Massimo Caccia

Massimo Caccia. After joining CNR on the 2nd of May 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. Recently he coordinated the projects Blue RoSES (EMFF), ARES (PON Blue Growth), 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. He is member of the Board of Directors of the Maritime Technology Cluster MareFVG, He was Chair of the 9th IFAC Conference on Manoeuvring and Control of Marine Craft 2012, and Exhibit Chair of Oceans’15 MTS/IEEE Conference 2015; Coordinator of the Topic Group Marine Robotics of euRobotics aisbl (2014-2016); member of the Board of Directors of the Distretto Ligure delle Tecnologie Marine (2011-2017); member of the Scientific Technical Committee on innovation in shipyards of the Italian Ministry of Infrastructures and Transport (2010-2012).