Vitae

Short Bio: Alessandro Marino was born in Potenza, Italy, on 1st of March 1982. He received the Laurea Degree suuma cum Laude in Computer Science (5 years course) in March 2006 in Computer Science at the University of Naples Federico II. In March 2010 he received the Ph.D Degree (3 years) in Industrial Innovation Engineering at the University of Basilicata, Italy.
From April 2007 to September 2007 he was visiting scholar at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenessee, under the supervision of Prof. Lynne E. Parker.
From June 2010 to September 2011 he was visiting scholar at the Institute for Systems and Robotics of the Instituto Superior Técnico under the supervision of Prof. António Pascoal.
From October 2018, he is Associate Professor in Automatic Control and Robotus at University of Cassino and Southern Lazio.
From December 2011 to September 2018, he was Assistant Professor of Automatic Control at the University of Salerno, Italy.
He is local Principal Investigator of the H2020-ICT Project CANOPIES–A Collaborative Paradigm for Human Workers and Multi-Robot Teams in Precision Agriculture Systems (Grant Agreement N. 101016906).
He was local Principal Investigator of the H2020-CS2 Project LABOR–LABOR-Lean robotized AssemBly and cOntrol of composite aeRostructures (Grant Agreement N. 785419).
From 2013 to 2016, he was managing LOCOMACHS and STEP FAR projects about the application of robotized solutions to aircraft manufacturing.
From 2007 to 2009 he was part of the ROSED Research Project aimed at building a PC-based open architecture for cooperative robotic work cells funded by the Italian Space Agency.
From 2010 to 2011 he was part of the European Project Co3-AUVs (Cooperative Cognitive Control for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles) aimed at developing, implementing and testing advanced cognitive systems for coordination and cooperative control of multiple AUVs.
He was involved in a National Interest Research Project (PRIN 2009) “ROCOCO Collaborative Cooperative Robotics” and is involved in two projects funded by the European Commission (ECHORD, EUROC).
He is Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and of the Italian Society of Professors and Researches of Automatic Control (SIDRA).
He is awarded of the national scientific qualification to full professor in the Automation sector (SSD. ING-INF/04).

More information about my scientific activity can be found here (in English) and here (in Italian)

Education:

(Nov. 2006 - March 2010) Ph.D Degree (3 years) in “Industrial Innovation Engineering” at the University of Basilicata, Italy in march 2010.
(Sept. 2000 - March 2006) Laurea Degree cum Laude in Computer Science (5 years) in 2006 in Computer Science at the University of Naples Federico II.

Employment:

(2018-present) Associate Professor. University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy-Department of Electrical and Information Engineering (DIEI)
(2012-2018) University of Salerno, Italy Assistant Professor (permanent position) - Department of Information Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics (DIEM)
(Sept. 2011 - Dec. 2011) Italian Aerospace Research Center- CIRA, Capua, Italy Researcher (permanent position) in the field of aerospace systems
(July 2010 - July 2011) University of Cassino, Italy Post-doc – Computer Science Department.

Editorial activity:

(2018-present) Associate Editor of IEEE Transaction on Control Systems Technology Systems
(2016-present) Associate Editor of SAGE- International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems
(2016-2018) Member of the Program Committee of Workshop on Discrete Event Systems (WODES), Sorrento, Italy, 2018
(2016-present) Associate Editor of 12th Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, and International Symposium on Assembly and Manufacturing (CASE/ICAM)
(2016-present) Member of the Program Committee of IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC)
(2015-present) Review Editor of Frontiers Journal-Robotics AI/Robotic Control Systems
(2014-present) Member of the Program Committee of IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation (ICIA)
(2013-present) Associate Editor of IEEE International Conference in Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
(2013-present) Member of the Program Committee of IEEE Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)
(2013-present) Member of the Program Committee of International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS)

Project Activities:

