Fabio Bergonti 🤖
Fabio Bergonti

Postdoctoral Researcher

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

About Me

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Artificial Mechanical Intelligence Laboratory (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia), currently focused on developing new ankle mechanisms for the humanoid ergoCub robot. My expertise includes whole-body control algorithms, hardware optimization, mechanical design, trajectory optimization, and modeling of aerial and multibody robots.

Interests
  • 🤖 Robotics
  • 📈 Optimization
  • ✈️ Traveling
  • 🏃🏻 Sports
Education

  • Ph.D. Computer Science

    University of Manchester

  • M.Sc. Mechanical Engineering

    Politecnico di Milano

  • B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering

    Politecnico di Milano

Experience

  1. Postdoctoral Researcher

    Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Artificial and Mechanical Intelligence Laboratory
    • Design of instantaneous whole-body controller for take-off maneuvers of flying humanoid robots.
    • Co-tutor Ph.D. candidates and research fellows in areas of mechanical design and hardware optimization.

  2. Visiting Ph.D. Student

    École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Laboratory of Intelligent Systems
    • Aerodynamic modeling and trajectory optimization for flying multibody drones.
    • Hardware optimization of flying drones with morphing wings.

  3. Ph.D. Student

    Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Artificial and Mechanical Intelligence Laboratory
    • Design, modeling, and control of rigid multibody systems with close kinematic chains.
    • Development of an open source multibody simulator to test “morphing covers”.

  4. Research Fellow

    Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Artificial and Mechanical Intelligence Laboratory
    • Design of model-based whole-body optimal control of jumping humanoid robots via inverse kinematics and dynamics.
    • Mechanical design of a flying humanoid robot powered with jet engines.
    • Design of experimental setups for testing flying humanoid robots and jet engines.

Education

  1. Ph.D. Computer Science

    University of Manchester

  2. M.Sc. Mechanical Engineering

    Politecnico di Milano

  3. B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering

    Politecnico di Milano
Technical Skills
Programming Languages
Python
Matlab/Simulink
C++
Software and Tools
CasADi
git
Windows
Linux/WLS2
office
LaTeX
PTC Creo
Languages
70%
English
100%
Italian
Featured Publications
Recent Publications
Punith Vanteddu, Gabriele Nava, Fabio Bergonti, Giuseppe L'Erario, Antonello Paolino, Daniele Pucci (2024). From cad to urdf: Co-design of a jet-powered humanoid robot including cad geometry,. 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
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Fabio Bergonti, Gabriele Nava, Valentin Wuest, Antonello Paolino, Giuseppe L'Erario, Daniele Pucci, Dario Floreano (2024). Co-design optimisation of morphing topology and control of winged drones. 2024 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
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Fabio Bergonti (2023). Motion and Hardware Intelligence for the Adaptive Morphology of Flying Multibody Robots. Ph.D. Thesis.
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Giuseppe L'Erario, Gabriele Nava, Giulio Romualdi, Fabio Bergonti, Valentino Razza, Stefano Dafarra, Daniele Pucci (2022). Whole-Body Trajectory Optimization for Robot Multimodal Locomotion. 2022 IEEE-RAS 21st International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids).
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Fabio Bergonti, Gabriele Nava, Luca Fiorio, Giuseppe L’Erario, Daniele Pucci (2022). Modeling and Control of Morphing Covers for the Adaptive Morphology of Humanoid Robots. IEEE Transactions on Robotics.
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