Low-Concentration Ethanol Vapor Sensing With Nanostructured Porous Silicon Interferometers Using Interferogram Average Over Wavelength Reflectance Spectroscopy

Stefano Mariani ; Lucanos M. Strambini ; Alessandro Paghi ; Giuseppe Barillaro . Herein, we report low-concentration ethanol vapor detection with nanostructured porous silicon (PSi) interferometers using interferogram average over wavelength reflectance...

Open and Flexible Li-ion Battery Tester Based on Python Language and Raspberry Pi

I. Degl’Innocenti, J. Albertone, A. Boccardi, T. Bogey, L. Fanucci, C. Moran Guizan, M. Barros Marin, A. Topaloudis, M. Wendt:"Digital Acquisition Chain for the Upgrade of the CERN SPS Beam Position Monitor", ICECS2018, Bordeaux, France, 12/2018

This paper presents the development of the digital acquisition chain for the upgrade of the Beam Position Monitor (BPM) system for the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) at CERN. The front-end electronics will be based on logarithmic amplifiers and,...

G. M. Fortunato, C. De Maria, D. Eglin, T. Serra, G. Vozzi: "An ink-jet printed electrical stimulation platform for muscle tissue regeneration", Bioprinting, vol. 11, e00035, Oct. 2018

Conducting polymeric materials have been used to modulate response of cells seeded on their surfaces. However, there is still major improvement to be made related to their biocompatibility, conductivity, stability in biological milieu, and...

A. Motroni, P. Nepa, P. Tripicchio and M. Unetti, "A Multi-Antenna SAR-based method for UHF RFID Tag Localization via UGV," 2018 IEEE International Conference on RFID Technology & Application (RFID-TA), Macau, Macao, 2018, pp. 1-6.

This paper presents a multi-antenna approach of the phase-based SARFID method to locate static tags by employing two UHF-RFID reader antennas installed on an Unmanned Grounded Vehicle (UGV). The UGV is remotecontrolled and equipped with Laser Range...

A. Motroni et al., "SAR-Based Indoor Localization of UHF-RFID Tags via Mobile Robot," 2018 International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN), Nantes, France, 2018, pp. 1-8.

This paper presents a localization method exploiting a mobile robot equipped with an Ultra High Frequency Radio Frequency IDentification (UHF-RFID) reader to locate stationary tags in warehouse scenarios. The measurement method is based on the Synthetic...

SfM-Based Method to Assess Gorgonian Forests (Paramuricea clavata (Cnidaria, Octocorallia). Marco Palma, Monica Rivas Casado, Ubaldo Pantaleo, Gaia Pavoni, Daniela Pica, Carlo Cerrano. Int. J. Remote Sens. 2018, 10(7), 1154. DOI: 10.3390/rs10071154

SfM-Based Method to Assess Gorgonian Forests (Paramuricea clavata (Cnidaria, Octocorallia). Marco Palma, Monica Rivas Casado, Ubaldo Pantaleo, Gaia Pavoni, Daniela Pica, Carlo Cerrano. Int. J. Remote Sens. 2018, 10(7), 1154. DOI: 10.3390/rs10071154

Quasi-orthorectified projection for the measurement of Red Gorgonian Colonies. G. Pavoni, M. Palma, M. Callieri, M. Dellepiane, U.Pantaleo, C. Cerrano, R. Scopigno. Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLII-2, 853-860, 2018. DOI:

A. Scibilia, M. Laghi, E. De Momi, L. Peternel, A. Ajoudani: "A Self-Adaptive Robot Control Framework for Improved Tracking and Interaction Performances in Low-Stiffness Teleoperation", International Conference on Humanoids Robots, November 2018

M. Laghi, M. Maimeri, M. Marchand, C. Leparoux, M. Catalano, A. Ajoudani, A. Bicchi: "Shared-Autonomy Control for Intuitive Bimanual Tele-manipulation", IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoids Robots (Humanoids), November 2018

"Low-Threshold Lasing From Monolithic Nanostructured Porous Silicon Hybrid Microcavities", in Frontiers in Optics / Laser Science, OSA Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, 2018), paper LW6F.3

Authors: V. Robbiano, G. M. Paternò, A. A. La Mattina, S. G. Motti, G. Lanzani, F. Scotognella, G. Barillaro Abstract: Here we demonstrate low-threshold lasing from fully-transparent nanostructured porous silicon (PSi) monolithic microcavities (MCs)...

M. Carbone, V. Ferrari, M. Marconi, R. Piazza, et al.: “A tele-ultrasonographic platform to collect specialist second opinion in less specialized hospitals”, Updates in Surgery, Volume 70, Issue 3, 1 September 2018, Pages 407-413

L. Cacopardo, F. Burgio. F. Riccio, G. Mattei, A. Ahluwalia: ‘’New force-controlled testing method for real-time viscoelastic measurements in bioreactors’’. World Congress of Biomechanics, July 2018, Dublin (Ireland)

S. Giusti, D. Mazzei, L. Cacopardo, G. Mattei, C. Domenici, A. Ahluwalia. ‘’Environmental Control in Flow Bioreactors’’, 2017, Processes, MDPI (Vol. 5, p. 16).

G. Mattei, L. Cacopardo, A. Ahluwalia: ''Micro-Mechanical Viscoelastic Properties of Crosslinked Hydrogels Using the Nano-Epsilon Dot Method''. Materials, 2017, MDPI (Vol. 10, p. 889, doi:10.3390/ma10080889).

L. Cacopardo, N. Guazzelli, R. Nossa, G. Mattei and A. Ahluwalia: ‘’Engineering hydrogel viscoelasticity’’. Journal of Mechanical Behaviour of Biomedical Materials (Accepted: September 2018 - Publication: January 2019, vol. 89, pp. 162-167)

G. Averta et al., "From humans to robots: The role of cutaneous impairment in human environmental constraint exploitation to inform the design of robotic hands," 2017 9th International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems a

Human hands are capable of a variety of movements, thanks to their extraordinary biomechanical structure and relying on the richness of human tactile information. Recently, soft robotic hands have opened exciting possibilities and, at the same time, new...

M. Bianchi et al., "Tactile slip and hand displacement: Bending hand motion with tactile illusions," 2017 IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), Munich, 2017, pp. 96-100

Touch provides an important cue to perceive the physical properties of the external objects. Recent studies showed that tactile sensation also contributes to our sense of hand position and displacement in perceptual tasks. In this study, we tested the...

M. Bianchi et al., "Touch-Based Grasp Primitives for Soft Hands: Applications to Human-to-Robot Handover Tasks and Beyond," 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Brisbane, QLD, 2018, pp. 7794-7801

Recently, the avenue of adaptable, soft robotic hands has opened simplified opportunities to grasp different items; however, the potential of soft end effectors (SEEs) is still largely unexplored, especially in human-robot interaction. In this paper, we...