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Luigi Villani was born in Avellino, Italy, on December 5, 1966. He received the Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering and the Research doctorate degree in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Naples Federico II in 1992 and 1996 respectively. Since 1992 he is with the Department of Computer and Systems Engineering where he is currently Associate Professor. From June to October 1995 he was a visiting scholar at the Laboratoire d'Automatique de Grenoble of the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble. His research interests include force/motion control of manipulators, cooperative robot manipulation, underwater robotics, adaptive and nonlinear control of mechanical systems, visual servoing, fault diagnosis and fault tolerance for dynamical systems. He has published more than 100 journal and conference papers, he is co-author of the booklet Solutions Manual for Modelling and Control of Robot Manipulators, 2nd Edition (Springer-Verlag, 2000; 1st Edition, McGraw-Hill, 1996), of the book Robot Force Control (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999) and of the book Fondamenti di Sistemi Dinamici (McGrw-Hill Libri Italia, 1999), and he is co-editor of the book Fault Diagnosis and Fault Tolerance for Mechatronic Systems (Springer-Verlag, 2002). Since January 2000 he is an Associate Editor on the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society, since January 2005 he is an Associate Editor on the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, and since August 2007 he is Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics. He has been in the committee of various international conferences. He is Senior Member of IEEE. |