Cosimo Della Santina

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
125 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Cosimo Della Santina is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Cosimo Della Santina has authored 125 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 88 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 67 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 32 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in Cosimo Della Santina's work include Soft Robotics and Applications (61 papers), Robot Manipulation and Learning (44 papers) and Micro and Nano Robotics (32 papers). Cosimo Della Santina is often cited by papers focused on Soft Robotics and Applications (61 papers), Robot Manipulation and Learning (44 papers) and Micro and Nano Robotics (32 papers). Cosimo Della Santina collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Italy and Germany. Cosimo Della Santina's co-authors include Daniela Rus, Antonio Bicchi, Robert K. Katzschmann, Manuel G. Catalano, Giorgio Grioli, Ryan L. Truby, Christian Duriez, Cristina Piazza, Matteo Bianchi and Manolo Garabini and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.

In The Last Decade

Cosimo Della Santina

114 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Model-Based Control of Soft Robots: A Survey of the State of the Art and Open Challenges

2023 194 citations Cosimo Della Santina, Daniela Rus et al. profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Cosimo Della Santina Netherlands	25	2.1k	1.4k	888	453	239	125	2.7k
Helge Würdemann United Kingdom	28	1.6k 0.7×	916 0.7×	573 0.6×	339 0.7×	241 1.0×	107	2.4k
Egidio Falotico Italy	19	1.6k 0.7×	956 0.7×	657 0.7×	336 0.7×	259 1.1×	102	2.1k
Thrishantha Nanayakkara United Kingdom	28	2.2k 1.0×	1.0k 0.7×	770 0.9×	323 0.7×	711 3.0×	146	3.0k
Deepak Trivedi United States	9	2.1k 1.0×	905 0.6×	1.0k 1.1×	579 1.3×	111 0.5×	21	2.4k
Rongjie Kang China	22	1.3k 0.6×	830 0.6×	718 0.8×	243 0.5×	97 0.4×	88	2.1k
Federico Renda United Arab Emirates	30	2.7k 1.3×	1.6k 1.1×	1.3k 1.5×	782 1.7×	86 0.4×	89	3.2k
Gen Endo Japan	28	2.3k 1.1×	1.2k 0.8×	810 0.9×	124 0.3×	156 0.7×	219	2.9k
Dan O. Popa United States	24	907 0.4×	814 0.6×	515 0.6×	116 0.3×	258 1.1×	179	2.3k
Josie Hughes Switzerland	21	1.2k 0.6×	578 0.4×	614 0.7×	230 0.5×	224 0.9×	117	1.8k
Kok-Meng Lee United States	32	1.1k 0.5×	1.2k 0.9×	979 1.1×	183 0.4×	98 0.4×	224	3.3k

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Shao, Xiangyu, et al.. (2025). Self-Attention Enhanced Dynamics Learning and Adaptive Fractional-Order Control for Continuum Soft Robots With System Uncertainties. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. 22. 18694–18708.

Wu, Di, Qinghua Guan, David Hardman, et al.. (2025). A Survey on Soft Robot Adaptability: Implementations, Applications, and Prospects [Survey]. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. 2–14. 2 indexed citations

Ribeiro, Lucas N., et al.. (2025). Singular-Perturbation Control of a Tendon-Driven Soft Robot: Theory and Experiments. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. 33(5). 1929–1936.

Santina, Cosimo Della, et al.. (2025). Exciting families of passive gaits in an elastic quadruped via natural motion manifold control. The International Journal of Robotics Research. 45(2). 233–258.

Piazza, Cristina, Cosimo Della Santina, Giorgio Grioli, Antonio Bicchi, & Manuel G. Catalano. (2024). Analytical Model and Experimental Testing of the SoftFoot: An Adaptive Robot Foot for Walking Over Obstacles and Irregular Terrains. IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 40. 3290–3305. 5 indexed citations

Kober, Jens, et al.. (2024). Quadrupedal Locomotion With Parallel Compliance: E-Go Design, Modeling, and Control. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. 29(4). 2839–2848. 3 indexed citations

Santina, Cosimo Della, et al.. (2024). Modeling and Control of Intrinsically Elasticity Coupled Soft-Rigid Robots. 14995–15001. 1 indexed citations

Santina, Cosimo Della, et al.. (2024). Model and Control of R-Soft Inverted Pendulum. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 9(6). 5102–5109. 2 indexed citations

Guan, Qinghua, et al.. (2023). Trimmed helicoids: an architectured soft structure yielding soft robots with high precision, large workspace, and compliant interactions. 1(1). 20 indexed citations

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Santina, Cosimo Della, et al.. (2023). Forecasting infections with spatio-temporal graph neural networks: a case study of the Dutch SARS-CoV-2 spread. Frontiers in Physics. 11. 2 indexed citations

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Bacciu, Davide, et al.. (2023). Neural Autoencoder-Based Structure-Preserving Model Order Reduction and Control Design for High-Dimensional Physical Systems. IEEE Control Systems Letters. 8. 133–138. 7 indexed citations

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Shao, Xiangyu, et al.. (2023). Model-Based Control for Soft Robots With System Uncertainties and Input Saturation. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. 71(7). 7435–7444. 17 indexed citations

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Seth, Ajay, et al.. (2022). Minimalistic Soft Exosuit for Assisting the Shoulder via Biomechanics-Aware Optimization. elib (German Aerospace Center). 667–673. 4 indexed citations

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Santina, Cosimo Della, et al.. (2022). One-shot Learning Closed-loop Manipulation of Soft Slender Objects Based on a Planar Polynomial Curvature Model. elib (German Aerospace Center). 518–524. 5 indexed citations

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Li, Shuguang, et al.. (2021). Scaling Up Soft Robotics: A Meter-Scale, Modular, and Reconfigurable Soft Robotic System. Soft Robotics. 9(2). 324–336. 58 indexed citations

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Santina, Cosimo Della & Franco Angelini. (2021). Iterative Learning in Functional Space for Non-Square Linear Systems. 2021 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC). 5858–5863. 3 indexed citations

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Averta, Giuseppe, Cosimo Della Santina, Gaetano Valenza, Antonio Bicchi, & Matteo Bianchi. (2020). Exploiting upper-limb functional principal components for human-like motion generation of anthropomorphic robots. Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation. 17(1). 63–63. 34 indexed citations

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Santina, Cosimo Della, Ryan L. Truby, & Daniela Rus. (2020). Data–Driven Disturbance Observers for Estimating External Forces on Soft Robots. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 5(4). 5717–5724. 59 indexed citations

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Truby, Ryan L., Cosimo Della Santina, & Daniela Rus. (2020). Distributed Proprioception of 3D Configuration in Soft, Sensorized Robots via Deep Learning. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 5(2). 3299–3306. 143 indexed citations

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Santina, Cosimo Della, Giuseppe Averta, Alessandro Settimi, et al.. (2019). Learning From Humans How to Grasp: A Data-Driven Architecture for Autonomous Grasping With Anthropomorphic Soft Hands. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 4(2). 1533–1540. 62 indexed citations

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