Decoupled and Closed-Loop Motion and Stiffness Control for Articulated Soft Robots Driven by a Class of Electromechanical Variable Stiffness Actuators.

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Maja Trumic Franco Angelini Kosta Jovanovic Adriano Fagiolini Decoupled and Closed-Loop Motion and Stiffness Control for Articulated Soft Robots Driven by a Class of Electromechanical Variable Stiffness Actuators. 2026 March 1051-1059 34 IEEE Trans. Control. Syst. Technol. 2 https://doi.org/10.1109/TCST.2025.3637320 db/journals/tcst/tcst34.html#TrumicAJF26 streams/journals/tcst

Nikola Knezevic Milos Dimcic Sasa Jokic Kosta Jovanovic Cognitive Robotics for Digital Twin-Enabled Automation in Structural Panel Fabrication and Installation. SII 2026 531-536 conf/sii/2026 https://doi.org/10.1109/SII64115.2026.11404569 db/conf/sii/sii2026.html#KnezevicDJJ26 streams/conf/sii

Francesco Semeraro Filip Becanovic Maja Trumic Kosta Jovanovic Angelo Cangelosi How Do Technological Prototypes in the Food Industry Impact People's Perception? Insights from the MUSAE "GROW, COOK, CODE" Final Exhibition. 2026 January abs/2601.11169 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2601.11169 db/journals/corr/corr2601.html#abs-2601-11169 streams/journals/corr

Nikola Knezevic Andrej M. Savic Zavisa Gordic Arash Ajoudani Kosta Jovanovic Toward Industry 5.0: A Neuroergonomic Workstation for a Human-Centered, Collaborative Robot-Supported Manual Assembly Process. 103-113 2025 September 32 IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag. 3 https://doi.org/10.1109/MRA.2024.3487323 db/journals/ram/ram32.html#KnezevicSGAJ25 streams/journals/ram

Filip Becanovic Kosta Jovanovic Vincent Bonnet Reliability of Single-Level Equality-Constrained Inverse Optimal Control. 2025 October abs/2510.08406 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2510.08406 db/journals/corr/corr2510.html#abs-2510-08406 streams/journals/corr

Filip Becanovic Jared Miller Vincent Bonnet Kosta Jovanovic Samer Mohammed Assessing the Quality of a Set of Basis Functions for Inverse Optimal Control via Projection onto Global Minimizers. 2025 October abs/2510.17339 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2510.17339 db/journals/corr/corr2510.html#abs-2510-17339 streams/journals/corr

Filip Becanovic Vincent Bonnet Kosta Jovanovic Samer Mohammed Raphaël Dumas Inverse Optimal Control of Muscle Force Sharing During Pathological Gait. 2025 October abs/2510.17456 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2510.17456 db/journals/corr/corr2510.html#abs-2510-17456 streams/journals/corr

Arso M. Vukicevic Milos Petrovic Pavle D. Milosevic Aleksandar Peulic Kosta Jovanovic Aleksandar Novakovic A systematic review of computer vision-based personal protective equipment compliance in industry practice: advancements, challenges and future directions. 319 2024 December 57 Artif. Intell. Rev. 12 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-024-10978-x db/journals/air/air57.html#VukicevicPMPJN24 streams/journals/air

Nikola Knezevic Branko Lukic Tadej Petric Kosta Jovanovic A Geometric Approach to Task-Specific Cartesian Stiffness Shaping. 14 2024 March 110 J. Intell. Robotic Syst. 1 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-023-02035-6 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q129748793 db/journals/jirs/jirs110.html#KnezevicLPJ24

Filip Becanovic Kosta Jovanovic Vincent Bonnet Reliability of Single-Level Equality-Constrained Inverse Optimal Control. 623-630 2024 Humanoids https://doi.org/10.1109/Humanoids58906.2024.10769923 conf/humanoids/2024 db/conf/humanoids/humanoids2024.html#BecanovicJB24

Arso M. Vukicevic Milos Petrovic Nikola Knezevic Kosta Jovanovic Deep Learning-Based Recognition of Unsafe Acts in Manufacturing Industry. 103406-103418 2023 11 IEEE Access https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3318114 db/journals/access/access11.html#VukicevicPKJ23

Maja Trumic Cosimo Della Santina Kosta Jovanovic Adriano Fagiolini On the Stability of the Soft Pendulum With Affine Curvature: Open-Loop, Collocated Closed-Loop, and Switching Control. 385-390 2023 7 IEEE Control. Syst. Lett. https://doi.org/10.1109/LCSYS.2022.3187612 db/journals/csysl/csysl7.html#TrumicSJF23

