Papers
82
Total Citations
1,847
H-Index
25
About
Marco Carricato is a distinguished robotics researcher whose work sits at the intersection of parallel mechanisms, cable-driven parallel robots (CDPRs), and robot kinematics. He has made foundational contributions to the understanding of under-constrained and underconstrained cable-driven systems, developing rigorous geometrico-static frameworks that characterize equilibrium poses, stability, and feasible motion planning for robots supported by fewer cables than degrees of freedom — a notoriously complex problem due to the intrinsic coupling of kinematics and statics. His 2002 paper on singularity-free, fully-isotropic translational parallel mechanisms (174 citations) established early influence in lower-mobility parallel robotics, while his extensive series on CDPRs — spanning stability analysis (162 citations), direct and inverse geometrico-static problems, interval-analysis algorithms, and trajectory planning (86 citations) — has collectively shaped how researchers design and analyze cable-suspended systems. His 2016 work on the inversion symmetry of the Euclidean group further demonstrates his breadth, contributing elegant theoretical tools to robot kinematics. With over 800 cumulative citations across these landmark papers, Carricato's research offers both deep theoretical insight and practical design guidance for the next generation of lightweight, high-performance robotic systems.
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Top Papers
- 1Singularity-Free Fully-Isotropic Translational Parallel Mechanisms174 citations · 2002
- 2Stability Analysis of Underconstrained Cable-Driven Parallel Robots162 citations · 2012
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