People & Awards

Full Professor

Marco Carricato received the M.Sc. degree (with honors) in Mechanical Engineering in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree in Mechanics of Machines in 2002.
He has been with the University of Bologna since 2004, where he is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering.
He is the Rector Delegate for the PhD Programs of the University of Bologna.
He was awarded the AIMETA Prize 2011 for outstanding research results in the field of Mechanics of Machines, and he is an associate editor of the journal Mechanism and Machine Theory.
His research interests include robotic systems, servo-actuated automatic machinery, and the theory of mechanisms, with a particular emphasis on parallel manipulators, mobile collaborative robotics, efficiency and optimization of servomechanisms, and screw theory.

Ph.D. student

B.Sc. degree in Automation Engineering (with honors) at the University of Bologna and an M.Sc. degree in Robotics, Systems, and Control at the Institute of Technology (ETH) of Zurich.
After a couple of years working abroad as a software developer at GoPro Switzerland AG, he returns to the academy focusing his research as a Ph.D. student of Mechanics and Advanced Engineering Science degree on computer vision and AI applied to collaborative robotics.
IT-guy of the team, besides education duties and software support to his colleagues’ work, Simone’s main activities are in collaboration with important companies of the territory. After a 3-year long affiliation with IMA S.p.A. R&I department for the ROSSINI EU project, he nows works as consultant with DataSensing S.r.l. R&D office.

Ph.D. student

B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bologna. He was a visiting student at the Laboratoire de Robotique de l’Université Laval, Québec (Canada) and the winner of the graduation award in memory of Professor Ettore Funaioli in 2019.
After a research assignment in collaboration with IMA S.p.A., a leader in the design and manufacturing of automatic packaging machines, he began his Ph.D. program within the Department of Industrial Engineering, where he researches in the collaborative robotics field, with a particular focus on optimal motion control of serial manipulators and collision-free dual-arm object handling.

Ph.D. student

Federico received both his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bologna in 2017 and 2020, respectively, with a specialization curriculum in Mechanics of Automation and Robotics.
He was a research fellow at CIRI-MAM, Advanced Application in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Technology, where he collaborated on the development of a robotic manipulation system for the COORSA project. Federico collaborates with the Laboratoire des Sciences du Numérique de Nantes, where he is enrolled at the MathSTIC Ph.D program of the Ecole Centrale de Nantes.
Its research topics, as a Ph.D. student of Mechanics and Advanced Engineering Science degree, are connected to industrial robotics and continuum parallel robot robots, with a focus on design, modelling, and workspace analysis of flexible parallel manipulators.

Ph.D. student

Michele received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bologna in 2018 and 2021, following a specialization curriculum in Mechanics of Automation and Robotics.
His master thesis project involved the design of feed-forward control for underactuated parallel cable robots; it led him to join the research group as a Research Fellow, collaborating with L3Harris | Calzoni in the development of a cable-robot prototype  for automatic launch and recovery activities in marine environment.
Currently, after enrolling in the Mechanics and Advanced Engineering Science Ph.D. program, he is collaborating with IMA S.p.A. R&I department in the study of Intelligent Systems for manipulation of unknown objects in Industrial Automation Processes.

Ph.D. student

Ph.D student in Mechanics and Advanced Engineering Science in collaboration with Bonfiglioli Riduttori S.p.A. Giuseppe’s current research deal with innovative gearboxes for robotics applications.
Specialized in Mechatronics and Robotics, Giuseppe received his M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bologna and Roma “La Sapienza”, respectively.
During his thesis work, he actively participated in the realization (mechanical design, modeling, prototyping, and control) of a novel Cable-Driven Parallel Robot. The activity was carried out during six months internship at the LS2N laboratory of the École Centrale of Nantes (France).

Research Fellow

Giovanni received his B.Sc. degree in Industrial Engineering at the University of Salento and his M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering (with honors) at the University of Bologna. During his B.Sc. degree, he participated for 3 years in the university team of Formula Student in the electronics group of the team.
His master thesis project, developed with Marchesini Group S.p.A., concerned the optimization of an automatic machine both from a mechanical and a software point of view.
His current research activity, in collaboration with L3 Harris | Calzoni, is focused on the design and optimization of an electric auxiliary propulsion system for naval applications, with particular regard to magnetic and acoustic signatures.

Ph.D. student

B.Sc. and M.Sc. Degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bologna.
He carried out a research fellowship activity based on the development of a mobile collaborative robotized system for the COORSA project and started his Ph.D. at the University of Bologna, where he addressed the state estimation of under-actuated Cable-Driven Parallel Robots (CDPR).
He then enrolled in a Ph.D. program at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Gino’s research activity is focused on the dynamic analysis and control of robotized systems actuated by cables, such as tensegrities and multi-link CDPRs.