Andreagiovanni Reina
Research Associate in Collective Robotics
Behavioural and Evolutionary Theory Lab -
University of Sheffield, UK
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23rd October, 2015
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Now online our journal article: A. Reina, G. Valentini, C. Fernández-Oto, M. Dorigo and V. Trianni. A design pattern for decentralised decision making. PLoS ONE 10(10): e0140950, 2015. Congratulations to all the co-authors, and a special thanks to Vito for the exceptional guidance in pursuing this research path and achieving this exceptional result! |
16th October, 2015
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Start new position as Research Associate in Collective Robotics at the University of Sheffield under the supervision of Prof. James Marshall. I am currently involved in the ERC project DiODe - Distributed Algorithms for Optimal Decision-Making. |
9th October, 2015
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Accepted journal article: A. Reina, G. Valentini, C. Fernández-Oto, M. Dorigo and V. Trianni. A design pattern for decentralised decision making. PLoS ONE, 2015 (in press). Congratulations to all the co-authors, and a special thanks to Vito for the exceptional guidance towards this goal! |
1st September, 2015
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Start new position as Research Associate in Collective Robotics at the University of Sheffield under the supervision of Prof. James Marshall. I am currently involved in the ERC project DiODe - Distributed Algorithms for Optimal Decision-Making. |
17th June, 2015
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I gave a short seminar at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the Italian National Research Council (ISTC-CNR), in Rome titled "A cognitive design pattern for decentralised decision making". |
11th May, 2015
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Accepted journal article titled "AutoMoDe-Chocolate: automatic design of control software for robot swarms", with authors G. Francesca, M. Brambilla, A. Brutschy, L. Garattoni, R. Miletitch, G. Podevijn, A. Reina, T. Soleymani, M. Salvaro, C. Pinciroli, F. Mascia, V. Trianni and M. Birattari, in the international journal Swarm Intelligence (Springer). Congratulations to all the co-authors of this article!! |
4th May, 2015
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Accepted journal article titled "A quantitative micro-macro link for collective decision: the shortest path discovery/selection example", with authors A. Reina, R. Miletitch, M. Dorigo and V. Trianni, in the international journal Swarm Intelligence (Springer). Congratulations to all the co-authors of this article!! |
3rd April, 2015
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Accepted paper titled "Augmented reality for robots: virtual sensing technology applied to a swarm of e-pucks" to the IEEE 2015 NASA/ESA Conference of Adaptive Hardware and Systems that will take place in Montreal (Canada) on June 15-18, 2015. Congratulations to all the co-authors of this article!! |
17th March, 2015
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Master Thesis co-supervision.. The student Mattia Salvaro, which has been supervised by Prof. Michela Milano, Dr. Mauro Birattari, myself and Gianpiero Francesca, successfully defended his Master Thesis titled Virtual sensing technology applied to a swarm of autonomous robots obtaining the maximum grade for his thesis work. Congratulations Mattia! Well Done!!! |
February, 2015
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Teaching Assistant. First lesson of the course Swarm Intelligence (INFO-H-414) in which I am teaching assistant. |
1st November - 15th December, 2014
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Visiting period at Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology of the Italian National Research Council, Rome, Italy. Very fruitful collaboration with Vito Trianni |
October, 2014
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Master Thesis co-supervision. Beginnig the co-supervision (with Dr. Mauro Birattari and Gaetan Podevijn) of the student Anthony Debruyn of Université Libre de Bruxelles. The thesis topic is Human-Swarm Interaction: Assisted navigation in hazardous environments. |
10-12 September, 2014
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Attending ANTS 2014 - the Ninth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence in Brussels. Presented the work Towards a Cognitive Design Pattern for Collective Decision-Making as oral presentation and poster. |
5th September, 2014
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Master Thesis co-supervision. The student Bernard Mayeur, which has been supervised by Dr. Mauro Birattari, Gianpiero Francesca and myself, successfully defended his Master Thesis titled Tool for automatic robot placement in swarm robotics experiments. Congratulations Bernard! |
11th August - 5th September, 2014
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French language skills. Followed the intensive summer course of French at ULB (70h). |
17th July, 2014
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Peer Review: Reviewed one article for the International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS 2014). |
4th June, 2014
