Publications
2025
De Smet, E., Migliorini, L., Milana, E., Milani, P. and Gorissen, B., (2025). Electropneumatic Oscillators Using Nonlinear Inflatables. Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2400695.
de Souza Oliveira, H., Saeedzadeh Khaanghah, N., Elli, G., Petti, L., Cantarella, G., Milana, E. and Münzenrieder, N., (2025). Mechanical metamaterial sensors: from design to applications. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics.
2024
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.
2023
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) [pdf]
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).
2022
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
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).
2021
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).
2020
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)
2019
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).
2018
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