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2024

A Sim-to-Real Deep Learning-Based Framework for Autonomous Nano-Drone Racing. Lorenzo Lamberti, Elia Cereda, Gabriele Abbate, Lorenzo Bellone, Victor Javier Kartsch Morinigo, Michał Barciś, Agata Barciś, Alessandro Giusti, Francesco Conti, and Daniele Palossi. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 1899-1906, 2024.
High-throughput Visual Nano-drone to Nano-drone Relative Localization using Onboard Fully Convolutional Networks. Luca Crupi, Alessandro Giusti, and Daniele Palossi. 2024. (Accepted at the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA))
On-device Self-supervised Learning of Visual Perception Tasks aboard Hardware-limited Nano-quadrotors. Elia Cereda, Manuele Rusci, Alessandro Giusti, and Daniele Palossi. 2024. (Accepted at the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA))
Remote Orchestral Conduction via a Virtual Reality System. Leonardo Severi, Matteo Sacchetto, Andrea Bianco, Cristina Rottondi, Gabriele Abbate, Antonio Paolillo, and Alessandro Giusti. In IEEE International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds, pp. 1--10, 2024.
Self-Supervised Learning of Visual Robot Localization Using LED State Prediction as a Pretext Task. Mirko Nava, Nicholas Carlotti, Luca Crupi, Daniele Palossi, and Alessandro Giusti. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 3363-3370, 2024.
Self-Supervised Prediction of the Intention to Interact with a Service Robot. G. Abbate, A. Giusti, V. Schmuck, O. Celiktutan, and A. Paolillo. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 171, pp. 104568, 2024.
Transformer-based spatial–temporal detection of apoptotic cell death in live-cell imaging. Alain Pulfer, Diego Ulisse Pizzagalli, Paolo Armando Gagliardi, Lucien Hinderling, Paul Lopez, Romaniya Zayats, Pau Carrillo-Barberà, Paola Antonello, Miguel Palomino-Segura, Benjamin Grädel, Mariaclaudia Nicolai, Alessandro Giusti, Marcus Thelen, Luca Maria Gambardella, Thomas T Murooka, Olivier Pertz, Rolf Krause, and Santiago Fernandez Gonzalez. eLife, vol. 12, pp. RP90502, 2024.
Vision-state Fusion: Improving Deep Neural Networks for Autonomous Robotics. Elia Cereda, Stefano Bonato, Mirko Nava, Alessandro Giusti, and Daniele Palossi. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, vol. 110, no. 58, 2024.

2023

A mirror therapy system using virtual reality and an actuated exoskeleton for the recovery of hand motor impairments: a study of acceptability, usability, and embodiment. Gabriele Abbate, Alessandro Giusti, Luca Randazzo, and Antonio Paolillo. Scientific Reports, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 22881, 2023.
A Relative Infrastructure-less Localization Algorithm for Decentralized and Autonomous Swarm Formation. Dominik Schindler, Vlad Niculescu, Tommaso Polonelli, Daniele Palossi, Luca Benini, and Michele Magno. In 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 5288-5295, 2023.
Bio-inspired Autonomous Exploration Policies with CNN-based Object Detection on Nano-drones. Lorenzo Lamberti, Luca Bompani, Victor Javier Kartsch, Manuele Rusci, Daniele Palossi, and Luca Benini. In 2023 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), pp. 1-6, 2023.
Cyber Security aboard Micro Aerial Vehicles: An OpenTitan-based Visual Communication Use Case. Maicol Ciani, Stefano Bonato, Rafail Psiakis, Angelo Garofalo, Luca Valente, Suresh Sugumar, Alessandro Giusti, Davide Rossi, and Daniele Palossi. In 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), pp. 1-5, 2023.
Deep Neural Network Architecture Search for Accurate Visual Pose Estimation aboard Nano-UAVs. E. Cereda, L. Crupi, M. Risso, A. Burrello, L. Benini, A. Giusti, D. Jahier Pagliari, and D. Palossi. In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 6065-6071, 2023.
Dynamical System-based Imitation Learning for Visual Servoing using the Large Projection Formulation. Antonio Paolillo, Paolo Robuffo Giordano, and Matteo Saveriano. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 755--761, 2023.
Energy-Efficient, Precise UWB-Based 3-D Localization of Sensor Nodes With a Nano-UAV. Vlad Niculescu, Daniele Palossi, Michele Magno, and Luca Benini. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 10, no. 7, pp. 5760-5777, 2023.
Fast predictive visual servoing: A reference governor-based approach. Antonio Paolillo, Marco Forgione, Dario Piga, and Enrico Mingo Hoffman. Control Engineering Practice, vol. 136, pp. 105521, 2023.
Land & Localize: An Infrastructure-free and Scalable Nano-Drones Swarm with UWB-based Localization. Mahyar Pourjabar, Ahmed AlKatheeri, Manuele Rusci, Agata Barcis, Vlad Niculescu, Eliseo Ferrante, Daniele Palossi, and Luca Benini. In 2023 19th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT), pp. 654-660, 2023.
Multi-sensory Anti-collision Design for Autonomous Nano-swarm Exploration. Mahyar Pourjabar, Manuele Rusci, Luca Bompani, Lorenzo Lamberti, Vlad Niculescu, Daniele Palossi, and Luca Benini. In 2023 30th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS), pp. 1-5, 2023.
Secure Deep Learning-based Distributed Intelligence on Pocket-sized Drones. Elia Cereda, Alessandro Giusti, and Daniele Palossi. 2023. (Presented at the International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN) -- SPICES Best Paper Award)
Shaheen: An Open, Secure, and Scalable RV64 SoC for Autonomous Nano-UAVs. L. Valente, A. Veeran, M. Sinigaglia, Y. Tortorella, A. Nadalini, N. Wistoff, B. Sá, A. Garofalo, R. Psiakis, M. Tolba, A. Kulmala, N. Limaye, O. Sinanoglu, S. Pinto, D. Palossi, L. Benini, B. Mohammad, and D. Rossi. In 2023 IEEE Hot Chips 35 Symposium (HCS), pp. 1-12, 2023.
Sim-to-Real Vision-Depth Fusion CNNs for Robust Pose Estimation Aboard Autonomous Nano-quadcopters. Luca Crupi, Elia Cereda, Alessandro Giusti, and Daniele Palossi. In 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 7711-7717, 2023.
Ultra-low Power Deep Learning-based Monocular Relative Localization Onboard Nano-quadrotors. S. Bonato, S. C. Lambertenghi, E. Cereda, A. Giusti, and D. Palossi. In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 3411-3417, 2023.