Filip Becanovic Vincent Bonnet Raphaël Dumas Kosta Jovanovic Samer Mohammed Force Sharing Problem During Gait Using Inverse Optimal Control. 872-879 2023 8 IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 2 https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2022.3217398 db/journals/ral/ral8.html#BecanovicBDJM23

Marija Radmilovic Djordje Urukalo Milica M. Jankovic Suzana Dedijer Dujovic Tijana J. Dimkic Tomic Maja Trumic Kosta Jovanovic Elbow Joint Stiffness Functional Scales Based on Hill's Muscle Model and Genetic Optimization. 1709 2023 February 23 Sensors 3 https://doi.org/10.3390/s23031709 db/journals/sensors/sensors23.html#RadmilovicUJDTTJ23

Novak Zagradjanin Dragan Pamucar Kosta Jovanovic Nikola Knezevic Bojan Pavkovic Autonomous Exploration Based on Multi-Criteria Decision-Making and Using D* Lite Algorithm. 1369-1386 2022 32 Intell. Autom. Soft Comput. 3 https://doi.org/10.32604/iasc.2022.021979 db/journals/iasc/iasc32.html#ZagradjaninPJKP22 streams/journals/iasc

Maja Trumic Giorgio Grioli Kosta Jovanovic Adriano Fagiolini Force/Torque-Sensorless Joint Stiffness Estimation in Articulated Soft Robots. 7036-7043 2022 7 IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 3 https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2022.3178467 db/journals/ral/ral7.html#TrumicGJF22

Salvatore Pedone Maja Trumic Kosta Jovanovic Adriano Fagiolini Robust and Decoupled Position and Stiffness Control for Electrically-Driven Articulated Soft Robots. 9059-9066 2022 7 IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 4 https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2022.3188903 db/journals/ral/ral7.html#PedoneTJF22

Milos Petrovic Arso M. Vukicevic Marko Djapan Aleksandar Peulic Milos Jovicic Nikola Mijailovic Petar Milovanovic Mirko Grajic Marija Savkovic Carlo Caiazzo Velibor Isailovic Ivan Macuzic Kosta Jovanovic Experimental Analysis of Handcart Pushing and Pulling Safety in an Industrial Environment by Using IoT Force and EMG Sensors: Relationship with Operators' Psychological Status and Pain Syndromes. 7467 2022 22 Sensors 19 https://doi.org/10.3390/s22197467 db/journals/sensors/sensors22.html#PetrovicVDPJMMG22

Zavisa Gordic Kosta Jovanovic A Framework for Inclusion of Unmodelled Contact Tasks Dynamics in Industrial Robotics. 7650 2022 22 Sensors 19 https://doi.org/10.3390/s22197650 db/journals/sensors/sensors22.html#GordicJ22

Filip Becanovic Jared Miller Vincent Bonnet Kosta Jovanovic Samer Mohammed Assessing the Quality of a Set of Basis Functions for Inverse Optimal Control via Projection onto Global Minimizers. 7598-7605 2022 CDC https://doi.org/10.1109/CDC51059.2022.9993342 conf/cdc/2022 db/conf/cdc/cdc2022.html#BecanovicMBJM22

Maja Trumic Cosimo Della Santina Kosta Jovanovic Adriano Fagiolini Adaptive Control of Soft Robots Based on an Enhanced 3D Augmented Rigid Robot Matching. 1934-1939 2021 5 IEEE Control. Syst. Lett. 6 https://doi.org/10.1109/LCSYS.2020.3047737 db/journals/csysl/csysl5.html#TrumicSJF21

Maja Trumic Kosta Jovanovic Adriano Fagiolini Decoupled nonlinear adaptive control of position and stiffness for pneumatic soft robots. 2021 40 Int. J. Robotics Res. 1 https://doi.org/10.1177/0278364920903787 db/journals/ijrr/ijrr40.html#TrumicJF21

Kosta Jovanovic Andrea Schwier Eloise Matheson Michele Xiloyannis Esther D. Rozeboom Nadine Hochhausen Brecht Vermeulen Birgit Graf Peter Wolf 0001 Zbigniew Nawrat Jordi Escuder Tisaire Mare Mechelinck Birgitte Sorensen Paola Roberta Boscolo Michael Obach Selene Tognarelli Milica M. Jankovic Christophe Leroux Giancarlo Ferrigno Francoise J. Siepel Stefano Stramigioli Digital Innovation Hubs in Health-Care Robotics Fighting COVID-19: Novel Support for Patients and Health-Care Workers Across Europe. 40-47 2021 28 IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag. 1 https://doi.org/10.1109/MRA.2020.3044965 db/journals/ram/ram28.html#JovanovicSMXRHV21

