Institute of Electronics, Computer and Telecommunication Engineering (IEIIT)

Type
Label
  • Institute of Electronics, Computer and Telecommunication Engineering (IEIIT) (literal)
  • Istituto di elettronica e di ingegneria dell'informazione e delle telecomunicazioni (IEIIT) (literal)
Comment
  • IEIIT (Institute of Electronics, Computer and Telecommunication Engineering) is a research structure of CNR, established on 12 October 2001. IEIIT has six territorial sites (Torino, Bologna, Genova, Milano, Padova, Pisa) with the Headquarters located inside the campus of Politecnico di Torino. IEIIT carries out advanced scientific and technological research in the area of Information Engineering covering fields of telecommunications, computer and systems engineering, applied electromagnetics, electronics, control, robotics and bioengineering. The activities of IEIIT are based on experience and know-how developed by its staff over more than 40 years of scientific activity in the ICT domain. Many of them are carried out in cooperation with national and international research institutions and universities, within the framework of scientific programs and projects supported by national and international agencies, public and private organizations and medium and large enterprises. Collaborations are particularly tight and effective with a significant number of professors and researchers of the universities where the IEIIT sites are located. IEIIT results concern soft products (simulation models, design methods, synthesis techniques) and hard products (new architectures of devices, sensors and systems) that are experimentally characterized within the IEIIT laboratories. Such outcomes are useful in the industrial and social applications, telecommunications, terrestrial and space scientific observations. The engineering approach adopted by IEIIT is particularly beneficial for the technological transfer of research results, leading to cooperation with enterprises. IEIIT researchers are also involved in the teaching of advanced courses and seminars to undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students as well as professionals.
    The research in the Institute is organized in the seven multi-site IEIIT Research Groups:
    - Applied Electromagnetics and Electronic Devices, - Computer Engineering & Networks, - Engineering for Health and Wellbeing, - Decision Support Methods and Models, - Network Security, - Systems and Control Technologies, - Wireless Communication Systems,
    whose activities are described in page “Attività di ricerca”.
    Brief History of the IEIIT sites Torino site The IEIIT Turin site originated from the Istituto di Ricerca sull'Ingegneria delle Telecomunicazioni e dell'Informazione (I.R.I.T.I.) that was founded on April 16th, 1999 from the merge of three former research centers, all focused on the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) area: - CENS (research center on digital signal processing), established jointly by CNR and Politecnico di Torino in 1970. CENS studies were oriented to the real-time processing of signals, in general, and to the automatic recognition and synthesis of speech in particular. Researches were also carried out in the areas of computer architectures, CAD systems for the design of electronic circuits, modeling, identification and control of complex systems. - CESPA (research center on propagation and antennas) established in 1970 by CNR and Politecnico di Torino as an evolution of the second department of the research center on electronic and telecommunications. CESPA was active in the applied electromagnetic area. Studies mainly focused on microwaves and millimeter waves and several topics were investigated, ranging from radiations problems to components and systems. Researches were also developed in the optical field and concerned the electromagnetic simulation of optical devices and the analysis of the optical characteristics of materials. - CSTV (research center on television) established in 1949 in the framework of an agreement between CNR and the National Electrotechnical Institute Galileo Ferraris. The research activity of CSTV was initially devoted to the study of transmission and receiving techniques of the analogical video signal and to standardization activities in this field. With the advent of digital signal processing techniques the activity was directed to two specific fields: television signal coding and image processing. In the field of coding it is worthy of mention the participation to the SIRIO project, the first European experiment of digital video-signal transmission. In the field of image processing the activity was mainly devoted to feature segmentation, measure, and recognition for applications in biomedical and industrial field. Bologna site The IEIIT Bologna unit dates back to 1970, when the National Research Council of Italy and the University of Bologna decided to found a CNR research group within the Faculty of Engineering (presently School of Engineering and Architecture). This centre was formerly named CIOC (Centre for Interaction Operator-Computer) and, for many years, was mainly concerned with Information Systems; it consequently hosted several researchers of the Database Group at the former DEIS (presently DEI/DISI). Due to several factors, such as the ever growing interdisciplinary nature of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) and new staff from other research and application areas, focusing, in particular, on Electronics and Telecommunications research areas, the activities of the centre were mainly redirected to Telecommunication Systems and their applications. The first denomination was therefore substituted by CSITE (Research Centre for Computer Science and Telecommunications Systems) in 1992. In 2003, CSITE joined other CNR centres and institutes to form IEIIT-CNR. Milano site The Milano unit was born from the merging of two former CNR research centres: • CSTS (Centre on Spatial Telecommunications Studies) established jointly by CNR and Politecnico di Milano in 1971. • CeSTIA (Centre on Information and Automation Technologies) established in 1997 jointly by CNR and Politecnico di Milano by merging a section of the former Centre on Systems Theory with the former Centre for Information Engineering. CSTS focused its research activities in the area of propagation and satellite systems, including large international measurement campaigns carried out at the experimental station located in Spino d'Adda, as the ones with the satellites SIRIO in 1977-1984, OLYMPUS in 1990-1992, and ITALSAT in 1993-2002, and in the area of signal processing, digital transmission, radar and radiometric measurements. CeSTIA focused its activities on various areas of computer science and control engineering, obtaining significant results in many fields such as architectures and systems for information processing, database and computer networks, language and software engineering, system identification and controls, simulation and industrial automation, environmental and decision support, public transport, information and communication technologies for life. Genova site The Genoa branch springs was founded in 1970 as the \"Istituto per i Circuiti Elettronici (ICE)\" for carring out research in the field of circuit theory and applications, with particular attention on computer assisted electromagnetic measurements and modeling of biological systems. The growing complexity of modeling optimization begot an increase in skills on Information Communication Technology and Computer Science. In 1980 ICE became one of the Computing Service Centers of CNR participating to the experimental heterogeneous Computer Communication Networks forerunner of INTERNET in Italy. During years ICE was active in the following fields: cognitive systems modeling and robotics, modeling optimization, machine learning, complex system characterization, nonlinear time series analysis, high performance computing, development and analysis of algorithms, computer and network security, bioengineering and computational biology. Padova site The IEIIT territorial site of Padova was established in 2003 and is located in the building of the Department of Information Engineering (DEI) of the University of Padova. The research activities are carried out in cooperation with the DEI scientists and, in particular, with the following research groups: Instrumentation and Measurements, Automatic Control and Telecommunications. Pisa site The IEIIT Pisa unit was founded in 1962, first as \"V section of Research Center for Electronics and Telecommunications\" and then (from 1969 to 2001) as \"Research Center for Methods and Devices for Radiocommunications (CSMDR)\". The directors of the research center were Proff. U. Tiberio (1962-1969), M. Mancianti (1969-1997) and B. Pellegrini (1997-02). The research and educational activity concerned two main fields: Electronics (technologies, devices and integrated circuits) and Telecommunications (synchronization algorithms, networks and radars). Researchers covered many important scientific roles both in national and international context. (literal)
  • IEIIT (Institute of Electronics, Computer and Telecommunication Engineering) is a research structure of CNR, established on 12 October 2001. IEIIT has six territorial sites (Torino, Bologna, Genova, Milano, Padova, Pisa) with the Headquarters located inside the campus of Politecnico di Torino. IEIIT carries out advanced scientific and technological research in the area of Information Engineering covering fields of telecommunications, computer and systems engineering, applied electromagnetics, electronics, control, robotics and bioengineering. The activities of IEIIT are based on experience and know-how developed by its staff over more than 40 years of scientific activity in the ICT domain. Many of them are carried out in cooperation with national and international research institutions and universities, within the framework of scientific programs and projects supported by national and international agencies, public and private organizations and medium and large enterprises. Collaborations are particularly tight and effective with a significant number of professors and researchers of the universities where the IEIIT sites are located. IEIIT results concern soft products (simulation models, design methods, synthesis techniques) and hard products (new architectures of devices, sensors and systems) that are experimentally characterized within the IEIIT laboratories. Such outcomes are useful in the industrial and social applications, telecommunications, terrestrial and space scientific observations. The engineering approach adopted by IEIIT is particularly beneficial for the technological transfer of research results, leading to cooperation with enterprises. IEIIT researchers are also involved in the teaching of advanced courses and seminars to undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students as well as professionals.