2022

A Deep Learning-based Face Mask Detector for Autonomous Nano-drones (Student Abstract). Eiman Alnuaimi, Elia Cereda, Rafail Psiakis, Suresh Sugumar, Alessandro Giusti, and Daniele Palossi. In Proceedings of AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2022.
An Outlier Exposure Approach to Improve Visual Anomaly Detection Performance for Mobile Robots.. Dario Mantegazza, Alessandro Giusti, Luca Maria Gambardella, and Jérôme Guzzi. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, pp. 1-8, 2022.
Challenges in Visual Anomaly Detection for Mobile Robots. Dario Mantegazza, Alessandro Giusti, Luca M. Gambardella, Andrea Rizzoli, and Jérôme Guzzi. 2022. (Workshop paper presented at the ICRA 2022 Workshop on Safe and Reliable Robot Autonomy under Uncertainty)
Fly, Wake-up, Find: UAV-based Energy-efficient Localization for Distributed Sensor Nodes. Vlad Niculescu, Daniele Palossi, Michele Magno, and Luca Benini. Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems, pp. 100666, 2022.
Gait-dependent Traversability Estimation on the k-rock2 Robot. R. Omar Chavez-Garcia, Matthew A. Estrada, Mohammadreza Ebrahimi, Francesco Zuppichini, Luca M. Gambardella, Alessandro Giusti, and Auke J. Ijspeert. In Proceedings of 26TH International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2022. (To Appear)
Handling Pitch Variations for Visual Perception in MAVs: Synthetic Augmentation and State Fusion. Elia Cereda, Daniele Palossi, and Alessandro Giusti. In 13th International Micro Air Vehicle Conference, pp. 59--65, 2022.
Interacting with a Conveyor Belt in Virtual Reality Using Pointing Gestures. Jérôme Guzzi, Gabriele Abbate, Antonio Paolillo, and Alessandro Giusti. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2022.
Learning Stable Dynamical Systems for Visual Servoing. Antonio Paolillo, and Matteo Saveriano. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2022. (To Appear)
Learning Visual Localization of a Quadrotor Using its Noise as Self-Supervision. Mirko Nava, Antonio Paolillo, Jérôme Guzzi, Luca M. Gambardella, and Alessandro Giusti. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 2218-2225, 2022.
PointIt: A ROS Toolkit for Interacting with Co-Located Robots Using Pointing Gestures. Gabriele Abbate, Alessandro Giusti, Antonio Paolillo, Boris Gromov, Luca Gambardella, Andrea-Emilio Rizzoli, and Jérôme Guzzi. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2022.
Sensing Anomalies as Potential Hazards: Datasets and Benchmarks. Dario Mantegazza, Carlos Redondo, Fran Espada, Luca Gambardella, Alessandro Giusti, and Jérôme Guzzi. In Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, pp. 205--219, 2022.
Tiny-PULP-Dronets: Squeezing Neural Networks for Faster and Lighter Inference on Multi-tasking Autonomous Nano-drones. Lorenzo Lamberti, Vlad Niculescu, Michał Barciś, Lorenzo Bellone, Enrico Natalizio, Luca Benini, and Daniele Palossi. In 2022 IEEE 4th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS), pp. 287--290, 2022.
Towards the integration of a pointing-based human-machine interface in an industrial control system compliant with the IEC 61499 standard. Antonio Paolillo, Gabriele Abbate, Alessandro Giusti, Šejla Trakić, Hilmo Dzafic, Artur Fritz, and Jérôme Guzzi. Procedia CIRP, vol. 107, pp. 1077-1082, 2022.
Visual Servoing with Geometrically Interpretable Neural Perception. Antonio Paolillo, Mirko Nava, Dario Piga, and Alessandro Giusti. In 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 5300--5306, 2022.

