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Unit: Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
Scientific-disciplinary sector: Campi Elettromagnetici IINF-02/A
Teaching
Incarichi di co-docenza in moduli/insegnamenti
- Radiofrequency and Microwave Laboratory (Cod. 1049I) per Laurea Magistrale in Ingegneria delle telecomunicazioni
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Location: Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Via G. Caruso 16, Stanza C-2-01
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Research
Research interests
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Research topic: Electromagnetism, Radio Frequency IDentification, Wireless Localization and Sensing
Gruppo scientifico disciplinare: Campi Elettromagnetici IINF-02/A
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Dr. Andrea Motroni, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Associate Editor of IEEE Journal of Radio Frequency Identification
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione – University of Pisa
56122, Via G. Caruso 16, Pisa (PI), Italy
e-mail: andrea.motroni@unipi.it
phone: +39 0502217624
Teaching (contact me for any question!)
Tecnologie Elettromagnetiche per Sistemi Wireless (Ingegneria delle Telecomunicazioni, LT, III anno)
Radiofrequency and Microwave Laboratory (Ingegneria delle Telecomunicazioni, LM, II anno)
Bachelor Thesis (Tesi di Laurea Triennale) and Master Thesis (Tesi di Laurea Magistrale) are available! Contact me to know more!
CURRICULUM VITAE
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Current Position:
Assistant Professor at Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy;
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Previous positions:
Post-Doctoral Researcher – Department of Information Engineering - University of Pisa
Main Research activities:
Indoor Radiolocalization of mobile robots with UHF-RFID and Sensor Fusion
Outdoor radio-localization based on UHF-RFID technology for safety in agricultural and forest environment
Radiolocalization with UWB
Smart RFID Gates with artificial intelligence
Passive RFID sensing
Awards
2024: "Barzilai Award" received from SIEm (Società Italiana di Elettromagnetismo) for Under 35 researchers
2024: Best Paper Award at IEEE GreenCom 2024, Copenagheh (Denmark), August 2024
2023: URSI GASS 2023 Commission B Young Scientist Award
2022: IEEE Italy Section and ABB 2022 Best PhD Thesis Award. Category: Technology.
2022: Best Poster Award at 2022 6th IEEE International Symposium on Measurement and Networking (M&N), Padova (Italy), 18-20 July 2022
2022: Best 2021 PhD Thesis Award in “Civil Engineering and Architecture, Industrial and Information Engineering”, University of Pisa.
2021: URSI GASS 2021 Commission B Young Scientist Award
2019: Best Paper award at IEEE RFID-TA 2019 Conference (Pisa, September 25-27, 2019).
2019: Best Student Paper award (3rd place) at IEEE RFID-TA 2019 Conference (Pisa, September 25-27, 2019).
2019: Winner of Contamination Lab Competition – University of Pisa (competition for startups and entrepreneurship).
2018: Finalist at the CRFID Educational Mega Challenge on Smart Cities 2018 in Orlando, FL, USA (April, 10-12, 2018). The event was organized inside the IEEE RFID Conference 2018 and the “2018 RFID Journal Live!” event.
Bio: Andrea Motroni received the M.E. (with honors) degree in Telecommunication Engineering and the Ph.D. (with honors) degree in Information Engineering from the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, in 2017 and 2021, respectively, where he is currently an Assistant Professor in Electromagnetism. In 2020, he was a Visiting Ph.D. Student with the Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria. Dr. Motroni was a Finalist at the IEEE CRFID Educational Mega Challenge (2018), a recipient of Best Paper Award and Best Student Paper Award at IEEE RFID-TA 2019, and a recipient of the Young Scientist Award from the International Union of Radio Science, Commission B in 2021 and 2023. In 2022, Dr. Motroni was awarded with the IEEE/ABB Italy Section award for PhD Thesis and with the “2021 Best PhD Dissertation in the field of Information and Industrial Engineering” from University of Pisa. He won the Best Poster Award at IEEE M&N 2022 and at IEEE RFID 2023 conferences, and the Best Paper Award at IEEE GreenCom 2024. In 2024 he was also awarded with the “Barzilai Award” from SIEm (Italian Society of Electromagnetism). He currently serves as Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Radio Frequency Identification (IEEE JRFID), and he is an executive member of the IEEE CRFID’s Technical Committee on Motion Capture and Localization. He is the Publicity Chair of the IEEE CRFID. He has joined the Organizing Committee and has been Session Chair of several IEEE international conferences. In 2019, he was the President of the IEEE Student Branch of the University of Pisa, for which now serves as Counselor. His current research interests include indoor radiolocalization systems, with specific focus on UHF-RFID and UWB technology for robot and vehicle localization, the integration of robotic systems with RFID towards new systems for industry and logistics, UHF-RFID smart gates and other RFID-based applications for Internet of Things, Industry 4.0, and people safety in both indoor and outdoor environments. His research activity is evidenced by more than 70 scientific contributions in International Journals and Conferences, patents intellectual property and leading positions in research projects.
Publications
- Monitoring Urban Environment through Wireless Sensor Nodes Powered by Mobile RF Sources (Librino, Federico; Martelli, Francesca; Resta, Giovanni; Cecchi, Glauco; Motroni, Andrea; Ria, Andrea - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Automatic, Smart, Safe, and Battery-Less Environment Monitoring with IoT: Communication, Localization, and Sensing (Cecchi, Glauco; Motroni, Andrea; Ria, Andrea; Nepa, Paolo - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Multisensing IIoT Platform Enabled by Custom BAP RFID TAG (Ria, A.; Cecchi, G.; Motroni, A. - 2025 - 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno)
- Exploiting Near-Field Antenna Detuning in Collision Avoidance Systems for RFID-equipped Robots (Cecchi, G.; Motroni, A.; Nepa, P. - 2024 - 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno)
- Advanced RFID-Robot With Rotating Antennas for Smart Inventory in High-Density Shelving Systems (Motroni, A.; D'Avella, S.; Buffi, A.; Tripicchio, P.; Unetti, M.; Cecchi, G.; Nepa, P. - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- A Near-Field Focused Array Antenna Empowered by Deep Learning for UHF-RFID Smart Gates (Motroni, A.; Pino, M. R.; Cecchi, G.; Nepa, P. - 2023 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Passive UHF-RFID Technology: Integrated Communication, Localization and Sensing (Motroni, A.; Cecchi, G.; Ria, A.; Nepa, P. - 2023 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Indoor Multipath channel modeling effects on UHF-RFID Localization with Synthetic Arrays (Motroni, Andrea; Cecchi, Glauco; Buffi, Alice; Nepa, Paolo - 2023 - 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno)
- A UHF-RFID Multi-Antenna Sensor Fusion Enables Item and Robot Localization (Motroni, A.; Bernardini, F.; Buffi, A.; Nepa, P.; Tellini, B. - 2022 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Sensor-Fusion and Tracking Method for Indoor Vehicles with Low-Density UHF-RFID Tags (Motroni, Andrea; Buffi, Alice; Nepa, Paolo; Tellini, Bernardo - 2021 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)