Scipioni M., Santarelli M. F., Positano V., Landini L. "The Influence of Noise in Dynamic PET Direct Reconstruction". XIV Mediterranean Conf. on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing. (pp. 308–313). Springer International Publishing. 2016

Abstract In the present work a study is carried out in order to assess the efficiency of the direct reconstruction algorithms on noisy dynamic PET data. The study is performed via Monte Carlo simulations of a uniform cylindrical phantom whose emission...

A. Virdis, G. Stea, G. Nardini, "Simulating LTE/LTE-Advanced Networks with SimuLTE", in: Obaidat, M.S., Kacprzyk, J., Ören, T., Filipe, J., (eds.) "Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications", Springer, 2016

In this work we present SimuLTE, an OMNeT++-based simulator for LTE and LTE-Advanced networks. Following well-established OMNeT++ programming practices, SimuLTE exhibits a fully modular structure, which makes it easy to be extended, verified, and...

G. Nardini, G. Stea, A. Virdis, D. Sabella, M. Caretti, "Resource allocation for network-controlled device-to-device communications in LTE-Advanced", Springer Wireless Networks, to appear (accepted January 2016)

Network-controlled device-to-device (D2D) communication allows cellular users to communicate directly, i.e., without passing through the eNodeB, while the latter retains control over resource allocation. This allows the same time-frequency resources to...

R. Morello, W. Zamboni, F. Baronti, R. D. Rienzo, R. Roncella, G. Spagnuolo, and R. Saletti, “Comparison of State and Parameter Estimators for Electric Vehicle Batteries,” in IECON 2015 - 41st Annu. Conf. IEEE Ind. Electron. Soc., 2015

A Battery Management System (BMS) is needed to ensure a safe and effective operation of a Lithium-ion battery, especially in electric vehicle applications. An important function of a BMS is the reliable estimation of the battery state in a wide range of...

F. Baronti, R. Di Rienzo, N. Papazafiropulos, R. Roncella, R. Saletti: "Investigation of series-parallel connections of multi-module batteries for electrified vehicles," 2014 IEEE International Electric Vehicle Conference (IEVC), December 2014

Large-format Lithium-ion battery packs consist of the series and parallel connection of elemental cells, usually assembled into modules. The required voltage and capacity of the battery pack can be reached by various configurations of the elemental...

F. Baronti, R. Di Rienzo, R. Moras, R. Roncella, R. Saletti, G. Pede, F. Vellucci: "Implementation of the fast charging concept for electric local public transport: the case-study of a minibus," 2015 IEEE 13th INDIN

This paper shows an effective implementation of the fast charging concept in the electric local public transport context. An electric minibus powered with a lead-acid battery is considered as a case-study. Its traction battery is redesigned using 12 V...

Pilato, Luca; Sisto, Arcangelo; Fanucci, Luca; Giardi, Monica, "A flexible approach for inductive load driver in automotive application," in Intelligent Solutions in Embedded Systems (WISES), 2015 12th International Workshop on , vol., no., pp.97-101

Pilato, Luca; Sisto, Arcangelo; Fanucci, Luca; Giardi, Monica, "A flexible approach for inductive load driver in automotive application," in  Intelligent Solutions in Embedded Systems (WISES), 2015 12th International Workshop on  , vol., no., pp.97-101,...

Sisto, A.; Pilato, L.; Serventi, R.; Fanucci, L., "A design platform for flexible programmable DSP for automotive sensor conditioning," NORCHIP & International Symposium on System-on-Chip (SoC), 2015 , vol., no., pp.1-4, 26-28 Oct. 2015

Sisto, A.; Pilato, L.; Serventi, R.; Fanucci, L., "A design platform for flexible programmable DSP for automotive sensor conditioning," in  Nordic Circuits and Systems Conference (NORCAS): NORCHIP & International Symposium on System-on-Chip (SoC), 2015...

Sisto, A.; Pilato, L.; Serventi, R.; Fanucci, L., "A design platform for flexible programmable DSP for automotive sensor conditioning," NORCHIP & International Symposium on System-on-Chip (SoC), 2015 , vol., no., pp.1-4, 26-28 Oct. 2015

Sisto, A.; Pilato, L.; Serventi, R.; Fanucci, L., "A design platform for flexible programmable DSP for automotive sensor conditioning," in  Nordic Circuits and Systems Conference (NORCAS): NORCHIP & International Symposium on System-on-Chip (SoC), 2015...

