Vittorio Francescon

Email: el21vf@leeds.ac.uk
Thesis title: Shape-forming control of soft magnetic continuum robots for surgical applications
Supervisors: Professor Pietro Valdastri, Professor John Cunningham

I am a third year PhD student in the STORM Lab within the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering.

Prior to my PhD, I studied Mechatronics and Robotics at the University of Leeds (MSc) and the University of Liverpool (BEng).

I try to make as much of my work as open source as possible, all the publically available repositories are on Github.

My research is focused on modeling and control of magnetic soft continuum robots.

I am interested in control theory, with a specific focus on under-actuated control of soft robots as well as sensing and modeling for robotics.