M. Monopoli, L. Zulberti, P. Nannipieri, L. Fanucci and S. Moranti, "Exploring Key Aspects of Soft GPGPU Computing for On-board Acceleration of Artificial Intelligence Algorithms in Space Applications," EDHPC 2023 Conference, Juan-Les-Pins, France

Artificial Intelligence has gained widespread adoption across different industrial sectors, serving as a versatile tool to carry out a diverse array of tasks, ranging from image classification and traffic forecasting to natural language processing and...

M. Monopoli, L. Zulberti, G. Todaro, P. Nannipieri and L. Fanucci, "Exploiting FPGA Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration for a Soft GPU-based System-on-Chip," 2023 18th PRIME Conference, Valencia, Spain, 2023, pp. 181-184

For many years, General Purpose Computing on Graphic Processing Units has been widely exploited in different fields of application. The hardware architectures enabling this kind of computation are increasingly complex, and their use for on-the-edge...

T. Pacini, E. Rapuano, L. Fanucci: “FPG-AI: A Technology-Independent Framework for the Automa-tion of CNN Deployment on FPGAs”, IEEE Access, March 2023

In recent years, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have demonstrated outstanding results in several emerging classification tasks. The high-quality predictions are often achieved with computationally intensive workloads that hinder the hardware...

LA De Santi, A Meloni, MF Santarelli, L Pistoia, A Spasiano, T Casini, MC Putti, L Cuccia, F Cademartiri, V Positano: "Left Ventricle Detection from Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Relaxometry Images Using Visual Transformer". Sensors (Basel). Mar. 2023

Left Ventricle (LV) detection from Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) imaging is a fundamental step, preliminary to myocardium segmentation and characterization. This paper focuses on the application of a Visual Transformer (ViT), a novel neural network...

W.-X. Long, R. Chen, M. Moretti, W. Zhang, J. Li, "Joint OAM Radar-Communication Systems: Target Recognition and Beam Optimization"

Abstrac: Orbital angular momentum (OAM) radars are able to estimate the azimuth angle and the rotation velocity of multiple targets without relative motion or beam scanning. Moreover, OAM wireless communications can achieve high spectral efficiency...

G. Marchello, E. Fontana, R. Giovanelli, F. Cannella, A. Traviglia: "Cultural Heritage Digital Preservation through AI-driven Robotics", The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences 2023

Abstract This paper introduces a novel methodology developed for creating 3D models of archaeological artifacts that reduces the time and effort required by operators. The approach uses a simple vision system mounted on a robotic arm that follows a...

N. Corsinovi, R. Ciardi, E. Pagani, M. Bertolucci and L. Fanucci, "Adaptive Equalization as Method for Satellite Communication Channel Characterization" IEEE 10th International Workshop on Metrology for AeroSpace, Milan, Italy, Jul. 2023, pp. 580-584

Abstract: During the last few years, the resolution increase of satellite on-board sensors has required to process collected massive data volume faster. To do so, the development of very-high throughput communication systems, particularly by adopting...

E. Pagani, N. Corsinovi, M. Bertolucci and L. Fanucci, "Design and FPGA implementation of a high-speed transposed Farrow structure for arbitrary resampling in digital receivers,"18th PRIME Conference, Valencia, Spain, 2023, pp. 373-376

Abstract: Sample rate conversion is a fundamental operation performed in the digital front-end of software-defined radio and all-digital receivers. Within this context, polynomial-based filters, such as the Farrow structure and its variants, are a...

Simonte, G., Di Rienzo, R., Verani, A., Baronti, F., Roncella, R., & Saletti, R. (2022, December). Rest Time Effect on the Series Resistance of Sodium-Metal Halide Battery. In 2022 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy

Sodium-Metal Halide Batteries are an interesting alternative to the Lithium-ion ones in stationary applications. However, their complex chemistry requires an accurate battery model to fully exploit the battery capabilities. The electric-equivalent...

