Team
Professors

Karl Von Ellenrieder
− Automation and automatic control
− Control of autonomous systems
− Unmanned vehicle dynamics
– Nonlinear control
– Shared human-robot control
Researchers with Fixed Term Contracts

Santos Miguel Orozco Soto
– Automation and automatic control
– Nonlinear control
– Unmanned aerial vehicles
Research Assistants

Parvin Mahmoudabadi
– Heavy-lift drones
– Nonlinear control
– Shared human-robot control

Cheikh Melainine El Bou
– Stability analysis of human-robot shared system
– Nonlinear control of ground vehicles
– Safety-critical control
– Vehicle dynamics and modeling

Giacomo Tomasi
– Mechatronics and robotics
– Mobile manipulators

Alireza Naderi Akhormeh
PhD Students

Michael Reynolds Chang
– Robotic imaging for agro-forestry
– Multimodal laser scanning for forest inventory

Haghani Roghieh
– Kinematic and dynamic modeling
– Optimal motion planning
– Collaborative mobile manipulators

Ivan Enzo Gargano
– Nonlinear control of ground vehicles
– Trajectory planning
– Vehicle modeling and dynamics

Sara Gomiero
– Nonlinear control of heavy-lift drones
– Vehicle modeling and dynamics
– Disturbance rejection

Sai Bhaskar Varma Balagopala
– Opinion dynamics for trajectory planning and control of ground vehicles
– Vehicle dynamics and modeling

Joel Enrique Esparza-Ramirez
– Nonlinear control of aerial drones
– Mountain search & rescue
Guest Master Students

Oguzhan Bozoglu

Matteo Manzardo

Davide Galli
Affiliated Professors and Researchers

Renato Vidoni
– Advanced mechatronic and collaborative robotic systems
– Multi-body dynamics and motion planning
– Biomimetic mechatronic systems for agroforestry applications
– Optimal motion planning

Marco Camurri
– Robotics
– Quadrupeds
– System localization and mapping

Giovanni Carabin
– Mechatronics and robotics for agroforestry
– Powerful automatic machines

Stefan Leitner
– Applied mechanics
– Mechatronics
– Electromechanical solutions for agroforestry
Past Affiliated Professors and Researchers

Hellen Henninger

Raza Saeed
– Motion planning for mobile robots
– AI applications for mechanical systems