Publications on Coordination and Planning

• Reina, A., Gambardella, L. M., Dorigo, M., Di Caro, G. A, zePPeLIN: Distributed path planning using an overhead camera network, International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, vol. 11, n. 119, pp. 1-22, 2014 [BibTeX]

• F. Ducatelle, G. A. Di Caro, A. Förster, M. Bonani, M. Dorigo, S. Magnenat, F. Mondada, R. O'Grady, C. Pinciroli, P. Rétornaz, V. Trianni, and L. M. Gambardella, Cooperative navigation in robotic swarms, Swarm Intelligence, , vol. 8, n. 1, pp. 1-33, 2014 [SJR Impact Factor: 1.7] [BibTeX] [DOI]

• M. Kudelski, L. Gambardella, G. A. Di Caro, RoboNetSim: An integrated framework for multi-robot and network simulation, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 61, n.5, pp. 483-496, 2013 [SJR Impact Factor: 2.42] [DOI] [BibTeX]

• M. Dorigo, D. Floreano, L. M. Gambardella, F. Mondada, S. Nolfi, T. Baaboura, M. Birattari, M. Bonani, M. Brambilla, A. Brutschy, D. Burnier, A. Campo, A. L. Christensen, A. Decugnière, G. A. Di Caro, F. Ducatelle, E. Ferrante, A. Förster, J. Martinez Gonzales, J. Guzzi, V. Longchamp, S. Magnenat, N. Mathews, M. Montes de Oca, R. O'Grady, C. Pinciroli, G. Pini, P. Rétornaz, J. Roberts, V. Sperati, T. Stirling, A. Stranieri, T. Stützle, V. Trianni, E. Tuci, A. E. Turgut, and F. Vaussard, Swarmanoid: a novel concept for the study of heterogeneous robotic swarms, IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, vol. 20, n. 4, pp. 60-71, 2013 (the linked pdf file refers to a draft version published as Technical Report IRIDIA 2011-14) [SJR Impact Factor: 2.22] [BibTeX]

• C. Pinciroli, V. Trianni, R. O'Grady, G. Pini, A. Brutschy, M. Brambilla, N. Mathews, E. Ferrante, G. A. Di Caro, F. Ducatelle, M. Birattari, L. M. Gambardella, M. Dorigo, ARGoS: A Modular, Parallel, Multi-Engine Simulator for Multi-Robot Systems,Swarm Intelligence, Volume 6, Issue 4, pp. 271-295, 2012 [SJR Impact Factor: 1.7] [BibTeX]

• Ducatelle F., Di Caro G.A., Pinciroli C., Gambardella L., Self-organized cooperation in robotic swarms, Swarm Intelligence, Volume 5, Issue 2, pp. 73-96, 2011 [SJR Impact Factor: 1.7] [DOI] [BibTeX]

• R. Magan-Carrion, J. Camacho, P. Garcia-Teodoro, E. Feo-Flushing, G. A. Di Caro, Dynamical relay node placement solution in MANETs, Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking (BlackSeaCom) - Demonstration Session, Constanta, Romania, May 18-21, 2015 [BibTeX]

• J. Banfi, J. Guzzi, A. Giusti, L. Gambardella, G. A. Di Caro, Fair multi-target tracking in cooperative multi-robot systems, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA),Seattle, USA, May 26 - 30, 2015  [BibTeX]

• Feo Flushing, E., Gambardella, L., Di Caro, G. A., A mathematical programming approach to collaborative missions with heterogeneous teams, Proceedings of the 27th IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Chicago, IL, USA, September 14-18, 2014 [BibTeX]

• G. A. Di Caro, E. Feo, L. Gambardella, Use of time-dependent spatial maps of communication quality for network-aware multi-robot path planning, Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Wireless Sensor, Actuator and Robot Networks (WiSARN), Benidorm, Spain, June 22-27, 2014 [BibTeX]

• Feo Flushing, E., Kudelski, M., Gambardella, L., Di Caro, G. A., Spatial prediction of wireless links and its application to the path control of mobile robots, Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems (SIES), Pisa, Italy, June 18-20, 2014 [BibTeX]

• M. Kudelski, L. Gambardella, G. A. Di Caro, A mobility-controlled link quality learning protocol for multi-robot coordination tasks, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Hong Kong, China, May 31 - June 5, 2014 [BibTeX]

• E. Feo, L. Gambardella, G. A. Di Caro, Strategic control of proximity relationships in heterogeneous search and rescue teams, Proceedings of the 3rd IROS Workshop on Robots and Sensors integration in future rescue INformation system (ROSIN), Tokyo, Japan, November 7, 2013, [BibTeX]

• E. Feo, M. Kudelski, L. Gambardella, G. A. Di Caro, Connectivity-aware planning of search and rescue missions, Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), Linköping, Sweden, October 21-26, 2013 (Nominated for the Best Paper Award) [BibTeX]

• G. A. Di Caro, M. Kudelski, E. Feo, J. Nagi, I. Ahmed, L. Gambardella, On-line supervised learning of link quality estimates in wireless networks, Proceedings of the 12th IEEE/IFIP Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (Med-Hoc-Net), Ajaccio, Corsica, France, June 24-26, pp. 69-76, 2013 [BibTeX]

• E. Feo, G. A. Di Caro, Relay node placement for performance enhancement with uncertain demand: a robust optimization approach, Proceedings of the 11th Intl. Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), Tsukuba Science City, Japan, May 13-17, 2013 [BibTeX]

• E. Feo, G. A. Di Caro, A flow-based optimization model for throughput-oriented relay node placement in Wireless Sensor Networks, Proceedings of the 28th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), Networking Track, Coimbra, Portugal, March 18-22, 2013 [BibTeX]

