MechE Seminar Series: Bruno Siciliano

Speaker: Bruno Siciliano

Title: Robot Manipulation and Control

Abstract: This talk presents research results @ PRISMA Lab on robot manipulation and control. The talk is organized in four parts. In the first part, control techniques for dynamic nonprehensile manipulation are presented. The second part of the talk focuses on how to merge learning and model-based strategies to provide autonomy to robot manipulation. In the third part, several aerial robotics applications for inspection and maintenance are surveyed. The fourth part of the talk deals with recent advances on shared control including haptic guidance.

About the Speaker: Bruno Siciliano is professor of robotics and control at the University of Naples Federico II. He is also Honorary Professor at the University of Óbuda where he holds the Kálmán Chair. His research interests in robotics include manipulation and control, human–robot cooperation, and service robotics. Fellow of the scientific societies IEEE, ASME, IFAC, he has received numerous international prizes and awards, including the recent 2024 IEEE RAS Pioneer Award in Robotics and Automation. He was President of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society from 2008 to 2009. He has delivered more than 150 keynotes and has published more than 300 papers and 7 books. His book “Robotics” is among the most adopted academic texts worldwide, while his edited volume “Springer Handbook of Robotics” has received the highest recognition for scientific publishing: the 2008 PROSE Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences & Mathematics. His team has received more than 25 million Euro funding in the last 18 years from competitive European research projects, including two ERC grants. More details are available at http://wpage.unina.it/sicilian/