Fabio Leccese

Università Degli Studi Roma Tre | UNIROMA3 · Department of Electronic Engineering

In recent years, the concept of smart agriculture has entered our collective daily routine by radically modifying the methods by which crop monitoring was previously carried out. More precisely, the term smart farming focuses its attention on the use technologies already present on the market like, sensors (multispectral, hyperspectral, thermal and...

In scientific, military, and industrial sectors, the development of robust and efficient submarine wireless communication links is of enormous interest. Underwater wireless communications can be carried out through acoustic, radio frequency (RF), and optical waves. Underwater optical communication is not a new idea, but it has recently been conside...

p class="Abstract">For military divers, having a robust, secure, and undetectable wireless communication system available is a fundamental element. Wireless intercoms using acoustic waves are currently used. These systems, even if reliable, have the defect of being easily identifiable and detectable. Visible light can pass through sea water. Theref...

Applications of Big Data to smart cities are nearly limitless. However, challenges emerged with handling data with new magnitude of dimensionality, heterogeneity, required processing timeliness, and the lack of reported development experiences on how to turn Big Data into Smart Data may hinder the adoption of Big Data technologies in delivering sma...

Starting from the Martian environment, we examine all the necessary requirements for a UAV and outline the architecture of a gyroplane optimized for scientific research and support for (future) Mars explorers, highlighting its advantages and criticalities. After a careful trade-off between different vehicles suitable for a typical mission, some par...

Nowadays, signal lights are made using light-emitting diode arrays (LEDs). These devices are extremely energy efficient and have a very long lifetime. Unfortunately, especially for yellow/amber LEDs, the intensity of the light is closely related to the junction temperature. This makes it difficult to design signal lights to be used in naval, road,...

p class="Abstract">The relief of form is undoubtedly one of the most topical topics in the field of cultural heritage. Physical access to historic and artistic manufactures can be limited by a lot of factors. For example, the access to the collection of the ancient coins is difficult, especially for students. Indeed, for coins digital archive of hi...

The paper shows the steps for the preliminary studies of an AUV for shallow water: the first part illustrates the vehicle architecture and the philosophy that permeates the various design choices. In the second part illustrates an innovative method for increasing longitudinal stability based on Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) Fuzzy Inference System: it saves a...

Industry 4.0 is making inroads even into the field of aerospace, which is extremely conservative due to the safety concerns involved with the introduction of new technology. We used fuzzy logic to create a very reliable simplification and reduce the complexity of the critical longitudinal stability equations for a flying wing drone. Our approximate...

The paper shows the simulation of the behavior of a swarm of underwater drones (AUV) diffused in a closed section of the sea and inserted from a single starting point: Based on a few essential rules, we will see how their behavior evolves and how they manage to spread throughout the area assigned to them. In the first part of this work, after defin...

Public lighting is one of higher expenditure for municipal administrations, in fact it is an energy-intensive service because of its inefficient functioning and consumption. One of the major problems is the lack of information about the actual state of public lighting systems, which would allow us to know its consumption, costs and performance, saf...

Underwater Optical Wireless Communication (UOWC) is not a new idea, but it has recently attracted renewed interest since seawater presents a reduced absorption window for blue-green light. Due to its higher bandwidth, underwater optical wireless communications can support higher data rates at low latency levels compared to acoustic and RF counterpa...

Growing interest is now addressed to using essential oils (EOs) as antimicrobial substances, in medical, industrial, food, and many other sectors. Oregano and thyme EOs are among the most effective oils and, for this reason, they have also been investigated in the field of cultural heritage. This work reports some preliminary results of a new appro...

Introducing quantum sensors as a solution to real world problems demands reliability and controllability outside of laboratory conditions. Producers and operators ought to be assumed to have limited resources readily available for calibration, and yet, they should be able to trust the devices. Neural networks are almost ubiquitous for similar tasks...

The experimental observations of the photoelectric effect show the properties of quantum mechanics of the electromagnetic field. For this reason, this important effect is commonly used as an introductory topic for the study of quantum physics. The “classical” demonstration of the photoelectric effect is very incisive; unfortunately, the experimenta...

span lang="EN-GB">In order to develop a scale-up for a "Smart Street" pilot site, we perform a RAMS analysis: the combination of Reliability Analysis and FMECA helps to identify the best configuration to scale up systems without incurring in marginally reliable configurations, allowing refining an Industry 4.0 Case Study.</span

Within a project co-funded by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the final aim of which is to develop a WSN for smart monitoring of pesticides on agricultural land, the Italian and Serbian researchers have developed a hardware section of an electronic nose for pesticides. Since there are no specialized sensors which can smell the presence or...

