RADIATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | Rotary Wing AircrafT | SANITARY - ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING | STRUCTURAL SEISMIC AND GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING | TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN fOR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY IN BUILDINGS AND URBAN CONTEXT | TERRITORIAL DESIGN AND GOVERNEMENT | URBAN AND ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN | Virtual Prototypes and Real Products | WATER ENGINEERING | AEROSPACE ENGINEERING | ARCHITECTURAL COMPOSITION | ARCHITECTURE, URBAN DESIGN, CONSERVATION Of HOUSING AND LANDSCAPE | BIOENGINEERING | BUILDING ENGINEERING | DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGIES fOR CULTURAL HERITAGES | ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING | ENERGY | GEOMATICS AND INfRASTRUCTURES | INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL ENGINEERING | INDUSTRIAL DESIGN AND MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATION | INfORMATION TECHNOLOGY | INTERIOR DESIGN | MANAGEMENT, ECONOMICS AND INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING | MANUfACTURING AND PRODUCTION SYSTEMS | MATERIALS ENGINEERING | MATHEMATICAL MODELS AND METHODS IN ENGINEERING | MECHANICAL SYSTEMS ENGINEERING | PHYSICS | PRESERVATION Of ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE | PROGRAMMING, MAINTENANCE, REHABILITATION Of THE BUILDING AND URBAN SYSTEMS PhD Yearbook | 2010 14 range from a few weeks up to one and a half skills achieved in the course of the passed 22 DOCTORAL PROGRAM years. The related activities should be carried years of doctoral program are here reported: out in well known and qualified scientific ∙ expert in computational and/or experimental IN AEROSPACE ENGINEERING institutions (universities, research centres, etc.), fluid mechanics, with capabilities to develop and well contribute to the cultural and scientific methods and models for both aerospace achievements of the research. applications and generic vehicles; ∙ expert in active and passive control of the PhD Yearbook | 2010 Due to the amplitude and interdisciplinarity of the dynamics of aerospace structures, integrating aerospace sector, the professional skills achievable global and subsystem design; will span a wide area and not cover just a specific ∙ expert in active and passive structural safety of 15 Chair: The aim of the course is the acquisition of the high level topic. The educational goals will create high level vehicles, both aerospace and non-aerospace; Prof. Sergio Ricci competence required to carry out innovative research and/or state specialists in the domains of: helicopters and ∙ expert in vibration and noise control, including of the art advanced applications in industries, public or private rotary winged vehicles, fixed winged vehicles and modelling analysis, system design and research centers, Universities or public and service companies in the space vehicles. implementation of specific subsystems; area of aerospace engineering, including all the fields associated In this context, a more specific competence can ∙ expert in the dynamics and control of aerospace to it. The level of the course allows the graduates to compete in a be gained either in a single or in the integration vehicles and related operational missions; European and international environment. of special subjects such as: dynamics and control, ∙ expert in integrated design of complex fluid mechanics, systems and equipment, flight aerospace systems. The course is three years long, requiring 180 credit points (ECTS), mechanics, passive structural safety, intelligent Since its foundation, 23 years ago, the doctoral including possible study-abroad periods and internships in private or and automated systems, structures and materials. course on Aerospace Engineering graduated public institutions. The programmes and credits are divided in three In this respect, some examples of professional more than 60 PhDs. ENGINEERING AEROSPACE main educational areas: 1. Main courses (40 credits), during the first year: courses examining fundamental subjects (problems, theories and methods) of the scientific research in the disciplinary areas involved; DOCTORAL PROGRAM BOARD 2. Elective courses and training on specific themes (20 credits), gained in the second year: specific and personalised educational Marco Anghileri Gian Luca Ghiringhelli Sergio Ricci programs aimed at a more deep overall knowledge and to master Franco Bernelli Zazzera Michèle Lavagna Giuseppe Sala the techniques adequate for the subsequent development of the Chiara Bisagni Paolo Mantegazza Lorenzo Trainelli doctoral thesis, plus seminars focused on specific and advanced methods; Carlo Luigi Bottasso Pierangelo Masarati Luigi Vigevano 3. Development of the Doctoral Thesis (120 credits): the thesis is Luca Di Landro Teodoro Merlini developed within the Department or, in some cases, in other