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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

Contributo in atti di convegno

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

On the Evolution of Homogeneous Multi-robot Teams: Clonal versus Aclonal Approach

Tuci, Elio, Trianni, Vito

Source: 12th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour, pp. 391–400, Odense Denmark, Monday, 27 August 2012 to Thursday, 30 August 2012

2011

ARGoS: a Modular, Multi-Engine Simulator for Heterogeneous Swarm Robotics

Pinciroli, Carlo, Trianni, Vito, O'Grady, Rehan, Pini, Giovanni, Brutschy, Arne, Brambilla, Manuele, Mathews, Nithin, Ferrante, Eliseo, Di Caro, Gianni, Ducatelle, Frederick, Stirling, Timothy, Gutierrez, Alvaro, Gambardella, Luca Maria, Dorigo, Marco

Source: 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2011

Self-organized flocking with an heterogeneous mobile robot swarm

A. Stranieri and E. Ferrante and A. E. Turgut and V. Trianni and C. Pinciroli and M. Birattari and M. Dorigo

Source: 11th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2011), pp. 789–796, 2011

Swarm Cognition and Artificial Life

Trianni, Vito, Tuci, Elio

Source: Advances in Artificial Life. Darwin Meets von Neumann. 10th Europen Conference, ECAL 2009, Budapest, Hungary, September 13-16, 2009. Pt. 2, pp. 270–277, Budapest, 13-16 September 2011

To Grip, or Not to Grip: Evolving Coordination in Autonomous Robots

Ampatzis, C., Santos, F., Trianni, Vito, Tuci, Elio

Source: Advances in Artificial Life. Darwin Meets von Neumann. 10th Europen Conference, ECAL 2009, Budapest, Hungary, September 13-16, 2009. Pt. 1, pp. 205–212, Budapest, 13-16 September 2009

2010

Evolution of self-organised path formation in a swarm of robots

Sperati V., Trianni V., Nolfi S.

Source: 7th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS2010),, pp. 155–166, 2010

Re-engineering evolution: A study in self-organising synchronisation

Trianni V., Nolfi S.

Source: 12th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALife XII), pp. 561–568, Cambridge, 2010

Articolo

2011

Engineering the Evolution of Self-Organising Behaviours in Swarm Robotics: A Case Study

Trianni, Vito, Nolfi, Stefano

Source: Artificial life 17 (2011): 183–202. doi:10.1162/artl_a_00031, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Trianni, Vito ; Nolfi, Stefano/titolo:Engineering the Evolution of Self-Organising Behaviours in Swarm Robotics: A Case Study/doi:10.1162/artl_a_00031/rivista:Artificial life/anno:2011/pagina_da:183/pagina_a:202/intervallo_pagi

Self-organised path formation in a swarm of robots

Sperati, Valerio, Trianni, Vito, Nolfi, Stefano

Source: Swarm intelligence 5 (2011): 97–119. doi:10.1007/s11721-011-0055-y, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Sperati, Valerio ; Trianni, Vito ; Nolfi, Stefano/titolo:Self-organised path formation in a swarm of robots/doi:10.1007/s11721-011-0055-y/rivista:Swarm intelligence/anno:2011/pagina_da:97/pagina_a:119/intervallo_pagine:97–119/vo

Special issue on Swarm Cognition

Trianni V., Tuci E., Passino K.M.

Source: Swarm intelligence (Online) 5 (2011): 1–2. doi:10.1007/s11721-010-0052-6, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Trianni V.; Tuci E.; Passino K.M./titolo:Special issue on Swarm Cognition/doi:10.1007/s11721-010-0052-6/rivista:Swarm intelligence (Online)/anno:2011/pagina_da:1/pagina_a:2/intervallo_pagine:1–2/volume:5

Swarm Cognition: An interdisciplinary approach to the study of self-organising biological collectives

Trianni V., Tuci E., Passino K.M., Marshall J.A.R.

Source: Swarm intelligence (Online) 5 (2011): 3–18. doi:10.1007/s11721-010-0050-8, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Trianni V.; Tuci E.; Passino K.M.; Marshall J.A.R./titolo:Swarm Cognition: An interdisciplinary approach to the study of self-organising biological collectives/doi:10.1007/s11721-010-0050-8/rivista:Swarm intelligence (Online)/an

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