Publications

Please also refer to my ORCID profile or Google Scholar profile for a complete list of publications

Selected Journal Publications

    • Milella A., Petitti G., Marani R., Cicirelli G., D'Orazio T. (2020) Towards Intelligent Retail: Automated On-Shelf Availability Estimation using a Depth Camera, IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 19353-19363, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2968175. URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8963979&isnumber=8948470

    • Reina G., Leanza A., Milella A., Messina A. (2019) Mind the ground: A Power Spectral Density-based estimator for all-terrain rovers, Measurement, 107136, ISSN 0263-2241, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.measurement.2019.107136. Preprint version available at: PDF

    • Milella A., Reina G., Nielsen M., (2019) A multi-sensor robotic platform for ground mapping and estimation beyond the visible spectrum, Precision Agriculture, 20(2), 423-444 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11119-018-9605-2. Preprint version available at: PDF

    • Milella A., Marani R., Petitti A., Reina G. (2019) In-field high throughput grapevine phenotyping with a consumer-grade depth camera, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 156, 293-306. Preprint version available at: PDF

    • Maglietta R., Renò V., Cipriano G., Fanizza C., Milella A., Stella E., Carlucci R., (2018) DolFin: an innovative digital platform for studying Risso’s dolphins in the Northern Ionian Sea (North-eastern Central Mediterranean), Scientific Reports volume 8, Article number: 17185. PDF

    • La Tona G., Petitti A., Lorusso A., Colella R., Milella A., Attolico G. (2018) Modular multimodal user interface for distributed ambient intelligence architectures, Internet Technology Letters, e23. https://doi.org/10.1001/itl2.23 Preprint version available at: PDF

    • Milella A., Maglietta R., Caccia M., Bruzzone G. (2017) Robotic inspection of ship hull surfaces using a magnetic crawler and a monocular camera, Sensor Review, Vol. 37 Issue: 4, pp.425-435, https://doi.org/10.1108/SR-02-2017-0021 Preprint version available at: PDF

    • Maglietta R., Milella A., Caccia M., Bruzzone G. (2017) A vision-based system for robotic inspection of marine vessels, Signal, Image and Video Processing, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11760-017-1181-9.

    • Reina G., Milella A., Galati R. (2017) Terrain assessment for precision agriculture using vehicle dynamic modelling, Biosystems Engineering, Volume 162, October 2017, Pages 124-139. Preprint version available at: PDF

    • Scilimati V., Petitti A., Boccadoro P., Colella R., Di Paola D., Milella A., Grieco L.A. (2017) Industrial Internet of Things at work: a case study analysis in Robotic-aided environmental monitoring, IET Wireless Sensor Systems, DOI: 10.1049/iet-wss.2017.0032 , Online ISSN 2043-6394 Available online: 21 June 2017.

    • Petitti A., Di Paola D., Milella A., Lorusso A., Colella R., Attolico G., and Caccia M. (2016) A Network of Stationary Sensors and Mobile Robots for Distributed Ambient Intelligence, IEEE Intelligent Systems, Volume: 31, Issue: 6, Page(s): 28 – 34, ISSN: 1541-1672. Preprint version available at: PDF

    • Reina G., Milella A., Rouveure R., Nielsen M., Worst R., and Blas M.R. (2016) Ambient awareness for agricultural robotic vehicles, Biosystems Engineering, Volume 146, Pages 114–132, ISSN: 1537-5110 Preprint version available at: PDF

    • Reina G., Milella A. and Worst R. (2016), LIDAR and stereo combination for traversability assessment of off-road robotic vehicles, Robotica, Vol. 34, Issue 12, pp. 2823-2841, ISSN: 0263-5747

    • Milella A., Reina G., and Underwood J., (2015) A Self-Learning Framework for Statistical Ground Classification using Radar and Monocular Vision, Journal of Field Robotics, Volume 32, Issue 1, pages 20–41, ISSN: 1556-4967 PDF

    • Milella A. and Reina G. (2014) 3D Reconstruction and Classification of Natural Environments by an Autonomous Vehicle Using Multi-Baseline Stereo, Intelligent Service Robotics, Volume 7, Issue 2, pp 79-92, doi: 10.1007/s11370-014-0146-x, ISSN: 1861-2776

    • Milella A., Reina G., Underwood J., and Douillard B. (2014) Visual Ground Segmentation by Radar Supervision. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, ISSN: 0921-8890, Volume 62, Issue 5, May 2014, Pages 696–706, Special Issue Semantic Perception, Mapping and Exploration, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2012.10.001

    • Milella A. and Reina G. (2014), Adaptive Multi-sensor Perception for Driving Automation in Outdoor Contexts, Int J Adv Robot Syst, 11:135. doi: 10.5772/58865, ISSN 1729-8806.

