ACTS Lab
Advanced Communication Technologies and Speech
Welcome to the web page of the ACTS laboratory of Sapienza University of Rome. Our research focuses on a wide range of topics in the area of communication technologies and speech science.
Our current research topics mainly address:
- Cognitive radio algorithms and protocols
- Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols for wireless networks
- Indoor positioning and navigation
- Theoretical bounds of wireless communication systems
- Ultra Wide Band communications
- Impulse radio theoretical limits
- Speech analysis and recognition
- Speech processing by humans and lexical access models
The research approach followed at ACTS combines rigorous theoretical modeling and accurate experimental analysis. Several students from Sapienza and
external institutions as well as visitors from academic and industrial institutions participate in research activities.
In ACTS lab our Master and PhD students learn how to find a good balance between theory and practice, and are offered the opportunity of joining a network of researchers
working at top-notch institutions in Europe, US and Asia, thanks to numerous scientific collaborations that ACTS lab has developed during the last
25 years.
Students and researchers at ACTS have access to equipment for experimental activities, including:
- a testbed for indoor positioning of mobile devices covering this first two floors of the DIET Department, based on the combination of Wi-Fi fingerprinting and UHF proximity detection. The testbed is composed of a central processing server controlling 15 Wi-Fi access points as well as active and passive RFID readers, and mobile phones, tablets and RFID tags acting as client devices
- a wireless ad-hoc network composed of 45 Raspberry Pi B+ boards equipped with both Wi-Fi and low-rate ISM transceivers for design and performance evaluation of MAC protocols
- hardware and software for research on software defined radio and cognitive radio, including two Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) N210 boards and a Wi-Spy spectrum analyzer
- a Ultra Wide Band testbed composed of 20 Decawave DWM1001-DEV development boards
- high fidelity hardware for speech data acquisition and advanced software tools for speech analysis, developed in collaboration with MIT
For further information on the lab and on how to join, please select an entry in the menu on your left or contact the permanent researchers at ACTS lab:
Last updated: June 16, 2022