(Jan.20–present). H2020-ICT Project "CANOPIES-A Collaborative Paradigm for Human Workers and Multi-Robot Teams in Precision Agriculture Systems" (Grant Agreement N. 101016906). He is the local Principal Investigator and Work Package Leader. The main task within the project is to design human-robot cooperative and bimanual manipulation strategies in precision farming.
(Oct.17–Sept.18). H2020-CS2 Project LABOR-Lean robotized AssemBly and cOntrol of composite aeRostructures under (Grant Agreement N. 785419). H2020 Project LABOR-Lean robotized AssemBly and cOntrol of composite aeRostructures under GA n. 785419. He was the local Principal Investigator and Work Package Leader. The main task within the project is to design human-robot cooperative strategies for aircraft assembly operations.
(Mar.12–Jun.16). FP7-ICT-2007-3, LOCOMACHS (Low Cost Manufacturing and Assembly of Composite and Hybrid Structures-Project Coordinator: SAAB Group). He was in charge of all the management and technical activities. Concerning the technical activities, he was in charge of the setup of the work-cell, of developing and testing solutions for force based cooperative robotized drilling of aircraft aluminium stacks by two cooperative Comau SmartSix robots.
(Apr.14-Sett.17). DAC_PON03PE_00129, STEP FAR (Development of environmentally friendly materials and technologies for drilling, cutting and robotic assembly processes). He was in charge of the setup of the work-cell, of developing and testing solutions for force based cooperative robotized drilling of aircraft carbon fibre-aluminium stacks by two cooperative Comau SmartSix robots. Moreover, a third robot was added in coordination with the other two robots for the transportation of a high resolution camera sensor for parts and robot localizations. Vision algorithms were designed by University of Naples.
(2009-2013). FP7-ICT-2007-2013, ECHORD, European Clearing House for Open Robotics Development. He was in charge of monitoring technical activities of 8 funded projects (every two months) within ECHORD, of analysing periodic reports, deliverables and delay with respect to plans, and of participating to meetings held at partners laboratories. He was also involved in the design and development of the assessment phase of the project.
(2009-2012). FP7-ICT-2007-3: Co3AUVs, Cooperative Cognitive Control for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles. Development of coordination algorithms for distributed patrolling in marine scenarios. Within this project, he designed and tested on team of three surface vehicles (during his stay at the ISR Institute-Lisbon) and on a team of two underwater vehicles (NURC-La Spezia) patrolling algorithms based on Gaussian Processes.

Achievements in technology transfer:

(2019-present) Member of the Board of Administrators of Everybotics Srl.
(2015-present) EU-H2020 project Evaluator expert.
(2009-2011) Consultant of CREATE consortium for the development of constrained trajectory planning of industrial robots for point-to-point and fly motions commissioned by COMAU Robotics, Beinasco (Torino), Italy.
(2007-2009) Consultant of CREATE consortium for the development of trajectory planning both in joint and operative space, commissioned by COMAU Robotics, Beinasco (Torino), Italy.
(2007-2009) part of the team for the RObotics SErvicing Demonstrator-ROSED projects aimed to the installation of a cooperative robotic cell at the Italian Space Agency (ASI), Matera, Italy. He carried out the setup of the real-time operative system and he contributed to the development and test of an API for realizing cooperative control algorithms. A Linux- based software environment was the core of the controller, capable of integrating: two communication links to/from the manipulators motors drives/joints sensors, measurements from two wrist-mounted force/torque sensors, management of the two grippers mounted at the end effector of each manipulator and of two joysticks issuing cartesian motion commands.

Research at foreign institution and agreement:

(February 2017- 1 week) Visiting Researcher at Unitwente, Netherlands.
(2016-present) Responsible of the Erasmus Traineeship Agreement with the Robotics and Mechatronic group-University of Twente, Nederland.
(2015-present) Responsible of the Erasmus Agreement with Research Center Tecnalia-San Sebastiao, Spagna
(2015-present) Responsible of the Erasmus Agreement with LAAS-CNRS (Resp. Antonio Franchi).
(April 2007 - Sept. 2007) Visiting scholar at University of Knoxville (at Distributed Intelligence Laboratory). Prof. Lynne E. Parker Advisor.
(July 2011) Visiting Researcher at Institute for Systems and Robotics / IST, Lisbon. Prof. Antònio Pascoal Advisor.

Other activities:

(2019) Best Paper Finalist Award at the IEEE International Conference on Systems Man and Cybernetics (SMC) 2019..
(2018) Best Associate Editor Award for the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Conference..
(2017) Award for "Finanziamento delle attività base di ricerca" (FFABR-Ricercatori), Call MIUR 2017..
(2016) Chair session at ICRA-IEEE International Conference on Robotics and automation.
(2016) Organizer of seminars about LabView for Control, taught by National Instruments.
(2015) Co-author of the finalist "Best Paper Robotics" at the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics.
(2015) Invited for participation by National Instruments at the Round Table about Cyber- Physical Systems, Delft, Holland.
(2009) Invited talk about Multi-Robot systems and Multi-Robot patrolling at PhD School- Bertinoro.
(2009) Co-author of the finalist "Best Paper Robotics" at the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics.
(2009) Chair session at 7th IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles (2010).
(2009) Chair session at International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (2009).
Advisor of several master theses about control and coordination of multi-robot systems, control of robotic manipulators, force control of cooperative robotic manipulators.
(Since 2010) He is member of the IEEE and of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.
(Since 2010) He is member of Società Italiana Docenti e Ricercatori in Automatica.
(April 2013- March 2016) Secretary of Consiglio Didattico di Ingegneria Informatica
(April 2013- present) Web Delegate for the Consiglio Didattico di Ingegneria Informatica.
(June 2016- present) Member of the Web Commission for the Department of Information Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics
(February 2016-present) Member of the Project Commission for the Department of Information Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics.