Research

Research Interests

Cognitive Robotics, Autonomous Systems, Human-Robot Interaction, AI and Robotics
Agent/Robot Architectures, Model-based autonomy, AI Planning and Execution, V & V methods for Robotics
Executive Control, Cognitive Architectures, Attentional Systems, Cognitive Control
Service Robotics, Social Robotics, Field Robotics, Aerial Robotics, Search and Rescue Robotics

Research Projects

EU Projects:

REFILLS: Robotics Enabling Fully-Integrated Logistics Lines for Supermarkets (H2020, 731590, 2017-2020)

SHERPA: Smart collaboration between Humans and ground-aERial robots for imProving rescuing activities in Alpine environments. The goal of SHERPA is to develop a mixed ground and aerial robotic platform to support search and rescue activities in a real-world hostile environment, like the alpine scenario that is specifically targeted in the project.

SAPHARI: Safe and Autonomous Physical Human-Aware Robot Interaction. SAPHARI will bring to fruition co-workers in real world applications using the new technologies of soft robotics that combine cognitive reaction and safe physical human-robot interaction. We will expand and improve the functionalities of robotic systems and further develop relevant features, such as autonomy, safety, robustness, efficiency, and ease of use.

AIRobots:Innovative aerial service robots for remote inspections by contact. The goal of the AIRobots project is to develop a new generation of aerial service robots capable to support human beings in all those activities which require the ability to interact actively and safely with environments not constrained on ground but, indeed, freely in air.

DEXMART: DEXterous and autonomous dual-arm/hand robotic manipulation with sMART sensory-motor skills: A bridge from natural to artificial cognition. DEXMART has the ambition to fill the gap between the use of robots in industrial environments and the use of future robots in everyday human and unstructured environments, contributing to reinforce European competitiveness in all those domains of personal and service robotics where dexterous and autonomous dual-hand manipulation capabilities are required.

Austrian Science Fund (FWF) Project at TU Vienna:

 Game-Theoretic Agent Programming: high-level programming formalisms and techniques for multiple agents in uncertain and partially observable environments.

Fulbright Project at NASA Ames Research Center:

ESL Extensions for the Intelligent Distributed Extensible Architecture (IDEA): assessment of a plan-based executive system.

ASI (Italian Space Agency) Projects:

                        SUPER: feasibility study, design of a control system for a Planetary Rover.

Marviss (Anthropomorphic Hand and Virtual Reality for Robotic System on the International Space Station): design of the control system for a manipulator endowed with an anthropomorphic hand and visual perception.

Other Italian Projects:

                        RoMoLo: RObot MOdulari per la Logistica Ospedaliera (Modular robots for hospital logistics) (Italian Ministry for Economic Development, under EU- funded Actions for R&D).

Organization

Promoter and Organizer of the PlanRobot (Planning and Robotics) workshop series at ICAPS:
PlanRob 2020, PlanRob 2019, PlanRob 2018, PlanRob 2017, PlanRob 2016, PlanRob 2015, PlanRob 2014, PlanRob 2013

Organizer of the AI Planning and Robotics: Challenges and Methods workshop at IEEE ICRA 2017 PlanRob at ICRA 2017

Coordinator of the AI*IA Working Group on Intelligent Robotic Systems (Working Group on Intelligent Robotic Systems)

Organizer of the AIRO (AI and RObotics) workshop series at AI x IA conference:
AIRO 2020, AIRO 2019, AIRO 2018, AIRO 2017, AIRO 2016, AIRO 2015

Organizer and Co-Chair of Human Friendly Robotics 2017 (HFR 2017)

Organizer and Co-Chair of the workshop Towards Fully Autonomous Robots: Challenges for AI Planning in Robotics at the European Robotics Forum 2018

Organizer and Co-Chair of the workshop Towards Fully Autonomous Robots: Challenges for AI Planning in Robotics at the European Robotics Forum (workshop at ERF 2017)

Organizer of the Special Session on Fuzzy Logic in Autonomous Robots at the IEEE International conference on Fuzzy Systems 2017 (Special session at Fuzzy Systems 2017)

Organizer and Co-Chair of the Special Session on Foundations of NMR and Uncertainty at Non-Monotonic Reasoning 2008 (Special session NMR 2008)

