mOve “industrial and bio-MECHATRONICS” is a branch of non-vehicle activities of the mOve team, in the field of bio-mechatronics and industrial-mechatronics.

This area of activities is mainly developed with a close cooperation between Politecnico di Milano and University of Bergamo, and is supervised by Prof. Fabio Previdi.

Projects

A simulation with two motorbikes

Design of a load software sensor for industrial self-balancing manipulators.
Piaggio MP3 instrumented

Design and implementation of the velocity-based control system for self-balancing manipulators.
A simulation with two motorbikes

Design of flow control systems for plastic extruders.
Piaggio MP3 instrumented

Design, modeling and identification of an electro-hydrostatic actuator.
A simulation with two motorbikes

Noise and vibration suppression in kitchen hood using piezoelectric actuators.
Piaggio MP3 instrumented

Design of a control algorithm for active yarn braking.
A simulation with two motorbikes

Noise and vibration reduction in washing machines using Magneto-Rehological dampers.
Piaggio MP3 instrumented

Modeling of the yarn filling process in rapier looms..
A simulation with two motorbikes

Modeling, Identification and Control of the lower limb movements in paraplegics using Functional Electrical Stimulation.
Piaggio MP3 instrumented

Control of vibrating gravitational feeders of plastic material in extrusion process.
A simulation with two motorbikes

Wireless fault detection and diagnostic in industrial plants.
Piaggio MP3 instrumented

Fault detection and Isolation for an electro-actuated flow valve.

Academic network

Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

Industrial network

Cesap – Centro Europeo Sviluppo Applicazioni Plastiche (Zingonia, Bergamo, Italy)

Doteco Spa (San Martino Spino, Modena, Italy)

Faber Spa (Fabriano, Ancona, Italy)

Fondazione don Gnocchi onlus (Milano, Italy)

Indesit Company (Fabriano, Ancona, Italy)

Intellimech, Consorzio per la meccatronica (Stezzano, Bergamo, Italy)

Kilometro Rosso, Parco Scientifico Tecnologico (Stezzano, Bergamo, Italy)

LGL Electronics (Gandino, Bergamo, Italy)

Promatech spa (Villa di Serio, Bergamo, Italy)

Scaglia Indeva spa (Brembilla, Bergamo, Italy)
 

Tenaris (Dalmine, BG)

 

Journal publications

  1. Spelta C., F. Previdi, S.M. Savaresi, G. Fraternale, N. Gaudiano. Control of magnetorheological dampers for vibration reduction in a washing machine. Mechatronics, Vol. 19, 2009, pp. 410-421.
  2. Previdi F., S.M. Savaresi, A. Panarotto. Design of a feedback control system for real-time control of flow in a single-screw extruder. Control Engineering Practice, Vol. 14, N° 9, 2006, pp. 1111-1121.
  3. Previdi F., T. Parisini. Model–free actuator fault detection using a spectral estimation approach: the case of the DAMADICS benchmark problem. Control Engineering Practice, Vol. 14, N° 6, 2006, pp. 635-644.
  4. Previdi F., M. Ferrarin, S.M. Savaresi, S. Bittanti. Gain scheduling control of Functional Electrical Stimulation for standing up and sitting down in paraplegia: a simulation study. International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, Vol. 19, N° 5, 2005, pp. 327-338.
  5. Previdi F., M. Ferrarin, S.M. Savaresi, S. Bittanti. Closed-loop control of FES supported standing up and sitting down using Virtual Reference Feedback Tuning. Control Engineering Practice, Vol. 13, N° 9, 2005, pp. 1173-1182.
  6. Schauer T., N.O. Negard, F. Previdi, J. Raisch, K.J. Hunt. Online Identification and Nonlinear control of the Electrically Stimulated Quadriceps Muscle. Control Engineering Practice, Vol. 13, N° 9, 2005, pp. 1207-1219.
  7. Previdi F., T. Schauer, S.M. Savaresi, K.J. Hunt. Data-Driven Control Design for Neuroprosthes: a Virtual Reference Feedback Tuning Approach. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 12, N° 1, 2004, pp. 176-182.
  8. Previdi F., E. Carpanzano. Design of a Gain Scheduling Controller for Knee-Joint Angle Control by using Functional Electrical Stimulation. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 11, N° 3, 2003, pp. 310-324.
  9. Previdi F., M. Lovera. Identification of a class of non-linear parametrically varying models International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, Vol. 17, N° 1, 2003, pp 33-50.
  10. Quaglini V., F. Previdi, R. Contro, S.Bittanti. A Discrete-Time Nonlinear Wiener Model for The Relaxation of Soft Biological Tissues. Medical Engineering & Physics, Special Issue on "Non-Linear Analysis in Biosignals", Vol. 24, N°1, 2002, pp 9-19.
  11. Previdi F. Identification of black-box nonlinear models for lower limb movement control using Functional Electrical Stimulation. Control Engineering Practice, Vol. 10, N° 1, 2002, pp 91-99.

