Gaetano Valenza
Italian Institute of Technology, University of Pisa, Piaggio (Italy)
Papers
7
Total Citations
190
H-Index
5
About
Gaetano Valenza is a leading researcher at the intersection of human-robot interaction, rehabilitation robotics, and motor control neuroscience. His work centers on making robots more intuitive, wearable, and human-like, with a particular focus on upper-limb motion. A major contribution is the development of teleimpedance control and wearable interfaces that simplify telerobotics, as detailed in his highly cited 2018 work (51 citations). He has also pioneered the use of functional principal component analysis to generate human-like robot movements (45 citations), enhancing safety and acceptance in assistive robotics. Valenza co-created the U-Limb database (41 citations), a multi-modal, multi-center resource that is foundational for studying arm motion in healthy and post-stroke conditions. His research on the time-invariance of upper-limb synergies (30 citations) provides critical insights into motor control. More recently, he has explored integrating affective physiology into haptic interfaces and manipulating time-space perception in extended reality. With over 190 total citations, Valenza’s work is shaping the future of intuitive, human-centered robotic systems for rehabilitation and beyond.
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- 4On the Time-Invariance Properties of Upper Limb Synergies30 citations · 2019
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- 7Functional Analysis of Upper-Limb Movements in the Cartesian Domain3 citations · 2021