Francesco Scotto Di Luzio

Francesco Scotto di Luzio is currently Assistant Professor of Bioengineering (RTD-a, SSD: ING-IND/34) at the Research Unit of Advanced Robotics and Human-centred Technologies (Creo Lab) - Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma.

His research interests are mainly in the field of robot-aided rehabilitation, assistive robotics, service robotics for hospital environments, hardware/software integration of multimodal architetures for user state estimation and ergonomic assessment of the worker.

His activities are focused on the following topics: human-robot Interaction, multimodal interfaces for robot control, machine learning techniques for user state estimation, computer vision for robotics, bio-cooperative control systems and sensor data processing and fusion.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Since Apr.2023: Assistant Professor of Bioengineering - RU of Advanced Robotics and Human-Centred Technologies, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy.

Apr. 2020-Mar.2023: Postdoctoral researcher - RU of Advanced Robotics and Human-Centred Technologies, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy.

Apr 2019-Oct 2019 - Software Engineer - PAL Robotics S.L. - Spain.

Apr. 2016-Sep. 2016: Internship - Research Area - Centro Protesi INAIL di Vigorso di Budrio (Bo), Italy.

EDUCATION

2016-2020: PhD in Bioengineering, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy.

2014-2016: Master’s Degree in Biomedical Engineering, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy.

2010-2014: Bachelor Degree in Biomedical Engineering, Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II", Italy.

TEACHING EXPERIENCES:

Sep. 2022 – to date: Lecturer of the “Rehabilitation Bioengineering” class (3 out of 6 ECTS) at the School of Engineering, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy.

Sep. 2019 – to date: Tutor/Teaching Assistant of the “Ergonomic Design” class at the School of Engineering, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy.

Sep. 2018 – to date: Tutor/Teaching Assistant of the “Industrial and Medical Robotics” class at the School of Engineering, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy.

Sep. 2017 – Oct. 2018: Tutor/Teaching Assistant of the “Biorobotics” class at the School of Engineering, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy.

- Lapresa, M., Tamantini C., Scotto di Luzio, F., Ferlazzo, M., Sorrenti, G., Corpina, F., & Zollo, L. (2022), "Validation of Magneto-Inertial Measurement Units for Upper-Limb Motion Analysis through an Anthropomorphic Robot," in IEEE Sensors Journal

- Scotto di Luzio, F., Cordella, F., Bravi, M., Santacaterina, F., Bressi, F., Sterzi, S., & Zollo, L. (2022). Modification of Hand Muscular Synergies in Stroke Patients after Robot-Aided Rehabilitation. Applied Sciences, 12(6), 3146.

- Tamantini, C., Scotto di Luzio, F., Cordella, F., Pascarella, G., Agro, F. E., & Zollo, L. (2021), "A robotic health-care assistant for COVID-19 emergency: A proposed solution for logistics and disinfection in a hospital environment," in IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 28(1), 71-81.

- Lauretti, C., Cordella, F., Tamantini C., Gentile C., Scotto di Luzio, F. & Zollo, L., "A Surgeon-Robot Shared Control for Ergonomic Pedicle Screw Fixation," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 2554-2561, April 2020, doi: 10.1109/LRA.2020.2972892 (accepted also for 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation)

- Scotto di Luzio, F., Lauretti, C., Cordella, F., Draicchio, F., & Zollo, L., Visual vs vibro-tactile feedback for posture assessment during upper-limb robot-aided rehabilitation, (2020), Applied Ergonomics, 82, doi: 10.1016/j.apergo.2019.102950

- Scotto di Luzio, F., Simonetti, D., Cordella, F., Miccinilli, S. , Sterzi, S., Draicchio, F. , Zollo, L., (2018). Bio-cooperative approach for the human-in-the-loop control of an end-effector rehabilitation robot. Frontiers in neurorobotics, doi: 10.3389/fn-bot.2018.00067