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

G. Litta, R. Di Rienzo, R. Morello, R. Roncella, F. Baronti and R. Saletti, "Flexible platform with wireless interface for DC-motor remote control," IESES 2018, Hamilton, 2018, pp. 509-514.

R. Di Rienzo, R. Roncella, R. Morello, F. Baronti and R. Saletti, "Low-cost modular battery emulator for battery management system testing," IESES 2018, Hamilton, 2018, pp. 44-49.

G. Amato, P. Bolettieri, F. Carrara, F. Falchi, C. Gennaro: "Large-Scale Image Retrieval with Elasticsearch", In Proceedings of the 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval, pp. 925-928

Content-Based Image Retrieval in large archives through the use of visual features has become a very attractive research topic in recent years. The cause of this strong impulse in this area of research is certainly to be attributed to the use of...

F. Carrara, F. Falchi, R. Caldelli, G. Amato, R. Becarelli: "Adversarial image detection in deep neural networks", Multimedia Tools and Applications, 1-21

Deep neural networks are more and more pervading many computer vision applications and in particular image classification. Notwithstanding that, recent works have demonstrated that it is quite easy to create adversarial examples, i.e., images...

Aerial Co-Manipulation With Cables: The Role of Internal Force for Equilibria, Stability, and Passivity, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters ( Volume: 3, Issue: 3, July 2018 )

This letter considers the cooperative manipulation of a cable-suspended load with two generic aerial robots without the need of explicit communication. The role of the internal force for the asymptotic stability of the beam position-and-attitude...

S. Del Cesta, A Ria, M Piotto, R Simmarano, P Bruschi - "A compact current-mode instrumentation amplifier for general-purpose sensor interfaces" - AEU-International Journal of Electronics and Communications

The proposed amplifier architecture follows a consolidated topology based on second-generation current conveyors (CCIIs), optimized for fully-differential operation. The architecture uses gain-boosting to improve the offset and noise characteristics of...

A. Catania, A Ria, S Del Cesta, M Piotto, P Bruschi - "Analysis and Simulation of Chopper Stabilization Techniques Applied to Delta-Sigma Converters" - 15th SMACD

MATLAB/Simulink modeling of offset and flicker noise in Delta-Sigma modulators has been developed, providing a fast tool for the estimation of ADC performances. Since high accuracy and resolution are fundamental in sensor applications, a brief analysis...

A Ria, S Del Cesta, A Catania, M Piotto, P Bruschi "Improved class-AB output stage for Sub-1 V fully-differential operational amplifiers" - 14th Conference on Ph. D. Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME)

An existent architecture for low voltage class-AB output stages is analyzed finding critical issues for which effective original solutions are proposed. The approach has been applied to the design of a compact class-AB fully-differential operational...

Luca Gentile and Marco Martorella, "LEO RSO Initial Orbit Determination using Range-only Multi-Bistatic Radar measurements", 2018 SpaceOps Conference. Marseille, France, doi:10.2514/6.2018-2717

The increasing space activity for Earth observation in the last fifty years has led to the launch of many satellites and other space objects which orbit around the Earth. The majority of these objects are debris, including inactive spacecrafts, parts of...

L. Gentile, A. Capria, M. Conti, C. Moscardini and M. Martorella, "Resident Space Object Passive Bistatic Radar Detection Using DVB-S2 Signals," 2018 19th International Radar Symposium (IRS), Bonn, Germany, 2018, pp. 1-7.

Monitoring objects in Earth’s orbit and preventing collisions is becoming an increasingly widespread task. In this regard, several monitoring systems using different type of sensors have been developed over time: Optical, Laser and Radar. In particular,...

F.Righetti, C.Vallati, G.Anastasi, S.K.Das, "Analysis and Improvement of the On-The-Fly Bandwidth Reservation Algorithm for 6TiSCH" IEEE 19th International Symposium on "A World of Wireless,Mobile and Multimedia Networks"(WoWMoM), Chania, Greece 2018

The IETF 6TiSCH Working Group (WG) is currently standardizing a novel architecture to integrate IEEE 802.15.4e TSCH Wireless Networks into the Internet of Things. Within the proposed 6TiSCH architecture, a Scheduling Function (SF) is used to manage the...

Averta, G., Della Santina, C., Battaglia, E., Ciotti, S., Arapi, V., Fani, S., & Bianchi, M. (2017, November). From humans to robots: The role of cutaneous impairment in human environmental constraint exploitation to inform the design of robotic hand

Averta, G., Della Santina, C., Battaglia, E., Ciotti, S., Arapi, V., Fani, S., & Bianchi, M. (2017, November). From humans to robots: The role of cutaneous impairment in human environmental constraint exploitation to inform the design of robotic hands....