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Ugo Pattacini

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Ugo Pattacini graduated in Electronic Engineering (cum laude) at the University of Pisa in 2001, with a thesis on the design and realization of an optic-fiber micromachined accelerometer with an integrated light sensor. In the period between 2001 and 2003, he worked at the Racing Department of Magneti Marelli in Milan as SW developer for Formula 1 applications, dealing with the design and the implementation of integrated telemetry drivers and proprietary hard-constrained real-time operating systems for electronic control units of Toyota, Renault, and Ferrari F1 cars. In 2004 he joined the Toyota F1 team in Cologne, playing an active role in the embedded software development of TF104, TF105, and TF106 car projects, focusing his activities on the vehicle dynamics and torque-based traction control strategies. In 2006 he moved to the Earth Observation Business Unit of Thales Alenia Space in Rome where he was concerned with the specifications design and trade-off analyses of the satellite data acquisition system for COSMO-SkyMed (ASI) and GMES (ESA) scientific programs. From 2008 to 2010 he carried out Ph.D. studies at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) on the synthesis and implementation of modular cartesian controllers for humanoid robots. Currently, he is a Technologist researcher at IIT involved in the development of the iCub and R1 platforms, in particular concerning the advancements of the robot motor capabilities. He is a member of IEEE, RAS, and CSS.

Education

Title: Ph.D. in Robotics
Institute: Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Location: Genoa
Country: Italy
From: 2008 To: 2011

Title: M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering
Institute: University of Pisa
Location: Pisa
Country: Italy
From: 1995 To: 2001

Certificate

Title: Best conference award at ROBIO2011
Description: Awarded with the paper 'The encoding of complex visual stimuli by a canonical model of the primary visual cortex: temporal population coding for face recognition on the iCub robot'.
Date: 11-12-2011

Title: First prize at the European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibitions (FET 11)
Description: null
Date: 06-05-2011

Title: KUKA Innovation Award 2018 Winner
Description: Participated in the IIT team CoAware, Hannover Messe, Germany, 23-27 April 2018.
Date: 27-04-2018

Experience External

Title: Consultant
Institute: Thales Alenia Space
Location: Rome
Country: Italy
From: 2006 To: 2007

Title: Embedded SW Engineer
Institute: Toyota Motorsport GmbH
Location: Cologne
Country: Germany
From: 2004 To: 2006

Title: Embedded SW Engineer
Institute: Magneti Marelli Motorsport Department
Location: Corbetta (MI)
Country: Italy
From: 2001 To: 2004

All Publications
2023
Fussi M., Salvi M., Gesino M., Pattacini U., Maggiali M.
Building a Digital Twin of the iCub Humanoid Robot’s Head
MathWorks
Report Journal
2023
Altobelli A., Bottarel F., Pattacini U., Natale L.
GRASPA-fying the Panda: Easily Deployable, Fully Reproducible Benchmarking of Grasp Planning Algorithms
IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine
Article in Press Journal
2022
Vasco V., Antunes A.G.P., Tikhanoff V., Pattacini U., Natale L., Gower V., Maggiali M.
HR1 Robot: An Assistant for Healthcare Applications
Frontiers Robotics AI, vol. 9
2022
Dafarra S., Darvish K., Grieco R., Milani G., Pattacini U., Rapetti L., Romualdi G., Salvi M., Scalzo A., Sorrentino I., Tomè D., Traversaro S., Valli E., Viceconte P. M., Metta G., Maggiali M., Pucci D.
iCub3 Avatar System
arXiv
Article in Press Journal
2021
Piga N.A., Pattacini U., Natale L.
A Differentiable Extended Kalman Filter for Object Tracking Under Sliding Regime
Frontiers Robotics AI, vol. 8
Awards and Achievements
2022
Pucci D., Maggiali M., Dafarra S., Pattacini U., Traversaro S., Milani G., Rapetti L., Romualdi G., Sorrentino I., Sartore C., Valli E., Viceconte P., Grieco R., Elobaid M., Larosa F., Fiorio L., Barbieri E., Gandini D., Salvi M., Scalzo A., Tomè D., Tricerri L., Girardi S., Vassallo G.
ANA Avatar XPRIZE Finalist
2018
Kim W., Lorenzini M., Balatti P., Nguyen P., Pattacini U., Tikhanoff V., Peternel L., Fantacci C., Natale L., Metta G., Ajoudani A.
KUKA Innovation Award 2018 Winner
2011
Luvizotto A., Rennò-Costa C., Pattacini U., Verschure P.
Best conference award
Editorships
2018-2018
Pattacini U.
IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots
2016-2018
Pucci D., Pattacini U., Tikhanoff V., Jamone L., Petit M.
Building the iCub Mindware: Open-source Software for Robot Intelligence and Autonomy
Organized Events
2020
Pattacini U., Tikhanoff V., Traversaro S., Salvi M., Vasco V., Genesio N., Caridà L., Di Piazza E., Maggia M.
Easy Peasy Robotics Online Crash Course WEB20
2018
Natale L., Bartolozzi C., Pattacini U., Tikhanoff V., Pucci D.
VVV18
2017
Pattacini U., Tikhanoff V., Fantacci C., Vezzani G., Cardellino A., Caridà L., Natale L., Metta G.
Easy Peasy Robotics Crash Course at CPI17
2017
Natale L., Bartolozzi C., Pattacini U., Tikhanoff V., Pucci D.
VVV17