Antonio Frisoli

Antonio Frisoli is assistant professor at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (SSSA), faculty of engineering, and head of the research division “Virtual Reality and Telerobotic Systems” (VRTS) research division of the SSSA laboratory.

In 2002 he received the PhD in robotics "summa cum laude" in the area of "Teleoperation in Virtual Environments"at Scuola Superiore S. Anna - Italy, in 1998 the Diploma of Sant' Anna School of University Studies and Doctoral Research (SSSUP), Faculty of Experimental Sciences, Engineering, with full marks and in 1998 the Laurea degree “summa cum laude” in Mechanical Engineering, specialization in Industrial Automation and Robotics from the University of Pisa. Antonio Frisoli currently teaches the course of "Mechanics of Robots" at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of University of Pisa.

He is currently involved in several European and national research projects. In the framework of the Enactive NoE, he is leading the working group on " Enactive Human Computer Interfaces for teaching and learning manual tasks". He has been the former programme chair for the 2^nd International Conference on Enactive Interface ENACTIVE 2005 and part of the organizing committee of the First Joint Eurohaptics Conference and IEEE Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems WorldHaptics 2005. He is currently guest editor of a special issue of the Springer Virtual Reality journal on “Multisensory Interaction in Virtual Environments” and served as reviewer for several robotics and computer science journals.
He is currently scientific responsible for SSSA of two europen projects in the area of robotics, virtual reality and neuroscience, DECISION IN MOTION and PRESENCCIA.

He has been former technical responsible of the European project IST PURE-FORM (www.pureform.org). He is also associate member of ASME (the American Society of Mechanical Engineers), IEEE (the Institute of Electronics and Electric Engineers).
His research interests range in the field of Virtual Reality, Haptic Interfaces and haptic rednering, Human Computer Interaction, Theoretical Kinematics, Robots Modeling and Control of Mechanical Systems.
At PERCRO laboratory he is currently working on the control of a robotic full body extender for human performance augmentation.