G.Meoni, G. Giuffrida, L.Fanucci. "A High Throughput Hardware Architecture for Parallel Recursive Systematic Convolutional Encoders." Information 10.4 (2019): 151.

G.Dinelli, G.Meoni, E.Rapuano, G.Benelli, L.Fanucci: "A FPGA-based hardware accelerator for CNNs using on-chip memories only: design and benchmarking with Intel Movidius Neural Compute Stick", International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing

E. Vignali, F. Poli, F. di Bartolo, E. Gasparotti, A. Malacarne, V. Positano, L. Landini, S. Celi: “Biaxial and optomechanical characterization of soft tissues: a novel setup and experimental tests”, ESB-ITA Meeting 2019, September 2019

F. di Bartolo, E. Vignali, A. Malacarne, E. Gasparotti, V. Positano, L. Landini, S. Celi: “Optomechan-ical characterization of soft biological tissues: an integration of biaxial test and SALS technique”, 20th Congress of ESB, July 2019

G.Amato, L.Ciampi, F.Falchi, C.Gennaro, N.Messina: "Learning Pedestrian Detection from Virtual Worlds", International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP), September 2019

In this paper, we present a real-time pedestrian detection system that has been trained using a virtual environment. This is a very popular topic of research having endless practical applications and recently, there was an increasing interest in deep...

G.Amato, L.Ciampi, F.Falchi, C.Gennaro: "Counting Vehicles with Deep Learning in Onboard UAV Imagery", IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication (ISCC), June-July 2019

The integration of mobile and ubiquitous computing with deep learning methods is a promising emerging trend that aims at moving the processing task closer to the data source rather than bringing the data to a central node. The advantages of this...

G.Amato, P.Bolettieri, D.Moroni, F.Carrara, L.Ciampi, G.Pieri, C.Gennaro, G.R.Leone, C.Vairo: "A wireless smart camera network for parking monitoring", IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps), December 2018

L.Ciampi, G.Amato, F.Falchi, C.Gennaro, F.Rabitti: "Counting Vehicles with Cameras", Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (SEBD), June 2018

This paper aims to develop a method that can accurately count vehicles from images of parking areas captured by smart cameras. To this end, we have proposed a deep learning-based approach for car detection that permits the input images to be of...

R. Worsley, L. Pimpolari, D. McManus, N. Ge, R. Ionescu, J. A. Wittkopf, A. Alieva, G. Basso, M. Macucci, G. Iannaccone, K. Novoselov, H. Holder, G. Fiori, C. Casiraghi: “All-2D Material Inkjet-Printed Capacitors: Toward Fully Printed Integrated…

... Circuits”, ACS Nano, Nov. 2018

K. Capellini, E. Vignali, E. Costa, E. Gasparotti, M. E. Biancolini, L. Landini, V. Positano, S. Celi :"Computational fluid dynamic study for aTAA hemodynamics: an integrated image-based and RBF mesh morphing approach", J Biomech Eng, 2018 Jul 23.

We present a novel framework for the fluid dynamics analysis of healthy subjects and patients affected by ascending thoracic aorta aneurysm (aTAA). Our aim is to obtain indications about the effect of a bulge on the hemodynamic environment at different...

E. Gasparotti*, E. Vignali*, P. Losi, B. M. Fanni, M. Scatto, L. Landini, V. Positano, S. Celi: "A 3D printed melt-compounded antibiotic loaded thermoplastic polyurethane heart valve ring design: an integrated framework of experimental material [...]

[...] test and numerical simulations", International Journal of Polymeric Metarials and Polymeric Biomaterials, 68(1-3) 1-10. *equal contribution Heart diseases are one of the commonest causes of death worldwide. These include valve pathologies such as...

E. Vignali, Z. Manigrasso, E. Gasparotti, B. Biffi, L. Landini, V. Positano, C. Capelli, S. Celi: "Design, simulation, and fabrication of a three-dimensional printed pump mimicking the left ventricle motion", Int J Artif Organs, 42 (10) 539-547

The development of accurate replicas of the circulatory and cardiac system is fundamental for a deeper understanding of cardiovascular diseases and the testing of new devices. Although numerous works concerning mock circulatory loops are present in the...

L. Benvenuti, A. Catania, M. Cicalini, A. Ria, M. Piotto and P. Bruschi, "A 0.3 V 15 nW 69 dB SNDR Inverter-Based Δ∑ Modulator in 0.18 μm CMOS," 2019 15th Conference on Ph.D Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME), Lausanne, Switzerland,

A. Ria, A. Catania, M. Cicalini, L. Benvenuti, M. Piotto and P. Bruschi, "A Sub-1V CMOS Switched Capacitor Voltage Reference with high output current capability," 2019 15th Conference on Ph.D Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME), Laus

P Bruschi, A Catania, S Del Cesta, M Piotto - "A two-stage switched-capacitor integrator for high gain inverter-like architectures", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs 2019

A. De Franco, E. Lamon, P. Balatti, E. De Momi, A. Ajoudani: "An Intuitive Augmented Reality Interface for Task Scheduling, Monitoring, and Work Performance Improvement in Human-Robot Collaboration", IEEE IWOBI, July 2019.

One of the open challenges in Human-Robot collaborative tasks is to provide a simple way for humans to understand robotic systems’ plans and actions and to interact with them in the most natural way. Towards the direction of a natural interaction...

Y. Wu*, P. Balatti*, M. Lorenzini, F. Zhao, W. Kim, A. Ajoudani: "A Teleoperation Interface for Loco-manipulation Control of Mobile Collaborative Robotic Assistant (MOCA)", IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL), July 2019.

This paper presents a novel teleoperation interface that enables remote loco-manipulation control of a MObile Collaborative robotic Assistant (MOCA). MOCA is a new research platform developed at IIT, which is composed by a lightweight manipulator arm,...

W. Kim, M. Lorenzini, P. Balatti,et al.: "Adaptable Workstations for Human-Robot Collaboration: A Reconfigurable Framework for Improving Worker Ergonomics and Productivity", IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine (RAM), March 2019.

Musculoskeletal disorders, the single largest category of work-related injuries in many industrial countries, are associated with very high costs in terms of lost productivity. In high-volume production facilities, large parts of the workstation should...

M. Lorenzini, F. Fusaro, P. Balatti, E. De Momi, F. Mastrogiovanni, W. Kim, A. Ajoudani: "Toward a Synergistic Framework for Human-Robot Coexistence and Collaboration (HRC2)", Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines Conference (I-RIM),Oct2019

This paper presents a proof of concept for a synergistic framework for human-robot coexistance and collabora- tion (HRC2). By exploiting the loco-manipulation potential of our recently developed MObile Collaborative robotic Assistant (MOCA), we...

P. Balatti, D. Kanoulas, N. Tsagarakis, A. Ajoudani: "Towards Robot Interaction Autonomy: Explore, Identify, and Interact ", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2019.

Nowadays, robots are expected to enter in various application scenarios and interact with unknown and dynamically changing environments. This highlights the need for creating autonomous robot behaviours to explore such environments, identify their...