Editorial Activity

Associated Editor for the Intelligent Service Robotics Journal (Springer) JISR

Associate Editor: IEEE Robotics & Automation Society Conference Editorial Board

Associate Editor: IEEE Robotics & Automation Society Conference Editorial Board

Co-Editor: Proceedings of the 6th Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics , http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2594/, collana CEUR Workshop, 2020

Co-Editor: Proceedings of the 5th Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics , http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2352/, collana CEUR Workshop, 2019

Co-Editor: Proceedings of the 4th Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics , http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2594/, collana CEUR Workshop, 2018

Co-Editor: Proceedings of the 3rd Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics , http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2054/, collana CEUR Workshop, 2017

Co-Editor: Proceedings of the 2nd Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics , http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1544/, collana CEUR Workshop, 2016

External Co-Editor: Proceedings of Human Friendly Robotics 2017 (to appear in SPAR series, Springer)

 

 

Selected Publications
  1. Alberto Finzi and Thomas Lukasiewicz: Partially observable game-theoretic agent programming in Golog. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 119: 220-241 (2020)

  2. M Faella, A Finzi, L Sauro: Rapidly Finding the Best Arm Using Variance. Proc. of ECAI, 24th European Conference of Artificial Intelligence (2020)

  3. Marco Faella, Alberto Finzi, Luigi Sauro: Value vs Uncertainty in Real-time Preference Elicitation, 12th Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling at ECAI 2020 (2020)

  4. Riccardo Caccavale, Alberto Finzi: An Automated Guided Vehicle for Flexible and Interactive Task Execution in Hospital Scenarios. AIRO@AI*IA 2019: 39-46 (2020)

  5. Salvatore Anzalone, Luca Buoncompagni, Alberto Castellini, Alberto Finzi: Proceedings of the 6th Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics co-located with the XVIII International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2019) Rende, Italy, November 22, 2019. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2594/ (2020)

  6. Riccardo Caccavale, Alberto Finzi: Learning attentional regulations for structured tasks execution in robotic cognitive control Autonomous Robots 43 (8), 2229-2243 (2019)

  7. R Caccavale, M Saveriano, A Finzi, D Lee: Kinesthetic teaching and attentional supervision of structured tasks in humanrobot interaction Autonomous Robots 43 (6), 1291-1307 (2019)

  8. M Saveriano, M Seegerer, R Caccavale, A Finzi, D Lee: Symbolic Task Compression in Structured Task Learning Third IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC), 171-176 (2019)

  9. J Cacace, R Caccavale, A Finzi, V Lippiello: Variable Admittance Control based on Virtual Fixtures for Human-Robot Co-Manipulation 2019 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC), 1569-1574, (2019)

  10. Salvatore Anzalone, Alessandro Farinelli, Alberto Finzi, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni: Proceedings of the 5th Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics A workshop of the XVII International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2018) Trento, Italy, November 22-23, 2018. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2352/ (2019)

  11. J Cacace, A Finzi, V Lippiello: Enhancing Shared Control via Contact Force Classification in Human-Robot Cooperative Task Execution Human Friendly Robotics, 167-179 (2018)

  12. T Mancini, E Tronci, A Scialanca, F Lanciotti, A Finzi, R Guarneri, S Di Pompeo: Optimal Fault-Tolerant Placement of Relay Nodes in a Mission Critical Wireless Network. RCRA@ FLoC (2018)

  13. J Cacace, A Finzi, V Lippiello: Shared Admittance Control for Human-Robot Co-manipulation based on Operator Intention Estimation. ICINCO (2), 71-80 (2018)

  14. J Cacace, R Caccavale, A Finzi, V Lippiello: Structured Task Execution during Human-Robot Co-manipulation. AIRO@ AI* IA, 29-35 (2018)

  15. J Cacace, R Caccavale, A Finzi, V Lippiello: Interactive plan execution during human-robot cooperative manipulation IFAC-PapersOnLine 51 (22), 500-505 (2018)

  16. F Ficuciello, F Ruggiero, A Finzi: Human Friendly Robotics, Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics 7 (2018)

  17. Salvatore Anzalone, Alessandro Farinelli, Alberto Finzi, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni: Proceedings of the 4th Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics A workshop of the XVI International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2017) Bari, Italy, November 14-15, 2017. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2054/ (2018)

