Bio: 

Filippo Arrichiello was born in Naples (Italy) on July 26th,1979

Education:

• Laurea degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Naples Federico II (UNINA), Italy, in May 2003. Supervisors: prof. Bruno Siciliano and prof. Salvatore Gerbino 

• Ph.D. in Electrical and Information Engineering at the Department of Automation, Electromagnetism, Information Engineering and Industrial Mathematics of the University of Cassino (UNICAS). On February 2007 he defended a Ph.D. thesis on " Coordination Control of Multiple Mobile Robots ". Supervisors: prof.Stefano Chiaverini

Positions:

• From November 2006 to September 2010 he has been a Research Assistant in Control Engineering at the Department of Automation, Electromagnetism, Information Engineering and Industrial Mathematics of the University of Cassino (UNICAS) and he has been Adjunct Professor of the course of "Process control" and "Control systems for industrial automation". Supervisors: prof.Stefano Chiaverini (2006-2008) and prof. Gianluca Antonelli (2008-2010) 

• From October 2010 to May 2014, he has bee an Assistant Professor in Control Engineering at the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy. His position was granted by a National Research Project 'FIRB-Futuro in Ricerca 2008' on Networked Teams of Autonomous Robots (NECTAR).

• From May 2014 to October 2014 he has been Associate Professor at the Universita' Telematica eCampus, Italy.

• From November 2014 to April 2024 he been Associate Professor in Control Engineering at the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy.

• Since April 2024 he is Full Professor in Control Engineering at the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy.

• Since Novembre 2021 he is the Program Coordinator of the Courses of Studies in Information Engineering (Bachelor in Information and Telecommunications Engineering (L-8); Master in Computer Engineering (LM-32); Master in Telecommunications Engineering (LM-27)) at the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy.

Visiting positions:

• From March to September 2005 he joined as a Visiting Ph.D. Student the Centre of Excellence Centre of Ships and Ocean Structures (CESOS) of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway, under a Marie Curie fellowship. Research activity: coordinated control of fleet of marine surface surface vessels. Supervisor: prof. Thor I. Fossen.

• From 2008 and 2011 he spent, in three separate visits, seven months as a Visiting Researcher at the Robotic Embedded Systems Laboratory (RESL) of the University of Southern California (USC),Los Angeles, CA, USA. Research activity: control of surface and underwater marine robots. Supervisor: prof.Gaurav Sukhatme.

Research activity:

Filippo Arrichiello's research activity focuses on industrial and mobile robotics with specific interest in multi-robot systems, marine robotics and assistive robotics. In particular, his research activity has been mainly focused on the development of control algorithms for robotic systems, multi-robot systems, robot operatred via Brain Computer Interfaces, Human-Robot Interaction using EMG sensors. Most of the developed approaches have been experimentally tested with different categories of robotic systems as manipulators and autonomous mobile robots.

Filippo Arrichiello is author of more than 70 papers published in international journals and conferences proceedings in the field of robotics. Among them, several are in top journal and conferences proceedings in the field of Robotics and Automatic control, as International Journal of Robotics Research, IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Proc. of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems (IROS), Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), International Conference on Field and Service Robots (FSR).

Bibliometric indicators:

H-index 26; Citations 2022 (from Scopus database): Scopus Profile

H-index 30; Citations 2864 (from Google Scholar): Google Scholar Profile

Teaching activity:

• His teaching activity focuses on control engineering, industrial automation and robotics. In particular, since 2007 he regularly teaches classes for B.Sc or M.Sc Engineering students on: Control Systems for Industrial Automation, Information Technologies for Automation, Automatic Control, Process control, Medical Robotics.

• He has been supervisor of more than 70 Bachelor/Master students thesis

Participation to National and European research projects:

• [2018 - 2021] Co-Principal Investigator of the International Research Project ``Teams of Aquatic/Aerial Robots for Marine Environmental Monitoring'' (TARMEM) funded by the Qatar National Research Fund

• [2016 - 2020 ] Team Member of the European Research Project (H2020) “Robotic Subsea Exploration Technologies” (ROBUST)

• [2015 - 2018] Team Member of the European Research Project (H2020) “Widely scalable Mobile Underwater Sonar Technology” (WiMUST)

• [2015 - 2019] Team Member of the European Research Project (H2020) “AErial RObotic system integrating multiple ARMS and advanced manipulation capabilities for inspection and maintenance” (AEROARMS)

• [2014 - 2017] Team Member of the European Research Project (FP7-IP) “European Robotics ChallengesEuropean Research Project” (EuRoC)

• [2010 - 2014] Principal Investigator of a National Research Project ’FIRB-Futuro in Ricerca 2008’ on Networked Cooperative Teams of Autonomous Robots (NECTAR) granted by the Italian Ministry of University and Research

• [2009 - 2010] Key Personnel of the European Research Project (EU FP-7 STREP) “Cognitive Cooperative Control for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles” (CO3AUVs)

• [2004 - 2005] Participation as Ph.D. student to the National Research Project (Projects of Relevant National Interest - PRIN) on “Planning and Intelligent Control Techniques for Unstructured Robotics Environments” (PICTURE).

Editorial Activity:

• From 2018 to 2023 he has been Associate Editor for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letter

• From 2018 to 2024 he is Associate Editorfor IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

• He has been Editor (2015-18) of the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society Conference Editorial Board for the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

• He has been Associate Editor (2013-15) of the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society Conference Editorial Board for the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

• He has been Member of the Technical Program Committee of several International conferences in the field of Robotics and Automation.

• He served as reviewer form many international journal and conference papers submitted to: IEEE Tran. on Robotics; IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine; Autonomous Robots; IEEE Tran. on Mechatronics; IEEE Tran. on Control System Technology; IEEE Tran. on System, Man and Cybernetics; Robotics and Autonomous Systems; Mechanism and Machine Theory; Control Engineering Practice; Journal of Vibration and Control; IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation; IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems; IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control; IFAC World Congress; IEEE/ASME Int. Conf. on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics

IEEE Membership and participation to IEEE RAS Technical Committee:

• Since 2004 he is a member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society

• He is a member of the IEEE Control System Society

• He is a member of the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society

• He is member of the IEEE RAS Marine Robotics Technical Committee

• He is member of the IEEE RAS Multi-Robot Systems Technical Committee