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Mario Selvaggio

Bio sketch

I am an assistant professor in the department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Naples Federico II since October 2023. I am member of the PRISMA Lab and ICAROS, and co-founder of the spinoff companies BeyondShape and Herobots. I earned a Ph.D. degree in Information Technology and Electrical Engineering in April 2020, under the supervision of Prof. Bruno Siciliano. Before that, I obtained a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering in January 2013 and March 2015, respectively. During my career, I spent one year internship with the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in 2016 (dept. of Advanced Robotics) and two short periods as visiting student at IRISA, INRIA Rennes (Equipe de Recherche Lagadic and Rainbow team) from November to December 2017 and from October to December 2018, respectively, and visited the department of Mechanical Engineering at University of California Santa Barbara from June to December 2019.

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!

Recent News

05/04/2024
Two papers accepted for presentation at the 2024 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems. Kudos to all my co-authors
12/03/2024
I am co-organizing the workshop Mechanisms for Mapping Human Input to Robots: From Robot Learning to Shared Control/Autonomy to be held at the Robotics: Science and Systems 2024
25/01/2024
The paper "Robotics goes PRISMA" has been accepted for publication in the special issue: The 40th Anniversary of ROBOTICA. Kudos to all my co-authors
25/01/2024
The paper "Modelling and identification methods for simulation of cable-suspended dual-arm robotic systems" has been accepted for publication in the Robotics and Autonomous Systems journal. Kudos to all my co-authors
30/09/2023
I am presenting the paper "A non-prehensile object transportation framework with adaptive tilting based on quadratic programming" to the next 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in Detroit
18/09/2023
The paper "Model-predictive control for non-prehensile tray-based object transportation" was accepted for presentation at the fifth National Conference on Robotics and Intelligent Machines
10/09/2023
Serving as associate editor for the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
01/08/2023
Serving as associate editor for the 21th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics
16/06/2023
The paper "Shared-Control Teleoperation Paradigms on a Soft Growing Robot Manipulator" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems. Congrats to my co-autors
01/06/2023
The paper "Visual and Haptic Cues for Human-Robot Handover" has been accepted for publication in the 2023 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN). Congrats to Marco, who led the work
26/05/2023
The video of my recently accepted TCST article got featured in the IEEE Spectrum - Video friday weekly selection of awesome robot videos
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
13/02/2023
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
14/09/2021
I will be co-chairing the "Shared Autonomy for Physical Human-Robot Interaction" session at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
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
11/06/2021
The video of my recently accepted T-RO article got featured in the IEEE Spectrum - Video friday weekly selection of awesome robot videos
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-authors
21/12/2019
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-organizers
20/06/2019
Two papers accepted for publication in the 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
01/06/2019
I started my visiting period at University of California Santa Barbara, Mechanical Engineering Department
13/05/2019
The paper ''Haptic-guided needle grasping in minimally invasive robotic surgery'' has been accepted to the ICRA full-day workshop Next Generation Surgery
10/05/2019
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 Emilia
25/01/2019
The paper ''Passive Task-prioritized Shared-Control Teleoperation with Haptic Guidance'' has been accepted in the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
13/12/2018
The STAR L2 program will fund my 6-months abroad period to the University of California Santa Barbara during 2019
01/12/2018
My proposal "Haptic guidance methods for robotic surgery" has just been accepted. The IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Haptics will fund my research for $ 2500
01/10/2018
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