Staff

University of Ljubljana (Slovenja)

Primož Podržaj

is Associate Professor and the head of the Laboratory for Process Automation with expretise in control system theory, microcontrollers, programmable logic controller, and machine vision. He lectures several courses ("Basics of Control Systems", "Technical Cybernetics", and "Controlled Electric Drives". He has authored/co-authored 25 scientific (SCI) papers and taken part in two european projects. He was coordinator in one Eureka project (RWC) and partner in one LdV project (HPS). He is also author of two reviewed university level textbooks in the field of Control Theory.

Samo Simončič

is Assistant Professor and a member of LPA heavily involved in teaching. He is an assistant for all the courses lectured by Primož Podržaj and communicates with students a lot during lab exercises. As a researcher he has published several scientific papers in renowned SCI journals. He was also took part in Eureka project (RWC).

Miha Finžgar

is a Young Researcher and works in the field of applied control systems. He already published two SCI papers. As he graduated only recently, he is very well aware of the problems students have in the field of control theory.

Matic Kelvišar

is a lab technican who is taking care of the lab exercises for the course lectured by Primož Podržaj. He knows a lot about the problems students face when they have to solve real problems. As a consequence he can help a lot in assessment of which of the interactive course we want to make in this project.

University of Pisa (Italy)

Franco Favilli

is associate professor of Mathematics Education of the University of Pisa, where he is the Director of the Post-degree Master Course in “Mathematics Education and New Technologies: from Theory to Practice”. He is the Emeritus Director of CAFRE. In the framework of the so called Lisbone 2010 strategy, he was the member of the Working Groups on “Enhancing Mathematics, Sciences and Technology students recruitment” and “Making ICT available to all in the schools” of the Directorate General Education and Culture – DGEAC of the European Commission. He was also the member of the UNESCO working group on “Quality inclusive education” of the “Education for all” programme. His expertise in international projects includes the proposal, management and coordination of four 3-years multilateral projects: “Innovation of Mathematics Teaching in Intercultural contexts”, “Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Mathematics” and “Making Mathematics Teachers Mobile” (Socrates-Comenius programme), and “Multiculturalism, Migration, Mathematics Education and Language” (LLP-Long-life Learning Programme - Comenius action). He was also the partner coordinator of the multilateral projects “Good Intercultural Dialogue in the Schools” and “CLIL - Content and Language Integrated Learning across Contexts” (Socrates-Comenius programme), and “Friendly Internet” (Safer Internet action plan of the EC DG Information Society). He is the member of committees for the teachers’ in-service education of the Italian Ministry of Instruction, University and Research.

Michele Lanzetta

received his Laurea and PhD from the University of Pisa, where he is associate professor, qualified as full professor. He is author of 125+ papers since 1995 (29 indexed on Scopus, with h-index 12) on various production related theoretical, modelling and experimental topics, including Additive Manufacturing, Artificial Vision, Production Planning/Scheduling and Metrology. With UniPisa, he is the Director of the Interdepartmental Centre for Lifelong learning, Training and Educational Research – CAFRE involving 17 of 20 Departments of the University of Pisa and 120+ members, he is vicepresident of Industrial/Management Engineering (1,000 students, including 300 new enrollments for 2017-18); he teaches Manufacturing Processes at the 1st year of Energy Eng. (100 students) and at the 3rd year of Industrial/Management Eng. (200 students) both involving group projects (CAD/CAM/FEM, process planning, costing), written and oral exams; he teaches Optimization of Manufacturing Processes at the 4th year of Industrial Eng./5th year of Mechanical Eng. He coordinates a national network of 100+ professors and experts on Additive Manufacturing, he is member of Cirp and Aitem, and board of the Tuscan regional Design and furniture cluster. He totaled 2.5+ years as visiting scholar at MIT, Stanford and Tokyo University and as visiting professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He has consulted Panasonic, GKN, Jaked world champion swimwear and Breton (licensee of his patent).

Lorenzo Pollini

received the Laurea degree in Computer Engineering (cum laude) and the PhD degree in Robotics and Industrial Automation from the University of Pisa in 1997 and 2000, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor of Automatic Control at the University of Pisa. He is deputy director of the Master Degree in Robotics and Automation at the same University, and teaches the courses of Guidance and Navigation Systems, Digital Control Systems, and Control Systems Theory. He is member of the IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society - Shared Control Technical Committee, and of the AIAA Guidance Navigation and Control Technical Committee. He served in the technical organizing committees of several conferences organized by international societies. He authored more than 100 scientific publications, including 3 book chapters. He is an Associate Fellow of AIAA and member of IEEE.

Mario Innocenti

graduated from the University of Pisa in 1977, and received his PhD from Purdue University in 1982. He has been an Assistant professor and tenured Associate professor in the department of Aerospace Engineering, Auburn University, Alabama, USA from 1982 to 1992 and is Full professor of Automatic Control at the University of Pisa, since 2000. His teaching expertise is in the areas of basic automatic control (with specialty in aerospace systems); advanced control theory; aerospace flight mechanics; guidance, navigation and control of manned and unmanned vehicles. He has taught in these areas at the undergraduate and graduate level, both in the US as well as in Italy. He graduated 18 PhD students and 105 Master’s students and has authored more than 220 publications.

University of Budapest (Hungary)

Péter Korondi

DSc, Head of Department, Full Professor. His main research fields include ethorobotics, cognitive telemanipulation and the sliding mode control of variable structure systems. Chairman of the MTA Committee on Electrical Engineering. Active volunteer and elected official of the international professional organisations of IFAC, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society and the PEMC Council. He spent two years, between 1993 and 1995, at the Laboratory of Intelligent Mechatronics at Tokyo University, Japan. He became Head of Department in 2013, empowered by the gained experiences in Japan and as a professor of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics of BME.

University of Rijeka (Croatia)

Drazen Brscic

is a researcher in the area of robotics and has an extensive experience both in Control theory and in Computer science. Before joining RITEH in 2016 he was working for a long time in Japan and Germany. During that time he was involved in a wide range of research projects, where he had a chance to experience how Control theory is applied to concrete problems as well as see the difficulties of educating young people on the topic. Combined with his experience in creating interactive agents and software this makes a great fit to the topic of this project. The project work will be done together with a number of master students at the Department of Computer Science, who are well versed in the development of interactive software.