Friday, March 14, 2025 - 3:00pm
Event Calendar Category
Other LIDS Events
Speaker Name
Stefano Stramigioli
Affiliation
University of Twente
Building and Room number
45-230
Robotics is the science of machines inter(acting) in our physical world, and yet, far to little attention is often given to sound methodologies able to understand the physics of such interactions and conceptual mistakes have been also even made in the litterature. An example of such complex situations is a robotic bird able to fly at 80 km/h in hard wind: the Robird. In this seminar an introduction to the ERC completed project PortWing will be given ( https://youtu.be/PXh0AIWxJoo ) showing the results achieved and giving a quick introduction of the methodologies used including a tutorial like introduction to some mathematical methods used. The philosophy stems from the pioniring work of Prof. Henry Paynter at MIT in 1959, who introduced bond graphs, without realizing at that time where his ideas could bring to.
Stefano Stramigioli received the M.Sc. with honors (cum laude) in 1992 and the Ph.D with honors (cum laude) in 1998. He is currently full professor in Advanced Robotics at the University of Twente. He is an IEEE Fellow, an ERC AdG and ERC PoC laureate and member of the Royal Holland Society of Science and Humanities (KHMW). He is currently leading a growing group of about 60 people. He has been among other Editor in chief of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, AdCom member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, founder and chair of the Electronic Products and Services of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and he has been serving as Vice President for Membership of the same society for two consecutive terms also in the past. His scientific interest is in the covariant and port-based physical modeling and control of complex physical systems. He has been teaching Modeling, Control and Robotics for under and post-graduates for many years. He has around 450 publications including 4 books.