Dr. Alessandro Freddi is an Associate Professor at Università Politecnica delle Marche (Ancona, Italy), where he teaches “Preventive Maintenance for Robotics and Smart Automation” and “Systems for Automation”. His main research activities cover fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control, with applications for robotics and the development and application of assistive technologies. He has published more than 100 papers in international journals and conferences and is involved both in national and international research projects.