Eris Chinellato

Contact

e-Mail:	eris AT icc.uji.es
Office:	TI-2110-DD, Robotic Intelligence Laboratory, Universitat Jaume I
Address:	Avda. Vicente Sos Baynat s/n, E-12071, Castelló, Spain
Tel:	+34 964 728 292
Fax:	+34 964 728 486
Personal Web Page:	http://www3.uji.es/~eris/

Short biography

• Born in Venice (Italy), the 16^th of April 1974
• Graduated in Industrial Engineering and Management from Università degli Studi di Padova, Padua (Italy), 1999. Thesis: "Gestione intelligente di scorte con logica fuzzy". [PDF]
• Employed by Reckitt Benckiser Italia S.p.A.,Logistics Department, as System Supervisor of the Automatic Warehouse of Mira (Venice), 2000-2001.
• MSc (with Honours) in Artificial Intelligence,from University of Edinburgh (UK), 2002. Best AI MSc student award. Thesis: "Robust Strategies for Selecting Vision-Based Planar Grasps of Unknown Objects with a Three-Finger Hand" [PDF]. Supervisor: R.B. Fisher.
• PhD in Robotic Intelligence from Jaume I University, Castellón (Spain), 2008. Thesis: "Visual neuroscience of robotic grasping" [PDF]. Supervisor: Angel P. del Pobil.
  
• Research stays: 2004, University of Western Ontario, Canada (with Jody C. Culham and Melvyn A. Goodale); 2005, Imperial College London, UK (with Yiannis Demiris); 2006, Universita' degli studi di Padova (with Enrico Pagello).

Research

My research interests include vision and grasping in both robotics and neuroscience. I am especially interested in the role of vision before and during grasping actions. The present goal of my studies is to develop a visual-based robotic grasping system able to integrate memories of objects and past grasping experiences with instantaneous sensorial information about object geometry and position. The inspiration comes from the dorsal and ventral human visual pathways of action and perception, which are parallel but interacting. The MRI image of my brain was obtained at the Lab of Jody Culham at UWO.