My main research activities focus on multi-robot systems, decentralized estimation and control, and human interaction with robots and multi-robot systems.

Bio

I received my B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Mechatronic Engineering from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy) in 2005 and 2007 respectively, and my Ph.D. in Control Systems and Operational Research from the University of Bologna (Italy) in 2012. In 2010 I have been a Visiting Researcher at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD (USA). In 2012 I have been a Postdoctoral Researcher and, from 2012 to 2017, I have been an Assistant Professor, at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. 

I was one of the founding co-chairs of the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Multi-Robot Systems: I have served as the corresponding co-chair from its foundation, in 2014, to 2021.

Highlights

• I will give a keynote talk at IEEE ICRA 2024 in Yokohama, Japan, in May 2024

• 2018: I have been awarded with the ”Fabrizio Flacco“ Young Author Best Paper Award of the Italian Chapter of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society for my paper A. Gasparri, L. Sabattini, and G. Ulivi. Bounded control law for global connectivity maintenance in cooperative multi-robot systems. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 33(3):700-717, June 2017

• 2018: The technical committee on Multi-robot System, for which I was serving as the founding corresponding co-chair, has been awarded with the IEEE RAS most active technical committee award

• 2017: I have been awarded as Senior Member of the IEEE

Editorial activity

• 2023 - 2024: Associate Editor for IJRR

• 2017 - 2019: Associate Editor for IEEE RA-M

• 2015 - 2018: Associate Editor fir IEEE RA-L

Conferences

• IEEE MRS: Program Chair (2017, 2023), Editor in Chief (2019)

• IEEE ICRA: Editor (2019 - 2024), Associate Editor (2015 - 2018)

• RSS: Area Chair (2023 - 2024)

• IEEE IROS: Editor (2020 - 2022), Associate Editor (2015 - 2018)

(Recently) Co-organized workshops and events

• IEEE RAS Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems 2016, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024

• ICRA 2024 Workshop A-HUMAN – Advanced human-robot interfaces based on physiological signals and sensory stimulations

• ERF 2024 Workshop SARER – Fostering Socially Acceptable Robotics and Extended Reality (XR)

• ICRA 2023 Workshop SOLAR: Socially-acceptable robots: concepts, techniques, and applications

• ICRA 2018 Workshop WORKMATE: the WORKplace is better with intelligent, collaborative, robot MATEs

• ICRA 2017 Workshop Human Multi-Robot Systems Interaction