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...

A.Palla, G.Meoni, L.Fanucci: "Area and Power Consumption Trade-off for Σ-Δ Decimation Filter in Mixed Signal Wearable IC",NORCAS 2016, Copenaghen

Area and Power consumption are important design metrics in integrated circuit (IC), in particular in those targeted for wearable devices. Σ-Δ Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) are increasing in popularity in those devices thanks to the low bandwidth of...

R. Costanzi, D. Fenucci, V. Manzari and A. Caiti, "Bearing-only AUV tracking performance: The effect of uncertainty in underwater nodes position," OCEANS 2016 MTS/IEEE Monterey, Monterey, CA, 2016

We analyze a specific practical problem of bearing-only localization of a stationary target using noisy measurements from three sensors. It is well understood that the performance of any target position estimator is considerably influenced by the...

Marco Avvenuti, Stefano Cresci, Andrea Marchetti, Carlo Meletti, Maurizio Tesconi, "Predictability or Early Warning: Using Social Media in Modern Emergency Response", IEEE Internet Computing 20(6): 4-6, 2016

Creatini F, […], Nannipieri P., Filippeschi S., Fanucci L., Baronti F. PULSATING HEAT PIPE ONLY FOR SPACE: RESULTS OF THE REXUS 18 SOUNDING ROCKET CAMPAIGN, XXXIII UIT Congress, 22-24 June 2015, L’Aquila

Two Closed Loop Pulsating Heat Pipes (CLPHPs) are tested on board REXUS 18 sounding rocket in order to obtain data over a relatively long microgravity period (approximately 90 s). The CLPHPs are partially filled with FC-72 and have, respectively,...

P Nannipieri, G Meoni, [...], F Baronti, L Fanucci, S Filippeschi, U-PHOS PROJECT: DEVELOPMENT OF A LARGE DIAMETER PULSATING HEAT PIPE EXPERIMENT ON BOARD REXUS 22, 34rd UIT Heat Transfer Conference, Ferrara (IT), July 4-6, 2016.

U-PHOS Project aims to analyse and characterise the behaviour of a large diameter Pulsating Heat Pipe (PHP) on board REXUS 22 sounding rocket. A PHP is a passive thermal control device consisting of a serpentine capillary tube, evacuated, partially...

F. Micheletti, R. Pini, R. Piazza, et al.: "In-situ laser fenestration of endovascular stent-graft in abdominal aortic aneurysm repair (EVAR)", Proc.SPIE 10042, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications of Light in Cardiology, February 2017

Endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysms repair (EVAR) involves the minimally invasive implantation of a stent-graft within the aorta to exclude the aneurysm from the circulation thus preventing its rupture. The feasibility of such operation is highly...

R. Andreotti, P. Del Fiorentino, F. Giannetti and V. Lottici, “Power-Efficient Distributed Resource Allocation under Goodput QoS Constraints for Heterogeneous Networks,” accepted to EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (JASP), 2016

 This work proposes a distributed resource allocation (RA) algorithm for packet bit-interleaved coded OFDM transmissions in the uplink of heterogeneous networks (HetNets), characterized by small cells deployed over a macrocell area and sharing the same...

J. Van Hecke, P. Del Fiorentino, R. Andreotti, V. Lottici, F. Giannetti, L. Vandendorpe and M. Moeneclaey, “Adaptive Coding and Modulation using imperfect CSI in cognitive BIC-OFDM sys-tems,” accepted to EURASIP Journal (JWCN), 2016.

 When perfect channel state information (CSI) is available at the transmitter, adaptive coding and modulation (ACM) algorithms which maximize the goodput (GP) corresponding to the actual channel realization give rise to the maximum long-term average...

P. Del Fiorentino, C. Vitiello, V. Lottici, F. Giannetti, M. Luise, E. Debels., J. Van Hecke and M. Moeneclaey, “Resource Allocation in Short Packets BIC-UFMC Transmission for Internet of Things,” IEEE Globecom Workshops, Washington DC, 2016.

This paper presents a resource allocation (RA) strategy for bit interleaved coded UFMC (BIC-UFMC) communications to be applied in an Internet of Things scenario characterized by short packets. The proposed RA strategy selects the best transmission...

C. Vitiello, P. Del Fiorentino, E. Debels , V. Lottici, F. Giannetti, M. Luise and M. Moeneclaey, “Two-Step Resource Allocation for BIC-UFMC Wireless Communications,” ISWCS Conference, Poznan, 2016.

