Ph.D. degree in information technologies for engineering from University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy in 2020

M.Sc. degree in electronic engineering from the University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy in 2016

B.Sc. degree in computer engineering from the University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy in 2012

Tenured Researcher at the Ricerca sul Sistema Enegertico (RSE) S.p.A. - Department of Generation Technologies and Materials

Associate Researcher a the Czech Technical University (CTU) in Prague with the Multi-Robot System (MRS) group

CVUT - Czech Techinical University in Prague, Czech Republic (Jun 2020 - Jul 2022) - MRS Group

FLOW (September 2022 - Today) - Leading from RSE side

ERIGrid2.0 (October 2022 - Today) - Work Package Leader (WP13) - Leading from RSE side

AERIAL-CORE (Jul 2022 - Today) - Participant

AERIAL-CORE (Jun 2020 - Jul 2022) - Leading from CTU side

 MBZIRC 2020 (LAAS-CNRS)

 H2020-2018-2-RIA-two-stages – ECSEL, Comp4Drones, Software Components For Drones - European project (2019-today) - Participant

Member of the Track Program Committee of the 2023 IEEE 32nd International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE). Role: reviewer.

Member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) Technical Committee on Multi-Robot Systems

Associate Editor of the International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)

2022 - Visiting Researcher, University of Twente Enschede, The Netherlands - Antonio Franchi's Group

2020 - Research Fellow, University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy - GRACE Lab

2019 - Visiting PhD student, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France - Antonio Franchi's Group

2016 - Research Fellow, University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy - GRACE Lab

1. Giuseppe Silano and Luigi Iannelli. CrazyS: A Software-in-the-Loop Simulation Platform for the Crazyflie 2.0 Nano-Quadcopter. In Anis Koubaa (ed.). Robot Operating System (ROS): The Complete Reference (Volume 4). Springer International Publishing, 2020, pages 81–115. URL PDF, DOI BibTeX

   @incollection{Silano2020ROSBook,
   	author = "{Silano}, Giuseppe and {Iannelli}, Luigi",
   	editor = "Koubaa, Anis",
   	doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-20190-6_4",
   	title = "{CrazyS: A Software-in-the-Loop Simulation Platform for the Crazyflie 2.0 Nano-Quadcopter}",
   	booktitle = "Robot Operating System (ROS): The Complete Reference (Volume 4)",
   	year = 2020,
   	publisher = "Springer International Publishing",
   	pages = "81--115",
   	pdf = "data/papers/silano-rosChapter19.pdf",
   	url = "https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-20190-6_4"
   }
   

1. Vittorio Cataffo, Giuseppe Silano, Luigi Iannelli, Vincent Puig and Luigi Glielmo. A Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Strategy for Autonomous Racing of Scale Vehicles. In 2022 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC). October 2022, 100–105. PDF, DOI BibTeX

   @inproceedings{SCM2022,
   	author = "{Cataffo}, Vittorio and {Silano}, Giuseppe and {Iannelli}, Luigi and {Puig}, Vincent and {Glielmo}, Luigi",
   	booktitle = "2022 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC)",
   	title = "{A Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Strategy for Autonomous Racing of Scale Vehicles}",
   	year = 2022,
   	month = "October",
   	organization = "IEEE",
   	pdf = "data/papers/CataffoSMC22.pdf",
   	pages = "100--105",
   	doi = "10.1109/SMC53654.2022.9945279"
   }
   

2. Daniel Hert, Tomas Baca, Pavel Petracek, Vit Kratky, Vojtech Spurny, Matej Petrlik, Matous Vrba, David Zaitlik, Pavel Stoudek, Viktor Walter, Petr Stepan, Jiri Horyna, Vaclav Pritzl, Giuseppe Silano, Daniel Bonilla Licea, Petr Stibinger, Robert Penicka, Tiago Nascimento and Martin Saska. MRS Modular UAV Hardware Platforms for Supporting Research in Real-World Outdoor and Indoor Environments. In 2022 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS). June 2022, 1264–1273. PDF, DOI BibTeX

