Research Staff


Fabrizio Caccavale
Full Professor

Contact info E-mail: fabrizio.caccavale@unibas.it    phone: +39 0971 205198

URL: http://docenti.unibas.it/site/home/docente.html?m=003376

Fabrizio Caccavale received the Laurea degree and the Research Doctorate degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Naples in 1993 and 1997, respectively. From 1999 to 2001 he has been Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer and Systems Engineering of the University of Naples. He is currently Full Professor of the School of Engineering, University of Basilicata. His research interests include manipulator inverse kinematics techniques, cooperative robot manipulation, fault diagnosis and nonlinear control of mechanical systems, process control and fault diagnosis for chemical systems. He has published more than 120 journal and conference papers. He is co-author of the books: "Fondamenti di Sistemi Dinamici" (McGraw-Hill 2003, in Italian) and "Control and Monitoring of chemical batch Reactors" (Springer 2011), and co-editor of the book "Fault Diagnosis for Mechatronic Systems: Recent Advances" (Springer 2002). He has been in the program committee of several international conferences and workshops. He has been Associate Editor of the journals Robotica and IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. He has been Scientific Coordinator of the FP7 IP European Robotics Challenges (EuRoC). He is Senior Member of IEEE.




Francesco Pierri
Associate Professor


Contact info E-mail: francesco.pierri@unibas.it    phone: +39 0971 205020

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Francesco Pierri received the Laurea degree cum laude in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Basilicata in 2003. He received the Research Doctorate degree in Environmental Engineering from University of Basilicata in 2007, with the final dissertation "Modeling, Control and Fault Diagnosis for Chemical Batch Reactors". From 2006 to 2008 he had postdoctoral positions at the University of Basilicata and at the University of Naples, Federico II. From December 2008 he is Assistant Professor of Automatic Control and Robotics at the School of Engineering of the University of Basilicata. In August 2017 he received the Italian National Scientific Qualification to the associate professor position. He has been involved in research projects funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Scientific Research, the Italian Space Agency, the European Community (under 7th Framework Programme and Horizon2020) and other public and private institutions. His research interests include: fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control of nonlinear systems, process control, force control for robotic manipulators, fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control of multi-robot systems and control of aerial manipulators. From 2013 to 2018 he has been an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Robotics and Automation and since 2013 he is Associate Editor of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). He was in the program committee of several international conferences, such as IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (Robio) and IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation (ICIA). He is co-author of the book "Control and Monitoring of Chemical Batch Reactors" and of more than 60 papers on international journals and international conference proceedings.





Monica Sileo
Postdoctoral Researcher

Contact info E-mail: monica.sileo@unibas.it    phone: +39 0971 205118

Monica Sileo received the Bachelor degree in Computer Science and the Master degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Basilicata in 2016 and 2019, respectively. She received the Research Doctoral degree in Engineering for Innovation and Sustainable Development in 2023, with the final dissertation "Collaborative and cooperative robotics applications using visual perception". From June 2019 to October 2019, she was research assistant at the University of Basilicata working on a control interface for the collaborative robot Franka Emika Panda. From 2023 she has a postdoctoral position at the University of Basilicata. Her research interests include industrial robotics, collaborative robots, cooperative systems and multi-robot systems.




Graziano Carriero
PhD Student

Contact info E-mail: graziano.carriero@unibas.it    phone: +39 0971 205118

Graziano obtained his bachelor's and master's degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Basilicata in 2019 and 2022, respectively. From March 2022 to October 2022 he worked as a design engineer at STM spa in Tito scalo (PZ). Since November 2022, he has been a student of the PhD program of National interest in Robotics and Intelligent Machines (DRIM), with a scholarship from the University of Basilicata. His research is focused on the decentralized control of multi-agent systems.


Former PhD Students




Michelangelo Nigro

Ph.D in Engineering for Innovation and Sustainable Development XXXIV Ciclo (2018-2021)

Thesis: An Omnidirectional Aerial Platform for Multi-Robot Manipulatio


Giuseppe Muscio

Ph.D in Industrial and Innovation Engineering XXVI ciclo (2010-2013)

Thesis: Modeling and control of multi-arm systems equipped with robotic hands





Alessandro Marino

Associate Professor at University of Cassino and Southern Lazio

Ph.D in Industrial and Innovation Engineering XXII ciclo (2006-2009)

Thesis: A Null-Space-based Behavioral Approach to Multi-Robot Patrolling