Andreagiovanni Reina


Research Associate in Collective Robotics

Behavioural and Evolutionary Theory Lab - University of Sheffield, UK

International Journals

2017 A. Reina, J.A.R. Marshall, V. Trianni, T. Bose. A model of the best-of-N nest-site selection process in honeybees. Under review, 2016.
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   title = {A model of the best-of-N nest-site selection process in honeybees},
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2016 V. Trianni, D. De Simone, A. Reina, A. Baronchelli. Emergence of Consensus in a Multi-Robot Network: from Abstract Models to Empirical Validation. Robotics and Automation Letters, IEEE, vol.PP, no.99, pp.1, 2016. [BibTeX] (Impact Factor: N/A)
This work has been also included in the conference proceedings of ICRA 2016 –the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation– (Acceptance Rate 34.7%)
@article {Trianni:RAL:2016,
   author = {Trianni, Vito and {De~Simone}, Daniele and Reina, Andreagiovanni and Baronchelli, Andrea},
   doi = {10.1109/LRA.2016.2519537},
   title = {Emergence of Consensus in a Multi-Robot Network: from Abstract Models to Empirical Validation},
   journal = {Robotics and Automation Letters, IEEE},
   volume = {PP},
   number = {99},
   pages = {1-1},
   year = {2016}
}


2015 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. [BibTeX] (2014 Impact Factor: 3.234)
@article {Reina:PLOSONE:2015,
   author = {Reina, Andreagiovanni and Valentini, Gabriele and Fern/'{a}ndez-Oto, Cristian, and Dorigo, Marco and Trianni, Vito},
   doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0140950},
   title = {A design pattern for decentralised decision making},
   journal = {PLoS ONE},
   volume = {10},
   number = {10},
   pages = {e0140950},
   publisher = {Public Library of Science},
   year = {2015}
}


  A. Reina, R. Miletitch, M. Dorigo and V. Trianni. A quantitative micro-macro link for collective decision: the shortest path discovery/selection example. Swarm Intelligence, 9(2-3):75-102, 2015. [BibTeX] (2014 Impact Factor: 2.160)
@article {Reina:SwInt:2015,
   author = {Reina, Andreagiovanni and Miletitch, Roman and Dorigo, Marco and Trianni, Vito},
   doi = {10.1007/s11721-015-0105-y},
   title = {A quantitative micro-macro link for collective decisions: The shortest path discovery/selection example},
   journal = {Swarm Intelligence},
   volume = {9},
   number = {2--3},
   pages = {75--102},
   year = {2015}
}


  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. AutoMoDe-Chocolate: automatic design of control software for robot swarms. Swarm Intelligence, 9(2-3):125-152, 2015. [BibTeX] (2014 Impact Factor: 2.160)
@article {Francesca:SwInt:2015,
   author = {G. Francesca and M. Brambilla and A. Brutschy and L. Garattoni and R. Miletitch and G. Podevijn and A. Reina and T. Soleymani and M. Salvaro and C. Pinciroli and F. Mascia and V. Trianni and M. Birattari},
   doi = {10.1007/s11721-015-0107-9},
   title = {{AutoMoDe-Chocolate}: automatic design of control software for robot swarms},
   journal = {Swarm Intelligence},
   volume = {9},
   number = {2--3},
   pages = {125--152},
   year = {2015}
}


2014 A. Reina, L. M. Gambardella, M. Dorigo and G. A. Di Caro. zePPeLIN: Distributed Path Planning Using an Overhead Camera Network. International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 11:119, 2014. [BibTeX] (2012 Impact Factor: 0.821)
@article {Reina:IJARS:2014,
   author = {Reina, Andreagiovanni and Gambardella, Luca M. and Dorigo, Marco and {Di~Caro}, Gianni A.},
   doi = {10.5772/58748},
   title = {{zePPeLIN: Distributed path planning using an overhead camera network}},
   journal = {International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems},
   volume = {11},
   number = {119},
   year = {2014}
}

Book Chapters

2014 A. Reina and V. Trianni. Deployment and redeployment of wireless sensor networks: a swarm robotics perspective. In N. Mitton and D. Simplot-Ryl, editors, Wireless Sensor and Robot Networks, pages 143–162. World Scientific, Singapore, 2014. [BibTeX]
@inCollection {Reina:WSRN:2014,
   author = {Reina, Andreagiovanni and Trianni, Vito},
   doi = {10.1142/9789814551342_0007},
   title = {Deployment and redeployment of wireless sensor networks: a swarm robotics perspective},
   address = {Singapore},
   booktitle = {Wireless Sensor and Robot Networks},
   editor = {Mitton, N. and Simplot-Ryl, D.},
   pages = {143--162},
   publisher = {World Scientific},
   chapter = {7},
   year = {2014}
}

