Mario Cortese

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Mario Cortese is a leading researcher in wearable robotic exoskeletons for human motion assistance and rehabilitation, with a focus on both upper and lower limbs. His major contributions include developing a powered finger-thumb hand exoskeleton with self-aligning joint axes (189 citations), which addresses the complex morphology of the hand, and pioneering brain-machine interface (BMI) control of hand exoskeletons enhanced by electrooculography (EOG) (88 citations) to overcome signal non-stationarity. Cortese also advanced robot-mediated hand telerehabilitation through mechatronic master-slave systems (82 citations) and vision-based pose estimation (48 citations), enabling remote therapy. His work on the NEUROExos powered elbow orthosis (33 citations) and its clinical employment (42 citations) targets post-stroke neurorehabilitation, while his adaptive oscillators-based control for lower-limb orthoses (26 citations) and gastrocnemius myoelectric control of hip exoskeletons (15 citations) demonstrate innovative assistive strategies. Notably, his usability tests of hand exoskeletons for activities of daily living (64 citations) emphasize user-centered design, improving outcomes for spinal cord injury and stroke patients. With over 600 total citations across his top papers, Cortese’s research has significantly impacted rehabilitation robotics, blending mechanical design, control systems, and clinical validation to enhance patient mobility and quality of life.

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1. 1
   A Powered Finger–Thumb Wearable Hand Exoskeleton With Self-Aligning Joint Axes

   189 citations · 2014
2. 2
   Enhancing brain-machine interface (BMI) control of a hand exoskeleton using electrooculography (EOG)

   88 citations · 2014
3. 3
   A Mechatronic System for Robot-Mediated Hand Telerehabilitation

   82 citations · 2014
4. 4
   Usability test of a hand exoskeleton for activities of daily living: an example of user-centered design

   64 citations · 2015
5. 5
   Vision-Based Pose Estimation for Robot-Mediated Hand Telerehabilitation

   48 citations · 2016
6. 6
   Functional Design of a Powered Elbow Orthosis Toward its Clinical Employment

   42 citations · 2016
7. 7
   NEUROExos: A powered elbow orthosis for post-stroke early neurorehabilitation

   33 citations · 2013
8. 8
   A novel adaptive oscillators-based control for a powered multi-joint lower-limb orthosis

   26 citations · 2015
9. 9
   Analysis of relative displacement between the HX wearable robotic exoskeleton and the user’s hand

   23 citations · 2014
10. 10
    Gastrocnemius myoelectric control of a robotic hip exoskeleton

    15 citations · 2015

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