Rocco Antonio Romeo
Italian Institute of Technology, Università Campus Bio-Medico
Papers
15
Total Citations
324
H-Index
8
About
Rocco Antonio Romeo is a robotics researcher specializing in tactile sensing, slip detection, and robotic grasping, with a particular focus on bridging the gap between human dexterous manipulation and artificial systems. His most influential contribution, a comprehensive survey on slip detection methods and sensors in robotics (2020, 106 citations), established him as a leading voice in the field, systematically cataloguing the state of the art in robotic tactile perception. Romeo has made significant strides in developing and applying piezoresistive and fiber Bragg grating-based tactile sensors, demonstrating their utility for force coding and slippage identification across naturalistic surfaces using advanced signal processing techniques such as wavelet transforms and neural networks. His work extends meaningfully into prosthetics, where he has designed control architectures enabling prosthetic hands to autonomously detect and respond to slip events, greatly enhancing functionality for amputees. More recently, Romeo has broadened his scope to pneumatic gripper control and published a review of robotic gripper control methodologies (2023), reflecting his growing interest in industrial automation. With over 300 cumulative citations, his research consistently addresses real-world challenges at the intersection of sensing, control, and human-inspired robotics.
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Top Papers
- 1Methods and Sensors for Slip Detection in Robotics: A Survey106 citations · 2020
- 2Slippage Detection with Piezoresistive Tactile Sensors52 citations · 2017
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- 7Control Methodologies for Robotic Grippers: A Review13 citations · 2023
- 8Dynamic Control of a Rigid Pneumatic Gripper11 citations · 2020
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