2024
On the evolution of adaptable and scalable mechanisms for collective decision-making in a swarm of robots.
Swarm Intell., March, 2024
On the design of deep learning-based control algorithms for visually guided UAVs engaged in power tower inspection tasks.
Frontiers Robotics AI, 2024
Feature Selection for Multi-label Classification in Predictive Maintenance.
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications SOCO 2024, 2024
Influence of the Costs of Acquisition of Private and Social Information on Animal Dispersal.
Proceedings of the From Animals to Animats 17, 2024
On the Design of Control Mechanisms for a Site Selection Task in a Simulated Swarm of Robots.
Proceedings of the Swarm Intelligence - 14th International Conference, 2024
2023
Studying speed-accuracy trade-offs in best-of-n collective decision-making through heterogeneous mean-field modelling.
CoRR, 2023
Generalizations of Evolved Decision-Making Mechanisms in Swarm Collective Perception.
Proceedings of the Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation, 2023
Heterogeneous Mean-Field Analysis of Best-of-n Decision Making in Networks with Zealots.
Proceedings of the Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation, 2023
Aggregation Through Adaptive Random Walks in a Minimalist Robot Swarm.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2023
On the evolution of mechanisms for three-option collective decision-making in a swarm of simulated robots.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2023
Further Investigations on the Characteristics of Neural Network Based Opinion Selection Mechanisms for Robotics Swarms.
Proceedings of the Applications of Evolutionary Computation - 26th European Conference, 2023
Simultaneous failures classification in a predictive maintenance case.
Proceedings of the 31st European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, 2023
2022
Impact of the Update Time on the Aggregation of Robotic Swarms Through Informed Robots.
Proceedings of the From Animals to Animats 16, 2022
A Comparative Study on Decision Making Mechanisms in a Simulated Swarm of Robots.
Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2022
Controlling Robot Swarm Aggregation Through a Minority of Informed Robots.
Proceedings of the Swarm Intelligence - 13th International Conference, 2022
Choeur Synthétique: An Art Installation Based on Swarm Robotics.
Proceedings of the Swarm Intelligence - 13th International Conference, 2022
2021
Robot swarm democracy: the importance of informed individuals against zealots.
Swarm Intell., 2021
UAV flight coordination for communication networks: genetic algorithms versus game theory.
Soft Comput., 2021
Evolutionary active vision system: from 2D to 3D.
Adapt. Behav., 2021
Autonomous Inspections of Power Towers with an UAV.
Proceedings of the Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation - 15th Italian Workshop, 2021
On the Evolution of Mechanisms for Collective Decision Making in a Swarm of Robots.
Proceedings of the Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation - 15th Italian Workshop, 2021
Odometry During Object Transport: A Study with Swarm of Physical Robots.
Proceedings of the Advances in Swarm Intelligence - 12th International Conference, 2021
A bio-inspired spatial defence strategy for collective decision making in self-organized swarms.
Proceedings of the GECCO '21: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2021
2020
On self-organised aggregation dynamics in swarms of robots with informed robots.
Neural Comput. Appl., 2020
The effect of differential quality and differential zealotry in the best-of-<i>n</i> problem.
Proceedings of the GECCO '20: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2020
Navigational Freespace Detection for Autonomous Driving in Fixed Routes.
Proceedings of the 28th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, 2020
Opinion dissemination in a swarm of simulated robots with stubborn agents: a comparative study.
Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2020
Zealots Attack and the Revenge of the Commons: Quality vs Quantity in the Best-of-n.
Proceedings of the Swarm Intelligence - 12th International Conference, 2020
Group-Size Regulation in Self-organized Aggregation in Robot Swarms.
Proceedings of the Swarm Intelligence - 12th International Conference, 2020
2019
Editorial: Novel Technological and Methodological Tools for the Understanding of Collective Behaviors.
Frontiers Robotics AI, 2019
Guiding aggregation dynamics in a swarm of agents via informed individuals: an analytical study.
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Artificial Life, 2019
2018
A dynamic colour perception system for autonomous robot navigation on unmarked roads.
Neurocomputing, 2018
Cooperative Object Transport in Multi-Robot Systems: A Review of the State-of-the-Art.
