Special Session 10

This special session aims to provide an opportunity for engineers, researchers and industrial stakeholders, to share state-of-the-art knowledge and promote research and innovation advancements in the field of electrical and mechanical measurement techniques for vehicles and automotive production.

The topics of interest for this Special Session include but are not limited to:

• assessment of electrical quantities for vehicles and automotive production
• assessment of mechanical and thermal quantities for vehicles and automotive production
• smart sensors for vehicle/human interaction
• measurements for digital systems in vehicles and automotive production
• sensors and measurement techniques for autonomous vehicles
• distributed sensors and measurement systems in automotive production lines
• artificial intelligence and machine learning in automotive automatic assembly lines
• measurement quantities and techniques for digital twin-assisted automotive production
• sensors and measurements for traceability in automotive production

Grazia Iadarola is a post-doctoral fellow in the field of instrumentation and measurement at the Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy. She received the Ph.D. degree in information technologies for engineering in 2019 from the University of Sannio, Italy, where she conducted post-doctoral research until 2021. She earned cum laude both her Bachelor’s degree in telecommunications engineering and her Master’s degree in electronic engineering from the University of Sannio, in 2013 and in 2015, respectively. Her research interests include sub-Nyquist sampling, characterization and testing of data converters, modeling of electronic circuits and non-idealities, signal reconstruction based on compressed sensing, as well as their applications to telecommunications and biomedical instrumentation. She is the recipient of the 2019 Best Scientific Contribution from the Italian Electrical and Electronic Measurement Association and the Italian Mechanical and Thermal Measurement Association, the 2021 Best Dissertation Award from the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society and the 2021 Best Thesis Award from the Italian Electrical and Electronic Measurement Association. She serves as a reviewer for many international journals and conferences in the field of instrumentation and measurement.

Susanna Spinsante is currently an Associate Professor of Electrical and Electronic Measurements at the Information Engineering Department (DII) of the Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy. She received her PhD in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering in 2005 from the same University. Since 2012 her research interests are focused on the use of ambient (RGB-D) and wearable sensors for the extraction of measurement signals applied to human monitoring, fall detection, motion-related measurements, action recognition. She is involved in industrial collaborations on the design of IoT-based smart sensor systems for the monitoring of MV/LV switchgears. She co-authored more than 230 papers in international peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings. Susanna is a Senior Member of the IEEE since 2013, member of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society, GMEE, and CNIT. She servers as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements. She is currently the Chair of the “RGB-D Sensors” technical committee of the IEEE Sensors Italy Chapter.

Nicola Paone is Full professor of Mechanical and Thermal Measurements at the Faculty of Engineering of Università Politecnica delle Marche (UNIVPM). After graduation in mechanical engineering at Univ. of Ancona (1986) he was a researcher at von Karman Institute for Fluid dynamics (Brussels, 1987) and a research engineer at FIAT Research Center (Turin, 1988); during these first years of his career, he started research on development and application of optical and vision-based measurement techniques for geometric and kinematic quantities, among which Particle Image Velocimetry, high speed imaging and laser diffraction. In 1989 he became researcher at Univ. of Ancona and in 1992 professor at Univ. of L’Aquila, developing research on optical measurement techniques for mechanical quantities, in particular laser Doppler vibrometry, robot vision, infra-red vision and photoelasticity, applied to different sectors. Since 2001 he is full professor at Università Politecnica delle Marche. In addition to several national funded projects, he has been scientific responsible of 4 European Projects, 3 of which related to manufacturing, in particular to advanced measurement technologies for quality and process control. He has authored 58 papers on international journals and more than 110 papers at international and national conferences, he is reviewer and evaluator for different international and national funding agencies and referee of several international journals.

Paolo Castellini is Full Professor of Mechanical and Thermal Measurements at the Faculty of Engineering of Università Politecnica delle Marche (UNIVPM). He received the PhD degree in 1996 at University of Padova, Italy, and then joined the Mechanical Department of Univ. of Ancona in 1997. Since 2011 he has been Associate Professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Mathematical Sciences at the Polytechnic University of Marche, in which he teaches Mechanical and Thermal Measurements and Testing. Prof. Paolo Castellini has more than 24 years activity in the development and application of instrumentation for mechanical measurements in dynamic analysis and vibro-acoustic. Paolo Castellini is also active in several EU funded project. He was the coordinator of a CleanSky EU project and of a European Industrial Doctorate. His research interests are related to non-contact mechanical measurement techniques, mainly based on laser and microphone arrays. Member of SEM (Society for Experimental Mechanics), he is author of more than 200 papers in International journals and conferences, and also serves as reviewer of international peer reviewed journals.