Marcello Chiaberge

Marcello Chiaberge is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications (DET) of the Polytechnic University of Turin. He serves as Coordinator of the Interdepartmental Center for Service Robotics (PIC4SeR) and oversees quality management for the Master's Degree in Mechatronic Engineering. With over 110 publications and 9 international patents, his work bridges academic research and industrial applications in robotics and electronics.

Research Interests span a wide array of fields including

• Autonomous vehicles
• Drones
• Embedded systems
• Precision agriculture
• Search and rescue robotics
• Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM)
• Smart cities infrastructure

His projects often integrate machine learning with hardware acceleration, focusing on real-time solutions for robotics applications.

Recent Publications highlight his contributions to:

• Deep reinforcement learning for robot navigation
• Hybrid MPPT algorithms for solar energy optimization
• UAV-based remote sensing in agriculture
• Transformer architectures for action recognition
• Hardware-accelerated computer vision systems

Research Leadership is evident in his coordination of PIC4SeR and principal investigator roles in projects like:

• HERITALISE (2025-2028) - Cultural heritage digitization
• EMPATHY (2024-2026) - Empathetic mobility platforms
• NG-UWB (2019-2023) - Next-generation localization systems
• MArcEL (2019-2022) - Electric agricultural machinery

His teaching includes courses on electronic fundamentals and mechatronic systems, all delivered in English at the Master's level. He has served as doctoral consortium member since 2002 and currently supervises multiple PhD candidates in electronics and mechatronics fields.