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 ...

Collections of handwritten documents of historical interest are often small, ranging from a few dozen to a few hundred pages, but they may have features typical of the collection itself which make them interesting for ...

I sistemi fotovoltaici sono diventati uno dei pi`u promettenti fonti di energia rinnovabile negli ultimi anni. Inevitabilmente, questi sistemi affrontano differenti effetti di degradazione associati con le condizione ambientali ...

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 ...

This thesis work deals with the problem of learning the topology of a network starting from the signals emitted by the network nodes while executing some distributed processing task. In particular, these signals are generated ...

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 ...

Since modern cryptography was born around the late 1970s, a myriad of cryptographic constructions and protocols have been proposed. The field quickly developed into a science whose results have had great im pact on people’s ...