Giuseppe Sanseverino

Mechanical Engineer
Research Associate & Lecturer at TU Chemnitz

About me

I am a research associate and lecturer at the department of Sports Equipment and Technology of Chemnitz University of Technology in Germany.
I am also a PhD student and member of the DFG (German Research Foundation) funded Collaborative Research Center (CRC) Hybrid Societies. Since 2021 I am serving on the Executive Board of the CRC as PhD students representative.
Since 2020 I am a member of the International Sports Engineering Association (ISEA) and since November 2022 I am an elected member of the ISEA Executive Committee and chair of the Outreach committee. I am also a member of IEEE of the Associazione Nazionale Disegno e Metodi dell'Ingegneria Industriale (ADM).
I attended the University of Naples Federico II, where I got my Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and my Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering for Design and Production. In 2019, in the framework of the European funded program Erasmus Traineeship, I joined Chemnitz University of Technology. Here I carried out my traineeship and wrote my Master's thesis. In 2021, I was a visiting research fellow at the Fraunhofer Joint Lab IDEAS of the University of Naples Federico II, where I carried out research activities in the field of motion tracking and ergonomics collaborating in the development of an automatic tool for the assessment of a manual dexterity test.
I am active as author and reviewer for the Sports Engineering journal, the International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing and for other journals and international conferences. I serve as topic coordinator on the editorial board of the special issue Advancements in Cycling Performance Enhancement Strategies for Cyclists: From Amateurs to Elite published by Frontiers in Sports and Active Living. I was co-organizer of the 1st international Conference on Hybrid Societies and co-editor its proceedings.

RESEARCH

I work on Body-Attached Sensor Networks (BASNs) for gesture recognition. The aim of my research is to use multibody modelling and simulation to virtually assess BASNs and their boundary conditions, thus avoiding expensive and time consuming user studies. This results in a virtual model of the human upper limb capable of simulating human gestures and a set of digital twins of sensors.
I am also active in the field of sports engineering, here my research work is focused on wearable sensors networks for sports performance monitoring. I also investigate human vibrations with a particular focus on vibrations coming from the road profile to the hand-arm system of a cyclist. I conducted field and laboratory tests to determine the extent of hand-arm vibrations and understand the effect of cycling gloves on their attenuation. My master thesis "Towards innovative road cycle gloves for low vibration transmission" laid the foundation for the development of novel cycling gloves capable of reducing hand-arm vibrations.

AWARDS

The contribution "Understanding the Capabilities of FMG and EMG Sensors in Recognizing Basic Gesture Components" presented at the 1st International Conference on Hybrid Societies 2023 was awarded with the best paper award.
My master thesis "Towards innovative road cycle gloves for low vibration transmission" was awarded with the 1st prize of "Premio ADM 2021". I also achieved the 3rd prize in the ISEA Student Project Competition 2020 realizing an infographic that summarized my master thesis work.

PUBLICATIONS

2024
Sanseverino, G., Genua, A., Krumm, D., Odenwald, S. (2024). Inverse Kinematics to Simulate Sport Movements in Virtual Environment. In: Carfagni, M., Furferi, R., Di Stefano, P., et al. (eds) Design Tools and Methods in Industrial Engineering III. ADM 2023. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Cham.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-58094-9_15Rega, A., Genua, A, Vitolo, F., Patalano, S., Sanseverino, G., Penter, L., Arnold, F., Ihlenfeldt, S., Lanzotti, A. (2024). Toward a Framework for Virtual Testing of Complex Machine Tools. In: Carfagni, M., Furferi, R., Di Stefano, P., et al. (eds) Design Tools and Methods in Industrial Engineering III. ADM 2023. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Cham.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-52075-4_60