Frontiers Robotics AI, 2018
Self-organised Aggregation in Swarms of Robots with Informed Robots.
Proceedings of the Theory and Practice of Natural Computing - 7th International Conference, 2018
Swarm Attack: A Self-organized Model to Recover from Malicious Communication Manipulation in a Swarm of Simple Simulated Agents.
Proceedings of the Swarm Intelligence - 11th International Conference, 2018
2017
Cooperative object transport with a swarm of e-puck robots: robustness and scalability of evolved collective strategies.
Swarm Intell., 2017
Road detection using convolutional neural networks.
Proceedings of the Fourteenth European Conference Artificial Life, 2017
2016
Evolving Group Transport Strategies for e-Puck Robots: Moving Objects Towards a Target Area.
Proceedings of the Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, 2016
Design and Analysis of Proximate Mechanisms for Cooperative Transport in Real Robots.
Proceedings of the Swarm Intelligence - 10th International Conference, 2016
2015
On the design of generalist strategies for swarms of simulated robots engaged in a task-allocation scenario.
Swarm Intell., 2015
Improving Active Vision System Categorization Capability Through Histogram of Oriented Gradients.
Proceedings of the Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems - 16th Annual Conference, 2015
Advancing Evolutionary Coordination for Fixed-Wing Communications UAVs.
Proceedings of the Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems - 16th Annual Conference, 2015
An active vision approach to the road following problem.
Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2015
Cooperative Object Transport Using Evolutionary Swarm Robotics Methods.
Proceedings of the Thirteenth European Conference Artificial Life, 2015
2014
On the evolution of homogeneous two-robot teams: clonal versus aclonal approaches.
Neural Comput. Appl., 2014
Evolutionary Coordination System for Fixed-Wing Communications Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.
Proceedings of the Advances in Autonomous Robotics Systems - 15th Annual Conference, 2014
Evolutionary Swarm Robotics: Genetic Diversity, Task-Allocation and Task-Switching.
Proceedings of the Swarm Intelligence - 9th International Conference, 2014
Simulated Road Following Using Neuroevolution.
Proceedings of the Artificial Life and Intelligent Agents - First International Symposium, 2014
Enhancing Active Vision System Categorization Capability Through Uniform Local Binary Patterns.
Proceedings of the Artificial Life and Intelligent Agents - First International Symposium, 2014
2013
Swarmanoid: A Novel Concept for the Study of Heterogeneous Robotic Swarms.
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IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag., 2013
Geiringer theorems: from population genetics to computational intelligence, memory evolutive systems and Hebbian learning.
Nat. Comput., 2013
On the evolution of self-organised role-allocation and role-switching behaviour in swarm robotics: a case study.
Proceedings of the Twelfth European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems: Advances in Artificial Life, 2013
An evolutionary approach to road following: a simulated case study.
Proceedings of the Twelfth European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems: Advances in Artificial Life, 2013
2012
On the Evolution of Homogeneous Multi-robot Teams: Clonal versus Aclonal Approach.
Proceedings of the From Animals to Animats 12, 2012
2011
An Experiment on Behavior Generalization and the Emergence of Linguistic Compositionality in Evolving Robots.
IEEE Trans. Auton. Ment. Dev., 2011
Swarm Cognition: an interdisciplinary approach to the study of self-organising biological collectives.
Swarm Intell., 2011
Special issue on Swarm Cognition.
Swarm Intell., 2011
2010
Active Categorical Perception of Object Shapes in a Simulated Anthropomorphic Robotic Arm.
IEEE Trans. Evol. Comput., 2010
Integration of Action and Language Knowledge: A Roadmap for Developmental Robotics.
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IEEE Trans. Auton. Ment. Dev., 2010
The Facilitatory Role of Linguistic Instructions on Developing Manipulation Skills.
IEEE Comput. Intell. Mag., 2010
Co-development of Linguistic and Behavioural Skills: Compositional Semantics and Behaviour Generalisation.
Proceedings of the From Animals to Animats 11, 2010
Evolution of Collective Perception in a Group of Autonomous Robots.
Proceedings of the Computational Intelligence, 2010
Collective Perception in a Swarm of Autonomous Robots.
