Paolo Carbone

Full Professor
Engineering Department
University of Perugia – Via G. Duranti, 93 – 06125 Perugia
Office: +39 075 5853629 – email: paolo.carbone@unipg.it

Education

1990 – Laurea (Bachelor) degree in Electronic Engineering – University of Padova – Italy
1994 – PhD in Electronic Instrumentation – University of Padova – Italy

Teaching

  • Probability Calculus
  • Measurement Data Processing
  • Electronic Measurements

Honors and awards

  • IEEE Fellow
  • Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Systems Council
  • IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technical Award: For outstanding contributions to the advancement of the state-of-the-art in the quantization of signals in digital instrumentation

Editorial activities

  • Editor-in-Chief of Measurement (2018 – to date)
  • Editor-in-Chief of ACTA IMEKO (2012 – 2017)
  • Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems–II (2000 – 2002)
  • Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems–I (2005 – 2007)
  • Guest editor of IEEE Systems Journal (2014) and IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (2012)
  • Past member of the Steering Committee of IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing
  • Past member of the Steering Committee of IEEE Transactions on Big Data
  • Co-Editor of three books (Springer, IEEE-Wiley)

Services

  • President of the IEEE Systems Council (2016 – 2017)
  • Head of the Dept. of Electrical Engineering at the University of Perugia (2011-2103)
  • Coordinator of the Quality Board of the University of Perugia (2013-to date)
  • Member of the External Assessment board of the University of Bolzano – Italy (2013-to date)
  • Member of the External Assessment board of the University of Cassino – Italy (2013-to date)
  • Member of the External Assessment board of the University of Genova – Italy (2013-2017)
  • President of the Association TUCEP (2008–11, www.tucep.org).

Visiting positions

  • Visiting research and teaching position: University of California – Irvine (1996)
  • Visiting research position: Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Department of Fundamental Electricity and Instrumentation, (2012 and 2014)
  • Contract professor, Imperial College, UK (2017) – WBMA program

Publications (last five years, journal papers only)

2017

  • P. Carbone, J. Schoukens, A. Moschitta, “Dynamic Signal Measurement based on Quantized Data”, IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., vol. 66, no. 2, 2017, pp. 223-233. DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2016.2627298.
  • A. De Angelis, J. Schoukens, K. R. Godfrey, P. Carbone, “Practical Issues in the Synthesis of Ternary Sequences”, IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., vol. 66, no. 2, 2017, pp. 681-690. DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2016.2622778.
  • P. Carbone, D. Petri, K. Barbé, “Nonparametric Probability Density Estimation via Interpolation Filtering”,  IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., vol. 66, no. 4, 2017, pp. 681-690.
  • V. Pasku, A. De Angelis, A. Moschitta, P. Carbone, J.-O. Nilsson, S. Dwivedi, P. Handel, “A Magnetic Ranging-Aided Dead-Reckoning Positioning System for Pedestrian Applications”, IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., vol. 66, no. 5, May 2017, pp. 953-963
  • V. Pasku, A. De Angelis, G. De Angelis, A. Moschitta, P. Carbone, “Magnetic Field Analysis for 3-D Positioning Applications”, IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., vol. 66, no. 5, May 2017, pp. 935-943
  • A. De Angelis, P. Carbone, E. Sisinni, A. Flammini, “Performance Assessment of Chirp-Based Time Dissemination and Data Communications in Inductively Coupled Links”, IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., vol. 66, no. 9, Sept. 2017, pp. 2474 – 2482.
  • V. Pasku, A. De Angelis, G. De Angelis, D. Darmindra, D. Arumugan, M. Dionigi, P. Carbone, A. Moschitta, D. S. Ricketts, “Magnetic Field Based Positioning Systems”, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 2017, DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2017.2684087
  • Luca Mari, Paolo Carbone, Alessandro Giordani, Dario Petri, A structural interpretation of measurement and some related epistemological issues, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2017.08.001, 2017.
  • A. De Angelis, J. Schoukens, K. R. Godfrey, P. Carbone, “Best Linear Approximation of Wiener Systems Using Multilevel Signals: Theory and Experiments,” IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., in press.