    The research in the Institute is organized in the seven multi-site IEIIT Research Groups:
    - Applied Electromagnetics and Electronic Devices, - Computer Engineering & Networks, - Engineering for Health and Wellbeing, - Decision Support Methods and Models, - Network Security, - Systems and Control Technologies, - Wireless Communication Systems,
    whose activities are described in page “Attività di ricerca”.
    Brief History of the IEIIT sites Torino site The IEIIT Turin site originated from the Istituto di Ricerca sull'Ingegneria delle Telecomunicazioni e dell'Informazione (I.R.I.T.I.) that was founded on April 16th, 1999 from the merge of three former research centers, all focused on the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) area: - CENS (research center on digital signal processing), established jointly by CNR and Politecnico di Torino in 1970. CENS studies were oriented to the real-time processing of signals, in general, and to the automatic recognition and synthesis of speech in particular. Researches were also carried out in the areas of computer architectures, CAD systems for the design of electronic circuits, modeling, identification and control of complex systems. - CESPA (research center on propagation and antennas) established in 1970 by CNR and Politecnico di Torino as an evolution of the second department of the research center on electronic and telecommunications. CESPA was active in the applied electromagnetic area. Studies mainly focused on microwaves and millimeter waves and several topics were investigated, ranging from radiations problems to components and systems. Researches were also developed in the optical field and concerned the electromagnetic simulation of optical devices and the analysis of the optical characteristics of materials. - CSTV (research center on television) established in 1949 in the framework of an agreement between CNR and the National Electrotechnical Institute Galileo Ferraris. The research activity of CSTV was initially devoted to the study of transmission and receiving techniques of the analogical video signal and to standardization activities in this field. With the advent of digital signal processing techniques the activity was directed to two specific fields: television signal coding and image processing. In the field of coding it is worthy of mention the participation to the SIRIO project, the first European experiment of digital video-signal transmission. In the field of image processing the activity was mainly devoted to feature segmentation, measure, and recognition for applications in biomedical and industrial field. Bologna site The IEIIT Bologna unit dates back to 1970, when the National Research Council of Italy and the University of Bologna decided to found a CNR research group within the Faculty of Engineering (presently School of Engineering and Architecture). This centre was formerly named CIOC (Centre for Interaction Operator-Computer) and, for many years, was mainly concerned with Information Systems; it consequently hosted several researchers of the Database Group at the former DEIS (presently DEI/DISI). Due to several factors, such as the ever growing interdisciplinary nature of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) and new staff from other research and application areas, focusing, in particular, on Electronics and Telecommunications research areas, the activities of the centre were mainly redirected to Telecommunication Systems and their applications. The first denomination was therefore substituted by CSITE (Research Centre for Computer Science and Telecommunications Systems) in 1992. In 2003, CSITE joined other CNR centres and institutes to form IEIIT-CNR. Milano site The Milano unit was born from the merging of two former CNR research centres: • CSTS (Centre on Spatial Telecommunications Studies) established jointly by CNR and Politecnico di Milano in 1971. • CeSTIA (Centre on Information and Automation Technologies) established in 1997 jointly by CNR and Politecnico di Milano by merging a section of the former Centre on Systems Theory with the former Centre for Information Engineering. CSTS focused its research activities in the area of propagation and satellite systems, including large international measurement campaigns carried out at the experimental station located in Spino d'Adda, as the ones with the satellites SIRIO in 1977-1984, OLYMPUS in 1990-1992, and ITALSAT in 1993-2002, and in the area of signal processing, digital transmission, radar and radiometric measurements. CeSTIA focused its activities on various areas of computer science and control engineering, obtaining significant results in many fields such as architectures and systems for information processing, database and computer networks, language and software engineering, system identification and controls, simulation and industrial automation, environmental and decision support, public transport, information and communication technologies for life. Genova site The Genoa branch springs was founded in 1970 as the \"Istituto per i Circuiti Elettronici (ICE)\" for carring out research in the field of circuit theory and applications, with particular attention on computer assisted electromagnetic measurements and modeling of biological systems. The growing complexity of modeling optimization begot an increase in skills on Information Communication Technology and Computer Science. In 1980 ICE became one of the Computing Service Centers of CNR participating to the experimental heterogeneous Computer Communication Networks forerunner of INTERNET in Italy. During years ICE was active in the following fields: cognitive systems modeling and robotics, modeling optimization, machine learning, complex system characterization, nonlinear time series analysis, high performance computing, development and analysis of algorithms, computer and network security, bioengineering and computational biology. Padova site The IEIIT territorial site of Padova was established in 2003 and is located in the building of the Department of Information Engineering (DEI) of the University of Padova. The research activities are carried out in cooperation with the DEI scientists and, in particular, with the following research groups: Instrumentation and Measurements, Automatic Control and Telecommunications. Pisa site The IEIIT Pisa unit was founded in 1962, first as \"V section of Research Center for Electronics and Telecommunications\" and then (from 1969 to 2001) as \"Research Center for Methods and Devices for Radiocommunications (CSMDR)\". The directors of the research center were Proff. U. Tiberio (1962-1969), M. Mancianti (1969-1997) and B. Pellegrini (1997-02). The research and educational activity concerned two main fields: Electronics (technologies, devices and integrated circuits) and Telecommunications (synchronization algorithms, networks and radars). Researchers covered many important scientific roles both in national and international context. (literal)