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Peer Review: Reviewed one article for SASO 2014 - 8th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems. |
29th May, 2014
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Journal article accepted. The article "zePPeLIN: Distributed Path Planning Using an Overhead Camera Network", submitted to the International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, has been accepted for publication. |
7-9 May, 2014
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Attending AAMAS 2014 - the 13th International Conference on Autonomous gents and Multiagent Systems in Paris. Presented the work Collective decision making in distributed systems inspired by honeybees behaviour as a poster. |
May, 2014
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Master Thesis co-supervision. I begin the co-supervision (with Dr. Mauro Birattari and Gianpiero Francesca) of the student Bernard Mayeur for the thesis . Mattia is a visiting student from University of Bologna, Italy. He will carry out a his master thesis during the next nine months. |
30th April, 2014
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Accepted Paper. The paper "Towards a Cognitive Design Pattern for Collective Decision-Making", submitted to the Ninth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS2014), has been accepted as full paper for presentation and for the inclusion in the conference proceedings. |
30th April, 2014
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Accepted Paper. The paper "An Experiment in Automatic Design of Robot Swarms: AutoMoDe-Vanilla, EvoStick, and Human Experts", submitted to the Ninth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS2014), has been accepted as full paper for presentation and for the inclusion in the conference proceedings. |
23rd April, 2014
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Invited Speach on "Enginering Distributed Cognition" at the Socio-ecology and Social Evolution Laboratory of the KU Leuven. |
10th April, 2014
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Peer Review: Reviewed one article for the 3rd International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems - Living Machines 2014. |
March, 2014
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Peer Review: Reviewed two articles for the 9th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2014). |
February, 2014
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Book Chapter. The book chapter "Wireless Sensor Networks Deployment: A Swarm Robotics Perspective" of the book Wireless Sensor and Robot Networks (N. Mitton and D. Simplot-Ryl editors) has been published by World Scientific. |
19th December, 2013
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Accepted Paper. The paper "Collective decision making in distributed systems inspired by honeybees behaviour", submitted to the 13th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS2014), has been accepted as extended abstract (2 pages) for the inclusion in the conference proceedings. |
November, 2013
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Technical Report.
Submitted a new technical report: A. Stranieri, A.E. Turgut, G. Francesca, A. Reina, M. Dorigo, M. Birattari. IRIDIA's Arena Tracking System. Technical Report TR/IRIDIA/2011-020, IRIDIA, Universitè Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, 2013. |
October, 2013
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Master Thesis co-supervision. I begin the co-supervision (with Dr. Mauro Birattari and Gianpiero Francesca) of the student Mattia Salvaro for the thesis Virtual Sensors for a Robot Swarm. Mattia is a visiting student from University of Bologna, Italy. He will carry out a his master thesis during the next nine months. |
September, 2013
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Nominated as Local Arranger Chair of the Ninth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2014). |
4th September, 2013
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Master Thesis co-supervision. The student Jacopo De Stefani has successfully defended his Master Thesis titled Spatial Allocation in Swarm Robotics. Jacopo has conducted his thesis work under the supervision of Dr. Mauro Birattari and myself. |
22nd May, 2013
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Teaching activity. The students Bernard Mayeur and Xavier Bodart successfully presented their Computing Project (PROJ-H-402 of 5 ECTS) that they carried out under my co-supervision. |
20th March, 2013
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Peer Review: Reviewed one article for the international journal Robotics and Autonomous Systems. |
3rd March, 2013
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Peer Review: Reviewed one article for GECCO 2013 - Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. |
December, 2012
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Peer Review: Reviewed one article for the European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation - EvoStar 2013 track EvoROBOT. |
November, 2012
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Teaching activity. Principal supervisor of the students Bernard Mayeur and Xavier Bodart for the Computing Poject (PROJ-H-402 of 5 ECTS). They are first year students of the Master en sciences informatique at ULB. Bernard will carry out a project to control a robot swarm through a joystick; while Xavier will develop a software tool integrated with the tracking system to automatic position robots in the area. |
