Raffaello D'Andrea

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D'Andrea in 2019

Raffaello D’Andrea (born August 13, 1967 in Pordenone, Italy) a Canadian-Italian-Swiss engineer, artist, and entrepreneur. He is professor of dynamic systems and control at ETH Zurich.[1] He is a co-founder of Kiva Systems (now operating as Amazon Robotics), and the founder of Verity.[2] He was the faculty advisor and system architect of the Cornell Robot Soccer Team, four time world champions at the annual RoboCup competition.[3] He is a new media artist, whose work includes The Table,[4] the Robotic Chair,[5] and Flight Assembled Architecture.[6]

He was a speaker at TED Global 2013 and spoke at TED 2016 held in February.[7][8] He has won the 2016 IEEE Robotics and Automation Award.

D'Andrea was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2020 for contributions to the design and implementation of distributed automation systems for commercial applications.

Life[]

Born in Pordenone, Italy,[9] D’Andrea moved to Canada in 1976, where he graduated valedictorian from Anderson Collegiate in Whitby, Ontario.[10] He received a Bachelor of Applied Science from the University of Toronto, graduating in Engineering Science in 1991 and winning the Wilson Medal as the top graduating student that year.[11] In 1997 he received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology, under the supervision of John Doyle and Richard Murray.[12]

He joined the Cornell faculty in 1997.[13] While on sabbatical in 2003, he co-founded Kiva Systems with Mick Mountz and .[14] He became Kiva Systems’ chief technical advisor in 2007 when he was appointed professor of dynamic systems and control at ETH Zurich.[15] He founded Verity with Markus Waibel and Markus Hehn in 2014.[16]

Work[]

Academic work[]

After receiving his PhD in 1997, he joined the Cornell faculty as an assistant professor, where he was a founding member of the Systems Engineering program, and where he established robot soccer — a competition featuring fully autonomous robots — as the flagship, multidisciplinary team project.[15] In addition to pioneering the use of semi-definite programming for the design of distributed control systems,[17] he went on to lead the Cornell Robot Soccer Team to four world championships at international RoboCup competitions in Sweden, Australia, Italy, and Japan.[18]

After being appointed professor at ETH Zurich in 2007, D’Andrea established a research program that combined his broad interests and cemented his hands-on teaching style. His team engages in cutting edge research by designing and building creative experimental platforms that allow them to explore the fundamental principles of robotics, control, and automation.[15] His creations include the Flying Machine Arena,[19] where flying robots perform aerial acrobatics, juggle balls, balance poles, and cooperate to build structures; the Distributed Flight Array,[20] a flying platform consisting of multiple autonomous single propeller vehicles that are able to drive, dock with their peers, and fly in a coordinated fashion; the Balancing Cube,[21] a dynamic sculpture that can balance on any of its edges or corners; Blind Juggling Machines[22] that can juggle balls without seeing them, and without catching them; and the Cubli,[23] a cube that can jump up, balance, and walk.

Entrepreneurial work[]

D’Andrea co-founded Kiva Systems in 2003 with Mick Mountz and . He became chief technical advisor when he was appointed professor of dynamic systems and control at ETH Zurich in 2007.[24] At Kiva, he led the systems architecture, robot design, robot navigation and coordination, and control algorithms efforts.[14][15]

D’Andrea founded Verity in 2014 with Markus Hehn and Markus Waibel. The stated purpose of the company is "to develop autonomous indoor drone systems and related technologies for commercial applications."[25] The company partnered with Cirque du Soleil to create Sparked, a live interaction between humans and quadcopters.[26][27] Verity also provides autonomous drone technology for large concert tours like Metallica's WorldWired Tour, Drake (musician)'s Aubrey & the Three Migos Tour and , as well as Celine Dion's Courage World Tour.[28][29][30] Since 2016, D'Andrea and Verity have been focused on delivering autonomous drone systems in commercial warehouses to support inventory tracking and other use cases. [31]

Artistic work[]

D’Andrea and Canadian artist Max Dean unveiled their collaborative work The Table at the Venice Biennale in 2001.[32] They orchestrate a scenario wherein a spectator, selected by the table, becomes a performer, who is now an object not only of the table's "attention", but also of the other viewers'.[4] It is part of the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Canada (NGC).[33]

The Robotic Chair was created by D’Andrea, Max Dean, and Canadian artist Matt Donovan.[5] It is an ordinary looking chair that falls apart and re-assembles itself. It was first unveiled to the general public at IdeaCity in 2006.[34] It is part of the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Canada (NGC).[35]

D’Andrea and Swiss architects created Flight Assembled Architecture, the first architectural installation assembled by flying robots. It took place at the FRAC Centre Orléans in France in 2011-2012. The installation consists of 1,500 modules put into place by a multitude of quadrotor helicopters. Within the build, an architectural vision of a 600-metre high "vertical village" for 30,000 inhabitants unfolds as a model in 1:100 scale.[36] It is in the permanent collection of the FRAC Centre.[6]

Awards and honors[]

References[]

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