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Junior Assistant Professor (RTD-A) at the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering “Guglielmo Marconi” (DEI), University of Bologna, since 2023.
The research activity focuses on robotic manipulation and telemanipulation, human-robot interaction (HRI), electromyographic (EMG) and multimodal interfaces for robotic control, intuitive robot programming, wearable, assistive and prosthetic robotics, and the use of machine learning on wearable sensors for human intent estimation.
Education and Training
Master’s Degree in Automation Engineering from the University of Bologna, graduated with full marks (110/110 cum laude).
PhD in Biomedical, Electrical and Systems Engineering (2018), University of Bologna, within the "Automatic Control and Operational Research" curriculum, supervised by Prof. Claudio Melchiorri.
Visiting Scientist at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Munich, Germany, 2017-2018.
Academic Experience
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at DEI, University of Bologna, from 2018 to 2023.
Supervisor of PhD students, MSc and BSc theses, and internships, including international visiting students.
Teaching Activities
Lecturer for “Engineering and Technology of Control Systems” (since 2019) in the MSc in Mechanical Engineering, and “Foundations of Industrial Robotics” (since 2022) in the BSc in Automation Engineering.
Invited speaker in doctoral schools and international workshops.
Main Research Projects
Participation in European and national research projects, including:
- REMODEL (Horizon 2020, 2019–2023)
- IntelliMan (Horizon Europe, since 2022)
- SUPERHUMAN (EIT Manufacturing, since 2024)
- I-SHARM (since 2024) and Co-MiR (since 2022) (Italian PRIN projects)
Awards and Honors
2024 – IEEE Italy RAS Chapter “Fabrizio Flacco” Young Author Best Paper Award, for the paper:
Luigi Biagiotti, Roberto Meattini, Davide Chiaravalli, Gianluca Palli, Claudio Melchiorri. Robot Programming by Demonstration: Trajectory Learning Enhanced by sEMG-Based User Hand Stiffness Estimation. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2023.
2024 – Best Paper Award (A-HUMAN Workshop, IEEE ICRA 2024), for the paper:
Alessandra Bernardini, Roberto Meattini, Alex Pasquali, Gianluca Palli, Claudio Melchiorri. Probabilistic Description of Grasp Through Hidden Markov Models for Grasp Strength Regulation in sEMG Driven Robot Hand Control: Preliminary Results, ICRA 2024, Yokohama, Japan.
2019 – Best Paper Award (HFR 2019), for the paper:
Roberto Meattini, Luigi Biagiotti, Gianluca Palli, Claudio Melchiorri. Grasp-oriented myoelectric interfaces for robotic hands: a minimal-training synergy-based framework for intent detection, control and perception. International Workshop on Human-Friendly Robotics, pages 110–124. Springer, 2019.
2017 – “T.J. Tarn Best Paper in Robotics” Best Paper Award (IEEE ROBIO 2017), for the paper:
Umberto Scarcia, Roberto Meattini, Claudio Melchiorri. Mapping human hand fingertips motion to an anthropomorphic robotic hand. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), pages 774–779. IEEE, 2017.
Finalist in several international awards in the field of robotics.
Scientific Output
Author of over 40 publications in international peer-reviewed journals and conferences.
Technical Editor for the journal IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (T-MECH).
Reviewer for leading journals including IEEE Transactions on Robotics, RA-L, T-MECH, among others.