   @inproceedings{MRS2022ICUAS_HW,
   	author = "{Hert}, Daniel and {Baca}, Tomas and {Petracek}, Pavel and {Kratky}, Vit and {Spurny}, Vojtech and {Petrlik}, Matej and {Vrba}, Matous and {Zaitlik}, David and {Stoudek}, Pavel and {Walter}, Viktor and {Stepan}, Petr and {Horyna}, Jiri and {Pritzl}, Vaclav and {Silano}, Giuseppe and {Bonilla Licea}, Daniel and {Stibinger}, Petr and {Penicka}, Robert and {Nascimento}, Tiago and {Saska}, Martin",
   	booktitle = "2022 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)",
   	title = "{MRS Modular UAV Hardware Platforms for Supporting Research in Real-World Outdoor and Indoor Environments}",
   	year = 2022,
   	month = "June",
   	organization = "IEEE",
   	pdf = "data/papers/ICUAS22_MRS_HW.pdf",
   	pages = "1264--1273",
   	doi = "10.1109/ICUAS54217.2022.9836083"
   }
   

3. Alvaro Calvo, Giuseppe Silano and Jesus Capitan. Mission Planning and Execution in Heterogeneous Teams of Aerial Robots supporting Power Line Inspection Operations. In 2022 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS). June 2022, 1644–1649. PDF, DOI BibTeX

   @inproceedings{Silano2022ICUAS_II,
   	author = "{Calvo}, Alvaro and {Silano}, Giuseppe and {Capitan}, Jesus",
   	booktitle = "2022 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)",
   	title = "{Mission Planning and Execution in Heterogeneous Teams of Aerial Robots supporting Power Line Inspection Operations}",
   	year = 2022,
   	month = "June",
   	organization = "IEEE",
   	pages = "1644--1649",
   	doi = "10.1109/ICUAS54217.2022.9836234",
   	pdf = "data/papers/ICUAS22_Silano_II.pdf"
   }
   

4. Andriy Dmytruk, Giuseppe Silano, Davide Bicego, Daniel Bonilla Licea and Martin Saska. A Perception-Aware NMPC for Vision-Based Target Tracking and Collision Avoidance with a Multi-Rotor UAV. In 2022 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS). June 2022, 1668–1673. PDF, DOI BibTeX

   @inproceedings{Silano2022ICUAS_I,
   	author = "{Dmytruk}, Andriy and {Silano}, Giuseppe and {Bicego}, Davide and {Bonilla Licea}, Daniel and {Saska}, Martin",
   	booktitle = "2022 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)",
   	title = "{A Perception-Aware NMPC for Vision-Based Target Tracking and Collision Avoidance with a Multi-Rotor UAV}",
   	year = 2022,
   	month = "June",
   	organization = "IEEE",
   	pages = "1668--1673",
   	doi = "10.1109/ICUAS54217.2022.9836071",
   	pdf = "data/papers/ICUAS22_Silano_I.pdf"
   }
   

5. Lyubomyr Demkiv, Massimiliano Ruffo, Giuseppe Silano, Jan Bednar and Martin Saska. An Application of Stereo Thermal Vision for Preliminary Inspection of Electrical Power Lines by MAVs. In 2021 Aerial Robotic Systems Physically Interacting with the Environment (AIRPHARO). October 2021, 1–8. PDF, DOI BibTeX

   @inproceedings{Silano2021AIRPHARO,
   	author = "{Demkiv}, Lyubomyr and {Ruffo}, Massimiliano and {Silano}, Giuseppe and {Bednar}, Jan and {Saska}, Martin",
   	booktitle = "2021 Aerial Robotic Systems Physically Interacting with the Environment (AIRPHARO)",
   	title = "{An Application of Stereo Thermal Vision for Preliminary Inspection of Electrical Power Lines by MAVs}",
   	year = 2021,
   	month = "October",
   	pdf = "data/papers/airpharo_2021_Silano.pdf",
   	organization = "IEEE",
   	pages = "1--8",
   	doi = "10.1109/AIRPHARO52252.2021.9571025"
   }
   

6. Mario Terlizzi, Giuseppe Silano, Luigi Russo, Muhammad Aatif, Amin Basiri, Valerio Mariani, Luigi Iannelli and Luigi Glielmo. A Vision-Based Algorithm for a Path Following Problem. In 2021 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS). June 2021, 1630–1635. PDF, DOI BibTeX

