Marco Costanzo

About

Marco Costanzo is a robotics researcher whose work spans human-robot collaboration, tactile sensing, and dexterous manipulation — areas that sit at the intersection of safety-critical automation and advanced robotic perception. His research addresses some of the most pressing challenges in modern robotics: enabling robots to work safely alongside humans and interact intelligently with objects in unstructured environments. Costanzo has made particularly significant contributions to collaborative robotics safety, developing multimodal approaches to dynamic speed control in shared workcells — work that has garnered 75 citations and found direct application in aerospace manufacturing contexts. His parallel investigation into handover control (47 citations) and retail automation demonstrates a commitment to translating research into practical, real-world scenarios. A distinguishing thread throughout his portfolio is tactile sensing. His force/tactile sensor design and calibration work (44 citations) has provided the robotics community with reproducible hardware capable of mimicking human touch, enabling downstream advances in slip detection, object pivoting control, and grasp manipulation with parallel grippers. Collectively, his publications have accumulated over 300 citations, reflecting sustained impact across both industrial and service robotics communities. Costanzo's research ultimately advances a vision of robots that are not merely powerful, but genuinely safe, perceptive, and collaborative partners.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   A Multimodal Approach to Human Safety in Collaborative Robotic Workcells

   75 citations · 2021
2. 2
   Handover Control for Human-Robot and Robot-Robot Collaboration

   47 citations · 2021
3. 3
   Design and Calibration of a Force/Tactile Sensor for Dexterous Manipulation

   44 citations · 2019
4. 4
   Control of robotic object pivoting based on tactile sensing

   34 citations · 2021
5. 5
   Tactile Sensors for Parallel Grippers: Design and Characterization

   28 citations · 2021
6. 6
   Can Robots Refill a Supermarket Shelf?: Motion Planning and Grasp Control

   20 citations · 2021
7. 7
   A Multimodal Perception System for Detection of Human Operators in Robotic Work Cells

   15 citations · 2019
8. 8
   Modeling and slipping control of a planar slider

   15 citations · 2020
9. 9
   A Fuzzy Inference Approach to Control Robot Speed in Human-robot Shared Workspaces

   11 citations · 2019
10. 10
    Grasp Control for Enhancing Dexterity of Parallel Grippers

    11 citations · 2020

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