Istituto esecutore di
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  • IEIIT (literal)
Nome
  • Institute of Electronics, Computer and Telecommunication Engineering (IEIIT) (literal)
  • Istituto di elettronica e di ingegneria dell'informazione e delle telecomunicazioni (IEIIT) (literal)
Collaborazioni
  • 2016 - Inria - France \"ADAGE Anonymous Mobile Traffic Data Generation\"
    2016 - ANSES French Agency - France \"Advanced MapPing for the residential ExposuRE to RF- EMF sources\"
    2016 - PrimaLuceLab iSrl - Italia \"Pluce1 Progetto di illuminatori per radiotelescopi in banda L a basso costo \"
    2016 - Softeco Sismat - Italia \"ANASTACIA Advanced Networked Agents for Security and Trust Assessment in CPS/IOT Architectures \"
    2016 - IIT - CNR - Italia \"EVOLUZIONE DELLA RETE NUMERICA INTERFORZE (RNI) DEFINIZIONE DELLO STUDIO PROGETTUALE\"
    2016 - Del Bo Tecnologia per l'ascolto srl (Milano) e Fondazione Ascolta e Vivi (Milano) - Italia \"Bimod Progettazione, sviluppo ed utilizzo di metodologie innovative per l’analisi di segnali e metadati audiometrici e psicoacustici per la valutazione clinica della resa funzionale nella stimolazione bimodale \"
    2016 - MIUR Art. 13 del D.M. 8 agosto 2000, n. 593 - Italia \"MARISSA Mobilità Autonomia Robots Innovativi Servizio Supporto Anziani (M.A.R.I.S.S.A.)\"
    2016 - H2020 - NMBP 10 2016 RIA - EU \"CUPIDO Cardio Ultraefficient nanoParticles for Inhalation of Drug prOducts” \"
    2016 - MIUR FAR 297/99 - Italia \"MAREA Monitoring And Rescue Automation” \"
    2016 - Compagnia Generale per lo Spazio S.p.A. - Italia \"MWCI Corso di Formazione su “Radiometria a Microonde e Onde Millimetriche con particolare riferimento allo strumento MicroWave Imager (MWI)” \"
    2016 - Deltatech srl, Sogliano al Rubicone (FC) - e IDASC - Italia \"SIHT Realizzazione di sensori acustici di nuova concezione e con nuove tecnologie, nano e microelettroniche, per applicazioni audiometriche\"
    2016 - Istituto Di Radio Astronomia dell'Istituto Nazionale di AstroFisica - Italia \"UAVMis2 Misure di pattern d'ampiezza e fase per array radioastronomici a bassa-frequenza (AAVS1, MWA, EDA, SAD) e progettazione di una nuova antenna per SKA-LFAA \"
    2016 - Thales Alenia Space - Italia \"SpORT Studio di Omt in configurazione Reversed e Tromba liscia per catena high-power in banda C Tx/Rx \"
    2016 - DIMEAS Polit. Torino \"RABUS Randomization-based techniques for uncertain systems\"
    2016 - MIUR-ICT in Piemonte (Comau) \"Wi-Fact Soluzioni Innovative di Controllo di Fabbrica basate su Nuovi Paradigmi di Comunicazione (WIreless FACTory and beyond)\"
    2016 - Satmission AB \"KaPut Design of a dual-band feed-horn for a Ku-band Tx/Rx AnTenna system\"
    2016 - Ecole Moohammadia d'Ingenieurs - Univ. Mohammed V RABAT \"COTS Cooperative transmission techniques for smart cities data sensing collection- Agreement CNRST/CNR-Joint Projects 2016-2017\"
    2016 - STE Industries \"STE1 Misura prestazioni dispositivo micro.sp\"
    2016 - H2020 - ICT 18-2016 \"MH-MD My health - My Data\"
    2016 - Philips Photonics \"MEckeVCSEL: modal properties of polygonal VCSELs\"
    2016 - DEIB - POLIMI \"PHY4G Channel Emulation for 4G LTE PHY Level\"
    2016 -MIUR M-ERA.NET \"ADHERING - ADvanced Hydrogels for mEniscus tissue engineeRING\"
    2016 -SPAIC srl \"Mobilità Autonomia Robots Innovativi Servizio Supporto Anziani (M.A.R.I.S.S.A.)\"
    2016 - CGS S.p.A. Compagnia Generale per lo Spazio \"On Ground Calibration Targets for the Microwave Imager Instrument,OGCT-MWI\"
    2015 - Emerson Network Power S.r.l. 2016 - Dipartimento di Informatica - Università di Pisa \"Optimization of rate adaptive floorless LDPC codes\"
    2015 - MIUR D.Lgs. 297/99 e D.M. 593/00 - SIIT Scpa - Italia \"PLUG IN Piattaforma per la mobiLità Urbana con Gestione delle Informazioni da sorgenti eterogenee\"
    2015 - MIUR D.Lgs. 297/99 e D.M. 593/00 - SIIT Scpa - Italia \"STARTECO Soluzioni e Tecnologie Avanzate per Reti di Telecomunicazioni ECOsostenibili\"
    2015 - Camlin Techn. Lim. -Northern Ireland \"VECSEL3D VECSEL Simulation: 3D model for accurate forecasts \"
    2015 - Univ. Pisa - Italia \"Tecniche Avanzate di COdifica per Sistemi Satellitari globali di navigazione\"
    2015 - MIUR D.Lgs. 297/99 e D.M. 593/00 - SIIT Scpa - Italia \"Tecnologie orientate ai servizi per lo sviluppo e l'integrazione di piattaforme ICT\"
    2015 - Alpine Space programme. Priority 2: Low Carbon Alpine Space - EU \"Transnational Holistic Ecosystem 4 Better Energy Efficiency through Social innovation\"
    2015 - INAF - ORA - Italia \"Misure di pattern d'ampiezza per i nuovi array radioastronomici a bassa-frequenza (AAVSx, LOFAR e SAD) e studio per la misura del pattern di fase\"
    2015 - INAF - ORA - Italia \"Sviluppo di iniettori di marca in guida d’onda circolare per i ricevitori in banda C bassa e Ku dei radiotelescopi Sardinia Radio Telescope e della stazione di Medicina\"
    2015 - Politecnico di Milano DEIB - Italia Analysis of security countermeasures in plants including Emerson AFC chiller units
    2015 - Emerson Network Power S.r.l. SECAFC Analysis of security countermeasures in plants including Emerson AFC chiller units
    2015 - EU Ecsel 2015 \"SAFECOP Safe Cooperating Cyber-Physical Systems using Wireless Communication
    2015 - Ministero della Salute \"Virtual Reality in the Assessment and TeleRehabilitation of Parkinson’s Disease and Post-Stroke Disabilities
    2015 - Selex ES SpA \"UnRarTar -Uso di UAV per test funzionali sul primo dimostratore tecnologico di sovrastruttura navale integrata e di integrazione sensoriale presente ad Arco Felice
    2015 - Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico \"INFORMATICA CLINICA & SANITÀ DIGITALE DI DOMINIO
    2015 - ANSES French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupationl Health and Safety \"ELFSTAT - New statistical methods to assess the exposure of children to ELF (50-800 Hz) magnetic field
    2015 - Fondazione CRT - Ricerca e Istruzione \"ParkinsoNet - Nuove tecnologie per il tele-monitoraggio della malattia di Parkinson
    2015 -Department of Information and Physical Sciences, Osaka University, Japan \"COOPS - Joint Lab for Cooperative Control for Energy Management Systems
    2015 - Dipartimento di DESIGN - Politecnico di Milano \"Analisi a molti criteri e a molti decisori)
    2015 - DEIB - Politecnico di Milano \"ECC techniques for Emerging Memories (development of error correction code (ECC) solutions for DRAM, emerging memory and storage class memory applications)