  18. Riccardo Caccavale, Alberto Finzi: Flexible task execution and attentional regulations in human-robot interaction. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems 9 (1), 68-79 (2017)

  19. R Caccavale, M Saveriano, G Fontanelli, F Ficuciello, D Lee, A Finzi: Imitation Learning and Attentional Supervision of Dual-Arm Structured Tasks. IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics (2017)

  20. R Caccavale, A Finzi, Cognitive Control and Adaptive Attentional Regulations for Robotic Task Execution Proceedings of EUCognition 2016: Cognitive Robot Architectures. 56-67 (2017)

  21. J. Cacace, A. Finzi, V. Lippiello. A Robust Multimodal Fusion Framework for Command Interpretation in Human-Robot Cooperation. Proc. of RO-MAN, (2017)

  22. Alberto Finzi, Alessandro Farinelli, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni. Proc. of the 3rd Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics A workshop of the XV International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2016) CEUR Workshop Proceedings Vol-1834, CEUR-WS.org (2017) http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1834/

  23. J. Cacace, A. Finzi, V. Lippiello, M. Furci, N. Mimmo, L. Marconi. A control architecture for multiple drones operated via multimodal interaction in search & rescue mission. Proc. of SSRR 2016, pp. 233-239 (2016)

  24. R. Caccavale, J. Cacace, M. Fiore, R. Alami, A. Finzi. Attentional supervision of human-robot collaborative plans. Proc. of RO-MAN, pp. 867-873 (2016)

  25. J. Cacace, A. Finzi, V. Lippiello. Implicit robot selection for human multi-robot interaction in Search and Rescue missions. Proc. of RO-MAN, pp. 803-808 (2016)

  26. J. Cacace, R. Caccavale, A. Finzi, V. Lippiello. Attentional multimodal interface for multidrone search in the Alps. SMC 2016: 1178-1183 (2016)

  27. Riccardo Caccavale, Alberto Finzi: Plan Execution and Attentional Regulations for Flexible Human-Robot Interaction. SMC 2015: 2453-2458 (2015)

  28. Giuseppe Bevacqua, Jonathan Cacace, Alberto Finzi, Vincenzo Lippiello: Mixed-Initiative Planning and Execution for Multiple Drones in Search and Rescue Missions. ICAPS 2015: 315-323 (2015)

  29. Jonathan Cacace, Alberto Finzi, Vincenzo Lippiello, Giuseppe Loianno, Dario Sanzone: Aerial service vehicles for industrial inspection: task decomposition and plan execution. Appl. Intell. 42(1): 49-62 (2015)

  30. Alberto Finzi, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, Andrea Orlandini, Antonio Sgorbissa: Proceedings of the 2nd Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics A workshop of the XIV International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2015), Ferrara, Italy, September 22, 2015. CEUR Workshop Proceedings 1544, CEUR-WS.org (2016) http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1544/

  31. Jonathan Cacace, Riccardo Caccavale, Michelangelo Fiore, Rachid Alami, Alberto Finzi: Attentional Plan Execution for Human-Robot Cooperation. AIRO@AI*IA 2015: 19-28 (2015)

  32. Jonathan Cacace, Alberto Finzi, Vincenzo Lippiello: Multimodal Interaction with Co-located Drones for Search and Rescue. AIRO@AI*IA 2015: 54-67 (2015)

  33. Andrea Orlandini, Giulio Bernardi, Amedeo Cesta, Alberto Finzi: Planning meets verification and validation in a knowledge engineering environment. Intelligenza Artificiale 8(1): 87-100 (2014)

  34. Xavier Broquere, Alberto Finzi, Jim Mainprice, Silvia Rossi, Daniel Sidobre, Mariacarla Staffa, An Attentional Approach to Human\96Robot Interactive Manipulation. International Journal of Social Robotics, Springer, 2014

  35. Jonathan Cacace, Alberto Finzi, Vincenzo Lippiello: A mixed-initiative control system for an Aerial Service Vehicle supported by force feedback. IROS 2014: 1230-1235, 2014

