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.
Bio: Bruno Siciliano is Professor of Control and Robotics, Chair of the Scientific Council of the Interdepartmental Center for Advanced Robotics in Surgery (ICAROS) and Coordinator of the PRISMA Lab in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at University of Naples Federico II. He is also Honorary Professor of óbuda University, where he holds the Kálmán Chair. He is a Board Director and Head of the Robotics Department at CREATE Consortium. He has co-authored/co-edited 19 books, more than 130 journal papers and more than 300 conference papers/book chapters; his book Robotics: Modelling, Planning and Control is one of the most widely adopted textbooks worldwide and has been translated into Chinese, Greek and Italian. He has delivered more than 30 keynotes, more than 150 invited lectures and seminars at institutions worldwide, and he has been the recipient of several awards, including the recent IEEE RAS Pioneer in Robotics and Automation Award (2024). He is a Fellow of IEEE, ASME, IFAC and AAIA. He is co-editor of the Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics series, the Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics series, and has served on the Editorial Boards of several journals as well as chair or co-chair for numerous international conferences. He co-edited the Springer Handbook of Robotics, which received the AAP PROSE Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences & Mathematics and was also the winner in the category Engineering & Technology (2009). His group has been granted twenty-five European projects, including a Synergy Grant and an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council. He has served the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society as President, as Vice-President for Technical Activities and Vice-President for Publications, as a member of the AdCom, and as a Distinguished Lecturer. He has been a Board Director of the European Robotics Association. Professor Siciliano is currently an IFAC Pavel J. Nowacki Distinguished Lecturer, a member of the International Foundation of Robotics Research Board and a member of the Advisory Board of Rovial Space.