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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:

Researcher

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.

Publications

Articolo

2015

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

Cooperative navigation in robotic swarms

Ducatelle, Frederick, Di Caro, Gianni A., Foerster, Alexander, Bonani, Michael, Dorigo, Marco, Magnenat, Stephane, Mondada, Francesco, O'Grady, Rehan, Pinciroli, Carlo, Retornaz, Philippe, Trianni, Vito, Gambardella, Luca M.

Source: Swarm intelligence 8 (2014): 1–33. doi:10.1007/s11721-013-0089-4, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Ducatelle, Frederick; Di Caro, Gianni A.; Foerster, Alexander; Bonani, Michael; Dorigo, Marco; Magnenat, Stephane; Mondada, Francesco; O'Grady, Rehan; Pinciroli, Carlo; Retornaz, Philippe; Trianni, Vito; Gambardella, Luca M./tit

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

Contributo in volume

2015

Fundamental Collective Behaviors in Swarm Robotics

Trianni, Vito, Campo, Alexandre

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

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

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

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