Digital Signal Processing – 6 CFU (optC1.b/optC2.b)

Digital Signal Processing – 6 CFU (optC1.b/optC2.b)
1 YEAR II semester  6 CFU
ICT and Internet Engineering
Marina RUGGIERI (5cfu)

Tommaso ROSSI (1cfu)

A.Y. 2025-26
Syllabus📑

 
Code: 8039514
SSD: ING-INF/03

The Digital Signal Processing teaching modules offer students the opportunity to become designers, providing a solid theoretical basis, multiple design techniques, and Matlab script development skills.

DSP is offered to Mechatronics students with the option of 6 credits and 9 credits format. Students who select the 6-credit option might be interested in adding a +3 credits of formative activities, with focus on pre-assigned additional topics of the DSP realm.

Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer (block A)

Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer (block A)
1 YEAR II semester  6 CFU
Michela GELFUSA A.Y. 2021-22 (by Engineering Sciences)

A.Y. 2024-25 (last year)

Code: 80300063
SSD: ING-IND/10
(by Engineering Sciences)
  • Prerequisites: Knowledge of basic notions from physics courses, above all physical quantities, units of measurement, fundamental laws of mechanics, optics and electromagnetism.
  • Objectives:
  • LEARNING OUTCOMES: The course aims to provide students with the basic principles, physical laws, and applications of thermodynamics and heat transfer, with the dual purpose of preparing them to afford more applicative courses, and use the acquired knowledge for design and sizing simple components and thermal systems.
  • KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: Students will have to understand the laws of applied thermodynamics and heat transfer, and understand the structure and operation of simplest components and systems. They will also demonstrate that they have acquired the basic methodologies for verifying and designing the studied devices.
  • APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: Students should be able to size and/or verify simple components and systems, such as, for example engine systems.
  • MAKING JUDGEMENTS: Students will have to acquire the autonomous ability to face subsequent studies for which this course is preparatory, and to draw up simple projects of thermal systems that use the components studied. They will also have to be able to evaluate projects drawn up by other parties, checking that the project specifications are respected. COMMUNICATION SKILLS: Students must be able to illustrate in a complete and exhaustive way the acquired information, the results of their study and of their project activity, also through the normally used means of communication (discussion of the results obtained, report on the performed activity, Power Point presentations, etc.).
  • LEARNING SKILLS: Students must be able to apply the physical laws underlying the studied phenomena, and to face further studies that use the acquired knowledge. They will have to be able to expand the already owned information through the analysis of technical-scientific literature, and to modify their curricula choosing future knowledge to be acquired on the base of their knowledge and tendency.

 

Mechanics of Materials and Structures – 6 CFU (block A-E)

Mechanics of Materials and Structures – 6 CFU (block A-E)
1 YEAR II semester  6 CFU
Andrea Micheletti

Edoardo Artioli

A.Y. 2021-22 (9 cfu)
Andrea Micheletti A.Y. 2022-23
A.Y. 2024-25 (6 cfu)
ES – Mechanics of Materials and Structures (MMS)A. Micheletti
✅ Syllabus📑

Code: 80300064
SSD: ICAR/08
(by Engineering Sciences)

Analogue Electronics – 9 CFU (block B-opt)

Analogue Electronics – 9 CFU (block B-opt)
1 YEAR II semester  6 CFU + 3 cfu extra
Rocco Giofre’ A.Y. 2021-22

A.Y. 2022-23

Paolo Colantonio A.Y. 2023-24

Syllabus📑

Code: 8037954 (9CFU)
80300060 (6CFU)

SSD: ING-INF/01
(by Engineering Sciences)

Students who include Analogue Electronics in their study plan are strongly advised to take it in its 9-CFU version, with the last 3 CFUs (out of 9) serving as Extra Credits.


