Alessandro De Luca
PhD in Systems Engineering in 1987. Researcher in 1988. Associate professor at the Università di Milano in 1992, moved to Sapienza in 1993. Full professor since 2000.
Associate Editor (1994-98), Editor (1998-2003), and Editor-in-Chief (2003-04) of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation. Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics (2004-08).
General Chair of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (Roma, 2007). Elected member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) AdCom (2008-10). Vice-President for Publication Activities of IEEE RAS (2012-13). Program Chair of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (Stockholm, 2016). General Chair of the 1st Italian Conference on Robotics and Intelligent Machines (Roma, 2019).
IEEE Fellow (class of 2007). IEEE Life Fellow from 2023. Member of the Search Committee for Physical Sciences of the Körber European Science Award (2006-12) and of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics (2015-17). Chair of Panel PE7 (Systems and Communication Engineering) of the European Research Council for the Advanced Grants in 2009, 2011, and 2013. Since 2022, member of the Science Advisory Board of the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI) of the Technical University of Munich.
National coordinator of the MIUR PRIN project SICURA (2008-10).
Principal investigator of the European projects PROMotion, PHRIDOM, FP6 CyberWalk, FP6 PHRIENDS, H2020 SYMPLEXITY. Team member of H2020 COMANOID project.
Coordinator of the European project FP7 ICT-287513 SAPHARI (Safe and Autonomous Physical Human-Aware Robot Interaction) 2011-15.
Director of the Master course in Control Engineering (2013-19), a two-year M.Sc. program fully taught in English. Senior Research Fellow of the Scuola Superiore di Studi Avanzati Sapienza (2017-20, renewed 2020-23).
He published more than 230 journal or conference papers and book chapters.
Author for the Springer Handbook of Robotics (1st and 2nd Edition).
Bibliometric indices (June 27, 2023):
ORCID: 0000-0002-0713-5608
Google Scholar: My Citations h-index = 66, with 18401 citations (since 2018: h-index = 40, with 7262 citations), i10-index = 172 (since 2017: i10-index = 108)
Scopus Author ID#: 7201948195 h-index = 54, with 10556 citations (and 153 coauthors)
Semantic Scholar 144765522: h-index = 54, with 10452 citations
WoS ResearcherID: F-3835-2011 h-index = 43, with 7494 citations
Modeling, motion planning, and control of flexible manipulators, kinematically redundant manipulators, underactuated robots, wheeled mobile robots and mobile manipulators. Hybrid force-velocity control. Nonlinear control of nonholonomic mechanical systems. Control of locomotion platforms. Iterative learning. Dynamic feedback linearization. Visual servoing. Fault detection and isolation. Physical human-robot interaction.
Selected results of my research are in the playlists of the YouTube channel RoboticsLabSapienza of the DIAG Robotics Laboratory:
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| Collision Detection and Contact Point Estimation Using Virtual Joint Torque Sensing Applied to a Cobot on 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023) | 2023 |
| Experimental Validation of Functional Iterative Learning Control on a One-Link Flexible Arm on Proc. 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation | 2023 |
| A Nonlinear Observer for a Flexible Robot Arm and its Use in Fault and Collision Detection on 2022 IEEE 61st Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) | 2022 |
| Exploiting Robot Redundancy for Online Learning and Control on 2022 I-RIM Conference | 2022 |
| Feedback Regulation of Elastically Decoupled Underactuated Soft Robots on IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS | 2022 |
| Kinematic Control of Redundant Robots with Online Handling of Variable Generalized Hard Constraints on IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS | 2022 |
| On-Line Learning for Planning and Control of Underactuated Robots With Uncertain Dynamics on IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS | 2022 |