ENRICO FERRENTINO | Curriculum

Enrico Ferrentino received the M.S. degree in Computer Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Turin and the Ph.D. degree in Information Engineering from the University of Salerno, with a thesis titled "Dynamic programming for optimal planning and control of redundant robot manipulators".
He started his career at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, where he joined the Robotic and Mobility Group and the Axel project on tethered robotics for planetary exploration. Between 2014 and 2017 he was ground segment engineer with ALTEC S.p.A., Turin, where he joined the ExoMars mission of the European Space Agency, where he contributed to the design of the mission control software. In 2019, he was visiting scholar with LAAS-CNRS, where he joined the Horizon 2020 PRO-ACT project.
He currently is Assistant Professor with the Department of Information and Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics of the University of Salerno, and member of the Didactic Board of Information Engineering, for which he supports the delivery of the tutoring activities for undergraduate students, and the coordination of the Robotics Laboratory (responsibile prof. Pasquale Chiacchio). He also is lecturer of Robotics and Robotics for e-health within the Department.
His research interests include optimal planning and control of robot manipulators, force control, haptic teleoperations, human-robot collaboration, software architectures for robot control. His research applications fall into the fields of industrial, medical and aerospace robotics. He is co-author of several international publications on such topics. His work titled "On the optimal resolution of inverse kinematics for redundant manipulators using a topological analysis" received the honorable mention by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Since 2019, he is Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and of the Robotics and Automation Society (RAS). Since 2024, he has been appointed Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering.