Catalogo dei Corsi di studio

Biosketch:

PhD in Systems Engineering in 1987. Researcher in 1988. Associate professor at the Università di Milano in 1992, moved to Sapienza in 1993. Full professor since 2000.

Associate Editor (1994-98), Editor (1998-2003), and Editor-in-Chief (2003-04) of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation. Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics (2004-08). General Chair of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (Roma, 2007). Elected member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) AdCom (2008-10). Vice-President for Publication Activities of IEEE RAS (2012-13). Program Chair of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (Stockholm, 2016). General Chair of the 1st Italian Conference on Robotics and Intelligent Machines (Roma, 2019).

IEEE Fellow (class of 2007). IEEE Life Fellow since 2023. Member of the Search Committee for Physical Sciences of the Körber European Science Award (2006-12) and of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics (2015-17). Chair of Panel PE7 (Systems and Communication Engineering) of the European Research Council for the Advanced Grants in 2009, 2011, and 2013. Member of the Science Advisory Board of the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI) of the Technical University of Munich since 2022 and of the Advisory Board of The International Journal of Robotics Research since 2023. One of the Vice-presidents of the national Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (I-RIM) since 2019.

National coordinator of the MIUR PRIN project SICURA (2008-10). Principal investigator of the European projects PROMotion, PHRIDOM, FP6 CyberWalk, FP6 PHRIENDS, H2020 SYMPLEXITY. Team member of H2020 COMANOID project. Coordinator of the European project FP7 ICT-287513 SAPHARI (Safe and Autonomous Physical Human-Aware Robot Interaction) 2011-15.

Director of the Master course in Control Engineering (2013-19), a two-year M.Sc. program fully taught in English. Senior Research Fellow of the Scuola Superiore di Studi Avanzati Sapienza (2017-20, renewed 2020-23).

Research interests:

Modeling, motion planning, and control of exible manipulators, kinematically redundant manipulators, underactuated robots, wheeled mobile robots and mobile manipulators. Hybrid force-velocity control. Nonlinear control of nonholonomic mechanical systems. Control of locomotion platforms. Iterative learning. Dynamic feedback linearization. Visual servoing. Fault detection and isolation. Physical human-robot interaction.

Videos of selected results of my research are in the following playlists of the YouTube channel RoboticsLabSapienza (https://www.youtube.com/user/RoboticsLabSapienza) of the DIAG Robotics Laboratory:
- Physical human-robot interaction
- Kinematic control of redundant robots
- Motion control of the CyberCarpet platform
- Locomotion and telepresence
- Learning and control

Publications:

More than 240 journal or conference papers and book chapters. See the complete list at http://www.diag.uniroma1.it/deluca/Publications.php. Author for the Springer Handbook of Robotics (1st and 2nd Edition).

Bibliometric indices (March 27, 2024):

ORCID: 0000-0002-0713-5608
Google Scholar: My Citations h-index = 68, with 19631 citations (since 2019: h-index = 40, with 7191 citations), i10-index = 177 (since 2019: i10-index = 103)
Scopus Author ID#: 7201948195 h-index = 55, with 11289 citations (and 164 coauthors)
Semantic Scholar 144765522: h-index = 61, with 14288 citations
WoS ResearcherID: F-3835-2011 h-index = 44, with 8025 citations

Awards:

- IEEE RAS George Saridis Leadership in Robotics and Automation Award in 2019 "for contributions to the robotics and automation community through research innovation and education, and for leadership in publication and conference activities in RAS"
- Mechanism and Machine Theory 2017 Award for Excellence (article in the list of top 10 most cited papers since journal publication)
- IEEE RAS-EMBS BioRob 2012 Best Conference Paper Award
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Distinguished Service Award nel 2009 "for outstanding leadership and contributions as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics, and for service as the ICRA 2007 General Chair"
- IEEE/RSJ IROS 2008 Best Application Paper Award
- IEEE Fellow (class of 2007) "for contributions to modeling and control of robotic systems" and IEEE Life Fellow (from 2023)
- Helmholtz-Humboldt Research Award in 2005
- IEEE ICRA 1998 Best Conference Paper Award