Papers
8
Total Citations
72
H-Index
6
About
Angelo Gentile is a pioneering roboticist whose work bridges the gap between rugged mobile robotics and precision agriculture. His research focuses on rough-terrain traversability, agricultural automation, and robot perception, with a particular emphasis on cylindrical and skid-steering vehicle designs. Gentile’s most influential contribution, "Rough-terrain traversability for a cylindrical shaped mobile robot" (15 citations), established foundational methods for controlling mini-robots in challenging environments like planetary exploration and military reconnaissance. He further advanced agricultural robotics through his work on a pneumatic robotic arm for automatic harvesting (10 citations), integrating vision-based localization to handle delicate crops like red radicchio. His later research on survey and navigation in agricultural settings (9 citations) demonstrated how intelligent farming units can monitor plant health and terrain conditions, reducing labor costs. Gentile also made notable contributions to robot dynamics, including a study on the inertial tensor measurement (14 citations) and an analysis of wheel-road contact behavior in mobile robots (9 citations). His work on visual and tactile terrain analysis (8 citations) and low-cost 3D laser rangefinders (3 citations) underscores his commitment to practical, deployable solutions. With a career spanning over two decades, Gentile has consistently advanced autonomous systems for real-world applications.
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Top Papers
- 1Rough-terrain traversability for a cylindrical shaped mobile robot15 citations · 2004
- 2Measurement of the inertia tensor: An experimental proposal14 citations · 1995
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- 7Robotics for Agricultural Systems4 citations · 2007
- 8Mobile robot perception using an inexpensive 3-D laser rangefinder3 citations · 2010