Giuseppe Conte

Giuseppe Conte is Full Professor at the Polytechnic University of Marche (Ancona) from 1990. He has been Fulbright Scholar in 1980 and 1987 and has held a NATO Senior Fellowship in 1987. He taught at the University of Genoa and he hold visiting position at the Ohio State University, Ohio; Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France.
Giuseppe Conte has been Associated Editor of SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization from 1990 to 1995. He has been Chairman of several international conferences on System and Control Theory and editor of proceedings. He directed international research projects, funded by the Italian National Research Council, the US National Science Foundation, the NATO and the EU, and the Italian National Research Project “Navigation, Guidance and Control of Robotic Vehicle for Underwater Applications”.
His research interests concern algebraic and geometric methods in linear and nonlinear system and control theory, mobile robotics and underwater robotics and he is author or co-author of about two hundred papers and two books.

Andrea Caiti

Andrea Caiti is currently Professor of Automatic Control at the University of Pisa and, from 2001, Director of the ISME-UNIGE.
His scientific interests are mainly concerned with inverse problems, model estimation and system parameters identification, with applications in the field of marine technologies and robotics.
He has been coordinator of research units for two projects financed by the European Union in the framework of the Mast-II/III programme (Marine Science and Technology), he is the European coordinator of the project SITAR (EU V Framework Programme, Environment and Sustainable Development, 2002-2004) and he is member of the Board of Directors of the European Network of Excellence EPOCH (EU VI Framework Programme, Information Technology applications in Cultural Heritage, 2004-2008).

David Scaradozzi

David Scaradozzi is currently researcher at the DIIGA - Università Politecnica delle Marche. He was working at Innovation and Technology Dept. Of Indesit Company after the PhD and at ISME as senior scientist. His research activities are in the field of robotics and automation, with special interests devoted to all the aspects involving planning, motion and interaction control problems in distributed agents, rapid prototyping, mechatronics and home automation. He is, and has been involved in different EEC funded industrial and academic collaborative research projects and national research projects, all in the field of robotics and automation.
He is the author or co-author of many papers and one book on the subject.

Silvia Maria Zanoli

Silvia Maria Zanoli has a PhD in Intelligent Control Systems, she was visiting researcher at the Marine Systems Engineering Laboratory (MSEL) of the Northeastern University (Boston, MA) and she is currently researcher at the Università Politecnica delle Marche.
Her research interests are in mobile and underwater robotics, filtering, an analysis and control of discrete event systems. She participates to national and international research projects in the area of underwater robotics.

Giuseppe Casalino

Giuseppe Casalino is currently Full Professor at the University of Genova, holding the chair of "Industrial Robotics" and also teaching the course of "Automatic Control". Previous positions covered were at University of Pisa, University of Calabria and originally at University of Genova.
His research activities are in the field of Robotics and Automation, with special interests devoted to all the aspects involving planning, motion and interaction control problems in sensorized multirobot structures.
He has been Director of ISME-UNIGE (1999-2001) and he is currently Director of the Department of Communication, Computer and System Sciences (DIST) . He is, and has been, the responsible scientist of more then seven EEC funded collaborative research projects and several MURST, CNR, ENEA and ASI national research projects, all in the field of robotics and automation.
He is the author of almost hundred papers on the subject, published on international journal and conferences.