    • Cicirelli G., Milella A., Di Paola D. (2012), RFID Tag Localization by using Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference for Mobile Robot Applications. Industrial Robot, vol. 39 , p. 340-348, ISSN: 0143-991X, doi: 10.1108/01439911211227908.

    • Reina G., Milella A., and Underwood J. (2012) Self-learning Classification of Radar Features for Scene Understanding. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, ISSN: 0921-8890, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2012.03.002, Volume 60, Issue 11, Pages 1377–1388

    • Reina G. and Milella A. (2012) Towards Autonomous Agriculture: Automatic Ground Detection Using Trinocular Stereovision. SENSORS, vol. 12, p. 12405-12423, ISSN: 1424-8220, doi: 10.3390/s120912405. PDF

    • Reina, G. and Milella, A. (2011) FLANE: an Adaptive Fuzzy Logic Lane Tracking System for Driver Assistance, Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, Transactions of the ASME, Vol. 33, No.2, March 2011, pp. 021002 (11 pages). DOI: 10.1115/1.4003091, ISSN:0022-0434.

    • Di Paola, D., Naso, D., Milella, A., Cicirelli, G., and Distante, A. (2010) Multi-Sensor Surveillance of Indoor Environments by an Autonomous Mobile Robot, International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications (IJISTA), ISSN (Online): 1740-8873 - ISSN (Print): 1740-8865, Vol. 8, Nos. 1-4.

    • Di Paola D., Milella A., Cicirelli G., and Distante A. (2010) An Autonomous Mobile Robotic System for Surveillance of Indoor Environments, International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, ISSN: 1729-8806

    • Milella A., Cicirelli G., and Distante A. (2008) RFID-Assisted Mobile Robot System for Mapping and Surveillance of Indoor Environments, Industrial Robot: An International Journal, Vol. 35, Issue 2, pp. 143-152, ISSN: 0143-991x

    • Milella, A., Reina, G., and Siegwart, R. (2006) Computer Vision Methods for Improved Mobile Robot State Estimation in Challenging Terrains, Journal of Multimedia (JMM), Vol. 1, No. 7, pp. 49-61, ISSN: 17962048. PDF

    • Reina G., Ojeda L., Milella A., and Borenstein J. (2006) Wheel Slippage and Sinkage Detection for Planetary Rovers, Focused Section on Biomimetics and Novel Aspects in Robotics, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 185-195, ISSN: 10834435

    • Milella, A., Reina, G., and Foglia M. (2006) Computer Vision Technology for Agricultural Robotics, Sensor Review, Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 290-300, ISSN: 0260-2288.

    • Reina, G., Foglia, M., Milella, A., and Gentile, A. (2006) Visual and Tactile-Based Terrain Analysis Using a Cylindrical Mobile Robot, Special Issue on Novel Robotics and Control, Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, Transactions of ASME, Vol. 128, No.1, pp. 165-170, , ISSN:0022-0434.


Selected Refereed Conference Proceedings

    • Marani, R., Milella, A., Petitti, A., Reina, G., (2019) Deep learning based image segmentation for grape bunch detection, ECPA Montpellier.

    • A. Petitti, A. Milella, A. Rizzo (2019), A Distributed Strategy to Detect When to Stop the Continuous-Time Average Consensus Protocol, 2019 European Control Conference, Napoli, Italy, June 25-28, 2019.

    • G. Micoli, P. Boccadoro, G. Valecce, A. Petitti, R. Colella, A. Milella, L.A. Grieco (2019), ASAP: a decentralized slot reservation policy for dynamic 6TiSCH Networks in Industrial IoT, 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops): 4th Workshop on Convergent Internet of Things (C-IoT)

    • A.Petitti, A.Coratelli, D.Di Paola, R.Colella, A.Milella, D.Naso, E.Stella (2018) A distributed map building approach for mobile robotic networks, IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, August 20-24 2018, Munich, Germany.

    • Rilling S., Nielsen M., Milella A., Jestel C., Frohlich P., Reina G. (2017) A Multisensor Platform for Comprehensive Detection of Crop Status: Results from two Case Studies, IEEE AVSS Workshop on Intelligent Technologies for Environmental Monitoring (ITEM), August 29, 2017, Lecce, Italy.

