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Bioinspired soft robotic systems for cognitive production

Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (UNINA) was established in 1224 and was the first publicly funded University in Europe. Today the University offers courses in essentially every academic field with research facilities that provide support to all of these courses. Nowadays the University is made up of four schools, twenty-six departments, an academic staff of more than 3000 individuals and an administrative staff of more than 4500. Current student enrollment is about 90000 total.

BIOIC project involves the participation of three departments and one center: Department of Industrial Engineering (DII), Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (DIETI), Department of Chemical, Materials and Production Engineering (DICMAPI), Center for Advanced Metrological and Technological Services (CESMA). The research areas covered by the members of the project include: design, robotics, materials and fabrication, measurement and sensors

  • Antonio
    Lanzotti

    Project Leader

  • Stanislao
    Grazioso

    Team Leader

  • Mario
    Selvaggio

    Team Member

  • Raffaele
    Vecchione

    External Collaborator

  • Teodorico
    Caporaso

    Team Member

  • Benedetta
    Ostuni

    Team Member

  • Roberto
    Sabella

    Team Member

  • Brunella
    Corrado

    Team Member

  • Valeria
    Panzetta

    Team Member

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

Fraunhofer is an internationally reputed German private non-profit organization undertaking applied research. Providing technical, innovative solutions and thereby driving economic development, Fraunhofer serves the wider benefits of society. Fraunhofer consists of 74 research institutes and research units, with a work force of 28000. The key objective of Fraunhofer is to transform scientific expertise into applications of pratical utility. As a link between research and business practice, Fraunhofer considerably contributes to technology transfer towards industry.

As a leading institute for resource-efficient production within the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, the Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology (IWU) is a scientific research and development partner for the future industries, in the field of sustainable and more efficient production technologies.

BIOIC involes the participation of two departments of Fraunhofer IWU: Department of IIOT Controls and Technical Cybernetics, Department of Adaptronics.

  • Steffen
    Ihlenfeldt

    Project Leader

  • Arvid
    Hellmich

    Team Leader

  • Linda
    Weisheit

    Team Leader

  • Christian
    Friedrich

    Team Member

  • Malte
    Heinrich

    Team Member

  • Tobias
    Krueger

    Team Member

  • Sandra
    Hunger

    Team Member

  • Wilhelm Richard
    Wockenfuß

    Team Member

Steering Committee

The steering committee is composed by internal members and senior scientists from UNINA and IWU serving as advisors from the scientific and industrial perspectives.

  • Bruno
    Siciliano

    UNINA Member of the Steering Committee

  • Paolo
    Netti

    UNINA Member of the Steering Committee

  • Leopoldo
    Angrisani

    UNINA Member of the Steering Committee

  • Giuseppe
    Di Gironimo

    UNINA Member of the Steering Committee

  • Welf-Guntram
    Drossel

    IWU Member of the Steering Committee

  • Holger
    Kunze

    IWU Member of the Steering Committee

Industrial Advisory Board

The industrial advisory board is composed by international experts from industry serving as advisors to orient the project from the industrial point of view.

Scientific Advisory Board

The scientific advisory board is composed by international researchers serving as advisors in the research areas of production systems, robot manufacturing, soft actuators and soft robotics, magnetic actuation for micro soft robots.

UNINA
FIWU