Full Professor
Department of Electronics and Telecommunications (DET)
- Member of Interdepartmental Center PolitoBIOMed Lab - Biomedical Engineering Lab
Profile
Research interests
Biography
I possess 20 years of experience in developing engineering methods to improve the insights on the function of the human locomotor system and to offer innovative technological solutions to help people increase their physical performance and sense of autonomy. I have been working with wearable technology for over fifteen years and I am passionate about staying at the helm of engineering, technology, and healthcare.
Major achievements over the past 10 years
• Fulfillment of the criteria for National Scientific Habilitation for the role of “Commissioner”;
• 150+ scientific publications including + scientific articles in international journals, 7 book chapters, 90+ refereed conference publications;
• 10+ invited presentation appointments at international meets and conferences;
• 10+ conferences and courses organization;
• Several awards for outstanding scientific contribution in the field of biomedical engineering;
• Reviewer for 20+ internationally acclaimed scientific journals;
• Served as Board of Directors of 3-D Analysis of Human Movement and current Vice President of the Italian Society of Clinical Movement Analysis;
• Current Scientific Project Evaluator for the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research.
Curriculum
(407KB) Skills
ERC sectors
SDG
Awards and Honors
- Italian National Bioengineering PhD thesis award “Alberto Mazzoldi” conferred by Gruppo Nazionale di Bioingegneria, Italy (2007)
- Premialità per Ricerca Nazionale della Regione Autonoma della Sardegna conferred by Regione Autonoma della Sardegna, Italy (2012)
- Best methodological paper award at the XXIV National Congress SIAMOC conferred by Società Italiana di Analisi del Movimento in Clinica, Italy (2013)
Fellowships
- Vice-President - Società Italiana di Analisi del Movimento in Clinica, Italia (2021-2023)
- Fellow - Technical Group on the 3-D Analysis of Human Movement of the International Society of Biomechanics (ISB), Italia (2014-2018)
Elected executive council member - Fellow - Società Italiana di Analisi del Movimento in Clinica, Italia (2009-2013)
Elected executive council member
Other research or teaching roles outside Politecnico
- Visiting Researcher, presso Pennsylvania State University (1/10/2004-1/10/2005)
Teaching
PhD Boards
- SCIENZE BIOMEDICHE, 2021/2022 (38. ciclo)
Università degli Studi di SASSARI - SCIENZE BIOMEDICHE, 2020/2021 (37. ciclo)
Università degli Studi di SASSARI - SCIENZE BIOMEDICHE, 2019/2020 (36. ciclo)
Università degli Studi di SASSARI - SCIENZE BIOMEDICHE, 2018/2019 (35. ciclo)
Università degli Studi di SASSARI
Courses of Study Boards
- Collegio di Ingegneria Biomedica. Componente
Teachings
Master of Science
- Smart measurements in sports and physical activity. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA BIOMEDICA. Collaboratore del corso
- Teleriabilitazione. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA BIOMEDICA. Titolare del corso
- Teleriabilitazione. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA BIOMEDICA. Titolare del corso
- Teleriabilitazione. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA BIOMEDICA. Titolare del corso
- Bioingegneria dell'esercizio fisico e dello sport. A.A. 2017/18, INGEGNERIA BIOMEDICA. Collaboratore del corso
- Bioingegneria dell'esercizio fisico e dello sport. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA BIOMEDICA. Collaboratore del corso
- Bioingegneria dell'esercizio fisico e dello sport. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA BIOMEDICA. Collaboratore del corso
- Elaborazione di segnali biomedici. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA BIOMEDICA. Titolare del corso
- Elaborazione di segnali biomedici. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA BIOMEDICA. Titolare del corso
- Elaborazione di segnali biomedici. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA BIOMEDICA. Titolare del corso
Bachelor of Science
- Bioingegneria elettronica e sicurezza. A.A. 2017/18, INGEGNERIA BIOMEDICA. Collaboratore del corso
- Bioingegneria elettronica e sicurezza. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA BIOMEDICA. Collaboratore del corso
- Strumentazione biomedica e sicurezza. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA BIOMEDICA. Collaboratore del corso
- Strumentazione biomedica e sicurezza. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA BIOMEDICA. Collaboratore del corso
Other activities and projects related to teaching
• Telerehabilitation, Master degree in Biomedical Engineering, 50 contact hours, academic years 2020/2021; 2021/2022, course holder.
• Biomedical signal processing, Master degree in Biomedical Engineering, 50 contact hours, academic years 2020/2021, 2021/2022, course holder.
• Bioengineering of the physical exercise and Sport, Master degree in Biomedical Engineering, 10 contact hours, academic years 2017/2018, 2020/2021, 2021/2022 teaching assistant.
• Biomedical instrumentation, Bachelor’s degree in “Biomedical Engineering”, 20 contact hours, academic years 2016/2017, 2017/2018, 2020/2021, 2021/2022, teaching assistant.
