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A new paper has been published in the journal of Robotics. The selected article is: Askan Duivon, Pino Kirsch, Boris Mauboussin, Gabriel Mougard, Jakub Woszczyk and Filippo Sanfilippo. The Redesigned Serpens, a Low-Cost, Highly Compliant Snake Robot. Robotics 11(2), 2022. URL, DOI BibTeX I am particularly proud of this work as it is the result of my students' effort. This research is funded by the Department of Mechanical, Electronic and Chemical Engineeri

Today, I delivered an invited talk at the 1st Conference on Policing in Smart Cities. Title: Snake Robots – State-of-the-art. Abstract: Snake robots could enable applications in demanding real-life operations, such as explorations of earthquake-hit areas, pipe inspections, fire-fighting and search-and-rescue (SAR) activities. This talk explores challenges and possibilities.

Dear colleagues, In general, bio-inspired robotics are often regarded as mere biomimicry. However, just as airplanes do not flap their wings like birds and automobiles do not walk like horses, it is not always best to imitate the forms and movements of living creatures in the field of engineering. In other words, Bio-inspired Robotics and Biomimetic Robotics are not the same things. Similar problems exist in snake-like robots, where the initial inspiration may come from living organisms, but

Dear Colleagues, Robotics is progressing at a much faster pace than ever before. This progress is synergistically stimulated by the cross-cutting, transformational effects of artificial intelligence (AI) and intelligent technologies. It is crucial to foster a greater awareness of this co-creation process and to give adequate consideration to societal needs, sustainability perspectives, and accountability. This Special Issue is open to interdisciplinary approaches, and it aims at exhibiting the

A new paper has been accepted for publication in the Proceeding of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2020), Maui, Hawaii, United States of America, January 7-10, 2020. The selected article is: Filippo Sanfilippo, Tuan Hua and Steven Bos, A comparison between a two feedback control loop and a reinforcement learning algorithm for compliant low-cost series elastic actuators, in Proceeding of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 20

A new paper has been accepted for publication to the journal of Applied Sciences. The selected article is: Filippo Sanfilippo, Erlend Helgerud, Per Anders Stadheim and Sondre Lieblein Aronsen. Serpens: A Highly Compliant Low-Cost ROS-Based Snake Robot with Series Elastic Actuators, Stereoscopic Vision and a Screw-Less Assembly Mechanism. In: Applied Sciences 9.3 (2019). issn: 2076-3417. doi: 10.3390/app9030396. url: http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/9/3/396. I thank all my co-author, my students a

A new paper has been accepted for publication in the Proceeding of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), Singapore, November 18-21, 2018. The selected article is: Inaki Rano, Augusto Gómez Eguíluz and Filippo Sanfilippo. Bridging the gap between bio-inspired steering and locomotion: A Braitenberg 3a Snake robot. Accepted for publication in the Proceeding of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision

A new paper has been accepted for publication in Artificial Life and Robotics, Springer. The selected article is: Filippo Sanfilippo, Øyvind Stavdahl and Pål Liljebäck, “ SnakeSIM: a ROS-based Control and Simulation Framework for Perception-Driven Obstacle-Aided Locomotion of Snake Robots,” Artificial Life and Robotics, Springer, 2018, DOI: 10.1007/s10015-018-0458-6.

I had the honor to be part of the delegation of the Department of Engineering Cybernetics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and to participate to the 2nd International Symposium on Swarm Behavior and Bio-Inspired Robotics (SWARM), Kyoto, Japan. I presented the following article: Filippo Sanfilippo, Øyvind Stavdahl and Pål Liljebäck. SnakeSIM: a Snake Robot Simulation Framework for Perception-Driven Obstacle-Aided Locomotion. In Proceeding of the 2nd Internatio

A new paper has been accepted for publication in the Proceeding of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), Macau, China, 2017. The selected article is: Filippo Sanfilippo, Øyvind Stavdahl and Pål Liljebäck. SnakeSIM: a ROS-based Rapid-Prototyping Framework for Perception-Driven Obstacle-Aided Locomotion of Snake Robots. Accepted for publication to the Proceeding of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), Macau, China, 2017.

A new paper has been accepted for publication in the Proceeding of the 2nd International Symposium on Swarm Behavior and Bio-Inspired Robotics (SWARM), Kyoto, Japan, 2017. The selected article is: Filippo Sanfilippo, Øyvind Stavdahl and Pål Liljebäck. SnakeSIM: a Snake Robot Simulation Framework for Perception-Driven Obstacle-Aided Locomotion. Accepted for publication to the Proceeding of the 2nd International Symposium on Swarm Behavior and Bio-Inspired Robotics (SWARM), Kyoto, Japan, 2017.