Riccardo Cassinis

About

Riccardo Cassinis is a versatile researcher whose work spans autonomous mobile robotics, human-robot interaction, and surgical robotics. Based at the University of Brescia, Cassinis has made lasting contributions across several decades of robotics research, pioneering foundational work in behavioral model architectures for intelligent robots as far back as 1987 — long before the field reached mainstream prominence. His early investigations into robot self-localization using omnidirectional color images and biologically-inspired visual homing methods helped shape modern approaches to autonomous navigation. Cassinis also tackled practical deployment challenges, developing reliable docking and charging systems for mobile robots and addressing wireless networking for roaming platforms, work that remains relevant in today's service robotics landscape. His interdisciplinary reach extends into humanitarian robotics, exploring swarm-based landmine detection, and even into art, with an emotionally evocative animated artwork designed to emulate the experience of landmine survivors. More recently, Cassinis contributed to surgical robotics, co-developing the Brescia Endoscope Assistant Robotic Holder for transnasal skull base surgery — his most cited work, with 44 citations. Collectively, his publications reflect a career defined by creative problem-solving at the intersection of robotics, medicine, and human experience.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Robotic Transnasal Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery: Systematic Review of the Literature and Report of a Novel Prototype for a Hybrid System (Brescia Endoscope Assistant Robotic Holder)

   44 citations · 2017
2. 2
   Docking and Charging System for Autonomous Mobile Robots

   36 citations · 2005
3. 3
   A robot self-localization system based on omnidirectional color images

   17 citations · 2001
4. 4
   Landmines Detection Methods Using Swarms of Simple Robots

   15 citations · 2000
5. 5
   Robotics in endoscopic transnasal skull base surgery: Literature review and personal experience

   9 citations · 2020
6. 6
   EMULATION OF HUMAN FEELINGS AND BEHAVIORS IN AN ANIMATED ARTWORK

   8 citations · 2007
7. 7
   A biologically-inspired visual homing method for robots

   6 citations · 1998
8. 8
   Design Issues for a Robocup Goalkeeper

   4 citations · 2000
9. 9
   Wireless Network Issues for a Roaming Robot

   4 citations · 2005
10. 10
    Behavioral Model Architectures: A New Way Of Doing Real-Time Planning In Intelligent Robots

    4 citations · 1987

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