Rosario Sinatra
Papers
17
Total Citations
629
H-Index
12
About
Rosario Sinatra is a leading figure in the field of parallel robotics, with a career dedicated to advancing the design, analysis, and control of high-performance robotic systems. His research spans several key areas, including climbing robots, static balancing, and the elastodynamics of parallel kinematic machines (PKMs). Sinatra’s most influential work, the 2002 paper on a low-cost, lightweight climbing robot for vertical surface inspection, has garnered 155 citations, establishing a foundation for practical inspection robotics. He is also renowned for his contributions to the static balancing of parallel robots (136 citations) and the development of the hybrid robot Wheeleg (81 citations), which integrates wheeled and legged locomotion. A major contribution is his algorithm for studying the elastodynamics of PKMs, enabling designers to integrate structural analysis with kinematic optimization in a unified framework—a tool that has been widely adopted. Sinatra’s work on the Agile Eye spherical parallel robot, addressing manufacturing errors in inverse kinematics, and his design of a spherical micromechanism with flexure hinges for miniaturized wrists, showcase his versatility. With over 500 total citations, Sinatra’s research continues to influence both theoretical advances and practical applications in robotics.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1A low-cost lightweight climbing robot for the inspection of vertical surfaces155 citations · 2002
- 2Static balancing of parallel robots136 citations · 2004
- 3Kinematics, dynamics and control of a hybrid robot Wheeleg81 citations · 2003
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- 5Elastodynamic optimization of a 3T1R parallel manipulator39 citations · 2013
- 6Analysis and Design of a Spherical Micromechanism With Flexure Hinges31 citations · 2009
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- 9Lower-Mobility Parallel Robots: Theory and Applications17 citations · 2010
- 10On the Elastostatics of Spherical Parallel Machines with Curved Links17 citations · 2015