• E. Feo, G. A. Di Caro, Exploiting synergies between exact and heuristic methods in optimization: an application to the relay placement problem in wireless sensor networks, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems (BIONETICS), Lugano, Switzerland, December 10-11, 2012. Springer LNICST 134, 2014. [BibTeX]

• E. Feo, L. Gambardella, G. A. Di Caro, GIS-based Mission Support System for Wilderness Search and Rescue with Heterogeneous Agents, Proceedings of the 2nd IROS Workshop on Robots and Sensors integration in future rescue INformation system (ROSIN), Vilamoura, Portugal, October 7-12, 2012, [BibTeX]

• A. Giusti, J. Nagi, L. Gambardella, G. A. Di Caro, Cooperative sensing and recognition by a swarm of mobile robots, Proceedings of the 25th IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vilamoura, Portugal, October 7-12, 2012, [BibTeX]

• M. Kudelski, M. Cinus, L. Gambardella, G. A. Di Caro, A framework for realistic simulation of networked multi-robot systems, Proceedings of the 25th IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vilamoura, Portugal, October 7-12, 2012, [BibTeX]

• G. A. Di Caro, F. Ducatelle, L. Gambardella, A fully distributed communication-based approach for spatial clustering in robotic swarms, Proceedings of the 2nd Autonomous Robots and Multirobot Systems Workshop (ARMS), affiliated with the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Valencia, Spain, June 5, 2012 [VIDEO] [BibTeX]

• F. Ducatelle, G. A. Di Caro, L. Gambardella, Spatial awareness in robotic swarms through local wireless communications (Extended abstract), Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Valencia, Spain, June 4-8, 2012 [VIDEO] [BibTeX]

• E. Feo Flushing, J. Nagi, and G. A. Di Caro, A mobility-assisted protocol for supervised learning of link quality estimates in wireless networks, International Workshop on Mobility and Communication for Cooperation and Coordination (MC3), Proceedings of the International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), Maui Island, Hawaii, USA, January 30 - February 2, 2012 [BibTeX]

• M. Mojana, R. Montemanni, G. A. Di Caro and L. M. Gambardella, An algorithm combining linear programming and an ant system for the sequential ordering problem, Proceedings of the Second Annual International Conference on Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence (ATAI), Singapore, November 24-25, 2011 (BEST RESEARCH PAPER AWARD), [BibTeX]

• Di Caro G. A., Feo E., Optimal relay node placement for throughput enhancement in wireless sensor networks, Proceedings of the 50th FITCE International Congress - ICT: brigding an ever shifting digital divide,Palermo, Italy, August 31 - September 3, 2011 [BibTeX]

• Ducatelle F., Di Caro G. A., Pinciroli C., Mondada F. and Gambardella L. M., Communication assisted navigation in robotic swarms: self-organization and cooperation. Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), San Francisco, USA, September 25-30, 2011 [VIDEO 1] [VIDEO 2] [BibTeX]

• Pinciroli C., Trianni V., O'Grady R., Pini G., Brutschy A., Brambilla M., Mathews N., Ferrante E., Di Caro G. A., Ducatelle F., Stirling T., Gutierrez A., Gambardella L. M. and Dorigo M., ARGoS: a Modular, Multi-Engine Simulator for Heterogeneous Swarm Robotics. Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), San Francisco, USA, September 25-30, 2011 [BibTeX]

• Reina A., Di Caro G. A., Ducatelle F., Gambardella L. M., Distributed motion planning for ground objects using a network of robotic ceiling cameras. Proceedings of the 12th Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS), , Sheffield, UK, August 31 - September 2, 2011 (BEST POSTER AWARD), Springer LNAI vol. 6856, pages 140-151, 2011 [BibTeX]

• Ducatelle F., Di Caro G. A., Förster A., Gambardella L. M., Mobile stigmergic markers for navigation in a heterogeneous robotic swarm Proceedings of the 7th International ANTS Conference, Brussels, Belgium, September 8-10, 2010, LNCS 6234, Springer, 2010 [BibTeX]

• Ducatelle F., Di Caro G. A., Gambardella L. M., Cooperative Stigmergic Navigation in a Heterogeneous Robotic Swarm. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB), Paris, France, August 24-28, 2010 [BibTeX]

• Ducatelle F., Di Caro G. A., Gambardella L. M. Cooperative Self-Organization in a Heterogeneous Swarm Robotic System. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2010), Portland, Oregon, USA, July 7-11, 2010 [BibTeX]

• Ducatelle F., Di Caro G. A., Förster A., Gambardella L. M., Adaptive navigation in a heterogeneous swarm robotic system. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cognitive Systems (CogSys), Zurich, Switzerland, January 27-29, 2010 [BibTeX]

• Ducatelle F., Förster A., Di Caro G. A., Gambardella L. M. Supporting Navigation in Multi-Robot Systems through Delay Tolerant Network Communication. Proceedings of the IFAC Workshop on Networked Robotics (NetRob) Golden, Colorado, USA, October 6-8, 2009 [BibTeX]

• Reina A., Di Caro G. A., Ducatelle F., Gambardella L. M., A distributed approach to holonomic path planning. Proceedings of the Workshop on Motion Planning: From Theory to Practice, at Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), Zaragoza, Spain, June 27, 2010 [BibTeX]

• Ducatelle F., Förster A., Di Caro G. A., Gambardella L. M. New task allocation methods for robotic swarms. Proceedings of the 9th IEEE/RAS Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ROBOTICA), Castelo Branco, Portugal, May 2009 [BibTeX]