An interdepartmental lab from the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering (DEIB) and the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering (DIG) of Poiltecnico di Milano.

Your academic partner towards innovation

from wireless connectivity to intelligent autonomous systems

Connectivity • Sensing • AI • Autonomous Systems

CONNECTED INTELLIGENCE FOR THE PHYSICAL WORLD

We research and develop technologies that enable machines, vehicles and industrial systems to connect, sense, understand and act.

Smart Manufacturing & Industry 5.0

Enabling intelligent, flexible and human-centric factories through wireless connectivity, sensing, localization and AI

Connected & Autonomous Mobility

Enabling vehicles and infrastructure to cooperate, perceive and make safer autonomous decisions

Smart Infrastructure & Logistics

Connecting physical infrastructure, assets and logistics processes through wireless sensing and intelligence

RESEARCH AREAS

Next-Generation Wireless: 5G/6G, Private Networks, V2X, Wi-Fi, BLE, Industrial Wireless

Wireless Sensing & Localization: ISAC, positioning, tracking, RF sensing, sensor fusion

Connected & Autonomous Systems: Smart Roads, CAV, V2X, AGV/AMR, robotics, cooperative perception

Edge & Distributed AI: Edge AI, Federated Learning, collaborative intelligence, TinyML

Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems: Industry 5.0, Digital Twins, Industrial IoT, human-machine interaction

News

Big milestone for our lab!

The scientific paper disseminating our research collaboration with MOVYON and the mOve research group of DEIB demonstrating the 1st real time demo of an autonomous vehicle navigating through an Italian tunnel without GPS thanks to the assistance of roadside infrastructure with wireless positioning and V2X communications is available!

Available here!

We are proud to announce that our paper

Barbieri, L., Savazzi, S., Brambilla, M., & Nicoli, M. "Decentralized federated learning for extended sensing in 6G connected vehicles," Vehicular Communications, 33, 100396, 2022.

has received the 2024 Best Paper Award from Elsevier’s Vehicular Communications journal.

This recognition highlights the impact of our work on decentralized federated learning for extended sensing in 6G connected vehicles.

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Our researchers Raffaele Viterbo and Mattia Brambilla received the Award for the Best Publications by Young Researchers of the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering of Politecnico di Milano for the publication

Raffele Viterbo, Federico Campolo, Mattia Cerutti, Satyesh Awasthi, Stefano Arrigoni, Mattia Brambilla, Monica Nicoli. A 5G Roadside Infrastructure Assisting Connected and Automated Vehicles in Vulnerable Road User Protection. IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2025.

Our project entitled "Cyber-Physical Integration of Smart Tyres and V2X for Vehicle Health and Road Monitoring", has received an honorary certificate of appreciation for the 2025 IEEE Communications Society Student Competition, ranked among the best 21 projects among the 148 submitted.

Our former PhD student Bernardo Camajori Tedeschini received the 2025 “Prof. Florian Daniel” PhD thesis award and the 2025 Chorafas Foundation Prize
for his doctoral dissertation “Cooperative Machine Learning Methods in Distributed Systems”.

Camajori Tedeschi was recognized for the relevance of his research to the call’s theme, the high scientific significance in the field of information engineering, and the innovativeness of the techniques and results achieved, as demonstrated by his excellent scientific output.

A new research work has been published in the IEEE Journal of Indoor and Seamless Positioning and Navigation.

Topics: localization, Stein Variational Adaptive Importance Sampling, LOS/NLOS

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A new research work has been published in the IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Tranportation Systems!

Topic: roadside infrastructure for detecting pedestrians and triggering an Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) of a Connected and Automated Vehicle (CAV) via 5G V2X connectivity. Validation inside the campus of Politecnico di Milano.

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Our tutorial paper on 5G positioning has been accepted for publication in IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials!

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A new research work has been published in the IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society!

This work summarizes the main findings of the HYPER-5G project on the integration of 5G and GNSS technologies for positioning.

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We are participating in MOST, funded by PNRR.
The largest research funding (378 M€) on smart, connected and sustainable mobility!

A new research work has been published on Scientific Reports of Nature Portfolio.

The work is a result of the HYPER-5G project.

Topics: 5G positioning

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