Andrea Del Prete (original) (raw)
Biography
Since 2022 I have been an associate professor in the Industrial Engineering Department of the University of Trento (Italy), where I am part of the Interdepartmental Robotics Lab (IDRA). From 2019 to 2021 I had been a tenure-track assistant professor (RTD-B) in the same department, where I teach optimal control and reinforcement learning for robotics, and computer programming in C++.
In 2018 I had been a research scientist in the Movement Generation and Control group at the Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (Tübingen, Germany), under the lead of Ludovic Righetti.
From 2014 to 2017 I had been an associated researcher in the Gepetto team (LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse), where I have been working with the humanoid robot HRP-2. My main collaborations were with Nicolas Mansard, Olivier Stasse, Steve Tonneau and Justin Carpentier.
Before going to LAAS I had spent four years (3 of PhD + 1 of post-doc) at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT, Genova, Italy), where I had been working with Lorenzo Natale and Francesco Nori on the iCub humanoid robot.
I am currently serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (since 2020) and for IEEE Transactions on Robotics (since 2024).
Interests
- Robot Control
- Reinforcement Learning
- Trajectory Optimization
- Safety Certificates
- Numerical Algorithms
Education
- PhD in Robotics, 2013
Italian Institute of Technology - MEng in Computer Engineering, 2009
University of Bologna - BSc in Computer Engineering, 2006
University of Bologna
Experience
PhD
January 2010 – December 2012 Genova, Italy
Motion and force control of the iCub humanoid robot, using force and tactile sensors.
Post-Doc
January 2013 – December 2013 Genova, Italy
Multi-contact force control for the iCub humanoid robot, in the framework of the CoDyCo EU project.
Post-Doc / Associated Researcher
January 2014 – December 2017 Toulouse, France
Control of the humanoid robot HRP-2 using robust optimization, stochastic optimization, motor identification, torque control, hierarchical trajectory optimization.
Research Scientist
January 2018 – December 2018 Tuebingen, Germany
Optimization-based control for the humanoid robot Athena.
Assistant Professor (tenure track)
January 2019 – December 2021 Trento, Italy
Research on robot co-design, robust and stochastic model predictive control. Teaching computer programming and optimization-based robot control.
Associate Professor
January 2022 – Present Trento, Italy
Carrying out research on merging learning and model-based techniques to achieve safe robot control. Teaching courses on robotics and programming for bachelor and master students.
Courses
A 48-hour course for master students focusing on modern optimal control and reinforcement learning techniques for robot control
A 12-hour course for PhD students about reactive control (TSID) and trajectory optimization for legged robots.
A 3-hour course for PhD students about Quadratic-Progamming-based dynamic control.
PhD Students
Recent Publications
Contact
- andrea.delprete@unitn.it
- 0039 0461 281915
- Via Sommarive 9, Trento, 38123
- Enter the building “Povo 2”, take the stairs to the 1st floor, go left until the end of the corridor.