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Email:

stefano.nolfi@istc.cnr.it

Telephone:

+ 39 06 44595233

Fax:

+ 39 06 44595243

Address:

Via S. Martino della Battaglia 44 - 00185 Rome - Italy

Personal website:

http://laral.istc.cnr.it/nolfi

Group membership:

Laboratory of Autonomous Robotics and Artificial Life

Additional details

Profile

Position:

Research Director

Stefano Nolfi is a research director of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) and director of the Laboratory of Autonomous Robots and Artificial Life of the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies. He is one of the founders of Evolutionary Robotics. His research activities focus on the evolution and development of behavioural and cognitive skills in natural and artificial embodied agents (robots). He authored/co-authored more than 130 peer-reviewed scientific publications including a monograph book on Evolutionary Robotics published by MIT Press in 2000, and an edited book on Evolution of Communication and Language in Embodied Agents published by Springer Verlag in 2010. He coordinated and participated to several research projects founded by international agencies including the currently running ITALK project (founded by the European Commission and coordinated by the University of Plymouth, UK) and H2Swarm project (founded by the European Science Foundations that he coordinates).

For more information see http://laral.istc.cnr.it/nolfi

Projects

ITALK: Integration and Transfer of Action and Language Knowledge in Robots

Project Funding:

FP - European Framework Programmes

Project Timeframe:

29 Feb 2008 to 27 Feb 2012

ISTC Contact Person:

Stefano Nolfi

Group & ISTC Labs:

Laboratory of Autonomous Robotics and Artificial Life

Publications

Articolo

2006

Synchronization and gait adaptation in evolving hexapod robots.

Mazzapioda M., Nolfi S.

Source: Lecture notes in computer science 4095 (2006): 113–125., info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Mazzapioda M., Nolfi S./titolo:Synchronization and gait adaptation in evolving hexapod robots./doi:/rivista:Lecture notes in computer science/anno:2006/pagina_da:113/pagina_a:125/intervallo_pagine:113–125/volume:4095

2005

Emergence of Communication in Embodied Agents: Co-Adapting Communicative and Non-Communicative Behaviours

Nolfi S.

Source: Connection science (Print) 17 (2005): 231–248., info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Nolfi S./titolo:Emergence of Communication in Embodied Agents: Co-Adapting Communicative and Non-Communicative Behaviours/doi:/rivista:Connection science (Print)/anno:2005/pagina_da:231/pagina_a:248/intervallo_pagine:231–248/vol

The Cooperation of Swarm-bots: Physical Interactions in Collective Robotics

Mondada F., Gambardella L.M, Floreano D., Nolfi S., Deneubourg J.L., Dorigo M.

Source: IEEE robotics & automation magazine 12 (2005): 21–28. doi:10.1109/MRA.2005.1458313, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Mondada F., Gambardella L.M, Floreano D., Nolfi S., Deneubourg J.L., Dorigo M./titolo:The Cooperation of Swarm-bots: Physical Interactions in Collective Robotics/doi:10.1109/MRA.2005.1458313/rivista:IEEE robotics & automation ma

Contributo in volume

2006

Developing a reaching behaviour in a simulated anthropomorphic robotic arm through an evolutionary technique

Massera G., Cangelosi A., Nolfi S.

Source: . Cambridge [MA]: MIT Press, 2006

L'emergere di rappresentazioni spaziali nella comunicazione tra robot mobili

Gigliotta O., Cardaci M., Nolfi S.

Source: . Genova: ERGA, 2006

Sociality in embodied neural agents.

Parisi D., Nolfi S.

Source: , 2006

Synchronization within homogeneous neural modules controlling a simulated hexapod robot.

Mazzapioda M., Nolfi S.

Source: . Cambridge [MA]: MIT Press, 2006

2005

Behaviour as a complex adaptive system: On the role of self-organization in the development of individual and collective behaviour.

Nolfi S.

Source: , 2005

Developing a Robot able to Follow a Human Target in a Domestic Environment

Gigliotta O., Caretti M., Shokur S., Nolfi S.

Source: . Roma: CNR, ISTC, 2005

Emergence of communication in competitive multi-agent systems: a pareto multi-objective approach

McPartland M., Nolfi S., Abbass H.A.

Source: . New York: ACM Press, 2005

Evolving a Simulated Robotic Arm Able to Grasp Objects

Massera G., Nolfi S., Cangelosi A.

Source: . Singapore: World Scientific Publ. Co., 2005

Contributo in atti di convegno

Stefano Nolfi

Additional details

ITALK: Integration and Transfer of Action and Language Knowledge in Robots

2006

Synchronization and gait adaptation in evolving hexapod robots.

2005

Emergence of Communication in Embodied Agents: Co-Adapting Communicative and Non-Communicative Behaviours

The Cooperation of Swarm-bots: Physical Interactions in Collective Robotics

2006

Developing a reaching behaviour in a simulated anthropomorphic robotic arm through an evolutionary technique

L'emergere di rappresentazioni spaziali nella comunicazione tra robot mobili

Sociality in embodied neural agents.

Synchronization within homogeneous neural modules controlling a simulated hexapod robot.

2005

Behaviour as a complex adaptive system: On the role of self-organization in the development of individual and collective behaviour.

Developing a Robot able to Follow a Human Target in a Domestic Environment

Emergence of communication in competitive multi-agent systems: a pareto multi-objective approach

Evolving a Simulated Robotic Arm Able to Grasp Objects

2005

Drosoph: A Biological approach to Body-Brain Co-Evolution

Evolving a Simulated Robotic Arm Able to Grasp Objects

The SWARM-BOTS Project

Toward a Person-Follower Robot