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Current Position:
Assistant Professor at Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy;
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List of publications: https://people.unipi.it/andrea_motroni/pubblicazioni/
Previous positions:
Post-Doctoral Researcher – Department of Information Engineering – University of Pisa
Main activities:
- Indoor Radiolocalization of mobile robots with UHF-RFID and Sensor Fusion
- Outdoor radio-localization based on UHF-RFID technology for safety in agricultural and forest environment
- Radiolocalization with UWB
- Smart RFID Gates with artificial intelligence
- Passive RFID sensing
Main research projects:
– Head of Operational Unit for the project REROAD – Reusing V2X RF Energy for Road
and Urban Environment Monitoring – collaboration with IIT-CNR (Pisa, Italy)
Head of Operational Unit for the project SIRTRACK – System for Detection and Tracking of Fixed and Moving Obstacles for Agricultural Self-Propelled Machinery – Funded by INAIL (National Institute for Accident Insurance At Work). Lead Partner: University of Tuscia, Italy.
– AI4SAFETY – – Artificial intelligence-based integrated smart system for operator safety management in manufacturing processes – Funded by INAIL (National Institute for Accident Insurance At Work). Lead Partner: University of Pisa, Italy.
IREAD 4.0 Project – Integrated system for the efficient management of extended and high turnover warehouses with a view to Industry 4.0 – Funded by the Tuscany Region, Italy (2018-2019), Lead Partner: SOFIDEL SpA, Italy.
– Project MONITOR – Cyber Physical System for real-time automatic monitoring of objects in industrial scenarios and large warehouses – Funded by the Ministry of Economic Lead Partner: Partitalia srl, Italy.
– SMARTGRID Project – Smart system for operator safety management in work environments with remotely operated mobile operating machines – Funded by INAIL (National Institute for Accident Insurance At Work). Lead Partner: University of Pisa, Italy.
– SENERGY Project – Smart de-energization of machine assemblies with wearable RFID system – Funded by INAIL (National Institute for Accident Insurance At Work). Lead Partner: University of Pisa, Italy.
– AURORA Project – Development of a RFID navigation system for mobile robots. “Call for Technology Demonstrators” – University of Pisa (D.R 1528, September 13, 2018).
Awards
- 2024: “Barzilai Award” received from SIEm (Società Italiana di Elettromagnetismo) for Under 35 researchers.
- 2024: Best Paper Award for “How much RF Energy can be Harvested from V2X Communications? An Experimental Assessment” at IEEE GreenCom 2024, Copenagheh (Denmark), August 2024
- 2023: URSI GASS 2023 Commission B Young Scientist Award for “UAV-based 3D localization of passive UHF-RFID tags empowering outdoor stock management”.
- 2022: IEEE Italy Section and ABB 2022 Best PhD Thesis Award. Category: Technology.
- 2022: Best Poster Award for “On the Effect of Position Uncertainty of the UHF-RFID Reader Trajectory in SAR-based Localization via UAV” at 2022 6th IEEE International Symposium on Measurement and Networking (M&N), Padova (Italy), 18-20 July 2022.
- 2022: Best 2021 PhD Thesis Award in “Civil Engineering and Architecture, Industrial and Information Engineering”, University of Pisa.
- 2021: URSI GASS 2021 Commission B Young Scientist Award for “Smart RFID gate exploiting a Near-Field Focused Array”.
- 2019: Best Paper award for “A Phase-based Method for UHF-RFID Gate Access Control” at IEEE RFID-TA 2019 Conference (Pisa, September 25-27, 2019).
- 2019: Best Student Paper award (3rd place) for “A Phase-Based Method for Mobile Node Localization through UHF-RFID Passive Tags” at IEEE RFID-TA 2019 Conference (Pisa, September 25-27, 2019).
- 2019: Winner of Contamination Lab Competition – University of Pisa (competition for startups and entrepreneurship).
- 2018: Finalist at the CRFID Educational Mega Challenge on Smart Cities 2018 in Orlando, FL, USA (April, 10-12, 2018). The event was organized inside the IEEE RFID Conference 2018 and the “2018 RFID Journal Live!” event.