C. Canali
Papers
31
Total Citations
334
H-Index
10
About
C. Canali is a robotics researcher whose work spans two interconnected and highly impactful domains: robotic manipulation and dexterous grippers, and inspection and maintenance robotics for challenging environments. With a body of work accumulating over 250 citations, Canali has made substantial contributions to advancing automation in scenarios where human presence is hazardous or impractical. Early in their career, Canali focused on the design of novel dexterous robotic grippers capable of precise in-hand manipulation — including twisting and repositioning — tailored for high-speed industrial assembly in electronics manufacturing. These contributions, spanning multiple publications between 2014 and 2016, addressed growing demands from high-mix, low-volume manufacturing industries. Canali subsequently pioneered work in hyper-redundant, cable-driven snake-like manipulators, developing optimal cable routing strategies and long-reach designs for confined-space inspection tasks. A standout achievement is the Deep Endoscope system (2018), an autonomous visual inspection tool designed for avionic duct cavities as narrow as 6 mm — a landmark in industrial endoscopic robotics. A 2024 comprehensive literature review on manipulators for inspection and maintenance, already garnering 47 citations, cements Canali's position as a leading voice shaping the future of safe, efficient robotic inspection systems across infrastructure and power generation industries.
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- 3Deep Endoscope: Intelligent Duct Inspection for the Avionic Industry27 citations · 2018
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- 5Reconfigurable inspection robot for industrial applications21 citations · 2019
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- 7A dexterous gripper for in-hand manipulation21 citations · 2016
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- 9High Reconfigurable Robotic Gripper for Flexible Assembly12 citations · 2014
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