Professor Antonio Bicchi, Università di Pisa, Italy
Antonio Bicchi received the Laurea degree in Engineering from the University of Pisa in 1984, and the Doctoral degree from the University of Bologna in 1989. After a post-doctoralf fellowship at the Artificial Intelligence lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he joined the Faculty of Engineering in the University of Pisa in 1990.
He is Professor of Systems Theory and Roboticsin the Department of Electrical Systems and Automation (DSEA) of the University of Pisa and the Director of the Interdepartmental Research Center "E Piaggio'' of the University of Pisa , where he has been leading the Automation and Robotics group since 1990.
His main research interests are in haptics and Dexterous manipulation; dynamics, kinematics and control of complex mechanical systems, including robots, autonomous vehicles, and automotive systems; theory and control of nonlinear systems, in particular hybrid (logic/dynamic, symbol/signal) systems.
He has published more than 250 papers on international journals, books, and refereed conferences. Antonio Bicchi is a Fellow of IEEE, and Editor in Chief of the Conference Editorial Board of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.
He has served in the Editorial or Advisory Board of several Journals, including IEEE Trans. Robotics and Automation, IEEE Trans. Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, Int. J. Robotics Reserarch. He has organized several conferences, among which the First WorldHaptics Conference in 2005 in Pisa. He was Vice President of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society; Chairman of the Technical Committee for Manufacturing, Automation, and Robotics Control (MARC) of IEEE Control Systems Society.