Proceedings of the ICEC 2010 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation, [part of the International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence IJCCI 2010], Valencia, Spain, October 24, 2010
The Evolution of Behavioural and Linguistic Skills to Execute and Generate Two-word Instructions in Agents Controlled by Dynamical Neural Networks.
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2010
Evolution of Signaling in a Multi-Robot System: Categorization and Communication.
Proceedings of the Evolution of Communication and Language in Embodied Agents, 2010
2009
An investigation of the evolutionary origin of reciprocal communication using simulated autonomous agents.
Biol. Cybern., 2009
Evolving Self-Assembly in Autonomous Homogeneous Robots: Experiments with Two Physical Robots.
Artif. Life, 2009
Two examples of active categorisation processes distributed over time.
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob 2009), 2009
On the Dynamics of Active Categorisation of Different Objects Shape through Tactile Sensors.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life. Darwin Meets von Neumann, 2009
Swarm Cognition and Artificial Life.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life. Darwin Meets von Neumann, 2009
To Grip, or Not to Grip: Evolving Coordination in Autonomous Robots.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life. Darwin Meets von Neumann, 2009
Active categorical perception in an evolved anthropomorphic robotic arm.
Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2009
2008
On the design of neuro-controllers for individual and social learning behaviour in autonomous robots: an evolutionary approach.
Connect. Sci., 2008
Evolving Homogeneous Neurocontrollers for a Group of Heterogeneous Robots: Coordinated Motion, Cooperation, and Acoustic Communication.
Artif. Life, 2008
Evolution of Signaling in a Multi-Robot System: Categorization and Communication.
Adapt. Behav., 2008
Lattice Formation in Space for a Swarm of Pico Satellites.
Proceedings of the Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence, 2008
Self-Assembly in Physical Autonomous Robots - the Evolutionary Robotics Approach.
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2008
Self-Organizing and Scalable Shape Formation for a Swarm of Pico Satellites.
Proceedings of the NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems, 2008
2007
Evolution of Acoustic Communication Between Two Cooperating Robots.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 9th European Conference, 2007
From Solitary to Collective Behaviours: Decision Making and Cooperation.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 9th European Conference, 2007
2006
Cooperation through self-assembly in multi-robot systems.
ACM Trans. Auton. Adapt. Syst., 2006
Scalability in Evolved Neurocontrollers That Guide a Swarm of Robots in a Navigation Task.
Proceedings of the Swarm Robotics, Second International Workshop, SAB 2006, Rome, Italy, 2006
Evolved Homogeneous Neuro-controllers for Robots with Different Sensory Capabilities: Coordinated Motion and Cooperation.
Proceedings of the From Animals to Animats 9, 2006
Evolution of Signalling in a Group of Robots Controlled by Dynamic Neural Networks.
Proceedings of the Swarm Robotics, Second International Workshop, SAB 2006, Rome, Italy, 2006
Object Transport by Modular Robots that Self-assemble.
Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2006
Operational Aspects of the Evolved Signalling Behaviour in a Group of Cooperating and Communicating Robots.
Proceedings of the Symbol Grounding and Beyond, 2006
2005
Evolutionary Robotics: A New Scientific Tool for Studying Cognition.
Artif. Life, 2005
Evolving Neural Mechanisms for an Iterated Discrimination Task: A Robot Based Model.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 8th European Conference, 2005
2004
An exploration on the evolution of learning behaviour using robot-based models.
PhD thesis, 2004
'Feeling' the flow of time through sensorimotor co-ordination.
Connect. Sci., 2004
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Proceedings of the Swarm Robotics, SAB 2004 International Workshop, 2004
Evolving the "Feeling" of Time Through Sensory-Motor Coordination: A Robot Based Model.
Proceedings of the Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, 2004
2003
Behavioural Plasticity in Autonomous Agents: A Comparison between Two Types of Controller.
Proceedings of the Applications of Evolutionary Computing, 2003
2002
An Evolutionary Ecological Approach to the Study of Learning Behavior Using a Robot-Based Model.
Adapt. Behav., 2002
Evolving fixed-weight networks for learning robots.
Proceedings of the 2002 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2002
1999
An Evolutionary Simulation Model of Social Learning about Food by Norway Rats.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 5th European Conference, 1999