Prof. Pittiglio’s group focuses on developing technologies and robots to improve medical diagnosis and treatment, with the goal of equalizing medical care.
FEATURED WORKS:
Magnetic Ball Chain Robots for Cardiac Arrhythmia Treatment. G Pittiglio, F Leuenberger, M Mencattelli, M McCandless, E O’Leary, IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics.
Personalized magnetic tentacles for targeted photothermal cancer therapy in peripheral lungs. G Pittiglio, JH Chandler, T da Veiga, Z Koszowska, M Brockdorff, P Lloyd, Communications Engineering 2 (1), 50
Closed loop static control of multi-magnet soft continuum robots. G Pittiglio, AL Orekhov, T da Veiga, S Calò, JH Chandler, N Simaan, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 8 (7), 3980-3987
Patient-specific magnetic catheters for atraumatic autonomous endoscopy. G Pittiglio, P Lloyd, T da Veiga, O Onaizah, C Pompili, JH Chandler, Soft robotics 9 (6), 1120-1133
Magnetic levitation for soft-tethered capsule colonoscopy actuated with a single permanent magnet: A dynamic control approach. G Pittiglio, L Barducci, JW Martin, JC Norton, CA Avizzano, KL Obstein, ...IEEE robotics and automation letters 4 (2), 1224-1231
