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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

Publications

Contributo in atti di convegno

2007

From solitary to collective behaviors: decision making and cooperation.

Trianni V., Ampatzis C., Christensen A.L., Tuci E.. Dorigo M., Nolfi S

Source: 9th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2007), pp. 575–584, 2007

Minimal communication strategies for self-organising synchronisation behaviours

Trianni V., Nolfi S.

Source: 2007 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (WCCI-ALife 2007), pp. 199–206, 2007

Articolo

2006

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

Nolfi S.

Source: 2 (2006): 195–203., info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Nolfi S./titolo:Behaviour as a complex adaptive system: on the role of self-organization in the development of individual and collective behaviour/doi:/rivista:/anno:2006/pagina_da:195/pagina_a:203/intervallo_pagine:195–203/volu

Cooperative Hole Avoidance in a Swarm-bot.

Trianni V., Nolfi S., Dorigo M.

Source: Robotics and autonomous systems (Print) 54 (2006): 97–103. doi:10.1016/j.robot.2005.09.018, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Trianni V., Nolfi S., Dorigo M./titolo:Cooperative Hole Avoidance in a Swarm-bot./doi:10.1016/j.robot.2005.09.018/rivista:Robotics and autonomous systems (Print)/anno:2006/pagina_da:97/pagina_a:103/intervallo_pagine:97–103/volum

Distributed coordination of simulated robots based on self-organization

Baldassarre G., Parisi D., Nolfi S.

Source: Artificial life 12 (2006): 289–311. doi:10.1162/artl.2006.12.3.289, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Baldassarre G., Parisi D., Nolfi S./titolo:Distributed coordination of simulated robots based on self-organization/doi:10.1162/artl.2006.12.3.289/rivista:Artificial life/anno:2006/pagina_da:289/pagina_a:311/intervallo_pagine:289

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

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