Fondazione Istituto Italiano Di Tecnologia

UniversitÁ Degli Studi Di Genova

Stefano Cordasco

Darwin G Caldwell

Gianluca Pane

Nikolaos Tsagarakis

Enrico Mingo Hoffman

Arturo Laurenzi

Edoardo Romiti

Luca Muratore

Alessio Margan

Lorenzo Baccelliere

Navvab Kashiri

Jörn Malzahn

Carlo Tacchino

Emanuele Guglielmino

Michele Focchi

A modular configurable robot, comprising robot modules comprising a coupling mechanism including an electrical coupling member comprising a network communication signal connection, an arrangement forming upon coupling an orientation signal, an integrated circuit comprising a microcontroller circuit with unique identification code and I/O ports coupled to said electrical coupling to receive orientation electrical signal, a communication slave module comprising ports and registers storing state values of the ports, one port pre-designated as input, the ports being open or closed depending on the port state, the robot comprising a master communication module forming with said slave modules a master slave communication network topology, a server hosting a database of robot module parameters, accessible by unique identification code, said master module retrieving from said communication slave module the unique identification code, and from the database robot module parameters, and from said microcontroller circuit said information of a relative orientation.

Modular configurable robot, corresponding method and computer program product

A device () includes a turbine () having an impeller (), and an electric generator () having a stator () provided with stator windings distributed around a cylindrical surface (X) coaxial to the impeller (), and a permanent magnet () which is rotatable relative to the stator () and is drivingly connected for rotation with the impeller (). The impeller () is housed inside the permanent magnet () and the assembly formed by the impeller () and by the permanent magnet () is housed inside the stator (). The permanent magnet () is made as a single hollow cylindrical body of high magnetic density material with diametrical magnetization.

Device for generating electric power from a source of air or other gas or fluid under pressure

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Genoa, Italy

Stefano Cordasco