FANNY FICUCIELLO

Fanny Ficuciello received the Laurea degree magna cum laude in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Naples Federico II in 2007. She received the Ph.D. degree in Computer and Automation Engineering at the University of Naples Federico II, in November 2010. Currently she is holding a Post Doctoral position at the University of Naples Federico II. Her research activity is focused on biomechanical design and bio-aware control strategies for anthropomorphic artificial hands, grasping and manipulation with hand/arm and dual arm robotic systems, human-robot interaction control, variable impedance control and redundancy resolution strategies. Recently she is involved also on surgical robotics research projects, as a member of the ICAROS center (Interdepartmental Center for Advances in Robotic Surgery) of the University of Naples Federico II. She has published more than 30 journal and conference papers and book chapters. She is the recipient of a National Grant within the "Programma STAR Linea 1" under which she is the PI of the MUSHA project. From 2008 she is member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. She is on the editorial board and involved in the organization of prestigious conferences in the field of robotics.

ALBERTO FINZI

Alberto Finzi is Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy. He received the Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from the Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy. He was Fulbright Visiting Scholar at NASA Ames Research Center, postdoctoral research activity was also carried out at Sapienza University of Rome and TU Wien. He has been recently involved in several research projects sponsored by the European Community, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the European Space Agency, the Italian Space Agency, FWF (Austrian Science Fund), the Italian Ministry for University and Research, and private industries. His current research interests include cognitive robotics, human–robot interaction, social robotics, executive and cognitive control, autonomous and adaptive systems, planning and scheduling systems, multiagent systems, and formal methods for autonomous systems.   

FABIO RUGGIERO

Fabio Ruggiero is currently Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy. He received the Laurea Specialistica degree (M.Sc.) in Automation Engineering from the University of Naples in 2007. He got the Ph.D. degree from the same institution in 2010. Fabio Ruggiero held a PostDoctoral position at Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at University of Naples from 2011 to December 2016. His research interests are focused on dexterous and dual-hand robotic manipulation, even by using UAVs with small robotic arms, dynamic non-prehensile manipulation, 3D object preshaping and reconstruction. He has co-authored about 27 journal papers, book chapters and conference papers. He is an active member of the IEEE and IEEE-RAS societies since 2007. Since 2015, Fabio Ruggiero is Associate Editor for the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Also, he was the recipient of the 2015 I-RAS Young Author Best Paper Award. Additionally, he is co-author of the best paper award within the 13th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, held in Lisbon, July 2016.

FEI CHEN

Dr Fei Chen is currently within the Department of Advanced Robotics, Italian Institute of Technology. He received the B.S. in computer science from Xi’an Jiao Tong University in 2006 and M.S in computer science from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2008. He received the Ph. D. degree in robotics from Nagoya University in 2012. Since he joined IIT, he has been working on several projects on industrial automation. Later as a group leader, he is coordinating a EU AutoMAP project (Funded within FP7 EUROC). His research interest is in the mobile manipulation, human and robot collaboration, robot learning and robot vision.

CHENGUANG YANG

Dr Chenguang Yang is a Senior Lecturer with Zienkiewicz Centre for Computational Engineering, Swansea University, UK, and is a senior member of IEEE. He received the B.Eng. degree in measurement and control from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China, in 2005, and the Ph.D. degree in control engineering from the National University of Singapore, Singapore, in 2010. He received postdoctoral training in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London, UK. He was the recipient of the Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship funded by the European Commission and EPSRC First Grant funded by RCUK. He was awarded the Best Paper Award of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics in 2011, and Best Conference Paper Award from 2016 International Conference on Human System Interaction (HSI), 2015 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation (ICIA) and 2015 International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA) as well as the Steve and Rosalind Hsia Best Biomedical Paper Award from 2014 World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA). His supervised PhD students received Best Student Paper Awards from 2014 IET ISSC, 2015 IEEE-CYBER and 2016 IEEE-ARM.

JONATHAN CACACE

Jonathan Cacace received M.S. Degree in Computer Science magna cum laude from University of Naples "Federico II" in 2012. He received the Ph.D. degree in Computer and Automation Engineering from the same institution. Currently he is a postdoc at PRISMA Lab. During his career he was been involved in the operative team of different national and eu-founded research projects. His research interests include: Human-Robot Interaction and Co-operation, Autonomous action planning and execution and aerial manipulation. He was technical reviewer of the book "Mastering Ros for Robotics Programming" and currently he is the author of the second edition for the same book.

MARIO SELVAGGIO

Mario SELVAGGIO received B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from University of Naples "Federico II", Italy, in 2013 and 2015, respectively. He is, currently, Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering of the same university. He has been master thesis student at Fraunhofer IGD (Darmstadt, Germany) from April to September 2014 and intern at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Genoa, Italy) from October 2015 to September 2016 working on FP7 EuRoC project. His research interests include: haptic feedback teleoperation, shared control and passivity-based control.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Arash Ajoudani
Salvatore Anzalone
Matteo Bianchi
Jonathan Cacace
Raffaella Carloni
Manuel Giuseppe Catalano
Amedeo Cesta
Fei Chen
Pietro Falco
Manolo Garabini
Giorgio Grioli
Sami Haddadin
Serena Ivaldi
Donghheui Lee
Fulvio Mastrogiovanni
Andrea Orlandini
Gianluca Palli
Paolo Robuffo Giordano
Silvia Rossi
Lorenzo Sabattini
Matteo Saveriano
Mario Selvaggio
Bram Vanderborght
Valeria Villani
Chenguang Yang
Andrea Maria Zanchettin