Research

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Hybrid Tendon and Ball Chain Continuum Robots for Enhanced Dexterity in Medical Interventions
Hybrid Tendon and Ball Chain Continuum Robots for Enhanced Dexterity in Medical Interventions
Giovanni Pittiglio, Margherita Mencattelli, Abdulhamit Donder, Yash Chitalia, Pierre E. Dupont
2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)  ·  01 Oct 2023  ·  doi:10.1109/IROS55552.2023.10341686
Magnetic ball chain robots for cardiac interventions.
Personalized magnetic tentacles for targeted photothermal cancer therapy in peripheral lungs
Personalized magnetic tentacles for targeted photothermal cancer therapy in peripheral lungs
Giovanni Pittiglio, James H. Chandler, Tomas da Veiga, Zaneta Koszowska, Michael Brockdorff, …, Katie L. Barry, Russell A. Harris, James McLaughlan, Cecilia Pompili, Pietro Valdastri
Communications Engineering  ·  27 Jul 2023  ·  doi:10.1038/s44172-023-00098-9
Robot navigation and design based on pre-operative imaging.
Collaborative Magnetic Manipulation via Two Robotically Actuated Permanent Magnets
Collaborative Magnetic Manipulation via Two Robotically Actuated Permanent Magnets
Giovanni Pittiglio, Michael Brockdorff, Tomas da Veiga, Joshua Davy, James Henry Chandler, Pietro Valdastri
IEEE Transactions on Robotics  ·  01 Apr 2023  ·  doi:10.1109/TRO.2022.3209038
Dexterous magnetic manipulation using robotically-acuated permanent magnets.

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2024

Hybrid trajectory planning of two permanent magnets for medical robotic applications
Michael Brockdorff, Tomas da Veiga, Joshua Davy, Peter Lloyd, James H Chandler, Giovanni Pittiglio, Ryan K Mathew, Pietro Valdastri
The International Journal of Robotics Research  ·  23 Jul 2024  ·  doi:10.1177/02783649241264844
Breathing Compensation in Magnetic Robotic Bronchoscopy via Shape Forming
Nikita Murasovs, Vittorio Francescon, Peter Lloyd, Michele Di Lecce, Damith S. Chathuranga, Giovanni Pittiglio, Onaizah Onaizah, James H. Chandler, Pietro Valdastri
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters  ·  01 Jan 2024  ·  doi:10.1109/LRA.2024.3426385

2023

Hybrid Tendon and Ball Chain Continuum Robots for Enhanced Dexterity in Medical Interventions
Giovanni Pittiglio, Margherita Mencattelli, Abdulhamit Donder, Yash Chitalia, Pierre E. Dupont
2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)  ·  01 Oct 2023  ·  doi:10.1109/IROS55552.2023.10341686
Personalized magnetic tentacles for targeted photothermal cancer therapy in peripheral lungs
Giovanni Pittiglio, James H. Chandler, Tomas da Veiga, Zaneta Koszowska, Michael Brockdorff, …, Katie L. Barry, Russell A. Harris, James McLaughlan, Cecilia Pompili, Pietro Valdastri
Communications Engineering  ·  27 Jul 2023  ·  doi:10.1038/s44172-023-00098-9
Closed Loop Static Control of Multi-Magnet Soft Continuum Robots
Giovanni Pittiglio, Andrew L. Orekhov, Tomas da Veiga, Simone Calò, James H. Chandler, Nabil Simaan, Pietro Valdastri
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters  ·  01 Jul 2023  ·  doi:10.1109/LRA.2023.3274431
Six-Degree-of-Freedom Localization Under Multiple Permanent Magnets Actuation
Tomás da Veiga, Giovanni Pittiglio, Michael Brockdorff, James H. Chandler, Pietro Valdastri
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters  ·  01 Jun 2023  ·  doi:10.1109/LRA.2023.3268588
A Magnetically-Actuated Coiling Soft Robot With Variable Stiffness
Peter Lloyd, Theodosia Lourdes Thomas, Venkatasubramanian Kalpathy Venkiteswaran, Giovanni Pittiglio, James H. Chandler, Pietro Valdastri, Sarthak Misra
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters  ·  01 Jun 2023  ·  doi:10.1109/LRA.2023.3264770
Collaborative Magnetic Manipulation via Two Robotically Actuated Permanent Magnets
Giovanni Pittiglio, Michael Brockdorff, Tomas da Veiga, Joshua Davy, James Henry Chandler, Pietro Valdastri
IEEE Transactions on Robotics  ·  01 Apr 2023  ·  doi:10.1109/TRO.2022.3209038

2022

Patient-Specific Magnetic Catheters for Atraumatic Autonomous Endoscopy
Giovanni Pittiglio, Peter Lloyd, Tomas da Veiga, Onaizah Onaizah, Cecilia Pompili, James H. Chandler, Pietro Valdastri
Soft Robotics  ·  01 Dec 2022  ·  doi:10.1089/soro.2021.0090
Magnetic Soft Continuum Robots With Braided Reinforcement
Peter Lloyd, Onaizah Onaizah, Giovanni Pittiglio, Damith Katudampe Vithanage, James H. Chandler, Pietro Valdastri
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters  ·  01 Oct 2022  ·  doi:10.1109/LRA.2022.3191552

2021

On the Observability and Observer Design on the Special Orthogonal Group Based on Partial Inertial Sensing
Giovanni Pittiglio, Simone Calo, Pietro Valdastri
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control  ·  01 Oct 2021  ·  doi:10.1109/TAC.2020.3047553

2020

Challenges of continuum robots in clinical context: a review
Tomas da Veiga, James H Chandler, Peter Lloyd, Giovanni Pittiglio, Nathan J Wilkinson, Ali K Hoshiar, Russell A Harris, Pietro Valdastri
Progress in Biomedical Engineering  ·  03 Aug 2020  ·  doi:10.1088/2516-1091/ab9f41

2019

Adaptive Dynamic Control for Magnetically Actuated Medical Robots
Lavinia Barducci, Giovanni Pittiglio, Joseph C. Norton, Keith L. Obstein, Pietro Valdastri
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters  ·  01 Oct 2019  ·  doi:10.1109/LRA.2019.2928761
Magnetic Levitation for Soft-Tethered Capsule Colonoscopy Actuated With a Single Permanent Magnet: A Dynamic Control Approach
Giovanni Pittiglio, Lavinia Barducci, James W. Martin, Joseph C. Norton, Carlo A. Avizzano, Keith L. Obstein, Pietro Valdastri
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters  ·  01 Apr 2019  ·  doi:10.1109/lra.2019.2894907

2018

Dynamic Control of Cable Driven Parallel Robots with Unknown Cable Stiffness: a Joint Space Approach
Giovanni Pittiglio, Alexandros Kogkas, Joric Oude Vrielink, George Mylonas
2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)  ·  01 May 2018  ·  doi:10.1109/icra.2018.8460822

2016

Design, Realization and Experimental Evaluation of a Haptic Stick for Shared Control Studies
Lorenzo Pollini, Matteo Razzanelli, Mario Olivari, Alessandro Brandimarti, Michele Maimeri, Paolo Pazzaglia, Giovanni Pittiglio, Roger Nuti, Mario Innocenti, Heinrich Bülthoff
IFAC-PapersOnLine  ·  01 Jan 2016  ·  doi:10.1016/j.ifacol.2016.10.465