    2015 - Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica - Istituto di Radio Astronomia \"GeoAnt1 - Studio dell'architettura di un'antenna GNSS geodetica a basso costo
    2015 - Velex srl \"VELARCH - Design of a next-generation real-time software architecture for consumer appliances
    2015 - Telethon \"TELETHON 2015 - New rehabilitation approach for Friedreich ataxia, combining non invasive cerebellar stimulation, computer-based platform training and telemonitoring
    2015 - European Commission - Internal security Fund - Police \"PRoTeCt - PRevention and fight Tool against Child sexual (development or improvement of support protocols and standard procedures in information and communication technologies to identify victims)
    2014 - UNIVERSITE PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE & LE CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE - Paris France \"CESASD - Cognitive Embedded System & Automated Sleep Detection
    2014 - Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI) - Corea del Sud V2X Intelligent Mobility and transportation Systems and vehicular networks
    2014 - CSM \"CSMRFSensor Sistema ad onde elettromagnetiche per il rilevamento del livello di acciaio liquido e polveri lubrificanti in impianti a colata continua
    2014 - Telecom Italia S.p.A \"Telerehab - Tecniche di analisi del movimento basate sull’integrazione di dati ottici e dati inerziali
    2014 -CNR - Progetto bandiera Fabbrica del Futuro \"GECKO - Generic Evolutionary Control Knowledge based mOdule
    2014 - Camlin Technologies Limited (Northern Ireland) \"VECSEL - Simulation: 3D model for accurate forecasts”
    2014 - EU COST Action BM 1309 \"European network for innovative uses of EMFs in biomedical applications (EMF-MED)” (2014-2018)”
    2014 - MIUR \"Sti3MA - Scienza, Tecnologia, Informatica e Impresa Internazionale: nuovi Modelli di Apprendimento”
    2014 - INAF \"Sviluppo di un cluster di 19 iniettori di marca in guida d’onda circolare basati su una configurazione simmetrica dell’iniezione della marca per il ricevitore multi-feed in banda Q di SRT”
    2014 - Regione Liguria CMES \"Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) basati su tecnologia Cloud”
    2014 - Regione Liguria CARPUS \"Piattaforma cloud-based per la gestione sicura di grandi moli di dati a supporto della diagnosi e del monitoraggio del trattamento terapeutico”
    2014 - Regione Liguria OCEAN \"On Cloud sEcurity Analysis for Naval sector”
    2014 - European Project FP7 Geronimo \"Generalised EMF Research using Novel Methods” - Coordinator CREAL Barcelona (2014-2019)
    2014 - European Project FP7 ReFleX \"Re-thinking the fundamentals of vehicular networking with transportation theory and complex network science”(2014-2018)
    2014 - Alalia srl PSAP-CHECK Studio e confronto delle caratteristiche e delle performance di dispositivi personali di amplificazione della voce PSAP (2014)
    2014 - Metropolitana Milanese SpA Expo 2015 - Coordinamento valutazione di impatto ambientale del sito Expo 2015
    2013 - Regione Lombardia - CNR Fabbrica Intelligente per la Deproduzione Avanzata e Sostenibile (2013-2015)
    2013 - Alalia srl Study, design and implementation of a personal sound amplification system for intelligent equalization and amplification of speech in adverse conditions (2013-2014)
    2013 - Telecom Italia S.p.A Telerehab \"Tecniche di analisi del movimento basate sull’integrazione di dati ottici e dati inerziali\"
    2013 - SL srl ECOWELD \"Processo ecoefficente, autoprogrammabile per la saldatura laser automatica ed efficiente di mix complessi di piccoli lotti\"
    2013 - European Project FP7 DIWINE \"Dense Cooperative Wireless Cloud Network” (2013-2015)
    2013 - Telecom Italia S.p.A. Autonomous Devices per Enterprise Solutions
    2013 - SIIT Scpa TEDIG \"TEcnologie per la Diagnostica ecografica,l'Interventistica e la Gestione del paziente\"
    2013 - Camelot Biomedical Systems Srl POLITECMED \"Organizzazione di un modulo di formazione nell'ambito del Polo POLITECMED\"
    2013 - Deltatech srl SIHT Sogliano Industrial High Tech. Project
    2013 - POLIEDRA \"SISTEMI DI SUPPORTO ALLE DECISIONI PER L'AMBIENTE E IL TERRITORIO\"
    2013 - Politecnico di Milano - DEIB Floorless LDPC codes
    2013 - Alfamation S.p.A. WCTS Wireless Communication Test Solutions
    2013 - Politecnico di Milano - DEIB Classificazione dei parametri di rischio in acque poco profonde
    2012- MIUR-CNR Aging Program (2012-2014)
    2012 - Elettric-80 Root-E Step3 route optimization for traffic-enhancement
    2012 - Politecnico di Torino - DET PRISMA Progetto di Ricevitori Iterativi per canali SISO o MIMO Affetti da rumore di fase
    2012 - INAF Misure AA-low Sviluppo di un sistema di misura del diagramma d’irradiazione di antenne a bassa frequenza in configurazione schiera e relative misure sui prototipi di antenna Vivaldi industrializzati per lo strumento Aperture Array Low-Frequency (AA-low) dello Square Kilometer Array (SKA)
    2012 - Telecom Italia S.p.A. Rehab Algoritmi in signal processing per la tele-riabilitazione
    2012 - Fond. Ist. Auxologico Vrehab Virtual Reality in the Assessment and TeleRehabilitation of Parkinson’s Disease and Post-Stroke Disabilities
    2012 - Velex srl Velex-Ovens - Design and development of a rela time communication framework for industrial ovens
    2012 - INAF -IRA Vivaldi Ottimizzazione Vivaldi AA-low
    2012 - Thales Alenia Space Italia NESS - Progetto di catena RF dual band per antenne multi beam in banda K7Ka
    2012 - CSM SOERLA Sistema a onde elettromagnetiche per rilevamento del livello di acciaio liquido e polveri lubrificanti in impianti a colata continua
    2012 - Politecnico di Milano - DEI TROPOSAT - Studio degli effetti troposferici in collegamenti satellitari al variare dell'angolo di elevazione
    2012 - Politecnico di Milano LDPC codes Reti ottiche di nuova generazione- LDPC codes with very low error floors
    2012 - Metropolitana Milanese S.P.A. VIA EXPO 2015
    2012 - Politecnico Milano MIMO - Automotive radar AT 77ghzA
    2012 - Ente Regionale per i Servizi all’Agricoltura e alle Foreste ERSAF - Milano STRADA STRategie di ADAttamento ai cambiamenti climatici per la gestione dei rischi naturali nel territorio transfrontaliero
    2012 - Politecnico di Milano - DEI WSN-industrial Wireless Sensors Networks for Monitoring and Control of industrial plants
    2012 - Elenos Broad. Experience DVB-T2 DVB-T2
    2012 - Lepida SpA Prototipo di catasto federato delle infrastrutture di telecomunicazioni
    2012 - UMPI BELVAS Studio e progettazione di ballast elettronici per lampade a scarica HID
    2012 - Deltatech srl, Comune di Sogliano al Rubicone (FC) Sogliano Acoustic High Technology Project (SAHT Project) - Realizzazione di sensori acustici di nuova concezione e con nuove tecnologie, nano e microelettroniche, per applicazioni audiometriche
