Publications

Navale, A., Gupta, R., de Souza Oliveira, H., Slesarenko, V. and Milana, E., (2024). A bistable pneumatic actuator based on flexible metamaterials. In ACTUATOR 2024; International Conference and Exhibition on New Actuator Systems and Applications (pp. 245-248). VDE.

Van Raemdonck, B., Milana, E., De Volder, M., Reynaerts, D., & Gorissen, B. (2023). Nonlinear inflatable actuators for distributed control in soft robots. Advanced Materials, 2301487.

Peerlinck, S., Milana, E., De Smet, E., De Volder, M., Reynaerts, D., & Gorissen, B. (2023). Artificial Cilia–Bridging the Gap with Nature. Advanced Functional Materials, 2300856.

Milana, E., Gorissen, B., De Borre, E., Ceyssens, F., Reynaerts, D., De Volder, M.  (2023) Out-of-Plane Soft Lithography for Soft Pneumatic Microactuators Arrays. Soft Robotics, 10 (1)

Ramirez-Agudelo, O. H., Shewatkar, A. N., Milana, E., Aydin, R., & Franke, K. (2023). Enhancing the quality of gauge images captured in haze and smoke scenes through deep learning. In Proceedings of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering (Vol. 12675, pp. 68-84)

Baeyens, A., Van Raemdonck, B., Milana, E., Reynaerts, D., & Gorissen, B. (2023). FONS: a Python framework for simulating nonlinear inflatable actuator networks. In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft).

Milana, E. (2022) Soft Robotics for Infrastructure Protection. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 9, 1026891

Milana, E., Ramírez-Agudelo, O. H., Estevam Schmiedt, J. (2022) Autonomous Reading of Gauges in Unstructured Environments. Sensors, 22 (17)

Aubin, C. A., Gorissen, B., Milana, E., Buskohl, P. R., Lazarus, N., Slipher, G. A., Keplinger, C., Bongard, J., Iida, F., Lewis, J. A., Shepherd, R. F. (2022) Towards enduring autonomous robots via embodied energy. Nature, 602

Ramirez-Agudelo, O. H., Alex, A., Schreiber, L., Niemann, N., Milana, E., & Hammer, C. (2022, November). Indoor floorplan estimation from 3D point clouds for Scan-to-BIM. In FORUM BILDVERARBEITUNG 2022 IMAGE PROCESSING FORUM 2022 (p. 189).

Milana, E., Van Raemdonck, B., Bayens, A., De Volder, M., Reynaerts, D, Gorissen, B.  (2022) Morphological control of cilia-inspired asymmetric movements using nonlinear soft inflatable actuators. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 8

Piazzoni, M., Piccoli, E., Migliorini, L., Milana, E., Iberite, F., Vannozzi, L., Ricotti, L., Gerges, I., Milani, P., Marano, C., Lenardi, C., Santaniello, T. (2022). Monolithic Three-Dimensional Functionally Graded Hydrogels for Bioinspired Soft Robots Fabrication. Soft Robotics. 9 (2) 

Milana E., Peerlinck S., Flaherty S., Reynaerts D., Gorissen B. (2022) Towards half-moon-shaped soft pneumatic cilia. In: Proceedings of the 2021 5th IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft). 

Milana E., Stella F., Gorissen B., Reynaerts D., Della Santina C. (2021) Model-Based Control Can Improve the Performance of Artificial Cilia. In: Proceedings of the 2021 4th IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft). 

Milana, E., Zhang, R. Vetrano, M. R., Peerlinck, S., De Volder, M., Onck, P. R., Reynaerts, D., Gorissen, B. (2020) Metachronal patterns in artificial cilia for low Reynolds fluid propulsion. Science Advances, 6 (49)

Milana, E, Santaniello, T, Azzini, P, Migliorini, L, Milani, P. (2020) Fabrication of High-Aspect-Ratio Cylindrical Micro-Structures Based on Electroactive Ionogel/Gold Nanocomposite. Applied Nano, 1 (1)

Milana, E., Van Raemdonck, B., Cornelis, K., Dehaerne, E., De Clerck, J., De Groof, Y., De Vil, T., Gorissen, B., Reynaerts, D. (2020). EELWORM: a bioinspired multimodal amphibious soft robot. In: 2020 3rd IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft)

Milana, E., Bellotti, M., Gorissen, B., Qian, J., De Volder, M., Reynaerts, D. (2020). Shaping Soft Robotic Microactuators by Wire Electrical Discharge Grinding. Micromachines, 11 (7)

Milana, E., Gorissen, B., Peerlinck, S., De Volder, M., Reynaerts, D. (2019). Artificial Soft Cilia with Asymmetric Beating Patterns for Biomimetic Low-Reynolds-Number Fluid Propulsion. Advanced Functional Materials, 29 (22)

Gorissen, B., Milana, E., Baeyens, A., Broeders, E., Christiaens, J., Collin, K., Reynaerts, D., De Volder, M. (2019). Hardware Sequencing of Inflatable Nonlinear Actuators for Autonomous Soft Robots. Advanced Materials, 31 (3)

Milana, E., Bellotti, M., Gorissen, B., De Volder, M., Reynaerts, D. (2019). Precise bonding free micromoulding of miniaturized elastic inflatable actuators. In: Proceedings of the 2019 2nd IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft). 

Gorissen, B., Milana, E., Reynaerts, D., De Volder, M. (2018). Lithographic production of vertically aligned CNT strain sensors for integration in soft robotic microactuators. In: 2018 IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics, RoboSoft 2018, (400-405). 

Milana, E., Gorissen, B., De Volder, M., Reynaerts, D. (2018). Design of a bi-segmented soft actuator with hardware encoded quasi-static inflation sequence. In: 2018 IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics, RoboSoft 2018, (108-113)

B Gorissen, E Milana, M De Volder, D Reynaerts (2018) Artificial Pneumatic Cilia. Atlas of Cilia Bioengineering and Biocomputing, 61