Publications

2005

A. Bicchi, Raugi, M., Rizzo, R., and Sgambelluri, N., “Analysis and Design of an Electromagnetic System for the Characterization of Magneto-Rheological Fluids for Haptic Interfaces”, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 41, pp. 1876 - 1879, 2005.

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D. Dente, Scilingo, E. P., Sgambelluri, N., and Bicchi, A., “Does Active Exploration Suppress Tactile Flow Perception?”, in Proc. First World Haptics Conference, 2005, pp. 660-661.

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A. Bicchi and Scilingo, E. P., “Flusso tattile ed illusione sensoriale”, in SINC, Congresso nazionale della Societ, Roma, Italy, 2005, pp. 245-249.

P. Pietrini, Ricciardi, E., Gentili, C., Bonino, D., Vanello, N., Sani, L., Danti, S., Guazzelli, M., Bicchi, A., and Vecchi, T. E., “Oltre le immagini sensoriali: la rappresentazione degli oggetti nella via visiva ventrale”, Neurological Sciences, vol. 26, pp. S81–S83, 2005.

E. P. Scilingo, Ricciardi, E., Pietrini, P., and Bicchi, A., “Optic and tactile flow: does a supramodal response exist?”, in International multisensory research forum, 6th Annual meeting, Rovereto, Italy, 2005.

A. Bicchi, Dente, D., Scilingo, E. P., and Sgambelluri, N., “Perceptual Bias in Tactile Flow”, in Proc. First World Haptics Conference, 2005, pp. 17-20.

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E. Ricciardi, Sani, L., Gentili, C., Vanello, N., Haxby, J. V., Landini, L., Bicchi, A., and Pietrini, P., “Supramodal response of human MT+ complex to visual and tactile perception of flow as demonstrated by fMRI studies in sighted and congenitally blind individuals”, in 11th annual meeting of the organization for Human Brain Mapping, 2005, vol. 1, pp. 129-129.

A. Bicchi, Scilingo, E. P., Dente, D., and Sgambelluri, N., “Tactile Flow and Haptic Discrimination of Softness”, in Multi-point Interaction with Real and Virtual Objects, F. Barbagli, Prattichizzo, D., and Salisbury, K., Eds. Springer Verlag, 2005, pp. 165-176.

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2004

N. Sgambelluri, Rizzo, R., Scilingo, E. P., Raugi, M., and Bicchi, A., “Analysis and Design of a New Haptic Box Display Based on Magneto-Rheological Fluids”, in Proc. Int. Conf. Eurohaptics 2004, Munich, Germany, 2004, pp. 442-445.

A. Bicchi, Raugi, M., Rizzo, R., and Sgambelluri, N., “Analysis and Design of an Electromagnetic System for the Characterization of Magneto-Rheological Fluids for Haptic Interfaces”, in Proc. 11th Biennial IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation (CEFC 2004)., Seoul, Korea, 2004.

V. Hartwig, Vanello, N., Gassert, R., Chapuis, D., Santarelli, M. F., Positano, V., Ricciardi, E., Pietrini, P., Landini, L., and Bicchi, A., “A compatibility test for tactile displays designed for fMRI studies.”, in Proceedings of the EuroHaptics 2004 (Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany June 5-7, 2004), 2004, pp. 456-458.

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D. Dente, Pisani, A., Scilingo, E. P., and Bicchi, A., “Integration of Tactile Flow from Multi-Finger and Multi-Dimensional Information”, in Proceedings of the EuroHaptics 2004 (Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany June 5-7, 2004), 2004, pp. 282-289.

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N. Vanello, Ricciardi, E., Dente, D., Sgambelluri, N., Scilingo, E. P., Gentili, C., Sani, L., Positano, V., Santarelli, M. F., Guazzelli, M., Haxby, J. V., Landini, L., Bicchi, A., and Pietrini, P., “Perception of Optic and Tactile Flow Both Activate V5/MT cortical complex in the human brain”, in 10th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, 2004.

