Personale docente

Corrado Guarino Lo Bianco graduated cum laude in Electronic Engineering from the University of Bologna in 1989.
Starting in 1990, he collaborated in research activities coordinated by Prof. A. Tonielli, within MPI 60% and MPI 40% projects, in activities carried out as part of the Progetto Finalizzato Robotica at the U.O. CIOC, and within agreements with SADEL s.r.l. and CEAM s.r.l. The research topics concerned optimization and control applied to electric motors, with particular reference to Variable Reluctance and Induction motors. In particular, in 1990, within the framework of the agreement between CEAM s.r.l. and the Department of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems (DEIS) of the University of Bologna, he was awarded a one-year research grant for the study and development of a power drive for elevator systems.

From 1990 to 1993 he was a PhD student in Systems Engineering at the University of Bologna. He obtained the PhD degree on July 29, 1994, defending a dissertation entitled “Optimization and Control Techniques for Variable Reluctance Motors”.

Starting in 1994, he cooperated with the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Parma where, in collaboration with Prof. A. Piazzi, he conducted research on global optimization. In the academic year 1994/95, he was a contract lecturer for the course “Identification and Optimization” for the University Diploma in Computer and Automation Engineering at the University of Parma. On November 21, 1995, at the same University, he won a Post-Doctoral research grant to carry out research on genetic and interval algorithms for global optimization (academic years 1995/96 and 1996/97).

He has been a Researcher at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Parma since April 16, 1997.
He is currently an Associate Professor in the same Department, where he took up his position on October 1, 2014.

As part of his institutional duties, he has provided teaching assistance in several courses at the University of Parma, such as “Automatic Control”, “Multivariable Systems”, and “Nonlinear Systems”, and has been lecturer for the courses “Industrial Robotics”, “Digital Control”, “Automatic Engineering Laboratory”, “Dynamics and Control of Robotic Systems”, “Automation Systems”, “Modeling and Control of Robotic Systems”, “Control Engineering Laboratory”, and “Control of Robotic Systems”.
He has served as supervisor or co-supervisor for the theses of approximately one hundred students.

From 1999 onwards, he has taken an active part in numerous agreements between the University of Parma and several companies, including international ones, sometimes acting as a member of the research unit and sometimes as its scientific coordinator. These agreements have always aimed at the industrial application of innovative control techniques. During the same years, he also carried out research within several Cofin and PRIN projects, as well as within the European project COOKIES. In 2015/16, he was the scientific coordinator of the European project SAFERUN, funded under the FP7 European project “ECHORD++”. In 2025/26, he was the scientific coordinator of the project CLIMB, funded by the Italian Ministry for Research within the Complementary Actions (PNC) of the PNRR project “Fit4MedRob – Fit for Medical Robotics”, Grant PNC0000007.

From 2000 to 2009, he served as Erasmus coordinator for the Information Engineering area. From 2005 to 2009, he also held the position of Faculty Erasmus coordinator and coordinator for international mobility. In this role, he oversaw the activation of a Double Degree agreement between Italy and France, including the preparation and submission of an internationalization project for its funding.

The research topics addressed by Eng. Corrado Guarino Lo Bianco from 1990 to the present cover several areas.
The first line of research, pursued at the beginning of his academic career, concerned modeling, optimization, and robust control of electric motors, also considering the technological aspects related to the development of the corresponding drives.
Subsequently, his interests shifted to the study of genetic and interval techniques applied to robustness analysis of controllers for nonlinear systems. These techniques were later also used for optimal off-line trajectory planning for industrial manipulators.
Currently, his research is mainly focused on industrial robotics and mobile robotics, covering multiple aspects ranging from real-time optimal path and trajectory planning, to higher-order dynamics, control, and safety.
Research activities are also ongoing in the field of intelligent exoskeletons for rehabilitation.

His research approach has always had a strong applied and experimental orientation, while maintaining a rigorous methodological framework for the solutions investigated.