2023
Meyer, B., Sanseverino, G. (Editors) (2023). Proceedings of the
1st International Conference on Hybrid Societies 2023.
Universitätsverlag Chemnitz, Chemnitz
ISBN: 978-3-96100-192-7
URL: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:ch1-qucosa2-864633Buder, J., Sanseverino, G., Odenwald, S., Schwanitz, S. (2023). A laboratory treadmill for simulation of road surface induced vibrations in cycling. Journal of Science and Cycling, 12(2), 14-17.
URL: https://www.jsc-journal.com/index.php/JSC/article/view/843Sanseverino, G., Rothermel, M., Odenwald, S. (2023) A Wearable Sensor Network for Cyclists Safety in Mixed Traffic, a Pilot Study. IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Industry 4.0 & IoT (MetroInd4.0&IoT), Brescia, Italy, 2023, pp. 217-221, DOI: 10.1109/MetroInd4.0IoT57462.2023.10180150Sanseverino, G., Krumm, D., Kilian, W., Odenwald, S. (2023)
Estimation of hike events and temporal parameters with body-attached sensors. Sports Engineering 26, 18 (2023).
DOI: 10.1007/s12283-023-00411-xSanseverino, G., Krumm, D., Kopnarski, L., Rudisch, J.,
Voelcker-Rehage, C., Odenwald, S. (2023)
Preliminary Validation of a Virtual Environment for Simulation and Recognition of Human Gestures. In: Gerbino S., Lanzotti A., Martorelli M., Mirálbes Buil R., Rizzi C., Roucoules L. (eds) Advances on Mechanics, Design Engineering and Manufacturing IV. JCM 2022. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Cham.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-15928-2_53Caporaso, T., Sanseverino, G. et al. (2023)
Automatic Outcomes in Minnesota Dexterity Test Using a System of Multiple Depth Cameras. In: Gerbino S., Lanzotti A., Martorelli M., Mirálbes Buil R., Rizzi C., Roucoules L. (eds) Advances on Mechanics, Design Engineering and Manufacturing IV. JCM 2022. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Cham. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-15928-2_25

2022
Sanseverino, G., Krumm, D., Kilian, W., Odenwald, S. (2022)
Wearable Sensor Nodes for Automatic Detection of Hike Events and Parameters: A Pilot Study. In Proceedings of ISEA 2022 – The Engineering of Sport 14, Purdue University, 6-10 June 2022.
DOI: 10.5703/1288284317538Krumm, D., Zenner, A., Sanseverino, G., Odenwald, S. (2022)
Recognition of Basic Gesture Components using Body-Attached Bending Sensors.
In: Spink A., Barski J., Brouwer A.-M., Riedel G., Sil A. (eds) Proceedings of the joint 12th International Conference on Methods and Techniques in Behavioral Research and 6th Seminar on Behavioral Methods, online May 18-22 2022, vol. 2, pp. 83-88.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20066849Sanseverino, G., Krumm, D., Odenwald, S. (2022)
A Framework for Virtual Evaluation of Body-Attached Sensor Networks.
In: Rizzi C., Campana F., Bici M., Gherardini F., Ingrassia T., Cicconi P. (eds) Design Tools and Methods in Industrial Engineering II. ADM 2021. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Cham.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-91234-5_56

2021
Ramalingame, R., Barioul, R., Li, X., Sanseverino, G., Krumm, D., Odenwald, S.,
Kanoun, O. (2021)
Wearable Smart Band for American Sign Language Recognition With Polymer Carbon Nanocomposite-Based Pressure Sensors.
IEEE Sensors Letters, vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 1-4.
DOI: 10.1109/LSENS.2021.3081689Sanseverino, G., Schwanitz, S., Krumm, D., Odenwald, S., Lanzotti, A. (2021)
Towards innovative road cycle gloves for low vibration transmission.
International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing (IJIDeM), vol. 15, n. 1, pp. 155–158.
DOI: 10.1007/s12008-020-00748-8

2020
Sanseverino, G. (2020)
Design Process of Innovative Cycling Gloves Infographic realised for the ISEA 2020 Student Project Competition and awarded with third prize.
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.33411.73761Sanseverino, G., Schwanitz, S., Krumm, D., Odenwald, S., Lanzotti, A. (2020) Understanding the effect of tire pressure and speed on vibrations transmission to the handlebar in road cycling. In: Fehr, U. (ed.) Zukunftsperspektiven von Sportinformatik & Sporttech-nologie im Leistungs und Breitensport. 13. Symposium der dvs-Sektion Sportinformatik und Sporttechnologie.
Spinfortec2020 digital, pp. 36–37.
DOI: 10.15495/EPubUBT00005003Sanseverino, G., Schwanitz, S., Krumm, D., Odenwald, S., Lanzotti, A. (2020)
Understanding the Effect of Gloves on Hand-Arm Vibrations in Road Cycling. Proceedings 2020, vol. 49, n. 1.
DOI: 10.3390/proceedings2020049070

DATA & CODE

Krumm D., Sanseverino G., Odenwald S. (2022)
Plantar pressure and inertial data of a 7.5 km hike.
This dataset contains data from a male person (age 37 years, height 1.80 m, body mass 71 kg) who voluntarily undertook a 7.5 km hike in a flat urban area with a total slope of 50 m and moderate traffic while wearing two body-attached sensor networks (BASN) to collect plantar pressure data and inertial data (accelerations and angular velocities). The two BASN consisted of a small, lightweight and portable sensor node and a pair of pressure insoles.
DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/63HJS