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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

2009

Self-Organising Sync in a Robotic Swarm. A Dynamical System View

Trianni, V., Nolfi, S.

Source: IEEE transactions on evolutionary computation 13 (2009): 722–741. doi:10.1109/TEVC.2009.2015577, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Trianni, V. and Nolfi, S./titolo:Self-Organising Sync in a Robotic Swarm. A Dynamical System View/doi:10.1109/TEVC.2009.2015577/rivista:IEEE transactions on evolutionary computation/anno:2009/pagina_da:722/pagina_a:741/intervall

2008

Evolution of Signalling in a Multi-robot System: Categorization and Communication

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

Source: Adaptive behavior 16 (2008): 5–26., info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Ampatzis C., Tuci E., Trianni V., Dorigo M./titolo:Evolution of Signalling in a Multi-robot System: Categorization and Communication/doi:/rivista:Adaptive behavior/anno:2008/pagina_da:5/pagina_a:26/intervallo_pagine:5–26/volume:

Evolving coordinated group behaviours through maximization of mean mutual information

Sperati V., Trianni V., Nolfi S.

Source: Swarm intelligence 2 (2008): 73–95., info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Sperati V., Trianni V., Nolfi S./titolo:Evolving coordinated group behaviours through maximization of mean mutual information/doi:/rivista:Swarm intelligence/anno:2008/pagina_da:73/pagina_a:95/intervallo_pagine:73–95/volume:2

2007

Self-organized coordinated motion in groups of physically connected robots

Baldassarre G., Trianni V., Bonani M., Mondada F., Dorigo M., Nolfi S.

Source: IEEE transactions on systems, man and cybernetics. Part B. Cybernetics 37 (2007): 224–239. doi:10.1109/TSMCB.2006.881299, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Baldassarre G.; Trianni V.; Bonani M.; Mondada F.; Dorigo M.; Nolfi S./titolo:Self-organized coordinated motion in groups of physically connected robots/doi:10.1109/TSMCB.2006.881299/rivista:IEEE transactions on systems, man and

2004

Evolving self-organizing behaviors for a swarmbot

Dorigo M., Trianni V., Sahin E., Gross R., Labella T. H., Baldassarre G., Nolfi S., Deneubourg J.-L., Mondada F., Floreano D., Gambardella L. M.

Source: Autonomous robots 17 (2004): 223–245. doi:10.1023/B:AURO.0000033973.24945.f3, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Dorigo M., Trianni V., Sahin E., Gross R., Labella T. H., Baldassarre G., Nolfi S., Deneubourg J.-L., Mondada F., Floreano D., Gambardella L. M./titolo:Evolving self-organizing behaviors for a swarmbot/doi:10.1023/B:AURO.0000033

Libro o curatela

2008

Evolutionary Swarm Robotics. Evolving Self-Organising Behaviours in Groups of Autonomous Robots.

Trianni V.

Source: Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2008

Contributo in volume

2008

Evolution, self-organisation and swarm robotics

Trianni V., Nolfi S., Dorigo M.

Source: Swarm Intelligence. Introduction and Applications, edited by C. Blum and D. Merkle, pp. 163–192. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2008

Contributo in atti di convegno

2008

Self-Organising Sync in a Robotic Swarm

Trianni V., Nolfi S.

Source: First International Workshop on Non-Linear Dynamics and Synchronization (INDS08), pp. 104–111, Klagenfurt, 2008

Self-organising synchronisation in a robotic swarm

V. Trianni and S. Nolfi

Source: Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, pp. 810–810, 2008

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

2004

Evolution of Direct Communication for a Swarm-bot Performing Hole Avoidance

Trianni V., Labella T.H., Dorigo M.

Source: ANTS 2004 - Fourth International Workshop on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence, pp. 131–142, 2004

Hole Avoidance: Experiments in coordinated motion on rough terrain

Trianni V., Nolfi S., Dorigo M.

Source: Intelligent Autonomous Systems 8, pp. 29–36, 2004