2021

Automated Tuning of End-to-end Neural Flight Controllers for Autonomous Nano-drones. Vlad Niculescu, Lorenzo Lamberti, Daniele Palossi, and Luca Benini. In 2021 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS), pp. 1--4, 2021.
Exploiting visual servoing and centroidal momentum for whole-body motion control of humanoid robots in absence of contacts and gravity. Enrico Mingo Hoffman, and Antonio Paolillo. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. --, 2021.
Fully Onboard AI-powered Human-Drone Pose Estimation on Ultra-low Power Autonomous Flying Nano-UAVs. Daniele Palossi, Nicky Zimmerman, Alessio Burrello, Francesco Conti, Hanna Müller, Luca Maria Gambardella, Luca Benini, Alessandro Giusti, and Jérôme Guzzi. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2021.
Fünfiiber-Drone: A Modular Open-Platform 18-grams Autonomous Nano-Drone. Hanna Müller, Daniele Palossi, Stefan Mach, Francesco Conti, and Luca Benini. In 2021 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), pp. 1610--1615, 2021.
Improving Autonomous Nano-Drones Performance via Automated End-to-End Optimization and Deployment of DNNs. Vlad Niculescu, Lorenzo Lamberti, Francesco Conti, Luca Benini, and Daniele Palossi. IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 548--562, 2021.
Improving the Generalization Capability of DNNs for Ultra-low Power Autonomous Nano-UAVs. Elia Cereda, Marco Ferri, Dario Mantegazza, Nicky Zimmerman, Luca M. Gambardella, Jérôme Guzzi, Alessandro Giusti, and Daniele Palossi. In 2021 17th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), 2021.
Measurement and inspection of electrical discharge machined steel surfaces using deep neural networks. J. Saeedi, M. Dotta, A. Galli, A. Nasciuti, U. Maradia, M. Boccadoro, L.M. Gambardella, and A. Giusti. Machine Vision and Applications, vol. 32, pp. 1--15, 2021.
Pointing at Moving Robots: Detecting Events from Wrist IMU Data. Gabriele Abbate, Boris Gromov, Luca M. Gambardella, and Alessandro Giusti. In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 3604-3611, 2021.
Semantic segmentation on Swiss3DCities: A benchmark study on aerial photogrammetric 3D pointcloud dataset. Gülcan Can, Dario Mantegazza, Gabriele Abbate, Sébastien Chappuis, and Alessandro Giusti. Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 150, pp. 108--114, 2021.
State-Consistency Loss for Learning Spatial Perception Tasks From Partial Labels. Mirko Nava, Luca Maria Gambardella, and Alessandro Giusti. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 1112-1119, 2021.
Uncertainty-Aware Self-Supervised Learning of Spatial Perception Tasks. Mirko Nava, Antonio Paolillo, Jérôme Guzzi, Luca M. Gambardella, and Alessandro Giusti. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 6693-6700, 2021.

2020

A memory of motion for visual predictive control tasks. A. Paolillo, T. S. Lembono, and S. Calinon. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 9014--9020, 2020.
Guiding Quadrotor Landing with Pointing Gestures. Boris Gromov, Luca Gambardella, and Alessandro Giusti. In Human-Friendly Robotics 2019, pp. 1--14, 2020.
Image-based Measurement of Material Roughness using Machine Learning Techniques. Alessandro Giusti, Matteo Dotta, Umang Maradia, Marco Boccadoro, Luca M. Gambardella, and Adriano Nasciuti. Procedia CIRP, vol. 95, pp. 377 - 382, 2020. (20th CIRP CONFERENCE ON ELECTRO PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL MACHINING)
Intuitive 3D Control of a Quadrotor in User Proximity with Pointing Gestures. Boris Gromov, Jerome Guzzi, Luca M. Gambardella, and Alessandro Giusti. In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 5964-5971, 2020.
Learning to Predict Metal Deformations in Hot-Rolling Processes. R. Omar Chavez-Garcia, Emian Furger, Samuele Kronauer, Christian Brianza, Marco Scarfo, Luca Diviani, and Alessandro Giusti. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 6270-6277, 2020.
Path Planning With Local Motion Estimations. Jérôme Guzzi, R. Omar Chavez-Garcia, Mirko Nava, Luca M. Gambardella, and Alessandro Giusti. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 2586-2593, 2020.

