Giacomo Giorgi, Antonio La Marra, Fabio Martinelli, Paolo Mori, and Andrea Saracino : Smart Parental Advisory: A Usage Control and Deep Learning-Based Framework for Dynamic Parental Control on Smart TV

Parental Control functionalities currently included in Smart TVs, DBS decoders and Pay TV services are cumbersome to use, not flexible and, in the end, are seldom used. This paper presents a framework for dynamic enforcement of parental control policies...

L.Baldanzi, L.Crocetti, M.Bertolucci, L. Fanucci, S. Saponara : "Analysis of Cybersecurity Weakness in Automotive In-Vehicle Networking and Hardware Accelerators for Real-time Cryptography", ApplePies 2018, Pisa, September 2018

The work analyses the cybersecurity weakness in state-of-art automotive in-vehicle networks and discusses possible countermeasures at architecture level. Due to stringent real-time constraints (throughput and latency) of fail-safe automotive...

L. Rizzo, P. Valente, G. Lettieri, V. Maffione: "PSPAT: software packet scheduling at hardware speed", Computer Communications 120 (2018): 32-45.

Tenants in a cloud environment run services, such as Virtual Network Function instantiations, that may legitimately generate millions of packets per second. The hosting platform, hence, needs robust packet scheduling mechanisms that support these rates...

F. Costa, S. Genovesi, S. Terranova, G. Manara: "Radio Frequency Sensors based on Chipless RFID Technology", XXII RINEM, Cagliari, September 3-6, 2018

Chipless sensors are entirely passive devices whose electromagnetic signature is intelligible in time or frequency domain. The variations of the electromagnetic response of these devices can be used to sense environmental parameters at a very limited...

S. Terranova, G. Manara, L. Klinkenbusch: "A Physical Insight into Complex-Source Beam Diffraction by a Wedge", 2nd URSI AT-RASC, Gran Canaria, 28 May – 1 June 2018

An extension of the Uniform Geometrical Theory of Diffraction (UTD) has been recently proposed to analyze Complex-Source Beam (CSB) diffraction by a perfectly electrically conducting (PEC) wedge. In the context of high-frequency techniques, the proposed...

Candela, Massimo, Marco Di Bartolomeo, Giuseppe Di Battista, and Claudio Squarcella. "Radian: Visual Exploration of Traceroutes." IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics 24, no. 7, 2018

Several projects deploy probes in the Internet. Probes are systems that continuously perform traceroutes and other networking measurements (e.g., ping) towards selected targets. Measurements can be stored and analyzed to gain knowledge on several...

Marzialetti, Luca, Massimo Candela, and Giuseppe Di Battista. "Upstream Visibility: A Multi-View Routing Visualization." Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction. ACM, 2018.

The Internet is constantly evolving and changing over time. Outages, attacks, upgrades, censorships, and policy changes modify the routing very frequently everywhere in the world. To give the possibility to the Internet Service Providers and to the...

D.Kanoulas, A.Stumpf, V.S.Raghavan, C.Zhou, A.Toumpa, O.V.Stryk, D.Caldwell, N.Tsagarakis "Footstep Planning in Rough Terrain for Bipedal Robots using Curved Contact Patches", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2018

Bipedal robots have gained a lot of locomotion capabilities the past few years, especially in the control level. Navigation over complex and unstructured environments using exteroceptive perception, is still an active research topic. In this paper, we...

P. Balatti, L. Muratore, L. Peternel, E. M. Hoffman, N. Tsagarakis, A. Ajoudani: "A Manipulation Framework for Debris Removal using WALK-MAN Humanoid", Human-Friendly Robotics (HFR), November 2017.

In this paper we propose a semi-autonomous control framework for manipulation tasks that is focused on debris removal setups. The proposed method enables an efficient and safe removal of long stick-like shaped debris. The manipulation module includes...

P. Balatti, D. Kanoulas, G. Rigano, L. Muratore, N. Tsagarakis, A. Ajoudani: "A Self-tuning Impedance Controller for Autonomous Robotic Manipulation", IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), October 2018.