International Conference Proceedings

2016 A. Reina, T. Bose, V. Trianni, J.A.R. Marshall. Effects of Spatiality on Value-Sensitive Decisions Made by Robot Swarms. In Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS 2016). STAR Series, Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2016. [BibTeX] (Acceptance Rate 39%) Online video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdy5o18y5lg
@inCollection {Reina:DARS:2016,
   author = {Reina, Andreagiovanni and Bose, Thomas and Trianni, Vito and Marshall, James A. R.},
   title = {Effects of Spatiality on Value-Sensitive Decisions Made by Robot Swarms},
   doi = {},
   pages = {in press},
   booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS)}},
   series = {{STAR}},
   publisher = {Springer},
   address = {Berlin, Germany},
   year = {2016}
}


  A. Reina, J.A.R. Marshall, T. Bose. Swarm deadlock for symmetric choices over three or more options. The 14th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB 2016), 2 pages. [BibTeX]
@inProceedings {Reina:SAB:2016,
   author = {Reina, Andreagiovanni and Marshall, James A. R. and Bose, Thomas},
   title = {Swarm deadlock for symmetric choices over three or more options},
   pages = {1--2},
   booktitle = {{The 14th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB)}},
   year = {2016}
}


2015 A. Reina, M. Salvaro, G. Francesca, L. Garattoni, C. Pinciroli, M. Dorigo and M. Birattari. Augmented reality for robots: virtual sensing technology applied to a swarm of e-pucks. In Proceedings of the IEEE 2015 NASA/ESA Conference of Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS). IEEE Press, ID:sB_p3, 6 pages, 2015. [BibTeX] (Acceptance Rate 44%)
@inProceedings {Reina:AHS:2015,
   author = {Reina, Andreagiovanni and Salvaro, Mattia and Francesca, Gianpiero and Garattoni, Lorenzo and Pinciroli, Carlo and Dorigo, Marco and Birattari, Mauro},
   title = {Augmented reality for robots: virtual sensing technology applied to a swarm of e-pucks},
   doi = {10.1109/AHS.2015.7231154},
   pages = {1--6},
   booktitle = {{Proceedings of the IEEE 2015 NASA/ESA Conference of Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS)}},
   publisher = {{IEEE} Computer Society Press},
   address = {Los Alamitos, CA},
   note = {Paper ID sB_p3},
   year = {2015}
}


2014 A. Reina, M. Dorigo and V. Trianni. Towards a Cognitive Design Pattern for Collective Decision-Making. In Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS), LNCS 8667, pages 194-205. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2014. [BibTeX] (Acceptance Rate 30.9%)
@inCollection {Reina:ANTS:2014,
   author = {Reina, Andreagiovanni and Dorigo, Marco and Trianni, Vito},
   title = {Towards a Cognitive Design Pattern for Collective Decision-Making},
   address = {Berlin, Germany},
   doi={10.1007/978-3-319-09952-1_17},
   pages = {194--205},
   series = {LNCS},
   volume = {8667},
   editor = {{M. Dorigo et al.}},
   booktitle = {Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2014)},
   publisher = {Springer},
   year = {2014}
}


  G. Francesca, M. Brambilla, A. Brutschy, L. Garattoni, R. Miletitch, G. Podevijn, A. Reina, T. Soleymani, M. Salvaro, C. Pinciroli, V. Trianni and M. Birattari. An Experiment in Automatic Design of Robot Swarms: AutoMoDe-Vanilla, EvoStick, and Human Experts. In Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS), LNCS 8667, pages 25-37. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2014. [BibTeX] (Acceptance Rate 30.9%)
@inCollection {Francesca:ANTS:2014,
   author = {Gianpiero~Francesca and Manuele~Brambilla and Arne~Brutschy and Lorenzo~Garattoni and Roman~Miletitch and Gaetan~Podevijn and Andreagiovanni~Reina and Touraj~Soleymani and Mattia~Salvaro and Carlo~Pinciroli and Vito~Trianni and Mauro~Birattari},
   title = {An Experiment in Automatic Design of Robot Swarms: {AutoMoDe-Vanilla}, {EvoStick}, and Human Experts},
   address = {Berlin, Germany},
   doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-09952-1_3},
   series = {LNCS},
   booktitle = {{Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2014)}},
   pages = {25--37},
   volume = {8667},
   year = {2014},
   editor = {{M. Dorigo et al.}},
   publisher = {Springer}
}


  A. Reina, M. Dorigo, and V. Trianni. Collective decision making in distributed systems inspired by honeybees behaviour. In Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), pages 1421–1422. IFAAMAS, New York, 2014. [BibTeX] (Acceptance Rate 46.3%)
@inCollection {Reina:AAMAS:2014,
   author = {Reina, Andreagiovanni and Dorigo, Marco and Trianni, Vito},
   title = {Collective Decision Making in Distributed Systems Inspired by Honeybees Behaviour},
   address = {New York},
   pages = {1421--1422},
   booktitle = {Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)},
   year = {2014},
   publisher = {IFAAMAS}
}


