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Maker Faire 2023

Our lab participated at the Maker Faire Rome 2023, held in Fiera di Roma from 20 to 22 October 2022, with the CANOPIES project and the SPQR Team of Robot Soccer Players !

For CANOPIES, benefits of a collaboration between humans and robots in table grape vineyards have been discussed and demonstrated by 3 italian universities involved in the project: Sapienza, Roma3 and UNICAS. A virtual reality immersive experience, as a human worker in the table grape vineyard, has been enjoyed by many people.

       CANOPIES Team at Maker Faire 2023

  

The SPQR Team of Robot Soccer Players has been involved in several matches against Nao Devils TU Dortmund Team and HULKs Team, arousing curiosity and interest in visitors with different ages, from children to elderly people.

                               SPQR, HULKs and Nao Devils Teams at Maker Faire 2023

      

Maker Faire 2022

Our lab participated at the Maker Faire Rome 2022, held in Gazometro Ostiense from 7 to 9 October 2022, with the CANOPIES project and the SPQR Team of Robot Soccer Players !

For CANOPIES, benefits of a collaboration between humans and robots in table grape vineyards have been discussed and demonstrated by 3 italian universities involved in the project: Sapienza, Roma3 and UNICAS. A virtual reality immersive experience, as a human worker in the table grape vineyard, has been enjoyed by many people, thanks to PaleBlue, Norvegian partner of the project, that helped us at the Maker Faire.

       CANOPIES Team at Maker Faire 2022

The SPQR Team of Robot Soccer Players has been involved in several matches against Nao Devils TU Dortmund Team, arousing curiosity and interest in visitors with different ages, from children to elderly people.

              SPQR Team at Maker Faire 2022

 

Maker Faire 2021

We are in Maker Faire Rome 2021 IX edition from 8 October to 10 October, 2021!

 

The 2nd SciRoc Challenge

The 2nd Smart City Robotics challenge has been held in Bologna (Italy) from 6 September to 11 September, 2021!

This is the first physical event organized by our lab after COVID-19! 

Thanks a lot to all organizers and staffs for making our event so succesfully. 

 

Best Paper Award

The 24th RoboCup International Symposium has been held in conjunction with RoboCup 2021 in a purely online setting, from 22 June to 28 June 2021. 

 

Emanuele Anotnioni, Vincenzo Suriani, Filippo Solimando, Domenico Daniele Bloisi and Daniele Nardi are the winners of Robocup 2021 Best paper award!

 

The paper Learning form the Crowd: Improving the Decision Making Process in Robot Soccer using the Audience Noise  has a notable contribution in new application methology for Robocup.

 

 

 

Announcement 

 

Due to Covid-19 Emergency, many activities and programs of lab have been postponed, canceled or transformed as online activites. 

Please follow us on our website for further updating!

 

 

Sapori Segreti 2019

 

 

Peppino, Nao and UAV participated in Sapori Segreti 2019 (https://saporisegreti.it/) from November 30th, 2019 to Decembre 2rd, 2019 !!! 

Our lab members brought the agricolture projects and two social robots to Sapori Segreti 2019.

 

Maker Faire 2019

 

 

Our lab have participated Maker Faire 2019 from October 18th to October 20th, 2019!

The novelty of this year is that Maker faire 2019 have organized a mini SPL tournament which three teams have participated: SPQR, HTWK Nao and NomandZ!

 

 

 

 

Soccer Team has been reported in Newspapers

 

 

Congratulations to our SPQR SOCCER team members, they have been reported and appreciated by Italian newspapers. 

Find the newspaper "TUTTO SPORT" article on November 10th, 2019 and the magazine "Oggi" article on July 4th, 2019.

 

     

 

 

IROS 2019

 

Our lab members have presented three full papers at IROS 2019 in Macao, China! (https://www.iros2019.org/)

Congratulations to Tiziano Guadagnino, Lorenzo Brigato and Mirco Colosi!!!

