Projects

We are currently involved in the following project:

Title: ADAS+ - Sviluppo di Tecnologie e Sistemi Avanzati per la Sicurezza dell’Auto mediante piattaforme Advanced Driver Assistance System
Duration: 30 months
Grant by: PON 2018 Mobilità sostenibile
The future of automotive industry is all about data and the Machine learning models can be useful to improve the automotive systems. In particular, the future purpose is to create self driving cars that can learn to perceive their surroundings in all types of driving conditions. In addition, the researchers in the automobile industry have tried to design and build safer automobile in order to reduce fatal accidents caused by a drowsiness state. Many of the approaches are based on the acquisition of bio-data in order to obtain information about HRV signal. The principal limitation of these methods is the use of devices for the acquisition of the signals. Even though these devices are not invasive, the driver has to put his hands over the steering wheel in order to record bio data. Our research focalized on the implementation of sensor-less techniques to obtain informations about driver state and to reduce the use of sophisticated devices.

Title: COEHAR - SCenter of Excellence for the acceleration of HArm Reduction – CoEHAR
Smoking is one of the major health problems of the modern world, whose impact on morbility and mortality is devastating both from a cardio-cerebrovascular and oncological point of view. The consequences of smoking cigarettes, in terms of cancer risk, are dramatically evident; more than a quarter of all cancer cases in the western world are caused by smoking. It is not just lung tumors (90% of which are related to tobacco smoking), but also cancer of esophagus, larynx, mouth, bladder, pancreas, kidney, stomach and hematological tumors (myeloid leukemia). Recently, the relationships between cigarette smoking and breast and colorectal cancer have also been confirmed. A "pharmacological" and a "psychological-gestural" addiction coexist during tobacco use, that are physiologically and chemically expressed through a complex interrelation of brain neurotransmitters involved in "reward systems”. To date, there are considerable controversies on the most effective and scientifically validated methods for smoking cessation, and there is no official recognition on the efficacy of electronic cigarettes and other devices in validated smoking protocols CoEHAR intends to investigate on:

  • research on smoking and tobacco addiction;
  • the main smoking-related diseases and their complications;
  • strategies to support smokers who wants to quit;
  • lifestyles and behaviors linked to the first experiences of tobacco smoking among the teenagers;
  • pharmacological treatments for smoking and nicotine addiction;
  • the new tobacco control scenarios;
  • new alternative products to the conventional cigarette;
  • technological innovations to support smoking cessation pathways;
  • environmental pollution related to cigarette smoke and cigarette waste;
  • the tobacco control and monitoring policies and alternative products;
  • policies and protocols for harm reduction;
  • cost-effectiveness analyses on the use of alternative products compared to conventional cigarettes.