2019

Artificial intelligence for healthcare and rescuing technology: technical developments and thoughts about employment impacts. Roberto Montemanni, Jérôme Guzzi, and Alessandro Giusti. Millenium, no. 10, pp. 77--82, 2019.
Demo: Learning to Perceive Long-Range Obstacles Using Self-Supervision from Short-Range Sensors. Mirko Nava, Jérôme Guzzi, R. Omar Chavez-Garcia, Luca M. Gambardella, and Alessandro Giusti. In Proceedings of AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 9867--9868, 2019.
Demo: Pointing Gestures for Proximity Interaction. Boris Gromov, Jérôme Guzzi, Luca Gambardella, and Alessandro Giusti. In HRI~'19: 2019 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, March 11--14, 2019, Daegu, Rep. of Korea, 2019.
Learning Long-Range Perception Using Self-Supervision From Short-Range Sensors and Odometry. Mirko Nava, Jérôme Guzzi, R. Omar Chavez-Garcia, Luca M. Gambardella, and Alessandro Giusti. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 1279-1286, 2019.
On the Impact of Uncertainty for Path Planning. Jérôme Guzzi, R. Omar Chavez-Garcia, Luca Maria Gambardella, and Alessandro Giusti. In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 5929-5935, 2019.
Proximity Human-Robot Interaction Using Pointing Gestures and a Wrist-mounted IMU. Boris Gromov, Gabriele Abbate, Luca Gambardella, and Alessandro Giusti. In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 8084-8091, 2019.
Realtime Generation of Audible Textures Inspired by a Video Stream. Simone Mellace, Jérôme Guzzi, Alessandro Giusti, and Luca M. Gambardella. In Proceedings of AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Demo Track), 2019.
The current state and future outlook of rescue robotics. Jeffrey Delmerico, Stefano Mintchev, Alessandro Giusti, Boris Gromov, Kamilo Melo, Tomislav Horvat, Cesar Cadena, Marco Hutter, Auke Ijspeert, Dario Floreano, Luca M. Gambardella, Roland Siegwart, and Davide Scaramuzza. Journal of Field Robotics, pp. 1-21, 2019.
Video: Learning Vision-Based Quadrotor Control in User Proximity. Dario Mantegazza, Jérôme Guzzi, Luca M Gambardella, and Alessandro Giusti. In HRI '19: 2019 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, March 11–14, 2019, Daegu, Rep. of Korea, pp. 369-369, 2019.
Video: Pointing Gestures for Proximity Interaction. Boris Gromov, Jérôme Guzzi, Gabriele Abbate, Luca Gambardella, and Alessandro Giusti. In HRI~'19: 2019 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, March 11--14, 2019, Daegu, Rep. of Korea, 2019.
Vision-based Control of a Quadrotor in User Proximity: Mediated vs End-to-End Learning Approaches. Dario Mantegazza, Jérôme Guzzi, Luca Maria Gambardella, and Alessandro Giusti. In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 6489-6495, 2019.

2018

A Model of Artificial Emotions for Behavior-modulation and Implicit Coordination in Multi-robot Systems. Jérôme Guzzi, Alessandro Giusti, Luca M. Gambardella, and Gianni A. Di Caro. In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, pp. 21--28, 2018.
An Integer Linear Programming Model for Fair Multitarget Tracking in Cooperative Multirobot Systems. Jacopo Banfi, Jérôme Guzzi, and Francesco Amigoni, Eduardo Feo-Flushing, Alessandro Giusti, Luca M. Gambardella, and Gianni A. Di Caro. Autonomous Robots, pp. 1--16, 2018.
Artificial Emotions As Dynamic Modulators of Individual and Group Behavior in Multi-robot System. Jérôme Guzzi, Alessandro Giusti, Luca M. Gambardella, and Gianni A. Di Caro. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, pp. 2189--2191, 2018.
Introducing Machine Learning Concepts by Training a Neural Network to Recognize Hand Gestures. D. Huber, L. M. Gambardella A. Giusti. In Proc. of AAAI Symposium On Educational Advances In Artificial Intelligence, 2018.
Learning an Image-based Obstacle Detector With Automatic Acquisition of Training Data. Stefano Toniolo, Jérôme Guzzi, Luca Gambardella, and Alessandro Giusti. In Proceedings of AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 8220--8221, 2018.
Learning Ground Traversability from Simulations. R. Omar Chavez-Garcia, Jérôme Guzzi, Luca M. Gambardella, and Alessandro Giusti. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 3, pp. 1695--1702, 2018.
Learning to detect pointing gestures from wearable IMUs. Denis Broggini, Boris Gromov, Luca M. Gambardella, and Alessandro Giusti. In Proceedings of Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 8051--8052, 2018.
Mighty Thymio for University Level Educational Robotics. Jérôme Guzzi, Alessandro Giusti, Gianni A. Di Caro, and Luca M. Gambardella. In Proceedings of AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (The Eighth Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence, EAAI-18), pp. 7950--7951, 2018.
Robot Identification and Localization with Pointing Gestures. Boris Gromov, Luca Gambardella, and Alessandro Giusti. In 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 3921-3928, 2018.
Video: Landing a Drone with Pointing Gestures. Boris Gromov, Luca Gambardella, and Alessandro Giusti. In HRI '18 Companion: 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Companion, March 5–8, 2018, Chicago, IL, USA, 2018.

