SSSA

Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna is a public institution for university education. The CRIM Lab from SSSA will participate in ANGELS.

CRIM Lab (Centre for applied research in microengineering) was established at SSSA in 1991, and now hosts over 50 full time researchers with interdisciplinary expertise. The CRIM Lab has state-of-the-art macro/microfabrication machinery and other facilities, which are mainly used for research in sensors, actuators and robotics for biomedical applications, and for bio-robotics. CRIM developed 10 international patents, and has been or is still involved in more than 10 national projects, 23 projects funded by the European Commission, 2 European Competence Centres, 3 European Networks of Excellence and several international projects and cooperations. Previous EU IP and Strep Projects coordinated by SSSA, involving CRIM and relevant to this proposal, are NEUROBOTICS (The fusion of Neuroscience and Robotics), BIOLOCH (BIO-mimetic structures for LOComotion in the Human body) and CYBERHAND (Development of cybernetic hand prosthesis). In ANGELS, SSSA will be responsible for the design of the prototype (from mechatronics integration to the instrumentation of arena for final tests) as well as the dissemination of ANGELS results through Scientific community and society.

Key personnel for SSSA

Prof. Paolo Dario is Professor of Biomedical Robotics, head of CRIM. He carried out research in the field of medical robotics, humanoid robotics and biomimetics since the late 1980s and he is now considered a major promoter in the research field of Bio-Robotics?. Currently Past-President? of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and Co-Chair? of the Technical Committees on Bio-robotics and on Robo-ethics of the same Society, he promoted the 1st IEEE RAS/EMBS Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob 2006, General Chair) and served as General Co-Chair? of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2007). He is the author of more than 200 scientific papers (more than 80 on ISI Journals). Editor-in-Chief?, Associate Editor and member of the Editorial Board of many international journals, he is IEEE Fellow and recipient of many honours and awards, such as the Joseph Engelberger Award.

Dr. Cesare Stefanini is Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering at CRIM since 2003. His research addresses the design of microactuators and micromechanisms for bio-inspired robots and for biomedical tools. During his PhD course he received prestigious recognitions in Japan for international contests in microrobotics. Dr. Stefanini is the author or co-author of more than 40 international scientific papers, 8 of these in ISI journals, three international patents, and he is member of the IEEE Societies RAS (Robotics and Automation Society), EMBS (Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society) and PES (Power Engineering Society).

Dr. Edoardo Sinibaldi post-doctoral fellow at CRIM, has expertise in numerical modeling as applied to a variety of fields (Computational Fluid Dynamics, Biomechanics, Micromechanics).

References

• http://www.sssup.it
• http://www-crim.sssup.it

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