The titles are listed as follows:

"Low cost sonar navigation system" - T. Guadanino, B. Della Corte, G. Grisetti;

"A Comparative Analysis on the use of Autoencoders for Robot Security Anomaly Detection" - M. Olivato, O. Cotugno, L. Brigato, D. Bloisi, A. Farinelli, L. Iocchi

"Better lost in Transition than lost in Space: SLAM state machine" - M. Colosi, S. Hang, P. Biber, K.O.Arras, G.Grisetti.

 

 

 

 

SciRoc 2019

 

We are in the first ERL Smart CIty RObotic Challenge (the SciRoc challenge) in Milton Keynes (UK) from September 16th to September 22nd, 2019!!! (https://sciroc.eu/)

RomeCup 2019

 

The event had been held at Rome Tre University and in Campidoglio from April 2nd to April 5th (https://romecup.org/), which hosted the RoboCup Junior Official competiongs that allowed a demostration of our RoboCup team (SPQR team).

 

 

Maker Faire 2018

 

Our Lab will join the Maker Faire 2018: https://2018.makerfairerome.eu/it/

 

 

Service Robot Competition

Soon in Peccioli! From January 30th to February 3rd.

Our Team: https://sites.google.com/a/dis.uniroma1.it/spqrel/

Newspapers talking about us: http://www.pisatoday.it/cronaca/gara-robot-casa-domotica-peccioli-santanna.html

 

 

EUROPEAN ROBOTICS WEEK

 

On November 23rd, 2016, in the context of the European Robotics Week 2016, the Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering opens its robotics laboratories.

We will illustrate our research activities on articulated manipulators, mobile robots, humanoids, autonomous flying vehicles and soccer robots.

 

Program

10:00 Presentation of research activity – Aula Magna

Robotics Lab:  http://www.diag.uniroma1.it/~labrob

Cognitive Cooperating Robots Lab (RoCoCo):  http://www.diag.uniroma1.it/~labrococo

Cognitive Robotics Lab (ALCOR):  http://www.diag.uniroma1.it/~alcor

 

11:00 - 13:00 Guided tour of the labs

 

Contact: Domenico D. Bloisi: bloisi@diag.uniroma1.it

 

 

 

COACHES

 
COACHES project will provide a modular architecture to be integrated in real robots.
We deploy COACHES at Caen city in a mall called “Rive de l’orne”.
 
COACHES is a cooperative system consisting of fixed cameras and the mobile robots. The fixed cameras can do object detection, tracking and abnormal events detection (objects or behaviour). The robots combine these information with the ones perceived via their own sensor, to provide information through its multi-modal interface, guide people to their destinations, show tramway stations and transport goods for elderly people, etc....
The COACHES robots will use different modalities (speech and displayed information) to interact with the mall visitors, shopkeepers and mall managers.
 
The project has enlisted an important an end-user (Caen la mer) providing the scenarios where the CAOCHES robots and systems will be deployed, and gather together universities with complementary competences from cognitive systems (SU), robust image/video processing (VUB, UNICAEN), and semantic scene analysis and understanding (VUB), Collective decision-making using decentralized partially observable Markov Decision Processes and multi-agent planning (UNICAEN, Sapienza), multi-modal and short-term human-robot interaction (Sapienza, UNICAEN).
 
You can find more information about the first steps of the robot inside the mall at the following links:
 

 

 

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from LabRoCoCo!

 
Enjoy our Christmas video!
 
 

 

EU ROBOTICS WEEK 2015

 
On November 25th, 2015, in the context of the 5th edition of the euRobotics Week, promoted by euRobotics aisbl – The European association for a Public-Private Partnership in robotics, DIAG opens its robotics laboratories. In particular, we will illustrate our research activities on articulated manipulators, mobile robots, humanoids, autonomous flying vehicles and soccer robots.
 
