Big News! I am thrilled to share some fantastic news with all of you! Our research article, "Teaching Motion Control in Mechatronics Education Using an Open Framework Based on the Elevator Model," authored by Filippo Sanfilippo, Martin Økter, Tine Eie, and Morten Ottestad, and published in Machines 10(10) in 2022, has been nominated for the prestigious "Machines 2022 Best Paper Award" Filippo Sanfilippo, Martin Økter, Tine Eie and Morten Ottestad. Teaching Motion Control in Mechat

Exciting News! Our novel research on Li-ion battery technology in electric vehicles (EVs) has been accepted for publication in the renowned journal of Energy, with an impact factor of 9.0. Level 2 Journal: Our work has been acknowledged as a Level 2 journal publication according to the Norwegian Scientific Index. This distinction further reinforces the academic value and impact of our study. Battery Coast Strategy: This paper holds immense relevance to the Battery Coast Strategy at the Univers

I had the privilege of being the International Guest Speaker at the School of Computing Technologies on Tuesday, 13 June 2023. It was an honour to present a seminar as a fellow OpenInnoTrain Secondee. I would like to express my gratitude to Professor Fabio Zambetta, the Associate Dean of Artificial Intelligence in the School of Computing Technologies, for the warm welcome and introduction. I also would like to thank the entire RMIT team that welcomed me. The event provided a fantastic platform

Exciting News! I am thrilled to announce the publication of our paper titled "Improved Barnacles Movement Optimizer (IBMO) Algorithm for Engineering Design Problems" in the Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ICAISC 2023) held in Zakopane, Poland. I am grateful to all my co-authors for their incredible contributions! Syed Kumayl Raza Moosavi presented the paper at the conference and received very good and constructive feedback!

Exciting News! I am thrilled to share that our groundbreaking research project, "Beyond the Classroom: Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Haptics for Enhanced Surgical Training and Education" (ImmersiveSurgicalEdu), has been funded. Our goal is to combine the capabilities of virtual and augmented reality (VR, AR) technologies with low-cost wearable haptic devices to create a hapto-audio-visual hands-on laboratory environment. Under the Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnerships in Higher Educatio

Exciting news! Our team has just published a new article titled "Robotics in Search and Rescue (SAR) Operations: An Ethical and Design Perspective Framework for Response Phase" in the journal of Applied Sciences. I am grateful to all my co-authors for their incredible contributions! Hareesh Chitikena, Filippo Sanfilippo, and Shugen Ma. 2023. "Robotics in Search and Rescue (SAR) Operations: An Ethical and Design Perspective Framework for Response Phase" Applied Sciences 13, n

Exciting news! Our team has just published a new article titled "Improved Reptile Search Optimization Algorithm: Application on Regression and Classification Problems" in the journal of Applied Sciences. I am grateful to all my co-authors for their incredible contributions! Khan, Muhammad Kamran, Muhammad Hamza Zafar, Saad Rashid, Majad Mansoor, Syed Kumayl Raza Moosavi, and Filippo Sanfilippo. "Improved Reptile Search Optimization Algorithm: Application on Regression a

Our team has exciting news to share today! The following article was proudly presented at the 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences by the authors: Filippo Sanfilippo, Even Falkenberg Langås, Halima Bukhari and Stian Robstad. Pervasive and Connected Digital Twins for Edge Computing Enabled Industrial Applications. In Proceeding of the 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2023), Maui, Hawaii, United States of America. 2023. I am especially p

A new paper has been published in the journal of Robotics. The selected article is: Filippo Sanfilippo, Martin Økter, Tine Eie and Morten Ottestad. Teaching Motion Control in Mechatronics Education Using an Open Framework Based on the Elevator Model. Machines 10(10), 2022. URL, DOI BibTeX This work was supported by the Top Research Centre Mechatronics (TRCM), University of Agder (UiA), Norway. I really thank all my co-authors and I congratulate all of t

I am very glad that our team, UiA - University of Agder, UiA - Mechatronics / Mekatronikk, Collaborative Robots team, is going to participate to TIGHT - Tactile InteGration for Humans and arTificial systems (III Edition) IEEE RO-MAN 2022, Full Day Workshop Hybrid format, Sept. 2nd, 2022. Abstract During the COVID-19 pandemic, social and work activities have become mostly virtual, and haptic interaction with people (and things) have become in most cases impossible, due to lock-downs and l

During Arendalsuka, I had the pleasure to represent the University of Agder (UiA) by participating to an interesting panel discussion organised by Tvillingfabrikken. Other contributors to the panel were Innovation Norway, the SIVA incubator Proventia, the software tech company Dimension Four, as well as one of our customers Slamrensing. The panel discussion was entitled "How startups digitise SMEs in the industry". This is an interesting series of contributors that has led to innovation and digi