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I'm a research faculty member (Chargé de Recherche) in the Chroma team at Inria Lyon / CITI Lab. I received my M.Sc. degree in Physics from the University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy, and my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Grenoble, France.
Successively I have been Postdoctoral Researcher in the Robotic Sensor Networks Lab at the Computer Science & Engineer Department, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA, and later with the Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems (LAAS), Toulouse, France, in the Robotics and Interactions group, before to join the Chroma team.
Research Topics
Research Topics
My main research interests include
Multi-robot systems
Path planning
Active perception
Autonomous vehicles
Optimization
Main Research Projects
ANR PRC ARCAVE: Aerial Robots for Prehistoric Caves Exploration & Mapping, 2026-2029. Role: Inria scientific coordinator.
ANR JCJC AVENUE: Cooperative Aerial Vehicles for Non-Uniform Mapping of 3D Unknown Environments, 2023 - 2027. Role: Coordinator.
PEPR Agroécologie & Numérique – NINSAR: Innovative agroecological pathways leveraging collaborative robotics, webpage, 2024-2027.
ANR VORTEX: Vision-based Reconfigurable Drone Swarms for Fast Exploration, 2023-2027. Role: Participant.
Grand Défi PRISSMA - Research and Investment Platform for the Safety and Security of Autonomous Mobility, 2021 - 2024, webpage. Role: Inria coordinator.
ECSEL EU Project Enable-S3: Enable Validation for Highly Automated Safe and Secure Systems. 2017-2019. Role: Participant.
STAE Foundation Project SkyScanner: Deploying fleets of enduring drones to probe atmospheric phenomena. 2014-2017, webpage. Role: Postdoctoral researcher at LAAS-CNRS.
Supervised Students
Current Ph.D. students
Jorge Korgut, Inria Lyon, Feb 2026 - present. Co-advisor: O. Simonin. Budget: ANR ARCAVE project. “UAV Planning for Prehistoric Caves Exploration & Mapping".
Benjamin Sportich, Inria Lyon, Nov 2023 - present. Co-advisor: O. Simonin. Budget: ANR AVENUE project. “Next-Best-View Planning for 3D Reconstruction with Cooperative Multi-UAV Systems”.
Simon Ferrier, Inria Lyon, Sep 2024 - present. Co-advisor: O. Simonin. Budget: PEPR NINSAR project. “Path Planning for Agricultural Tasks with Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Systems”.
Past Ph.D. students
Jean-Baptiste Horel, Ph.D., defended in Apr 2026. Co-advisors: R. Mateescu, C. Laugier. Budget: BPI PRISSMA project. “Validation of AI-based Perception Components in Autonomous Vehicles”.
Past Master students
Martin Abou-Hamad, M2 internship, Grenoble INP, Mar-Jul 2023, co-advisor: L. Brinon-Arranz (Grenoble INP). “Multi-Robot Formations for Cooperative Source Seeking”.
Marco Ambrogi, M2 internship, programme Erasmus+, University of Perugia (Italy), Oct 2022-Mar 2023. “Next-Best View Planning for 3D Exploration with multiple UAVs”.
Olivier Idir, M2 internship, ENS Lyon, Feb-Jul 2022. “Adaptation of the DARP algorithm to the multi-robot weighted coverage path planning problem”.
Hugo Duarte, M2 internship, Polytech Sorbonne, Mar-Aug 2021, co-advisor: O. Simonin. “Autonomous Exploration of a 3D Environment with a Fleet of Drones”.
Philippe Ledent, M2 internship, Université Grenoble-Alpes, Feb-Jun 2019, co-advisor: R. Mateescu (INRIA, Convecs team). “Formal Validation of CMCDOT, a Probabilistic Perception System for Autonomous Vehicles”.
Christophe Reymann, M2 internship, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, Feb-Aug 2015, advisor: S. Lacroix (LAAS-CNRS). "Monitoring Atmospheric Phenomena within Low-Altitude Clouds with a Fleet of Fixed-Wing UAVs".
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