M. Piotto, S. Del Cesta, P. Bruschi, "A Compact, Dual Channel Flow-based Differential Pressure Sensor with mPa Resolution and Sub-10 mW Power Consumption", Eurosensor, 2016

In this work, we propose a single-chip sensor for the detection of two extremely low, independent differential pressures. The operating principle consists in measuring the airflow induced by the pressure through a channel of sub-millimeter...

F. Vellucci, G. Pede, F. Baronti, R. Di Rienzo, F. Cignini:” Effects of fast charge on a lithium-ion battery system" 2016 Electric Vehicle Symposium & Exhibition 29 (EVS29), June 19-22, 2016

The paper is related to a study that analyzes the effects of fast charge on a lithium-ion storage system at its different architectural levels: cell, battery module, complete battery system. A first set of tests was executed on a lithium-iron-phosphate...

G. Lettieri, V. Maffione, L. Rizzo: "A survey of fast packet I/O technologies for Network Function Virtualization", VHPC 2017, 12th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) aims at bringing the benefits of virtualization to network middleboxes (routers, firewalls, Intrusion Detection Systems, . . . ). In the last few years the NFV use-case, initially hampered by the poor performance of...

R. MORELLO, F. BARONTI, X. TIAN, T. CHAU, R. DI RIENZO, R. RONCELLA, B. JEPPESEN, W. H. LIN, T. IKUSHI-MA, R. SALETTI: “HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP SIMULATION OF FPGA-BASED STATE ESTIMATORS FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE BATTERIES”, ISIE 2016, 8-10 JUNE 2016

This paper describes a hardware-in-the-loop (HiL) simulation platform specifically designed to test state estimators for Li-ion batteries in electric vehicle applications. Two promising estimators, the Mix algorithm combined with the moving window least...

M. Piotto, S. Del Cesta, G. Argnenio, R. Simmarano, P. Bruschi, "A Compact Low-Offset Instrumentation Amplifier with Wide Input and Output Ranges", Congresso Nazionale Sensori (CNS), 2016

In this work, a new architecture for the design of very compact instrumentation amplifiers is proposed. The amplifier has been specifically developed for use as a versatile block for sensor interfacing. The most innovative feature of the proposed cell...

PIETRO NANNIPIERI, [...], ROBERTO DI RIENZO, LUCA FANUCCI, FEDERICO BARONTI:"THE U-PHOS EXPERIENCE WITHIN THE ESA STUDENT REXUS/BEXUS PROGRAMME: A REAL SPACE HANDS-ON OPPORTUNITY", 2017 IEEE EDUCON

U-PHOS (Upgraded PHP Only for Space) is a project developed by a team of students from the University of Pisa with the goal to analyze and characterize the behavior of a Pulsating Heat Pipe (PHP), one of the most attractive two phases passive systems...

R. MORELLO, R. DI RIENZO, R. RONCELLA, R. SALETTI AND F. BARONTI, "TUNING OF MOVING WINDOW LEAST SQUARES-BASED ALGORITHM FOR ONLINE BATTERY PARAMETER ESTIMATION," SMACD 2017, GIARDINI NAXOS, ITALY, 2017, PP. 1-4.

Online battery parameter identification algorithms, such as the Moving Window Least Squares, allow model-based state estimators with low computational intensity to be very accurate. This paper presents a procedure for tuning the algorithm parameters by...

R. MORELLO, R. DI RIENZO, F. BARONTI, R. RONCELLA AND R. SALETTI, "SYSTEM ON CHIP BATTERY STATE ESTIMATOR: E-BIKE CASE STUDY", IECON 2016 - 42ND ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS SOCIETY, FLORENCE, 2016

This paper discusses the hardware implementation and experimental validation of a model-based battery state estimator. The model parameters are identified online using the moving window least squares method. The estimator is implemented in a field...

M. Piotto, F. Dell'Agnello, S. Del Cesta, M. Bruschi, "Integrated Thermal Flow Sensors with Programmable Power-Sensitivity Trade-Off" Cogresso Nazionale Sensori (CNS), 2016

A thermal flow sensor integrated with a programmable electronic interface into the same chip is proposed. The sensing structure is a micro-calorimeter with a double heater configuration fabricated with a simple post-processing technique applied to chip...

