Elisa Capello

Full Professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (DIMEAS)

  • Member of Interdepartmental Center PIC4SeR - PoliTO Interdepartmental Centre for Service Robotics

Profile

Research interests

Flexible spacecraft
Flight control systems
Robotic systems
Unmanned aerial vehicle (uav)

Biography

Elisa Capello is Professor of Flight Mechanics at Politecnico di Torino, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. She is research associate at the Istituto di Elettronica e di Ingegneria dell'Informazione e delle Telecomunicazioni (IEIIT) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), in the Systems Modeling and Control group (http://www.sct.ieiit.cnr.it) since 2012. She is a member of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Member (IEEE), Control Systems Society since 2014. She is a member of the IEEE Technical Committee in Aerospace Control since 2016. She is member of the SIDRA, Società Italiana Docenti e Ricercatori in Automatica, since 2017. Author of more than 100 papers published in international journals and conferences of the following sectors: aerospace engineering, control, automation and robotics. She is involved in research activities in the following fields: design of guidance, control and navigation systems for aircraft and spacecraft, control of wind turbine and wind farm, flight mechanics of fixed and rotary wing aircraft, testing of unmanned aerial systems, planning and mission control for autonomous systems. As part of her research activities, she collaborates with academic institutions, research centers, networks and companies, both in Italy and abroad. Elisa Capello was an International FAI Judge for Helicopter Championship from 2009 to 2015. She is the scientific coordinator of the following projects: Cooperation and REliable Autonomous TEchnologies to Foster Operations Relying on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (CREATEFORUAS), Assessment and preliminary prototyping of a drag free control system for the L3 gravity wave observatory, Control System Design for Gust Load Alleviation in the Clean Sky Green Regional Aircraft (Airgreen 2) Low Noise Configuration (LNC) domain. International Collaborations: Naval Postgraduate School of Monterey, Spacecraft Robotics Laboratory, USA; Osaka University, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology and Graduate School of Engineering, Japan; University of Stuttgart, Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control; University of Illinois, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering. Link: https://sites.google.com/view/streamrobotics-polito/home

Scientific branch

ING-IND/03 - FLIGHT MECHANICS
(Area 0009 - Industrial and information engineering)

Skills

ERC sectors

PE8_1 - Aerospace engineering
PE7_1 - Control engineering

SDG

Goal 4: Quality education

Fellowships

  • Scientific Committee member - Technology Conferences Editorial Board of IEEE Control Systems Society, Stati Uniti (2019-)
  • Scientific Committee member - IEEE Technical Commitee Aerospace Control, Stati Uniti (2016-)

Conferences

  • International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (12/6/2020-18/6/2021), Program committee

Teaching

Collegi of the PhD programmes

  • INGEGNERIA AEROSPAZIALE, 2022/2023 (39. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • INGEGNERIA AEROSPAZIALE, 2021/2022 (38. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • INGEGNERIA AEROSPAZIALE, 2020/2021 (37. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • INGEGNERIA AEROSPAZIALE, 2019/2020 (36. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • INGEGNERIA AEROSPAZIALE, 2018/2019 (35. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
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Supervised PhD students

  • Riccardo Enrico. Programme in Ingegneria Aerospaziale (39th cycle, 2023-in progress)
    Research subject: Robust control of UAV under uncertain conditions
    Autonomous Aerial Vehicles
    Autonomous Aerial Vehicles
    Autonomous Aerial Vehicles
  • Petre Ricioppo. Programme in Ingegneria Aerospaziale (39th cycle, 2023-in progress)
  • Fabio Faliero. Programme in Ingegneria Aerospaziale (38th cycle, 2022-in progress)
    Research subject: Optimization Algorithms and performance metrics definition for small Cooperative robotic systems
    Autonomous Aerial Vehicles
    Path Planning and Risk Analysis
    Spacecraft Dynamics and Control
    Autonomous Aerial Vehicles
    Path Planning and Risk Analysis
    Spacecraft Dynamics and Control
  • Enza Incoronata Trombetta. Programme in Ingegneria Aerospaziale (38th cycle, 2022-in progress)
    Research subject: Distributed Navigation Algorithms, Sensor Management, Data Fusion
    Autonomous Aerial Vehicles
    Sensors Integration and Avionics / Systems Modelling and Simulation
    Autonomous Aerial Vehicles
    Sensors Integration and Avionics / Systems Modelling and Simulation
  • Davide Celestini. Programme in Ingegneria Aerospaziale (37th cycle, 2021-in progress)
  • Iris David Du Mutel De Pierrepont F. Programme in Ingegneria Aerospaziale (37th cycle, 2021-in progress)
    Research subject: Experimental modelling of ground, ceiling and wall effects for quadcopters
    Autonomous Aerial Vehicles
    Design and Analysis of Aircraft and RPAS
    Sensors Integration and Avionics / Systems Modelling and Simulation
    Autonomous Aerial Vehicles
    Design and Analysis of Aircraft and RPAS
    Sensors Integration and Avionics / Systems Modelling and Simulation
  • Dario Ruggiero. Programme in Ingegneria Aerospaziale (37th cycle, 2021-in progress)
  • Fausto Francesco Lizzio. Programme in Ingegneria Aerospaziale (36th cycle, 2020-in progress)
    Thesis: Consensus-based Control of Multi-Agent Systems: Distributed Target Tracking and Analysis of Time Delays
  • Nicoletta Bloise. Programme in Ingegneria Aerospaziale (35th cycle, 2019-2023)
    Thesis: Design of an Innovative Spraying System for High Precision Aerial Dispersion in Vineyards
  • Davide Carminati. Programme in Ingegneria Aerospaziale (35th cycle, 2019-2023)
    Thesis: Bayesian-based algorithms for Modeling and Identification for Autonomous Robotic Systems
  • Mauro Mancini. Programme in Ingegneria Aerospaziale (35th cycle, 2019-2023)
    Thesis: Adaptive Variable Structure Control System for Attitude Spacecraft Applications
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