2017

Image Classification for Ground Traversability Estimation in Robotics. R. Omar Chavez-Garcia, Jérôme Guzzi, Luca M. Gambardella, and Alessandro Giusti. In Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, pp. 325--336, 2017.
Simultaneous Task Allocation, Data Routing, and Transmission Scheduling in Mobile Multi-Robot Teams. Eduardo Feo Flushing, Luca M Gambardella, and Gianni Di Caro. 2017.

2016

"On-the-spot Training" for Terrain Classification in Autonomous Air-Ground Collaborative Teams. Jeffrey Delmerico, Alessandro Giusti, Elias Mueggler, Luca Maria Gambardella, and Davide Scaramuzza. pp. 574-585, 2016.
A Machine Learning Approach to Visual Perception of Forest Trails for Mobile Robots. Alessandro Giusti, Jérôme Guzzi, Dan Ciresan, Fang-Lin He, Juan Pablo Rodriguez, Flavio Fontana, Matthias Faessler, Christian Forster, Jurgen Schmidhuber, Gianni Di Caro, Davide Scaramuzza, and Luca Gambardella. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, pp. 661--667, 2016.
From indoor GIS maps to path planning for autonomous wheelchairs. Jérôme Guzzi, and Gianni A. Di Caro. In Proceedings of the 29th IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2016.
On Decentralized Coordination for Spatial Task Allocation and Scheduling in Heterogeneous Teams. Eduardo Feo Flushing, Luca Maria Gambardella, and Gianni A. Di Caro. In Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems, Singapore, May 9-13, 2016, pp. 988--996, 2016.
On using mobile robotic relays for supporting data communications in search and rescue missions. E. Feo-Flushing, L. Gambardella, and G. A. Di Caro. In Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), 2016.
Robot rostering: Coalition formation for long-term missions with work shifts. E. Feo-Flushing, L. Gambardella, and G. A. Di Caro. In Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), 2016.
Wearable multi-modal interface for human multi-robot interaction. B. Gromov, L. Gambardella, and G. A. Di Caro. In Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), 2016.
Wearable multi-modal interfaces for mixed-initiative interaction in human multi-robot teams. B. Gromov, L. Gambardella, and G. A. Di Caro. In ICRA Workshop on Fielded Multi-robot systems operating on land, sea, and air (Poster with extended abstract), 2016.

2015

Dynamical relay node placement solution in MANETs. R. Magán-Carrión, J. Camacho, P. Garcia-Teodoro, E. Feo-Flushing, and G. A. Di Caro. In Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking (BlackSeaCom), Demonstration Session, 2015.
Fair Multi-Target Tracking in Cooperative Multi-Robot systems. Jacopo Banfi, Jérôme Guzzi, Alessandro Giusti, Luca Maria Gambardella, and Gianni A. Di Caro. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2015, pp. 5411--5418, 2015.
Robust Classification of Multivariate Time Series by Imprecise Hidden Markov Models. Alessandro Antonucci, Rocco De Rosa, Alessandro Giusti, and Fabio Cuzzolin. Int. J. Approx. Reasoning, vol. 56, no. PB, pp. 249--263, 2015.
Towards supporting elderly's orientation, mobility, and autonomy. Jérôme Guzzi, and Gianni A. Di Caro. In Workshop on Improving the quality of life in the elderly using robotic assistive technology: benefits, limitations, and challenges - International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), 2015.
Wisdom of the swarm for human-swarm interaction. J. Nagi, H. Ngo, L. Gambardella, and G. A. Di Caro. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2015.