E. Ricciardi, Vanello, N., Dente, D., Sgambelluri, N., Scilingo, E. P., Gentili, C., Sani, L., Positano, V., Santarelli, M. F., Guazzelli, M., Haxby, J. V., Landini, L., Bicchi, A., and Pietrini, P., “Perception of visual and tactile flow activates common cortical areas in the human brain.”, in Proceedings of the EuroHaptics 2004 (Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany June 5-7, 2004), 2004, pp. 290-292.

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2003

E. P. Scilingo, Sgambelluri, N., De Rossi, D., and Bicchi, A., “Haptic Displays Based on Magnetorheological Fluids: Design, Realization and Psychophysical Validation”, in Proc. 11th Symp. on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, 2003, pp. 10–15.

A. Bicchi, Dente, D., and Scilingo, E. P., “Haptic Illusions Induced by Tactile Flow”, in EuroHaptics Conference, 2003, pp. 2412-2417.

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E. P. Scilingo, Sgambelluri, N., De Rossi, D., and Bicchi, A., “Towards a Haptic Black Box: Magnetorheological fluid based display for softness and shape discrimination”, in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Taipei, Taiwan, 2003, pp. 2412-2417.

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2002

D. Prattichizzo and Bicchi, A., “Grasp Control: a General Manipulation System Approach”, in Proc. Int. Works. Towards Intelligent Robotic Manipulation, Lausanne, 2002.

A. Bicchi, Scilingo, E. P., Sgambelluri, N., and De Rossi, D., “Haptic Interfaces Based on Magnetorheological Fluids”, in Proc.2th Int. Conf. Eurohaptics 2002, 2002, pp. 6-11.

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2001

E. P. Scilingo, Bicchi, A., and De Rossi, D., “Haptic devices for minimally invasive surgery”, in Proc. Int. Worksh. on Electroactive Polymers and Biosystems, Lucca, Italy, 2001, pp. 194-198.

A. Bicchi, “Machine hand design for dexterity, robustness of grasp, and interaction with humans”. 2001.

A. Bicchi, Pallottino, L., Bray, M., and Perdomi, P., “Randomized parallel simulation of constrained multibody systems for VR/haptic applications”, in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, 2001, vol. 3, pp. 2319-2324.

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A. Bicchi and Kumar, V., “Robotic Grasping and Manipulation”, in Ramsete: Articulated and mobile robots for services and Technology, vol. 270, S. Nicosia, Siciliano, B., Bicchi, A., and Valigi, P., Eds. Berlin Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 2001, pp. 55-74.

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A. Bicchi and Kumar, V., “Robotic Grasping and Manipulation”, in Ramsete: Articulated and mobile robots for services and Technology, vol. 270, S. Nicosia, Siciliano, B., Bicchi, A., and Valigi, P., Eds. Berlin Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 2001, pp. 55-74.

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E. P. Scilingo and Bicchi, A., “Tactile Flow: Does it exist, is it useful and how?”, in Proc. Int. Worksh. on Electroactive Polymers and Biosystems, Lucca, Italy, 2001, p. 142.

2000

A. Bicchi and Prattichizzo, D., “Analysis and Optimization of Tendinous Actuation for Biomorphically Designed Robotic Systems”, Robotica, vol. 18, pp. 23-31, 2000.

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A. Bicchi, Scilingo, E. P., and De Rossi, D., “Experimental Validation of a Psychophysical Conjecture on a Simplified Model of the Haptic Perceptual Channel”, in Robotics Research IX, Springer-Verlag, 2000.

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A. Bicchi, “Hands for Dextrous Manipulation and Robust Grasping: a Difficult Road Towards Simplicity”, IEEE Trans. on Robotics and Automation, vol. 16, pp. 652-662, 2000.

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A. Bicchi, De Rossi, D., and Scilingo, E. P., “Haptic discrimination of softness in teleoperation: the role of the contact area spread rate”, IEEE Trans. on Robotics and Automation, vol. 16, pp. 496-504, 2000.

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E. P. Scilingo, Bicchi, A., De Rossi, D., and Scotto, A., “A magnetorheological fluid as a haptic display to replicate perceived compliance of biological tissues”, in Proc. IEEE-EMBS Conference on Microtechnologies in Medicine and Biology, Lyon, France, 2000, pp. 229-233.