Papers
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Total Citations
278
H-Index
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About
Paolo Tommasino’s research lies at the intersection of human motor control, rehabilitation robotics, and computational neuroscience, with a focus on understanding how the brain plans and adapts movements in health and disease. He is best known for developing the H-Man, a planar, H-shaped cable-driven robot that enables precise experiments on human motor control and rehabilitation. This low-cost device, detailed in his most cited work (63 citations), has been used to assess proprioceptive deficits in aging and stroke populations, revealing how declines in joint position sense impact functional recovery. His work on motor adaptation (17 citations) and wrist stiffness estimation (16 citations) has advanced robot-assisted therapy and human-robot collaboration. Tommasino has also made significant contributions to reinforcement learning, proposing a bio-inspired architecture that transfers knowledge between skills (27 citations), and to computational models of posture and movement planning in redundant manipulators (15 citations). His interdisciplinary approach bridges robotics, neuroscience, and rehabilitation, with a notable study linking assimilation and accommodation in reaching tasks to autism (14 citations). With over 200 cumulative citations, Tommasino’s research continues to shape the design of intelligent robotic systems for clinical assessment and human motor learning.
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- 5Estimating Human Wrist Stiffness during a Tooling Task16 citations · 2020
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- 9Human-like pointing strategies via non-linear inverse optimization8 citations · 2016
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