Publications: 'Motion and Hardware Intelligence for the Adaptive Morphology of Flying Multibody Robots' (2023); 'From CAD to URDF: Co-design of a jet-powered humanoid robot including CAD geometry' (2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems); 'Co-design optimisation of morphing topology and control of winged drones' (2024 International Conference on Robotics and Automation); and other related papers.
Research Experience
Postdoctoral Researcher, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (July 2023 - Present), designed instantaneous whole-body controller for take-off maneuvers of flying humanoid robots; Visiting Ph.D. Student, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Laboratory of Intelligent Systems (September 2022 - February 2023), aerodynamic modeling and trajectory optimization for flying multibody drones; Ph.D. Student, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (February 2020 - June 2023), design, modeling, and control of rigid multibody systems with close kinematic chains; Research Fellow, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (April 2018 - January 2020), model-based whole-body optimal control of jumping humanoid robots via inverse kinematics and dynamics.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Manchester (February 2020 - October 2023); M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano (October 2016 - December 2018); B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano (October 2013 - September 2016)
Background
Postdoctoral Researcher, focused on developing new ankle mechanisms for the humanoid ergoCub robot. Expertise includes whole-body control algorithms, hardware optimization, mechanical design, trajectory optimization, and modeling of aerial and multibody robots.
Miscellany
Interests include robotics, optimization, traveling, and sports.