Giuseppe F. Rigano
Papers
6
Total Citations
224
H-Index
5
About
Giuseppe F. Rigano is a robotics researcher whose work bridges the critical gap between robust hardware and intelligent control for real-world mobile manipulation. His primary research areas include hybrid locomotion, resilient manipulation, and advanced impedance control. Rigano’s most influential contribution is the **CENTAURO platform**, a hybrid locomotion and high-power manipulation robot designed for disaster response and harsh physical interactions. This work, cited **170 times**, addresses the scarcity of robots capable of handling high payloads and moderate-to-severe physical demands. He also developed a **self-tuning impedance controller** (26 citations) that enables autonomous robots to adapt restoring forces during complex, unstructured interactions—a key advance for autonomous manipulation. Rigano is further recognized for creating the **Robot Hardware Abstraction Layer (R-HAL)** within the XBot software framework, which allows seamless programming across diverse robotic platforms. His research on **online joint stiffness transfer** from human arms to anthropomorphic robots (9 citations) and on exploiting environmental contacts to reduce manipulation effort (3 citations) demonstrates a deep commitment to making robots more adaptive, efficient, and physically capable in challenging, real-world environments.
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Top Papers
- 1CENTAURO: A Hybrid Locomotion and High Power Resilient Manipulation Platform170 citations · 2019
- 2A Self-Tuning Impedance Controller for Autonomous Robotic Manipulation26 citations · 2018
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- 4Online Joint Stiffness Transfer from Human Arm to Anthropomorphic Arm9 citations · 2018
- 5A mixed real-time robot hardware abstraction layer (R-HAL)5 citations · 2018
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