2014

A mathematical programming approach to collaborative missions with heterogeneous teams. E. Feo-Flushing, L. Gambardella, and G. A. Di Caro. In Proceedings of the 27th IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2014.
A mobility-controlled link quality learning protocol for multi-robot coordination tasks. M. Kudelski, L. Gambardella, and G. A. Di Caro. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014.
Cooperative navigation in robotic swarms. F. Ducatelle, G. A. Di Caro, A. Förster, M. Bonani, M. Dorigo, S. Magnenat, F. Mondada, R. O'Grady, C. Pinciroli, P. Rétornaz, V. Trianni, and L. M. Gambardella. Swarm Intelligence, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 1--33, 2014.
Human-robot cooperation: fast, interactive learning from binary feedback. H. Ngo, J. Nagi, L. Gambardella, J. Schmidhuber, and G. A. Di Caro. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (Video Session), 2014.
Human-swarm interaction using spatial gestures. J. Nagi, A. Giusti, L. Gambardella, and G. A. Di Caro. In Proceedings of the 27th IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2014.
Interactive Augmented Reality for understanding and analyzing multi-robot systems. Fabrizio Ghiringhelli, Jérôme Guzzi, Gianni A. Di Caro, Vincenzo Caglioti, Luca Maria Gambardella, and Alessandro Giusti. In 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Chicago, IL, USA, September 14-18, 2014, pp. 1195--1201, 2014.
Kinect-based People Detection and Tracking from Small-Footprint Ground Robots. Armando Pesenti Gritti, Oscar Tarabini, Jérôme Guzzi, Gianni A. Di Caro, Vincenzo Caglioti, Luca M. Gambardella, and Alessandro Giusti. In Proc. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2014, 2014.
Learning symmetric face pose models online using locally weighted projectron regression.. Jawad Nagi, Gianni A. Di Caro, Alessandro Giusti, and Luca Maria Gambardella. In ICIP, pp. 1400-1404, 2014.
Online Feature Extraction for the Incremental Learning of Gestures in Human-Swarm Interaction. Jawad Nagi, Alessandro Giusti, Farrukh Nagi, Luca M. Gambardella, and Gianni A. Di Caro. In 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 3331-3338, 2014. (Exported from https://app.dimensions.ai on 2018/10/23)
Perceiving People from a Low-lying Viewpoint. Armando Pesenti Gritti, Oscar Tarabini, Alessandro Giusti, Jérôme Guzzi, Gianni A. Di Caro, Vincenzo Caglioti, and Luca M. Gambardella. In Proceedings of the 2014 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-robot Interaction, pp. 109--109, 2014.
Spatial prediction of wireless links and its application to the path control of mobile robots. E. Feo-Flushing, M. Kudelski, L. Gambardella, and G. A. Di Caro. In Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems (SIES), 2014.
Use of time-dependent spatial maps of communication quality for network-aware multi-robot path planning. G. A. Di Caro, E. Feo-Flushing, and L. Gambardella. In Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Wireless Sensor, Actuator and Robot Networks (WiSARN), 2014.
zePPeLIN: Distributed path planning using an overhead camera network. A. Reina, L. M. Gambardella, M. Dorigo, and G. A. Di Caro. International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, vol. 11, no. 119, pp. 1--22, 2014.