Introducing quantum sensors as solution to real-world problem demands reliability and controllability outside laboratory conditions. Producers and operators ought to be assumed to have limited resources ready available for calibration, and yet, they should be able to trust the devices. Neural networks are almost ubiquitous for similar tasks for cla...

This paper is a section of several preliminary studies of the Underwater Drones Group of the Università degli Studi “Roma Tre” Science Department: We describe the study philosophy, the theoretical technological considerations for sizing and the development of a technological demonstrator of a high accuracy buoyancy and depth control. We develop the...

The ability to process an image is a crucial skill in many measurement activities. In image processing or pattern recognition, Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) is widely used. In particular, the Phase Only Correlation (POC) method demonstrates high robustness and subpixel accuracy in pattern matching. However, there is a disadvantage in the required me...

Abstract This paper is a review of the work presented at the 5th IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Aerospace, MetroAeroSpace 2018 (Piedimonte and Ullo, 2018) [1], enriched with some concepts on standardization for Mixed Reality applications. Nowadays, large organizations are looking for new procedures and configuration management in ord...

The aim of this work is to simulate and compare the energy savings potentially applicable to the consumption data of the Smart Street pilot system located at the ENEA Casaccia R.C. (Rome). The astronomical lighting system energy consumption (baseline) is compared to the simulation of a pre-defined regulation: it allows the lights dimming (and there...

This paper focuses on the development of a new logistic approach based on reliability and maintenance assessment, with the final aim of establishing a more efficient interval for the maintenance activities for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). In the first part, we develop an architectural philosophy to obtain a more detailed reliability evaluation;...

In this article we present a study about using VNA calibrated or uncalibrated measurements for the purpose of measuring the Q–factor of a dielectric loaded microwave resonator. We evaluate the uncertainties in Q involved in both methods. We use a complete and robust transmission resonant model for the fit and parameter extraction. The Q values obta...

span lang="EN-GB">This paper examines the development of an attitude and control system for a tailless AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) without movable control surfaces. As the AUV does not have movable surfaces, the buoyancy system and the center of gravity displacement manage the entire maneuvering system.</span

Editorial to selected papers from the 1^st IMEKO TC19 Workshop on METROLOGY FOR THE SEA

Abstract - Production of propellant for the return to Earth from in-situ resources allows not transporting the return fuel in space explorations. CO2 from Martian atmosphere may react with H2 to produce methane and water by Sabatier reaction. The activity of Ni (10 wt%) supported on Y2O3-ZrO2, by different preparation methods, was compared. Structu...

A new data logger based on Raspberry-Pi to monitor the locomotion of Arctic invertebrates has been made, tested and deployed in field. The device uses infrared sensors to check in vivo the invertebrates picking up the locomotor activity, data are collected for the analysis. Thanks to the Raspberry Pi capabilities and features, the instrument proved...

A non-recursive version of Nonlinear Least Squares Fitting for frequency estimation is presented. This problem yields a closed-form solution exploiting a Taylor’s series expansion. Respecting some conditions, the computational complexity is reduced, but equally the method assures that the accuracy reaches the Cramer-Rao Bound. The proposed method r...

In this paper an implementation of a smart predictive monitoring and adaptive control system for the public lighting have been carried out. The vehicular traffic flow acquired using a smart camera has been analyzed and several predictive methods have been studied. Then, a control strategy based on the given traffic forecasts and on the dynamical st...

This article describes a new instrument for power quality (PQ) measurements based on the Raspberry-Pi. This is the latest step of a long study started by the Electric and Electronic Measurements Laboratory of "Roma Tre" University 12 years ago. During this time, the Laboratory developed and refined instrumentation for high accuracy power quality me...

A new inexpensive data logger specific designed to monitor the behavior of small animals in extreme scenario will be presented. The new data logger is based on common, commercial affordable and reliable devices that assure inexpensiveness and, at the same time, could be the base for further reasonings and developments with the aim to improve the de...

A new device based on the Raspberry-Pi to monitor the locomotion of Arctic marine invertebrates and to analyze chronobiologic data has been made, tested and deployed. The device uses infrared sensors to monitor and record the locomotor activity of the animals, which is later analyzed. The software package consists of two separate scripts: the first...

Following a business as usual scenario, some Low Earth Orbit (LEO) regions could be unusable for many decades because of the space debris growth. In order to reduce that trend, the current probability of success of the chosen End of Mission (EOM) disposal method shall ensure a target value of 90% [1]. Understanding reliability of satellites and the...