Edoardo Sotgiu
Research Engineer
Edoardo Sotgiu is currently a Researcher Engineer in the group of Integrated Micro and Nanotechnologies (IMiNa) at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory in Braga (Portugal), and his research focuses on the field of haptics, including tactile sensors and actuators, and acoustics. He is currently involved in developing wearable devices for neuromuscular rehabilitation based on force-myography and developing force/pressure sensors for the automotive industry. In recent years, he was also involved in developing MEMS speakers, a flexible tactile sensor array for surface identification and a pneumatic-based tactile feedback array for VR simulation.
He received an M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pisa in 2003, and he is currently attending the PhD Doctoral Program in Electronics and Computer Engineering (PDEEC) on MEMS-based ultrasonic mid-air actuators. In the past, he worked at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, where he got experience on different topics like control of parallel kinematics haptic interfaces, bilateral teleoperation systems, vibrotactile devices for psychophysics studies, exoskeletal robotic devices and virtual reality applications for rehabilitation therapy.
Selected Publications
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Preliminary Assessment of Combined Stimuli with Laterally Modulated Midair Ultrasound Focus
2022 International Symposium on Electrical, Electronics and Information Engineering (ISEEIE), 2022 -
Enhanced virtual reality application with tactile feedback for prototyping in-car dashboard surfaces
2021 IEEE WORLD HAPTICS CONFERENCE (WHC), 2021 -
Industry 4.0: Real-time monitoring of an injection molding tool for smart predictive maintenance
2020 25TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND FACTORY AUTOMATION (ETFA), 2020 -
Surface Texture Detection With a New Sub-mm Resolution Flexible Tactile Capacitive Sensor Array for Multimodal Artificial Finger
JOURNAL OF MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS, 2020