  36. Riccardo Caccavale, Enrico Leone, Lorenzo Lucignano, Silvia Rossi, Mariacarla Staffa, Alberto Finzi: Attentional regulations in a situated human-robot dialogue. RO-MAN 2014: 844-849, 2014

  37. Riccardo Caccavale, Alberto Finzi, Lorenzo Lucignano, Silvia Rossi, Mariacarla Staffa. Attentional top-down regulation and dialogue management in human-robot interaction. Proc. of HRI 2014, ACM, 2014

  38. Dario Di Nocera, Alberto Finzi, Silvia Rossi, and Mariacarla Staffa, The role of intrinsic motivations in attention allocation and shifting. Frontiers in Psychology 2014. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3978295/

  39. Lorenzo Lucignano, Francesco Cutugno, Silvia Rossi, Alberto Finzi. A dialogue system for multimodal human-robot interaction. Proc. of the 15th ACM on International conference on multimodal interaction Pages 197-204, ACM New York, NY, USA 2013 http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2522873

  40. Dario di Nocera, Alberto Finzi, Silvia Rossi, Mariacarla Staffa, "Attentional shifting and curiosity: A reinforcement learning approach", 1st BRICS Countries Congress and 11th Brazilian Congress on Computational Intelligence, Recife, BR, Sep. 2013 (Best Professional Paper Award)

  41. Orlandini, A.; Suriano, M. ; Cesta, A. ; Finzi, A. Controller Synthesis for Safety Critical Planning. Proc. of 2013 IEEE 25th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), 2013

  42. Balta, H.; Rossi, S. ; Iengo, S. ; Siciliano, B. ; Finzi, A.; De Cubber, G. Adaptive behavior-based control for robot navigation: A multi-robot case study. 2013 XXIV International Symposium on Information, Communication and Automation Technologies (ICAT), 2013

  43. Andrea Orlandini, Giulio Bernardi, Amedeo Cesta, Alberto Finzi, Integrating Knowledge Engineering for Planning with Validation and Verification Tools. AI*IA 2013: Advances in Artificial Intelligence Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 8249, 2013, pp 251-262

  44. Rossi, S. Leone, E. ; Fiore, M. ; Finzi, A. ; Cutugno, F. An extensible architecture for robust multimodal human-robot communication. IROS 2013.

  45. Federico Mari, Igor Melatti, Enrico Tronci, Alberto Finzi, A multi-hop advertising discovery and delivering protocol for multi administrative domain MANET. Mobile Information Systems, IOS Press, 2013

  46. J. Cacace, A. Finzi, V. Lippiello, G. Loianno, and D. Sanzone, \93Aerial Service Vehicles for Industrial Inspection: Task Decomposition and Plan Execution\94 , 26th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, LNCS, 2013. (Best Paper Nomination)

  47. L. Marconi, C. Melchiorri, M. Beetz, D. Pangercic, R. Siegwart, S. Leutenegger, R. Carloni, S. Stramigioli, H. Bruyninckx, Patrick Doherty, Alexander Kleiner, V. Lippiello, A. Finzi, B. Siciliano, A. Sala and N. Tomatis. 2012. The SHERPA project: Smart collaboration between humans and ground-aerial robots for improving rescuing activities in alpine environments. In Proc. of the IEEE Int. Workshop on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics (SSRR).

  48. Dario Di Nocera, Alberto Finzi, Silvia Rossi, Mariacarla Staffa: Attentional Action Selection Using Reinforcement Learning. SAB 2012: 371-380

  49. Salvatore Iengo, Antonio Origlia, Mariacarla Staffa, Alberto Finzi: Attentional and emotional regulation in human-robot interaction. RO-MAN 2012: 1135-1140 (CoTeSyS Best Paper nomination)

  50. Ernesto Burattini, Alberto Finzi, Silvia Rossi, Mariacarla Staffa: Attentional human-robot interaction in simple manipulation tasks. HRI 2012: 129-130

  51. D. Sidobre, X. Broquere, J. Mainprice, E. Burattini, A. Finzi, S. Rossi, M. Staffa. "Human-Robot Interaction" in "Advanced Bimanual Manipulation", Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics 80, Siciliano, Bruno (Ed.), pp.123-172. ISBN 978-3-642-29040-4. April 30, 2012.