The focus of this work is put on a cognitive network wherein the secondary users (SUs), based on bit-interleaved-coded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, share the same band of primary users (PUs). In this context, we develop a...

P. Del Fiorentino, C. Vitiello, V. Lottici, F. Giannetti and M. Luise, “A Robust Resource Allocation Algorithm for Packet BIC-UFMC 5GWireless Communications,” EUSIPCO Conference, Budapest, 2016.

In this paper, we present a novel resource allocation (RA) algorithm for packet Universal Filtered Multi-Carrier (UFMC) BIC-based communications, the latter being a novel modulation format possibly envisaged to be applied in 5G wireless systems....

J. Van Hecke P. Del Fiorentino, R. Andreotti, V. Lottici, F. Giannetti, L. Vandendorpe and M. Moeneclaey, “Goodput-maximizing resource allocation in cognitive Radio BIC-OFDM systems with DF relay selection,” IEEE International Conference on Commun

We propose a novel resource allocation (RA) strategy for a cognitive radio packet-oriented bit-interleaved coded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (BIC-OFDM) system with decode-and-forward (DF) relays. The aim of the RA is maximizing the...

J. Van Hecke, P. Del Fiorentino, R. Andreotti, V. Lottici, F. Giannetti, L. Vandendorpe and M. Moeneclaey, “Accurate modeling of the predicted kESM-based link performance metric for BIC-OFDM systems,” IEEE Symposium on Communications and Vehicular

Effective SNR mapping (ESM) is a powerful technique for optimizing the performance of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based wireless systems. ESM transforms a vector of subcarrier SNRs into a scalar effective SNR, which represents the...

P. Del Fiorentino, J. Van Hecke, V. Lottici, F. Giannetti and M. Moeneclaey, “Goodput-based Re-source Allocation and DF Relay Selection for Dual-Hop Transmissions with Packet-oriented Cog-nitive BIC-OFDM Systems,” presented to Joint NEWCOM/COST Wo

We propose a novel resource allocation (RA) strategy for a cognitive radio packet-oriented bit-interleaved coded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (BIC-OFDM) system with decode-and-forward (DF) relays. The aim of the RA is maximizing the...

S. B. Godfrey, C. Piazza, M.G. Catalano, M. Rossi, A. Bicchi: " The SoftHand Pro-H: a shoulder-driven, motor-actuated prosthetic solution"

 Body-powered and myoelectric prosthetic terminal devices have similarly high rates of rejection: 26 and 23%, respectively.  This is in part because, despite technological advances, each comes with distinct advantages and disadvantages.  The SoftHand...

C. Piazza, C. Della Santina, M.G. Catalano, G. Grioli, M. Garabini, A. Bicchi: "SoftHand Pro-D: Matching dynamic content of natural user commands with hand embodiment for enhanced prosthesis control"

State of the art of hand prosthetics is divided between simple and reliable gripper-like systems and sophisticate hi-tech poly-articular hands which tend to be complex both in their design and for the patient to operate. In this paper, we introduce the...

C. Piazza, C. Della Santina, G.M. Gasparri, M.G. Catalano, G. Grioli, M. Garabini, A. Bicchi: "SoftFoot: an Adaptive Foot for Natural Walking"

Many walking robot presented in literature stand on rigid flat feet, with a few notable exceptions that embed flexibility in their feet to optimize the energetic cost of walking. This paper proposes a novel adaptive robot foot design, whose main goal is...

M. Piotto, A. Di Pancrazio, L. Intaschi, P. Bruschi "An integrated thermal flow sensor for liquids based on a novel technique for electrical insulation"

A novel method to electrically insulate integrated thermal flow sensors from liquids is proposed. The sensor is fabricated with a post-processing technique applied to chips designed with a commercial CMOS process. A low cost packaging technique is used...

Avvenuti, M., Cimino, M. G., Cresci, S., Marchetti, A., & Tesconi, M. (2016). A framework for detecting unfolding emergencies using humans as sensors. SpringerPlus, 5(1), 1, Springer

The advent of online social networks (OSNs) paired with the ubiquitous proliferation of smartphones have enabled social sensing systems. In the last few years, the aptitude of humans to spontaneously collect and timely share context information has been...