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Università Campus Bio-Medico
Via Álvaro del Portillo, 21 - 00128 Roma

telephone: +39 06 22541 9610; +39 06 22541 627

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Domenico Formica was born in Italy in 1980 and received the B.S. and M.S. degree in biomedical engineering from the “Università Campus Bio-Medico” of Rome, in 2002 and 2004 respectively.
From 2004 to 2007 he was PhD student in bioengineering at the “Università Campus Bio-Medico” of Rome and in February 2008 he received his PhD with the thesis “Novel Approaches to Functional Assessment and Interaction Control for Robot-aided Neurorehabilitation”.
From May to November 2007 he was visiting student at the Newman Laboratory for Biomechanics and Human Rehabilitation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge (MA). In this period, he worked on new robot-based algorithms for quantitative measure of muscular tone in patients with neurological injuries, with particular attention to the estimation of the passive stiffness of the wrist joint.
From March 2008 he is a post-doc fellow at the Laboratory of Biomedical Robotics and Biomicrosystems of the “Università Campus Bio-Medico” of Rome, working on the development and experimental design of machatronic systems for monitoring children behaviour and their application to early diagnosis of neuro-developmental disorders.
His research interests are in the areas of mechatronic technologies for the study of human motor control, with particular attention to neuro-development, quantitative algorithms for clinical assessment of patients with neuro-muscular disorders and novel robotic devices for rehabilitation motor therapy after neurological injury, with special attention to the issue of interaction control.

Scientific interests:

• Application of mechatronic technologies to the study of human motor control, with particular attention to neuro-development.
• Design and validation of quantitative algorithms for clinical assessment of patients with neuro-muscular disorders.
• Design and development of novel robotic devices for rehabilitation motor therapy after neurological injury, with special attention to the issue of interaction control for regulating force between the robot and the patient and to the clinical validation of the developed solutions.

1. D. Campolo, D. Accoto, D. Formica, E. Guglielmelli, “Intrinsic Constraints of Neural Origin: Assessment and Application to Rehabilitation Robotics”, IEEE Transaction on Robotics, vol. 25 (3), pp. 492-501, 2009.
2. D. Campolo, D. Formica, F. Keller, E. Guglielmelli, “Kinematic Analysis of the Human Wrist during Pointing Tasks”, Experimental Brain Research, 2009, in press (available online).
3. D. Formica, L. Zollo, E. Guglielmelli, “Torque-dependent compliance control in the joint space for robot-mediated motor therapy”, Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, Transactions of ASME, vol.128, pp. 152-158, 2006.
4. D. Formica, S. Silvestri, "Biological effects of exposure to magnetic resonance imaging: an overview", BioMedical Engineering OnLine, vol. 3:11, 2004.
5. D. Formica, H. I. Krebs, S. K. Charles, L. Zollo, E. Guglielmelli, N. Hogan, “Passive Wrist Joint Stiffness Estimation”, Journal of Neurophysiology, Conditionally accepted, 2009.
6. D. Formica, M. Petrarca, S. Rossi, L. Zollo, E. Guglielmelli, P. Cappa, “Shoulder Motor Performance Assessment on the Saggittal Plane in Hemiplegic Children During Single Joint Pointing Tasks”, submitted to Human Movement Science, 2009.

7. D. Campolo, F. Taffoni, D. Formica, G. Schiavone, F. Keller, E. Guglielmelli, “Technology for Ecological Assessment of Spatial Cognition in Infants”, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 2009.

Book chapters

1. L. Zollo, D. Formica, E. Guglielmelli, “Bio-inspired interaction control of robotic machines for motor therapy”, in Rehabilitation Robotics, I-Tech Education and Publishing, Vienna, pp. 619-638, 2007.
2. D. Campolo, F. Taffoni, G. Schiavone, D. Formica, E. Guglielmelli, F. Keller, “Neuro-Developmental Engineering: towards early diagnosis of neuro-developmental disorders”, in Recent Advances in Biomedical Engineering, I-Tech Education and Publishing, Vienna, 2009, in press.