  52. E. Burattini, A. Finzi, S. Rossi, M. Staffa. "Cognitive Control in Cognitive Robotics: Attentional Executive Control". In the 15th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR2011), 20-23 June, 2011, Tallinn, Estonia, ISBN: 978-1-4577-1158-9, pp. 359 - 364, 2011.

  53. Amedeo Cesta, Simone Fratini, Andrea Orlandini, Alberto Finzi, Enrico Tronci: Flexible Plan Verification: Feasibility Results. Fundam. Inform. 107(2-3): 111-137 (2011)

  54. Andrea Orlandini, Alberto Finzi, Amedeo Cesta, Simone Fratini: TGA-Based Controllers for Flexible Plan Execution. KI 2011: 233-245

  55. E. Burattini, A. Finzi, S. Rossi and M. Staffa, Attentive Monitoring Strategies in a Behavior-based Robotic System: an Evolutionary Approach, In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Learning and Adaptive Behavior in Robotic Systems, IEEE (in press), 2010.

  56. E. Burattini, A. Finzi, S. Rossi and M. Staffa, Attentional Modulation of Mutually Dependent Behaviors. In Proceedings of SAB2010 - Paris, France, August 24-28, 2010. To appear in Springer Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence.

  57. E. Burattini, A. Finzi, S. Rossi and M. Staffa. Attentive Monitoring and Adaptive Control in Cognitive Robotics. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings series, from the Cognitive Robotics Dagstuhl seminar - CogRob2010.

  58. A. Cesta, A. Finzi, S. Fratini, A. Orlandini, E. Tronci. Validation and Verification Issues in a Timeline Planning System. The Knowledge Eng. Review 25(3): 299-318 Cambridge University Press. (2010)

  59. Amedeo Cesta, Alberto Finzi, Simone Fratini, AndreA Orlandini, Enrico Tronci. Analyzing Flexible Timeline-based Plans. In Proceedings of ECAI 2010.

  60. E. Burattini, A. Finzi, S. Rossi and M. Staffa, Monitoring strategies for adaptive periodic control in behavior-based robotic systems, in 2nd ECSIS Symposium on Learning and Adaptive Behavior in Robotic Systems. IEEE Computer Society, 2009, pp. 130-135. (runner-up paper award).

  61. A. Cesta, A. Finzi, S. Fratini, A. Orlandini, E. Tronci. Flexible Timeline-Based Plan Verification. In proc. of the German Conference on Artificial Intelligence KI 2009: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. 2009.

  62. Cesta, A., Finzi, A., Fratini, S., Orlandini, A., and Tronci, E. Flexible Plan Verification: Feasibility Results. In RCRA-09. 16th RCRA International Workshop on Experimental evaluation of algorithms for solving problems with combinatorial explosion. Reggio Emilia, Italy, 11-12 December, 2009

  63. Cesta, A., Finzi, A., Fratini, S., Orlandini, A., and Tronci, E. Verifying Flexible Timeline-Based Plans. In VVPS-09. Workshop on Verification and Validation of Planning and Scheduling Systems at ICAPS, Thessaloniki, Greece, September, 2009

  64. Andrea Carbone and Alberto Finzi and Andrea Orlandini and Fiora Pirri. Model-based control architecture for attentive robots in rescue scenarios. In Autonomous Robots, vol. 24, number 1, issn 0929-5593, pp. 87--120, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Hingham, MA, USA, 2008.

  65. Alessandro Farinelli, Alberto Finzi, and Thomas Lukasiewicz. Team Programming in Golog under Partial Observability. In M. M. Veloso, editor, Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2007), pp. 2097-2102, Hyderabad, India, January 2007. AAAI Press / IJCAI, 2007.

  66. Andrea Carbone, Daniele Ciacelli, Alberto Finzi, Fiora Pirri. Autonomous Attentive Exploration in Search and Rescue Scenarios. To appear in Attention in Cognitive Systems (Springer LNAI), 2007 (extended version of Autonomous Attentive Exploration in Search and Rescue Scenarios, 4th international workshop on Attention in Cognitive Systems (WAPCV 2007)).

  67. Alberto Finzi and Thomas Lukasiewicz. Game-Theoretic Agent Programming in Golog. Submitted for journal publication. (See also Technical Report Nr. 1843-04-02, Institut fur Informationssysteme, Technische Universitat Wien, April 2007.)

