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Profile Information

Affiliation: The University of Tokyo
: Research Student, Texas A&M

Degree: PhD(King's College London)
Master in AI and Robotics(La Sapienza University of Rome)

Researcher number: 80847070
J-GLOBAL ID: 201901016064323384
researchmap Member ID: B000355507

External link: https://angela-faragasso.com/

My research interests include the design and creation of new bio-inspired visual-based sensing technologies for assistive-medical robotics, robotic manipulation and autonomous navigation.

Research Interests

Research Areas

Informatics / Mechanics and mechatronics / Development of sensory device for robotics systems

Research History

May, 2019 - Present

Junior co-chair, Technical Committee for Performance Evaluation & Benchmarking of Robotic and Automation Systems (Pebras), IEEE Robotics & Automation Society
Jan, 2018 - Present

Associate editor, IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine (RAM)
Nov, 2018 - Mar, 2019

Post-doctoral research fellow, Department of Precision Engineering, The University of Tokyo
Nov, 2016 - Oct, 2018

JSPS Post-doctoral research fellow, Department of Precision Engineering, The University of Tokyo
Jan, 2016 - Oct, 2016

Research Associate, Centre for Robotics Research, Dept. of Informatics, King's College London
Sep, 2015 - Oct, 2016

Lead Robotics Advisor, Richer Education
Apr, 2014 - Aug, 2016

Reader/ Exam Support for a visually impaired undergraduate student, Dept. of Informatics, King's College London
Apr, 2013 - Jul, 2016

Teaching Assistant for Adaptive and Robotics Systems, First Order Logic, Data Structures, Computer System, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Foundations of Computing, Programming Practice, Elementary Logic with Applications, Sensor and Actuators, Real Time Sy, Dept. of Informatics, King's College London
Jan, 2010 - Aug, 2011

Visiting Research Srudent, Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue (CRASAR), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University

Education

Nov, 2012 - Oct, 2016

PhD in Robotics, Department of Informatics, King’s College London
Jan, 2010 - Jul, 2012

Master in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, The Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering, Antonio Ruberti (DIAG), La Sapienza University of Rome
Sep, 2006 - Nov, 2009

Bachelor in Computer Engineering, The Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, La Sapienza University of Rome

Committee Memberships

Jan, 2018 - Present

Editorial Board, IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine (RAM)

Awards

2016

Diversity Scholarship, ROSCon

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2016

Postdoctoral Fellowship for Overseas Researchers (Standard), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

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2016

CRAS best poster award, Clip-on stiffness sensor for endoscopic cameras retrieving sense of touch in minimally invasive intervention, oint Workshop on New Technologies for Computer/Robot Assisted Surgery (CRAS)

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2015

EPSRC Award, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)

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2010

Scholarships for mobility to Texas A&M University, The Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering, Antonio Ruberti (DIAG)

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PhD Scholarship, STIFFness controllable Flexible and Learnable manipulator for surgical Operations, EU FP7

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Papers

Socially aware robot navigation in crowds via deep reinforcement learning with resilient reward functions

Xiaojun Lu, Hanwool Woo, Angela Faragasso, Atsushi Yamashita, Hajime Asama

Advanced Robotics, 36(8) 388-403, Apr 18, 2022
Camera Orientation Estimation in Leaking Indoor Environment via Vanishing Point of Water Drops

Hao Xu, Ren Komatsu, Hanwool Woo, Angela Faragasso, Atsushi Yamashita, Hajime Asama

2020 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics, SSRR 2020, 176-181, Nov 4, 2020
On the Extinction-Free Stabilization of Predator-Prey Dynamics.

Stefano Massaroli, Federico Califano, Angela Faragasso, Atsushi Yamashita, Hajime Asama

IEEE Control. Syst. Lett., 4(4) 964-969, 2020
Port-Hamiltonian Approach to Neural Network Training.

