Alessandro Marino

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Alessandro Marino is a prominent robotics researcher whose work spans cooperative manipulation, multi-robot systems, and fault detection — fields where his contributions have profoundly shaped modern autonomous systems research. His landmark 2008 paper on six-DOF impedance control of dual-arm cooperative manipulators, now with over 270 citations, established foundational frameworks for coordinating robotic arms in complex manipulation tasks. This work reflects his deep expertise in control theory applied to physically coupled robotic systems. Marino has made equally significant strides in decentralized multi-robot coordination. His 2014 study on time-varying formation control introduced a distributed observer-controller architecture that has influenced over 150 subsequent works, while his 2015 research on networked fault detection and isolation demonstrated how robotic teams can autonomously diagnose failures without centralized supervision. His 2017 paper on adaptive control of cooperative mobile manipulators extended these ideas to systems operating with incomplete state information. Beyond classical manipulation, Marino has ventured into emerging challenges, including bimanual cloth manipulation benchmarking — a timely contribution that earned over 75 citations — and perimeter patrolling algorithms for autonomous robot teams. With a cumulative citation count exceeding 880 across diverse topics, his research consistently bridges rigorous theoretical foundations with compelling real-world applications in collaborative and autonomous robotics.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Six-DOF Impedance Control of Dual-Arm Cooperative Manipulators

   274 citations · 2008
2. 2
   Decentralized time-varying formation control for multi-robot systems

   157 citations · 2014
3. 3
   Observer-Based Decentralized Fault Detection and Isolation Strategy for Networked Multirobot Systems

   90 citations · 2015
4. 4
   Distributed Adaptive Control of Networked Cooperative Mobile Manipulators

   90 citations · 2017
5. 5
   Behavioral control for multi-robot perimeter patrol: A Finite State Automata approach

   87 citations · 2009
6. 6
   Benchmarking Bimanual Cloth Manipulation

   76 citations · 2020
7. 7
   A Decentralized Architecture for Multi-Robot Systems Based on the Null-Space-Behavioral Control with Application to Multi-Robot Border Patrolling

   73 citations · 2012
8. 8
   Discrete-Time Framework for Fault Diagnosis in Robotic Manipulators

   57 citations · 2012
9. 9
   A two stage approach for distributed cooperative manipulation of an unknown object without explicit communication and unknown number of robots

   47 citations · 2018
10. 10
    Simultaneous calibration of odometry and camera for a differential drive mobile robot

    33 citations · 2010

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