Marco Ceccarelli
University of Cassino, Italy

Marco Ceccarelli received his Ph.D. degree in applied mechanics in 1988. Since 1996, he has been the Director of the Laboratory of Robotics and Mechatronics of DiMSAT at the University of Cassino. He is a Full Professor of mechanics of machinery and mechanisms. During 1998–2004, he was the Chairman of Permanent Commission for History of Machine and Mechanism Science of IFToMM, the International Federation for the Promotion of Machine and Mechanism Science. He is a member of IFToMM Commission for Robotics, as well as scientific committees for several conferences, such as RAAD, Romansy, CK, and many others. He is an Associate Editor for the Transactions of the Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineers (CSME), Mechanics Based Design of Structures and Machines, and Advanced Robotic Systems. He has served as an Associate Editor for mechanism and machine theory, and a Reviewer for several international conferences and journals. He has written Fundamentals of Mechanics of Robotic Manipulation published by Kluwer/Springer in 2004. He has served as an IFToMM Secretary-General during 2004–2007, and has been elected as the President of IFToMM for the term 2008–2011. His research interests cover aspects of theory of machines and mechanisms and mechanics of robots, with specific interest in analysis and design of workspace and manipulation; design of manipulators, legged robots, and grippers; history of TMM; and mechanism design. He is the author/coauthor of more than 400 papers, which have been presented at conferences or published in national and international journals.

Biography Updated on 18 March 2008

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Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Numerical and experimental characterization of singularities of a six-wire parallel architecture
    Robotica, vol. 25, no. 03, p. 315, 2006
  2. An Experimental Validation of Three Circular-Arc Cams with Offset Followers #
    Mechanics Based Design of Structures and Machines, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 261–276, 2006
  3. Optimal design of driving mechanism in a 1-DOF anthropomorphic finger
    Mechanism and Machine Theory, vol. 41, no. 8, pp. 897–911, 2006
  4. Stiffness analysis of biped humanoid robot WABIAN-RIV
    Mechanism and Machine Theory, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 17–40, 2006
  5. Application of a 3-DOF parallel manipulator for earthquake simulations
    IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 241–246, 2006
  6. Identification of the Workspace Boundary Of a General 3-R Manipulator
    Journal of Mechanical Design, vol. 128, no. 1, p. 236, 2006
  7. Numerical and experimental analyses of radial cams with circular-arc profiles
    Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, vol. 220, no. 1, pp. 111–125, 2006
  8. Performance analysis of a 3-2-1 pose estimation device
    IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 288–297, 2005
  9. Design and tests of a three finger hand with 1-DOF articulated fingers
    Robotica, vol. 24, no. 02, p. 183, 2005
  10. Effect of basic numerical parameters on a path planning of robots taking into account actuating energy
    Mechanism and Machine Theory, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 247–260, 2004
  11. A multi-objective optimum design of general 3R manipulators for prescribed workspace limits
    Mechanism and Machine Theory, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 119–132, 2004
  12. Application of line geometry and linear complex approximation to singularity analysis of the 3-DOF CaPaMan parallel manipulator
    Mechanism and Machine Theory, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 75–95, 2004
  13. Robotic teachers' assistants - Low cost robots for research and teaching activities
    IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 37–45, 2003
  14. Workspace analysis and performance of a binary actuated parallel manipulator with flexural joints
    Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, vol. 217, no. 3, pp. 313–330, 2003
  15. Designing Two-Revolute Manipulators for Prescribed Feasible Workspace Regions
    Journal of Mechanical Design, vol. 124, no. 3, p. 427, 2002
  16. An analytical design for three circular-arc cams
    Mechanism and Machine Theory, vol. 37, no. 9, pp. 915–924, 2002
  17. A stiffness analysis for CaPaMan (Cassino Parallel Manipulator)
    Mechanism and Machine Theory, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 427–439, 2002
  18. An optimum robot path planning with payload constraints
    Robotica, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 395–404, 2002
  19. Optimal design of CaPaMan (Cassino Parallel Manipulator) with a specified orientation workspace
    Robotica, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 159–166, 2002
  20. A workspace evaluation of an eclipse robot
    Robotica, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 299–313, 2002
  21. Multibody System Dynamics, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 185–210, 2001
  22. Designing a robotic gripper for harvesting horticulture products
    Robotica, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 105–111, 2000
  23. Screw axis defined by Giulio Mozzi in 1763 and early studies on helicoidal motion
    Mechanism and Machine Theory, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 761–770, 2000
  24. Approximate four-bar circle-tracing mechanisms: classical and new synthesis
    Mechanism and Machine Theory, vol. 35, no. 11, pp. 1579–1599, 2000
  25. Walking programming for an electropneumatic biped robot
    Mechatronics, vol. 9, no. 8, pp. 941–964, 1999
  26. A manipulation analysis for robot programming
    Robotica, vol. 17, no. 5, pp. 529–541, 1999
  27. A Serial-parallel robotic architecture for surgical tasks
    Robotica, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 345–354, 1999
  28. A stiffness analysis for a hybrid parallel-serial manipulator
    Robotica, vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 567–576, 1999
  29. EP-WAR3 biped robot for climbing and descending stairs
    Robotica, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 405–417, 1999
  30. On the workspace of telescopic manipulators
    Robotica, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 691–696, 1998
  31. The Effects of Design Parameters on the Workspace of a Turin Parallel Robot
    The International Journal of Robotics Research, vol. 17, no. 8, pp. 886–902, 1998
  32. A new 3 D.O.F. spatial parallel mechanism
    Mechanism and Machine Theory, vol. 32, no. 8, pp. 895–902, 1997
  33. A formulation for the workspace boundary of general N-revolute manipulators
    Mechanism and Machine Theory, vol. 31, no. 5, pp. 637–646, 1996
  34. On the Workspace of General 4R Manipulators
    The International Journal of Robotics Research, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 152–160, 1995
  35. Optimal synthesis of three-revolute manipulators
    Meccanica, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 95–103, 1994