Stefano Massaroli, Michael Poli, Federico Califano, Angela Faragasso, Jinkyoo Park, Atsushi Yamashita, Hajime Asama

6799-6806, 2019
A Novel Recursive Linear Estimator Based on the Frisch Scheme.

Stefano Massaroli, Renato Miyagusuku, Federico Califano, Angela Faragasso, Atsushi Yamashita, Hajime Asama

1101-1106, 2019
Real-time vision-based stiffness mapping

Angela Faragasso, João Bimbo, Agostino Stilli, Helge Arne Wurdemann, Kaspar Althoefer, Hajime Asama

Sensors (Switzerland), 18(5), May 1, 2018 Peer-reviewed
Combining multi-localization methods for fault diagnosis in autonomous mobile robot systems

Lu X, Faragasso A, Ji Y, Kono H, Yamashita A, Asama H

2017 IEEE International Conference on Real-Time Computing and Robotics, RCAR 2017, 2017-July 200-205, 2018 Peer-reviewed
Disposable Stiffness Sensor for Endoscopic Examination

Faragasso A, Bimbo J.O, Yamashita A, Asama H

Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference, 2018 4309-4312, 2018 Peer-reviewed
Versatile vision-based touch sensor for autonomous robots

Angela Faragasso, Atsushi Yamashita, Hajime Asama

2017 14th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence, URAI 2017, 282-283, Jul 25, 2017 Peer-reviewed
Vision-based maze navigation for humanoid robots

Antonio Paolillo, Angela Faragasso, Giuseppe Oriolo, Marilena Vendittelli

AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS, 41(2) 293-309, Feb, 2017 Peer-reviewed
Tendon-Based Stiffening for a Pneumatically Actuated Soft Manipulator

Shiva A, Stilli A, Noh Y, Faragasso A, Falco I.D, Gerboni G, Cianchetti M, Menciassi A, Althoefer K, Wurdemann H.A

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 1(2) 632-637, Jul, 2016 Peer-reviewed
Non-linear Model for Predicting Tip Position of a Pliable Robot Arm Segment Using Bending Sensor Data

Sklar, E, Sareh, S, Secco, E.L, Faragasso, A, Althoefer, K

Sensors & Transducers, 199(4) 52-61, 2016 Peer-reviewed
Fingertip Proximity Sensor with Realtime Visual-based Calibration

J. Konstantinova, A. Stilli, A. Faragasso, K. Althoefer

2016 IEEE/RSJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT ROBOTS AND SYSTEMS (IROS 2016), 2016-November 170-175, 2016 Peer-reviewed
Embedded electro-conductive yarn for shape sensing of soft robotic manipulators

Helge A. Wurdemann, Sina Sareh, Ali Shafti, Yohan Noh, Angela Faragasso, Damith S. Chathuranga, Hongbin Liu, Shinichi Hirai, Kaspar Althoefer

2015 37TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY (EMBC), 2015-November 8026-8029, 2015 Peer-reviewed
Multi-axis Stiffness Sensing Device for Medical Palpation

A. Faragasso, A. Stilli, J. Bimbo, H. A. Wurdemann, K. Althoefer

2015 IEEE/RSJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT ROBOTS AND SYSTEMS (IROS), 2015-December 2711-2716, 2015 Peer-reviewed
The granular jamming integrated actuator

Allen Jiang, Samson Adejokun, Angela Faragasso, Kaspar Althoefer, Thrishantha Nanayakkara, Prokar Dasgupta

2014 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCED ROBOTICS AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS (ARIS 2014), 12-17, 2014 Peer-reviewed
Novel Uniaxial Force Sensor based on Visual Information for Minimally Invasive Surgery

A. Faragasso, J. Bimbo, Y. Noh, A. Jiang, S. Sareh, H. Liu, T. Nanayakkara, H. A. Wurdemann, K. Althoefer

2014 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION (ICRA), 1405-1410, 2014 Peer-reviewed
Endoscopic Add-on Stiffness Probe for Real-time Soft Surface Characterisation in MIS

