Work experience

Jan. 2019 – Now

Postdoctoral Researcher,

Dept. Mechanical, Electronic and Chemistry Engineering

Oslo Metropolitan University,

Oslo, Norway.

June 2017 – Dec. 2019

Lead Embedded Software Application Engineer,

Global Technology Area Vehicle Electronics,

Volvo Global Truck Technology,

Gothenburg, Sweden.

Oct. 2017 – Dec. 2017

Co-supervisor for M.Sc. Project

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU),

Assistance to Prof. Kristin Y. Pettersen for supervision of a master student project work.

Thesis title: Path-Following of Curved Paths in 3D for Underwater Vehicles.

Student: Marianna Wrzos-Kaminska – NTNU.

Education and training

Jan. 2014 – April 2017

PhD in Engineering Cybernetics,

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU),

Trondheim, Norway

Completion date: 4^th April 2017.

PhD thesis: Control of under-actuated marine vehicles.

Sept. – Dec. 2016

Co-supervision Internship project M.Sc. Student

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU),

Title: Straight line path following for formations of under-actuated marine surface vessels

Student: Koen Goris – Technical University of Eindhoven (TUe)

November 2016

Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto,

Porto, Portugal

Role: Visiting researcher

Objective: write and implement C++ code;

               perform experiments with the LAUV (light autonomous underwater vehicle).

June 2016

Technical University of Eindhoven, Mechanical Engineering dep.

Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Role: Visiting researcher (Dynamics and Control group)

Objective:  control design and analysis for marine vehicles.

May 2016

Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto,

Porto, Portugal

Role: Visiting researcher

Objective: write and implement C++ code on the LAUV (light-weight underwater vehicles) of the LSTS.

2011 – 2013

MSc in Mechanical Engineering,

University of Cassino and Southern Latium, Cassino, Italy.

M.Sc. Thesis: Study of algorithms for kinematic    control of a quadcopter-robotic arm system.

Final grade: 110 out of 110 with honors.

October 2013

University of Seville, Seville, Spain

Collaboration within the project Aerial Robotics Cooperative Assembly System finalized to the final thesis for the MSc.

2008 – 2011

BSc in Mechanical Engineering,

University of Cassino and Southern Latium, Cassino, Italy.

Thesis title: Planning and simulation of the production process for polymeric composite material laminates via the Vacuum Bagging.

Final grade: 110 out of 110 with honors.

August 2011

Campus Micron (Summer school), Avezzano, Italy.

Objective: study of production process of image sensors;

               data mining for the quality control of the process.

Expertise

• Control theory, Multi-body dynamics;
• Matlab, Simulink, SimMechanics, Maple;
• Solid Works, motion simulation and FEM packages;
• Comsol Multiphysics, fluid dynamics simulations;
• MSC Marc, FEM simulation for plastic deformation;
• AutoCad, 2D and 3D design;
• C/C++, Fortran, Python;
• Arduino Board, servo-motors control with sensors;
• ROS (Robotic Operative System), basic knowledge;
• Machine Learning, Deep Learning (basic knowledge);

Language skills

Italian

Mother tongue.

English

Full professional proficiency.

Norwegian

Limited working proficiency.

Swedish

Limited working proficiency.

Spanish

Elementary proficiency.

Driver License

Type

B

Personal Information

I am a social and extroverted person. I like climbing, basketball and skiing. Passion for travel. Chairman of the Social Committee at the Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Volvo GTT. I like reading thrillers, historical novels and sci-fi books.

Further Research activities

Reviewer in:

IEEE Transaction on Vehicular Technology (TVT)

IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control (TAC)

IEEE Transaction on Control System and Technology (TCST)

IEEE Transaction on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE)

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering (JOE)

Elsevier Ocean Engineering

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (AIHC)

American Control Conference (ACC)

European Control Conference (ECC)

Conference on Control Applications in Marine Systems (CAMS)

IFAC World Congress

References

Available upon request.

Memberships

Knight of the Order of the Golden Feedback Loop (2017) 

Member of IEEE (2015)