Marilena Vendittelli Associate Professor Dipartimento di Ingegneria informatica, automatica e gestionale Antonio Ruberti - DIAG Sapienza Università di Roma Via Ariosto 25, 00185 Roma, Italy tel +39 06 77274049 marilena.vendittelli@uniroma1.it Google Scholar profile ORCID: 0000-0002-5348-0525

I received the "Laurea" degree in Electrical Engineering in 1992 and the Ph.D. in Systems Engineering in 1997, both from the University of Rome "La Sapienza". From April 1995 to January 1996 I was a visiting scholar at LAAS-CNRS in Toulouse (France), where I held a post-doc position from April 1997 to October 1998 funded by the EC through two Marie Curie Research Training Grants. I am currently Associate Professor at the Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering Antonio Ruberti (formerly, Department of Computer and Systems Science - DIS) of the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and a member of the Robotics Laboratory. From January 2010 to December 2013 I have served as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Robotics.
Detailed CV.

• A. Cristofaro, M. Ferro, M. Vendittelli, "Safe Trajectory Tracking Using Closed-Form Controllers Based on Control Barrier Functions," 2022 IEEE 61st Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2022.
  
• M. Ferro, A. Mirante, F. Ficuciello and M. Vendittelli, "A CoppeliaSim dynamic simulator for the da Vinci Research Kit," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2022. doi: 10.1109/LRA.2022.3222994.
• M. Ferro, C. Gaz, M. Anzidei and M. Vendittelli, "Online needle-tissue interaction model identification for force feedback enhancement in robot-assisted interventional procedures," in IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, 2021. doi: 10.1109/TMRB.2021.3118304.
  
• L. Saiella, A. Cristofaro, M. Ferro, M. Vendittelli, "Fault-tolerant formation control of a team of quadrotors with a suspended payload," 2021 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2021. DOI: 10.1109/ICUAS51884.2021.9476749
  
• V. Magdanz, J. Vivaldi, S. Mohanty, A. Klingner, M. Vendittelli, J. Simmchen, S. Misra, I.S.M. Khalil "Impact of Segmented Magnetization on the Flagellar Propulsion of Sperm‐Templated Microrobots," Advanced Science, 2021.
  
• Marilena Vendittelli, Andrea Cristofaro, Jean-Paul Laumond, Bud Mishra, "Decidability in Robot Manipulation Planning," Autonomous Robots, Special Issue on Topological Methods in Robotics, 2020.
  
• C. H. Heunis, V. Belfiore, M. Vendittelli, S. Misra, "Reconstructing Endovascular Catheter Interaction Forces in 3D using Multicore Optical Shape Sensors," 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2019.
  
• G. A. Fontanelli, M. Selvaggio, M. Ferro, F. Ficuciello, M. Vendittelli, B. Siciliano, "Portable dVRK: an augmented V-REP simulator of the da Vinci Research Kit," in Acta Polytechnica Hungarica, vol. 16, no. 8, pp. 79-98, 2019.
  
• M. Ferro, A. Paolillo, A. Cherubini and M. Vendittelli, "Vision-Based Navigation of Omnidirectional Mobile Robots," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 2691-2698, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2019.2913077
• Marilena Vendittelli, Jean-Paul Laumond, Bud Mishra, "Decidability in Robot Manipulation Planning," 2018.  https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03581
  
• G. A. Fontanelli, M. Selvaggio, M. Ferro, F. Ficuciello, M. Vendittelli, B. Siciliano, "A V-REP Simulator for the da Vinci Research Kit Robotic Platform," IEEE RAS and EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BIOROB), 2018. DOI: 10.1109/BIOROB.2018.8487187
  
• N. Cacciotti, A. Cifonelli, C. Gaz, V. Paduano, A.V. Russo, M. Vendittelli, "Enhancing Force Feedback in Teleoperated Needle Insertion Through On-Line Identification of the Needle-Tissue Interaction Parameters," IEEE RAS and EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BIOROB), 2018. DOI: 10.1109/BIOROB.2018.8487952
  
• A. Paolillo, P. Gergondet, A. Cherubini, M. Vendittelli, A. Kheddar, "Autonomous car driving by a humanoid robot," Journal of Field Robotics, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 169-186, 2017 [on-line since 19 June 2017]. DOI: 10.1002/rob.21731
• G.Oriolo, M. Cefalo, M. Vendittelli, "Repeatable Motion Planning for Redundant Robots over Cyclic Tasks," IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 1170-1183, 2017 DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2017.2715348
  
• M. Ferro, A. Paolillo, A. Cherubini, M. Vendittelli, "Omnidirectional humanoid navigation in cluttered environments based on optical flow information," 2016 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2016. DOI: 10.1109/HUMANOIDS.2016.7803257
  
• T. Mattioli, M. Vendittelli, "Interaction force reconstruction for humanoid robots," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 282-289, 2017 [on-line since 18 Aug 2016]. DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2016.2601345
• A. Paolillo, A. Faragasso, G. Oriolo, M. Vendittelli, "Vision-based maze navigation for humanoid robots," Autonomous Robots, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 293–309, 2017 [on-line since 27 Jan 2016] DOI: 10.1007/s10514-015-9498-0
  
• G. Oriolo, A. Paolillo , L. Rosa, M. Vendittelli, "Humanoid odometric localization integrating kinematic, inertial and visual information," Autonomous Robots, vol. 40, no. 5, pp. 867–879, 2016. DOI: 10.1007/s10514-015-9498-0
• M. Vendittelli, J.-P. Laumond, B. Mishra, "Decidability of robot manipulation planning: three disks in the plane," Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics XI, Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, vol. 107, pp. 641-657, 2015. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-16595-0_37
  
• A. Paolillo, A. Cherubini, F. Keith, A. Kheddar, and M. Vendittelli, “Toward autonomous car driving by a humanoid robot: A sensor-based framework,” 2014 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2014. DOI: 10.1109/HUMANOIDS.2014.7041400
  
• M. Cognetti, P. Mohammadi, G. Oriolo, M. Vendittelli, "Task-oriented whole-body planning for humanoids based on hybrid motion generation," 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2014. DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2014.6943135
  
• M. Bellaccini, A. Paolillo, L. Lanari, M. Vendittelli, "Manual guidance of humanoid robots without force sensors: preliminary experiments with NAO," 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2014. DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907003
  

My research interests are in the area of robot motion planning and control, with particular emphasis on nonholonomic and redundant systems, navigation and perception for mobile robots, multi-robot exploration. Recently I started playing with humanoid robots too. For a detailed description of the most recent research activities visit the Robotics Laboratory research page. Selected videos from experiments are available at the laboratory YouTube channel.

Elective in Robotics

Fondamenti di Automatica

Second semester

Medical Robotics