Italo Almirante is a 25-year-old PhD Student at the ARS Control Laboratory at the Department of Sciences and Engineering Methods (DISMI) at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Unimore). He’s got a Master’s (2024) and a Bachelor’s degree (2021) in Mechatronic Engineering at the same university institution. His job in ARS Control started in 2024 as Research Fellow for topics such as advanced controls for manipulators, computer vision techniques for deformable objects and interaction methods between robots and objects. He is the Robotics Supervisor of the team ProjectRED, which he has been part of since 2021 as Control Software Developer and lead in 2023 as Team Leader and Project Manager.
Although the robotics research is Italo’s main activity, his academic career started with a study about the noise reduction and efficiency improvement of SRMs (Switched Reluctance Machines). During the period as ProjectRED’s member, he became expert of ROS and STM32 microcontroller’s programming for the control of electrical actuators and the management of communication protocols, such as CAN and USART. Currently, as PhD student, his main expertise deals with the control software development of autonomous systems from low-level code implementation of motor drives to high-degrees of freedom mechatronic systems, such as autonomous mobile robots and robotic arms, coupled with advanced AI and Computer Vision algorithms. His GitHub profile is full of ROS and ROS2 projects, some of which available for free, and most of them are open for collaborations.