Diego Torricelli
Diego Torricelli received the Mechanical Engineering MS in 2004, and the Biomedical Engineering PhD in 2009, both from the University of Roma TRE. Since 2010 he is with the Neural Rehabilitation Group of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).
His research line spans the understanding of motor control principles in healthy and impaired people, and the development of benchmarking techniques for human and robot performance evaluation.
He is currently the coordinator of the H2020 project EUROBENCH (www.eurobench2020.eu), and Spanish national expert for ISO TC299/WG4 on Service Robots.
Benchmarking quadrupedal locomotion in natural environments
Assessing the performance of legged systems is an open challenge in the field of robotics. Benchmarking is a well know discipline aimed at comparing complex systems to each other. Nevertheless, benchmarking is still in its infancy in robotics. In the EUROBENCH European Project, we have recently developed several benchmarking tools and theoretical approaches for testing bipedal legged systems. Now, in the NI project, we are moving forward to quadrupedal systems in extreme outdoor situations. Many new challenges are to be dealt with in order to create a valuable methodology that can be used to assess out-of-the-lab performance and allow true comparisons across similar, but different, quadrupedal machines.