Daniele Fontanelli

Crafting Innovative Technologies for Robotics and Automation

Daniele Fontanelli received the M.S. degree in Information Engineering in 2001, and the  Ph.D. degree in Automation, Robotics and Bioengineering in 2006, both from the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.  He was a Visiting Scientist with the Vision Lab of the University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, US, from 2006 to 2007.  From 2007 to 2008, he has been an Associate Researcher with the Interdepartmental Research Center “E. Piaggio”, University of Pisa.  From 2008 to 2013 he joined as an Associate Researcher the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science and from 2014 the Department of  Industrial Engineering, both at the University of Trento, Italy, where he is now an Associate Professor.  He has authored and co-authored more than 100 scientific papers in peer-reviewed top  journals and conference proceedings. He is currently an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement  and for the IET Science, Measurement \& Technology Journal. From 2018 he is also an Associate Technical Program Committee Member for the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and   Systems. His research interests include human localisation algorithms, synchrophasor estimation, clock synchronisation algorithms, real-time estimation and control, resource aware control, wheeled mobile robots control and service robotics.