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Fabio Giardina 
Position: PhD Student
E-mail: ffg20 [AT] cam.ac.uk
Office: BN3-02
Thesis Title: On the discretisation of locomotion control: Impulse- and shape-based modelling for hopping robots
Supervisor: Dr. Fumiya Iida
Background
I am currently working as a research associate in the Biologically Inspired Robotics Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. I received my PhD from the University of Cambridge and my B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in mechanical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH), Switzerland, in 2010, and 2012, respectively. I am currently working toward the doctoral degree in the Biologically Inspired Robotics Laboratory at the University of Cambridge.
divf.eng.cam.ac.uk/birl/
Research Interests
I am interested in the effect of morphology on the dynamics of locomotion in animals and robots. My approach is largely theoretical, but I have built various robots to test my hypotheses experimentally. Have a look at our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCssbO6gQLdwC2T3ZNkAo1wA
Publications
Publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals
Giardina, F., & Iida, F. (2018). Collision-based energetic analysis of rolling and hopping over obstacles. PLOS ONE. Accepted.
Giardina, F., & Iida, F. (2018). Efficiency and stability of impulse-actuated locomotion robots with strictly convex foot shapes. IEEE Transactions on Robotics. Accepted.
Saar, K. A., Giardina, F., & Iida, F. (2018). Model-Free Design Optimisation of a Hopping Robot and Its Competition with a Human Designer. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.
Hughes, J., Culha, U., Giardina, F., Guenther, F., Rosendo, A., & Iida, F. (2016). Soft manipulators and grippers: A review. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 3, 69.
Hunt, J., Giardina, F., Rosendo, A., & Iida, F. (2016). Improving efficiency for an open-loop-controlled locomotion with a pulsed actuation. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 21(3), 1581-1591.
Peer-reviewed conference proceedings
Giardina, F., & Iida, F. (2016, October). Discrete Foot Shape Changes Improve Dynamics of a Hopping Robot. In International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (pp. 113-122). Springer.
Giardina, F., & Iida, F. (2016, June). Simulation of forward hopping dynamics in robots and animals using a template with a circular foot and impulsive actuation. In Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), 2016 6th IEEE International Conference on (pp. 7-12). IEEE.
Gunther, F., Giardina, F., & Iida, F. (2014, May). Self-stable one-legged hopping using a curved foot. In Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014 IEEE International Conference on (pp. 5133-5138). IEEE.
Contributions to books
Culha, U., Hughes, J., Rosendo, A., Giardina, F., & Iida, F. (2017). Design Principles for Soft-Rigid Hybrid Manipulators. In Soft Robotics: Trends, Applications and Challenges (pp. 87-94). Springer International Publishing.
Contributions to international conferences
Giardina, F., & Iida, F. (2017). Towards limits of energy efficiency in legged locomotion. Dynamic Walking Conference.
General contributions to science
Culha, U., Giardina, F., (2015). Hot Glue Kit. https://softroboticstoolkit.com/hot-glue-kit
Rosendo, A., Hughes, J., Giardina, F., & Iida, F. (2016). News and Views: Soft Solutions for Hard Problems. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 23(3), 125-127.
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