prof. Alberto Trevisani
	Associate Professor centre: UniPd - DTG alberto.trevisani@unipd.it	Stradella S. Nicola, 6 36100 VICENZA Tel: +39 0444 99 8816 Fax: +39 0444 99 8888

Professor Alberto Trevisani was born in Verona, Italy, on June the 25th, 1974
In March 1998 he received the Master Degree (cum laude) in Engineering Management at the University of Padua.
In February 2002 he obtained the Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics from the University of Brescia, by presenting a final dissertation concerning the simultaneous control of rigid body motion and vibrations in flexible link mechanisms.
In March 2002 he was awarded a one year grant to develop a research program promoted in partnership with the Finnish multinational Finn-Power Oy.
In March 2003 he was awarded a postdoctoral research fellowship from the University of Padua
In January 2004 he became Assistant Professor of Applied Mechanics at the University of Padua.
Since October 2006 he is Associate Professor of Applied Mechanics at the Department of Management and Engineering (DTG) of the University of Padua in Vicenza.

Chief Teaching Activities
Since the Academic Year 2004/2005 he has been teaching the following courses:
• Mechanical Vibrations at the Master Degrees in Mechatronics Engineering and Product Innovation Engineering.
• Robotics at the Master Degree in Management Engineering.
• Fundamentals of Mechanics at the Bachelor of Science in Management Engineering.
• Control of Mechanical Systems at the Bachelor of Science in Mechatronics Engineering.
• Design and Analysis of Multibody Systems at the Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering

Since January 2009 he is the Coordinator of the Ph.D. Course in Mechatronics and Industrial System of the Doctoral School in Industrial Engineering of the University of Padua.

Scientific Activities
Since November 1998, he has been carrying out his research activities at the University of Padua, also in cooperation with scholars of the Universities of Udine, Trento and Trieste, the Ohio University (USA) and the Université D’Orléans (Bourges, France). Such researches have been documented in forty-five scientific papers published in international journals or in the proceedings of international conferences.
Researches chiefly concern theoretical, numerical and experimental investigations in the field of mechanics of machines, robotics, and mechanical vibrations. Such activities have been carried out within the frame of European research programs (BRITE/CRAFT), national projects (MIUR PRIN/FIRB), University of Padua self-funded research programs, as well as in cooperation with several private businesses.

Since 2007 he is the coordinator of the program for a research associate position entitled “Modeling and experimentation on high-performance serial manipulators with flexible links”.
In 2008 he is the coordinator of the University of Padua self-funded one-year research program entitled “Planning and control of Cable-Direc-Driven Robots”.
Since 2009 he is the coordinator of the University of Padua self-funded two-year research program entitled “Modeling, trajectory planning and control of high-performance manipulators with flexible links or cable direct drive”.

He has served as a reviewer for the following international journals: Journal of Sound and Vibration, Mechanism and Machine Theory, Multibody System Dynamics, Communications in Numerical Methods Engineering, IEEE Transactions in Industrial Electronics, Advances in Engineering Software.

The chief research areas in which he is currently involved are:
• the dynamics and control of closed chain mechanisms and serial manipulators with flexible links,
• the design of cable direct driven robots (in cooperation with the Ohio University),
• the synthesis of delayed reference regulators (DRC) for oscillating mechanical systems,
• the development of haptic robotic devices for teleoperated tasks (in cooperation with the Université D’Orléans).
• the use of innovative mechatronic devices in the industrial and medical fields.