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Modular and Distributed Control Architectures for Complex Robotic Systems

Prof. Giuseppe Casalino
University of Genoa, Italy

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Biography of the Keynote Speaker

Prof. Giuseppe Casalino is currently full professor at the Department of Communication, Computer, and System Science (DIST) of the University of Genova (one of the major departments directly operating in the field of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)). Within DIST he is holding the chair of "Industrial Robotics" and also teaching the course of "Automatic Control", in addition to being contemporarily the head of the Laboratory of Robotics and Automation and the Director of the whole Department. He is also the President of the Scientific and Technological Board of SIIT (Integrated Intelligent System Tecnologies): A very recently established Scientific and Technological District in the Ligurian Region, incorporating major LEs, a large number of SMEs, and of course the University of Genova, with the mission of producing coordinated R&D activities and actions in the field. Previous positions covered by Prof. Casalino were at University of Pisa (full. prof., chair of "Industrial Robotics"), University of Calabria (full. prof., chair of "Automatic Control") and originally at University of Genova (associate prof. of "Multivariable Control Theory" and "Industrial Robotics"). His research activities for many years have been in the field of Robotics and Automation, with special interests devoted to all the aspects involving planning, motion, and interaction control problems within sensorized multi-robot complex structures. He is, and has been, the scientist responsible for more then seven EEC funded collaborative research projects and many of MURST, CNR, ENEA, and ASI nationally funded research projects, all in the field of robotics and automation. He is the author of more than one hundred papers on the subject, published in both international journal and conferences.

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