Sasha Nikolic Thomas Suesse Kosta Jovanovic Zarko Stanisavljevic Laboratory Learning Objectives Measurement: Relationships Between Student Evaluation Scores and Perceived Learning. 163-171 2021 64 IEEE Trans. Educ. 2 https://doi.org/10.1109/TE.2020.3022666 db/journals/te/te64.html#NikolicSJS21

Maja Trumic Cosimo Della Santina Kosta Jovanovic Adriano Fagiolini Adaptive Control of Soft Robots Based on an Enhanced 3D Augmented Rigid Robot Matching. 4991-4996 2021 ACC https://doi.org/10.23919/ACC50511.2021.9482817 conf/amcc/2021 db/conf/amcc/amcc2021.html#TrumicSJF21

Adriano Fagiolini Maja Trumic Kosta Jovanovic An Input Observer-Based Stiffness Estimation Approach for Flexible Robot Joints. 1843-1850 2020 5 IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 2 https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2020.2969952 db/journals/ral/ral5.html#FagioliniTJ20

Zavisa Gordic Kosta Jovanovic Collision Detection on Industrial Robots in Repetitive Tasks Using Modified Dynamic Time Warping. 1717-1736 2020 38 Robotica 10 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263574719001425 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q127113988 db/journals/robotica/robotica38.html#GordicJ20

Branko Lukic Kosta Jovanovic Tomislav B. Sekara Cascade Control of Antagonistic VSA - An Engineering Control Approach to a Bioinspired Robot Actuator. 2019 13 Frontiers Neurorobotics https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbot.2019.00069 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q90263921 db/journals/finr/finr13.html#LukicJS19 69

Kosta Jovanovic Tadej Petric Toshiaki Tsuji Calogero Maria Oddo Editorial: Human-Like Advances in Robotics: Motion, Actuation, Sensing, Cognition and Control. 2019 13 Frontiers Neurorobotics https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbot.2019.00085 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q91081405 db/journals/finr/finr13.html#JovanovicPTO19 85

Novak Zagradjanin Dragan Pamucar Kosta Jovanovic Cloud-Based Multi-Robot Path Planning in Complex and Crowded Environment with Multi-Criteria Decision Making using Full Consistency Method. 1241 2019 11 Symmetry 10 https://doi.org/10.3390/sym11101241 db/journals/symmetry/symmetry11.html#ZagradjaninPJ19

Branko Lukic Tadej Petric Leon Zlajpah Kosta Jovanovic KUKA LWR Robot Cartesian Stiffness Control Based on Kinematic Redundancy. 310-318 2019 RAAD https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19648-6_36 conf/raad/2019 db/conf/raad/raad2019.html#LukicPZJ19 Zavisa Gordic Kosta Jovanovic Influence of Unmodelled External Forces on the Quality of Collision Detection. 319-328 2019 RAAD https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19648-6_37 conf/raad/2019 db/conf/raad/raad2019.html#GordicJ19 Nikola Knezevic Branko Lukic Kosta Jovanovic Feedforward Control Approaches to Bidirectional Antagonistic Actuators Based on Learning. 337-345 2019 RAAD https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19648-6_39 conf/raad/2019 db/conf/raad/raad2019.html#KnezevicLJ19

Marija Tomic Christine Chevallereau Kosta Jovanovic Veljko Potkonjak Human to humanoid motion conversion for dual-arm manipulation tasks. 1167-1187 2018 36 Robotica 8 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263574718000309 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q129926019 db/journals/robotica/robotica36.html#TomicCJP18

Veljko Potkonjak Michael Gardner Victor Callaghan Pasi Mattila Christian Guetl Vladimir M. Petrovic Kosta Jovanovic Virtual laboratories for education in science, technology, and engineering: A review. 309-327 2016 95 Comput. Educ. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2016.02.002 db/journals/ce/ce95.html#PotkonjakGCMGPJ16

Branko Lukic Kosta Jovanovic Minimal Energy Cartesian Impedance Control of Robot with Bidirectional Antagonistic Drives. 56-64 2016 RAAD https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49058-8_7 conf/raad/2016 db/conf/raad/raad2016.html#LukicJ16 Vladimir M. Petrovic Branko Nikolic Kosta Jovanovic Veljko Potkonjak Development of Virtual Laboratory for Mechatronic Systems. 622-630 2016 RAAD https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49058-8_68 conf/raad/2016 db/conf/raad/raad2016.html#PetrovicNJP16

Kosta Jovanovic Veljko Potkonjak Owen Holland Dynamic modeling of an anthropomimetic robot in contact tasks. 793-806 2014 28 Adv. Robotics 11 https://doi.org/10.1080/01691864.2014.896748 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q58027862 db/journals/ar/ar28.html#JovanovicPH14

