Theses
Master theses are available on different subjects and application domains, including: Cognitive Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction, Social Robotics, Robot Learning, Service Robots.
The expected work during the thesis will be to face and solve a real/realistic problem involving artificial intelligence techniques applied to robotic applications. Problems addressed may come from real/realistic problems (also coming from collaboration with companies) and the solutions are usually developed in a collaborative way with other researchers (including foreign universities, research institutes, and companies).
The solutions realized will be tested on the robotic platforms available in our Lab and can possibly result in a scientific publication.
See Lab RoCoCo web pages for more details on running projects.
To investigate a possible thesis within our lab, please send me an e-mail with the following prefix in the subject
[thesis]
Current PhD students
Selected PhD and Master Theses that I supervised
PhD Theses
2022
2020
Paola Ferrarelli
Teaching Newtonian Physics in high school with a robot-based method: design, implementation, and evaluation
2016
Predicting Future Agent Motions through a Distributed Multi-Clustered Particle Filtering
Master Theses
2022
Franci Rrapi
Robot control and plan execution for automated experiments in industrial laboratory
Mario Fiorino
Dealing with anomalies in robot-enabled industrial quality control laboratory
2021
Gonzalo Villagrán Corrales
Multi-UAV trajectory generation using Reinforcement Learning
Nicolò Mantovani
Integrating multiple AI components for Human-Robot interaction tasks
Francesco Frattolillo
Adaptive Playing and Opponent Modelling in Competitive Games
Alessandro Trapasso
Multi-UAV reinforcement learning with temporal and priority goals
Giuseppe Capaldi
Multi-UAV Trajectory Generation using Multiple Abstraction Layers Reinforcement Learning
2020
Nicolò Brandizzi
Reinforcement Lupus - Cooperation through emergent communication in The Werewolf social deduction game
Publication: in progress
Giorgia Piernoli
Personalized Interactions for an Assistive Robot
Soukaina Alaoui
Augmented Network Reconstructions for Small Datasets
Shend Osmanaj
Visual perception for an Interactive Robot playing Card Games
Alessandro Lo Presti
Machine Learning for Social Assistive Robots
2019
Omar Cotugno
A Comparative Analysis on the use of Autoencoders for Robot Security Anomaly Detection
Publication: Matteo Olivato, Omar Cotugno, Lorenzo Brigato, Domenico Bloisi, Alessandro Farinelli, Luca Iocchi: A Comparative Analysis on the use of Autoencoders for Robot Security Anomaly Detection. IROS 2019: 984-989
Luca Vargiu
Analysis of security vulnerabilities in ROS-based robots
Federico Mascoma
Automatic Italian news classification through Recurrent Neural Network
Giulia Giugno
Automatic Italian news classification relevant to the Italian police
Serena Leggeri
Task-oriented Conversational Agent Self-learning Based On Sentiment Analysis
Publication: Serena Leggeri, Andrea Esposito, Luca Iocchi: Task-oriented Conversational Agent Self-learning Based on Sentiment Analysis. NL4AI@AI*IA 2018: 4-15
2018
Daniele De Cillis
Situation Detection to enable Opportunistic Behavior for Social Robots
Francesco Del Duchetto
Learning by Demonstration of Local Recoveries and Opportunities
Publication: Francesco Del Duchetto, Ayse Kucukyilmaz, Luca Iocchi, Marc Hanheide
"Don't Make the Same Mistakes Again and Again: Learning Local Recovery Policies for Navigation from Human Demonstrations". RA-L and IROS 2018 Special Issue on AI for Long Term Autonomy 18-0300, 2018
2016
Eugenio Sebastiani
Hierarchical Task Network planning for service robots
Publication: Eugenio Sebastiani, Raphaël Lallement, Rachid Alami, and Luca Iocchi. "Dealing with On-line Human-Robot Negotiations in Hierarchical Agent-based Task Planner". In Proc. of International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2017).
Valerio Sanelli
Integrating Conditional Planning and Robust Execution in Human-Robot Interaction
Publication: Valerio Sanelli, Michael Cashmore, Daniele Magazzeni, and Luca Iocchi. "Short-Term Human Robot Interaction through Conditional Planning and Execution", In Proc. of International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2017).
2015
Fabio Maria Carlucci
Knowledge Based Reasoning and Execution of Complex Behaviors for a Social Robot
Publication: F. M. Carlucci, L. Nardi, L. Iocchi, D. Nardi. "Explicit Representation of Social Norms for Social Robots", In Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2015.
2014
Lorenzo Nardi
Robot Social Navigation through Human-Robot Collaboration
Publication: Lorenzo Nardi, Luca Iocchi. "Representation and Execution of Social Plans through Human-Robot Collaboration", In Fifth International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2014), pp. 266-275, 2014.