Program
10:00 Presentation of research activity – Aula Magna
 
Robotics Lab
 
Cognitive Robot Teams Lab (RoCoCo)
 
Cognitive Robotics Lab (ALCOR)
 
11:00 Guided tour of the labs
 
12:30 Open labs
 
Contact:
Domenico D. Bloisi, bloisi@dis.uniroma1.it
María T. Lázaro, mtlazaro@dis.uniroma1.it
 
 
 

 

Jacopo Serafin's paper has been accepted at IROS 2015!
 
Jacopo Serafin, Giorgio Grisetti, "NICP: Dense Normal Based Point Cloud Registration.", In Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (to appear), Hamburg, Germany, 2015.
 
Abstract - In this paper we present a novel on-line method to recursively align point clouds. By considering each point together with the local features of the surface (normal and curvature), our method takes advantage of the 3D structure around the points for the determination of the data association between two clouds. The algorithm relies on a least squares formulation of the alignment problem, that minimizes an error metric depending on these surface characteristics. We named the approach Normal Iterative Closest Point (NICP in short). Extensive experiments on publicly available benchmark data show that NICP outperforms other state-of-the-art approaches.
 

Roberto Capobianco's paper has been accepted at ECMR 2015!

 
A Proposal for Semantic Map Representation and Evaluation
Roberto Capobianco, Jacopo Serafin, Johann Dichtl, Giorgio Grisetti, Luca Iocchi and Daniele Nardi
Proceedings of 2015 European Conference on Mobile Robots
 
Abstract:
Semantic mapping is the incremental process of
“mapping” relevant information of the world (i.e., spatial in-
formation, temporal events, agents and actions) to a formal
description supported by a reasoning engine. Current research
focuses on learning the semantic of environments based on their
spatial location, geometry and appearance. Many methods to
tackle this problem have been proposed, but the lack of a
uniform representation, as well as standard benchmarking suites,
prevents their direct comparison. In this paper, we propose
a standardization in the representation of semantic maps, by
defining an easily extensible formalism to be used on top of
metric maps of the environments. Based on this, we describe
the procedure to build a dataset (based on real sensor data) for
benchmarking semantic mapping techniques, also hypothesizing
some possible evaluation metrics. Nevertheless, by providing a
tool for the construction of a semantic map ground truth, we
aim at the contribution of the scientific community in acquiring
data for populating the dataset.
 

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Session: Environmental Robotics
 
 
ROBOT’2015 - 2nd Iberian Robotics Conference
 
 
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*** IMPORTANT DATES ***

 

- Paper Submission: July 10, 2015

- Notification: September 7, 2015

- Camera Ready: September 12, 2015

 
- Conference: November 19-21, 2015
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*** SUBMISSION ***
 
To submit a paper, please refer to ROBOT'15 conference website:
 
 
---- IMPORTANT NOTE ----
 
Selected contributions from Environmental robotics will be invited to extend their publications and to be considered for publication in a special issue from Sensors (IF: 2.245): "Robotic Sensory Systems for Environment Protection and Conservation" (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/RSSEPC). The selected contributions are subject to another reviewing process carried by Sensors.
 
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*** TOPICS AND OBJECTIVES ***

 

Environment awareness and conservation is an epoch-making subject in our society. Many scientific fields have contributed to size and address this concern. In the last 20 years many specific environmental missions pollution monitoring, soils conservation, natural disasters research, nuclear and radiation accidents using air, ground and underwater robots have been reported. This robots have been shipped with different sensory systems able to sense and gather biophysical data from broad areas for further analysis and study. This special session dedicated to environmental robotics will present late and future research within this field. Topics include, but are not limited to:

 
- Air, ground and underwater robotic systems, or other robotic configuration.
- Sensors and payload architectures.
- Robotic systems design choices and motivation.
- Design of testbed and experimental setups.
- Multi-robot systems, heterogeneous fleets of robots, site specific collaborative behaviors.
- Control and navigation.
- Task planning, path planning and optimization approaches.
- Adaptive sampling.
- Open-source software.
- Experiments addressing long-term autonomy.
- Open-issues and challenges.
- Applications and case studies are very welcome!
 
