Marina Indri
Associate
Professor
Dipartimento di
Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni
Politecnico di Torino
Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24
10129 Torino
ITALY
phone: +39 011
090 7066
fax: +39 011 090 7099
e-mail: marina.indri_at_polito.it
General,
Education and Academic Positions at Politecnico di Torino
- Born in 1966, graduated
cum laude in Electronic Engineering at Politecnico
di Torino in 1991
- Ph.D. in Systems Engineering
(1995)
- Associate Researcher
(1995-2001)
- Associate Professor (2001-present)
- Supervisor of the Robotics
Laboratory (1999-present)
- Chair of the Department
Laboratory Board
- Dean delegate for sustainability
of the Third School of Engineering - Information Technologies (2004-2012)
IEEE and Editorial activities
- IEEE Senior Member
- Member-at-Large of the
IEEE Industrial Electronics Society AdCom (2021-2023 and 2024-2026); Member
of the IES Membership Development and the Chapters & Joint Chapters Committees
(2022-2023); chair of the New Initiatives sub-committee (2023-2024); Member
of the IES Nominations and Appointments (N&A) Committee (2024)
- Chair of the Technical
Committee on Factory Automation of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
(2019-2021) and Co-Chair of the "Intelligent and Cooperative Robotics"
Subcommittee (2014-present)
- Senior Editor of the
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (2023-2024)
- Associate Editor of the
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (December 2015 - present)
- Technical Editor of the
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (2019-2022)
- Associate Editor of the
Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control System Society (2001-2018)
- Workshop Chair of the
29th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies & Factory
Automation (ETFA 2024)
- Associate Editor of the
2024 IEEE/ASME International
Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM 2024)
- Tutorial and Workshop
Chair of of the 2023 IEEE Int. Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE 2023)
- Work-in-Progress Chair
of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies & Factory
Automation (ETFA 2023)
- Program Committee Chair
of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies & Factory
Automation (ETFA 2022)
- Special Sessions Co-Chair
of the 2022 IEEE Int. Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE 2022)
- Co-Chair of Track 1
“Control Systems, Robotics and Mechatronics” of the 23rd IEEE
International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT 2022)
- Invited Session Co-Chair
of the IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics
(AIM 2022 and AIM 2023)
- Workshop Chair of the
25th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies & Factory
Automation (ETFA 2020)
- Program Committee Co-Chair
of the 24th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies & Factory
Automation (ETFA 2019)
- Co-Chair of the Track
on "Mechatronics, Robotics and System Integration" of the 30th IEEE
International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE 2021)
- Co-Chair of the Track
on "Industrial Automation, Communication, Networking and Informatics"
of the 22nd IEEE
International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT 2021)
- Co-Chair of the Track
on "Robotics and mechatronics in industrial applications" of the
IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN 2021)
- Co-Chair of Track 7 "Intelligent
Robots & Systems" of the IEEE International Conference on Emerging
Technologies & Factory Automation - ETFA (2013-2015, 2021)
- Co-Organizer of the International
Workshop on "Robotics Technology Transfer: Innovation from Academia to
Industry" (RTT) at ETFA (2015-2018, 2020)
- Co-Chair of the "Robotics
and Haptics" Track of IECON 2016
- Guest Editor (with Antoni
Grau, UPC, Spain, and Michael Ruderman, UiA, Norway) of the Special Section
on "Recent trends and developments in Industry 4.0 motivated robotic
solutions" of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (April
2018)
- Guest Editor (with Andrea
Bonci, UNIVPM, Italy) of the Special Issue on "Smart Sensors for Robotic
Systems" of Sensors, MDPI (2020-2021)
Teaching
activities
- Controlli
Automatici (Automatic Controls) - BSc in Computer Engineering - in Italian
- Sistemi
robotici (Robotic Systems) - MSc in Computer Engineering - in Italian
- Lessons within the "Principles,
materials and applications of robotics in biomedicine" course of the
Doctorate Research in Bioengineering And Medical-Surgical Sciences (2018-2024)
- Lessons within the "Methods,
technological process and architectures" course of the Specializing Master
in Industrial Automation (2016-2017)
- Lessons within the "Industry
4.0 enabling technologies" course of the Specializing Master in Manufacturing
4.0 (2018)
- Lessons within the "Robotica
industriale e collaborativa (Industrial and Collaborative Robotics)"
course of the Master in Hierarchical OPen Manufacturing for Industry 4.0 (2019)
- Robotics and Automation
- Specializing Master in Automatica (2011-12)
- Co-author of the DVD-Rom
"Controlli
Automatici" (in Italian) for Distance Learning Courses
Research
interests
Industrial and mobile robotics
fields, including:
- Kinematics, motion planning
and monitoring of industrial manipulators
- Collision detection and
avoidance
- Friction modelling and
compensation
- Interaction and impact
control for robotic manipulators