Sarti L, Sisto A, Pilato L, Di Piro L, Fanucci L. "Platform based design of 3D Hall sensor conditioning electronics," in Ph.D. Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME), 2015 11th Conference on , vol., no., pp.200-203, June 29 2015-July 2

In this paper the modeling activity for the realization of a general architecture suitable to interface a heterogeneous set of magnetic sensors for automotive applications is presented. This work represents the first step of a “platform based” approach...

G. Franzini, M. Innocenti, "Nonlinear H-infinity Control of Relative Motion in Space via the State-Dependent Riccati Equations", in Proc. 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Osaka, Japan, 2015, pp. 3409-3414.

Relative guidance algorithms for space applications were identified by several space agencies as an enabling technology for future missions development. Whenever two or more space vehicles must coordinate their motion, or a terminal rendezvous has to be...

Carrara F, Falchi F, Gennaro C. Semiautomatic Learning of 3D Objects from Video Streams. Similarity Search and Applications. 2015:217-28.

  Object detection and recognition are classical problems in computer vision, but are still challenging without a priori knowledge of objects and with a limited user interaction. In this work, a semiautomatic system for visual object learning from video...

Carrara F, Amato G, Falchi F, Gennaro C. Efficient foreground-background segmentation using local features for object detection. InProceedings of the 9th International Conference on Distributed Smart Camera 2015 Sep 8 (pp. 175-180). ACM.

In this work, a local feature based background modelling for background-foreground feature segmentation is presented. In local feature based computer vision applications, a local feature based model presents advantages with respect to classical...

De Maria C, De Acutis A, Vozzi G. Indirect Rapid Prototyping for Tissue Engineering, in Essential of 3D Biofabrication and Translation. 2015 ISBN: 978-­‐0-­‐12-­‐800972-­‐7. Elsevier

De Maria C, De Acutis A, Vozzi G. Indirect Rapid Prototyping for Tissue Engineering, in Essential of 3D Biofabrication and Translation. 2015 ISBN: 978-­‐0-­‐12-­‐800972-­‐7. Elsevier

B. Carnevale, F. Falaschi, L. Crocetti, H. Hunjan, S. Bisase, L. Fanucci: "An Implementation of the 802.1AE MAC Security Standard for In-Car Networks" accepted at 2015 IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT) - Automotive IoT Workshop

The continuous increase in complexity in automotive electronics has led to cars that include up to 80 Electronic Control Units (ECUs). As a consequence, in-car networks are currently up to their limit in terms of data load, flexibility and bandwidth....

E. Pedreschi et Al.: “The TEL62: a Real-time Board for the NA62 Trigger and Data Acquisition. Data Flow and Firmware Design”, Real Time Conference (RT), 2014 19th IEEE_NPSS, May 2015

 The main goal of the NA62 experiment at CERN SPS is to measure the branching ratio of the ultra-rare decay, collecting about 100 events in two years of data taking to test the Standard Model of Particle Physics. Readout uniformity of sub-detectors,...

E. Pedreschi et Al.: “The TEL62: a Real-time Board for the NA62 Trigger and Data Acquisition. Data Flow and Firmware Design”, Real Time Conference (RT), 2014 19th IEEE_NPSS, May 2015

 The main goal of the NA62 experiment at CERN SPS is to measure the branching ratio of the ultra-rare decay, collecting about 100 events in two years of data taking to test the Standard Model of Particle Physics. Readout uniformity of sub-detectors,...

E. Pedreschi et Al.: “The TEL62: a Real-time Board for the NA62 Trigger and Data Acquisition. Data Flow and Firmware Design”, Real Time Conference (RT), 2014 19th IEEE_NPSS, May 2015

 The main goal of the NA62 experiment at CERN SPS is to measure the branching ratio of the ultra-rare decay, collecting about 100 events in two years of data taking to test the Standard Model of Particle Physics. Readout uniformity of sub-detectors,...

Computational Analysis of Historical Documents: An Application to Italian War Bulletins in World War I and II

World War (WW) I and II represent crucial landmarks in the history on mankind: They have affected the destiny of whole generations and their consequences are still alive throughout Europe. In this paper we present an ongoing project to carry out a...