2016

  • V. Pasku, A. De Angelis, M. Dionigi, G. De Angelis, A. Moschitta, P. Carbone, “A Positioning System Based on Low Frequency Magnetic Fields,” IEEE Trans. Industrial Electronics, 2015, DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2015.2499251.
  • P. Carbone, J. Schoukens, I. Kollar, A. Moschitta, “Measuring the Noise Cumulative Distribution Function Using Quantized Data,” IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., vol. 65, 2016. DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2016.2540865.
  • G. De Angelis, A. De Angelis, V. Pasku, A. Moschitta, P. Carbone, “An Experimental System for Tightly Coupled Integration of GPS and AC Magnetic Positioning,” IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., vol. 65, 2016. DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2016.2540938.
  • G. De Angelis, A. Moschitta, P. Carbone, “Positioning Techniques in Indoor Environments Based on Stochastic Modeling of UWB Round-Trip-Time Measurements,” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2016 DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2016.2516822
  • B. Renczes, I. Kollar, A. Moschitta, P. Carbone, “Numerical Optimization Problems of Sine-Wave Fitting Algorithms in the Presence of Roundoff Errors,” IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., vol. 65, 2016. DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2016.2562218.
  • V. Pasku, A. De Angelis, M. Dionigi, A. Moschitta, G. De Angelis, P. Carbone, “Analysis of Nonideal Effects and Performance in Magnetic Positioning Systems,” IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., vol. 65, no. 12, 2016, pp. 2816-2827. DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2016.2608425.

2015

  • D. Petri, L. Mari, P. Carbone, “A Structured Methodology for Measurement Development,” IEEE Trans. Instr. Meas., Vol. 64, No. 9, pp. 2367-2379  DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2015.2399023.
  • A. De Angelis, A. Moschitta, P. Carbone, M. Calderini, S. Neri, R. Borgna, M. Peppucci, “Design and characterization of a portable ultrasonic indoor 3D positioning system,’’ IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., vol. 64, no. 10, pp. 2616-2625, 2015. DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2015.2427892.
  • G. De Angelis, V. Pasku, A. De Angelis, M. Dionigi, M. Mongiardo, M. Moschitta, P. Carbone, “An Indoor AC Magnetic Positioning System,” IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 64, no. 5, pp. 1275-1283, 2015,  DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2014.2381353.
  • A. Moschitta, J. Schoukens, P. Carbone, “Information and Statistical Efficiency when Quantizing Noisy DC signals,” IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., vol. 64, no. 2, pp. 308-317, 2015. DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2014.2341372.
  • P. Carbone, J. Schoukens, I. Kollar, A. Moschitta, “Accurate Sine-Wave Amplitude Measurements Using Nonlinearly Quantized Data,” IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., vol. 64, no. 12, pp. 3201-3208, 2015. DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2015.2463331.
  • A. Moschitta, J. Schoukens, P. Carbone, “Parametric System Identification Using Quantized Data,” IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., vol. 64, no. 8, pp. 2312-2322, 2015. DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2015.2390833.
  • A. De Angelis, G. De Angelis, P. Carbone, “Using Gaussian-Uniform Mixture Models for Robust Time-Interval Measurement,” IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., vol. 64, no. 12, pp. 3545-3554, 2015. DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2015.2469434.
  • A. De Angelis, M. Dionigi, A. Moschitta, P. Carbone, E. Sisinni, P. Ferrari, A. Flammini, S. Rinaldi, “On the Use of Magnetically Coupled Resonators for Chirp-Based Timestamping,” IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., vol. 64, no. 12, pp. 3536-3544, 2015. DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2015.2463332.

2014

  • P. Carbone, J. Schoukens, “A Rigorous Analysis of Least Squares Sine Fitting Using Quantized Data: the Random Phase Case,’’ IEEE Trans. Instr. Meas., Vol. 63, No. 3,  March 2014, pp. 512-230, DOI 10.1109/TIM.2013.2282220.
  • P. Carbone, G. Vandersteen, “Bias Compensation When Identifying Static Nonlinear Functions Using Averaged Measurements,” IEEE Trans. Instr. Meas., Vol. 63, No. 7,  2014, pp. 1855-1862, DOI 10.1109/TIM.2013.2297814.
  • Marco Dionigi, Guido De Angelis, Antonio Moschitta, Mauro Mongiardo, Paolo Carbone, “A simple ranging system based on mutually coupled resonating circuits,”  IEEE Trans. Instr. Meas., Vol. 63, No. 5,  May 2014, pp. 1215-1223, DOI 10.1109/TIM.2014.2298174.

2013

  • A. Cazzorla, G. De Angelis, A. Moschitta, M. Dionigi, F. Alimenti, P. Carbone “A 5.6 GHz UWB Position Measurement System,” IEEE Trans. Instr. Meas, Vol. 62, No. 3, March 2013, pp. 675-683.
  • P. Carbone, A. Cazzorla, P. Ferrari, A. Flammini, A. Moschitta, S. Rinaldi, T. Sauter, E. Sisinni, “Low complexity UWB Radios for Precise Wireless Sensor Network Synchronization,” IEEE Trans. Instr. Meas., Vol. 62, No. 9,  Sept. 2013, pp. 2538-2548, DOI 10.1109/TIM.2013.2259101

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