International conferences

1. P. Soda, A. Carta, D. Formica, E. Guglielmelli, “A low-cost video-based tool for clinical gait analysis”, The 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2009), Minneapolis, Minnesota, pp. 3979 - 3982, 2009.
2. F. Taffoni, D. Formica, D. Campolo, F. Keller, E. Guglielmelli, “Block-box instrumented toy: a new platform for assessing spatial cognition in infants”, The 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2009), Minneapolis, Minnesota, pp. 210 - 213, 2009.
3. N. L. Tagliamonte, D. Formica, D. Campolo, E. Guglielmelli, “Coping with Intrinsic Constraints of Neural Origin in the Design of Rehabilitation Robots: a Preliminary Study”, The 4th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (NER 2009), Antalya, Turkey, pp 124-127, 2009.
4. L. Zollo, M. Passalacqua, D. Formica, E. Guglielmelli “Performance Analysis of Adaptive Interaction Control Laws for Rehabilitation Robotics”, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, Scottsdale, Arizona, pp. 91-96, 2008.
5. L. Zollo, D. Accoto, F. Torchiani, D. Formica, E. Guglielmelli, “Design of a Planar Robotic Machine for Neuro-rehabilitation”, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Pasadena, California, pp. 2031-2036, 2008.
6. D. Formica, L. Zollo, E. Guglielmelli, “Torque-dependent compliance control in the joint space of a Cartesian robotic machine for motor therapy”, 9th IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, Chicago, Illinois, pp. 341-344, 2005.

Workshops and Abstracts

1. D. Campolo, A. Mafrolla, D. Formica, F. Keller, E. Guglielmelli, “Does Donders' law apply to wrist kinematics during pointing tasks?”, Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, NEUROSCIENCE 2008, Washington DC, USA, 2008.
2. D. Formica, H. I. Krebs, S. K. Charles, L. Zollo, E. Guglielmelli, N. Hogan, “Passive wrist joint stiffness estimation”, Primo Congresso Nazionale di Bioingegneria, Pisa, Italy, 2008.
3. L. Zollo, L. Lonini, D. Formica, E. Guglielmelli, “Modelling of human behavior and synthesis of bio-inspired interaction control schemes for human-centred design of rehabilitation robots”, Primo Congresso Nazionale di Bioingegneria, Pisa, Italy, 2008.
4. A. Romanelli, E. Gallotta, G. Magrone, M. Milazzo, L. Zollo, D. Formica, E. Guglielmelli, S. Sterzi, “OEP-based evaluation of chest wall kinematics in post-stroke hemiparetic patients”, 16th European Congress of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Brugge, Belgium, 2008.
5. E. Gallotta, G. Magrone, A. Romanelli, M. Milazzo, L. Zollo, D. Formica, E. Guglielmelli, S. Sterzi, “Neurorehabilitation of the upper limb using robotic systems”, 16th European Congress of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Brugge, Belgium, 2008.
6. G. Magrone, D. Formica, M. Milazzo, E. Gallotta, L. Zollo, E. Guglielmelli, S. Valente, P. Granone, S. Sterzi, “Oep-based evaluation of respiratory rehabilitation in elderly patients after lung resection for NSCLC”, The 6th International Conference of the International Society for Gerontechnology, Pisa, Italy, 2008.
7. D. Accoto, L. Zollo, D. Formica, E. Guglielmelli, “Design of a Planar Robotic Machine for Tele-rehabilitation of Elderly Patients”, The 6th International Conference of the International Society for Gerontechnology, Pisa, Italy, 2008.
8. L. Zollo, D. Accoto, D. Formica, E. Guglielmelli, “Biomechatronic Design of Dependable Systems for Rehabilitation Robotics”, 5th IARP/IEEE-RAS/EURON Workshop on Technical Challenges for Dependable Robots in Human Environments, Rome, Italy, 2007.
9. D. Formica, L. Zollo, E. Guglielmelli, “Adaptive Compliance for Enhancing Dependability of Rehabilitation Robotic Machines”, 4th IARP/IEEE-RAS/EURON Workshop on Technical Challenges for Dependable Robots in Human Environments, Nagoya, Japan, 2005.