Title: Advanced Control of Magnetically Actuated Robots: from Single to Multi-agent Manipulation

Speaker: Giovanni Pittiglio
 

Date and time:  07/10/2021 (Thursday) at 2pm CET

Abstract: Magnetically actuated robots have recently emerged as an innovative solution for remotely controlled task completion, in partially accessible or inaccessible environments. This technology has a wide range of applications from micro- to macro-scale, such as microfluidics, drug delivery and minimally invasive diagnosis and surgery. Despite of their high potential value, some difficulties arise in generating strong magnetic fields in large environments (e.g. medical applications), visionless sensing and control. This talk introduces innovative control and sensing solutions for magnetically actuated robots, with wide application opportunities. The application to medical robotics is presented and discussed. 

Bio: Giovanni Pittiglio received his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering and M.S. in Robotics and Automation from Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy, in 2012 and 2016, respectively. He received the M. Res. in Medical Robotics and Image Guided Intervention from Imperial College of London, London, UK, in 2017. Student Member IEEE, he is currently PhD Student in the STORM Lab, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, under the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering.His research interests include magnetically actuated medical robots, nonlinear control and sensing, and soft robotics. Giovanni was member of the team winner of the Kuka Innovation Award 2019.