A. Buffi, A. Motroni, P. Nepa, B. Tellini and R. Cioni, "A SAR-Based Measurement Method for Passive-Tag Positioning With a Flying UHF-RFID Reader," in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.

This paper presents and characterizes a measurement method for positioning of passive tags, by a drone equipped with a UHF-RFID reader. The method is based on a synthetic aperture radar approach and exploits the knowledge of the reader/drone trajectory,...

Mattia G. Campana, Franca Delmastro: "Recommender Systems for Online and Mobile Social Networks: A survey", Online Social Networks and Media, Volumes 3–4, 2017

Recommender Systems (RS) currently represent a fundamental tool in online services, especially with the advent of Online Social Networks (OSN). In this case, users generate huge amounts of contents and they can be quickly overloaded by useless...

Mattia G. Campana, Dimitris Chatzopoulos, Franca Delmastro, Pan Hui: "Lightweight Modeling of User Context Combining Physical and Virtual Sensor Data", CPD-UbiComp, Singapore, October 8-12, 2018

Context-awareness refers to the ability of a system to adapt and respond proactively to the changes in the user's situation. The multitude of data generated by sensors available on users' mobile devices, combined with advances in machine learning...

F. Righetti, C. Vallati and G. Anastasi, "IoT Applications in Smart Cities: A Perspective Into Social and Ethical Issues," 2018 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP), Taormina, Sicily, Italy, 2018.

The possibility of interconnecting any kind of device to the Internet is driving the adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm also in a city environment. Many IoT applications are making the Smart City concept real, offering advanced services...

C.Vallati,F.Righetti,G.Tanganelli,E.Mingozzi and G.Anastasi,"ECOAP:Experimental Assessment of Congestion Control Strategies for CoAP Using the WiSHFUL Platform,"2018 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP),Taormina,Sicily,Italy

Future Smart Cities will be enabled by a pervasive fabric of sensors and actuators, seamlessly integrated within information systems. This large-scale Internet of Things (IoT) will bring a new level of challenges to existing communication networks and...

M. Moscadelli, M. Diani, G. Corsini, A. Riccobono, A. Porta - Polynomial-fitting Temperature and Emissivity Separation in LWIR Hyperspectral Imaging. 9th IEEE WHISPERS Conference, 23rd-26th September 2018, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

P. Nannipieri, D.Davalle, L. Fanucci, "A Novel Parallel 8B/10B Encoder: Architecture and Comparison with Classical Solution", IEICE TRANS. FUNDAMENTALS, VOL.E101–A, NO.7 JULY 2018

8B/10B is an encoding technique largely used in different communication protocols, with several advantages such as zero DC bias. In the last years transmission rates have grown rapidly, thus the need of encoders with better performance in terms of...

P. Nannipieri, G. Dinelli, D.Davalle, L. Fanucci, "A SpaceFibre multi lane codec System on a Chip: enabling technology for low cost satellite EGSE", PRIME 2018 conference, Prague

In the last few years, data rate requirement on onboard satellite communication systems significantly grown. The need of high speed networks led to the birth of the SpaceFibre protocol, which is able to run at several Gigabit per second and operates...

P. Nannipieri, G. Dinelli, D.Davalle, L. Fanucci, "A SpaceFibre multi lane codec System on a Chip: enabling technology for low cost satellite EGSE", PRIME 2018 conference, Prague

In the last few years, data rate requirement on onboard satellite communication systems significantly grown. The need of high speed networks led to the birth of the SpaceFibre protocol, which is able to run at several Gigabit per second and operates...

M. Moscadelli, A. Riccobono, C. Giunti, E. Guadagnoli, A. Porta, Polynomial-fitting Temperature-Emissivity Separation in Thermal IR Hyperspectral Imagery - Polaris Innovation Journal, Issue 35, Leonardo S.p.A. Technical Review, September 2018.

This paper presents a new algorithm for the Temperature-Emissivity Separation (TES) task in LWIR hyperspectral imagery. The joint retrieval of both physical quantities from the measured radiance represents an ill-posed problem. Moreover, the atmosphere...

