Biography
Agostino Martinelli received the M.Sc. degree in theoretical physics from the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy, in 1994 and the Ph.D. degree in astrophysics from the University of Rome La Sapienza, in 1999. While working toward the Ph.D. degree, he spent one year at the University of Wales, Cardiff, U.K., and one year with the Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Trieste, Italy. His research focused on the chemical and dynamical evolution in elliptical galaxies, in quasars, and in the intergalactic medium. He also introduced models based on general relativity to investigate the time evolution of the anisotropies of the cosmic background radiation. After receiving the Ph.D. degree, his interests moved to the problem of autonomous navigation. He was with the University of Rome Tor Vergata for two years, and in 2002, he moved to the Autonomous Systems Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, as a Senior Researcher,where he lead several projects on multisensor fusion for robot localization, simultaneous localization and odometry error learning, and simultaneous localization and mapping. Since September 2006, he has been a Researcher with the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), Rhone Alpes, Grenoble, France. His current research focuses on three main topics: Visual-Inertial Structure from Motion (see some recent publications here and here); Non linear observability (see some recent publications here, here and a first draft of his book); Overdamped Brownian motion and the Fokker-Plank equation without detailed balance (see some recent publications here and here). He is the author of more than 100 journal and conference papers.