  68. Alberto Finzi and Thomas Lukasiewicz. Adaptive Multi-Agent Programming in GTGolog. In C. Freksa, M. Kohlhase, and K. Schill, editors, Proceedings of the 29th Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2006), pp. 389-403, Bremen, Germany, June 2006. Volume 4314 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer, 2007.

  69. Alberto Finzi and Thomas Lukasiewicz. Game-Theoretic Agent Programming in Golog under Partial Observability. In C. Freksa, M. Kohlhase, and K. Schill, editors, Proceedings of the 29th Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2006), pp. 113-127, Bremen, Germany, June 2006. Volume 4314 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer, 2007.

  70. Andrea Carbone, Giorgio Ugazio, Alberto Finzi, Fiora Pirri, Andrea Orlandini. RoboCupRescue - Robot League Team ALCOR. Team Description Paper. In Proceedings of RoboCup 2006, Bremen, Germany, June 2006.

  71. Alberto Finzi and Thomas Lukasiewicz. Adaptive Multi-Agent Programming in GTGolog. In G. Brewka, S. Coradeschi, A. Perini, and P. Traverso, editors, Proceedings of the 17th biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2006), pp. 753-754, Riva del Garda, Italy, August/September 2006. IOS Press, 2006.

  72. Alberto Finzi and Fiora Pirri. Representing Flexible Temporal Behaviors in the Situation Calculus.. In Proceedings of 19th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2005), pp. 436-441, Professional Book Center, 2005.

  73. Alberto Finzi and Thomas Lukasiewicz. Game-Theoretic Agent Programming in Golog under Partial Observability. In P. Gmytrasiewicz and S. Parsons, edi tors, Proceedings of the IJCAI-2005 Workshop on Game-Theoretic and Decision-Theoretic Agents (GTDT 2005), July 2005. (See also Technical Report Nr. 1843-05-02, Institut fr Informationssysteme, Technische Universitￜ Wien, April 200; December 2006.)

  74. Alberto Finzi and Andrea Orlandini . A Mixed-Initiative Approach to Human-Robot Interaction in Rescue Scenarios. In International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), Printed Notes of Workshop on Mixed-Initiative Planning And Scheduling. pp. 36-43. 2005.

  75. Andrea Carbone, Alberto Finzi, Andrea Orlandini, Fiora Pirri, Giorgio Ugazio. Augmenting Situation Awareness via Model-Based Control in Rescue Robots. In Proceedings of 2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS-2005), pp.1549-1555, Edmonton, Canada, 2005.

  76. Alberto Finzi and Andrea Orlandini. Human-Robot Interaction through Mixed-Initiative Planning for Rescue and Search Rovers. In Proceedings of AI*IA-05. pp. 483-494, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer, 2005

  77. Alberto Finzi and Thomas Lukasiewicz. Game-Theoretic Reasoning about Actions in Nonmonotonic Causal Theories. In C. Baral, G. Greco, N. Leone, and G. Terracina, editors, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR 2005), pp. 185-197, Diamante, Cosenza, Italy, September 2005. Volume 3662 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer, 2005. (See also Technical Report Nr. 1843-05-04, Institut für Informationssysteme, Technische Universität Wien, June 2005.)

  78. Alberto Finzi and Thomas Lukasiewicz. Game-Theoretic Golog under Partial Observability. In F. Dignum, V. Dignum, S. Koenig, S. Kraus, M. Pechoucek, M. Singh, D. Steiner, S. Thompson, and M. Wooldridge, editors, Proceedings of the 4th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2005), pp. 1301-1302, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 2005. ACM Press, 2005. (See also Technical Report Nr. 1843-05-02, Institut für Informationssysteme, Technische Universität Wien, April 200; December 2006.)

  79. A.Carbone, A. Finzi, A. Orlandini, F. Pirri, G. Ugazio. Situation Aware Rescue Robots. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics (SSRR2005), pp. 182-188, 2005.

  80. Alberto Finzi, Felix Ingrand and Nicola Muscettola. Model-based Executive Control through Reactive Planning for Autonomous Rovers. In IROS 2004 (IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems), pp. 879-884, September 28 - October 2, 2004, Sendai, Japan.

