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JOpenShowVar, a communication interface to Kuka robots
2014, June, 15 Filippo Sanfilippo 0

Paper accepted in Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation (ICIA), Hailar, China

JOpenShowVar is one of our ongoing projects at Aalesund University College. About this work, a paper has been submitted to the Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation. Today, I just got a good news:

2014, June, 15 Filippo Sanfilippo 0

Joe Hart's reaction to Andrea's Pirlo free-kick: WoW!

Ecco la reazione del portiere dell'Inghilterra alla traversa di Andrea Pirlo in Italia-Inghilterra, Brasile 2014.

2014, June, 14 Filippo Sanfilippo 0

Sunny day, Ålesund, Norway

A sunny day in Ålesund. Here some photos.

2014, June, 13 Filippo Sanfilippo 0

A perfect Airbnb rental for Norway's most beautiful town, Ålesund

Get 20 dollars (or 300 nok)Airbnb credit coupon, just sign up by following this link: www.airbnb.com/c/fsanfilippo Ålesund is arguably Norway's most beautiful fjord town, situated on the coast line between Bergen and Molde. It is the entry point for the deep blue UNESCO-protected Geirangerfjord. The rule of thumb therefore is to stay somewhere that matches the beauty of the city and in a country where non business character hotels are tough to find. This Airbnb* rental place looks like the pe

2014, June, 13 Filippo Sanfilippo 0

VIDEO: amazing Solar Flares, observed on June 10, 2014

The sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 7:42 a.m. EDT on June 10, 2014. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory - which typically observes the entire sun 24 hours a day -- captured images of the flare. This flare is classified as an X2.2 flare. X-class denotes the most intense flares, while the number provides more information about its strength. An X2 is twice as intense as an X1, an X3 is three times as intense, etc. About one hour later, the sun released a second X-class flare, peakin

2014, June, 8 Filippo Sanfilippo 0

Colorful Norwegian Summer

Sunny day at Vigra, a beautiful island near Ålesund, Norway.

2014, June, 7 Filippo Sanfilippo 0

Modular robotic hand with vision object recognition capability

The main idea of this project consists of developing a modular robotic hand. A camera is embedded in the hand palm. This will allow for a stereo vision distance estimation of the object to grasp using only one camera. The idea consists in taking two pictures from different point of view by moving the arm where the hand will be placed. The two photos are then used to create a stereo image in order to estimate the distance from the object to grasp.

2014, June, 5 Filippo Sanfilippo 0

Innotown 2014, an experience that challenges your usual mindset

InnoTown Conference was established in 2000, and is regarded as one of the Premier Business&innovation Conference in Europe. Every year InnoTown curates an acclaimed program of world-class speakers that is truly engaging for anyone with an international and innovative outlook.

2014, May, 31 Filippo Sanfilippo 0

Aalesund University College delegation at ECMS 2014

A group photo of the delegates of Aalesund University College at the European Conference on Modelling and Simulation (ECMS 2014), Brescia, Italy.

2014, May, 29 Filippo Sanfilippo 0

Santa Giulia Museum, Italy

While attending the 28th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation (ECMS2014), in Brescia, I had the chance to visit an amazing place, the Museum of Santa Giulia. It is monastic complex of Lombard foundation - and with display areas covering 14,000 m², offers a journey through Brescia’s history, art and spirituality from prehistoric times to the present day. Here a photo I shoot there. I promise to publish some more photos as soon as I get some time :)

2014, May, 25 Filippo Sanfilippo 0

Solar FREAKIN' Roadways!

Check out this video...it is FREAKIN' awesome! Not to mention that, in my opinion, this solar road panels will provide improved features for driverless and autonomous cars!

2014, May, 20 Filippo Sanfilippo 0

Modular grasping snake robot

This is another student project at Aalesund University College, Mechatronics course (Spring semester 2012). The main idea of this project consists in developing a modular snake robot capable of grasping objects. The initial mockup of the project is described in the figure below.

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