Pierpaolo Palmieri Email & Phone Number

Turin, IT

Turin, Piedmont, Italy

• Deplotic develops deployable and retractable robotic manipulators for more sustainable andefficient space missions.
• Award: Second Place at #T-Tec 2023, held by Telespazio and Leonardo, in the Category "Prototype" with IDRA - Inflatable and Deployable Robotic Arm.

Turin, Piedmont, Italy

• Advancement of development activities for the IDRA project to increase the TRL.
• Tender preparation and writing.
• Thesis supervisor for MSc students in Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering.
• Speaker at the 9th International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Applications (ICARA 2023), Abu Dhabi, UAE; the IFToMM World Congress 2023, Tokyo, Japan; the IEEE MetroAeroSpace 2024, Lublin, Poland.
• International Technical Committee at the 4th International Conference on… Show more
• International Technical Committee at the 4th International Conference on Robotics, Automation, and Artificial Intelligence (RAAI 2024), Singapore. Show less

Turin Area, Italy

Course "Mechatronics", Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering with ~180 students each yearAY 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25.The classes focused on the control of a hydraulic servo actuator, involving a phase of experimentation on a test bench, followed by a phase focused on modeling the control system and the physical system.

Torino, Piedmont, Italy

• Design, modeling and development of IDRA (formerly POPUP): a novel deployable soft robot for aerospace applications. This project was the primary focus of my PhD research and laid the foundation for Deplotic, a startup.
• Development of ROBOPIPE, a novel autonomous mobile robot for pipeline inspection in harsh environments, supported and funded by ENI S.p.A., an Italian multinational energy company: concept design, physical modeling….
• Development of ROBOPIPE, a novel autonomous mobile robot for pipeline inspection in harsh environments, supported and funded by ENI S.p.A., an Italian multinational energy company: concept design, physical modeling.
• Support for the development of collision avoidance algorithms for trajectory generation for a Cartesian sorting machine.
• Thesis supervisor for MSc students in Mechanical, Mechatronics and Electronics Engineering.
• Consultant and Corporate Trainer with Poliedra S.p.A and Consorzio Gamma Servizi.

Turin Area, Italy

• Development of ROBOPIPE, a novel autonomous mobile robot for pipeline inspection in harsh environments, supported and funded by ENI S.p.A., an Italian multinational energy company: concept design, physical modeling.
• Collaborative Robotics.
• Speaker at the 70th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2019) in Washington D.C. (USA).

• Developed by Collège des Ingénieurs Italia, Politecnico di Torino and CERN Ideasquare, Innovation 4 Change is one of the major Italian innovation projects based on the collaboration with companies, institutions and.
• Main partners: Enel Foundation, the first knowledge partner of I4C; the storytelling school Scuola Holden; Enel X.
• Co-Author of the paper "Incentivizing sustainable mobility through an impact innovation methodology", on CERN IdeaSquare Journal of Experimental Innovation (2020) Show less

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Mechanical Engineering

Thesis: "An Inflatable Robotic Manipulator for Space Applications"

Master'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering - Automation, 110/110 Cum Laude

Thesis: "Human Motion Tracking by Kinect Sensor for Collaborative Robotics Applications" Main topics: Computer Vision, Sensor fusion.

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

• Thesis: "Characterization of a superplastic material by an analytical model and a numerical analysis" Software: ABAQUS • Internship.

High School Diploma, Liceo Scientifico