Simonte, G., Di Rienzo, R., Baronti, F., Roncella, R., & Saletti, R. (2022, Septem- ber). Improvement of Sodium-Metal Halide Battery Electrical Equivalent Model Including Temperature Dependency. In International Conference on Applica- tions in Electr

Sodium-Metal Halide Batteries are a very promising alternative to the Lithium-ion ones for stationary applications, but their chemical complexity requires an accurate battery model to optimize their use. The electrical equivalent model of the battery...

Simonte, G., Di Rienzo, R., Biagioni, I., Baronti, F., Roncella, R., & Saletti, R. (2021, September). Novel setup to extend the temperature characterization range of a sodium-metal halide battery. In International Conference on Applications in Electr

Sodium-Metal Halide Batteries might be a good candidate to compete with Lithium-ion batteries for stationary applications. However, their characteristics cannot be fully exploited by the Battery Management System if an accurate battery model to be used...

Simonte, G., Di Rienzo, R., Verani, A., Nicodemo, N., Baronti, F., Roncella, R., & Saletti, R. (2023). Reliability Estimation of Commercial Na-NiCl2 batteries using Theoretical and Simulative approaches. IEEE Access.

Sodium-Metal Halide Batteries are a promising and cheap alternative to lithium-ion ones for stationary applications such as smart grids. However, the reliability of their elementary cell is low, and a battery composed of hundreds of cells could likely...

Pachetti, E.; Colantonio, S. 3D-Vision-Transformer Stacking Ensemble for Assessing Prostate Cancer Aggressiveness from T2w Images. Bioengineering 2023, 10, 1015.

Vision transformers represent the cutting-edge topic in computer vision and are usually employed on two-dimensional data following a transfer learning approach. In this work, we propose a trained-from-scratch stacking ensemble of 3D-vision transformers...

L. Borgianni, S. Troia, D. Adami, G. Maier and S. Giordano, "From MPLS to SD-WAN to ensure QoS and QoE in cloud-based applications," 2023 IEEE 9th International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), Madrid, Spain, 2023

Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE) are the most relevant requirements for new advanced services comprising integrated cooperation between processing, storage, sensing, and transmission capabilities. As reliance on technology...

G. Meucci, F. Mancuso, E. Giusti, A. Kumar, S. Ghio and M. Martorella, "Point Cloud Transformer (PCT) for 3D-InISAR Automatic Target Recognition," 2023 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf23), San Antonio, TX, USA, 2023, pp. 1-6

2D-ISAR produces images that strictly depend on the geometry of the whole radar-target system and on the relative motion between radar and target. This poses some limits on the use of Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) systems. To overcome this issue,...

Donati, M.; Olivelli, M.; Giovannini, R.; Fanucci, L. "ECG-Based Stress Detection and Productivity Factors Monitoring: The Real-Time Production Factory System"

Productivity and production quality have become primary goals for the success of companies in all industrial and manufacturing sectors. Performance in terms of productivity is influenced by several factors including machinery efficiency, work...

Learning-Based Traffic Scheduling in Non-Stationary Multipath 5G Non-Terrestrial Networks

Actor-Critic Scheduling for Path-Aware Air-to-Ground Multipath Multimedia Delivery

G. Bacci, R. De Gaudenzi, M. Luise, L. Sanguinetti and E. Sebastiani, "Formation-of-Arrays Antenna Technology for High-Throughput Mobile Non-Terrestrial Networks," in IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 14 February 2023, p. 1-18

Effective integration of terrestrial and non-terrestrial segments is one of the key research avenues in the design of current and future wireless communication networks. To this aim, modern communication-satellite constellations intend to attain...

W.-X. Long, Z. Tian, R. Chen and M. Moretti, "MEMS-Based Hybrid Mechanical-Electronic Beam Steering for THz OAM Communication Chips"

The terahertz (THz) wireless communication has attracted wide attention due to its broadband spectral resources, which are regarded as one of the cornerstones of next-generation wireless communication networks. Meanwhile, the radio frequency orbital...