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Alberto Parmiggiani

Technologist - Facility Coordinator
Mechanical Workshop
Phone
+39 010 2898 234
Research center
CRIS@SanQuirico
Interests
Mechatronics
Robotics
Additive Manufacturing
Digital Fabrication
Compliant Mechanisms
Lightweight Design
About

I’ve loved making things for as long as I can remember.
I work to design high performance mechanisms with complex behaviours yet  minimal embodiments, exploiting manufacturing constraints to obtain high efficiency and reduced costs.

Short Bio

In 2006 I graduated cum laude in Mechanical Engineering from the Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia.
I then moved to Genova where I started my PhD at the newly founded Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT).
There, I worked on the hardware of the iCub humanoid robot under the supervision of Lorenzo Natale, Giorgio Metta and Giulio Sandini.

After obtaining my PhD I served as the hardware lead of the iCub project as a PostDoc since 2010 and as a Techonologist since 2016.
In August 2019 I became the coordinator of IIT’s mechanical design and fabrication facility.

Top Publications
2021
Parmiggiani A., Prato M., Pizzorni M.
Effect of the fiber orientation on the tensile and flexural behavior of continuous carbon fiber composites made via fused filament fabrication
International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, vol. 114, (no. 7-8), pp. 2085-2101
DOI 10.1007/s00170-021-06997-5
2020
Shah D., Parmiggiani A., Kim Y.-J.
Constant length tendon routing mechanism through axial joint
IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, AIM, vol. 2020-July, pp. 753-758
DOI 10.1109/AIM43001.2020.9158889
Conference Paper Conference
2019
Shah D., Wu Y., Scalzo A., Metta G., Parmiggiani A.
A comparison of robot wrist implementations for the iCub humanoid
Robotics, vol. 8, (no. 1)
DOI 10.3390/robotics8010011
2017
Parmiggiani A., Fiorio L., Scalzo A., Sureshbabu A.V., Randazzo M., Maggiali M., Pattacini U., Lehmann H., Tikhanoff V., Domenichelli D., Cardellino A., Congiu P., Pagnin A., Cingolani R., Natale L., Metta G.
The design and validation of the R1 personal humanoid
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, vol. 2017-September, pp. 674-680
DOI 10.1109/IROS.2017.8202224
2012
Parmiggiani A., Maggiali M., Natale L., Nori F., Schmitz A., Tsagarakis N., Victor J.S., Becchi F., Sandini G., Metta G.
The design of the iCub humanoid robot
International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, vol. 9, (no. 4)
DOI 10.1142/S0219843612500272
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