Bio
Enea Scioni, Ph.D., received his B.Sc. and M.Sc degrees in Computer Science and Automation Control Engineer from University of Ferrara (Italy) in 2007 and 2010, respectively.
From 2011 to 2016 he pursued a joint doctoral degree in Engineering Science at the universities of Leuven (KU Leuven, Belgium) and Ferrara (University of Ferrara, Italy), under the supervision of Prof. Herman Bruyninckx and Prof. Marcello Bonfè. The PhD degree has been obtained in April 2016, with a dissertation titled "Online Coordination and Composition of Robotic Skills: Formal Models for Context-aware Task Scheduling".
During this period, he worked on formal modelling of the execution dependencies between different motion skills on redundant mobile manipulators. He was a main developer of the Hierarchical Hypergraphs Domain-Specific Language NPC4; from kinematics to software architectures, Finite State Machines, or Bayesian perception networks. Another realisation is the formalisation and tooling support to let robot skill descriptions and executives work with geometric constraints, from which the robot motion controller can itself derive its instantaneous setpoints. On this dual basis, he developed the models and the software to let two-armed mobile manipulators optimize the scheduling of their actions at runtime, including a "Just-in-Time" optimization of the decisions which arm and gripper in the robot will be used to perform all tasks.
Currently, Enea is a postdoc research fellow at KU Leuven Robotics Group, which is also affiliated to Flanders Make research center.
Research Projects
Enea is currently involved in several research projects, under the flagship of the European Community (Horizon-2020) and the local Flanders Make strategic research center for the manufacturing industry in Flanders.
More details on those projects can be found here.
Software Projects
Enea is currently involved in the development of several software libraries and middleware applied to robotics. An exhaustive list will be provided soon.
Interests
Enea’s current research interests are on formal specification and scheduling of constraint-based tasks, optimization-based robot control and coordination of complex robotic systems. His research also concern on developing software middleware tools and Domain Specific Languages (DSL) to realize advanced robotic applications.