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Giorgio Guglieri

Giorgio Guglieri is full professor of flight mechanics at Politecnico di Torino (www.polito.it). He is member of the steering board of the PhD Program in Aerospace Engineering. He carries out teaching activities in the Aerospace Engineering degree program of Politecnico di Torino, as responsible of the courses in Introduction to Flight Mechanics, Helicopter Flight Mechanics and Flight Simulation. He is a senior member of AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) and AHS (American Helicopter Society). Author of several articles published in international journals and conferences of the following sectors: aerospace engineering, control, automation and robotics. He is involved in research activities in the following fields: flight mechanics of fixed and rotary wing aircraft, flight simulation, design of human-machine interfaces for robotics, development and testing of unmanned aerial systems, planning and mission control for autonomous systems, design of guidance, control and navigation systems for aircraft and spacecraft. Giorgio Guglieri is the representative of Politecnico di Torino in the European Pegasus network (https://www.pegasus-europe.org/). He is co-founder of Mavtech srl, a spin-off of the Politecnico di Torino (from 2005 to 2015), presently an innovative SME operating at NOI Techpark in Bolzano (www.mavtech.eu). Giorgio Guglieri is also co-founder of Drones Autonomous Student Flight Team (www.draftpolito.it).

Giorgio Guglieri on Scopus and ResearchGate

Elisa Capello

Elisa Capello is assistant professor (RTD-B) of flight mechanics at Politecnico di Torino, founder of STREAM Robotics Laboratory. She is research associate at Istituto di Elettronica e di Ingegneria dell'Informazione e delle Telecomunicazioni (IEIITI) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), in the Systems Modeling and Control group of CNR-IEIIT. http://www.sct.ieiit.cnr.it, since 2012. She is a member of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Member (IEEE), Control Systems Society since 2014. She is a member of the IEEE Technical Committee in Aerospace Control since 2016. She is member of the SIDRA, Società Italiana Docenti e Ricercatori in Automatica, since 2017. She carries out teaching activities in the Aerospace Engineering degree program of the Politecnico di Torino, in the courses in Introduction to Flight Mechanics, Helicopter Flight Mechanics and Flight Simulation. Moreover, she carries out teaching activities in “Space exploration and development systems”. Author of about several articles published in international journals and conferences of the following sectors: aerospace engineering, control, automation and robotics. She is involved in research activities in the following fields: flight mechanics of fixed and rotary wing aircraft, flight simulation, design of human-machine interfaces for robotics, development and testing of unmanned aerial systems, planning and mission control for autonomous systems, design of guidance, control and navigation systems for aircraft and spacecraft, control of wind turbine and wind farm. Elisa Capello was an International FAI Judge for Helicopter Championship (2009-2015).

Elisa Capello on Scopus and ResearchGate

Federico Barra

Federico Barra is a PhD student. His field of research is helicopter dynamics, rotorcraft modeling and simulation, including innovative rotary wing aircraft design.

Nicoletta Bloise

Nicoletta Bloise is a PhD student. Her field of research is the use of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems for agriculture (monitoring and dispersion) and urban missions. She is also working on flight control system design, for aircraft and spacecraft applications.

Simone Godio

Simone Godio is a PhD student. His field of research is the application of Artificial Intelligence for autonomous UAV navigation in GPS-denied or degraded environments.

Matteo Scanavino

Matteo Scanavino is a PhD student. His field of research is the application of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems in extreme environments, including indoor and GPS-denied flight.

Luca Spanò Cuomo

Luca Spanò Cuomo is a PhD student. His field of research is application of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems in urban and hostile environments.

Stefano Primatesta

Stefano Primatesta is a post-PhD assistant researcher. His field of research is use of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems in urban environments including virtual modelling and multi-dimensional risk analysis.

Mauro Mancini

Mauro Mancini is a PhD student. His field of research is the development of control algorithms for precision landing of aerial robots and space vehicles.

Davide Carminati

Davide Carminati is a PhD student. His field of research is the development of bio-inspired and robust control frameworks for multipurpose missions of autonomous flying robots.

Fausto Lizzio

Fausto Lizzio is a PhD student. His field of research is automatic path planning for UAV swarms. His activity is performed in collaboration with Beihang University (Beijing) and Bauman State Technical University (Moscow).

Martina Ciavola

Martina Ciavola is a PhD student. Her field of research is GNC design for proximity operations of a space TUG with tumbling target.

Simone Malisani

Simone Malisani is a Graduate Research Fellow His research is focused on the development of a Flight Mechanics Simulation Computer for a flexible aircraft model with unconventional tip surfaces for gust load alleviation.

Iris David Du Mutel de Pierrepont Franzetti

Iris David Du Mutel de Pierrepont Franzetti is a Graduate Research Fellow in the fields of UAVs and robotics. She is currently carrying out a research activity about robotics modelling, simulation and UAV control systems.

Iris David Du Mutel de Pierrepont Franzetti

Fabio Faliero

Fabio Faliero is a Graduate Research Fellow carrying out his research activity on the development of control algorithms for the ISWEC project financed by ENI, based on the improvement of wave energy recovery systems.

Teodor Roci

Teodor Roci is a Graduate Research Fellow. The research program focuses on the preparation of the ENAC Safety Report which is published on a periodic basis (annual) and collects the results of the analysis of the events (incidents and accidents) collected in the Occurrence Reporting System (eE-MOR system).

Beatrice Conti

Beatrice Conti is a Graduate Research Fellow. The research program focuses on the preparation of the ENAC Safety Report which is published on a periodic basis (annual) and collects the results of the analysis of the events (incidents and accidents) collected in the Occurrence Reporting System (eE-MOR system).

Matteo Dentis (*)

Matteo Dentis is a post-PhD assistant researcher. His field of research is spacecraft simulation and advanced GNC design for autonomous aerial and space flight.

Martina Mammarella (*)

Martina Mammarella is a post-PhD researcher. Her field of research is spacecraft simulation and advanced GNC design for autonomous aerial and space flight.

Fulvia Quagliotti (*)

Fulvia Quagliotti has a wide scientific experience that includes participation in the European space programs at OCSE, Paris, and research on flight mechanics as former associate professor at Politecnico di Torino (now retired). Also she was at FIAT Aviation Division, Space Division, in the development of the Italian satellite SIRIO and development of the SPACE LAB program, as project control responsible. She was responsible of several research activities on theoretical and experimental flight mechanics and experimental Aerodynamics, including micro and mini UAVs, Editor of the AIAA Journal of Aircraft, Associate Fellow of AIAA, and chairman of Aerospace Engineering PhD program at Politecnico di Torino. She joined the AGARD Flight Mechanics Panel in 1991 (till 1997), becoming later NATO/RTO (Research and Technology Organization), where she is the Italian Academia representative in the Applied Vehicle Technology Panel (previously in the System Concept Integration Panel, where she was Vice-chairman of the Panel and chairman of the Program Committee for seven years). Within the Panel she was member of the Strategic Committee and Panel Mentor for a Task Group on UAVs. Fulvia Quagliotti is currently the chief executive officer and co-founder of Mavtech, a spin-off of the Politecnico di Torino (from 2005 to 2015), presently an innovative SME operating at NOI Techpark in Bolzano (www.mavtech.eu).

(*) Former group members