   @inproceedings{Silano2021ICUAS-II,
   	author = "{Terlizzi}, Mario and {Silano}, Giuseppe and {Russo}, Luigi and {Aatif}, Muhammad and {Basiri}, Amin and {Mariani}, Valerio and {Iannelli}, Luigi and {Glielmo}, Luigi",
   	booktitle = "2021 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)",
   	title = "{A Vision-Based Algorithm for a Path Following Problem}",
   	year = 2021,
   	month = "June",
   	pdf = "data/papers/ICUAS21_Silano_II.pdf",
   	pages = "1630--1635",
   	doi = "10.1109/ICUAS51884.2021.9476777",
   	organization = "IEEE"
   }
   

7. Daniel Bonilla Licea, Giuseppe Silano, Ghogho Mounir and Martin Saska. Optimum Trajectory Planning for Multi-Rotor UAV Relays with Tilt and Antenna Orientation Variations. In 29th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO). September 2021, 1586–1590. PDF, DOI BibTeX

   @inproceedings{Silano2021EUSIPCO,
   	author = "{Bonilla Licea}, Daniel and {Silano}, Giuseppe and {Mounir}, Ghogho and {Saska}, Martin",
   	booktitle = "29th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)",
   	title = "{Optimum Trajectory Planning for Multi-Rotor UAV Relays with Tilt and Antenna Orientation Variations}",
   	year = 2021,
   	month = "September",
   	pages = "1586--1590",
   	doi = "10.23919/EUSIPCO54536.2021.9616232",
   	pdf = "data/papers/EUSIPCO_2021.pdf"
   }
   

8. Giuseppe Silano, Jan Bednar, Tiago Nascimento, Jesus Capitan, Martin Saska and Anibal Ollero. A Multi-Layer Software Architecture for Aerial Cognitive Multi-Robot Systems in Power Line Inspection Tasks. In 2021 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS). June 2021, 1624–1629. PDF, DOI BibTeX

   @inproceedings{Silano2021ICUAS-I,
   	author = "{Silano}, Giuseppe and {Bednar}, Jan and {Nascimento}, Tiago and {Capitan}, Jesus and {Saska}, Martin and {Ollero}, Anibal",
   	booktitle = "2021 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)",
   	title = "{A Multi-Layer Software Architecture for Aerial Cognitive Multi-Robot Systems in Power Line Inspection Tasks}",
   	year = 2021,
   	month = "June",
   	pdf = "data/papers/ICUAS21_Silano_I.pdf",
   	pages = "1624--1629",
   	doi = "10.1109/ICUAS51884.2021.9476813",
   	organization = "IEEE"
   }
   

9. Giuseppe Silano, Pasquale Oppido and Luigi Iannelli. Software-in-the-loop simulation for improving flight control system design: a quadrotor case study. In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC). October 2019, 466–471. URL PDF, DOI BibTeX

   @inproceedings{Silano2019SCM,
   	author = "{Silano}, Giuseppe and {Oppido}, Pasquale and {Iannelli}, Luigi",
   	doi = "10.1109/SMC.2019.8914154",
   	booktitle = "2019 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC)",
   	title = "{Software-in-the-loop simulation for improving flight control system design: a quadrotor case study}",
   	year = 2019,
   	month = "October",
   	pages = "466--471",
   	pdf = "data/papers/silano-smc19.pdf",
   	url = "https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8914154"
   }
   

10. Giuseppe Silano, Emanuale Aucone and Luigi Iannelli. CrazyS: A Software-In-The-Loop Platform for the Crazyflie 2.0 Nano-Quadcopter. In 2018 26th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED). June 2018, 352–357. URL PDF, DOI BibTeX

    @inproceedings{Silano2018MED,
    	author = "{Silano}, Giuseppe and {Aucone}, Emanuale and {Iannelli}, Luigi",
    	doi = "10.1109/MED.2018.8442759",
    	booktitle = "2018 26th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED)",
    	title = "{CrazyS: A Software-In-The-Loop Platform for the Crazyflie 2.0 Nano-Quadcopter}",
    	year = 2018,
    	month = "June",
    	pages = "352--357",
    	pdf = "data/papers/silano-med18.pdf",
    	url = "https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8442759"
    }
    

11. Pasquale Daponte, Luca De Vito, Luigi Glielmo, Luigi Iannelli, Davide Liuzza, Francesco Picariello and Giuseppe Silano. A review on the use of drones for precision agriculture. In 2018 1st Workshop - Metrology for Agriculture and Foresty (MetroAgriFor). October 2018, 1–11. URL PDF, DOI BibTeX

