CV
General Information
Full Name | Davide Torielli |
Languages | Italian (mother tongue), English (B2-C1) |
Education
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2024 PhD in Bioengineering and Robotics
University of Genova, Genova, Italy Humanoids and Human Centered Mechatronics, Italian Institute of Tecnhology Thesis: Intuitive Human-Robot Interfaces Leveraging on Autonomy Features for the Control of Highly-redundant Robots. I studied and developed paradigms for new human-robot interfaces to establish a link between the user and the robot that permit them to collaborate. In particular, I faced the challenges of intuitiveness, to let the user to effortlessly communicate with the robot, and robot autonomy, by exploring shared control/autonomy tecniques to help the operator in the control of the high redundancies of the robot during the execution of complex tasks. -
2019 Master's Degree in Robotics Engineering
University of Genova, Genova, Italy DIBRIS - Dipartimento di informatica, bioingegneria, robotica e ingegneria dei sistemi Thesis: Cooperative Assembly with Autonomous Mobile Manipulators in an Underwater Scenario. I developed a control framework for autonomous underwater mobile manipulators, with the aim to transport cooperatively a common object and accomplish a peg in hole task. The work is related to the TWINBOT project, coordinated by IRS Lab, Castellón de la Plana, Spain. -
2017 Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science Engineering
University of Genova, Genova, Italy DIBRIS - Dipartimento di informatica, bioingegneria, robotica e ingegneria dei sistemi Thesis: Development of the Android Application "StudyGroups". I developed an Android appplication to help students communicate by means of chat groups and organize meetings to share their knowledge. The app includes a database to handle users data, calendar app integration, and personal pages.
Experience
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2024 - actual Postdoc Researcher
HHCM, Italian Institute of Technology My research focuses on the development of teleoperation interfaces to control redundant robots, combining intuitiveness and robot autonomy. -
2020-2024 PhD Student
HHCM, Italian Institute of Technology My research focuses on the development of teleoperation interfaces to control redundant robots, combining intuitiveness and robot autonomy. -
2019 - 2020 Research Fellow in Robotics
HHCM, Italian Institute of Technology Development of ROS End-Effector, a ROS package which provides a set of standard interfaces to command robotics end-effectors in an agnostic fashion. -
2019 Master Thesis Student
Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain I developed part of my Master Thesis for Robotics Engineering degree as an Erasmus+ student in Castellón de la Plana, Spain.
Publications
- Journals and Conferences list available at Google Scholar or here
Scientific Talks
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11-2020 Virtual Event
ROSIN FTP Webinar Series: "ROS End-Effector"
ROSIN Focused Technical Projects (FTP) Webinar Series, session 5, organized by the ROS Industrial Consortium -
12-2021 Ljubljana,
Slovenia
(virtual event)International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR)
I presented the paper titled "Towards an Open-Source Hardware Agnostic Framework for Robotic End-Effectors Control" -
05-2022 Philadelphia
(PA), USAIEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
I presented the paper titled "TelePhysicalOperation: Remote Robot Control Based on a Virtual 'Marionette' Type Interaction Interface" -
10-2022 Kyoto, Japan
ROSCON
I co-presented the talk "Exploiting ROS 2 to facilitate end-effectors integration and control" -
10-2022 Kyoto, Japan
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
I presented the paper titled "Manipulability-Aware Shared Locomanipulation Motion Generation for Teleoperation of Mobile Manipulators" -
11-2022 Ginowan,
Okinawa,
JapanIEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids)
I presented the paper titled "A Shared Telemanipulation Interface to Facilitate Bimanual Grasping and Transportation of Objects of Unknown Mass" -
12-2022 Stuttgart,
Germany
(virtual
participation)ROS-Industrial Conference
I co-presented the talk "ROS End-Effector: A hardware-agnostic framework to facilitate end-effectors integration, planning and control with the ROS2 middleware"
Technical Skills
- My interests include any aspects of robotics; actually my research focuses in particular on teleoperation and shared control techniques. In university, I studied with great interest many of the basic aspects of robotics such as: artificial intelligence, control, planning, kinematics, linear and non-linear dynamics, computer vision, machine learning, system identification, optimization, real time systems, embedded systems, mobile robots, mechanical drawing. I gained hands-on experience with real robots: complex hybrid wheel-legged system CENTAURO, mobile manipulator RELAX, and robotic hands (HERI II, Qb Softhand, Robotiq grippers).
Soft Skills
- Team working skill, gained thanks to collaborations with colleagues both with same and different backgrounds than mine. Oral communication and some theatrical skills, obtained with presentations of my research works.
Software Skills
Programming | |||||||||
C++ | everyday use | ||||||||
Python | everymonth use | ||||||||
C | mother tongue (I should still remember C++ diff) | ||||||||
Matlab | data plotting, and uni used | ||||||||
Javascript | basic html pages handling | ||||||||
Bash sh | basic short scripts | ||||||||
Java | used in uni | ||||||||
Simulink | used in uni |
Robotic Frameworks | |||||||
ROS | everyday use | ||||||
ROS 2 | used for a package, will update from ROS1 soon | ||||||
BehaviorTree.CPP | average level, I suppose | ||||||
XBot | lab framework | ||||||
CartesI\O | lab framework | ||||||
ViSP | used in uni |
Frameworks | ||||||||
OpenCV | indirect use with ROS | |||||||
PyTorch | object detection | |||||||
Qt | made a GUI once | |||||||
GoogleTest | ROS End-Effector tests | |||||||
Gurobi | used once | |||||||
CREO | used in uni | |||||||
Android | used in uni |
Misc. | |||||
Git | everyday use, but not super expert | ||||
Linux OS | everyday use, common use | ||||
Github Actions | recently discovered | ||||
Travis CI | very basic for ROS End-Effector tests |
Honors and Awards
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2016 - Scholarship "IRIS 2016 prize - best freshmen of academic year 2014-15" - Università degli studi di Genova, IRIS
Hobbies and Interests
- I like to learn to resolve things by myself and organize stuff, like for my motorbike servicing and my computer building. I regularly enjoy going to gym and planning my diet. My other interests include reading very long book series and travelling in (almost) any place. Started playing an instrument recently.