
Roberto
Oboe
obtained the Laurea degree in Electrical Engineering in 1988
from the University of Padova, Padova, Italy. During 1990 he has

been
visiting researcher at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the
Keio University - Yokohama - Japan. He obtained the Doctorate degree
from the University of Padova in 1992. From 1993 to 2003, he has been
with the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informatica of the University of
Padova. From 2003 to 2008 he has been Associate Professor in Automatic
Control at the Department of Mechanical and Structural engineering,
University of Trento. Since 2008, he is Associate Professor in
Automatic Control at the University of Padova, Dep.t of Management and
Engineering. In 1996 he has been visiting the Biorobotics Lab. of the
Univ. of Washington, Seattle, where he participated to the realization
a system for the manipulation of objects in shared virtual
environments. In 1997 he has been at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
(JPL), where he has been working on Internet-based telerobotics with
haptic feedback. In 2000, he has been visiting scholar at the Center
for Magnetic Recording Research, UCSD. IN 2002, he has been visiting
faculty at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Univ. of
California, Berkeley. His interests are in the fields of Data Storage,
Parametric Identification of mechanical systems, Control and
applications of MEMS devices, Applied Digital Control, Telerobotics,
Virtual Mechanism, Haptic Devices, Biomedical Equipments and
Applications of Digital Signal Processors to Real Time Control. He is
author/coauthor of more than 90 contributions, plus 4 international
patents. He is Senior Member of the IEEE and Technical Editor of the
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. He served as Chair of the
Technical Committee on Motion Control of the Industrial Electronics
Society (IES) and he is presently IES AdCom member, Technical
Committee on Network Based Control member and Publication Board member.