ModGrasp
A Wave Simulator and Active Heave Compensation Framework
JOpenShowVar, a communication interface to Kuka robots
2022, April, 6 Filippo Sanfilippo 0

A Perspective Review on Integrating VR/AR with Haptics into STEM Education for Multi-Sensory Learning

A new paper has been published in the journal of Robotics. The selected article is: Filippo Sanfilippo, Tomas Blazauskas, Gionata Salvietti, Isabel Ramos, Silviu Vert, Jaziar Radianti, Tim A Majchrzak and Daniel Oliveira. A Perspective Review on Integrating VR/AR with Haptics into STEM Education for Multi-Sensory Learning. Robotics 11(2), 2022. URL, DOI BibTeX This research was funded by the European Union through the Erasmus+ Program under Grant 2020-1-NO01-KA

2022, April, 1 Filippo Sanfilippo 0

Adaptive ML-based technique for renewable energy system power forecasting in hybrid PV-Wind farms power conversion systems

A new paper has been published in the journal Energy Conversion and Management. The selected article is: Muhammad Hamza Zafar, Noman Mujeeb Khan, Majad Mansoor, Adeel Feroz Mirza, Syed Kumayl Raza Moosavi, Filippo Sanfilippo. Adaptive ML-based technique for renewable energy system power forecasting in hybrid PV-Wind farms power conversion systems. Energy Conversion and Management, Volume 258, 2022, 115564, ISSN 0196-8904, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2022.115564. This work is supported b

2022, March, 8 Filippo Sanfilippo 0

Best Oral Presentation at Session Robots and Artificial Intelligence, ICICT22

I am very glad to announce that our work titled "Mixed reality (MR) Enabled Proprio and Teleoperation of a Humanoid Robot for Paraplegic Patients" has won the Best Oral Presentation at Session 5 "Robots and Artificial Intelligence" at the 5th International Conference on Information and Computer Technologies (ICICT), New York City (virtual), United States, March 4-6, 2022. The awarded paper is: Filippo Sanfilippo, Jesper Smith, Sylvain Bertrand and Tor Halvard Skarberg Svendsen. Mixed reality (M

2022, March, 6 Filippo Sanfilippo 0

Mixed reality (MR) Enabled Proprio and Teleoperation of a Humanoid Robot for Paraplegic Patients

A new paper has been presented in the Proc. of the 5th International Conference on Information and Computer Technologies (ICICT), New York City (virtual), United States, March 4-6, 2022. The selected article is: Filippo Sanfilippo, Jesper Smith, Sylvain Bertrand and Tor Halvard Skarberg Svendsen. Mixed reality (MR) Enabled Proprio and Teleoperation of a Humanoid Robot for Paraplegic Patients. In Proc. of the 5th International Conference on Information and Computer Technologies (ICICT), New York

2022, January, 30 Filippo Sanfilippo 0

PROTV News, a popular Romanian TV channel showcased our research project titled European network for 3D printing of biomimetic mechatronic systems (EMERALD)

PROTV News, a popular Romanian TV channel showcased our research project titled European network for 3D printing of biomimetic mechatronic systems (EMERALD). This is a cooperation project that includes the following partners: Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (Universitatea Tehnică din Cluj-Napoca), Romania Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania University of Agder (UiA), Norway Bizzcom s.r.o., Slovakia Poznań University of Technology, Poland The entire team is very grateful

2022, January, 18 Filippo Sanfilippo 0

European network for 3D printing of biomimetic mechatronic systems

I am very glad to announce that our research project titled "European network for 3D printing of biomimetic mechatronic systems" (EMERALD) has received funding under the EEA Grants and Norway Grants. This is a cooperation project that includes the following partners: Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (Universitatea Tehnică din Cluj-Napoca), Romania Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania University of Agder (UiA), Norway Bizzcom s.r.o., Slovakia Poznań University of Technology,

2021, December, 11 Filippo Sanfilippo 0

Promotion to the rank of Full Professor in Mechatronics

I am honoured to announce that I have been promoted to the rank of Full Professor in Mechatronics at UiA - University of Agder. I would like to thank all my colleagues and students that contributed to this achievement. I am also very grateful to my family and friends! This journey started at Università degli Studi di Catania and Ulster University (BSc), next Università degli Studi di Siena and University of Hamburg (MSc), then NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology

2021, December, 3 Filippo Sanfilippo 0

AugmentedWearEdu presented at the Digital Skills for Education & Culture Workshop

Today, we had the opportunity to present the latest results of AugmentedWearEdu at the Digital Skills for Education & Culture Workshop. Thank you to all the team! The main objective of AugmentedWearEdu is to introduce a novel framework for e-Learning consisting of including haptic experiences to enable digital access to laboratories in higher education. This will be achieved by combining both virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) tools with a novel generation of wearable haptic de

2021, December, 3 Filippo Sanfilippo 0

Engineering Touch

Our PhD Fellow, Saishashank Balaji, delivered his talk at the PhD Forum, University of Agder (UiA), Norway. It is very engaging and motivating to see the progress about engineering touch. Looking forward to the next steps and to collaborate with all our partners.

2021, November, 30 Filippo Sanfilippo 0

WEART TouchDIVER: connecting digital and physical worlds.

We have a brand new haptic device at the Top Research Centre Mechatronics (TRCM), University of Agder (UiA), Norway. The WEART TouchDIVER device has just arrived. We would like to especially thank Guido Gioioso and Francesco Abbo for the support. We would also like to thank Domenico Prattichizzo for the inspiring collaboration. WEART connects digital and physical worlds by adding the one sense that is missing: TOUCH. Live a truly immersive VR experience and touch digital objects as you would

2021, November, 26 Filippo Sanfilippo 0

The Centre for Integrated Emergency Management (CIEM) is granted status as priority research centre (PRIFORSK)

Congratulations to all the team at CIEM - Centre for Integrated Emergency Management which is now a priority research centre at University of Agder (UiA). It's a pleasure to be a part of this great research environment. Daniel Romero and I lead the cluster Technologies for Augmenting Response Capabilities in Emergency Management Operations at CIEM.

2021, November, 19 Filippo Sanfilippo 0

A Multi-Modal Auditory-Visual-Tactile e-Learning Framework

Glad to see that the research work of my team is very much in line with Meta‘s push on haptics. Haptics is finally getting the attention it deserves. Our team recently presented the following work: Filippo Sanfilippo, Tomas Blažauskas, Gionata Salvietti, Isabel Ramos, Silviu Vert, Jaziar Radianti, and Tim A. Majchrzak. Integrating VR/AR with Haptics into STEM Education. In Proceeding of the 4th International Conference on Intelligent Technologies and Applications (INTAP 2021), Grimstad,

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