Biography
Short biography
Prof. Luca locchi (www.diag.uniroma1.it/iocchi) is Full Professor at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, mainly teaching in the Master in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. His main research interests include cognitive robotics, task planning, multi-robot coordination, robot perception, robot learning, human-robot interaction, and social robotics. He is the author of over 200 referred papers (h-index 46 [Google Scholar]) in journals and conferences in artificial intelligence and robotics. He is currently Associate Editor of Artificial Intelligence Journal and organized several scientific events. He has been principal investigator of several international, EU, national and industrial projects in artificial intelligence and robotics.
He is currently Vice-President of RoboCup Federation (member of the Board of Trustees since 2013) and contributed to benchmarking domestic service robots through scientific competitions within RoboCup@Home and the European Robotics League Service Robots (ERL-SR), of which he has been a member of the Organizing Committees since their origin.
He organized several international scientific robot competitions, as well as student competitions focussing on service robots and human-robot interaction (including ERL-SR, European RoboCupJunior Championship, and RoboCup@Home Education Challenges). He has also supervised the development of teams participating in robot competitions.
Some details
Education
13/7/1995 Master in Engineering in Computer Science (Laurea in Ingegneria Informatica) cum Laude
Sapienza Università di Roma
Thesis: “Tecniche di pianificazione nei Robot Mobili Autonomi”
13/5/1999 PhD in Engineering in Computer Science (Dottorato in Ingegneria Informatica)
Sapienza Università di Roma
Thesis: “Design and Development of Cognitive Robots"
Appointments
Nov 1998-Oct 1999 Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Roma Scholarship (Borsa di studio)
Nov 1999-Apr 2000 Stanford Research Institute, CA, USA Research Engineer
May 2000-Feb 2002 Sapienza Università di Roma, Post-Doc
Mar 2002-Sep 2011 Sapienza Università di Roma, Assistant Professor (Ricercatore, confermato da Marzo 2005)
Apr 2004-Jan 2005 Stanford Research Institute, CA, USA Computer Scientist (congedo per motivi di studio)
Oct 2011-Aug 2019 Sapienza Università di Roma, Associate Professor (Professore Associato, confermato da Ottobre 2014)
Feb 2015 University of Caen, France, Visiting Professor
Since Sep 2019 Sapienza Università di Roma, Full Professor (Professore Ordinario)
Institutional Responsibilities
2020 - present Director of the PhD Program in Engineering in Computer Science, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Awards and Honors
1999 Top Paper Award WebNet’99
2006 Best Paper Award RoboCup 2006
2008 Best Robotics Demo Award AAMAS 2008
2014 Best Paper Award For Engineering Contribution RoboCup 2014
2017 RoboCup@Home SSPL 2017 - 3rd place
2018 Canada-Italy Innovation Award
2019 Best Paper Award For Engineering Contribution RoboCup 2019
Memberships
2008-2013 Executive Committee of RoboCup@Home
Since 2010 Coordinator of Italian RoboCup Regional Committee
2013-2018 Board of Trustees of RoboCup Federation
2012-2016 Coordinator of AI*IA Working Group on Robotics
since 2018 Vice-President of RoboCup Federation
Grants as PI
2001-02 Design and development of Soccer Robots
Sapienza Università di Roma, Progetti Giovani Ricercatori 2000.
2002-03 Observation and tracking of mobile targets through stereo-vision
Sapienza Università di Roma, Progetti Giovani Ricercatori 2002
2003-05 Fast 3D Object Modeling using Wide Baseline Stereo Camera
Contratto di ricerca CIRA (Centro Italiano Ricerche Aereospaziali)
2006-07 Automatic Remote Grand Canal Observation System (ARGOS)
Contratto conto-terzi Archimedes, Comune di Venezia.
2008-10 Intelligent Systems for exploration and surveillance of complex and dynamic environments
Sapienza Università di Roma
2009-11 Multi-robot environmental monitoring
Contratto di ricerca Nevada University, Department of Homeland Security, USA.
2009-12 Context-Aware Mobility Platform
Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico, Bando Industria 2015 – Mobilità Sostenibile.
2011-13 Smart Monitoring of Complex Public Scenes
Contratto di ricerca Nevada University, Department of Homeland Security, USA.
2011-12 Advanced System for 3D Real-Time Virtual Advertising (1)
Duel TV, FILAS Co-Research Regione Lazio.
