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Simone Traverso

Project Team Leader - Senior Mechanical Engineer
Senior Technician
Rehab Technologies - INAIL-IIT lab
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About

Passionate and result-oriented Mechanical Engineer, I am working at Rehab Technologies to build innovative mechatronic devices with a high level of technology and strongly focused on the needs of the patients.

The group I am leading, the FeatherEXO team, is focused on the development of an innovative lower limb exoskeleton, to assist different types of locomotive deficiency, with a soft and light approach that is promising for a large variety of users.

I am also leading the Omnia - lower limb prosthesis group: our team has designed a novel active knee prostheses (Unico), based on hydraulic and electric technologies, and one micro controlled ankle prosthesis (Armonico), able to make the step more comfortable and safer for the user.

During my previous experience I worked in the Twin - Lower Limb Exoskeleton team (Rehab Technologies), designing the second revision of the device, and leading the mechanical team of the project.

Moreover, as a mechanical technologist, I designed the hand prosthesis Hannes (Rehab Technologies), with a specific focus on the fingers and the wrist.

Before the IIT experience, I worked in the Italian Institute of Welding (IIS) as a structural engineer, specialized in welded components and metals study.

I got my Master's and Bachelor's degrees in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Genoa, with a stage experience at the CERN scientific center.

Skills: components design, production management, design supervision, project management, rehabilitation robotics, technology transfer

Education

Title: Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering
Institute: University of Genoa
Location: Genoa
Country: Italy
From: 2010 To: 2022

Title: Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering
Institute: University of Genoa
Location: Genoa
Country: Italy
From: 2007 To: 2010

Skills

Components design

Production management

Design supervision

Project management

Rehabilitation robotics

Technology transfer

All Publications
2024
Berettoni A., Traverso S., De Giuseppe S., De Benedictis C., Ferraresi C., Boccardo N., Laffranchi M.
Development of a high backdrivable partially powered Swing assistive actuator knee design: A multiobjective optimization framework
IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, AIM, pp. 217-223
Conference Paper Conference
2023
Mariani G., Tessari F., Ferraresi C., Lucania E., Tauro R.L., Freddolini M., Traverso S., Cherubini A., Gruppioni E., Laffranchi M., De Michieli L., Barresi G.
An Augmented Cooperative Setting for Training the Embodiment of an Artificial Lower Limb
Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, pp. 1549-1554
Conference Paper Conference
2023
Mariani G., Tessari F., Ferraresi C., Lucania E., Tauro R.L., Freddolini M., Traverso S., Cherubini A., Gruppioni E., Laffranchi M., De Michieli L., Barresi G.
Competitive Training in Spatial Augmented Reality for Prosthetic Leg Embodiment
2023 IEEE 11th International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health, SeGAH 2023
Conference Paper Conference
2023
Puliti M., Driessen J., Vitale N., Tessari F., Traverso S., Laffranchi M., De Michieli L., Shtrepi L.
Use of Metamaterials to Reduce Acoustic Noise Emissions from Lower Limb Prostheses: An Experimental Validation
IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics
2022
Puliti M., Tessari F., Galluzzi R., Traverso S., Tonoli A., De Michieli L., Laffranchi M.
A Hybrid Swing-Assistive Electro-Hydrostatic Bionic Knee Design
Proceedings of the IEEE RAS and EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, vol. 2022-August
Conference Paper Conference
Awards and Achievements
2021
Laffranchi M., Traverso S., Vaccaro R., Maludrottu S., Poli F., De Bartolomeis L., Diamanti G., Gruppioni E., De Michieli L.
Good Design
2020
Laffranchi M., Boccardo N., Traverso S., Lombardi L., Canepa M., Lince A., Semprini M., Saglia J.A., Naceri A., Sacchetti R., Gruppioni E., De Michieli L.
Compasso d'oro
2020
Laffranchi M., Boccardo N., Traverso S., Lombardi L., Canepa M., Lince A., Semprini M., Saglia J.A., Naceri A., Sacchetti R., Gruppioni E., De Michieli L.
XXVI Compasso d'oro
2018
Laffranchi M., Boccardo N., Traverso S., Lince A., Canepa M., Saglia J., Gruppioni E., Sacchetti R., Diamanti G., Poli F., De Bartolomeis L., De Michieli L.
ADI Design Index
2018
Laffranchi M., Boccardo N., Traverso S., Lombardi L., Canepa M., Lince A., Semprini M., Saglia J.A., Naceri A., Sacchetti R., Gruppioni E., De Michieli L.
ADI Design Index