Mario Selvaggio
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Naples Federico II, department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, affiliated to PRISMA Lab and ICAROS, and co-founder of the spinoff company BeyondShape.
I obtained the Ph.D. in Information Technology and Electrical Engineering in April 2020,
under the supervision of Prof.
Bruno Siciliano. Before that, I graduated in Mechanical Engineering with a
Bachelor's and a Master's degree obtained in January 2013 and March 2015,
respectively.
My research interests include: shared control/autonomy, robot teleoperation, passivity-based control, soft-robotics, robotic grasping and manipulation, robotic surgery.
If you are interested in working or collaborating with me, don't hesitate to reach out!

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13/04/2023
The paper "Non-prehensile object transportation via model predictive non-sliding manipulation control" has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. Kudos to my co-authors -
07/04/2023
The paper "A non-prehensile object transportation framework with adaptive tilting based on quadratic programming" has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. Kudos to my co-authors -
13/02/23
I am organizing a special session titled "Visual and Haptic Cues for Physical Human-Robot Interaction and Co-Manipulation" at the 2023 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) -
21/12/2022
The workshop proposal "Embracing contacts: making robots physically interact with our world" has been accepted at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Congrats to my co-organizers -
16/09/2022
The paper "Robotic non-prehensile object transportation" has been accepted at the 4th Italian Conference for Robotics and Intelligent Machines. Kudos to my co-authors -
30/06/2022
The paper "Task-Oriented Contact Optimization for Pushing Manipulation with Mobile Robots" has been accepted at the 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. Kudos to my co-authors -
03/06/2022
I have obtained the National Scientific Habilitation (ASN) -
16/03/2022
The paper "Dual-arm object transportation via model predictive control and external disturbance estimation" has been accepted at the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering. Congrats to my co-authors -
16/03/2022
The paper "Effects of Design Parameters on the Tip Steering Capabilities of Fabric Pneumatic Artificial Muscle-actuated Soft Growing Robots" has been accepted at the 2022 International Joint Conference on Mechanics, Design Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing. Congrats to my co-authors -
31/01/2022
The paper "Nonprehensile object transportation with a legged manipulator" has been accepted at the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Congrats to my co-authors -
21/12/2021
The workshop proposal "Shared Autonomy in Physical Human-Robot Interaction: Adaptability and Trust" has been accepted at the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Kudos to my co-organizers -
06/09/2021
The paper "A hardware-in-the-loop simulator for physical human-aerial manipulator cooperation" and the workshop proposal "Design, Learning, and Control for Safe Human-Robot Collaboration" have been accepted at the 20th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics. Kudos to my co-authors and co-organizers -
21/09/2021
Serving as associate editor for the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in the area of Medical and Rehabilitation Robotics -
20/09/2021
Finalist of the Italian Chapter Robotics and Automation Society "Fabrizio Flacco" Young Author Best Paper Award -
07/09/2021
The special issue "Advanced Technologies for Autonomous Surgical Robotics" is open for submission -
24/08/2021
Serving as associate editor for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters -
19/07/2021
The paper "Autonomy in Physical Human-Robot Interaction: A Brief Survey" has been accepted for publication in RA-L and for presentation at the 2021 IROS. Kudos to all my co-authors -
28/05/2021
The paper "A Shared-control Teleoperation Architecture for Nonprehensile Object Transportation" has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Robotics. Congrats to all my co-authors -
21/05/2021
Serving as associate editor for the 20th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics -
21/12/2020
The special issue "Shared Autonomy for Physical Human-Robot Interaction" has been accepted to RA-L. I will be serving as guest associate editor. Congrats to my co-organizers -
31/07/2020
The paper "The MUSHA Hand II: A Multi-Functional Hand for Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Surgery" has been accepted for publication in the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. Congrats to all my co-authors -
16/04/2020
I successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis -
22/01/2020
Two papers accepted for publication in the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Congratulations to all my co-authors21/12/2019
The workshop "Shared autonomy: learning and control" has been accepted to the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Congratulations to all my co-organizers01/06/2019
I started my visiting period at University of California Santa Barbara, Mechanical Engineering Department13/05/2019
The paper ''Haptic-guided needle grasping in minimally invasive robotic surgery'' has been accepted to the ICRA full-day workshop Next Generation Surgery10/05/2019
I am invited to give a seminar about ''Haptic-based Shared-Control Telerobotics: Industrial and Surgical Perspectives'' at the DISMI of University of Modena-Reggio Emilia25/01/2019
The paper ''Passive Task-prioritized Shared-Control Teleoperation with Haptic Guidance'' has been accepted in the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation13/12/2018
The STAR L2 program will fund my 6-months abroad period to the University of California Santa Barbara during 201901/12/2018
My proposal "Haptic guidance methods for robotic surgery" has just been accepted. The IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Haptics will fund my research for $ 250001/10/2018
Two papers accepted for publication in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (also to be presented at the 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems)27/06/2018
Awarded second prize at Sixth National Congress of Bioengineering in the Switch 2 Product - Innovation in Bioengineering program