    2012 - Impara srl Distributed control through IP linked networks
    2012 - Regione Liguria Sviluppo di metodi avanzati di intelligenza artificiale finalizzati alla classificazione di mutazioni geniche in progetti di sequenziamento massivo
    2012 - I2 srl Distributed control through IP linked networks
    2012 - Regione Liguria Metodi intelligenti per la generazione automatica di regole a supporto della diagnosi medica
    2011 - European Project FP7 ARIMMORA \"Advanced Research on Interaction Mechanisms of electroMagnetic exposures with Organisms for Risk Assessment” - Coordinator IT’IS Foundation Zurich (2011-2015)
    2011 - Ministero della Salute Objective diagnosis of hearing functionality and hearing loss susceptibility in workers exposed to noise and/or ototoxic agents (2011-2015)
    2011 - Elettric80 AVG-TM-Phase2 Design and Optimization of AGV Traffic Management
    2011 - INAF-IRA Studio di fattibilità di un sistema piggy back a 5 Ghz per l'osservazione di detriti spaziali con la parabola da 32 mm della Croce del Nord
    2011 - ASI - Dipartimento di Fisica - Univ. La Sapienza LSPE - Large scale polarization explore
    2011 - Thales Alenia Space Italia Athena-Fidus Fattibilità filtri RF per i programmi Athena Fidus e Sicral
    2011 - CNR - RAS CNR-RAS (Russian Academy of Sciences) bilateral project “Signal Estimation for Cognitive Wireless Networks”
    2011 - MIUR PRIN 09
    2011 - SIIT Scpa SINTESIS - Sistema integrato per la sicurezza ad intelligenza distribuita
    2011 - Telecom Italia S.p.A. Autonomous Devices per Enterprise Solutions
    2011 - I2 S.r.l. Metodi intelligenti per il controllo della banda su reti IP
    2011 - Politecnico di Milano - DEI High-Capacity-Radio - Sistemi di trasmissione radio ad alta capacità
    2011 - Politecnico di Milano - DEI Phase Noise Techniques for enhancing the phase noise tolerance of single carrier MQAM receivers
    2011 - Politecnico di Milano Absorbing Sets Reti ottiche di nuova generazione - The way to spectral efficiency in Optical trans. Systems (Theme 1) WP2 Coding
    2011 - Metropolitana Milanese SpA Expo 2015 - Coordinamento valutazione di impatto ambientale del sito Expo 2015
    2010 - MISE - MINISTERO DELLO SVILUPPO ECONOMICO PEGASUS - PROGETTO PER LA GESTIONE DELLA MOBILITA' ATTRAVERSO SISTEMI INFOTELEMATICI PER L'AMBITO URBANO, PER LA SICUREZZA DI PASSEGGERI, VEICOLI E MERCI
    2010 - European Project INMOTOS - Interdependency Modelling Tools and Simulation-Based Risk Assessment of ICT Critical Infrastructures Contingency Plans (2010 - 2012)
    2010 - EU HYCON2
    2010 - INAF/TAS Milano/ASI Sviluppi tecnologici nel millimetrico per missioni di polarizzazione
    2010 - INAF VCSELINK - VCSELs ad elevata linearita' per trasmissione su fibra.
    2010 - Regione Piemonte - POR FERS MASP - Tecniche centralizzate e distribuite per elaborazioni dati da sensori wireless
    2010 - Thales Alenia Space Italia ATHENA-FIDUS Studio, sviluppo e realizzazione di componenti a microonde per catene RF - programma Athena Fidus
    2010 - Thales Alenia Space Italia AMOS-4 KU-band diplexer 10.7/11.7/13.0/14.5 GHz Programma AMOS 4
    2010 - Ferrero S.p.A. Tecnologie ICT avanzate per sistemi di automazione industriale
    2010 - Unox S.p.A. Supporto alla progettazione di apparati di controllo e diagnosi remota per forni industriali alimentari
    2010 - EU - Soc. D'Appolonia S.p.A. (bando JLS-2009-CFP-CIPS) INMOTOS interdependency Modelling Tools and Simulation based risk assessment of ICT critical infrastructures contingency plans
    2010 - Bercella srl C-Radome (Sradome) - Electromagnetic design Analysis and exp. Evaluation for C-band large Dielectric Radomes converging Ph. Array Antennas
    2010 - INAF Space Debris - Sistema piggy back a 5 GHz per l'osservazione di detriti spaziali con la parabola da 32 m della Croce del Nord
    2010 - INAF SKA-Alo Studio di un'antenna per ricevitore GPS-galileo con capacità di interfacciamento GSM e Bluethooth
    2010 - Politecnico di Milano Think
    2010 - EU - Interreg IVC Innovation 4 Welfare ROBO M.D. - Home care Robot for monitoring and detection of critical situation
    2010 - Poliedra SISTEMI DI SUPPORTO ALLE DECISIONI PER L'AMBIENTE E IL TERRITORIO
    2010 - FMA srl Security Assessment dell'applicazione Money Controller
    2010 - IMPARA srl Metodi intelligenti per il controllo della banda su reti IP
    2010 - Lepida S.p.A. Progettazione e realizzazione di un prototipo di centro gestione dati per reti di sensori e test bed di dimostrazione di rete lepida
    2009 - Thales Alenia Space Italia AMOS-4 Studio trombe corrugate a larga banda per catene RF e Sviluppo con BBing di diplexer Ku - Programma AMOS-4
    2009 - Regione Piemonte \"Contenimento del Brain Drain\" - Sviluppo di sistemi di illuminazione di antenna passivi per apparati di comunicazione satellitare
    2009 - Regione Piemonte \"Contenimento del Brain Drain\" - Reti e sistemi industriali di nuova generazione ad elevate prestazioni, flessibilità e affidabilità
    2009 - INAF SKA-Aalo - Studio elettromagnetico di antenne a larga banda in doppia polarizzazione per il progetto SKA-Aalo
    2009 - CREI VEN Scarl Supporto alla progettazione dell’architettura di controllo e gestione di forni alimentari industriali
    2009 - Centro Sviluppo Materiali S.p.A, Masterbillet - Studio e sperimentazione di un sensore a cavità elettromagnetica per la misura del livello dell’acciaio in lingottiera e dello spessore delle polveri
    2009 - Regione Piemonte Flex-Mech - New advanced mechanical systems for flexible and customized production
    2009 - Elettric80 AVG-TM Design and Optimization of AGV Traffic Management
    2009 - ICAR CNR OpenKnowTech - Lab. di tecnologie OS per l'integrazione gestione e distribuzione di dati processi e conoscenze
    2009 - UTECO Converting SpA Collegamento in rete CAN di controllori B&R e motori RTA per la realizzazione di un sistema di posizionamento dei cilindri di stampa di macchine flessografiche
    2009 - Weightpack Engineering S.r.L SCADA Realizzazione di driver software per reti real-time Ethernet e uso di software SCADA per la supervisione di macchine imbottigliatrici
    2008 - European Project FP7 SUBTUNE \"Widely Tunable VCSEL using Sub Wavelength Gratings” (2008-2011)
    2008 - European Project FP7 4SEAS \"Synergies between science and society for a shared approach to European seas” (2008-2010)

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Attività di formazione

  • The full integration of the IEIIT sites with the main polytechnics and schools of engineering in the northern Italy, facilitates the involvement of IEIIT researchers in teaching activities of advanced courses and seminars to undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students as well as professionals.
