Marco CiarciÃ
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
South Dakota State University
United States of America
Biography
He received the M.S. degree in Aerospace Engineering at Università degli Studi di Palermo in 2001. In 2008 he completed the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering at Rice University under the supervision of Prof. Angelo Miele. From 2010 to 2014, he was awarded the U.S. National Research Council Research Fellowship. In that period, his research activities were carried out at the Spacecraft Robotics Laboratory of the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA. The main research project involved the design, development, and testing of a suboptimal guidance strategy for spacecraft proximity maneuvers.he is now Assistant Professor at South Dakota State University in the Mechanical Engineering Department. As director of the newly established ARTLAB (Aerospace Robotics Testbed Lab), his current research interests include: robotics, nonlinear control, optimal control, spacecraft GNC, small satellites.
Research Interest
Robotics, Mechatronics, Nonlinear Control, Optimal Control