    @inproceedings{Silano2018MetroAgriFor,
    	author = "{Daponte}, Pasquale and {De Vito}, Luca and {Glielmo}, Luigi and {Iannelli}, Luigi and {Liuzza}, Davide and {Picariello}, Francesco and {Silano}, Giuseppe",
    	booktitle = "2018 1st Workshop - Metrology for Agriculture and Foresty (MetroAgriFor)",
    	title = "A review on the use of drones for precision agriculture",
    	year = 2018,
    	pages = "1--11",
    	month = "October",
    	doi = "10.1088/1755-1315/275/1/012022",
    	pdf = "data/papers/silano-metroagrifor18.pdf",
    	url = "https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/275/1/012022"
    }
    

12. Amr Afifi, Giuseppe Silano, Marco Tognon, Giuseppe Oriolo and Antonio Franchi. A General Control Architecture for Visual Servoing and Physical Interaction Tasks for Aerial Vehicles. In MBZIRC Symposium 2020, the First International Robotic Challenges Symposium. February 2020, 1–16. BibTeX

    @inproceedings{Afifi2020MBZIRCSymposiums,
    	author = "{Afifi}, Amr and {Silano}, Giuseppe and {Tognon}, Marco and {Oriolo}, Giuseppe and {Franchi}, Antonio",
    	booktitle = "MBZIRC Symposium 2020, the First International Robotic Challenges Symposium",
    	title = "{A General Control Architecture for Visual Servoing and Physical Interaction Tasks for Aerial Vehicles}",
    	year = 2020,
    	pages = "1--16",
    	month = "February"
    }
    

13. Giuseppe Silano and Luigi Iannelli. An educational simulation platform for GPS-denied unmanned Aerial Vehicles aimed to the detection and tracking of moving objects. In 2016 IEEE Conference on Control Applications (CCA). September 2016, 1018–1023. URL PDF, DOI BibTeX

    @inproceedings{Silano2016CCA,
    	author = "{Silano}, Giuseppe and {Iannelli}, Luigi",
    	booktitle = "2016 IEEE Conference on Control Applications (CCA)",
    	title = "An educational simulation platform for GPS-denied unmanned Aerial Vehicles aimed to the detection and tracking of moving objects",
    	year = 2016,
    	pages = "1018--1023",
    	month = "September",
    	doi = "10.1109/CCA.2016.7587947",
    	pdf = "data/papers/silano-cca16.pdf",
    	url = "https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7587947"
    }
    

1. K McGuire, G Silano, C Gabellieri and W Hönig. The Role of Robotics Simulators for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Workshop Session. June 2023. URL BibTeX

   @inproceedings{Silano2023ICRA_WS,
   	author = {{McGuire}, K. and {Silano}, G. and {Gabellieri}, C. and H{\"o}nig, W.},
   	booktitle = "2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Workshop Session",
   	title = "{The Role of Robotics Simulators for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles}",
   	year = 2023,
   	month = "June",
   	url = "https://imrclab.github.io/workshop-uav-sims-icra2023/",
   	note = "ExCel, London"
   }
   

2. G Silano, V Kratky, J Bednar, M Vrba, F Nekovar, D Bonilla Licea, T Baca, P Stoudek, D Hert, M Petrlik, D Smrcka, T Nascimento and M Saska. Coordination of a Heterogeneous Team of Aerial Robots to Support Power Lin Inspection Operations. In 2022 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS). June 2022. URL BibTeX

   @inproceedings{Silano2022ICUAS_WS,
   	author = "{Silano}, G. and {Kratky}, V. and {Bednar}, J. and {Vrba}, M. and {Nekovar}, F. and {Bonilla Licea}, D. and {Baca}, T. and {Stoudek}, P. and {Hert}, D. and {Petrlik}, M. and {Smrcka}, D. and {Nascimento}, T. and {Saska}, M.",
   	booktitle = "2022 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)",
   	title = "{Coordination of a Heterogeneous Team of Aerial Robots to Support Power Lin Inspection Operations}",
   	year = 2022,
   	month = "June",
   	url = "https://mega.nz/file/N0kUVJAa#SDUbvWUi7n_fKGI9yALhTkfjdBkFqDHc-pVAcmsIci0",
   	note = "Drubovnik, Croatia"
   }
   