NANOTECHNOLOGY – 6 CFU

NANOTECHNOLOGY – 6 CFU
1 YEAR II semester  6 CFU
Antonio Agresti (3cfu)
Francesca De Rossi (3cfu)
A.Y. 2021-22
Antonio Agresti (3cfu)
Fabio Matteocci (3cfu)
A.Y. 2022-23
A.Y. 2023-24
Antonio Agresti (5cfu)

Sara Pescetelli (1cfu)

A.Y. 2024-25
A.Y. 2025-26

didatticaweb
 ✅ Syllabus📑

Code: 8039791
SSD: ING-INF/01

 

Feedback Control Systems (optE)

Feedback Control Systems (optE)
1 YEAR II semester  6 CFU
Cristiano M. VERRELLI since 2017-18 (Engineering Sciences)
since 2022-23 to 2024-25 (block B)
(Mechatronics Engineering)2025-26 (block optE)
Cristiano M. VERRELLI (4)
Mohamed El Arayshi (2)
2025-26
DidatticaWeb
✅ Syllabus📑

Code: 8039367
SSD: ING-INF/04

FORMATIVE OBJECTIVES

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

The theory of differential equations is successfully used to gain profound insight into the fundamental mathematical control design techniques for linear and nonlinear dynamical systems.

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING:

Students should be able to deeply understand (and be able to use) the theory of differential equations and of systems theory, along with related mathematical control techniques.

APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING:

Students should be able to design feedback controllers for linear (and even nonlinear) dynamical systems.

MAKING JUDGEMENTS:

Students should be able to identify the specific design scenario and to apply the most suitable techniques. Students should be able to compare the effectiveness of different controls while analyzing theoretical/experimental advantages and drawbacks.

COMMUNICATION SKILLS: Students are expected to be able to read and capture the main results of a technical paper concerning the topics of the course, as well as to effectively communicate in a precise and clear way the content of the course. Tutor-guided individual projects (including Maple and Matlab-Simulink computer simulations as well as visits to labs) invite intensive participation and ideas exchange.

LEARNING SKILLS:

Being enough skilled in the specific field to undertake the following studies characterized by a high degree of autonomy.

SYLLABUS:

The matrix exponential; the variation of constants formula.

Computation of the matrix exponential via eigenvalues and eigenvectors and via residual matrices. Necessary and sufficient conditions for exponential stability: Routh-Hurwitz criterion. Invariant subspaces.

Impulse responses, step responses and steady state responses to sinusoidal inputs. Transient behaviours. Modal analysis: mode excitation by initial conditions and by impulsive inputs; modal observability from output measurements; modes which are both excitable and observable. Popov conditions for modal excitability and observability. Autoregressive moving average (ARMA) models and transfer functions.

Kalman reachability conditions, gramian reachability matrices and the computation of input signals to drive the system between two given states. Kalman observability conditions, gramian observability matrices and the computation of initial conditions given input and output signals. Equivalence between Kalman and Popov conditions.

Kalman decomposition for non-reachable and non-observable systems.

Eigenvalues assignment by state feedback for reachable systems. Design of asymptotic observers and Kalman filters for state estimation of observable systems. Design of dynamic compensators to stabilize any reachable and observable system. Design of regulators to reject disturbances generated by linear exosystems.

Bode plots. Static gain, system gain and high-frequency gain.

Zero-pole cancellation.

STATISTICS:

A.Y.  Mechatronics students Other courses Students Mechatronics average Other courses average
2019/2020 10 62 24 23
2020/2021 19 25 23 24
2021/2022 13 44 21 22

Innovative Materials with Laboratory (blocks C1-E)

Innovative Materials with Laboratory (blocks C1-E)
1 YEAR 1 semester 6 CFU
TATA MARIA ELISA (1cfu)
COSTANZA GIROLAMO (1cfu)
VARONE ALESSANDRA (4cfu)
A.Y. 2020-21 to
A.Y. 2024-25 (B-C1-E)
COSTANZA GIROLAMO (4cfu)

TATA MARIA ELISA (2cfu)

A.Y. 2025-26 (C1-E)
MECHA – Innovative Materials with Laboratory (IML)G. Costanza – M.E. Tata
didaticaweb
✅ Syllabus📑

Code: 8039786
SSD: ING-IND/21