R. DI RIENZO, F. BARONTI, R. RONCELLA, R. MORELLO AND R. SALETTI, "SIMULATION PLATFORM FOR ANALYZING BATTERY PARALLELIZATION," SMACD 2017, GIARDINI NAXOS, ITALY, 2017, PP. 1-4.

This paper discusses a simulation platform for predicting the behavior of a battery system comprising two batteries, which can be parallelized in a controllable way. The model of the battery, the load and the parallelization algorithm is developed and...

Pilato L., Meoni G., Fanucci L. "Design and Quantization Limits of Root Raised Cosine Digital Filter", ICFSP 2017, Paris

The Root Raised Cosine digital filter is a widely used pulse-shaping FIR filter in digital baseband communication systems. The design parameters of the filter implementation are strongly bound to the overall performance of the communication system. In...

Nannipieri P., Meoni G., "APPLICATION OF FBG SENSORS TO TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT ON BOARD OF THE REXUS 22 SOUNDING ROCKET IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE U-PHOS PROJECT" Metrology for AeroSpace (MetroAeroSpace), 2017 IEEE International Workshop

U-PHOS (Upgraded PHP Only for Space) is a project developed within the REXUS/BEXUS programme framework, by a team of students from the University of Pisa with the goal to analyse and characterize the behaviour of a Pulsating Heat Pipe (PHP), one of the...

Cresci, S., Del Vigna, F. e Tesconi, M. (2017) I Big Data nella ricerca politica esociale, in Andretta, M., and Bracciale, R., (eds.), Social Media Campaigning: Le elezioni regionali in #Toscana2015, Pisa: Pisa University Press, 113-140

In questo capitolo introdurremo le caratteristiche e le peculiarità dei dati social. Ci soffermeremo sulle criticità relative alla raccolta e all’analisi di tali dati, approfondendo alcune metodologie che permettono di utilizzare i dati social per...

Del Vigna, F., Petrocchi, M., Deluca, P. & Tesconi, M. (2016). Main social media analysis outcome of the CASSANDRA project Main social media analysis outcome of the CASSANDRA project. IIT TR-12/2016

This report presents the outcome of a series of analysis on different social media, where users discuss on drugs and their effects. The aim of such an analysis is twofold. First, we automatically detect drugs and their effects. Secondly, we explore the...

Del Vigna, F., Petrocchi, M. & Tesconi, M. (2016). Technical report on the methodology used for the analysis of websites. IIT TR-10/2016

New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) are drugs that lay in a grey area of legislation, since they are not internationally and officially banned, possibly leading to their not prosecutable trade. The exacerbation of the phenomenon is that NPS can be easily...

Del Vigna, F., Cimino, A., Dell’Orletta, F., Petrocchi, M., & Tesconi, M. (2017). Hate me, hate me not: Hate speech detection on Facebook.

While favouring communications and easing information sharing, Social Network Sites are also used to launch harmful campaigns against specific groups and individuals. Cyberbullism, incitement to self-harm practices, sexual predation are just some of the...

Avvenuti, M., Cresci, S., Del Vigna, F., & Tesconi, M. (2017). On the need of opening up crowdsourced emergency management systems. AI & SOCIETY, 1-6.

Nowadays, social media analysis systems are feeding on user contributed data, either for beneficial purposes, such as emergency management, or for user profiling and mass surveillance. Here, we carry out a discussion about the power and pitfalls of...

Portaluri, G., Adami, D., Gabbrielli, A., Giordano, S., Pagano, M. (2017, July). "Power Consumption-Aware Virtual Machine Placement in Cloud Data Center . IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking

In this paper we present a set of power-aware dynamic allocators for Virtual Machines (VMs) in Cloud Data Centers (DCs) taking advantage of the Software Defined Networking (SDN) paradigm. Each VM request is characterized by four parameters: CPU, RAM,...

Ojo, M., Giordano, S., Portaluri, G., and Adami, D. (2017, December). "Throughput Maximization Scheduling Algorithm in TSCH Networks with Deadline Con straints". Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)

Portaluri, G., Adami, D., Giordano, S., Pagano, M (2017, November). "A Novel Allocation Strategy for Virtual Machines in Software Defined Data Center". NFV-SDN Workshops

Cloud Data Center (DC) service orchestration and resource management are important applications of the Software Defined Networking (SDN) paradigm. In this paper, we introduce a novel dynamic allocation strategy for Virtual Machine (VM) allocation called...