Davide Piovesan
Gannon University, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Northwestern University
Papers
24
Total Citations
274
H-Index
10
About
Davide Piovesan is a biomedical engineer and roboticist whose research sits at the intersection of motor neuroscience, rehabilitation robotics, and biomechanical modeling. His work focuses primarily on understanding and restoring motor function in stroke survivors, with particular emphasis on arm mechanics, joint impedance estimation, and inter-joint coordination. Piovesan has made significant contributions to quantifying how stroke disrupts movement smoothness and arm stiffness, demonstrating through decomposition of endpoint jerk how neurological deficits impair shoulder-elbow coordination (39 citations). His investigations into arm stiffness during robot-assisted rehabilitation revealed the critical role of visual feedback in helping stroke survivors regulate limb stability (39 citations), while his earlier development of time-frequency methods for estimating joint impedance established a methodological foundation for the field (20 citations). Beyond clinical biomechanics, Piovesan has extended his expertise into vision-based robotic control, including delta parallel robots and low-cost motion capture for ankle stiffness measurement. His finger exoskeleton design and concurrent force-motion control studies further reflect a commitment to translating scientific insight into practical rehabilitation tools. Collectively, his body of work — accumulating nearly 200 citations — has meaningfully advanced both the theoretical understanding of post-stroke motor impairment and the engineering solutions aimed at addressing it.
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