This project aims to develop new methods and tools to control snake robots for use in challenging real-life operations, in earthquake-hit areas, pipe inspection for oil and gas industry, fire-fighting operations and search and rescue. The research team is composed of some members from the Department of Engineering Cybernetics, NTNU, including Associate Professor Øyvind Stavdahl, Research Scientist Pål Liljebäck and Postdoctoral Fellow Filippo Sanfilippo. Other members of the research team are

// Winter Wonderland in Ålesund. Feel free to share it! Posted by Filippo Sanfilippo Visual Arts on Sunday, 22 November 2015

I am very glad to announce that our work titled "Fully-Immersive Hapto-Audio-Visual Framework for Remote Touch" has been awarded as the "Best Student Poster" at the Proceeding of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (IIT’15), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, November 1-3, 2015.

Real offshore operational scenarios can involve a considerable amount of risk. Sophisticated training programmes involving specially designed simulator environments constitute a promising approach for improving an individual's perception and assessment of dangerous situations in real applications. One of the world's most advanced providers of simulators for such demanding offshore operations is the Offshore Simulator Centre AS (OSC). However, even though the OSC provides powerful simulation tool

Our new paper has been accepted for publication in the Proceeding of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), Zhuhai, China, 2015. The selected article is: Filippo Sanfilippo and Kristin Ytterstad Pettersen. OpenMRH: a Modular Robotic Hand Generator Plugin for OpenRAVE. Accepted for publication to the Proceeding of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), Zhuhai, China, 2015.

A new paper has been accepted for publication in the Proceeding of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (IIT’15), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2015. The selected article is: Filippo Sanfilippo, Lars Ivar Hatledal and Kristin Ytterstad Pettersen. A Fully-Immersive Haptic, Audio and Visual Experience Framework. Accepted for publication to the Proceeding of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (IIT’15), Duba

A new paper has been accepted for publication in the Proceeding of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (IIT’15), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2015. The selected article is: Filippo Sanfilippo and Kristin Ytterstad Pettersen. A Sensor Fusion Wearable Health-Monitoring System with Haptic Feedback. Accepted for publication to the Proceeding of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (IIT’15), Dubai, United Arab

A new paper has been accepted for publication in the Proc. of the 41st Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON) to be held in Yokohama, Japan, November 9 – 12, 2015. The selected article is: Filippo Sanfilippo, Paul B.T. Weustink and Kristin Ytterstad Pettersen. A Coupling Library for the Force Dimension Haptic Devices and the 20-sim Modelling and Simulation Environment. Accepted for publication to the Proc. of the 41st Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Elec

Recently, the Department of Engineering and Natural Sciences at Aalesund University College (AAUC) has been granted with an Erasmus+ Staff Mobility for Teaching and Training project which aims to establish a teaching exchange program with the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria (UASUA).

On behalf of Aalesund University College, I recently attended the IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2015), Halifax, Canada. I joined the conference in order to present the following article: Filippo Sanfilippo, Lars Ivar Hatledal, Houxiang Zhang, Webjørn Rekdalsbakken and Kristin Ytterstad Pettersen. A Wave Simulator and Active Heave Compensation Framework for Demanding Offshore Crane Operations. In Proceeding of the IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical a

On behalf of Aalesund University College, it was my pleasure to meet Dr. Amir Aghdam, IEEE Canada President, at the IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2015), Halifax, Canada. Dr. Amir Aghdam held a very inspirational speech during the conference and he was also in the committee of the ocean paper poster competition.