Massimo Vespignani

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 834 citations indexed

About

Massimo Vespignani is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Massimo Vespignani has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 834 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 15 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 8 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Massimo Vespignani's work include Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (18 papers), Robotic Locomotion and Control (8 papers) and Structural Analysis and Optimization (6 papers). Massimo Vespignani is often cited by papers focused on Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (18 papers), Robotic Locomotion and Control (8 papers) and Structural Analysis and Optimization (6 papers). Massimo Vespignani collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Italy. Massimo Vespignani's co-authors include Auke Jan Ijspeert, Alexandre Tuleu, Alexander Badri–Spröwitz, Mostafa Ajallooeian, Jonathan Bruce, Vytas SunSpiral, Rico Moeckel, Kostas E. Bekris, Rebecca Kramer‐Bottiglio and Robert Baines and has published in prestigious journals such as The International Journal of Robotics Research, Remote Sensing and Biological Cybernetics.

In The Last Decade

Massimo Vespignani

28 papers receiving 809 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Towards dynamic trot gait locomotion: Design, control, and experiments with Cheetah-cub, a compliant quadruped robot

2013 325 citations Alexander Badri–Spröwitz, Alexandre Tuleu et al. The International Journal of Robotics Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Massimo Vespignani Switzerland	13	535	400	211	202	142	29	834
Richard Bachmann United States	13	575 1.1×	270 0.7×	117 0.6×	186 0.9×	216 1.5×	24	746
Duncan W. Haldane United States	13	708 1.3×	315 0.8×	62 0.3×	216 1.1×	229 1.6×	19	866
Meng Yee Chuah United States	10	762 1.4×	193 0.5×	66 0.3×	298 1.5×	120 0.8×	14	897
Alireza Ramezani United States	14	550 1.0×	154 0.4×	59 0.3×	238 1.2×	383 2.7×	50	956
Hailin Huang China	23	453 0.8×	707 1.8×	546 2.6×	658 3.3×	204 1.4×	72	1.3k
Fumihiko Asano Japan	18	1.4k 2.6×	212 0.5×	273 1.3×	637 3.2×	280 2.0×	179	1.5k
Masami Iwase Japan	13	353 0.7×	227 0.6×	39 0.2×	373 1.8×	61 0.4×	130	697
Jonathan Bruce United States	13	136 0.3×	441 1.1×	440 2.1×	70 0.3×	69 0.5×	16	651
Hendrik Kolvenbach Switzerland	13	590 1.1×	189 0.5×	92 0.4×	258 1.3×	160 1.1×	28	784
John Rieffel United States	11	161 0.3×	351 0.9×	246 1.2×	30 0.1×	36 0.3×	29	504

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Vespignani, Massimo, et al.. (2025). Advancing river flow monitoring with small uncrewed aircraft and simulation-driven development. Frontiers in Remote Sensing. 6. 1 indexed citations

Legleiter, Carl J., et al.. (2024). Mapping River Flow from Thermal Images in Approximately Real Time: Proof of Concept on the Sacramento River, California, USA. Remote Sensing. 16(24). 4746–4746. 3 indexed citations

Shah, Dylan, Joran Booth, Robert Baines, et al.. (2021). Tensegrity Robotics. Soft Robotics. 9(4). 639–656. 82 indexed citations

Vespignani, Massimo, et al.. (2019). Adaptive tensegrity locomotion: Controlling a compliant icosahedron with symmetry-reduced reinforcement learning. The International Journal of Robotics Research. 40(1). 375–396. 24 indexed citations

Vespignani, Massimo, et al.. (2018). Steerable Locomotion Controller for Six-strut Icosahedral Tensegrity Robots. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 2886–2892. 16 indexed citations

Zhang, Marvin, Xinyang Geng, Jonathan Bruce, et al.. (2017). Deep reinforcement learning for tensegrity robot locomotion. 634–641. 67 indexed citations

Ajallooeian, Mostafa, et al.. (2016). On designing an active tail for legged robots: simplifying control via decoupling of control objectives. Industrial Robot the international journal of robotics research and application. 43(3). 338–346. 17 indexed citations

Ajallooeian, Mostafa, et al.. (2015). ON DESIGNING AN ACTIVE TAIL FOR BODY-PITCH CONTROL IN LEGGED ROBOTS VIA DECOUPLING OF CONTROL OBJECTIVES. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 256–264. 1 indexed citations

Vespignani, Massimo. (2015). Challenges in the Locomotion of Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robots. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 3 indexed citations

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Vespignani, Massimo, Kamilo Melo, Mehmet Mutlu, & Auke Jan Ijspeert. (2015). Compliant snake robot locomotion on horizontal pipes. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 1–8. 16 indexed citations

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Gams, Andrej, et al.. (2014). Rich periodic motor skills on humanoid robots: Riding the pedal racer. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 2326–2332. 4 indexed citations

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Vespignani, Massimo, et al.. (2014). Natural user interface for Roombots. Research Publications (Maastricht University). 12–17. 7 indexed citations

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Vespignani, Massimo, Rico Moeckel, Jesse van den Kieboom, et al.. (2014). Automatic generation of reduced CPG control networks for locomotion of arbitrary modular robot structures. Research Publications (Maastricht University). 5 indexed citations

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Moro, Federico L., Alexander Badri–Spröwitz, Alexandre Tuleu, et al.. (2013). Horse-like walking, trotting, and galloping derived from kinematic Motion Primitives (kMPs) and their application to walk/trot transitions in a compliant quadruped robot. Biological Cybernetics. 107(3). 309–320. 42 indexed citations

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Moeckel, Rico, et al.. (2013). Roombots: A hardware perspective on 3D self-reconfiguration and locomotion with a homogeneous modular robot. Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 62(7). 1016–1033. 79 indexed citations

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Badri–Spröwitz, Alexander, et al.. (2013). Towards dynamic trot gait locomotion: Design, control, and experiments with Cheetah-cub, a compliant quadruped robot. The International Journal of Robotics Research. 32(8). 932–950. 325 indexed citations breakdown →

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Vespignani, Massimo, et al.. (2013). An experimental study on the role of compliant elements on the locomotion of the self-reconfigurable modular robots Roombots. Research Publications (Maastricht University). 4308–4313. 7 indexed citations

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Sproewitz, Alexander, Alexandre Tuleu, Michiel D’Haene, et al.. (2013). Towards dynamically running quadruped robots: performance, scaling, and comparison. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 133–135. 1 indexed citations

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Moeckel, Rico, et al.. (2012). Locomotion through Reconfiguration based on Motor Primitives for Roombots Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robots. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 1–6. 7 indexed citations

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Taffoni, Fabrizio, Massimo Vespignani, Domenico Formica, et al.. (2012). A mechatronic platform for behavioral analysis on nonhuman primates. Journal of Integrative Neuroscience. 11(1). 87–101. 10 indexed citations

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