Giancarlo Teti

• PhD
• R&D Manager at ROBOTECH srl

Robotic solutions for delivery tasks in urban and unstructured areas have represented a solid and considerable field of research in recent years. The aim of the proposed paper is to present the technical feasibility and usability of a robotic solution able to carry items from outdoor areas up to the user’s apartment and vice-versa. The proposed sol...

Mercury (Hg) in water partially occurs in the form of dissolved atomic vapor, the so-called Dissolved Gaseous Mercury (DGM). DGM can range from 2.5 to 25% of Total Hg (THg). DGM plays an important role in the Hg transfer through the air-water interface. The presented device measures the DGM concentration with the limit of detection 0.05 ng/L in the...

Technological advances in the robotic and ICT fields represent an effective solution to address specific societal problems to support ageing and independent life. One of the key factors for these technologies is that they have to be socially acceptable and believable to the end-users. This paper aimed to present some technological aspects that have...

Robot ecologies are a growing paradigm in which one or several robotic systems are integrated into a smart environment. Robotic ecologies hold great promises for elderly assistance. Planning the activities of these systems, however, is not trivial, and requires consideration of issues like temporal and information dependencies among different parts...

We consider configuration planning in a real assistive system that consists of multiple robots embedded in a smart environment. Our configuration plans are fine-grained action plans which specify the causal, temporal, resource and information dependencies between individual sensing, computation, and actuation components. Components reside on-board...

Peccioli, a small medieval town in Italy, became one of the first places in the world where a robot was used (not demonstrated) to carry out a public service in the urban environment (from 15 June 2010 to 7 August 2010). Thirty-five real users accepted to trash their domestic waste using the robot DustCart, a mobile robot designed to collect, trans...

This paper investigates the administrative, criminal and civil aspects of Italian law in order to find out whether and how current legal regulations impact on robot deployment in urban environments. The paper is based on a case study. The objects of this study are two autonomous mobile robots designed to carry out urban hygiene services in pedestri...

This paper presents a sensory-motor coordination scheme for a robot hand-arm-head system that provides the robot with the capability to reach an object while pre-shaping the fingers to the required grasp configuration and while predicting the tactile image that will be perceived after grasping. A model for sensory-motor coordination derived from st...

This paper presents the biomechatronic design and development of an anthropomorphic robotic head able to perform human eye movements as a tool for experimental investigation in neuroscience. This robotic head has been designed upon specifications derived from models of the human head and of human neck and eye movements, in terms of total mass, geom...

In recent years, advances and improvements in engineering and robotics have been strengthening interactions between biological science and robotics in the goal of mimicking the complexity of biological systems. In this paper, motor control paradigms inspired by human mechanisms of sensory-motor coordination are applied to a biologically-inspired, p...

This paper presents the application of a neural approach in the control of a 7-DOF robotic head. The inverse kinematics problem is addressed, for the control of the gaze fixation point of two cameras mounted on the robotic head. The proposed approach is based on a biologically-inspired model, which replicates the human brain capability of creating...

The paper proposes an anticipation mechanism to improve the perception-action loop of robots interacting with real-world environments. According to recent neuroscientific findings, sensory anticipation can increase the effectiveness of perception-action loops and reduce the delays in obtaining the sensory information, especially in case of complex...

The paper proposes an anticipation mechanism to improve the perception-action loop of robots interacting with real-world environments. According to recent neuroscientific findings, sensory anticipation can increase the effectiveness of perception-action loops and reduce the delays in obtaining the sensory information, especially in case of complex...

This paper investigates the problem of controlling an anthropomorphic robot arm with autonomously variable compliance in order to ensure safety in the interaction with humans and, above all, to increase the robot functionality in tasks of physical interaction, performed in co-operation with humans. The research work aims at applications in service...

The development of humanoid robots and their application as personal robots introduce problems related to the interaction of robots with humans and with environments specifically designed for human beings. In tasks where human-robot cooperation is required, compliance of the robot arm can provide a helpful solution, not only to ensure safety, but e...

Personal robotics is widely recognized as a major challenge for current robotics research. Robots assisting humans and closely interacting with them have to meet acceptability requirements which in turn leads one to reconsider the concept of autonomy in robotics. The paper presents an abstract analysis of possible levels of semi-autonomy in persona...

The field of humanoids robotics is widely recognized as the current challenge for robotics research. Developing humanoids poses fascinating problems in the realization of manipulation capability, which is still one of most complex problem in robotics. The paper, starting from an overview of current activities in the development of humanoid robots,...

The development of personal robots dedicated to service tasks, such as the assistance to the disabled and the elderly at home and/or in residential institutions, is certainly one of the most attractive challenges currently being faced by the robotics community world-wide. This paper aims at providing a specific contribution to one of the most inter...

Humanoid robotics is attracting the interest of many research groups world-wide. In particular, developing humanoids requires the implementation of manipulation capabilities, which is still a most complex problem in robotics. This paper presents an overview of current activities in the development of humanoid robots, with special focus on manipulat...

We present a sensory-motor coordination scheme for a robot hand-arm-head system that provides the robot with the capability to reach for and to grasp an object, while pre-shaping the fingers to the required grasp configuration. A model for sensory-motor coordination derived from studies in humans inspired the development of the scheme. A special fe...

In this article, we present a neurobiologically inspired multinetwork architecture based on knowledge of cortico-cortical connectivity and its application on an anthropomorphic head-arm-hand robotic system to provide reach-and-grasp kinematics based on multimodal sensorimotor learning. The system incorporates artificial neural network modules (matc...