Ricerca e Terza missione Laboratori e gruppi di ricerca-oldUSCNDLab - Ultrasound and Non Desctructive Testing LaboratoryElectronics for analog systems and sensors for non-destructive testing

Electronics for analog systems and sensors for non-destructive testing

Reserch Group Members

Thesis topcs

Research

Seminars

Project and Agreements

Awards

Congress

Prof. Lorenzo Capineri Associate Professor - Research Group Coordinator

Department of Information Engineering ING-INF/01 - Electronics

Via S. Marta, 3 50139 room n. 536 second floor

Tel. 055-2758627 Fax 055-2758570 e-mail lorenzo.capineri unifi.it

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Research Group Members

Permanent staff

Research Fellow

Ing. PhD Pierluigi Falorni
Ing. PhD Eugenio Marino Merlo

PhD Students

Ing. Emanuele Vivoli

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Thesis Topics:

1. Analog Electronics for Non Destructive Testing and Medical Systems

2. Power and Industrial Electronics

3. Sensors: fabrication technology, modelling and characterization

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Research:

Ultrasound and Non Destructive Testing

Active and passive structural health monitoring system based on arrays of ultrasonic guided waves transducer

Analog electronic design

Study and design of topologies and components for high power density DC/DC converters

PhD research activity overview and results

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Project and Agreements:

Nato Science for Peace and Security "G5731 -"Mult-sensor cooperative robots for shallow buried explosive threatdetection DEMINING ROBOTS"
Progetto Regione Toscana - Bando FAS Salute- Integrated MEdical RObotic Solutions "IMEROS" 2016-2018
NATO Science for Peace and Security "G5014 - "Holographic and Impulse Subsurface Radar for Landmine and IED Detection" 2015 - 2018
Texas Instruments Incorporated ("TI") Kilby Europe "Integrated Sensors Nodes of Structural Health Monitoring Project" 2012 - 2016
EUROPEAN COMMISSION DIRECTORATE GENERAL JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE "Development of a seal fingerprint acquisition system" 2015 - 2017
TERUMO Europe NV "Study and development of a new IC microwave applicator for increasing volume and sphericity of a single needle thermal ablation" 2017 - 2020
TACTUS Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze 2020-2021
BIG DATA Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze 2020-2021
Project G-5731, DEMINING ROBOTS, NATO SPS program, 2020-2022

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Awards:

IEEE International Workshop 2020 Metrology for Industry 4.0 & IoT Best Paper 1st Classified Winner: Luca Bossi, Pierluigi Falorni, Gennadiy Pochanin, Timothy Bechtel, Jack Sinton, Fronefield Crawford, Tetiana Ogurtsova, Vadym Ruban, Lorenzo Capineri with a paper entitled“DESIGN OF A ROBOTIC PLATFORM FOR LANDMINE DETECTION BASED ON INDUSTRY 4.0 PARADIGM WITH DATA SENSORS INTEGRATION” Paper Award
IEEE UKRAINE section
IEEE International publication Chapter Encouragement Award 2019 in recognition of the paper published on IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing "Measurement of Coordinates for a Cylindrical Target using Times of Flight from a 1-Transmitter and 4-Receiver UWB Antenna System ” given by G. Pochanin, L. Capineri, T. Bechtel, P. Falorni, G. Borgioli, et al. Paper Award
IEEE Italy Section Best Chapter 2019
PIERS 2018 Best Student Paper Award Honorable Mention Tan Qin Tongij University"Influence Analysis of Uneven Surface on Landmine Detection Using Holographic Radar" Paper Award
Florence Univeristy Best PhD thesis 2015 Technology Area by Giacomo Calabrese "Study and design of topology and components for high power density DC-DC converters" Awards Ceremony