Marina Indri

Marina Indri is a Tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications at Politecnico di Torino, Italy. She serves as a member of the Interdepartmental Center PIC4SeR for Service Robotics and chairs the Robotics Laboratory (1999–present). With over 100 publications, her work bridges industrial robotics, mobile robotics, and Industry 4.0.

Education:

• Laurea (Electronic Engineering, cum laude, 1991)
• Ph.D. (Systems Engineering, 1995)

Research Interests: Specializing in

• Collision detection and avoidance for industrial manipulators
• Friction modeling and compensation
• Path planning and autonomous navigation
• Smart manufacturing systems
• Human-robot collaboration

Awards:

• James C. Hung Best Paper Award (ETFA 2013, 2024)
• euRobotics Technology Transfer Prize (2014, 2017)

Leadership: As IEEE Senior Member, she chairs the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society’s Factory Automation Technical Committee and serves on editorial boards for IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics and IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. She leads projects like SpaceItUp! (space robotics) and PNRR FAIR (AI-driven manufacturing).