Sede ufficiale: LARGO LUCIO LAZZARINO 2, 56126 PISA
Email: gianpietro.di.rito@unipi.it
Telefono: 0502217268
Profilo
Struttura: Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Industriale
Settore scientifico-disciplinare: Impianti e Sistemi Aerospaziali IIND-01/E
Apr 2022 - ongoing: Associate Professor of Aerospace Equipments and Systems (ING-IND/05), University of Pisa, Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering
Apr 2012 - Mar 2022: Assistant Professor of Aerospace Equipments and Systems (ING-IND/05), University of Pisa, Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering
Jan 2005 - Mar 2012: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Pisa, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Mar 2001 - Dec 2001: Research Fellow at University of Pisa, Department of Aerospace Engineering
EDUCATION:
Jan 2002 - Dec 2004: PhD in Aerospace Engineering, University of Pisa, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Thesis: "Development and experimental validation of servohydraulic actuators models for advanced flight controls"
Nov 1993 - Feb 2001: MSc in Aerospace Engineering (110/110 cum laude), University of Pisa, Faculty of Engineering
Thesis: "Fly-By-Wire flight control systems: development of actuation systems models"
Main research interests: Modelling, Simulation, Control, Health-Monitoring, Testing and RAMS analysis of aerospace mechatronic systems
BIBLIOMETRIC DATA - Scopus, April 2025:
Publications [Articles]: 58 [23]
Citations: 400
H-index: 14
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1441-0513
SCOPUS: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57221199929
WOS: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/39683433
IRIS-ARPI: https://arpi.unipi.it/cris/rp/rp07732
Didattica
Attività didattica
Incarichi di responsabilità didattica di moduli/insegnamenti
- Tecnologie e laboratorio di simulazione di impianti aeronautici (cod. 981II) per Laurea in Ingegneria aerospaziale
- Aerospace dynamic systems analysis (cod. 751II) per Laurea Magistrale in Ingegneria aerospaziale
- Impianti aeronautici ii (cod. 455II) per Laurea Magistrale in Ingegneria aerospaziale
Ricevimento
Modalità: Per info su programma e modalità d'esame (for info about Course contents and exam modalities): > TLSIA: https://unipi.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/insegnamenti/2025/52710_689918_76807/2008/52710/10280?coorte=2024&schemaid=9049 > ADSA: https://unipi.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/insegnamenti/2025/53009_705493_74298/2025/53011/11535?coorte=2025&schemaid=9467 > IA2: https://unipi.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/insegnamenti/2025/52903_695105_69695/2010/52903/10519?coorte=2024&schemaid=9205
Luogo: MS Teams or ufficio docente (teacher office) at Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile ed Idustriale - Sede Aerospaziale, via Caruso 8, Pisa
Orario: Corso "Tecnologie e Laboratorio di Simulazione di Impianti Aeronautici" (si prega di inviare una mail di richiesta): Giovedì h 15-17 Course "Aerospace Dynamic Systems Analysis" (please notice the request by e-mail): Venerdì/Friday h 15-17 Corso Impianti Aeronautici 2" (si prega di inviare una mail di richiesta): Giovedì h 15-17
Ricerca
Pubblicazioni
- Development and HIL validation of observer-based monitoring algorithms of battery packs for eVTOL UAV applications (Suti, Aleksander; Budinger, Marc; Di Rito, Gianpietro; Reysset, Aurélien - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Development of a Hybrid-Electric Propulsion System Simulator for a Lightweight Fixed-Wing UAV and Design of On-Board Power Management Strategies (Mazzone, Alessandro; Suti, Aleksander; Di Rito, Gianpietro; Mattei, Giuseppe - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Robustness Analysis of the Model Predictive Position Control of an Electro-Mechanical Actuator for Primary Flight Surfaces (Lucarini, Marco; Di Rito, Gianpietro; Nardeschi, Marco; Borgarelli, Nicola - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Development and experimental validation of a Sense-and-Avoid System for a mini-UAV (Fiorio, Marco; Galatolo, Roberto; Di Rito, Gianpietro - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Conversion of a two-stage expendable rocket into a reusable system and analysis of its re-entry dynamics (Mazzone, Alessandro; Chiarelli, MARIO ROSARIO; DI RITO, Gianpietro - 2024 - 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno)
- Thermal monitoring of an internal combustion engine for lightweight fixed-wing UAV integrating PSO-based modelling with condition-based extended Kalman filter (Suti, Aleksander; Di Rito, Gianpietro; Mattei, Giuseppe - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Experimental validation of robustness against failures of a fail-safe electro-mechanical actuator employed for the flap movables of a high-speed helicopter-plane (Di Rito, G.; Kovel, R.; Luciano, B.; Salvi, F.; Nardeschi, M. - 2024 - 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno)
- Preliminary design of power control strategies for the hybrid-electric propulsion system of a lightweight fixed-wing UAV (Di Rito, G.; Suti, A. - 2024 - 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno)
- Model-based temperature monitoring of the internal combustion engine of a lightweight long-endurance fixed-wing UAV (Suti, Aleksander; Di Rito, Gianpietro; Mattei, Giuseppe - 2024 - 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno)
- Extended Kalman filter based data fusion algorithm implemented in a Sense and Avoid System for a mini-UAV application (Fiorio, Marco; Galatolo, Roberto; Di Rito, Gianpietro - 2024 - 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno)