Andrea Bonci received the Master of Science degree in Electronic and Automation Engineering and the Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligent Systems from the University of Ancona, Italy. He holds the position of Assistant Professor in automatic control and head the Automation Laboratory with the Department of Information Engineering at Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy. He holds National Scientific Qualification as Associate Professor in Automatica, and is a senior member of the IEEE. His current research interests include modelling and control of linear and nonlinear systems, system and control theory, modeling and control of vehicles dynamics, automotive systems, modeling and control of autonomous systems, mechatronic, robotics, embedded systems applications, industrial automation, cyber-physical systems, smart manufacturing, intelligent systems; his former research interests included multisensor data fusion, mobile robot navigation and localization, artificial vision.