    • Milella A., Nielsen M., and Reina G. (2017) Sensing in the visible spectrum and beyond for terrain estimation in precision agriculture, Advances in Animal Biosciences, (2017), 8:2, Page 1 of 7. Proceedings of 11th European Conference on Precision Agriculture (ECPA), doi:10.1017/S2040470017000152, ISSN: 2040-4700.

    • Reina G., Milella A., Rouveure R. (2015), Traversability Analysis for Off-Road Vehicles using Stereo and Radar Data, in IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, Seville, Spain, March 17-19, 2015, ISBN: 9781479978014.

    • Reina G., Milella A., Halft W., Worst R. (2013) LIDAR and Stereo Imagery Integration for Safe Navigation in Outdoor Settings, in 11th IEEE International Symposium on Safety Security and Rescue Robotics, Linkoping, Sweden, 21-26 October 2013, ISBN: 9781479908783.

    • Milella, A., Reina, G., and Foglia, M., A Multi-Baseline Stereo System for Scene Segmentation in Natural Environments, 5th Annual IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications (TePRA), Greater Boston Area, Massachusetts, USA on April 22-23, 2013, ISBN: 9781467362238.

    • Rouveure R., Nielsen M., Petersen A., Reina G., Foglia M., Worst R., Seyed-Sadri S., Blas M., Faure P., Milella A., Lykkegård K. (2012). The QUAD-AV Project: multi-sensory approach for obstacle detection in agricultural autonomous robotics. In: International Conference of Agricultural Engineering CIGR-AgEng 2012, Valencia, Spain, ISBN: 84-615-9928-4.

    • Milella, A., Reina, G., Underwood, J., and Douillard, B. (2011) Combining Radar and Vision for Self-Supervised Ground Segmentation in Outdoor Environments, Proc. of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), San Francisco, ISBN: 978-1-61284-454-1.

    • Milella A., Di Paola D., Cicirelli G., and D’Orazio T. (2009) RFID Tag Bearing Estimation for Mobile Robot Localization, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR) June 24-26, Munich, Germany, ISBN: 978-1-4244-4855-5.

    • Milella, A., Vanadia, P., Cicirelli, G., and Distante, A., RFID-based Environment Mapping for Autonomous Mobile Robot Applications, Proceedings of the IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, September 4-7, 2007, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, ISBN: 978-1-4244-1263-1.


Book Chapters

    • Petitti A., Di Paola D., Milella A., Mazzeo P.L., Spagnolo P., Cicirelli G., Attolico G. (2014) A distributed cooperative architecture for robotic networks with application to ambient intelligence, In: Mazzeo P., Spagnolo P., Moeslund T. (eds) Activity Monitoring by Multiple Distributed Sensing. AMMDS 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8703. Springer, Cham.

    • Petitti A., Di Paola D., Milella A., Mazzeo P.L., Spagnolo P., Cicirelli G., Attolico G. (2014) A Heterogeneous Robotic Network for Distributed Ambient Assisted Living Springer International Publishing, CH-6330 Cham (ZG) (Svizzera) Human Behavior Understanding in Networked Sensing: Theory and Applications of Networks of Sensors, ISBN: 978-3-319-10806-3.

    • Reina, G., Milella, A., and Underwood, J. (2014) A Self-Learning Ground Classifier using Radar Features, Springer tracts in advanced robotics, Field and Service Robotics - Results of the 8th International Conference, 2014, Proc. of The 8th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR), July 16-19, 2012, Matsushima, Miyagi, Japan, ISBN: 978-3-642-40685-0.

    • D. Di Paola; A. Milella; G. Cicirelli (2012) An Experimental Testbed for Robotic Network Applications in Springer Advances in Autonomous Mini Robots, Proceedings of the 6th AMiRe Symposium, ISBN: 978-3-642-27481-7.

    • Cicirelli, G., Milella, A., and Di Paola, D. (2011) RFID Sensor Modeling by using an Autonomous Mobile Robot, Deploying RFID - Challenges, Solutions, and Open Issues, Edited by Cristina Turcu, ISBN: 978-953-307-380-4, Publisher: InTech.

    • Milella, A., Di Paola, D., and Cicirelli, G. (2010) RFID Technology for Mobile Robot Surveillance, Mechatronic Systems, Edited by Annalisa Milella, Donato Di Paola, and Grazia Cicirelli, ISBN 978-953-307-040-7, Publisher: InTech.

    • Cicirelli, G. and Milella, A. (2008) Environment Modelling with an Autonomous Mobile Robot for Cultural Heritage Preservation and Remote Access, Robotics Automation and Control, ISBN 978-953-7619-18-3, Edited by Pavla Pecherkova, Miroslav Flidr and Jindrich Dunik, Publisher: InTech.