*** TRACK CHAIRS ***

- João Valente, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain (jvalente@ing.uc3m.es)

- Antonio Barrientos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain (antonio.barrientos@upm.es)
 

OBERSEMINAR

 
Our laboratory has recently participated to the eighth International Oberseminar, an annual research meetings on AI and Cognitive Robotics, involving participants from the Robotics and AI related groups from University of Freiburg, Sapienza Università di Roma, University of Groningen, and Sabanci University. 
 

AAMAS

Our laboratory has recently presented a full paper and a poster at AAMAS 2015. The work presented as a poster was carried out by collaborating with the CORAL group at Carnegie Mellon University. Below the abstracts of the works.
 
Teaching Robots Parametrized Executable Plans Through Spoken Interaction. G. Gemignani, E. Bastinaelli, and D. Nardi. 14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2015. 
 
Abstract: While operating in domestic environments, robots will necessarily face difficulties not envisioned by their developers at programming time. Moreover, the tasks to be performed by a robot will often have to be specialized and/or adapted to the needs of specific users and specific environments. Hence, learning how to operate by interacting with the user seems a key enabling feature to support the introduction of robots in everyday environments. 
In this paper we contribute a novel approach for learning, through the interaction with the user, task descriptions that are defined as a combination of primitive actions. The proposed approach makes a significant step forward by making task descriptions parametric with respect to domain specific semantic categories. Moreover, by mapping the task representation into a task representation language, we are able to express complex execution paradigms and to revise the learned tasks in a high-level fashion. The approach is evaluated in multiple practical applications with a service robot. 
 
On Task Recognition and Generalization in Long-Term Robot Teaching (Extended Abstract). G. Gemignani, S. Klee, M. Veloso, and D. Nardi. 14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2015. 
 
Abstract: Several research efforts address the challenge of having users incrementally teach or demonstrate a task to a robot. We are interested in an autonomous robot that persists over time and the problem of teaching it an additional task. We believe that the assumption that a user would know all the tasks previously taught to the robot does not hold. We hence investigate the problem of recognizing when a user is teaching a task similar to one the robot already knows and performing task autocompletion. In this extended abstract, we briefly discuss our approach, and report the results of an experiment run with human teachers.

 

 

RoCKIn Camp 2015

The RoCKIn Camp 2015, organized by UNIROMA1 and held in Peccioli (Italy) from 18th to 22nd of March, has been designed as a consistent follow up of the previous Camp 2014, held in Rome from 26th to 30th January 2014. Many of the best teams that participated at the previous camp attended also the RoCKIn Camp 2015.

Differently from the RoCKIn Camp 2014, that has been structured as a week-long school with lectures and practical activities, the RoCKIn Camp 2015 put a special emphasis on the hands-on experience of the participants, encouraging each team to focus on specific RoCKIn task and functionality benchmarks in order to improve their performances during the camp and to achieve the best possible results.

The RoCKIn Camp 2015 has been organized at the ECHORD++ Robotics Innovation Facility (RIFs) of Peccioli (Italy). Teams gained access to the state-of-the-art ECHORD++ domestic test bed (Figure 1) and to the RoCKIn industrial test bed, and had the chance to practice and improve their performance in the task and functionality benchmarks. The domestic test bed was equipped with the RoCKIn ground truth system provided by Milan Polytechnic (POLIMI) for data gathering and allowed teams to get detailed feedback on their performance.

 

 

Fablab

Prove di ‪#‎Fablab‬ a Città della Scienza al workshop formativo organizzato nell'ambito di ‪#‎TechnologyBiz‬ e promosso da Città della Scienza in collaborazione con la Sapienza - Università di Roma – Dipartimento di Ingegneria informatica automatica e gestionale “Antonio Ruberti. Il workshop è strutturato in due giornate e prevede la costruzione e la programmazione di un prototipo di robot low-cost con una base mobile, per il quale è stato sviluppato dalla Sapienza un kit open e basso costo, che garantisce uno standard di prestazione elevato. Per ulteriori informazioni, visita la pagina Facebook.

