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Email:

vito.trianni@istc.cnr.it

Telephone:

+39 06 44595277

Fax:

+39 06 44595243

Address:

Via San Martino della Battaglia 44 - 00185 Rome - Italy

Personal website:

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

Group membership:

Laboratory of Autonomous Robotics and Artificial Life

Additional details

Profile

Position:

I study collective behaviour and distributed cognition, applying the insights from biological systems to the engineering of artificial ones. In particular, I work with robot swarms and I participated to the most important European projects in the field, namely Swarm-bots and Swarmanoid.My research interests span over self-organisation, complex systems, collective adaptive systems, swarm robotics and evolutionary robotics. The latter subject has been my main research focus in the past. Otherwise, I mainly study distributed cognitive systems in general, and swarm robotics systems in particular.

Research

My research team focuses on a variety of collective systems composed of interacting agents, spanning from neurons/neuroglia in the brain to people in a crowd, from insects in a colony to robots in a swarm. The overarching aim is to understand how cognitive processes like attention, decision making or categorisation emerge in a system from the numerous interactions among the system components, possibly organised in complex network topologies. The insights gathered in this endeavour are exploited to synthesise cyber-physical systems like robot swarms and cognitive radio networks to optimally deal with the complexity inherent to real-world applications.

Projects

CODE - Collective Decisions in Dynamic Environments

Project Funding:

Other - International

Project Timeframe:

16 Mar 2018 to 15 Mar 2021

ISTC Contact Person:

Group & ISTC Labs:

Laboratory of Autonomous Robotics and Artificial Life

DICE - Distributed Cognition Engineering

Project Funding:

FP - Marie Curie Actions

Project Timeframe:

31 Mar 2014 to 30 Mar 2018

ISTC Contact Person:

Group & ISTC Labs:

Laboratory of Autonomous Robotics and Artificial Life

ECAgents: Embodied and Communicating Agents

Project Funding:

FP - European Framework Programmes

Project Timeframe:

31 Dec 2003 to 30 Mar 2008

ISTC Contact Person:

Group & ISTC Labs:

Laboratory of Autonomous Robotics and Artificial Life

H2SWARM-Hierarchical Heterogeneous Swarm

Project Funding:

ESF - European Science Foundation

Project Timeframe:

31 Aug 2011 to 29 May 2014

ISTC Contact Person:

Group & ISTC Labs:

Laboratory of Autonomous Robotics and Artificial Life

MAS4CI - Multi-Agent Systems for Enhancing Collective Intelligence

Project Funding:

Other - International

Project Timeframe:

01 Apr 2019 to 10 Feb 2020

ISTC Contact Person:

Group & ISTC Labs:

Laboratory for Agent-Based Social Simulation

Laboratory of Autonomous Robotics and Artificial Life

SAGA - Swarm robotics for agricultural applications

Project Funding:

FP - European Framework Programmes

Project Timeframe:

31 May 2016 to 29 Nov 2017

ISTC Contact Person:

Group & ISTC Labs:

Laboratory of Autonomous Robotics and Artificial Life

SWARM-BOTS: Swarm of self-assembling artefacts

Project Funding:

FP - European Framework Programmes

Project Timeframe:

31 Mar 2001 to 30 May 2005

ISTC Contact Person:

Group & ISTC Labs:

Laboratory of Autonomous Robotics and Artificial Life

Swarmanoid: Towards Humanoid Robotic Swarm

Project Funding:

FP - European Framework Programmes

Project Timeframe:

30 Sep 2006 to 29 Sep 2010

ISTC Contact Person:

Group & ISTC Labs:

Laboratory of Autonomous Robotics and Artificial Life

Publications

Articolo

2017

Model of the best-of-N nest-site selection process in honeybees

A. Reina, J.A.R. Marshall, V. Trianni, T. Bose

Source: Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics (Print) 95 (2017): 052411. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.95.052411, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:A. Reina, J.A.R. Marshall, V. Trianni and T. Bose/titolo:Model of the best-of-N nest-site selection process in honeybees/doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.95.052411/rivista:Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics

2016

Emergence of Consensus in a Multi-Robot Network: From Abstract Models to Empirical Validation

Trianni, V., De Simone, D., Reina, A., Baronchelli

Source: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 1 (2016): 348–353. doi:10.1109/LRA.2016.2519537, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Trianni, V. and De Simone, D. and Reina, A. and Baronchelli, A./titolo:Emergence of Consensus in a Multi-Robot Network: From Abstract Models to Empirical Validation/doi:10.1109/LRA.2016.2519537/rivista:IEEE Robotics and Automati

2015

A Design Pattern for Decentralised Decision Making

Andreagiovanni Reina, Gabriele Valentini, Cristan Fernández-Oto, Marco Dorigo, Vito Trianni

Source: PloS one 10 (2015). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0140950, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Andreagiovanni Reina; Gabriele Valentini, Cristan Fernández-Oto; Marco Dorigo; Vito Trianni/titolo:A Design Pattern for Decentralised Decision Making/doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0140950/rivista:PloS one/anno:2015/pagina_da:/pagina_

A quantitative micro-macro link for collective decisions: the shortest path discovery/selection example

Reina A., Miletitch R., Dorigo M., Trianni V.

