What is the environmental impact of precision robotics? How are quadcopter swarms kept together? How much is saved by using a self-driving truck platoon controlled by a single human driver?
In an interview with Francesca Meini, Engineer Giovanni Ulivi, Coordinator of the Robotics Lab at the Department of Engineering at the Roma Tre University of Rome, introduces us to the many applications of robotics in engineering sectors. “There is no waste in robotics,” Prof. Ulivi jokes. Indeed, solutions that are developed for a specific problem often turn out to be used in completely different sectors. The reference vision is always the same: informatics acts on things.”
Engineering teams do not work locked up in labs … Prof. Ulivi tells us about their work in the fields with, for example, precision agriculture and tests they have conducted in hazelnut plantations north of Rome. And some of these prototypes will be demoed at the 13th edition of the RomeCup, which will be hosted by the Roma Tre University of Rome on April 2-4, 2019.
In the second part of the long telephone interview, Prof. Ulivi turned to the challenge launched with the TirBOT Contest, based on vehicle platoons: the first vehicle is driven by a human, while all the following vehicles are connected and self-driving [see news: Intelligent Trucks]. Considerations on responsibility are also fundamental.
"As opposed to informatics or artificial intelligence, automation has less coverage, less visibility.” In the last part of the interview, Giovanni Ulivi addresses the issue of robotics on the job market, underlining the educational relevance of robotics, which required multidisciplinary knowledge and competences. “Studying Robotics opens one’s mind.”
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