Luciano Galfetti Maurizio Quadrio institutions, in close contact with the Department. The thesis is started immediately (20 credits in the first year), and developed in the second (40 credits) and third year (60 credits) of the doctoral program. ADVISORY BOARD If the candidate has a background curriculum lacking some introductory knowledge required for the Doctorate, the Faculty will Paolo Apollonio (Carlo Gavazzi Space) Franco Ongaro (ESA) ask to recover such knowledge, with the assistance of the tutor. Giuseppe Bencini (SEA) Giuseppe Orsi (Agusta Westland) The same Faculty will verify afterward the overcoming of whatever was lacking during the annual meeting of admission to the second Adriano De Maio (IreR) Salvatore Sciacchitano (ENAC) year of the course. Massimo Lucchesini (AerMacchi) The course program related to point 1 does not follow a rigid scheme. So, besides widening the basic scientific culture of the candidate, it will take into consideration also the objectives and the core topics of the candidate’s thesis. Again the program outlined SCHOLARSHIP SPONSORS at points 2 and 3 will try to consider general cultural requirements as well as what is deemed to be more specifically related to thesis Agusta-Westland subject, as agreed between the candidate and the Faculty. For ASI the activities of type 2 and 3 a study period in a foreign country is allowed, even strongly suggested perhaps. Its duration should Tecnospazio 16 a gradient descent algorithm. and forced components has be On the whole, the thesis makes Biologically INSPIRED CONTROL The problem of this approach proven to be effective in making the following contributions is its locality, meaning that the control problem easier in the field of grasp synthesis Of GRASP-LESS AND GRASPING TASkS (particularly in high-dimensional to solve; iii) a new algorithm, control: i) a new approach input spaces) the algorithm may called Multi-sample Hierarchical to grasp synthesis has been remain stuck in a local minimum Regression, has been developed proposed and used to design and, in general, the solution, if to mimic the functions of an a control architecture which PhD Yearbook | 2010 Franco Antonio Cavadini found, is largely dependent on associative memory, allowing the is able to grasp object of the initial guess used to start direct models learning approach arbitrary shape without using the search. For this reason, to be effectively used; iv) the a vision system; ii) the control 17 In space engineering the most Inside this context, we have development of the human a specific module has been concept of alternation between architecture has be proven to important and driving factor chosen robotic manipulation brain, the control architecture added to the architecture, the phases of waking and phases be suitable to accept adaptation in the design of hardware and as the field to which apply these developed in the thesis is based Prompter, whose task is exactly of sleep has been introduced, modules based on the software systems is the work concepts, because of the great on the construction of internal to provide an initial guess for allowing the development of a Executive Learning principles, environment, whose very interest that it has for Space direct models which are locally the solution search procedure; Meta-Learning module which specifically by implementing a constraining characteristics applications. In particular, the inverted to find the required it is based on an algorithm guarantees to obtain better Contact Controller based on have pushed the space contributions of this thesis are solution. The central principle specifically developed to mimic performance from the controller. the least squares algorithm; engineering research towards inside two specific fields: of this approach is that the the characteristics of a long-term The second part of the research iii) The effectiveness of the the study and development of i) grasp-less manipulation tasks ability to purposely interact with associative memory, the Multi- has focused on the development main principle introduced Autonomous agents. The most have been studied in the context the environment is subordinate Sample Hierarchical Regression of a control architecture for with this architecture has important feature required of Methodological learning to that of predicting its (MSHR). grasp synthesis based on the been tested and proven on ENGINEERING AEROSPACE by such a system is the ability because of the necessity to evolution. This prediction task is Moreover, taking into concept of synergy between the TWENDY-ONE robot at to dynamically change its build internal models; and ii) assigned to the modules of the consideration some studies the complexity of the hardware the Sugano Laboratory of the own behaviours based on the the Grasp synthesis problem has architecture called Propagator about the functional activities and that of the software. The Waseda University, allowing information received from the