exploiting global force torque measurements for local compliance estimation in tactile arrays

    Article • September 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Francesco Nori

  9. Partial force control of constrained floating-base robots

    Article • September 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Francesco Nori

  10. Motor Contagion during Human-Human and Human-Robot Interaction

    Article • PLoS ONE, August 2014, PLOS

    Dr Francesco Nori

  11. Understanding Object Weight from Human and Humanoid Lifting Actions

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, June 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Francesco Nori

  12. Prioritized optimal control

    Article • May 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Francesco Nori

  13. Development of perception of weight from human or robot lifting observation

    Article • March 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Francesco Nori

  14. Human Machine Interaction and Communication in Cooperative Actions

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Francesco Nori

  15. Sensorimotor Coordination in a Humanoid Robot: Building Intelligence on the iCub

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Francesco Nori

  16. Yarp Based Plugins for Gazebo Simulator

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Francesco Nori

  17. Robots can be perceived as goal-oriented agents

    Article • Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, December 2013, John Benjamins

    Dr Francesco Nori

  18. Model of cyclotorsion in a tendon driven eyeball: Theoretical model and qualitative evaluation on a robotic platform

    Article • November 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Francesco Nori

  19. Open-loop stochastic optimal control of a passive noise-rejection variable stiffness actuator: Application to unstable tasks

    Article • November 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Francesco Nori

  20. On the effects of internal stiction in pnrVIA actuators

    Article • October 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Francesco Nori

  21. Inertial parameter identification including friction and motor dynamics

    Article • October 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Francesco Nori

  22. Do humans need learning to read humanoid lifting actions?

    Article • August 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Francesco Nori

  23. Muscle synergies in neuroscience and robotics: from input-space to task-space perspectives

    Article • Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, January 2013, Frontiers

    Dr Francesco Nori

  24. THE DESIGN OF THE iCub HUMANOID ROBOT

    Article • International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, December 2012, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Francesco Nori

  25. The iCub Platform: A Tool for Studying Intrinsically Motivated Learning

    Article • November 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Francesco Nori

  26. pnrVSA: human-like actuator with non-linear springs in agonist-antagonist configuration

    Article • November 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Francesco Nori

  27. Design principles for muscle-like variable impedance actuators with noise rejection property via co-contraction

    Article • November 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Francesco Nori

  28. Control of contact forces: The role of tactile feedback for contact localization

    Article • October 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Francesco Nori

  29. AUTONOMOUS ONLINE LEARNING OF REACHING BEHAVIOR IN A HUMANOID ROBOT

    Article • International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, September 2012, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Francesco Nori

  30. Identification of synergies by optimization of trajectory tracking tasks

    Article • June 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Francesco Nori

  31. Modeling kinematic forward model adaptation by modular decomposition

    Article • June 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Francesco Nori

  32. Force feedback exploiting tactile and proximal force/torque sensing

    Article • Autonomous Robots, April 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Francesco Nori

  33. Measuring Human-Robot Interaction Through Motor Resonance

    Article • International Journal of Social Robotics, March 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Francesco Nori

  34. Control of a single Degree of Freedom Noise Rejecting - Variable Impedance Actuator

    Article • January 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Francesco Nori

  35. From Humans to Humanoids: the Optimal Control Framework

    Article • Paladyn Journal of Behavioral Robotics, January 2012, De Gruyter

    Dr Francesco Nori

  36. Evidence for Composite Cost Functions in Arm Movement Planning: An Inverse Optimal Control Approach

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, October 2011, PLOS

    Dr Francesco Nori

  37. The iCub project: An open source platform for research in embodied cognition

    Article • October 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Francesco Nori

  38. Stochastic optimal control with variable impedance manipulators in presence of uncertainties and delayed feedback

    Article • September 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Francesco Nori

  39. Skin spatial calibration using force/torque measurements

    Article • September 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Francesco Nori

  40. Reexamining Lucas-Kanade method for real-time independent motion detection: Application to the iCub humanoid robot

    Article • September 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Francesco Nori

  41. Finger Impedance Evaluation by Means of Hand Exoskeleton

    Article • Annals of Biomedical Engineering, August 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Francesco Nori

  42. Design, realization and sensorization of the dexterous iCub hand

    Article • December 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Francesco Nori

  43. The iCub humanoid robot: An open-systems platform for research in cognitive development

    Article • Neural Networks, October 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Francesco Nori

  44. Integration of Action and Language Knowledge: A Roadmap for Developmental Robotics

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, September 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Angelo Cangelosi, Dr Francesco Nori

  45. Machine-learning based control of a human-like tendon-driven neck

    Article • May 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Francesco Nori

  46. Learning to Exploit Proximal Force Sensing: A Comparison Approach

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Francesco Nori

  47. Design of a 2-finger hand exoskeleton for finger stiffness measurements

    Article • Applied Bionics and Biomechanics, July 2009, CrossRef

    Dr Francesco Nori

  48. Cognitive Systems Platforms using Open Source

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Angelo Cangelosi, Dr Francesco Nori

  49. Design of a 2-Finger Hand Exoskeleton for Finger Stiffness Measurements

    Article • Applied Bionics and Biomechanics, January 2009, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Dr Francesco Nori

  50. A modular bio-inspired architecture for movement generation for the infant-like robot iCub

    Article • October 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Francesco Nori

  51. Exploiting Motor Modules in Modular Contexts in Humanoid Robotics

    Article • January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Francesco Nori

  52. The iCub humanoid robot

    Article • January 2008, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Francesco Nori

  53. Accurate control of a human-like tendon-driven neck

    Article • November 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Francesco Nori

  54. Sensory prediction for autonomous robots

    Article • November 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Francesco Nori

  55. Autonomous learning of 3D reaching in a humanoid robot

    Article • October 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Francesco Nori

  56. Learning precise 3D reaching in a humanoid robot

    Article • July 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Francesco Nori

  57. James: A Humanoid Robot Acting over an Unstructured World

    Article • December 2006, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Francesco Nori

  58. A control theory approach to the analysis and synthesis of the experimentally observed motion primitives

    Article • Biological Cybernetics, October 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Francesco Nori

  59. Designing an Omnidirectional Vision System for a Goalkeeper Robot

    Article • January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Francesco Nori