  81. Alberto Finzi, Felix Ingrand and Nicola Muscettola. Model-based Execution through Reactive Planning for Autonomous Planetary Rovers. In Proceedings of IWPSS 2004, 4th International Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Space, June 23 - 25, 2004, ESA-ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany.

  82. A. Carbone, G. Ugazio, A. Finzi, F. Pirri, M. Cialdea, M. Iarusso, A. Orlandini. RoboCupRescue - Robot League Team ALCOR. Team Description Paper (Awarded). In Proceedings of RoboCup 2004, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2004.

  83. Alberto Finzi and Thomas Lukasiewicz. Relational Markov Games. In Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (JELIA'04), Lisbon, Portugal, September 2004. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer, 2004.

  84. Alberto Finzi, Fiora Pirri. Flexible Interval Planning in Concurrent Temporal Golog. In CogRob-2004 (ECAI 2004) (4th International Cognitive Robotics Workshop), August 23-24, 2004, Valencia, Spain.

  85. Alberto Finzi and Thomas Lukasiewicz. Game-Theoretic Agent Programming in Golog. In R. López de Mántaras and L. Saitta, editors, Proceedings of the 16th biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2004), pp. 23-27, Valencia, Spain, August 2004. IOS Press, 2004. (See also Technical Report Nr. 1843-04-02, Institut für Informationssysteme, Technische Universität Wien, April 2007.)

  86. Alberto Finzi and Thomas Lukasiewicz. Structure-Based Causes and Explanations in the Independent Choice Logic. In C. Meek and U. Kjærulff, editors, Proceedings of the 19th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI-2003), pp. 225-232, Acapulco, Mexico, August 2003. Morgan Kaufmann, 2003. (See also Technical Report Nr. 1843-03-06, Institut für Informationssysteme, Technische Universität Wien, April 2003.)

  87. Alberto Finzi, Ivo Mentuccia, Fiora Pirri, Marco Pirrone, Massimo Romano, Francesco Savelli. The Mr ArmHandOne Project.A Maze Roamer Robot. In Proceedings of The Mobile Robot Workshop AAAI-2002.


  88. Alberto Finzi and Fiora Pirri. Explanatory diagnosis and meaningful perception. In Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR-2002), pp. 124Ð134, Toulouse, France, 2002.


  89. Alberto Finzi, Fiora Pirri.Combining Probabilities, Failures and Safety in Robot Control. In Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-01), pp. 1331Ð1336, Seattle, Washington, USA, 2001.

  90. Alberto Finzi, Fiora Pirri, Marco Pirrone, Massimo Romano. Risks evaluation and Failures Diagnosis for Automonous task execution in Space. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (iSAIRAS-2001), 2001

  91. Alberto Finzi, Fiora Pirri. Autonomous Mobile Manipulators Managing Perception and Failures. In Proceedings of Autonomous Agents 2001, pp. 196-203, 2001.

  92. Alberto Finzi, Fiora Pirri.Diagnosing Failures and Predicting safe runs in Robot Control. In Proceedings of Commonsense 2001, pp. 105-113, New York, 2001.

  93. Alberto Finzi, Fiora Pirri and Raymond Reiter.Open World Planning in the Situation Calculus. In Proceedings of the 17th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-00), pp. 754-760, 2000.

  94. Gianfranco Piazzolla, Milko Vaccaro, Alberto Finzi and Fiora Pirri. ArmHand¯: a mobile manipulator for the blocks world . In Working Notes of ECAI Workshop on Cognitive Robotics, pp. 110-117, Berlin, 2000.

  95. Fiora Pirri and Alberto Finzi. An approach to Perception in Theory of Actions: Part I. Electronic Transaction on Artificial Intelligence, vol. 4, n. 41, Section C, pp. 19-61, 1999.

  96. Alberto Finzi Fiora Pirri and Marco Schaerf. A System Integrating High and Low Level Planning of Complex Task with a 3D Visualizer. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (iSAIRAS-99), pp. 521-527, 1999.

  97. Fiora Pirri and Alberto Finzi. Preliminary Approach to Perception in Theory of Actions. In Proceedings of the IJCAI'99 Workshop on Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Action and Change (NRAC'99), pages 41-49, 1999