Workshop "Out of the Lab: Challenges and Opportunities in Field Robotics"

Speakers (alphabetical order)

Bio: Victor Barasuol holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Master’s and Doctorate degrees in Automation and Systems Engineering. He is a Research Technologist at the Dynamic Legged Systems Lab of IIT Genoa, where he drives developments in the field of CleanTech, AgriTech, Disaster Response, and Space. His expertise covers a broad spectrum of quadruped robotics, from kinematic design to both low- and high-level control. Victor’s research focuses on developing safe, agile, and resilient locomotion through advanced motion generation and stabilization techniques, enabling legged robots to operate and collaborate reliably in real-world environments.

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Bio: Marco Camurri is Associate Professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Trento. Previously, he was Assistant Professor (RTD-A) at the Field Robotics South Tyrol (FiRST), working on autonomous mobile robot navigation in the field. From 2018 to 2022 he served as PDRA and Senior Researcher in robot navigation at the Dynamic Robot System lab of the Oxford Robotics Institute, University of Oxford, UK. From 2014 to 2018 he was member of the Dynamic Legged System (DLS) lab at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Genoa, Italy, where he received his PhD in Bioengineering and Robotics in 2017. He has received the B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in computer engineering from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy, in 2009 and 2012, respectively. His research interests lie in all aspects of mobile robot autonomy in harsh environments, including but not limited to field robotics, mobile robot perception, model predictive control, autonomous navigation, sensor fusion, and legged robotics.

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Bio: Karl von Ellenrieder received the B.S. degree in aeronautics and astronautics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, in 1990, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, in 1992 and 1998, respectively. From 1998 to 2002, he was a Research Fellow with Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; from 2003 to 2016, he was a Professor of Ocean Engineering with Florida Atlantic University, Dania Beach, FL, USA. Since 2016, he has been a Professor of Automation with the Faculty of Engineering, Libera Università di Bolzano, Italy. His research interests include topics related to the control of uncrewed vehicle systems. He is a member of the IEEE Control Systems Society, the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society, and the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering.

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Bio: Martina Lippi received the M.Sc. (cum laude) and Ph.D. degrees in information engineering from the University of Salerno, Italy, in 2017 and 2020, respectively. In 2019, she was a Visiting Scholar with the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. From November 2020 to June 2022, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher with Roma Tre University, Italy, where she has been an Assistant Professor since June 2022. Her research interests include multirobot systems, human–robot interaction, distributed control, and agricultural robotics.

Organizers (alphabetical order)

• Dario Guastella, University of Catania, Italy
• Martina Lippi (corresponding), Roma Tre University, Italy
• Lorenzo Scalera, University of Udine, Italy