Let me introduce👋

I'm Elisa Martinenghi and I'm attending the Master's degree in Robotics Engineering at University of Genoa!

• 👀 I'm interest in biomedical robotics, human-robot interaction, cooperative robotics, manipulation, and coding.

• 🔭 I’m currently working on my Master thesis. I am implementing a framework that allows the user to control the mobile base of the Reachy 2 robot (from @pollen-robotics) with a visual Body Machine Interface that exploits hands movement. The same interface is then used to select an object, that the robot automatically grasps.

• 🎓 Bachelor degree in Automation Engineering at Politecnico di Milano.

• 💻 Coding languages: Python, Matlab, C, PDDL+

• 🦾 Frameworks: ROS, ROS2

• ⚡ Development tools: Protégé, Creo Parametric, MPLab, Visual Studio, Docker, Gazebo, Simulink, RViz

• 🧠 Perception & ML: OpenCV, YOLO, MediaPipe, deep learning

• 🎯 Graduating in October 2026 (🤞) — open to robotics engineering / R&D opportunities in Europe.

• 📫 How to reach me: linkedin or at my personal email eli.martinenghi@gmail.com

  🏆 Here you can find the works I'm most proud of:

• 🤖 Master thesis — BoMI control of Reachy 2 — visual Body–Machine Interface (MediaPipe + YOLO) for hand-guided base control and autonomous grasping on a real humanoid (simulation + application in real life).

• ✋ Cooperative manipulation — task-priority control for dual-arm manipulation (Franka Panda) and underwater vehicle–manipulator systems.

• 🧭 Autonomous navigation (ROS 2) — multi-robot coordination, ArUco marker scanning, and a PDDL-driven planner tested on a real robot.

• 🔌 Embedded firmware (C) — PWM/SPI/ADC/UART drivers written from scratch on a PIC24, with an obstacle-avoidance state machine.