2013

A fast learning algorithm for image segmentation with max-pooling convolutional networks. Jonathan Masci, Alessandro Giusti, Dan C. Ciresan, Gabriel Fricout, and Jürgen Schmidhuber. In ICIP, pp. 2713--2717, 2013.
A flow-based optimization model for throughput-oriented relay node placement in Wireless Sensor Networks. E. Feo-Flushing, and G. A. Di Caro. In Proceedings of the 28th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), Networking Track, 2013.
Connectivity-aware planning of search and rescue missions. E. Feo-Flushing, M. Kudelski, L. Gambardella, and G. A. Di Caro. In Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), 2013. (Nominated for best paper award.)
Fast image scanning with deep max-pooling convolutional neural networks. Alessandro Giusti, Dan C. Ciresan, Jonathan Masci, Luca Maria Gambardella, and Jürgen Schmidhuber. In ICIP, pp. 4034--4038, 2013.
Human-friendly robot navigation in dynamic environments. Jérôme Guzzi, Alessandro Giusti, Luca Maria Gambardella, Guy Theraulaz, and Gianni A. Di Caro. 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 423-430, 2013.
Link quality estimation: A case study for on-line supervised learning in wireless sensor networks (Extended abstract/Poster). E. Feo-Flushing, M. Kudelski, J. Nagi, L. Gambardella, and G. A. Di Caro. In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks (REALWSN), 2013.
Local reactive robot navigation: A comparison between reciprocal velocity obstacle variants and human-like behavior. Jérôme Guzzi, Alessandro Giusti, Luca Maria Gambardella, and Gianni A. Di Caro. 2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 2622-2629, 2013.
On-line supervised learning of link quality estimates in wireless networks. G. A. Di Caro, M. Kudelski, E. Feo-Flushing, J. Nagi, I. Ahmed, and L. Gambardella. In Proceedings of the 12th IEEE/IFIP Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (Med-Hoc-Net), pp. 69--76, 2013.
Relay node placement for performance enhancement with uncertain demand: a robust optimization approach. E. Feo-Flushing, and G. A. Di Caro. In Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), pp. 556--563, 2013.
RoboNetSim: An integrated framework for multi-robot and network simulation. M. Kudelski, L. M. Gambardella, and G. A. Di Caro. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 61, no. 5, pp. 483--496, 2013.
Strategic control of proximity relationships in heterogeneous search and rescue teams. E. Feo-Flushing, L. Gambardella, and G. A. Di Caro. In Proceedings of the 3rd IROS Workshop on Robots and Sensors integration in future rescue INformation system (ROSIN), 2013.
Swarmanoid: A novel concept for the study of heterogeneous robotic swarms. M. Dorigo, D. Floreano, L. M. Gambardella, F. Mondada, S. Nolfi, T. Baaboura, M. Birattari, M. Bonani, M. Brambilla, A. Brutschy, D. Burnier, A. Campo, A. L. Christensen, A. Decugnière, G. A. Di Caro, F. Ducatelle, E. Ferrante, A. Förster, J. Guzzi, V. Longchamp, S. Magnenat, J. Martinez Gonzales, N. Mathews, M. Montes de Oca, R. O'Grady, C. Pinciroli, G. Pini, P. Rétornaz, J. Roberts, V. Sperati, T. Stirling, A. Stranieri, T. Stützle, V. Trianni, E. Tuci, A. E. Turgut, and F. Vaussard. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 60--71, 2013.

2012

A Framework for Realistic Simulation of Networked Multi-Robot Systems. M. Kudelski, M. Cinus, L. Gambardella, and G. A. Di Caro. 2012.
A fully distributed communication-based approach for spatial clustering in robotic swarms. G. A. Di Caro, F. Ducatelle, and L. Gambardella. In Proceedings of the 2nd Autonomous Robots and Multirobot Systems Workshop (ARMS), affiliated with the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), pp. 153--171, 2012.
A mobility-assisted protocol for supervised learning of link quality estimates in wireless networks. E. Feo-Flushing, J. Nagi, and G.A. Di Caro. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), International Workshop on Mobility and Communication for Cooperation and Coordination, 2012.
Bioinspired Obstacle Avoidance Algorithms for Robot Swarms. Jérôme Guzzi, Alessandro Giusti, Luca Maria Gambardella, and Gianni A. Di Caro. In BIONETICS, pp. 120--134, 2012.
Cooperative Sensing and Recognition by a Swarm of Mobile Robots. A. Giusti, J. Nagi, L. Gambardella, and G. A. Di Caro. In Proceedings of the 25th IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 551--558, 2012.
Correction: novel Kernel-based recognizers of human actions. Somayeh Danafar, Alessandro Giusti, and Jürgen Schmidhuber. EURASIP J. Adv. Sig. Proc., vol. 2012, pp. 124, 2012.
Distributed consensus for interaction between humans and mobile robot swarms. A. Giusti, J. Nagi, L. Gambardella, and G. A. Di Caro. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Demonstration track, pp. 1503--1504, 2012.
Exploiting synergies between exact and heuristic methods in optimization: an application to the relay placement problem in wireless sensor networks. E. Feo-Flushing, and G. A. Di Caro. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems (BIONETICS), 2012.
GIS-based mission support system for wilderness search and rescue with heterogeneous agents. E. Feo-Flushing, L. Gambardella, and G. A. Di Caro. In Proceedings of the 2nd IROS Workshop on Robots and Sensors integration in future rescue INformation system (ROSIN), 2012.
Human-Swarm Interaction through Distributed Cooperative Gesture Recognition. A. Giusti, J. Nagi, L. Gambardella, S. Bonardi, and G. A. Di Caro. In Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (Video Session), pp. 401, 2012.
Spatial awareness in robotic swarms through local wireless communications (Extended abstract). F. Ducatelle, G. A. Di Caro, and L. Gambardella. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), pp. 1205--1206, 2012.

