Ebrahim Shahabi

Publication

Journal Papers:

  • Emanuela Del Dottore, Romina Adhami, Ebrahim Shahabi, Emanuele Solfiti, Michele Martini, Stefano Mariani, Alberto Parmiggiani, Alessio Mondini, Edoardo Sinibaldi, and Barbara Mazzolai. “Peripheral control enabled by distributed sensing in an octopus-inspired soft robotic arm for autonomous underwater grasping.” Nature Machine Intelligence (2026).
  • Jingyue Liu, Ebrahim Shahabi, and Cosimo Della Santina. “Neural Linear Oscillator Networks and their Application to Soft Robots Model Learning and Control.” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2026).
  • Shifa Sulaiman, Francesco Schetter, Ebrahim Shahabi, and Fanny Ficuciello. ” A Learning Based Impedance Control Strategy Implemented on a Soft Prosthetic Wrist in Joint-Space.” Frontiers in Robotics and AI (2025).
  • Mariano Ramírez Montero, Ebrahim Shahabi, Giovanni Franzese, Jens Kober, Barbara Mazzolai, Cosimo Della Santina. ” Mastering Contact-rich Tasks by Combining Soft and Rigid Robotics with Imitation Learning.” arXiv:2410.07787v2 (2025).
  • Johannes F. Elfferich, Ebrahim Shahabi, Cosimo Della Santina, Dimitra Dodou. ” BerryTwist: a Twisting-Tube Soft Robotic Gripper for Blackberry Harvesting.” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2024).
  • Ebrahim Shahabi, Majid Shabani, Fabian Meder, Barbara Mazzolai. ” Solar spectrum light-driven silicone-based fluidic actuators.” Advanced Physics Research (2024): 2400005.
  • Stein van Vegge, Micha ̈el Wiertlewski, Adrie Kooijman, Eugeni L. Doubrovski, Ebrahim Shahabi, Barbara Mazzolai, Rob B.N. Scharff. ” Classification and Evaluation of Octopus-Inspired Suction Cups for Soft Continuum Robots.” Advanced Science (2024): 202400806.
  • Ebrahim Shahabi, Behnam Kamare, Francesco Visentin, Alessio Mondini, Barbara Mazzolai. ” Design of soft pneumatic actuator with two oblique chambers for coupled bending and twisting movements.” Actuators Journal, Vol. 12. No. 12. MDPI, 2023.
  • Ebrahim Shahabi, Francesco Visentin, Alessio Mondini, Barbara Mazzolai. “Octopus‐Inspired Suction Cups with Embedded Strain Sensors for Object Recognition.” Advanced Intelligent Systems (2023): 2200201.
  • Ebrahim Shahabi, MirAmin Hosseini. “Kinematic Synthesis of a Novel Parallel Cable Robot as Artificial Leg.” ADMT Journal 9, no. 3 (2017): 1-10.

Conference Papers:

  • Ben Cornelisse, Cosimo Della Santina, and Ebrahim Shahabi*. ” Vision-Based Measurement Device for Large Contact Areas of Objects in Soft Robotics.” The 9th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics, April 2026.
  • Jingyue Liu, Chuhan Zhang*, Ebrahim Shahabi, Wei Pan, and Cosimo Della Santina. ” End-to-End Learning of Soft-Robot Dynamics from Event-Based Camera Streams.” The 9th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics, April 2026.
  • S.J Schouten, Tomas Steenman, Rens Filé, Merlijn Den Hartog, Aimee Sakes, Cosimo Della Santina, Kirsten Lussenburg, Ebrahim Shahabi. ” 3D Printable Gradient Lattice Design for Multi-Stiffness Robotic Fingers.” The 8th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (2025).
  • Ebrahim Shahabi, Francesco Visentin, Alessio Mondini, Barbara Mazzolai. ” Understanding preload force for grasping objects with different stiffness using sensorized suction cups.” The 12th International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, July 2023.
  • Ebrahim Shahabi, Yu-Ta Yao, Cheng-Hsiu Chuang, Po Ting Lin, Chin-Hsing Kuo. “Design and Testing of 2-Degree-of-Freedom (DOF) Printable Pneumatic Soft Finger.” In IFToMM International Symposium on Robotics and Mechatronics, pp. 298-308. Springer, Cham, 2020. (Oral presented).
  • Lin, Po Ting, Ebrahim Shahabi, Kai-An Yang, Yu-Ta Yao, Chin-Hsing Kuo. “Parametrically Modeled DH Table for Soft Robot Kinematics: Case Study for A Soft Gripper.” In IFToMM World Congress on Mechanism and Machine Science, pp. 617-625. Springer, Cham, 2019. (Oral presented).
  • Ebrahim Shahabi, Wei-Hao Lu, Po Ting Lin, Chin-Hsing Kuo. “Computer Vision-Based Object Recognition and Automatic Pneumatic Soft Gripping.” In International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, vol. 59292, p. V009T12A006. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2019. (Oral presented).
  • Ebrahim Shahabi, Chin-Hsing Kuo. “Solving inverse kinematics of a planar dual-backbone continuum robot using neural network.“ In European Conference on Mechanism Science, pp. 355-361. Springer, Cham, 2018. (Oral presented).

In preparation and under review:

  • Víctor Muñoz, Ebrahim Shahabi, Luis Moreno, and Cosimo Della Santina. “Continuous learning of tactile sensors as lightweight alternatives to force-torque sensing in robotics.”
  • Pietro Pustina, Ebrahim Shahabi, Alessandro De Luca, and Cosimo Della Santina*. “A Comprehensive Roadmap of Collocated Shape Regulation in Soft Robotics: general definition, theoretical analysis, and experimental comparison.”
  • Ebrahim Shahabi*, Job Keijts, Izadyar Tamadon, and Cosimo Della Santina. “An Adaptive Reconfigurable Gripper Integrating Soft Fingers and Vision-Based Perception for Delicate Object Handling.”
  • Storm de Kam, Ebrahim Shahabi*, and Cosimo Della Santina. “SENSE-STEP: Learning Sim-to-Real Locomotion for a Sensory-Enabled Soft Quadruped Robot.”
  • Vito Daniele Perfetta, Daniel Feliu-Talegon, Ebrahim Shahabi, Cosimo Della Santina. “Reconciling distributed compliance with high-performance control in continuum soft robotics.”
  • Ebrahim Shahabi *, Sonal Santosh Baberwal, Zhaoting Li, Victor Munoz, Shirley Coyle, Jens Kober, and Cosimo Della Santina. “Taclight: A Camera-Free Soft Optical Tactile Sensor for Multi-Axis Sensing in Physical and Virtual Interaction.” (10.21203/rs.3.rs-8238291/v1).