Luca Santoro received his M.S. degree in Electronics and Robotics Engineering in 2020 and his Ph.D. degree in Materials, Mechatronics and Systems Engineering from the University of Trento in 2024. His research interests include autonomous UAVs and wheeled mobile robots, distributed and real-time estimation and control, localization and clock synchronization algorithms. He was a researcher at Fraunhofer Italia Research within the Automation and Mechatronics Engineering team, where he contributed to the LUNA Project on autonomous robotic transport systems for Industry 4.0. Since 2025, he has been a Postdoctoral Researcher at IMDEA Networks Institute (Leganés, Spain), focusing on autonomous drone systems, indoor localization on resource-constrained platforms and the integration of visible light communication on mobile robots.