Research
Research projects
Projects funded by commercial contracts
- Convenzione tra il Politecnico di Torino - DET e l'Università degli Studi di Roma "Foro Italico" - Dipartimento di Scienze Motorie, Umane e della Salute, (2021-2024) - Responsabile Scientifico
Departmental agreements - Services description for the development of methods for golf analysis by means of inertial sensors, (2021-2022) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial contracts for the provision of services - “In Shop Shoe Selection”, (2020-2022) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research
Other activities and projects related to research
Relevant projects
2018 - 2024: European Research Project H2020-JTI-IMI2-2017-13-two-stage “MOBILISE-D: Connecting digital mobility assessment to clinical outcomes for regulatory and clinical endorsement” (Unit coordinator)
2021 - ongoing: Research and Development project supported by ALBA Golf for the development of a wearable system for the analysis of golf biomechanics
2021 - ongoing: TRL 3 starting grant funded by University of Sassari (Legge 7 Regione Sardegna, “SAS – Smart Assessment of Spasticity” (Team member)
2020 - ongoing: Research and Development project supported by Diadora srl for the development of methods for performance assessment in Sport applications
2017 - 2020: Research and Development project “Aiuti per Progetti di Ricerca e Sviluppo” (POR FESR Sardegna. “KAOS: Kinematic tool for the analysis of the locomotor apparatus” (Unit coordinator) in collaboration with GPEM srl
2017 - 2020: Research project “Azioni Cluster Top-Down”, POR FESR Sardegna 2014 – 2020. “Home-based neuromuscular telerehabilitation for stroke patients by means of advanced electronic devices” (Unit coordinator)
2012 - 2015: European Research Project FP7-HEALTH-2011. “Virtual reality-Treadmill combined Intervention for enhancing Mobility and reducing falls in the Elderly" (Team member)
Publications
PoliTO co-authors
Last years publications
Publications by type
Last years publications View all publications in Porto@Iris
- Palmerini, Luca; Reggi, Luca; Bonci, Tecla; Del Din, Silvia; Encarna Micó-Amigo, M.; ... (2023)
Mobility recorded by wearable devices and gold standards: the Mobilise-D procedure for data standardization. In: SCIENTIFIC DATA, vol. 10. ISSN 2052-4463
Contributo su Rivista - Nicola, Riccardo; Cerone, GIACINTO LUIGI; Caruso, Marco; Rossanigo, Rachele; Cereatti, ... (2022)
On the Detection of High-Quality, High-Density Electromyograms During 80m Sprints: a Case Study. In: IEEE International Workshop on Medical Measurement and Applications (MEMEA), Messina (Italy), 22-24 June 2022, pp. 1-5. ISBN: 978-1-6654-8299-8
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Digo, Elisa; Cereatti, Andrea; Gastaldi, Laura; Pastorelli, STEFANO PAOLO; Caruso, Marco (2022)
Modeling and Kinematic Optimization of the Human Upper Limb for Collaborative Robotics. In: The International Conference of IFToMM ITALY, Naples, Italy, 7-9 September, 2022, pp. 577-585. ISSN 2211-0984. ISBN: 9783031107757
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Scott, Kirsty; Bonci, Tecla; Salis, Francesca; Alcock, Lisa; Buckley, Ellen; Gazit, ... (2022)
Design and validation of a multi-task, multi-context protocol for real-world gait simulation. In: JOURNAL OF NEUROENGINEERING AND REHABILITATION, vol. 19. ISSN 1743-0003
Contributo su Rivista - Bonci, Tecla; Salis, Francesca; Scott, Kirsty; Alcock, Lisa; Becker, Clemens; ... (2022)
An Algorithm for Accurate Marker-Based Gait Event Detection in Healthy and Pathological Populations During Complex Motor Tasks. In: FRONTIERS IN BIOENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY, vol. 10. ISSN 2296-4185
Contributo su Rivista - Pelosin, E.; Ponte, C.; Putzolu, M.; Lagravinese, G.; Hausdorff, J. M.; Nieuwboer, A.; ... (2022)
Motor–Cognitive Treadmill Training With Virtual Reality in Parkinson’s Disease: The Effect of Training Duration. In: FRONTIERS IN AGING NEUROSCIENCE, vol. 13. ISSN 1663-4365
Contributo su Rivista - Digo, Elisa; Gastaldi, Laura; Antonelli, Mattia; Pastorelli, Stefano; Cereatti, Andrea; ... (2022)
Real-time estimation of upper limbs kinematics with IMUs during typical industrial gestures. In: 3rd International Conference on Industry 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing, pp. 1041-1047. ISSN 1877-0509
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Caruso, Marco; Gastaldi, Laura; Pastorelli, STEFANO PAOLO; Cereatti, Andrea; Digo, Elisa (2022)
An ISB-consistent Denavit-Hartenberg model of the human upper limb for joint kinematics optimization: validation on synthetic and robot data during a typical rehabilitation gesture. In: Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, 11-15 July 2022, pp. 1805-1808. ISSN 2694-0604. ISBN: 978-1-7281-2782-8