2011

Action Recognition by Imprecise Hidden Markov Models. Alessandro Antonucci, Rocco De Rosa, and Alessandro Giusti. 2011.
ANTS 2010 Special Issue -- Editorial. M. Dorigo, M. Birattari, G. A. Di Caro, R. Doursat, A. Engelbrecht, L. M. Gambardella, R. Gross, E. Sahin, and T. Stützle. Swarm Intelligence, vol. 5, no. 3--4, pp. 143--147, 2011.
ARGoS: a Modular, Multi-Engine Simulator for Heterogeneous Swarm Robotics. C. Pinciroli, V. Trianni, R. O'Grady, G. Pini, A. Brutschy, M. Brambilla, N. Mathews, E. Ferrante, G. Di Caro, F. Ducatelle, T. Stirling, A. Gutierrez, L. Gambardella, and M. Dorigo. In Proceedings of the 24th IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 5027--5034, 2011.
ARGoS: a Modular, Multi-Engine Simulator for Heterogeneous Swarm Robotics. Carlo Pinciroli, Vito Trianni, Rehan O'Grady, Giovanni Pini, Arne Brutschy, Manuele Brambilla, Nithin Mathews, Eliseo Ferrante, Gianni Di Caro, Frederick Ducatelle, Timothy Stirling, Álvaro Guti\ŕrez, Luca Maria Gambardella, and Marco Dorigo. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2011), pp. 5027--5034, 2011.
Distributed motion planning for ground objects using a network of robotic ceiling cameras. A. Reina, G. A. Di Caro, F. Ducatelle, and L. M. Gambardella. In Proceedings of the 12th Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS), pp. 140-151, 2011. ((\sc Conference best poster award))
Max-Pooling Convolutional Neural Networks for Vision-based Hand Gesture Recognition. J. Nagi, F. Ducatelle, G. A. Di Caro, D. Ciresan, U. Meier, A. Giusti, F. Nagi, J. Schmidhuber, and L. M. Gambardella. In Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Signal & Image Processing and Applications (ICSIPA), pp. 342--347, 2011.
Optimal relay node placement for throughput enhancement in wireless sensor networks. G. A. Di Caro, and E. Feo. In Proceedings of the 50th FITCE International Congress -- ICT: brigding an ever shifting digital divide, 2011.
Self-organized Cooperation between Robotic Swarms. F. Ducatelle, G.A. Di Caro, C. Pinciroli, and L. Gambardella. Swarm Intelligence Journal, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 73--96, 2011.

2010

A distributed approach to holonomic path planning. A. Reina, G. A. Di Caro, F. Ducatelle, and L. M. Gambardella. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Motion Planning: From Theory to Practice, Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) conference, 2010.
Adaptive navigation in a heterogeneous swarm robotic system (Poster). F. Ducatelle, G. A. Di Caro, A. Förster, and L. M.Gambardella. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cognitive Systems (CogSys), 2010.
Cooperative Self-organization in a Heterogeneous Swarm Robotic System. Frederick Ducatelle, Gianni A. Di Caro, and Luca M. Gambardella. In Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, pp. 87--94, 2010.
Cooperative Stigmergic Navigation in a Heterogeneous Robotic Swarm. F. Ducatelle, G. A. Di Caro, and L. M. Gambardella. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB), 2010.
Mobile stigmergic markers for navigation in a heterogeneous robotic swarm. F.Ducatelle, G. A. Di Caro, A. Förster, and L. Gambardella. In Swarm Intelligence, Proceedings of the 7th International ANTS Conference, 2010.
Principles and applications of swarm intelligence for adaptive routing in telecommunications networks. F. Ducatelle, G.A. Di Caro, and L. Gambardella. Swarm Intelligence Journal, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 173--198, 2010.
Robust Texture Recognition Using Credal Classifiers. Giorgio Corani, Alessandro Giusti, Davide Migliore, and Jürgen Schmidhuber. In BMVC, pp. 1--10, 2010.
Swarm Intelligence, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference ANTS 2010. 2010. (Brussels, Belgium, September 8--10, 2010)

2009

Drawing Motion without Understanding It. Vincenzo Caglioti, Alessandro Giusti, Andrea Riva, and Marco Uberti. In ISVC, 2009.
New task allocation methods for robotic swarms. F. Ducatelle, A. Förster, G. A. Di Caro, and L. M. Gambardella. In Proceedings of the 9th IEEE/RAS Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ROBOTICA), Castelo Branco, Portugal, May 8--9, 2009.
Supporting navigation in multi-robot systems through delay tolerant network communication. F. Ducatelle, A. Förster, G. A. Di Caro, and L. M. Gambardella. In Proceedings of the IFAC Workshop on Networked Robotics (NetRob), 2009.
Wireless communications for distributed navigation in robot swarms. G. A. Di Caro, F. Ducatelle, and L. M. Gambardella. In Proceedings of the 6th European Workshop on the Application of Nature-inspired Techniques for Telecommunication Networks and other Parallel and Distributed Systems (EvoCOMNET), 2009.

2008

Robot Navigation in a Networked Swarm. F. Ducatelle, G. A. Di Caro, and L. M. Gambardella. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA), pp. 275--285, 2008.