Massimo Caccia

Massimo Caccia graduated in Electronic Engineering at the University of Genova in 1991. In the period October 16, 2013 – October 15, 2017 and October 16, 2017 – May 10, 2018 he served as Director and Acting Director, respectively, of the CNR Istituto di Studi sui Sistemi Intelligenti per l’Automazione (ISSIA-CNR). After joining CNR in 1993, his theoretical and applied research activities focused on marine robotics, mainly addressing the topics of modelling and identification, cooperative guidance and control, vision-based motion estimation and control, and embedded real-time platforms and architectures for Unmanned Marine Vehicles. He is among the European pioneer researchers in the field of unmanned surface vehicles and, with his research group, he developed pioneer research projects on the application of robotic technology to maritime safety. Research results, certified by more than 200 publications in international books, journals and conferences, led to the partnership in a number of EC, national and regional projects. He recently coordinated the projects Blue RoSES (EMFF), and MATRAC-ACP (Interreg Maritime Italy-France), and is coordinating the projects ARES (PON), and MODA (PNRM), that represent state-of-the-art R&D in the definition of guidelines and codes of practice for the operation of robotic vehicles in harbour waters and coastal water, and in the integration of shipbuilding and robotics according to the vision identified by Blue Italian Growth National Technology Cluster.