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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

2014

Evolutionary robotics: model or design?

Trianni, Vito

Source: Frontiers in Robotics and AI 1 (2014): 1–6. doi:10.3389/frobt.2014.00013, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Trianni, Vito/titolo:Evolutionary robotics: model or design?/doi:10.3389/frobt.2014.00013/rivista:Frontiers in Robotics and AI/anno:2014/pagina_da:1/pagina_a:6/intervallo_pagine:1–6/volume:1

On the evolution of homogeneous two-robot teams: clonal versus aclonal approaches

Tuci, Elio, Trianni, Vito

Source: Neural computing & applications (Print) 25 (2014): 1063–1076. doi:10.1007/s00521-014-1594-0, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Tuci, Elio; Trianni, Vito/titolo:On the evolution of homogeneous two-robot teams: clonal versus aclonal approaches/doi:10.1007/s00521-014-1594-0/rivista:Neural computing & applications (Print)/anno:2014/pagina_da:1063/pagina_a:1

2013

Swarmanoid: A novel concept for the study of heterogeneous robotic swarms

Dorigo M., Floreano D., Gambardella L.M., Mondada F., Nolfi S., Baaboura T., Birattari M., Bonani M., Brambilla M., Brutschy A., Burnier D., Campo A., Christensen A.L., Decugniere A., Di Caro G., Ducatelle F., Ferrante E., Forster A., Gonzales J.M., Guzzi J., Longchamp V., Magnenat S., Mathews N., Montes De Oca M., O'Grady R., Pinciroli C., Pini G., Retornaz P., Roberts J., Sperati V., Stirling T., Stranieri A., Stutzle T., Trianni V., Tuci E., Turgut A.E., Vaussard F.

Source: IEEE robotics & automation magazine 20 (2013): 60–71. doi:10.1109/MRA.2013.2252996, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Dorigo M.; Floreano D.; Gambardella L.M.; Mondada F.; Nolfi S.; Baaboura T.; Birattari M.; Bonani M.; Brambilla M.; Brutschy A.; Burnier D.; Campo A.; Christensen A.L.; Decugniere A.; Di Caro G.; Ducatelle F.; Ferrante E.; Forst

2012

ARGoS: a modular, parallel, multi-engine simulator for multi-robot systems

Pinciroli, Carlo, Trianni, Vito, O'Grady, Rehan, Pini, Giovanni, Brutschy, Arne, Brambilla, Manuele, Mathews, Nithin, Ferrante, Eliseo, Di Caro, Gianni, Ducatelle, Frederic, Birattari, Mauro, Gambardella, Luca Maria, Dorigo, Marco

Source: Swarm intelligence (Online) 6 (2012): 271–295. doi:10.1007/s11721-012-0072-5, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Pinciroli, Carlo; Trianni, Vito; O'Grady, Rehan; Pini, Giovanni; Brutschy, Arne; Brambilla, Manuele; Mathews, Nithin; Ferrante, Eliseo; Di Caro, Gianni; Ducatelle, Frederic; Birattari, Mauro; Gambardella, Luca Maria; Dorigo, Mar

Contributo in volume

2014

Deployment and Redeployment of Wireless Sensor Networks: a Swarm Robotics Perspective

A. Reina and V. Trianni

Source: Wireless Sensor and Robot Networks - From topology control to communication aspects, edited by N. Mitton and D. Simplot-Ryl, pp. 143–162. Singapore: World Scientific, 2014

Evolutionary Swarm Robotics: a theoretical and methodological itinerary from individual neuro-controllers to collective behaviours

V. Trianni and E. Tuci and C. Ampatzis and M. Dorigo

Source: The Horizons of Evolutionary Robotics, edited by P. A. Vargas, E. Di Paolo, I. Harvey, and P. Husbands, pp. 153–178. Cambridge [MA]: MIT Press, 2014

Mutual Information As a Task-Independent Utility Function for Evolutionary Robotics

Sperati, Valerio, Trianni, Vito, Nolfi, Stefano

Source: Guided Self-Organization: Inception, edited by Mikhail Prokopenko, pp. 389–414. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2014

2013

Evolving collective control, cooperation and distributed cognition

Trianni, Vito, Nolfi, Stefano

Source: Handbook of Collective Robotics - Fundamentals and Challenges, pp. 127–166. Singapore: Pan Stanford Publishing, 2013

Contributo in atti di convegno

2014

An Experiment in Automatic Design of Robot Swarms AutoMoDe-Vanilla, EvoStick, and Human Experts

Francesca, Gianpiero, Brambilla, Manuele, Brutschy, Arne, Garattoni, Lorenzo, Miletitch, Roman, Podevijn, Gaetan, Reina, Andreagiovanni, Soleymani, Touraj, Salvaro, Mattia, Pinciroli, Carlo, Trianni, Vito, Birattari, Mauro

Source: ANTS 2014: Ninth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, pp. 25–37, 2014

Collective decision making in distributed systems inspired by honeybees behaviour

Reina A., Dorigo M., Trianni V.

Source: AAMAS '14: 2014 international conference on Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, pp. 1421–1422, 2014

Towards a Cognitive Design Pattern for Collective Decision-Making

Reina, Andreagiovanni, Dorigo, Marco, Trianni, Vito

Source: ANTS 2014: Ninth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, pp. 194–205, 2014

2013

An evolutionary approach to road following: a simulated case study

S. Clarke and F. Labrosse and V. Trianni and E. Tuci

Source: Twelfth European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ECAL 2013), pp. 1017–1024, 2013

Information Aggregation Mechanisms in Social Odometry

R. Miletitch and V. Trianni and A. Campo and M. Dorigo

Source: Twelfth European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ECAL 2013), pp. 102–109, 2013

On the Effects of the Robot Configuration on Evolving Coordinated Motion Behaviors

Fehervari, Istvan, Trianni, Vito, Elmenreich, Wilfried

Source: IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2013), pp. 1209–1216, 2013

2012

Analysing an Evolved Robotic Behaviour Using a Biological Model of Collegial Decision Making

Francesca, Gianpiero, Brambilla, Manuele, Trianni, Vito, Dorigo, Marco, Birattari, Mauro

Source: 12th International Conference on Adaptive Behaviour, pp. 381–390, Odense Denmark, Monday, 27 August 2012 to Thursday, 30 August 2012 Proceedings