Alessandro De Luca

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Projects

• Last projects funded by the European Commission
  
  
  • SOAR-Touch - Soft Optical Aerial Robot Touch (May 2025-April 2026). Funded in the 3rd Open Call for Technology Exchange Programme of the Horizon Europe euROBIN Network of Excellence. Principal Investigator.
  • COMANOID (RIA H2020-ICT-2014-1, 645097) - Multi-Contact Collaborative Humanoids in Aircraft Manufacturing (2015-2018). Team Member.
  • SYMPLEXITY (IA H2020-FoF-2014, 637080) - Symbiotic Human-Robot Solutions for Complex Surface Finishing Operations (2015-2018). Principal Investigator.
  • SAPHARI (IP FP7 ICT, 287513) - Safe and Autonomous Physical Human-Aware Robot Interaction (2011-2015). Project Coordinator.
  • PHRIENDS (STREP FP6 IST, 045359) - Physical Human-Robot Interaction: Dependability and Safety (2006-2009). Principal Investigator. Selected results obtained by our group in PHRIENDS can be found here.
  • Cyberwalk (STREP FP6 IST, 511092) - The CyberCarpet: Enabling Omni-directional Walking in Virtual Worlds (2005-2008). Principal Investigator. Selected results obtained by our group in CyberWalk can be found here.


• Last national projects
  
  
  • Spoke 5: High-quality AI, coordinated by Sapienza University of Rome, within FAIR - Future Artificial Intelligence Research (Extended Partnership PE00000013, 2023-2025), the Foundation acting as the hub for this PNRR (Next Generation EU) project of the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR). I am responsible of the work package WP5.3 - Quality in AI Physical Systems.
  • I-Mule (2012-2014). Funded by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development (MiSE), within the Industria 2015 "Nuove Tecnologie per il Made in Italy" call. Principal Investigator. This industrial project (code MI01_00365) has dealt with the automation of baggage transfer by a multi-robot system in an airport. A summary video of the work done by our group in I-Mule is available on the Robotics Lab YouTube channel.
  • SICURA - Sicurezza per l'Interazione nel Contatto tra Umani, Robot e Ambiente (2008-2010). Funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University, and Research (MIUR), within the PRIN 2007 call. National Coordinator. Selected results obtained by our group in SICURA can be found here.