Since January 2009, I am Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics.
The book "Robotics: Modelling, Planning and Control", which I co-authored, has been published by Springer and is now available.

I received the Ph.D. in Control Engineering in 1992 from the University of Rome "La Sapienza". In 1990-1991 I was Visiting Scholar at the Center for Robotic Systems of the University of California at Santa Barbara. In 1994 I joined the Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica (DIS) of the University of Rome "La Sapienza", where I am currently an Associate Professor of Automatic Control and the coordinator of the DIS Robotics Laboratory. I have also held adjoint teaching positions at various italian universities, including the University of Siena in 1992-93, the University of Cassino in 1997-98 and the University of Roma Tre since 2002. Among other things, I have been Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics from 2001 to 2005 and the Organization Chair for the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.

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In the area of nonlinear control and robotics, and in particular: robot control, motion planning, trajectory planning, redundant robotic systems, control of underactuated and nonholonomic systems, sensor-based localization, navigation and perception for mobile robots, humanoid robots, visual servoing. A detailed description is here.

• Argomenti di Tesi
• Orientamento Robotica e Automazione della Laurea Magistrale in Ingegneria Elettronica
• Master in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

Corsi attivi

• Autonomous and Mobile Robotics (aka Robotica Mobile e Autonoma; Master in Intelligenza Artificiale e Robotica, Laurea Magistrale in Ingegneria dei Sistemi e Laurea Magistrale in Ingegneria Elettronica; pagina in preparazione)
• Fondamenti di Automatica (Laurea in Ingegneria Elettronica, nuovissimo ordinamento)

Corsi non pił attivi

• Controlli Automatici I modulo (Laurea in Ingegneria Elettronica, nuovo ordinamento)
• Controlli Automatici II modulo (Laurea/Laurea Specialistica in Ingegneria Elettronica, nuovo ordinamento)
• Sistemi Adattativi (Laurea Specialistica in Ingegneria dei Sistemi e Laurea Specialistica in Ingegneria Elettronica, nuovo ordinamento)
• Controlli Automatici (Ingegneria Elettronica, vecchio ordinamento)
• Complementi di Controlli Automatici (Universitą di Roma Tre)
• Control of Nonholonomic Systems (Corso di Dottorato in Ingegneria dei Sistemi)
• Mobile Robotics: Control Problems (slides of my lecture at the 2002 Annual CIRA School for Ph.D. Students)