Contact Info
Fabrizio Sergi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Office:
540 S. College Avenue
STAR Campus, Room 201H
Newark, DE 19713
302-831-6404
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, 2011, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma
M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, 2007, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma
B.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, 2005, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma
RESEARCH AREAS
Wearable robot technologies
MR-compatible mechatronics
Compliant actuation
Robotic neurorehabilitation
Sensorimotor learning and control
AREAS OF SPECIAL INTEREST
Dr. Sergi is the director of the Human Robotics (HuRo) lab at the University of Delaware.
Research in the HuRo lab aims to achieve the dual goals of developing and validating robotic technologies for human assistance and rehabilitation, and of using such novel technologies in experimental studies modeling the healthy and impaired human motor control.
Example areas of interests of the HuRo lab include:
- the combination of high-fidelity haptic feedback devices with neuroimaging to study the neural substrates of motor control;
- the development of energy-recycling wearable orthoses for gait assistance and augmentation;
- the development of high performance compliant actuators and interaction controllers.
- the implementation and validation of robotic assistance schemes in neurorehabilitation
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
F. Sergi, A. Erwin, M. K. O’Malley, “Interaction control capabilities of an MR-compatible compliant actuator for wrist sensorimotor protocols during fMRI”, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, In Press.
F. Sergi, M. K. O’Malley, “On the stability and accuracy of high stiffness rendering in non-backdrivable actuators through series elasticity”, Mechatronics, vol. 26, pp. 64-75, 2015.
A. U. Pehlivan, F. Sergi, M. K. O’Malley, “A subject-adaptive controller for wrist robotic rehabilitation”, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 20, no. 3, 2015.
D. Accoto, F. Sergi, N. L. Tagliamonte, G. Carpino, A. Sudano, E. Guglielmelli, “Robomorphism: a nonanthropomorphic wearable robot”, IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, vol. 21, no. 4, pp 45-55, 2014
F. Sergi, D. Accoto, N. L. Tagliamonte, G. Carpino, E. Guglielmelli, “A systematic graph-based method for the kinematic synthesis of non-anthropomorphic wearable robots for the lower limbs”, Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 61-70, 2011