Luca Sarti

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Luca Sarti is a researcher whose work sits at the intersection of assistive robotics and high-performance hardware acceleration. His key research areas include robotic manipulation for individuals with motor impairments, embedded control systems, and specialized computing architectures for 3D scene understanding. Sarti’s major contributions are twofold: he developed an embedded implementation of an eye-in-hand visual servoing control system for a Wheelchair Mounted Robotic Arm (WMRA), a technology designed to help people with conditions like Spinal Muscular Atrophy and Cerebral Palsy perform daily tasks. This work, cited 10 times, addresses a critical gap between laboratory prototypes and practical, usable assistive devices. In parallel, Sarti has made significant strides in hardware design, co-authoring a study on a ray-casting accelerator fabricated in 10nm CMOS. This chip, which has garnered 8 citations, enables efficient 3D scene reconstruction for edge robotics and augmented reality by exploiting voxel data-locality and near-memory computing. Notably, the accelerator’s opportunistic approximate trilinear interpolation achieves substantial energy savings, marking a notable achievement in low-power, real-time spatial computing. Sarti’s dual focus on human-centered robotics and cutting-edge hardware demonstrates a rare ability to bridge application-driven design with foundational engineering innovation.