The foundation of this thesis is the observation of the usefulness of contextual clues in the context of social robotics: studies prove that human-like behaviour is key to generate in the interlocutor the feeling of empathy ...

This thesis addresses multiple issues regarding the on-board implementation of Lithium-Ion (Li-ion) batteries State-of-Health (SoH) estimation. Even if in the literature multiple model- and experiment-based SoH estimation ...

Social robots are a particular category of robots able to perceive in- formation about the environment to reason about the acquired infor- mation with the particular aim to interact with humans. Remarkable applications ...