DANIELE COSTA

Daniele Costa graduated in Aerospace Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Milan in July 2011. He obtained his second master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering in October 2015 at the Università Politecnica delle Marche. He received the degree of Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Marche Polytechnic University in 2019. In the same year, he receives his license to practice as a Mechanical Engineer. From 2019 to 2021, he is Post-Doc Research Fellow at the Department of Industrial Engineering of the same University. From January 2022, he is a Research Fellow at the same Department. In June 2023 he was awarded the scientific qualification in the field of concurrency 09/A2 for the functions of associate professor. Since November 2024 is Associate Professor of Machine Mechanics at eCampus University. Daniele Costa coordinates the technical activities of the i-Labs Industry Research Center.

His research interests mainly fall within the following areas:

  • Collaborative Robotics – Study and development of tools and techniques for safe human-cobot cooperation.
  • Industrial Robotics – Study and development of intelligent and flexible programming interfaces for robotic industrial automation.
  • Swimming Biomechanics – Study, numerical simulation, and experimental validation of propulsive mechanisms in marine biological systems.
  • Advanced Robotics – Mechanics of underwater vehicles: study and simulation of the dynamics of bio-inspired underwater robots using multi-body techniques. Prototyping of marine robots.
  • Educational Robotics – Design and prototyping of robotic fish using additive manufacturing (3D Printing) as a tool for teaching STREM subjects.

Email: daniele.costa@uniecampus.it

Some recent publications are:

  1. Lettera, G., Costa, D., Callegari, M. (2025). A Hybrid Architecture for Safe Human–Robot Industrial Tasks. Applied Sciences (Switzerland).
  2. Emiliani, F., Bajrami, A., Costa, D., Palmieri, G., Polucci, D., Leoni, C., Callegari, M. (2024). Design and Prototyping of a Collaborative Station for Machine Parts Assembly. Machines.
  3. Costa, D., Screpanti, L., & Scaradozzi, D. (2023). Disseminating STEM subjects and ocean literacy through a bioinspired toolkit. Biomimetics, 8(2), pp. 161.
  4. Costa, D. A NOVEL CLASS OF BIO-INSPIRED UNDERWATER ROBOTS, International Journal of Mechanics, and Control, 2022, 23(2), pp. 23–35
  5. Callegari, M., Carbonari, L., Costa, D., Palmieri, G., Palpacelli, M. C., Papetti, A., & Scoccia, C. (2022). Tools and Methods for Human Robot Collaboration: Case Studies at i-LABS. Machines, 10(11), 997.
  6. Costa, D., Scoccia, C., Palpacelli, M., Callegari, M., Scaradozzi, D. “Design of a Labriform-Steering Underwater Robot Using a Multiphysics Simulation Environment”. Robotics, 11(1), 11, 2022.
  7. Costa, D., Palmieri, G., Scaradozzi, D., & Callegari, M. “Experimental Validation of a Bio-Inspired Thruster”. Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, 143(8), 2021.
  8. Costa, D., Palmieri, G., Palpacelli, M. C., Scaradozzi, D., & Callegari, M., “Design of a Carangiform Swimming Robot through a Multiphysics Simulation Environment”. Biomimetics, 5(4), 2020.
  9. Carbonari, L., COSTA, D., Palmieri, G., & Palpacelli, M. C. “Reconfigurability analysis of a class of parallel kinematics machines”. Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, Vol. 11(2), 2019.
  10. COSTA, D., Palmieri, G., Palpacelli, M-C., Panebianco, L., Scaradozzi, D., (2017). “Desing of a Bio-inspired Autonomous Underwater Robot”. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems (JINT), pp. 1-12, 2018.
  11. Scaradozzi, D., Palmieri, G., COSTA, D., & Pinelli, A., “BCF swimming locomotion for autonomous underwater robots: a review and a novel solution to improve control and efficiency.” Ocean Engineering, 130, 437-453, 2017.
  12. Scaradozzi, D., Palmieri, G., COSTA, D., Zingaretti, S., Panebianco, L., Ciuccoli, N., … & Callegari, M., “UNIVPM BRAVe: A Hybrid Propulsion Underwater Research Vehicle”. International Journal of Automation Technology (IJAT), 11(3), 404-414, 2017.