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  • Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 (literal)
Cap
  • 10129 (literal)
Città
  • Torino (literal)
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  • TO (literal)
Telefono
  • 0115645400 (literal)
Codice CDS
  • 029 (literal)
Servizi
  • La Sede di Genova eroga i seguenti servizi di Infrastruttura Telematica: · Referenti territoriali per la Rete Informatica della Regione Liguria. · Connettivitá dell'Area della Ricerca di Genova alla rete GARR, dal punto di vista del routing, della gestione del servizio di naming e della posta elettronica. · Servizi aggiuntivi non richiesti dal GARR ma forniti ugualmente all'intera regione geografica: antivirus a livello di rete, liste di distribuzione della posta, gestione server web, sistema di difesa dalle intrusioni informatiche. (literal)
Competenze
  • Expertise of the IEIIT Research Groups
    1 - Applied Electromagnetics and Electronic Devices (Torino, Bologna, Milano, Pisa) • Modeling and computer-aided design of microwave and millimeter-wave devices and circuits • Numerical methods for electromagnetic field analysis • Synthesis techniques for microwave components and circuits • Electromagnetic scattering and diffraction • Microwave antennas, Corrugated horns, Antenna feed systems • Microwave filters and multiplexers, Ortho-Mode Transducers (OMT) • Directional Couplers, Phase Shifters, waveguide transitions, Waveguide correlators etc. • Frequency Selective Surfaces • Dielectric Radomes • Radiometers for astrophysical observations • Microwave measurements, electromagnetic characterization of dielectric materials • Design, fabrication and characterization of micro-nanoelectronic devices and MEMS • Design and testing of electronic circuits for sensor interfacing • Noise study and measurement in electronic devices • Nonlinear characterization and modelling of radiofrequency electron devices • MMIC design of RF transceivers • Power electronic converters and amplifiers • Piezoelectric systems for energy harvesting and ambient monitoring • Electromagnetic characterization of optoelectronic and Acousto-optical devices • Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers • Radar measurements • Tropospheric propagation • Retrieval of atmospheric parameters • Indoor propagation • Free-space optical propagation 2 - Computer Engineering & Networks (Torino, Padova) • Industrial local area networks • Communication protocols for automation • Wireless communications • Industrial Ethernet • Fieldbuses • Hybrid (wired/wireless) networks • Real-time communications for factory applications • High-precision distributed clock synchronization • Network simulation • Performance evaluation of automation networks • Performance measurement of industrial communication systems • Safe communications and safety protocols • Real-time operating systems • Embedded systems • Open source operating systems • Hardware virtualization techniques • Formal techniques for the analysis of industrial networks 3 - Engineering for Health and Wellbeing (Torino, Genova, Milano, Padova) • Bioengineering in Communication Disorders • Biological System Modeling • Bioreactors/Artificial Tissues for Tissue Engineering • Cloud Robotics • Cognitive System Modeling • Computer Vision And Image Processing for Biomedical Applications • Educational Robotics • EMF Exposure Assessment • eHealth for clinical research • EMF Risk Assessment • Growing up Robots • Healthcare Applications • Home Computer Interaction for Rehabilitation • Human-robot Interfaces • Intelligent Caregiver Robots • Kinetics and Metabolism of Substances • Living Tissues Modeling • Medical Applications of EMF • Model of auditory perception in aging • Natural Language Processing • Population Pharmacokinetics/Dynamics • Real-time Body Tracking and Body Sensor Networks • Roboethics • Service Robotics • Signal Processing of Auditory Signals • Smart Personalized Hearing Systems 4 - Decision Support Methods and Models (Genova, Milano, Padova) • Multi attribute analysis techniques with sensitivity and conflict analysis • Planning and management of innovative transport systems • Structuring and organizing the public decision process • Development of intelligent systems that learn from past experience • Realization of artificial models capable of extracting knowledge from data • Rule generation and statistical analysis of data • Solution of pattern recognition and regression problems • Feature selection • Control of complex systems and reliability analysis • Design of experiments in deterministic learning • Implementation of machine learning models in small devices such as FPGA and microcontrollers • Integrated tools and methods for the specification and validation of complex, adaptive, or critical systems • Parallel and distributed computing support to complex and critical systems • Development of methodologies, algorithms and applications for High Performance Computing on heterogeneous platforms • General-Purpose Computation on Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU) • Using distributed computing platforms (Grids, Clouds) for QoS-demanding applications • Big data analysis • Model checking techniques • Methods and models of parallel computing based on formal language theory 5 - Network Security (Genova) • Wireless (Assessment, Valutation & Testing) • Denial of Service attacks (DoS) & Slow DoS Attacks (SDA) • Cloud Computing • Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS) • Attacks Distribution (Botnet) • Penetration Testing • Information & Computer Forensics (DFIR) • Post-Mortem Analysis (PMA) • Wiretapping • Fringe Security (Intrusion Detection System, Firewall) • Network Monitoring • Hacking techniques 6 - Systems and Control Technologies (Torino, Milano, Padova) • Analysis and control of uncertain and complex systems • Robust stability and performance of dynamic systems • Compressed sensing • Sensor networks • Adaptive filter design • Sliding-mode control design • Randomized algorithms and probabilistic methods • Distributed algorithms for PageRank computation • Congestion Control of High-Speed Networks • Uncertain truss structures optimization • Stability of quantized and switched systems • System modeling, identification and estimation • Distributed estimation and control • Modeling and estimation of complex dynamic systems • Constrained interpolation • Hidden Markov models (HMM) • Models for the term structure of interest rates • Computational methods for systems and control • Continuous algorithms and complexity • Software development and implementation • Convex and robust optimization • Systems biology and biomedical engineering • Modeling and design of food production and supply chain systems • Traceability issues in supply-chain management • Analysis and optimization of food production processes • Biosystems engineering • Design of multivehicle systems • Control of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) • Design and traffic management of automated guided vehicles • Networked control systems • Analysis and design of network systems • Consensus of multi-agent systems • Randomized algorithms over networks • Opinion dynamics in social networks • Mathematics of information and coding theory 7 - Wireless Communication Systems (Torino, Bologna, Milano) • Fast error correcting coding and decoding • Capacity achieving and floorless channel codes • Information theory and channel capacity evaluation • Reliable channel coding for distributed control applications • Signal reconstruction and estimation • MIMO channel estimation and precoding • MIMO iterative detection & decoding • MIMO systems and distributed MIMO networks • Wireless and wired channel modelling • Phase noise channels • Software Defined Radio algorithms for wireless communication systems based on FPGA and DSP architectures • Heterogeneous wireless networks • Simulation of wireless networks • Passive and active localization techniques for wireless sensor networks • Performance and connectivity of wireless sensor networks • Algorithms and MAC design techniques for industrial wireless sensor networks • Self-organizing wireless networks for critical applications • Modelling and deployment optimization of wireless cooperative networks • Communication protocols design for energy harvesting devices • Analysis of mobile data records • Characterization of mobile urban sensing and user mobility in wireless access and spontaneous networks • Design and analysis of multiple access schemes and routing algorithms for vehicular networks • Design of e/m-Learning architectures (literal)
Email
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Indirizzo
  • Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 - 10129 Torino (TO) (literal)
Missione