3. Giuseppe Silano, Davide Liuzza, Luigi Iannelli and Martin Saska. A framework for power line inspection tasks with multi-robot systems from signal temporal logic specifications. In SIDRA (Italian Society of Automatic Control), National Meeting. September 2020. URL PDF BibTeX

   @inproceedings{Silano2020SIDRA,
   	title = "{A framework for power line inspection tasks with multi-robot systems from signal temporal logic specifications}",
   	author = "{Silano}, Giuseppe and {Liuzza}, Davide and {Iannelli}, Luigi and {Saska}, Martin",
   	booktitle = "SIDRA (Italian Society of Automatic Control), National Meeting",
   	year = 2020,
   	month = "September",
   	pdf = "data/papers/Silano2020Automatica.pdf",
   	url = "https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.02999"
   }
   

4. Giuseppe Silano. Software-in-the-loop methodologies for the analysis and control design of small UAV systems. University of Sannio in Benevento, July 2020. URL BibTeX

   @phdthesis{Silano2020PhDThesis,
   	author = "{Silano}, Giuseppe",
   	title = "Software-in-the-loop methodologies for the analysis and control design of small UAV systems",
   	school = "University of Sannio in Benevento",
   	year = 2020,
   	month = "July",
   	url = "https://www.researchgate.net/publication/345767635_Giuseppe_Silano's_PhD_Thesis_-_Advisor_Prof_Dr_Luigi_Iannelli"
   }
   

5. Giuseppe Silano, Pasquale Oppido and Luigi Iannelli. Software-in-the-loop simulation for improving flight control system design: a quadrotor case study. In SIDRA (Italian Society of Automatic Control), National Meeting. September 2019, 1–2. URL PDF, DOI BibTeX

   @inproceedings{Silano2019SIDRA,
   	author = "{Silano}, Giuseppe and {Oppido}, Pasquale and {Iannelli}, Luigi",
   	booktitle = "SIDRA (Italian Society of Automatic Control), National Meeting",
   	title = "Software-in-the-loop simulation for improving flight control system design: a quadrotor case study",
   	year = 2019,
   	pages = "1--2",
   	month = "September",
   	doi = "10.13140/RG.2.2.31583.61603",
   	pdf = "data/papers/silano-automaticaIT_2019.pdf",
   	url = "https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335756738_Software-in-the-loop_simulation_for_improving_flight_control_system_design_a_quadrotor_case_study"
   }
   

6. Giuseppe Silano and Luigi Iannelli. An educational simulation platform for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles aimed to detect and track moving objects. In SIDRA (Italian Society of Automatic Control), National Meeting. September 2017, 1–2. URL PDF, DOI BibTeX

   @inproceedings{Silano2017SIDRA,
   	author = "{Silano}, Giuseppe and {Iannelli}, Luigi",
   	booktitle = "SIDRA (Italian Society of Automatic Control), National Meeting",
   	title = "An educational simulation platform for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles aimed to detect and track moving objects",
   	year = 2017,
   	month = "September",
   	pages = "1--2",
   	doi = "10.13140/RG.2.2.14878.43849",
   	pdf = "data/papers/silano-automaticaIT_2017.pdf",
   	url = "https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319665228_An_educational_simulation_platform_for_Unmanned_Aerial_Vehicles_aimed_to_detect_and_track_moving_objects"
   }
   

1. Alvaro Caballero and Giuseppe Silano. A Signal Temporal Logic Motion Planner for Bird Diverter Installation Tasks with Multi-Robot Aerial Systems. , October 2022. URL PDF, DOI BibTeX

   @article{SilanoBirdDiverter22,
   	author = "{Caballero}, Alvaro and {Silano}, Giuseppe",
   	title = "{A Signal Temporal Logic Motion Planner for Bird Diverter Installation Tasks with Multi-Robot Aerial Systems}",
   	year = 2022,
   	month = "October",
   	doi = "10.48550/arXiv.2210.09750",
   	pdf = "data/papers/2210.09750.pdf",
   	url = "https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.09750",
   	note = "Preprint"
   }
   

• Giuseppe Caputo: A framework to fulfill inspection missions for a multi-robot system via Linear Temporal Logic specifications
• Antonio Lombardo: Signal Temporal Logic as a tool to encode inspection missions for a quad-rotor

• Dmytruk Andriy: A perception-aware NMPC for collision avoidance and control of a multi-rotor UAV with visual localization constraints [PDF]