D. Mulfari, G.Meoni, M.Marini, L. Fanucci (2018) - Towards a Deep Learning Based ASR System for Users with Dysarthria, 16th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, University

In this paper, we investigate the benefits of deep learning approaches for the development of personalized assistive technology solutions for users with dysarthria, a speech disorder that leads to low intelligibility of users’ speaking. It prevents...

Structural and Thermoanalytical Characterization of 3D Porous PDMS Foam Materials: The Effect of Impurities Derived from a Sugar Templating Process

José Gonzàlez-Rivera, Rossella Iglio, Giuseppe Barillaro, Celia Duce and Maria Rosaria Tinè Polymers 2018 , 10 (6), 616; https://doi.org/10.3390/polym10060616 Abstract Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) polymers are extensively used in a wide range of research...

B. Delalat, C. Cozzi, S. R. Ghaemi, G. Polito, F. H. Kriel, T. D. Michl, F. J. Harding, C. Priest, G. Barillaro, and N. H. Voelcker, Microengineered Bioartificial Liver Chip for Drug Toxicity Screening, Advanced Functional Materials, 2018

Microfluidic 3D cell culture is a promising technology for the screening of drug toxicity profiles. In this study, a bioartificial liver consisting of a surfaceengineered microfluidic silicon chip with microtrenches mimicking hepatic sinusoids is shown...

Cominelli, L., Mazzei, D., & De Rossi, D. E. (2018). SEAI: Social Emotional Artificial Intelligence Based on Damasio’s Theory of Mind. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 5, 6.

A socially intelligent robot must be capable to extract meaningful information in real time from the social environment and react accordingly with coherent human-like behavior. Moreover, it should be able to internalize this information, to reason on it...

Lazzeri, N., Mazzei, D., Cominelli, L., Cisternino, A., & De Rossi, D. E. (2018). Designing the Mind of a Social Robot. Applied Sciences, 8(2), 302.

Humans have an innate tendency to anthropomorphize surrounding entities and have always been fascinated by the creation of machines endowed with human-inspired capabilities and traits. In the last few decades, this has become a reality with enormous...

Cominelli, L., Carbonaro, N., Mazzei, D., Garofalo, R., Tognetti, A., & De Rossi, D. (2017). A Multimodal Perception Framework for Users Emotional State Assessment in Social Robotics. Future Internet, 9(3), 42.

In this work, we present an unobtrusive and non-invasive perception framework based on the synergy between two main acquisition systems: the Touch-Me Pad, consisting of two electronic patches for physiological signal extraction and processing; and the...

Avvenuti, M., Cresci, S., Nizzoli, L., & Tesconi, M. (2018, June). GSP (Geo-Semantic-Parsing): geoparsing and geotagging with machine learning on top of linked data. In European Semantic Web Conference (pp. 17-32). Springer, Cham.

Research Best Paper Candidate: https://2018.eswc-conferences.org/program/tuesday-june-5/#not-set:all Available at: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-93417-4_2

Simone Del Cesta, Andrea Ria, Roberto Simmarano, Massimo Piotto and Paolo Bruschi, "A compact programmable differential voltage reference with unbuffered 4 mA output current capability and ±0.4 % untrimmed spread"

ESSCIRC 2017 - 43rd IEEE European Solid State Circuits Conference - 10.1109/ESSCIRC.2017.8094513. -- A compact differential voltage reference cell, which combines an original switched capacitor integrator with a digitally programmable bandgap core, is...

R. Iglio,S. Mariani, V. Robbiano,L.Strambini and G. Barillaro. Flexible Polydimethylsiloxane Foams Decorated with Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes Enable Unprecedented Detection of Ultralow Strain and Pressure Coupled with a Large Working Range.

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces DOI 10.1021/acsami.8b02322 Low-cost piezoresistive strain/pressure sensors with large working range, at the same time able to reliably detect ultralow strain (≤0.1%) and pressure (≤1 Pa), are one of the challenges...

R. Costanzi, D. Fenucci, V. Manzari, A. Caiti, "Bearing-only AUV tracking performance: Unscented Kalman Filter estimation against uncertainty in underwater nodes position", IFAC 2017 World Congress, Toulouse (France)

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles require highly accurate autonomous navigation to achieve long-term tasks while collecting data that need to be correctly georeferenced. Nevertheless, no standard evaluation methods for vehicle navigation skills exist, and...