Biography
Alessandro De Luca (F’07) received the Ph.D. degree in systems engineering in 1987 from Sapienza Universitá di Roma, Rome, Italy.,Since 2000, he has been a Full Professor of robotics and automatic control with the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Automatica e Gestionale, Sapienza Università di Roma. In 2005–2006, he spent a sabbatical period with Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics of DLR—German Aerospace Center, Oberpfaffenhofen, with a Helmholtz-Humboldt Research Award for foreign scientists, where the research in this paper was initiated. His research interests include dynamic modeling, motion planning, and control of robots.