Novel design of a soft lightweight pneumatic continuum robot arm with decoupled variable stiffness and positioning (2017)
Journal Article
Giannaccini, M., Xiang, C., Atyabi, A., Theodoridis, T., Nefti-Meziani, S., & Davis, S. (2018). Novel design of a soft lightweight pneumatic continuum robot arm with decoupled variable stiffness and positioning. Soft Robotics, 5(1), 54-70. https://doi.org/10.1089/soro.2016.0066

Soft robot arms possess unique capabilities when it comes to adaptability, flexibility and dexterity. In addition, soft systems that are pneumatically actuated can claim high power to weight ratio. One of the main drawbacks of pneumatically actuated... Read More about Novel design of a soft lightweight pneumatic continuum robot arm with decoupled variable stiffness and positioning.

Applications of computational intelligence to robotics and autonomous systems (2016)
Book Chapter
autonomous systems. In P. Angelov (Ed.), Handbook on Computational Intelligence (821-863). World Scientific. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814675017_0025

This chapter discusses the application of computational intelligence in the field of autonomous mobile robotics. The chapter is focused on basic concepts of computational intelligence in robotic domain with an emphasis on essential aspects of navigat... Read More about Applications of computational intelligence to robotics and autonomous systems.

Predicting the valence of a scene from observers’ eye movements (2015)
Journal Article
observers’ eye movements. PLoS ONE, 10(9), e0138198. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0138198

Multimedia analysis benefits from understanding the emotional content of a scene in a variety of tasks such as video genre classification and content-based image retrieval. Recently, there has been an increasing interest in applying human bio-signals... Read More about Predicting the valence of a scene from observers’ eye movements.