 

LabRoCoCo takes part to the workshop  ‪#‎TechnologyBiz‬ which is sponsored by Città della Scienza. The workshop will last two days: a low-cost robot will be programed. A low-cost open kit developed by Sapienza will anyway guarantee high standard performances. For further information, please visit the Facebook page.

 

 

Flourish H2020 project first sunflowers data set

The LabRoCoCo team went to the sunflowers field expressly prepared by the ASSAM team for the Flourish project (10 hectares).
The purpose of the visit was to capture a first dataset of the field with the plants still small.

We used a temporary setup, composed by a Pioneer3 robot with the
following sensors (see the robot-X.jpg images in the attached archive):

-A VISensor (stereo camera+IMU), looking forward/ground, height ~80 cm
-A Hokuyo UTM-30LX laser, looking forward/ground, height ~80 cm
-An UBLOX GPS
-An USB3 color camera (1920x1200), looking down, height ~80 cm
-Robot odometry

 

The goal of the Flourish project is to bridge the gap between the current and desired capabilities of agricultural robots by developing an adaptable robotic solution for precision farming. 

The Flourish project is funded by the European Community's Horizon 2020 programme under grant agreement no 644227-Flourish.

 

CONCEPT:

 

USE CASES:

 

LabRoCoCo partecipa al Workshop “MARRTINO”!

LabRoCoCo takes part to the Workshop “MARRTINO”!

 

Per ulteriori informazioni: http://www.tbiz.it/events/marrtino-come-costruire-un-robot-low-cost-dupl...

For further information: http://www.tbiz.it/events/marrtino-come-costruire-un-robot-low-cost-dupl...

 

NICOP Project Meeting (16/17 June 2015)

 

COACHES Project Meeting (11/12 June 2015)

 

Rome Drone Expo 2015 (29/31 May 2015)

Great success for LabROCOCO @ Rome Drone Expo 2015!

LabRoCoCo & Andrea Lo Cicero (famous rugby player!) at Rome Drone Expo 2015

 

Metro Italia interview

 

Rai news 24 interview

 

Visitors at our stand

 

LabRoCoCo Staff at Rome Drone Expo 2015

 

LabRoCoCo and DIAG at Rome Drone Expo 2015 (29/31 May 2015)

The Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering “Antonio Ruberti” (DIAG) at Sapienza University of Rome participates as exhibitor, within the European Horizon 2020 project FLOURISH, at Roma Drone Expo&Show 2015, that will take place at Aeroporto dell'Urbe in Rome from May 29th to May 31st 2015.

Roma Drone Expo&Show is the biggest event in Italy dedicated to the world of drones.

FLOURISH project http://flourish.informatik.uni-freiburg.de

Roma Drone Expo&Show http://www.romadrone.it

 

Il Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Automatica e Gestionale “Antonio Ruberti” (DIAG) dell'Università di Roma “La Sapienza” parteciperà come espositore, nell'ambito del progetto Europeo Horizon 2020 FLOURISH, alla manifestazione Roma Drone Expo&Show 2015 che si terrà presso l'Aeroporto dell'Urbe dal 29 al 31 Maggio 2015.

Nata nel 2014 e giunta alla sua 2a edizione, la manifestazione Roma Drone Expo&Show è dedicata al mondo dei droni e della robotica. La manifestazione prevede un ampio spazio espositivo pari circa a 12 mila mq con diverse aree specializzate, tra le quali scuole di volo, droni sportivi e amatoriali, istituzioni e aziende aeronautiche. Sarà inoltre possibile assistere a diversi voli dimostrativi di droni sia ad ala fissa che multi-rotore.

Progetto FLOURISH http://flourish.informatik.uni-freiburg.de

Roma Drone Expo&Show http://www.romadrone.it