Laura Romeo graduated with honors in Automation Engineering from the Polytechnic of Bari, in July 2019.

She discussed the master degree thesis named “Design and sperimentation of a robotic system for the automatic installation of an Internet of Things network in outdoor scenarios”. In this work, an automatic deployment of a 6TiSCH network has been developed. Specifically, an Unmanned Ground Vehicle has been used to look for the best deploying position for the IoT sensors in outdoor contexts. The outdoor localization has been estimated by means of an Extended Kalman filter, merging odometry, inertial and GPS measurements. IoT sensors have been configured in order to guarantee an IoT network topology that provides wide coverage in outdoor areas, making use of multi-hop communications.

She currently works as research fellow at the Institute of Intelligent Industrial Systems and Technologies for Advanced Manufacturing (STIIMA), National Research Council (CNR). She has been involved in the implementation of robotic applications through ROS, and she’s always interested in new challenges.