Affiliation:
Associate ProfessorUniversity of Cassino and Southern Lazio
Cassino, Italy
Title:
Floating-base manipulators, toward underwater & aerial autonomy (click for download)
Abstract:
The need for robotic tools to be used in remote or hazard environments, such as the aerial or the underwater ones, requires advanced control solutions. The lecture will address possible kinematic and dynamic control strategies for floating-base manipulators, eventually involved in a cooperative operation. The work done by the speaker's research group in the framework of European and Italian projects will be shown.
Biography:
Gianluca Antonelli is an Associate Professor at the ``University of Cassino and Southern Lazio''. His research interests include marine and industrial robotics, multi-agent systems, identification. He has published 34 international journal papers and more than 90 conference papers; he is author of the book ``Underwater Robots'' (Springer-Verlag, 2003, 2006, 2014) and co-authored the chapter ``Underwater Robotics'' for the Springer Handbook of Robotics, (Springer-Verlag, 2008, 2015). Concerning European projects, he has been Scientific Responsible for Co3AUVs, Associate Editor for ECHORD and Key Scientist for ARCAS, EUROC, AEROARMS and WiMUST. He serves both as independent expert and reviewer for the European research calls since 2006. He is secretary of the IEEE-Italy section and chair of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) Italian Chapter; he has been Chair of the IEEE RAS Technical Committee in Marine Robotics. He served in the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and in the Springer Journal of Intelligent Service Robotics; he is Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology and Editor for the IEEE ICRA Conference Editorial Board.