Bio
Paolo Panicucci is an Assistant Professor at at Politecnico di Milano. He is part of the DART Lab, lead by F. Topputo. His research is focused on vision‑based navigation, image processing, spacecraft autonomy, and hardware‑in‑the‑loop simulations. He is in charge of the hardware-in-the-loop facilities for validation and verification of vision-based systems. He is AOCS team lead for the LUMIO mission phase B and responsable for the ERC EXTREMA project Pillar 1.
Education
Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics at ISAE-SUPAEROResearch Master in Control and Image Processing at ISAE-SUPAERO & Paris-Saclay UniversityDiplôme d'ingénieur (M.Sc. equivalent) in Space Engineering at ISAE-SUPAEROM.Sc. in Space Engineering at La SapienzaB.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering at La Sapienza
Research Lines
Guidance, Navigation, and Control, Computer Vision, Robotics and Perception, Vision-Based Navigation, Image Processing, Uncertainty Quantification, Spacecraft Autonomy, Hardware-In-The-Loop Simulation
Awards
Outstanding Student Presentation Poster - Second Place at the IPPW 2019 - CoauthorOutstanding Student Presentation Poster - First Place at the IPPW 2018 - Presenter€10,000 Research Award, ASI & CAIF, 2016€2,500 Research Award for "Fondazione Roma Sapienza" in memory of “Ugo Bordoni, Giovanni Carosio, Tito Ciancarelli, Finocchiaro e Cavallucci, Carlo Mazzetti, Teresa Gianoli Virgili, Guido Mancini, Franco Benedetti”, 2017CNES and Airbus Defence & Space Doctoral FellowshipSwitch2Product | Innovation Challenge 2022