  • IEIIT, with its six territorial sites, carries out advanced scientific and technological research in the area of Information Engineering, covering fields of telecommunications, computer and systems engineering, applied electromagnetics, electronics, control, robotics and bioengineering. The activities are carried out in cooperation with the universities where the IEIIT sites are located. The IEIIT engineering approach is particularly beneficial for the technological transfer toward enterprises. (literal)
Attività di ricerca
  • The activities of the Institute are organized into 7 Research Groups whose researchers belong to different IEIIT sites and work in tight connection thanks to the modern communication technologies. Moreover, The research activity of Institute and the specific interest in the technological transfer allowed the establishment of three small enterprises (CNR spin-off) which cooperate with the institute in the framework of various projects. 1 - Applied Electromagnetics and Electronic Devices (Torino, Bologna, Milano, Pisa) In the ICT area, microwave, millimeter-wave, optical and electronic devices and systems a play fundamental role in the definition of novel solutions that enhance the existing applications and support the development of new ones. The applications concern satellite communications, wireless links, optical communications, remote sensing, scientific observations and industrial applications. The activities cover both theoretical and experimental aspects ranging from electromagnetics area to photonics and electronics. The theoretical activities concern the study of problems related to the design of novel devices and sub-systems by means of mathematical models based on integral and differential formulations. In particular, in the microwave and millimeter-wave fields, the development of simulation codes for a large class of waveguide components and open structures is an intensive activity. They are based on distributed parameter models, spectral methods, and reduced order methods. Furthermore, various models for the studies of the troposphere propagation are also developed. As for photonic research, several studies are tackled for the analysis and design of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs), whereas, as far as electronics is concerned, the modeling studies focus on the design of novel micro and nano-electronic devices, power electronic converters, microwave amplifiers, integrated sensors and MEMS. The research unit utilizes several experimental facilities: a microwave laboratory equipped up to 110 GHz, a mechanical workshop, an open antenna test range, an experimental station for the propagation studies, and an electronic technology laboratory equipped with a scanning electron microscopes adapted for e-beam lithography and various thin film deposition systems. Significant effort is devoted to the design, manufacturing, and characterization of novel microwave, photonic, and electronic devices and systems. In the framework of several industrial cooperation, the research team covers all those aspects for a successful realization of various high-performance prototypes such as antennas, microwave and millimeter-wave waveguide components and sub-systems, polarization stable VCSELs, integrated electronic sensors and active devices. 2 - Computer Engineering & Networks (Torino, Padova) The Computer Engineering & Networks Group (CEN&G) is active in several areas of industrial ICT and focuses, in particular, on industrial communications, techniques/tools for network security and real time and embedded systems. - Industrial Communications One of the keys to success in modern enterprises is the ability to integrate all the production activities effectively and inexpensively. The adoption of digital communications in factory automation environments dates back to the 1980s with the introduction of fieldbuses. However, the convergence towards fully integrated systems, with pervasive adoption of ICT solutions, started only recently. Technologies such as industrial Ethernet and wireless networks are going to deeply change the way manufacturing and automation are conceived, with unprecedented degrees of flexibility, scalability and availability. - Techniques and Tools for the Security Analysis of Networks Industrial plants and critical infrastructures are moving from isolation and closed/proprietary communication solutions, typical of the past, to more open, flexible and cheaper standard communication technologies. This migration, however, also exposes industrial networks to the same security threats that are experienced by traditional computer systems. CE&NG analysis techniques and automated software tools help in modeling the system, evaluating the effectiveness of the approach with respect to the functional requirements and security goals and, consequently, highlighting possible security weaknesses. - Real Time and Embedded Systems The adoption of real-time operating systems (RTOS) for embedded application development is becoming increasingly important nowadays, to integrate a large set of heterogeneous and reusable software modules into a single computing system with as little effort as possible. The advantages of this trend in terms of software flexibility, reliability and reusability are clear but, until recent times, it has been hindered by the high cost and hardware requirements of RTOS. With the advent of open-source software and the improvement of microcontrollers this is no longer an issue, though a considerable amount of expertise is still needed to deliver a sound design. 3 - Engineering for Health and Wellbeing (Torino, Genova, Milano, Padova) The Engineering for Health and Wellbeing group applies technologies and engineering methods to improve the knowledge on biological systems and health sciences and to develop solutions able to provide assistance to humans in everyday life. Methods, devices and systems are studied and developed by a multidisciplinary approach, from the molecular and cellular scales up to that of complex living systems, to improve diagnosis and therapy as well as the health facilities and services. This research area are divided into sub-categories as described below. Cognitive Systems. Modeling of mechanisms involved in processes of communication, adaptation, learning and growing up in order to develop architectures for caregiver robots with intelligent behaviour. Human robot interfaces. Natural language processing. Computer Vision. Development of image and signal processing algorithms and their application in medicine and in industrial inspection and quality control. The problem of the real time pose estimation and tracking of (parts of) the human body is addressed: methodologies for articulated hand and limbs tracking are developed by using depth cameras and/or Body Sensor Networks. Real time tracking of hands and limbs makes the development of tools possible for both rehabilitation and remote monitoring of elder people and patients suffering from various traumatic and/or neurodegenerative diseases, and as a new type of human computer interface in automatic sign language recognition. EMF for Health. To expand the scientific and technological basis of the safe and beneficial applications of electromagnetic energy. Based on three pillars: medical applications of EMF (EMF MED), EMF energy for a safe environment (EMF SAFE) and EMF health risk assessment (EMF RISK). EMF MED: study of EMF biomedical applications and design and optimization of novel diagnostics, therapeutics tools and medical devices. EMF SAFE: EMF exposure assessment by computational techniques on healthy subjects and EMF personal exposure measurements. EMF RISK: establishment of health risk assessment procedures related to the exposure of population to EMF fields. IT HEAR. Application of knowledge from engineering, e-Health/ICT, and computational modelling for biomedical applications, particularly for hearing sciences. Main research topics are: Natural Language Processing (NLP) approaches for information retrieval in unstructured clinical notes; ontologies for clinical notes editing and processing; development of smart technological solutions for innovative and personalized hearing systems; development of ad hoc methods for remote self-assessment of auditory function; computational models of auditory perception and auditory processing in aging, neurodegeneration, and cognitive disorders. Physiological Modeling. Practical and methodological aspects of mathematical modeling of dynamic biological and physiological processes. The aim is to represent knowledge and validate hypotheses about biological functions by simulating their expected behavior under different experimental conditions and by matching them to experimental data. Methodological aspects include structured model representation, simulation, optimization, parameter estimation and experiment design. Robotics. Assistive service robots able to provide assistance to human’s daily life, operating semi - or fully - autonomously to perform tasks in unstructured environment. Moreover, the increasing availability of networks expands the possibilities of Internet and Network Robotics to the new field of Cloud Robotics. Another line of research is Educational Robotics. It is accounted for by the necessity to prepare and educate our citizenship on the coming robotics revolution that is going to affect our society deeply and dramatically. A consequent, interdisciplinary field in which we are involved is Roboethics, that deals with the Ethical, Legal, and Societal Issues in Advanced Robotics. Tissue Engineering. Modeling, design and development of new intelligent and bioactive materials, which replace non-functional natural tissues (as a result of trauma or tumour surgery). To this aim, the group is also actively interested to design and realize innovative bioreactor systems for culturing living tissues under physical stimulations, mimicking the natural tissue environment. The investigation of fundamental aspects of cell response and tissue adaptation under controlled and defined stimuli is also carried out. 4 - Decision Support Methods and Models (Genova, Milano, Padova) Research on Decision Support Systems and Machine Learning concerns the development of innovative solutions for supporting decision making processes and for building models able to forecast the behavior of complex systems. Two different approaches are followed to pursue this aim: on one hand, decision processes are structured and organized to ensure the respect of basic requirements that improve the quality of their application. On the other hand, specific technologies able to extract knowledge from data in intelligible form are designed and implemented to provide the expert with an automatic and comprehensive tool for provisional purposes and what-if analysis. Although a variety of different statistical and machine learning techniques is considered, rule generation methods are privileged due to their ability to describe the resulting model in term of intelligible if-then rules. This allows to shed light on the behavior of the system of interest and to automatically determine relevant variables with a quantitative measure of their importance. The increasing complexity of systems and data to be managed, as well as the need for reasonable processing times and for a timely response to critical events, make it useful and often necessary the resort to parallel and distributed computing systems. To cope with these issues, we develop methodologies and algorithms for high performance computing on multi-core/many-core architectures, which combine high performance with low cost, low power consumption and small size. In particular, optimized computational kernels for machine learning applications and big data analysis are implemented. The considered methodologies are applied in several different fields, among which environmental assessment, sustainable mobility, bioinformatics, medical image processing, telecommunication and optimal control. The considered methodologies are applied in several different fields, among which, bioinformatics, medical image processing, telecommunication, optimal control and territorial governance (i.e. environmental assessment and sustainable mobility), where the use of DSS is in particular targeted to foster the stakeholders involvement (e-democracy). 5 - Network Security (Genova) The group deals with network and systems security aspects, analyzing both threats and mitigation technologies. In particular, during our research activities we study various areas in the security field: analysis of infective tools (such as malware, virus, or trojan horses), Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems, Wireless security, penetration testing, forensics techniques, Denial of Service attacks, data exfiltration techniques. The aim is to identify how such attacks work, in order to provide innovative mitigation methodologies. The group also accomplish network management operations on the CNR Arige network, providing users a wide range of services, such as email, DNS, web hosting, antispam services, wired and wireless Internet connectivity, backup management, network monitor, and firewall and network devices management. Finally, this knowledge is shared trough technological transfer actions, dedicated to small and medium businesses related to computer security field. In particular, one of the most important goals achieved is Cleis Security s.r.l., a spin-off between CNR-IEIIT researchers and a SME. 6 - Systems and Control Technologies (Torino, Milano, Padova) The SCT group of IEIIT gathers researchers in the field of systems and control, with emphasis on analysis and design of uncertain and complex systems. The group is geographically distributed over four IEIIT sections (Torino, Milano, Genova, Padova), with a wide range of expertise. Our research stems from the observation that control systems are ubiquitous, essential, and largely invisible to the general public. The field of control systems engineering is becoming increasingly important with the progress of technology. Its aim is to study and design complex systems that are interconnected and should perform satisfactorily a given task. These systems include classical applications within engineering, such as aerospace, chemical, electrical and mechanical, together with new areas of research, which comprise economics, biological systems, social sciences and networks. The expertise of the Systems and Control Technologies group ranges from robust systems design to systems identification and estimation, and includes network control systems, randomized algorithms, probabilistic methods, and optimization. Various industrial projects are carried on, in particular along the directions of the design of multi-vehicle systems, modeling and optimization of food production systems. The group is carrying on international research activities and cooperations with academic institutions distributed worldwide, such as University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, University of California at Irvine, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Toulouse, and it is involved in major Italian and European projects. Researchers of the SCT group hold key positions in the IEEE Control Systems Society and IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control), and in their journals and conferences. The group includes three Fellows of the IEEE and three IFAC Fellows. 7 - Wireless Communication Systems (Torino, Bologna, Milano) The research activities of the Wireless Communication Systems group develop either theoretical or practical aspects, driven by the emerging new applications that the progress of wireless communication technologies makes possible. As the rapid expansion of wireless communications continues to be limited by inadequate systems capacity, poor data rate capabilities, and by the short battery life of the portable wireless devices, the theoretical activities concern investigation of technologies able to optimize the often conflicting goals of minimizing power consumption while maximizing performance. This goal must be achieved maintaining at the same time a reasonable complexity of signal processing algorithms and circuit architectures in order to give rise to practical solutions. In particular, the theoretical research activities concern the potentiality and enhancement of MIMO (Multiple-Input Multiple-Output) schemes, the problem of phase noise as one of the major impairments in multiple antenna communication links, the investigation on different kinds of turbo-codes, Error Correcting Codes (ECC) and on the reliability of protograph-based LDPC convolutional codes applied to networked control systems. From a practical point of view, development and research activities are various, ranging from the analysis of the connectivity properties of nodes in Ad Hoc Networks to the design of an integrated e/m-Learning architecture, from the development of Software Defined Radio (SDR) techniques to routing and radio resource management in smart transportation systems, from the prototyping and testing of innovative localization systems to the generation of analytical models or simulation frameworks that represent user/device mobility in urban areas, and to next generation Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) technologies, as virtual MIMO (V-MIMO) distributed system or virtual antenna arrays (VAAs) cooperative communication schemes. Some of the above activities take advantage of the experimental laboratory hosted in the Bologna site of the group, which includes: i) a complete remote-operated workbench, ii) spectrum analyzers and other equipment for radio transceiver analysis and characterization; iii) DSP (including multi-DSP prototypes) and FPGA boards and development kits. (literal)
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