Giancarlo Santamato
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7
Total Citations
42
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About
Giancarlo Santamato is a robotics researcher whose work bridges the gap between human-machine interaction and industrial inspection. His primary research areas include teleoperation systems, tactile feedback, and structural health monitoring for railway infrastructure. Santamato’s most notable contribution is the development of a mechanical hand-tracking system with tactile feedback, designed to enhance fine manipulation in teleoperation scenarios—a breakthrough that addresses the limitations of vision-based tracking and data gloves (17 citations). He also contributed to the ANA Avatar XPRIZE challenge, creating an avatar platform for social telepresence that enables full perception of physical interaction, pushing the boundaries of remote connectivity (6 citations). In the railway domain, Santamato has pioneered lightweight robotic devices for pantograph inspection, employing micro-macro actuation concepts and nonlinearity tests to detect early structural damages. His work on frequency-domain damage diagnosis has advanced maintenance safety in the railway industry (5 citations). With a portfolio spanning telemanipulation, avatar systems, and industrial robotics, Santamato’s research demonstrates a commitment to making remote interaction more intuitive and infrastructure monitoring more reliable.
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- 6A Lightweight Robotic Device for the Inspection of Railway Pantograph3 citations · 2019
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