Robotics research is carried out since 35 years at PRISMA Lab (Projects of Industrial and Service Robotics, Mechatronics and Automation, in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (DIETI) of University of Naples Federico II. The team currently consists of three professors (Bruno Siciliano, Luigi Villani, Vincenzo Lippiello), three associate professors (Fanny Ficuciello, Alberto Finzi, Fabio Ruggiero), four assistant professors (Pierluigi Arpenti, Riccardo Caccavale, Mario Selvaggio, Laura Mecozzi), along with twelve research assistants, fourteen Ph.D. students, three technical assistants, a project manager, a project manager assistant, a communications manager and one administrative assistant. The PRISMA team is internationally recognized in the community for their achievements in aerial, assistive, cognitive, cooperative, industrial, service and surgical robotics. The record of the team can be measured by more than 900 publications in terms of books and articles in book chapters, peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, cooperation with more than 150 foreign institutions and companies, as well as by several awards and an average annual funding of 1.4 MEuro received during the last ten years. CREATE is currently involved into three robotics p rojects funded by the European Union: For additional information about the research activities and publications of the team, please see www.prisma.unina.it. Past Projects |
