Work topic: soft robotics-enabled biological transformation of manufacturing
Scientific and technical responsible of the BIOIC project for the UNINA side.
Design, modeling, simulation and control of flexible robots for maintenance and inspection in nuclear fusion reactors.
Bioinspired soft robotic technologies for enabling challenging applications in remote environments.
Wearable soft robotic technologies for measurement and assistance of human movements.
Robotic sanitizer for tubes full of biological samples.
3D body scanner for medical applications.
Work topic: soft robotics for industrial and medical applications
Work topic: multibody modeling and simulations of the telescopic articulated remote manipulator
Work topic: Vibration control for nonlinear flexible systems
Work topic: Geometrically exact beam modeling for slender robots
Work topic: structural simulator for robotic remote handling in hazardous domains
Dissertation: "Geometric soft robotics: a finite element approach"
Grade: 110/110 cum laude
Grade: 110/110 cum laude
Award received at the conference "OMC Med Energy Conference 2021" for the paper "Remote handling system for the DTT fusion reactor: a system engineering approach for preliminary conceptual design of the main robotic equipment".
First prize in the category "University and Research" for the "Innovation 4.0 Prize", assigned at "Automation and Testing 2021" to the project "SIAM0-SOFT: progettazione di un Sistema Innovativo per Applicazioni di Misura e manutenzione 4.0 basato su tecnologie di SOFT robotica" (link)
Award received at the conference "2019 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Industry 4.0 and IoT" for the paper "Evaluation of human joint angles in industrial tasks using OpenSim".
Award received for the Ph.D. Thesis "Geometric soft robotics: a finite element approach". The Georges Giralt PhD Award is assigned annually by euRobotics AISBL to the best European PhD thesis in robotics (link)
Grant received for the three-years project FlexARM "Flexible robots enabling Autonomous Remote Maintenance in nuclear fusion environments" from EUROfusion