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Chiara Passarini’s research focuses on the safety and reliability of cable-driven parallel robots (CDPRs), particularly in human-interactive applications such as rehabilitation and camera systems. Her major contributions center on developing strategies to manage cable failures—a critical safety concern for these lightweight, large-workspace robots. In her most-cited work, “Cable Failure Operation Strategy for a Rehabilitation Cable-Driven Robot” (2019, 38 citations), she proposed a novel after-failure approach that allows a CDPR to continue operating safely despite losing a cable, ensuring user protection in rehabilitation settings. Her earlier paper, “Dynamic Trajectory Planning for Failure Recovery in Cable-Suspended Camera Systems” (2018, 24 citations), extended this concept to camera systems, enabling graceful degradation of performance rather than abrupt shutdown. Passarini’s work is notable for bridging theoretical failure analysis with practical, real-time control solutions, directly addressing a key barrier to deploying CDPRs in homes and clinics. Her cumulative citation impact underscores her role in advancing safe human-robot interaction, making her a leading voice in the growing field of fault-tolerant cable robots.