Complex interactions with unstructured environments require the application of appropriate restoring forces in response to the imposed displacements. Impedance control techniques provide effective solutions to achieve this, however, their quasi-static...

E. Lamon, L. Peternel, A. Ajoudani: “Towards a Prolonged Productivity in Industry 4.0: A Framework for Fatigue Minimisation in Robot-Robot Co-Manipulation”, IEEE-RAS 18th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), November 2018.

Industry 4.0 envisions the integration of flexible and quickly reconfigurable robotic systems in assembly lines. This has led to the development of light-weight and adaptive collaborative robots with limited power and payload constraints. Hence,...

Razzanelli, M., et al. (2016, June). A Visual-Haptic Display for Human and Autonomous Systems Integration. In International Workshop on Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems (pp. 64-80). Springer, Cham.

This paper introduces a novel concept of visual-haptic display for situational awareness improvement for crowded and low altitude airspace situations. The visual augmentation display that constitutes of Virtual Fences delimiting no-fly zones, and a...

F., Caiti, G., Indiveri, G., Razzanelli, M., Pollini, L., Simetti, E. et al. (2018). ISME activity on the use of Autonomous Surface and Underwater Vehicles for acoustic surveys at sea. ACTA IMEKO, 7(2),, 24-31.

The paper presents an overview of the recent and ongoing research activities of the Italian Interuniversity Center on Integrated Systems for the Marine Environment (ISME) in the field of geotechnical seismic surveying. Such activities, performed in the...

B. Carnevale, L. Baldanzi, L. Pilato and L. Fanucci, "A flexible system-on-a-chip implementation of the Advanced Encryption Standard," 2016 20th International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC), Sinaia, October 2016

Systems-on-a-Chip are among the best-performing and complete solutions for complex electronic systems. This is also true in the field of network security, an application requiring high performance with low resource usage. This work presents an Advanced...

L. Sarti, L. Baldanzi, B. Carnevale and L. Fanucci, "An automated S-box optimization based on composite field arithmetic," 2017 13th Conference on Ph.D. Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME), Giardini Naxos, July 2017

In recent years, the information technology world have faced broad security issues due to the large amount of data flowing over the network. HW security solutions are often preferred in contexts where an high level of performance is required. Multiple...

M. Rotundo, A. Leoni, L. Fanucci et al.: “Simulation and Validation of a SpaceWire On-Board Data-Handling Network for the PLATO Mission”, arXiv, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, August 2018

PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) is a medium-class mission belonging to the European Space Agency (ESA) Cosmic Vision programme. The mission payload is composed of 26 telescopes and cameras which will observe uninterruptedly stars...

F. Siegle, A. Leoni: “Standardization Efforts for a Network Management and Discovery Protocol for SpaceFibre”, 8th International SpaceWire Conference, Los Angeles, USA, May 14th, 2018

We present a proposal for a unified configuration (and status) memory space for SpaceFibre devices that simplifies the management of complex networks and allows automatic node discovery. Aside from mapping all SpaceFibre port status and configuration...

A. Leoni, L. Fanucci, D. Jameux: “Simulator for HIgh-speed Networks (SHINe): an OMNeT++ simula-tor for SpaceFibre and SpaceWire Networks”, 8th International SpaceWire Conference, Los Ange-les, USA, May 14th, 2018

SpaceFibre is the forthcoming technology for very high-speed reliable data links in on-board satellite networks. Thanks to the evolution of detectors, each payload may generate data at very high rates, beyond 1 Gbps, for which there are no standardised...

L. Sarti, L. Baldanzi, L. Crocetti, B. Carnevale and L. Fanucci, "A Simulated Approach to Evaluate Side Channel Attack Countermeasures for the Advanced Encryption Standard" Prague, July 2018

Modern networks have critical security needs and a suitable level of protection and performance is usually achieved with the use of dedicated hardware cryptographic cores. Although the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is considered the best approach...

Laghi M., Ajoudani A, Catalano Manuel G., Bicchi A. TELE-IMPEDANCE WITH FORCE FEEDBACK UNDER COMMUNICATION TIME DELAY, Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on