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Ciro Natale received the Laurea degree (Magna cum Laude) in Electronic Engineering and the Research Doctorate degree in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Naples Federico II in July 1995 and February 2000, respectively. His Laurea thesis was awarded the UCIMU 1996 prize as the best Italian thesis in the sector “Robot: design and applications”. His Doctorate thesis was selected as a finalist at the First Euron Ph.D. Award. From October 1998 to April 1999 he was Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics of the DLR, Germany. From July 2000 to January 2005 Ciro Natale has been a Researcher at the Faculty of Engineering of the Second University of Naples, where until November 2017 he held the position of Associate Professor in the scientific sector ING-INF/04 – Automatica and since December 2017 he is Full Professor. He is the responsible of the Robotics Laboratory. His main research interests are robotic manipulation based on tactile sensing, nonlinear control of mechanical systems, identification and robust active control of vibrating structures, modelling and control of systems with hysteresis. He has been Principal Investigator for the University of Campania in many European research projects in the area of Aeronautics and of ICT - Cognitive Systems and Robotics: ECHORD, SAPHARI, LOCOMACHS, EUROC, LABOR, and of two national research projects ROCOCO' and STEPFAR. From 2009 to 2015 he served as Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Control Systems Technology, from 2015 to 2017 he has been Associate Editor of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters and since 2017 he is Associate Editor of Automatica. He is Editor of the Section "Control" of the Springer Encyclopedia of Robotics. Ciro Natale published more than 130 papers in international journals and conference proceedings, he is the author of the book "Interaction Control of Robot Manipulators" (Springer) and co-author of the book "Active Control of Flexible Structures" (Springer).

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Salvatore Pirozzi is currently an Associate Professor with the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Italy. His research interests include modeling and control of smart actuators for active noise and vibration control, design and modeling of innovative sensors,  in particular of tactile solutions for robotic systems, as well as interpretation and fusion of data acquired from the developed sensors. On these topics, he has authored or co-authored more than 80 international journal and conference papers. He participated in many European and National research projects and in particular he has been Principal Investigator for the University of Campania for the FP7 WIRES Project and he is currently Principal Investigator for the H2020 REMODEL Project. His recent activities in these projects concern the use of tactile sensors for grasping and shape recognition of Deformable Linear Objects, by obtaining the Best Paper Award @AIM Conference in 2017 and the Best New Application Paper Award of the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE) in 2020. He is currently an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology and Section Board Member for the MDPI Sensors journal.

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Marco Costanzo is currently a research fellow at Università degli Studi della Campania ‘‘Luigi Vanvitelli’’, Italy. He received the Ph.D. degree in 2021 in Industrial and Information Engineering with a thesis on in-hand manipulation, and the master’s degree in 2017 in Computer Science Engineering. His research interests include advanced robotic manipulation by using force/tactile sensing, as well as multi-modal sensing for safe human–robot interaction. He was the recipient of the “Fabrizio Flacco” Young Author Best Paper Award 2020 by the IEEE-RAS Italian Chapter for the paper: “Two-Fingered In-Hand Object Handling Based on Force/Tactile Feedback”, IEEE Trans. on Robotics, 36(1):157 – 173, 2020.

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Short CV

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Thesis: Motion planning and working cycle optimization for a collaborative and cooperative robotic workcell (Advisor: prof. C.Natale)

Francesco Vasturzo, Eng.
Project engineer, Leonardo, Turin, I.
MS Thesis:Machine learning algorithms for calibration of a force/tactile sensor (advisor prof. Giuseppe De Maria)
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