Publications

 

General:

  1. V. Gomez, W. Remmas, M. Hernando, A. Ristolainen, C. Rossi, Bioinspired Whisker Sensors for 3D MApping of Underground Mining. Biomimetic 9(2), 83 (2024).

  2. V. Gomez, E. Aguado, M. Hernando, R. Sanz, C. Rossi, Design and Kinematic Modeling of a Soft Continuum Telescopic Arm for Self-assembly Mechanism for a Modular Robot. Soft Robotics 11:2 (2023).

  3. E. Aguado, C. Rossi, P. Gil, "Codifying wildness: wild behaviour for improving human-robot interaction", International Journal of Social Robotics, 15,  pp. 825–834 (2023).

  4. William Coral, Claudio Rossi, Julian Colorado, Daniel Lemus and Antonio Barrientos, "SMA-Based Muscle-Like Actuation in Biologically Inspired Robots: A State of the Art Review", In G. Berselli, R. Vertechy and G. Vassura (eds.) Smart actuation and sensing systems / Recent advances and future challenges, InTech Open, 2012 ISBN: 979-953-307-990-4 (Available here).

  5. W. Coral, C. Rossi, ''Shape Memory Alloy-Based High Phase Order Motor'', International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, Vienna, Austria, September 2014.

  6. P. Gil, C. Rossi, W. Coral,  "Biophilic evolutionary buildings that restore the experience of animality in the city", Living Machines 2015, the 4th International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Barcelona, Spain, July 2015.

  7. A. Ravalli, C. Rossi, G. Marrazza, The bio-inspired artificial muscle based on chemical sensors, 26th Anniversary World Congress on Biosensors (Biosensors 2016), May 2016, Gothenburg, Sweden.

  8. C. Rossi, Three Applications of Evolutionary Algorithms to Robotics, 2nd Extract-IT Workshop, 12-13 June 2013, Brussels (invited talk).


On Quadrupedal locomotion:


  2. E. A. Parra Ricaurte, J. M. Muñoz-Guijosa, K. Melo, S. Dominguez, C. Rossi, Dynamic Model of a Compliant Quadruped Trunk Under Large Deformations, J. Bionic Engineering (to appear, 2026).

  3. E. A. Parra Ricaurte, J. Pareja, S. Dominguez, C. Rossi, Comparison of leg dynamic models for quadrupedal robots with compliant backbone, Nature Scientific Reports volume 12, Article number: 14579 (2022) (available here)

  4. E.A. Parra, S. Dominguez, C. Rossi, Low Energy Consumption Quadrupedal Locomotion with Quasi-Resonant Compliant Backbone, Springer Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering book series (accepted, 2021).

  5. E.A. Parra, C. Rossi A Bio-inspired Quasi-Resonant Compliant Backbone for Energy Efficient Quadrupedal Locomotion, 17th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO) on-line, July 2020.


On Fishes:


  2. W. Coral, C. Rossi, Soft dorsal/anal fins pairs for roll and yaw motion in robotic fish, Bioinspir. Biomim. 18:1, 18 016008 (2022)

  3. F. Cabrera, M. Arellano,  S. Granizo,  F. Santacruz, C. Rossi, "Bioinspired Fish Robot, Stability Control Trogh the Dorsal Fin", Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology, to appear, 2021

  4. F.R. Cabrera, F.J. Santacruz, D.F. Veloz, C. Rossi, "Bio-inspired fish robot with body and caudal fin locomotion operated remotely using bluetooth technology", Investigar, pp. 18-24, June 2018.

  5. Coral, William; Rossi, Claudio; Curet, Oscar; Castro, Diego, "Design and assessment of a flexible fish robot actuated by shape memory alloys", Bioinspir. Biomim. (accepted, 2018).

  6. A. Ravalli, C. Rossi, G. Marrazza, "Bio-inspired fish robot based on chemical sensors", Sensors & Actuators: B. Chemical (accepted for publication, 2016).

  7. William Coral, Claudio Rossi, and Oscar M Curet, "Free Vibration Analysis of a Robotic Fish based on a Continuous and Non-uniform Flexible Backbone with Distributed Masses", The European Physical Journal Special Topics (accepted, 2015).

  8. W. Coral, C. Rossi,  I. Perrino, "Bio-inspired Morphing Caudal Fin Using Shape Memory Alloy Composites for a Fish-like Robot", International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, Colmar, France, July 2015.

  9. C. Rossi, W. Coral "Robot Fishes’ Escape from Flatland", 2nd FitFish Workshop,  Barcelona, Spain, October 2014 (invited talk).

  10. Claudio Rossi, Julian Colorado, William Coral, Antonio Barrientos, "Bending Continuous Structures with SMAs: a Novel Robotic Fish Design”, Bioinspir. Biomim. 6 (2011) 045005.

  11. Rossi C, Coral W, Barrientos A, "Robotic fish to lead the school", In Palstra AP and Planas JV eds, (Eds.) Swimming Physiology of Fish: Towards using exercise for farming a fit fish in sustainable aquaculture, Springer, 2012.

  12. Claudio Rossi, William Coral, Julian Colorado, Antonio Barrientos, Towards Motor-­less and Gear­less Robots: a bio­mimetic Fish Design. International Workshop on bio-inspired robots, Nantes, France, 2011.

  13. Claudio Rossi, William Coral, Julian Colorado, Antonio Barrientos, A Motor-less and Gear-less Bio-mimetic Robotic Fish Design, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Shanghai, 2011.

