Francesco Stella

How can LLMs transform the robotic design process?

Francesco Stella, Cosimo Della Santina, Josie Hughes · Nature Machine Intelligence · 2023 · 47 citations · Full text

Engineering, Robotic Process Automation, Automation +3

Trimmed helicoids: an architectured soft structure yielding soft robots with high precision, large workspace, and compliant interactions

Qinghua Guan, Francesco Stella, Cosimo Della Santina et al. · npj Robotics · 2023 · 43 citations · Full text

Robot Kinematics, Engineering, Architectured Soft Structure +22

An Experimental Validation of the Polynomial Curvature Model: Identification and Optimal Control of a Soft Underwater Tentacle

Francesco Stella, Nana Obayashi, Cosimo Della Santina et al. · IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2022 · 28 citations · Full text

Hydroelasticity, Engineering, Fluid Mechanics +26

Piecewise Affine Curvature model: a Reduced-Order Model for Soft Robot-Environment Interaction Beyond PCC

Francesco Stella, Qinghua Guan, Cosimo Della Santina et al. · 2023 · 21 citations · Full text

Robot Kinematics, Engineering, Mechanical Engineering +17

Prescribing Cartesian Stiffness of Soft Robots by Co-Optimization of Shape and Segment-Level Stiffness

Francesco Stella, Josie Hughes, Daniela Rus et al. · Soft Robotics · 2023 · 20 citations · Full text

Robot Kinematics, Robotic Systems, Engineering +24