Conference publications

  1. Spelta C., F. Previdi, S.M. Savaresi, E. Silani, D. Belloli, M. Madaschi, F. Faginoli. Active Vibration Control of a Kitchen Hood via Piezoelectric Patch. Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Multiconference on Systems and Control – Conference on Control Applications, 2009, San Petersburg (Russia).
  2. Previdi F., S.M. Savaresi, I. Carpinella, M. Ferrarin. Modeling and control of a device for rehabilitation of paraplegic patients. Proceedings of the 26th American Control Conference, 2007, New York (USA).
  3. Previdi F., S.M. Savaresi, C. Volpi. A numerical model for the weft yarn filling insertion process in rapier looms. Proceedings of the 25th American Control Conference, 2006, pp. 376-381, Minneapolis (USA).
  4. Previdi F., M. Ferrarin, S. M. Savaresi, S. Bittanti. PID control design for rehabilitation by quasi-isometric training in paraplegia: a simulation study. Proceedings of the 16th IFAC World Congress, 2005, paper Th-A19-TO/6, pp. 1-6, Prague (CZ).
  5. Previdi F., S. M. Savaresi, A. Panarotto. Design of a feedback control system for real-time control of flow in a single-screw extruder. Proceedings of the 16th IFAC World Congress, 2005, paper We-M06-TO/5, pp. 1-6, Prague (CZ).
  6. Ferrante S., F. Previdi, G. Ferrigno. Model identification for FES supported standing up and sitting down. Proceedings of the 9th IFESS/FESnet 2004 Conference, pp. 210-212, Bournemouth (UK).
  7. Previdi F., S. Sacone, T. Parisini. A receding-horizon multiple model based control scheme for nonlinear systems. Proceedings of the 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2003, Vol. 2, pp. 1431-1432, Maui (USA).
  8. Previdi F., T. Parisini. Model-free actuator fault detection using a spectral estimation approach: the case of the DAMADICS benchmark problem. Proceedings of the 5th IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection and Identification SAFEPROCESS 2003, pp. 951-956, Washington DC (USA).
  9. Castillo A., P.J. Zufiria, M. Polycarpou, F. Previdi, T. Parisini. Fault detection and isolation scheme in continuous time nonlinear stochastic dynamical systems. Proceedings of the 5th IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection and Identification SAFEPROCESS 2003, pp. 651-656, Washington DC (USA).
  10. Schauer T., F. Previdi, K.J. Hunt, E. Ferchland, N.O. Negard, J. Raisch. Online identification of the electrically stimulated quadriceps muscle group. Proceedings of the 5th IFAC Symposium on Modelling and Control in Biomedical Systems MCBS 2003, pp. 467-472, Melbourne (AUS).
  11. Previdi F., M. Ferrarin, S.M. Savaresi, S. Bittanti. Closed loop control of FES supported standing up and sitting down using virtual reference feedback tuning: a simulation study. Proceedings of the 5th IFAC Symposium on Modelling and Control in Biomedical Systems MCBS 2003, pp. 393-398, Melbourne (AUS).
  12. Previdi F., T. Schauer, S.M. Savaresi. Application of Virtual Reference Direct Control Design in Rehabilitation Engineering. Proceedings of the 3rd Wismar Symposium on Automatic Control 2002, paper n°1.2-4, pp. 1-6, Wismar (GER).
  13. Schauer T. , F. Previdi, N.-O. Negard and J. Raisch. Graybox-Modelling of Electrically Stimulated Musculoskeletal Systems in Paraplegia. Proceedings of the 3rd Wismar Symposium on Automatic Control 2002, paper 1.3-1, pp. 1-7, Wismar (GER).
  14. Previdi F., T. Schauer, A. Lecchini, S.M. Savaresi, K.J. Hunt. Virtual Reference Feedback Tuning for Knee Joint Position Control Using Functional Electrical Stimulation. Proceedings of the European Control Conference 2001, pp. 3923-3928, Porto (POR).
  15. Previdi F., V. Quaglini, S. Bittanti, R. Contro. Black-box characterization of soft connective biological tissues. Proceedings of the European Control Conference 2001, pp. 2175-2180, Porto (POR).
  16. T. Schauer, M.H. Fraser, W. Stewart, K.J. Hunt, F.Previdi. Identification of a biomechanical system using neural networks. Proceedings of the IFAC Workshop on Adaptation and Learning in Control and Signal Processing 2001, pp. 49-56, Como (ITA)
  17. Previdi F., T. Parisini. Squared Coherency Function for Model-Free Fault Detection and Isolation. IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection and Identification SAFEPROCESS 2000, pp. 1032- 1037, Budapest (HUN).
  18. Bittanti S., F. Previdi. Identification of nonlinear models of Functional Electrical Stimulation. IFAC Symposium on Modelling and Control in Biomedical Systems MCBS 2000, pp. 83- 89, Greifswald (GER).
  19. Previdi F., E. Carpanzano, C. Cirillo. Application of a Gain Scheduling Control Strategy to Artificial Stimulation of the Quadriceps Muscle. European Control Conference ECC 1999, paper n° F674, pp. 1-6, Karlsruhe (GER).