  14. Claudio Rossi, William Coral, Antonio Barrientos, Julian Colorado, “Fish physiology put into Practice: a robotic fish model”, Workshop on the Swimming Physiology of Fish (FitFish2010), Barcelona, 2010.

  15. Claudio Rossi, William Coral, Antonio Barrientos, "SMA Control for Bio-mimetic Fish Locomotion", 7th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), Madeira (PT), 2010.

  16. Claudio Rossi, "Could robot fish be used for leading schools of fish?", FitFish Workshop on 'A role for exercise in improving welfare in sustainable aquaculture',  Barcelona, Spain, July 2010 (invited talk).


On Bats:

  1. Zhang, Chao; Rossi, Claudio, “Effects of elastic hinges on input torque requirements for a motorized indirect-driven flapping-wing compliant transmission mechanism", IEEE Access, 2018.

  2. Julian Colorado, Claudio Rossi, Antonio Barrientos, "The role of massive morphing wings for maneuvering a bio-inspired bat-like robot", ICRA 2018, May 21-25, 2018, Brisbane, Australia.

  3. Chao Zhang, Claudio Rossi and Erdal Kayacan, "Interval Type-2 Fuzzy-Neuro Control of Nonlinear Systems With Proved Overall System Stability", FUZZ-IEEE 2017, Naples, Italy, July 2017.

  4. Zhang, Chao; Rossi, Claudio, "A review of compliant transmission mechanisms for bio-inspired flapping-wing micro air vehicles", Bioinspir. Biomim. (Volume 12, Number 2, 2017).

  5. C. Zhang, C. Rossi, W. He, J. Colorado, "Virtual-work-based Optimization Design on Compliant Transmission Mechanism for Flapping-wing aerial Vehicles”, International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales, Paris, France, July 2016.

  6. J. Colorado, C. Rossi, C. Zhang, A. Barrientos, "Towards efficient flight: insights on proper morphing-wing modulation in a bat-like robot", Advanced Robotics (Advanced Robotics, 2015)

  7. C. Zhang, C. Rossi, D. Song, "Design and Fabrication of a Novel Morphing Wing Flapping MAVP", CCAC, 2nd IEEE Conference on Automatic Control, Bogota, Colombia, October 2015.

  8. J. Colorado, C. Rossi, A. Barrientos, D. Parino, ''The influence of bat wings for producing efficient net body forces in bio-inspired flapping robots'', International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, Vienna, Austria, September 2014.

  9. J. Colorado, C. Rossi, A. Barrientos, C. Parra, ''Learning from bats: the influence of the morphing-wings for producing efficient net body forces in bio-inspired air robots'', International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO) 2013, Reyjavik, Iceland, July 2013.

  10. J. Colorado, C. Rossi, A. Barrientos, "Inertial attitude control of a bat-like morphing-wing micro air vehicle", Bioinspir. Biomim. 8(1): 016001, 2013

  11. Colorado, A. Barrientos, C. Rossi, J. Bahlman, K. Breuer, "Biomechanics of smart wings in a bat robot: morphing-wings using SMA actuators", Bioinspir. Biomim. 7(3):036006, 2012

  12. Colorado J., Barrientos A., Rossi C., 2011. Biomechanics of morphing wings in a Bat-robot actuated by SMA muscles. International Workshop on bio-inspired robots, Nantes, France, April 6-8.

  13. J. Colorado, A. Barrientos, C. Rossi, "Musculos Inteligentes en Robots Biológicamente Inspirados: Modelado, Control y Actuación. (Bio-inspired robots with smart muscles: Modeling, Control and Actuation)". RIAI - Revista Iberoamericana de Automática e Informática Industrial, Elsevier, 2011.


On Evolutionary Robotics:

  1. T. van de Velde, C. Rossi, A.E. Eiben, Body Symmetry in Morphologically Evolving Modular Robots, 22nd International Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation (EvoApps, EVOSTAR 2019), Leipzig, Germany, 24-26 April 2019.

  2. C. Rossi, A.E. Eiben, "Simultaneous versus Incremental Learning of Multiple Skills by Modular Robots", Evolutionary Intelligence (2014)

  3. C.Rossi, D. Pérez-Moneo Suárez ''Evolutionary learning of basic functionalities for snake-like robots'', ROBOT 2013, Madrid, Spain, November 2013.

  4. Dámaso. Perez-Moneo Suarez and Claudio Rossi, A comparison between different encoding strategies for snake-like robot controllers, 15th  European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary and bio-inspired Computation (EvoApplications -- part of the EvoStar conference), Vienna, Austria, April 2013.


On Snakes:

  1. C. Rossi, D. Perez-Moneo Suárez ''Evolutionary learning of basic functionalities for snake-like robots'', ROBOT 2013, Madrid, Spain, November 2013.

  2. Dámaso. Perez-Moneo Suárez and Claudio Rossi, A comparison between different encoding strategies for snake-like robot controllers, 15th  European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary and bio-inspired Computation (EvoApplications -- part of the EvoStar conference), Vienna, Austria, April 2013.

  3. Julian Colorado, Antonio Barrientos, Claudio Rossi, Mario Garzon, María Galan, Jaime del Cerro “Efficient locomotion on non-wheeled snake-like robots”, 7th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), Madeira (PT), 2010.

  4. J. Colorado, A. Barrientos, C. Rossi, J. del Cerro, "Follow-the-leader Formation Marching Through a Scalable O(log2n) Parallel Architecture", International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2010.