2011 A. Reina, G. A. Di Caro, F. Ducatelle and L. M. Gambardella. Distributed motion planning for ground objects using a network of robotic ceiling cameras. Proceedings of the 12th Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS), Sheffield, UK, August 31 - September 2, 2011 (BEST POSTER AWARD), LNCS vol. 6856, pages 140-151, Springer, Berlin, 2011. [BibTeX] (Acceptance Rate 43%)
@inCollection {Reina:TAROS:2011,
   author = {Reina, Andreagiovanni and Di Caro, Gianni and Ducatelle, Frederick and Gambardella, Luca},
   title = {Distributed Motion Planning for Ground Objects Using a Network of Robotic Ceiling Cameras},
   booktitle = {Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems},
   series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
   editor = {Groß, Roderich and Alboul, Lyuba and Melhuish, Chris and Witkowski, Mark and Prescott, Tony and Penders, Jacques},
   publisher = {Springer},
   address = {Berlin},
   isbn = {978-3-642-23231-2},
   pages = {137-148},
   volume = {6856},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23232-9_13},
   year = {2011}
}


2010 A. Reina, G. A. Di Caro, F. Ducatelle and L. M. Gambardella. A distributed approach to holonomic path planningProceedings of the Workshop on Motion Planning: From Theory to Practice, at Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), pages 33-34, Zaragoza, Spain, June 27, 2010. [BibTeX]
@inCollection{Reina:RSS:2010,
  author = {Reina, Andreagiovanni and Di Caro, Gianni and Ducatelle, Frederick and Gambardella, Luca},
  title = {A distributed approach to holonomic path planning},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Motion Planning: From Theory to Practice at Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS)},
  month = jun,
  year = {2010},
  address={Zaragoza, Spain},
  pages={33-34}
}

Abstracts and conferences

2016 A. Reina, J.A.R. Marshall, V. Trianni, T. Bose. A model of the honeybee best-of-N nest-site selection process. Oral presentation at the 16th congress of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology (ISBE 2016). 28th July - 2nd August, 2016, Exeter, UK.

  T. Bose, A. Reina, J.A.R. Marshall. Dual role of inhibition: deadlock-breaking and dithering in activity selection. Oral presentation at the 16th congress of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology (ISBE 2016). 28th July - 2nd August, 2016, Exeter, UK.

Theses

2016 A. ReinaEngineering swarm systems: A design pattern for the best-of-n decision problemPhD Thesis, IRIDIA, Ecole Polytechnique de Bruxelles, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, 2016.

2012 A. ReinaA network of ceiling cameras performs distributed path planning to guide a ground robotReport of Research Progess, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, 2012.

2010 A. ReinaSwarms of fying robots performing distributed path planning for objects on the ground (in Italian), MSc Thesis in Computer Science Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Department of Electronics and Information, Italy, 2010.

Technical Reports (unpublished or only partially published)

2014 A. Stranieri, A.E. Turgut, M. Salvaro, 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 (r003 July 2014). [BibTeX]
@TechReport{Stranieri:TechRep:2013,
   author = {Stranieri, Alessandro and Turgut, Ali Emre and Salvaro, Mattia and Francesca, Gianpiero and Reina, Andreagiovanni and Dorigo, Marco and Birattari, Mauro},
   title = {IRIDIA's Arena Tracking System},
   institution = {IRIDIA, Universit\'e Libre de Bruxelles},
   year = {2013},
   number = {TR/IRIDIA/2013-013},
   address = {Brussels, Belgium},
   notes = {revision r003},
   month = {July}
}


2011 A. Reina, C. Pinciroli , E. Ferrante, A. E. Turgut, R. O'Grady, M. Birattari, and M. Dorigo. Closed-loop aerial robot-assisted navigation of a cohesive ground- based robot swarm. Technical Report TR/IRIDIA/2011-020, IRIDIA, Universitè Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, 2011. [BibTeX]
@TechReport{Reina:TechRep2011020,
  author = "Andreagiovanni~Reina and Carlo~Pinciroli and Eliseo~Ferrante and Ali~Emre~Turgut and Rehan~O'Grady and Mauro~Birattari and Marco~Dorigo",
  title = "Closed-Loop Aerial Robot-Assisted Navigation of a Cohesive Ground-Based Robot Swarm",
  institution = "IRIDIA, Universit\'e Libre de Bruxelles",
  year = "2011",
  number = "TR/IRIDIA/2011-020",
  address = "Brussels, Belgium"
}

Co-supervised Theses

2015 D. Brambilla. Environment Classification: an Empirical Study of the Response of a Robot Swarm to Three Different Decision-Making Rules, M.Sc. Thesis in Computer Science Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

  A. Debruyn. Human-Swarm Interaction: An Escorting Robot Swarm that Diverts a Human away from Dangers one cannot perceive, M.Sc. Thesis in Computer Science Engineering, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, 2015.

  M. Salvaro. Virtual sensing technology applied to a swarm of autonomous robots.MSc Thesis in Computer Science Engineering, Università di Bologna, Italy, 2015.

2014 B. Mayeur. A tool for automatic robot placement in swarm robotics experiments. MSc Thesis in Information Technology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, 2014. (in French)

2013 J. De Stefani. Spatial Allocation in Swarm Robotics. MSc Thesis in Computer Science Engineering (Project TIME for double degree), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, 2013.