- Rapid prototyping of
robot controllers
- Localization, mapping
and exploration algorithms for mobile robots
- Smart manufacturing and
Industry 4.0
Participation in Research Projects and Contracts
- SpaceItUp! - Spoke 8
- Robotic and Human Exploration of Extraterrestrial Habitats, Architectures
and Infrastructures - Project funded by Italian Space Agency and MUR (2024-2026)
- PNRR
FAIR (Future Artificial Intelligence Research) - Spoke 7 - Project funded
by European Union Next-GenerationEU (PIANO NAZIONALE DI RIPRESA E RESILIENZA
- PNRR) (2023-2025)
- SINAV
- Innovative Solutions for Autonomous Fast Navigation
- Project funded by Italian Space Agency, (2021-2023; Principal Investigator
of the Research Unit of Politecnico di Torino-DET and responsible for the
WP on “Software development for the Rover Autonomy”)
- HuManS
- Human centered Manufacturing System - Project funded
by Regione Piemonte (2017-2019)
- SINCRO
- Inertial sensors and controlled compliance for industrial manipulators
- Research
contract with COMAU S.p.A (2015; Principal Investigator)
- CAMERA
- Highly efficient miniaturized controller for anthropomorphic robots -
Project funded by Regione Piemonte (2014-2016; Principal Investigator of the
Research Unit of Politecnico di Torino)
- RoboLAB-ATTRACT
- Advanced techniques for friction compensation, trajectory generation, load
management and analysis of the robot behavior - Research
contract with COMAU S.p.A (2014-2015; Principal Investigator)
- STEPS2
- Systems and Technologies for Space Exploration coordinated
by THALES
Alenia Space - Project funded by Regione Piemonte
(2013-2015)
- COMPETE
- Friction COMPEnsation and TrajEctory generation for industrial manipulators
- Research contract with COMAU S.p.A (2012-2013; Principal Investigator)
- Research contracts with
Telecom Italia S.p.A. within the Service
Robotics Research
Campus (2012 - present)
- Industrial
Robotics - Research contract with COMAU S.p.A about motion planning, inverse
kinematics and collision avoidance for industrial manipulators (2011-2012;
Principal Investigator)
- MEMONET
- Multirobot Exploration supported by Mobile ad-hoc NETworks - National Research
Project co-funded by MIUR (2010-2012 - Principal Investigator of the Research
Unit of Politecnico di Torino)
- MACP4Log
- Mobile autonomous and cooperating robotic platforms for supervision and
monitoring of large logistic surfaces; Industrial Research Project co-funded
by Regione Piemonte (2008-2011 - Deputy Coordinator)
- PICTURE
- Planning and Intelligent Control Techniques for Unstructured Robotics Environments;
National Research Project co-funded by MIUR (2005-2006)
- MATRICS
- Methodologies Applications and Technologies for Robot Interaction Cooperation
and Supervision; National Research Project co-funded by MIUR (2003-2004)
- MISTRAL
- Methodologies and Integration of Subsystems and Technologies for Anthropic
Robotics and Locomotion; National Research Project co-funded by MURST (2001-2002)
- RAMSETE
- Articulated and Mobile Robots for Services and Technology; National Research
Project co-funded by MURST - (1999-2000)
- Optimized
Structures and Intelligent Control Architecture for Space Manipulators with
Flexible Arms; Research Project funded by the Italian Space Agency (1999-2002)
Events
- September 10, 2013: Talk
about "Industrial Robotics" at the Industry Day of the 18th IEEE
International Conference on Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation
(ETFA 2013) in Cagliari, Italy
- November 25, 2013: Inauguration
of the joint Comau-Politecnico di Torino research lab "RoboLAB"
at Comau Robotics (Grugliasco - Torino, Italy)

- September 8, 2015: Seminar
about "Robotics: one word for the synergistic combination of several
disciplines" for the IEEE WiE event at the 20th IEEE International Conference
on Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (ETFA 2015) in Luxembourg
- February 29, 2024: Plenary
session on "Autonomous mobile robots and manipulators in factory automation:
from Industry 4.0 toward Industry 5.0" at the IEEE 18th International
Conference on Advanced Motion Control (AMC 2024) in Kyoto, Japan
Awards
- James
C. Hung Best Paper Award in Factory Automation for the paper
"Friction modeling and identification for industrial manipulators",
by M. Indri, I. Lazzero, A. Antoniazza, A.M. Bottero, 18th IEEE International
Conference on Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (ETFA 2013)
- 2nd
Prize of the 2014 euRobotics Technology Transfer Award for "Efficient
Implementation of Iterative Inverse Kinematics in Real Time Control Architecture",
by Marina Indri (Politecnico di Torino), Ivan Lazzero (Comau Robotics), Fabrizio
Romanelli (Comau Robotics)
- Finalist
at the 2017 euRobotics Technology Transfer Award for "Real time
implementation of a general collision detection procedure for industrial robots",
by Marina Indri (Politecnico di Torino), Stefano Trapani (Politecnico di Torino
and COMAU S.p.A.), Ivan Lazzero (COMAU S.p.A.)
- Best
Paper Award in Factory Automation for the paper "Smooth
and collision-free trajectory planning forredundant 3D laser cutting machines",
by Z. Ding, M. Indri, A. Rizzo, P. Soccio, 29th IEEE International Conference
on Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (ETFA 2024)
Papers
Industrial
robotics and friction compensation
Mobile
robotics
Impact
modeling and control
Flexible
structures
Other
topics
Books
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Last update: October
2024