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Luca BascettaDipartimento di Elettronica e InformazionePiazza Leonardo da Vinci 32 20133 Milano (Italy) Tel. +39 02 2399 3440 Email luca.bascetta@polimi.it |
Luca Bascetta was born in Milan (Italy) in 1974. He received the "Laurea" degree cum laude in Computer Science Engineering and the Doctorate degree in Information Technology in 1999 and 2004, respectively, both from Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
From 2004 to 2006 he has been a Research Assistant at the Department of Electronics and Computer Science of Politecnico di Milano, teaching Control System Technologies and Engineering to Computer Science Engineering students.
Since December 2006 he has been an Assistant Professor in Automatic Control at the School of Industrial Engineering of Politecnico di Milano. Dr. Bascetta currently teaches at Politecnico di Milano Control System Technologies and Engineering to Computer Science Engineering students and Automatic Control to Aerospace Engineering students.
He took part in the writing of an European research project in the field of robotics (ICT-230902-ROSETTA, Robot control for Skilled ExecuTion of Tasks in natural interaction with humans; based on Autonomy, cumulative knowledge and learning) that has been funded and will start in March 2009, and to the research activities of a few national research projects.
His research interests
include robotics, visual servoing and all the problems related to
motion control in general.
The research activity in the field of robotics includes modelling and
control of flexible manipulators and visual servoing. Dr. Bascetta
developed a visual servoing
control technique, following an approach based on two-time scale
control, to achieve the tip trajectory tracking of a flexible
manipulator exploiting the information
generated by a camera mounted on the end-effector. The methodology was
further extended in order to use the visual information, together with
strain gauge
measurements, to damp out the link vibrations as well. This research
(that was also the topic of the PhD study of Dr. Bascetta) was funded
by the Italian Space
Agency (ASI).
He also worked in the mechatronics and motion control field, in
particular on the control of brushless/asynchronous motors using low
resolution position sensors.
This topic is of particular interest in many industrial applications,
ranging from automotive and household appliances to industrial robots
and machine tools. The
research of Dr. Bascetta was particularly concentrated on the
definition of an analytical but simple characterisation of the velocity
estimation error, in order to asses
the performance of non-model-based velocity estimation techniques.
Moreover, he studied the performance limitations in Field Oriented
Control for asynchronous
machines due to the use of low resolution position sensors. A further
work, related to this research field, was the development of a
mechatronic model of the velocity
control system of a washing machine, and the study of simple
(auto)tuning procedures to a rational and efficient approach to the
tuning of the velocity regulator.
Finally, Dr. Bascetta worked also on model-based PID autotuning
techniques for 1-d.o.f. and 2-d.o.f. control architectures. In
particular, he developed a technique,
based on causal nonparametric modelling, for the design of the
feedforward compensator in 2-d.o.f. controllers.
Since 2004 he is a reviewer
of many international conferences and of the following international
journals:
Furthermore, he received the Best Referee Award for the Journal of
Process Control for the year 2008.
Dr. Bascetta is a member of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society since 2007.