PhD Theses

  • 2009. Modeling, identification and control of a self-balancing manipulator (Modellistica, identificazione e controllo di un sollevatore autobilanciante. Thesis written in Italian). Federico Fico, Univeristy of Bergamo.

MSc Theses

  • 2009. Modeling and identification of an electrohydrostatic actuator (Modellistica ed identificazione di un attuatore elettroidrostatico. Thesis written in Italian). Student: Mauro Zappella, Alberto Cologni, University of Bergamo
  • 2006. Analisys of the dynamics of a washing machine using MEMS accelerometers (Analisi sperimentale della dinamica di cestello lavabiancheria tramite accelerometri MEMS. Thesis written in Italian). Student: Federico Fico, University of Bergamo.
  • 2004. Design of a gain scheduling controller for standing up of paraplegics using functional electrical stimulation (Sviluppo di un controllore gain-scheduling per il sollevamento di pazienti paraplegici mediante stimolazione elettrica funzionale. Thesis written in Italian). Student: Diego Pievani, Politecnico di Milano.
  • 2004. PID control of the knee joint movement using functional electrical stimulation (Controllori PID per il movimento dell’articolazione del ginocchio mediante stimolazione elettrica funzionale. Thesis written in Italian). Student: Luca Bellini, Politecnico di Milano.
  • 2004. Analysis and design of a flow control system in a single screw extruder (Analisi e sviluppo di un sistema di controllo della portata di un estrusore monovite. Thesis written in Italian). Student: Angelo Bertuletti, Martin Sirtori, Politecnico di Milano.
  • 2003. Automatic triggering of electrical stimulation of abdominal muscles to augment respiratory functions in tetraplegia. Student: Lorenzo Fabrizi, Manuel Tramontana, Politecnico di Milano.
  • 2002. Design of a functional electrical stimulation controller for paraplegicd standing up (Sviluppo di un sistema di controllo della stimolazione elettrica per il sollevamento di pazienti paraplegici. Thesis written in Italian). Student: Elisabetta Romagnoli, Martino Vaglio, Politecnico di Milano.
  • 2002. Fault detection and isolation in high voltage electric power networks (Diagnostica ed isolamento dei guasti in reti elettriche ad alta tensione. Thesis written in Italian). Student: Paolo Donadeo, Politecnico di Milano.
  • 2002. Analysis of the electromiographics activation patterns of biceps and triceps in healthy subjects during arm cracking for force control optimization using FES in thetraplegic patients. Student: Ilaria Carpinella, Gaia Monti, Politecnico di Milano.
  • 2002. Metabolic efficiency in FES induced cycling in paraplegics: tuning of the control system using optimization. Student: Chiara Ferrario, Silvia del Torchio, Politecnico di Milano.
  • 2002. Closed loop identification of the ankle stabilizing response to known perturbations. Student: Francesco Gianferrari Pini, Francesca Magri, Politecnico di Milano.