2012-13 Sapienza Social Robot Network: Social Robots for assistance and tele-presence in university structures
Sapienza Università di Roma. Progetto Universitario
2012-13 Laser technology for street analysis
Contratto di ricerca IUAV University of Venice
2012-13 BEE-SAFE, multi-robot systems for exploration (1)
Contratto conto-terzi Sistemi Software Integrati
2013-14 Jump Traffic Jam
Duel TV, FILAS Co-Research Regione Lazio.
2014-17 COACHES
EU Commission, CHIST-ERA Adaptive Machines in Complex Environments (AMCE), Call 2013
2016-18 Robotics Coordination Action for Europe Two (RockEU2) (1)
EU H2020 CSA (ICT-24-2015)
2017 A scuola di coding con Sapientino
Clementoni spa
2018-21 SciRoc (1) - European Robotics League plus Smart Cities Robot Competitions
EU H2020 CSA (ICT-28-2017)
2019-21 AI4EU (1) - European Union’s landmark project in Artificial Intelligence
EU H2020 RIA (ICT-26-2018-2020)
2019-20 EuroBench projects: BEAST, MADROB (1)
2020-2022 BUBBLES - Defining the BUilding Basic BLocks for a U-Space SEparation Management Service
EU SESAR RIA (SESAR-ER4-31-2019)
2021-2023 AIPlan4EU - Bringing AI Planning to the European AI On-Demand Platform
EU H2020 IA, (ICT-49-2020)
2022-2024 ROSITA - ROver Spaziale ITAliano
ASI (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana)
(1): co-Pi with Daniele Nardi
Editor of International Journals
since 2021 Associate Editor of Artificial Intelligence journal, Elsevier
since 2018 Associate Editor of Intelligenza Artificiale, IOS Press
Guest Editor of International Journals
Expert Systems 30(2): 99-100 (2013)
Special section on Pattern recognition and artificial intelligence for human behaviour analysis.
Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems 66 (1-2): 183-186 (2012)
Special issue on Domestic Service Robots in the Real World.
Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems 76 (1): 3-4 (2014)
Special Issue on Advances in Domestic Service Robots in the Real World.
Chair or co-chair of scientific events
- International Workshop on Planning and real-time monitoring of rescue operations, Foligno (Italy), 2002.
- International Workshop on Synthetic Simulation and Robotics to Mitigate Earthquake Disaster, Padova (Italy), 2003.
- International Workshop on Robot Vision, Barcelona (Spain), 2007.
- International Workshop on Robotic Perception, Funchal, Madeira (Portugal), 2008.
- SIMPAR Workshop on Mini and Micro UAV for Security and Surveillance, Venezia (Italy), 2008.
- International RoboCup Symposium, Suzhou (China), 2008.
- RoboCup@Home competition, Technical Committee and Executive Committee, 2008-2013
- AI*IA Workshop on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence for Human Behaviour Analysis (PRAI*HBA), Reggio Emilia (Italy), 2009.
- SIMPAR Workshop on Domestic Service Robots in the Real World, Darmstadt (Germany), 2010
- RoboCup Mediterranean Open, Rome (Rome, Italy), 2010
- RoboCup Mediterranean Open, Rome (Rome, Italy), 2011
- IJCAI Workshop on Autonomous Mobile Service Robots - New York, USA - July 11, 2016
- RoboCup@Home Education Workshop - Rome, Italy - March 15-16, 2017
- ERF 2017 Workshop on HRI in public spaces with naive users - Edinburgh, UK, - March 22, 2017
- Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction AAAI Fall Symposium, Arlington, Virginia USA, October 18-20, 2018
- EduRobotics 2018, Rome, Italy - October 11, 2018
- Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction AAAI Fall Symposium, Arlington, Virginia USA, November 7-9, 2019
Main organizer of scientific competitions
- ERL-SR Local Tournament - Peccioli, Italy - January 30-February 3, 2017
- European RoboCup@Home Education 2018, Montesilvano (PE), Italy - May 29-June 1, 2018
- European RoboCupJunior 2018, Montesilvano (PE), Italy - May 29-June 1, 2018
- European RoboCup@Home Education 2019, Trieste, Italy, May 23-26, 2019
- RoboCup 2021, Worldwide, June 22-28, 2021