Andrea de Giorgio, PhD

COROMA project proposes to develop a cognitively enhanced robot that can execute multiple tasks for the manufacturing of metal and composite parts. COROMA will therefore provide the flexibility that European metalworking and advanced material manufacturing companies require to compete in the rapidly evolving global market.

The project approach makes an extensive use of modularity. Seven different modules will be developed to fully cover the project’s technical challenges and objectives… Voir plus

COROMA project proposes to develop a cognitively enhanced robot that can execute multiple tasks for the manufacturing of metal and composite parts. COROMA will therefore provide the flexibility that European metalworking and advanced material manufacturing companies require to compete in the rapidly evolving global market.

The project approach makes an extensive use of modularity. Seven different modules will be developed to fully cover the project’s technical challenges and objectives. The modular approach will ease the integration of the project outputs in the European industry. Since manufacturing companies have different requirements some companies may only require certain capabilities from the COROMA robot; thus, they will be able to tailor their COROMA robot picking the strictly necessary modules. Voir moins

Project coordinator: prof. Lihui Wang (https://www.kth.se/profile/lihuiw/).

The european manufacturing industry is facing challenges in terms of adaptability, flexibility and vertical integration. The SYMBIO-TIC project adresses these important issues towards a safe, dynamic, intuitive and cost effective working environment were inmersive and symbiotic collaboration between human workers and robots can take place and bring significant benefits to robot - reluctant industries, where… Voir plus

Project coordinator: prof. Lihui Wang (https://www.kth.se/profile/lihuiw/).

The european manufacturing industry is facing challenges in terms of adaptability, flexibility and vertical integration. The SYMBIO-TIC project adresses these important issues towards a safe, dynamic, intuitive and cost effective working environment were inmersive and symbiotic collaboration between human workers and robots can take place and bring significant benefits to robot - reluctant industries, where current tasks and processes are thought too complex to be automated. The benefits that the project can bring about include lower costs, increased safety, better working conditions and higher profitability through improved adaptability, flexibility, performance and seamless integration.

Project specific objectives are:

Objective 1: To develop an active collision avoidance subsystem to safeguard human workers.
Objective 2: To generate adaptive task plans appropriate to both robots and human workers.
Objective 3: To adapt to dynamic changes with intuitive and multimodal programming.
Objective 4: To provide human workers with in-situ assistance on what-to-do and how-to-do.
Objective 5: To demonstrate and validate the project concept and solutions. Voir moins

A project-based committee with the purpose of evaluating English (instead of Swedish) as the operational language for THS, the student union at KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, and to propose the approval of this change in the Statement and By-Laws of the organization.
The committee has done a thorough job by analyzing the language policy used at KTH, the workflow within THS and KTH itself, the opinions and ideas of (almost) all the representatives of the sub-units of THS, or rather about… Voir plus

A project-based committee with the purpose of evaluating English (instead of Swedish) as the operational language for THS, the student union at KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, and to propose the approval of this change in the Statement and By-Laws of the organization.
The committee has done a thorough job by analyzing the language policy used at KTH, the workflow within THS and KTH itself, the opinions and ideas of (almost) all the representatives of the sub-units of THS, or rather about 20 groups operating at different levels.
The outcome will largely affect KTH, because its best partner - when it comes to include and help more students – is the student union and all its student-members who become volunteers in service around KTH. At the time of the investigation, almost one third of the students at KTH didn’t speak Swedish at all, while a lot fewer couldn’t speak a good English. Therefore, having Swedish as the only operative language in the student union constitutes a higher barrier. Voir moins

Gesture-based password recognition is an unexplored field of research based on the influence of two main areas: human gesture recognition in Human-Computer Interaction and password management in computer science. My team for this course-based project took inspiration from new devices that will be soon commercialized and from latest publications in the field of human computer interaction to develop a sensor equipped glove for password generation through hand gestures. Our study shows that it is… Voir plus

Gesture-based password recognition is an unexplored field of research based on the influence of two main areas: human gesture recognition in Human-Computer Interaction and password management in computer science. My team for this course-based project took inspiration from new devices that will be soon commercialized and from latest publications in the field of human computer interaction to develop a sensor equipped glove for password generation through hand gestures. Our study shows that it is possible to store these passwords and to match them with an input password. The number of simultaneous changing variables within a single gesture is considerably high and the level of security of a password depends on both the accuracy and the number of sensors employed. Gesture based passwords do not provide a more secure way of password verification than alphanumeric passwords with our current setup. Although the encouraging results that my team obtained are based on a limited prototype, the professional input devices based on hand movements that have been advertised lately will bring more data to this research field. Voir moins

The purpose of my Bachelor thesis was to study how the concept of programmable neural circuits can make the learning of different behaviors in a single structure more efficient. For this purpose I compared two architectures, one programmable and one non-programmable, as part of a robotic scenery opportunely projected to test the possibility of learning and then exhibit multiple behaviors. More specifically, I supposed that a robot could reach one of the eight different endings of a labyrinth… Voir plus

The purpose of my Bachelor thesis was to study how the concept of programmable neural circuits can make the learning of different behaviors in a single structure more efficient. For this purpose I compared two architectures, one programmable and one non-programmable, as part of a robotic scenery opportunely projected to test the possibility of learning and then exhibit multiple behaviors. More specifically, I supposed that a robot could reach one of the eight different endings of a labyrinth, which was composed of a series of three turnings and variable dimensions. For this problem, it was fundamental that the controlling architecture could learn behaviors and not simple trajectories. In this way, I had been able to collect sufficient data to realize a thoroughly analysis.
Artificial neural architectures, learning algorithms and functions for the simulations and the analysis of the data were entirely realized in Matlab programming language.
My main contribute was about adapting an old framework by developing new algorithms for the simulation and the analysis of the specific problem stated in my thesis. Therefore I executed a job composed of different phases, such as problem analysis, experimental setting, code implementation, debugging, test, execution and data elaboration.
The work is part of an exhaustive soon-to-be-published research by the ViNe Lab (http://vinelab.na.infn.it/) team in Naples, Italy. Voir moins