Name |
Fernando Nicolò |
Organization |
Dipartimento di Informatica e Automazione |
University |
Università degli Studi "Roma Tre" |
Address |
Via Della Vasca Navale, 79, 00146, Roma, Italy |
Tel. |
+39-6-55173245/6 |
Fax |
+39-6-5573030 |
E-mail |
nicolo@uniroma3.it
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Teaching |
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Fernando Nicolo’ was
born in Neaples on the 11Th of August 1939. He got the degree in Electronic
Engineering in the University of Rome "La Sapienza". He is professor
since 1970, and he become full professor of Industrial Automation in 1975. Since
1993 he is with the Roma Tre University. He has been and still is a member of
several technical commissions, scientific councils and boards of research
organizations and universities. He has been Director of GNASII (national group
of automation, systems and computer science of Engineering) since its foundation
in 1970 to 1980. He has been Director of the Department of Systems and Computer
Science from 1981 to 1987, President of CIRA (national university centre of
automation and systems engineering) from its foundation to 1989, President of
the Technical Committee for Robotics (RobTeC) of the International Federation of
Automatic Control (IFAC)from 1993 to 1999. Currently he is President of the
Consortium Roma Ricerche.
His research activity is focused on
modelling and control of: asynchronous motors,
robots, Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS), discrete event systems (DES),
autonomous agent systems. He is author of over 100 articles on scientific
journals, books and proceedings of international conferences.
Research Interests
In the first period of research
activity he was interested in control of induction motors,
myoelectric signal processing for prostheses control, steady state
behavior of linear and bilinear systems with disturbances, deadbeat
control of discrete time bilinear systems. From 1980 he addressed
themes of Robotics and Automation: nonlinear dynamic models and
controls of robots with flexible arms and/or joints; redundant robots; multirobot
systems; robot motion planning and representation;
robot control experimental environments; flexible automation in
production systems; optimization models; system configuration and
layout; material flow management and control; synchronization and
scheduling. His main current interests are integrated automation,
benchmarking techniques, and concurrent engineering. The results of
studies and research activity were published in about 100 papers on
scientific journals, proceedings or books.
Publications
Recent Publications
- A.Agnetis, M.Lucertini, F.Nicolo’: Flow Management in Flexible Manufacturing Cells with Pipeline
Operations. Management Science vol.39 n.3 (pp.294-306), March 1993.
- M. Lucertini, F. Nicolo’, D. Telmon: Benchmarking and Models of
Integration. in Information and Collaboration Models of Integration, Ed. by Shimon Y.Nof Series E: Applied Sciences Vol.259. Published by Kluwer Academic Published 1994, pp.201/218.
- M. Lucertini, F. Nicolo’, S. Rossetto, W. Ukovich, A. Villa: Models for resource allocation in the
firm. Invited papar IFAC World congress, july 19-23, Sydney, 1993.
- M. Lucertini, F. Nicolo’, D. Telmon: How to improve company performances from
outside: a Benchmarking model. Invited paper IFIP Conference on Benchmarking,
Trondheim, Norwey, June 1994.
- A. Agnetis, M. Lucertini, S. Nicoletti, F. Nicolò, G. Oriolo, D. Pacciarelli, A. Pacifici, E. Pesaro, F. Rossi: The Decision Process for the Material Flow Management in a Fiat Car Assembly Plant. Optimization in Industry 3, Edited by A. Schiomachen, pp. 67-82. John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 1995.
- A. Agnetis, M. Lucertini, S. Nicoletti, F. Nicolò, G. Oriolo, D. Pacciarelli, A. Pacifici, E. Pesaro, F. Rossi: "Scheduling of flexible flow line in an automotive assembly plant". Accettato per la pubblicazione su European Journal of Operational Research.
- A. Agnetis, C. Arbib, M. Lucertini, F. Nicolo': "Task Assignment and Sub-Assembly Scheduling in Flexible Assembly Lines", IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 11, No.1, February 1995.
- M. Lucertini, F. Nicolo’, D. Telmon: "Benchmarking of integration and integration of
benchmarking". J. of Production Economics. 38 (1995), pp. 59-71.
- M. Lucertini, F. Nicolo’, S. Rossetto, D. Telmon, W. Ukovich, A. Villa:
"How to evaluate integration between operations management and organizational structures in Cim design". Control.
Eng. Practice, Vol.3, No 1, pp 51-58, 1995 Elsevier Science Ltd.
- M. Lucertini, F. Nicolo’, D. Telmon: Automazione industriale e Fabbrica virtuale", in "Macchine e Automi". Quaderni di Divulgazione Tessere, SISSA
ISAS, Ed. CUEN 1995. Accettato per la pubblicazione su Rivista Sapere.
- A. Agnetis, M. Lucertini, G. Mazza, F. Nicolò, G. Oriolo, D. Pacciarelli, A. Pacifici, E. Pesaro, F. Rossi: Material Flow Management in Automobile Assembly: The Fiat Plant in Cassino, 1995.
- A. Agnetis, R. Macchiaroli, F. Nicolò: "Optimization of the assembly process in a flexible cell". In IFAC World congress. San Francisco July 1996.
- M. Lucertini, F. Nicolo’, W. Ukovich, A. Villa: "Models for Flow
Managment" accettato per la pubblicazione su International Journal of Operations and Quantitative
Managment.
- M. Lucertini, F. Nicolo’: "Automazione, Robotica e Nuova Organizzazione della Fabbrica" in corso di pubblicazione su Innovazioni Tecnologiche del Novecento, volume dell'opera Eredità del Novecento,
Ist. della Enciclopedia Italiana.
Publications on
International Magazines
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A.
Agnetis, R. Macchiaroli, F. Nicolo', “Optimization of the assembly process
in a flexible cell in IFAC” World congress San Francisco July 1996
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A.
Agnetis, M. Lucertini, S. Nicoletti, F. Nicolò, G. Oriolo,
D. Pacciarelli, A. Pacifici, E. Pesaro, F. Rossi:
“Scheduling of flexible flow lines in an automotive assembly plant”,
European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 97 (1997) 348-362.
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M.
Lucertini, F. Nicolò’, W. Ukovich, A. Villa: “Models for Flow
Management”, International Journal of Operations and Quantitative
Management, Vol. 5, Number 1, pp.73-85, April 1999.
-
L.
Adacher, P. Detti, F. Nicolò: “Distributed Schemes on Parallel Machines”
Workshop on System in Production – MAS Dicembre 1999.
-
M.
Lucertini, F. Nicolo, S. Smriglio: “Assignement and Sequencing of Parts to
Autonomous Workstations”, “Control
and Cybernetics” Marzo 2000.
