Edoardo Battaglia

About

Edoardo Battaglia is a leading researcher at the intersection of physical human-robot interaction, haptics, and assistive robotics. His work focuses on making robotic systems more intuitive, responsive, and human-centered, particularly for applications in prosthetics and rehabilitation. Battaglia’s most influential contribution is his comprehensive review on shared control for physical human-robot interaction, which has garnered 372 citations and serves as a foundational reference for researchers designing collaborative robotic systems. He has also made significant advances in haptic feedback for prosthetic users, developing the HapPro wearable device (80 citations) that delivers proprioceptive feedback to improve control and reduce prosthesis abandonment. His research on postural hand synergies (79 citations) reveals how humans exploit environmental constraints during manipulation, informing the design of more dexterous soft robotic hands like the Pisa/IIT SoftHand. Battaglia has also explored reflex control for grasp robustness and proposed a paradigm shift in surgical robotics toward enhancement over full autonomy. With over 700 total citations across his most-cited works, Battaglia continues to shape how robots and humans physically collaborate, bridging engineering, neuroscience, and user-centered design.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   A Review of Intent Detection, Arbitration, and Communication Aspects of Shared Control for Physical Human–Robot Interaction

   372 citations · 2018
2. 2
   HapPro: A Wearable Haptic Device for Proprioceptive Feedback

   80 citations · 2018
3. 3
   Postural Hand Synergies during Environmental Constraint Exploitation

   79 citations · 2017
4. 4
   A Wearable Fabric-based display for haptic multi-cue delivery

   48 citations · 2016
5. 5
   Unvealing the Principal Modes of Human Upper Limb Movements through Functional Analysis

   47 citations · 2017
6. 6
   Rethinking Autonomous Surgery: Focusing on Enhancement over Autonomy

   40 citations · 2021
7. 7
   Reflex control of the Pisa/IIT SoftHand during object slippage

   35 citations · 2016
8. 8
   Touch-Based Grasp Primitives for Soft Hands: Applications to Human-to-Robot Handover Tasks and Beyond

   24 citations · 2018
9. 9
   Design of an under-actuated wrist based on adaptive synergies

   21 citations · 2017
10. 10
    Towards a novel generation of haptic and robotic interfaces: Integrating affective physiology in human-robot interaction

    15 citations · 2016

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