Mario Gianni
Senior Lecturer in Robotics and Autonomous Systems
School of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Computer Science
University of Liverpool, UK
The members of ALCOR Lab Mario Gianni and Matteo Menna will be presenting the papers Real-time Autonomous 3D Navigation for Tracked Vehicles in Rescue Environments and Point Cloud Segmentation and 3D Path Planning for Tracked Vehicles in Cluttered and Dynamic Environments (3rd IROS Workshop on Robots in Clutter: Perception and Interaction in Clutter), both co-authored with Federico Ferri, Matteo Menna and Fiora Pirri
Appointments
From August 2021 until January 2023 he has been Associate Professor of Robotics in the School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics at the University of Plymouth, UK
From September 2017 until July 2021 he has been a Lecturer in Computer Science and Robotics in the School of Computing, Electronics and Mathematics at the University of Plymouth, UK.
From April 2015 to September 2017 he was Assistant Professor at DIAG, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy and member of the ALCOR Lab, led by Prof Fiora Pirri.
From 2014 until 2017 he worked for the EU-FP7-ICT-609763 project TRADR, developing new science and technology for long-term human-robot teaming for robot assisted disaster response. Here he designed a framework for autonomous exploration, patrolling and coverage of rescue scenarios for a team of heterogeneous robots. In 2016, he deployed a team of ground and aerial robots to collect data for 3D textured models of the interior and exterior of two churches in Amatrice, Italy, badly damaged by an earthquake.
From 2010 to 2013 he worked for the EU-FP7-ICT-247870 project NIFTI, aiming at providing natural cooperation between humans and teams of robots in Urban Search and Rescue scenarios. In NIFTI he designed an all-terrain 3D autonomous navigation framework for an articulated tracked robot. In 2012, he deployed the robotic system I had developed to assess damage to historical buildings and cultural artifacts, in Mirandola, Italy, hit by an earthquake.
(read more)Ongoing research
Recently, he has been granted by the EPSRC National Centre for Nuclear Robotics project via a Flexible Partnership Fund in collaboration with Babcock International Group to undertake the collaborative research toward the development of a framework for autonomous robotic inspection and radiological characterization of the interior of variable size, multi-path and non-planar stainless-steel pipes.
Dr Mario Gianni also received a grant funded by Innovate UK for the Knowledge Transfer Partnership between the University of Plymouth and AB precision (Poole) Limited. The main objective of this project is to develop enhanced automation, mobile navigation and situational awareness for remotely operated vehicles for explosive ordinance disposal.
Finally, he has been made a grant by the School of Computing, Electronics and Mathematics, University of Plymouth, for a project titled “HYDROBATES: Long-term UAVs Blade Inspections in Offshore Wind Farms”. This project aims to create research opportunities at the University of Plymouth in the development of autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for long-term blade inspections in offshore wind farms.
(read more)Overview of publications
Dr Mario Gianni has published over 30 academic papers. He has served as peer reviewer and as committee member in several International Journals and Conferences in Robotics, including SSRR, Autonomous Robots, IROS, ICRA and the Journal of Field Robotics.
A draft of my CV can be found here.