Steffen Wittmeier Cristiano Alessandro Nenad Bascarevic Konstantinos Dalamagkidis David Devereux Alan Diamond Michael Jäntsch Kosta Jovanovic Rob Knight 0001 Hugo Gravato Marques Predrag Milosavljevic Bhargav Mitra Bratislav Svetozarevic Veljko Potkonjak Rolf Pfeifer Alois C. Knoll Owen Holland Toward Anthropomimetic Robotics: Development, Simulation, and Control of a Musculoskeletal Torso. 171-193 2013 19 Artif. Life 1 https://doi.org/10.1162/ARTL_a_00088 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39513442 db/journals/alife/alife19.html#WittmeierABDDDJJKMMMSPPKH13

Veljko Potkonjak Vladimir Petrovic Kosta Jovanovic Dragan Kostic Human-Robot Analogy - How Physiology Shapes Human and Robot Motion. 136-143 2013 ECAL https://doi.org/10.7551/978-0-262-31709-2-ch021 conf/ecal/2013 db/conf/ecal/ecal2013.html#PotkonjakPJK13 Nenad Bascarevic Kosta Jovanovic Predrag Milosavljevic Veljko Potkonjak Owen Holland Tip-over stability examination of a compliant anthropomimetic mobile robot. 1584-1589 2012 CCA https://doi.org/10.1109/CCA.2012.6402718 conf/IEEEcca/2012 db/conf/IEEEcca/IEEEcca2012.html#BascarevicJMPH12 Veljko Potkonjak Nenad Bascarevic Predrag Milosavljevic Kosta Jovanovic Owen Holland Experience-based Fuzzy Control of an Anthropomimetic Robot. 389-394 2012 IJCCI conf/ijcci/2012 db/conf/ijcci/ijcci2012.html#PotkonjakBMJH12 Predrag Milosavljevic Kosta Jovanovic Nenad Bascarevic Veljko Potkonjak Owen Holland Heuristic Machine-Learning Approach to the Control of an Anthropomimetic Robot Arm. 301-306 2012 SyRoCo https://doi.org/10.3182/20120905-3-HR-2030.00098 conf/syroco/2012 db/conf/syroco/syroco2012.html#MilosavljevicJBPH12

Veljko Potkonjak Miomir Vukobratovic Kosta Jovanovic Miroslav Medenica Virtual Mechatronic/Robotic laboratory - A step further in distance learning. 465-475 2010 55 Comput. Educ. 2 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2010.02.010 db/journals/ce/ce55.html#PotkonjakVJM10

Arash Ajoudani Cristiano Alessandro Franco Angelini Nenad Bascarevic Filip Becanovic Vincent Bonnet Paola Roberta Boscolo Carlo Caiazzo Vic CallaghanVictor Callaghan Angelo Cangelosi Christine Chevallereau Konstantinos Dalamagkidis David Devereux Alan Diamond Milos Dimcic Marko Djapan Suzana Dedijer Dujovic Raphaël Dumas Adriano Fagiolini Giancarlo Ferrigno Michael Gardner Zavisa Gordic Birgit Graf Mirko Grajic Giorgio Grioli Christian GütlChristian Guetl Nadine Hochhausen Owen Holland Velibor Isailovic Milica M. Jankovic Michael Jäntsch Sasa Jokic Milos Jovicic Nikola Knezevic Rob Knight 0001 Alois C. Knoll Dragan Kostic Christophe Leroux Branko Lukic Ivan Macuzic Hugo Gravato Marques Eloise Matheson Pasi Mattila Mare Mechelinck Miroslav Medenica Nikola Mijailovic Jared Miller Predrag Milosavljevic Pavle D. Milosevic Petar Milovanovic Bhargav Mitra Samer Mohammed Zbigniew Nawrat Branko Nikolic Sasha Nikolic Aleksandar Novakovic Michael Obach Calogero M. OddoCalogero Maria Oddo Dragan Pamucar Bojan Pavkovic Salvatore Pedone Tadej Petric Milos Petrovic Vladimir Petrovic Vladimir M. Petrovic Aleksandar Peulic Rolf Pfeifer Veljko Potkonjak Marija Radmilovic Esther D. Rozeboom Cosimo Della Santina Andrej M. Savic Marija Savkovic Andrea Schwier Tomislav B. Sekara Francesco Semeraro Françoise J. SiepelFrancoise J. Siepel Birgitte Sorensen Zarko Stanisavljevic Stefano Stramigioli Thomas Suesse Bratislav Svetozarevic Jordi Escuder Tisaire Selene Tognarelli Marija Tomic Tijana J. Dimkic Tomic Maja Trumic Toshiaki Tsuji Dorde UrukaloDjordje Urukalo Brecht Vermeulen Arso M. Vukicevic Miomir Vukobratovic Steffen Wittmeier Peter Wolf 0001 Michele Xiloyannis Novak Zagradjanin Leon Zlajpah