October, 2012
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Peer Review: Reviewed one article for BIONETICS 2012, the 7th International Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems. |
12-14 September, 2012
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Attending ANTS 2012 - Eighth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence in Bruxelles. |
3-7 September, 2012
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Attending ECCS 2012 - European Conference on Complex Systems in Bruxelles. |
4th September, 2012
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Rapport d'avancement de recherches: Successfully defended my "Rapport d'avancement de recherches". |
28th August, 2012
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Jury member for the evaluation of the students in the project of the second year of Bachelor in Computer Engineering at ULB. |
23rd May, 2012
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Teaching activity. The students Mohamed Chenouili and Harold Waterkeyn successfully presented their Computing Project (PROJ-H-402 of 5 ECTS) that they carried out under my co-supervision. |
22nd April, 2012
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Ultimate Frisbee Belgian Champion:
Won the 2nd division of the Belgian Championship of Outdoor Ultimate Frisbee with my team Mooncatchers. Here you find a picture of the happy me and the happy Mooncatchers 2. |
20th April, 2012
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1st March, 2012
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Best Poster Award at the Matinée des Chercheurs of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. |
11th February, 2012
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Peer Review: Reviewed an article for the international conference 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2012). |
28th January, 2012
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French Course:
Completed the French course, and obtained the certification for the Level A2 (CEFR). Here (soon) you will find a picture of the happy me receiving the certification. |
25th January, 2012
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Peer Review: Reviewed two articles for the Workshop Italiano di Vita Artificiale e Computazione Evolutiva (WIVACE 2012). |
18th January, 2012
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Peer Review: Reviewed an article for the Swarm and Evolutionary Computation journal. |
5-6th December, 2011
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Innovation Convention 2011:
Attended to the Convention on Innovation & Research organized by the European Commission. I was there representing the Artificial Intelligence Lab IRIDIA, and the work we are conducting on Swarm Robotics. Here you can find a picture of the happy me and the happy Alessandro during the Innovation Convention 2011. |
20th October, 2011
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Teaching Activity: started my teaching activity at ULB. I am the principal supervisor of two students (Mohamed and Harold) of the Master en sciences informatique at ULB for a computer programming project of 4 ECTS. The aim of this project is to design and develop a Web Community of Robotic Software, which is a website where the users can share robot controllers. |
1st September, 2011
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Best Poster Award at the 12th International Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS), Sheffield, UK, August 31 - September 2, 2011. Here you can find a picture of the happy me during the award cerimony. |
31st August, 2011
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Presenting the poster "Distributed motion planning for ground objects using a network of robotic ceiling cameras" at the 12th International Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS), Sheffield, UK, August 31 - September 2, 2011. Here you can find a picture of the happy me presenting my poster. |
1st August, 2011 -- 21st August, 2011
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Three weeks visiting the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Studies (IDSIA) in Lugano (Switzerland) in order to complete a set of real robot experiments on the Distributed Path Planning project. Here and here you can find two pictures of the happy me and the happy Gianni with the real robot scenario. |
July, 2011
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Nominated as Local Arranger of the International Conference ANTS 2012 - Eighth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence. Here you can find a picture of the 'happy' me working on the advertisement for the conference. |
1st May, 2011
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Started a Ph.D in swarm robotics at IRIDIA ("Institut de Recherches Interdisciplinaires et de Développements en Intelligence Artificielle"), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium under the supervision of Prof. Marco Dorigo. My Ph.D studies are fully funded by the European Research Council - Advanced Grants program of the European Union. Here you can find a picture of the happy me celebrating the new path of life just started. |