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Caruso, M.; Sabatini, A. M.; Knaflitz, M.; Croce, U. D.; Cereatti, A. (2021)
Extension of the rigid‐constraint method for the heuristic suboptimal parameter tuning to ten sensor fusion algorithms using inertial and magnetic sensing. In: SENSORS, vol. 21. ISSN 1424-8220
Contributo su Rivista - Scott, K.; Bonci, T.; Alcock, L.; Buckley, E.; Hansen, C.; Gazit, E.; Schwickert, L.; ... (2021)
A quality control check to ensure comparability of stereophotogrammetric data between session and systems. In: SENSORS, vol. 21. ISSN 1424-8220
Contributo su Rivista - Ullrich, M.; Kuderle, A.; Reggi, L.; Cereatti, A.; Eskofier, B. M.; Kluge, F. (2021)
Machine learning-based distinction of left and right foot contacts in lower back inertial sensor gait data. In: 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2021, Mexico, 1-5 Nov. 2021, pp. 5958-5961. ISSN 1557-170X. ISBN: 978-1-7281-1179-7
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Salis, F.; Bertuletti, S.; Bonci, T.; Della Croce, U.; Mazza, C.; Cereatti, A. (2021)
A method for gait events detection based on low spatial resolution pressure insoles data. In: JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS, vol. 127. ISSN 0021-9290
Contributo su Rivista - Soltani, A.; Aminian, K.; Mazza, C.; Cereatti, A.; Palmerini, L.; Bonci, T.; ... (2021)
Algorithms for walking speed estimation using a lower-back-worn inertial sensor: A cross-validation on speed ranges. In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL SYSTEMS AND REHABILITATION ENGINEERING, vol. 29, pp. 1955-1964. ISSN 1534-4320
Contributo su Rivista - Kluge, F.; Del Din, S.; Cereatti, A.; Gassner, H.; Hansen, C.; Helbostad, J. L.; ... (2021)
Consensus based framework for digital mobility monitoring. In: PLOS ONE, vol. 16. ISSN 1932-6203
Contributo su Rivista - Walha, R.; Lebel, K.; Gaudreault, N.; Dagenais, P.; Cereatti, A.; Della Croce, U.; ... (2021)
The accuracy and precision of gait spatio-temporal parameters extracted from an instrumented sock during treadmill and overground walking in healthy subjects and patients with a foot impairment secondary to psoriatic arthritis. In: SENSORS, vol. 21. ISSN 1424-8220
Contributo su Rivista - Rossanigo, R.; Caruso, M.; Salis, F.; Bertuletti, S.; Croce, U. D.; Cereatti, A. (2021)
An optimal procedure for stride length estimation using foot-mounted magneto-inertial measurement units. In: 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications, MeMeA 2021, Lausanne, Switzerland, 23-25 June 2021, pp. 1-6. ISBN: 9781665419147
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Caruso, Marco; Sabatini, Angelo Maria; Knaflitz, Marco; Gazzoni, Marco; Croce, Ugo ... (2021)
Orientation Estimation Through Magneto-Inertial Sensor Fusion: A Heuristic Approach for Suboptimal Parameters Tuning. In: IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL, vol. 21, pp. 3408-3419. ISSN 1530-437X
Contributo su Rivista - Laidig, Daniel; Caruso, Marco; Cereatti, Andrea; Seel, Thomas (2021)
BROAD—A Benchmark for Robust Inertial Orientation Estimation. In: DATA, vol. 6. ISSN 2306-5729
Contributo su Rivista - Polhemus, A.; Ortiz, L. D.; Brittain, G.; Chynkiamis, N.; Salis, F.; Gassner, H.; Gross, ... (2021)
Walking on common ground: a cross-disciplinary scoping review on the clinical utility of digital mobility outcomes. In: NPJ DIGITAL MEDICINE, vol. 4. ISSN 2398-6352
Contributo su Rivista - Mazzà, Claudia; Alcock, Lisa; Aminian, Kamiar; Becker, Clemens; Bertuletti, Stefano; ... (2021)
Technical validation of real-world monitoring of gait: a multicentric observational study. In: BMJ OPEN, vol. 11. ISSN 2044-6055
Contributo su Rivista - Caruso, M.; Sabatini, A. M.; Laidig, D.; Seel, T.; Knaflitz, M.; Croce, U. D.; Cereatti, ... (2021)
Analysis of the accuracy of ten algorithms for orientation estimation using inertial and magnetic sensing under optimal conditions: One size does not fit all. In: SENSORS, vol. 21. ISSN 1424-8220
Contributo su Rivista - Mirelman, Anat; Ben Or Frank, Mor; Melamed, Michal; Granovsky, Lena; Nieuwboer, Alice; ... (2021)
Detecting Sensitive Mobility Features for Parkinson's Disease Stages Via Machine Learning. In: MOVEMENT DISORDERS. ISSN 0885-3185
Contributo su Rivista - Salis, F.; Bertuletti, S.; Scott, K.; Caruso, M.; Bonci, T.; Buckley, E.; Della Croce, ... (2021)
A wearable multi-sensor system for real world gait analysis. In: Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Mexico, 1-5 Nov. 2021, pp. 7020-7023. ISSN 2375-7477. ISBN: 978-1-7281-1179-7
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)