ESD
Enrico Fraccaroli
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research interests
Electronic design automation · Fault modelling and injection · Cyber-physical systems · Digital twins · Smart manufacturing
Enrico Fraccaroli is a postdoctoral researcher in ESD whose work connects electronic design automation, cyber-physical systems and industrial digitalisation. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Verona with a thesis on a holistic approach to functional safety for networked cyber-physical systems, after earlier work on virtual-platform integration for smart-system simulation.
His research has addressed the modelling and simulation of heterogeneous systems across several abstraction levels. This includes manipulation and abstraction of analog and mixed-signal descriptions, transistor-level and HDL tooling, multi-domain fault models spanning electrical, mechanical and thermal behaviour, fault injection, network synthesis and simulation-based functional-safety analysis. A central goal is to make faults and cross-domain effects observable early enough that they can be studied before a system reaches physical deployment.
Enrico has also worked on wearable IoT for Parkinson’s disease and on distributed embedded-system design. He was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship for STRATEGUS, carried out between the University of Verona and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His current industrial research uses digital twins and deterministic simulation to validate and optimise cyber-physical production systems, bringing together models of machinery, communication and control software.
Projects
STRATEGUS
STRATEgic GUide to Smart manufacturing
A Horizon Europe MSCA Global Fellowship developing digital-twin, simulation and scheduling methods for safely integrating new technologies into existing manufacturing plants, in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Bip-Bip
Bip-Bip: a wearable smart system to prevent freezing of gait in people affected by Parkinson’s disease.
A Veneto FSE research project on wearable sensing and machine-learning support for anticipating freezing of gait in Parkinson’s disease, with the goal of triggering assistance before or during a freezing episode.
Publications
2024
A Data Fusion Service-Oriented Infrastructure for Production Line Monitoring
ICIT
Analog Defect Injection and Fault Simulation Techniques: A Systematic Literature Review
IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst.
Multidomain Fault Models Covering the Analog Side of a Smart or Cyber-Physical System
IEEE Trans. Computers
2023
2022
A Framework for Modeling and Concurrently Simulating Mechanical and Electrical Faults in Verilog-AMS
FDL
IEEE Trans. Emerg. Top. Comput.
Functional Level Abstraction and Simulation of Verilog-AMS Piecewise Linear Models
ISQED
Inferring Mechanical Fault Models from the Electrical Domain
ICPS
Investigation on Realistic Stuck-on/off Defects to Complement IEEE P2427 Draft Standard
ISQED
The Challenges of Coupling Digital-Twins with Multiple Classes of Faults
LATS
2021
2020
News
Publication
Recent ESD research in digital twins and manufacturing systems
Recent ESD work spans human-centred digital twins, early validation of manufacturing software, and machine-dynamics-aware scheduling for cyber-physical production systems.
Publication
ESD Group: Paper Published at IEEE Transactions on Computers 2023
"Multi-Domain Fault Models Covering the Analog Side of a Smart or Cyber-Physical System" derives mechanical fault models from their electrical equivalents to support system-level safety analysis.
Publication
ESD Group: Paper Published at IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
"Analog Defect Injection and Fault Simulation Techniques: A Systematic Literature Review" surveys the state of the art of analog defect injection and fault simulation.
Award
ESD Group: Group member awarded with Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship
The European Commission awarded Enrico Fraccaroli a three-year Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (Global Fellowship) for the STRATEGUS project.