Source: Swarm intelligence 9 (2015): 75–102. doi:10.1007/s11721-015-0105-y, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Reina A.; Miletitch R.; Dorigo M.; Trianni V./titolo:A quantitative micro-macro link for collective decisions: the shortest path discovery/selection example/doi:10.1007/s11721-015-0105-y/rivista:Swarm intelligence/anno:2015/pagi

Advantages of Task-Specific Multi-Objective Optimisation in Evolutionary Robotics.

Trianni, Vito, Lopez-Ibanez, Manuel

Source: PloS one 10 (2015): e0136406–27. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0136406, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Trianni, Vito; Lopez-Ibanez, Manuel/titolo:Advantages of Task-Specific Multi-Objective Optimisation in Evolutionary Robotics./doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0136406/rivista:PloS one/anno:2015/pagina_da:e0136406/pagina_a:27/intervallo_

AutoMoDe-Chocolate: automatic design of control software for robot swarms

Francesca G., Brambilla M., Brutschy A., Garattoni L., Miletitch R., Podevijn G., Reina A., Soleymani T., Salvaro M., Pinciroli C., Mascia F., Trianni V., Birattari M.

Source: Swarm intelligence (Online) 9 (2015): 125–152. doi:10.1007/s11721-015-0107-9, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Francesca G.; Brambilla M.; Brutschy A.; Garattoni L.; Miletitch R.; Podevijn G.; Reina A.; Soleymani T.; Salvaro M.; Pinciroli C.; Mascia F.; Trianni V.; Birattari M./titolo:AutoMoDe-Chocolate: automatic design of control softw

Bio-inspired construction with mobile robots and compliant pockets

Soleymani, Touraj, Trianni, Vito, Bonani, Michael, Mondada, Francesco, Dorigo, Marco

Source: Robotics and autonomous systems (Print) (2015). doi:10.1016/j.robot.2015.07.018, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Soleymani, Touraj; Trianni, Vito; Bonani, Michael; Mondada, Francesco; Dorigo, Marco/titolo:Bio-inspired construction with mobile robots and compliant pockets/doi:10.1016/j.robot.2015.07.018/rivista:Robotics and autonomous syste

2014

AutoMoDe: A novel approach to the automatic design of control software for robot swarms

Francesca, Gianpiero, Brambilla, Manuele, Brutschy, Arne, Trianni, Vito, Birattari, Mauro

Source: Swarm intelligence 8 (2014): 89–112. doi:10.1007/s11721-014-0092-4, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Francesca, Gianpiero; Brambilla, Manuele; Brutschy, Arne; Trianni, Vito; Birattari, Mauro/titolo:AutoMoDe: A novel approach to the automatic design of control software for robot swarms/doi:10.1007/s11721-014-0092-4/rivista:Swarm

Contributo in atti di convegno

2017

Field coverage and weed mapping by UAV swarms

Albani, Dario, Nardi, Daniele, Trianni, Vito

Source: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 4319–4325, Vancouver, Canada, 24/09/2017, 28/09/2017

Monitoring and mapping with robot swarms for agricultural applications

Albani, Dario, Ijsselmuiden, Joris, Haken, Ramon, Trianni, Vito

Source: Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS), 2017 14th IEEE International Conference on, Lecce, Italy, 29/8/2017, 01/09/2017

2016

Autonomous Construction with Compliant Building Material

Soleymani, T., Trianni, V., Bonani, M., Mondada, F., Dorigo

Source: 13th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-13), Padua, IT, 15-19 July 2014

Distributed design for fair coexistence in TVWS

Vito Trianni, Angela Sara Cacciapuoti, Marcello Caleffi

Source: 2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), pp. 1–6, Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, 22-24/05/2016

Kilogrid: A modular virtualization environment for the Kilobot robot

Antoun A., Valentini G., Hocquard E., Wiandt B., Trianni V., Dorigo M.

Source: Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on, pp. 3809–3814, 9-14 Oct. 2016

Random walks in swarm robotics: An experiment with Kilobots

Dimidov, Cristina, Oriolo, Giuseppe, Trianni, Vito

Source: ANTS 2016, 10th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, pp. 185–196, Brussels, Belgium,, September 7-9, 2016

Contributo in volume

2015

Fundamental Collective Behaviors in Swarm Robotics

Trianni, Vito, Campo, Alexandre

Source: Springer Handbook of Computational Intelligence, pp. 1377–1394, 2015