A. Faragasso, A. Stilli, J. Bimbo, Y. Noh, H. Liu, T. Nanayakkara, P. Dasgupta, H. A. Wurdemann, K. Althoefer

2014 36TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY (EMBC), 6517-6520, 2014 Peer-reviewed
Bio-Inspired Tactile Sensor Sleeve for Surgical Soft Manipulators

S. Sareh, A. Jiang, A. Faragasso, Y. Noh, T. Nanayakkara, P. Dasgupta, L. D. Seneviratne, H. A. Wurdemann, K. Althoefer

2014 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION (ICRA), 1454-1459, 2014 Peer-reviewed
A Three-Axial Body Force Sensor for Flexible Manipulators

Yohan Noh, Sina Sareh, Jungwhan Back, Helge A. Wurdemann, Tommaso Ranzani, Emanuele Lindo Secco, Angela Faragasso, Hongbin Liu, Kaspar Althoefer

2014 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION (ICRA), 6388-6393, 2014 Peer-reviewed

Books and Other Publications

Antagonistic Actuation Principle for a Silicone-based Soft Manipulator

A. Shiva, A. Stilli, Y. Noh, A. Faragasso, I. De Falco, G. Gerboni, M. Cianchetti, A. Menciassi, K. Althoefer, H.A. Wurdemann (Role: Joint author, Soft and Stiffness-Controllable Robotics Solutions for Minimally Invasive Surgery: The STIFF-FLOP Approach)

River Publishers, 2018

Presentations

Human-Aiding Robotics: open issues and future direction

A.Faragasso, R. Murphy, H.Asama

2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Oct 4, 2018
Vision In the loop

Angela Faragasso

Seminar @ Tongji University, Jun 7, 2018
Combining Odometry and Visual Odometry for Mobile Robot Fault Detection

X.Lu, A. Faragasso, Y.Ji, H.Kono, A. Yamashita, H.Asama

ICRA 2017 workshop IC3 – Industry of the future: Collaborative, Connected, Cognitive. Novel approaches stemming from factory of the future & industry 4.0 initiatives., Oct, 2017
Towards Stiffness Sensors for Minimally Invasive Surgery

Angela Faragasso

ICRA 2017 Workshop on Innovative Haptic Interfaces Emerging from Soft Robotics, Jun 2, 2017 Invited
Towards a novel clip-on sensor for endoscopic cameras using cantilever beam for stiffness computation

A.Faragasso, A. Stilli, J. Bimbo, H.A. Wurdemann, K. Althoefer

The 5th Joint Workshop on Computer/Robot Assisted Surgery (CRAS), May 6, 2016
Visual-Elastic Mechanism for Real-Time Soft Tissue Characterization

A.Faragasso, A. Stilli, J. Bimbo, H.A. Wurdemann, K. Althoefer

Robotics Science and System (RSS), 2015
Mobile Robots

Angela Faragasso

Robotics Competition and Maths School Club, 2014
Surgical Robots

Angela Faragasso

“Robots Live!” at the National Museum of Flight, National Museums Scotland, 2014
Service robots in MIS

Angela Faragasso

SCHUNK Expert Days: Robots with Impact, Hausen, DE, 2014
Bio-inspired robotics in MIS

Angela Faragasso

“Robot SafariEU” (European Robotics Week), Science Museum London, 2013
Modern safe and economic RMIS through bio‐inspiration using haptic feedback & visual servoing

H.A. Wurdemann, A. Faragasso, T.Nanayakkara, L. Seneviratne, K.Althoefer

IEEE ICRA Workshop on Evaluating effectiveness and acceptance of robots in surgery, 2013

Professional Memberships

Research Projects

Novel surgical endoscopic instrument: implementing bird's-eye view in minimally invasive surgery

Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up, The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Oct, 2019 - Apr, 2021

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Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Nov, 2016 - Oct, 2018

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Media Coverage

IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine (RAM)

Jan 1, 2018 Promotional material