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Riccardo Caccavale, PhD

Assistant Professor (RTD-A, non-tenured)

Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e Tecnologie dell'Informazione (DIETI),
Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II" (UNINA).

Address: Via Claudio 21, 80125, Napoli, Italy
Office: Building 3/A, Room 2.11
Email:

ORCID: 0000-0001-8636-7628

My research activities are focused on cognitive and autonomous robotics. My goal is to design cognitive architectures and methods enabling flexible execution of complex structured tasks in robotics fostering robot autonomy and human-robot interaction. My research interests range from cognitive science to intelligent robotics, including machine learning, planning and scheduling, cognitive systems, robots design and control.

Education

PhD in Information Technology and Electrical Engineering

2017, Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II", Napoli, Italy

Master's degree in Computer Science

2013, Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II", Napoli, Italy

Qualifications

National scientific qualification (ASN) as Associate Professor

2022-2034, Disciplinary field of Informatics 01/B1

Experience

Scientific Consultant

2021-2022, CREATE (Consorzio di Ricerca per l'Energia, l’Automazione e le Tecnologie dell'Elettromagnetismo), Napoli, Italy

Research Fellow

2019-2021, Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II", Napoli, Italy

Scientific Consultant

2018-2019, CREATE (Consorzio di Ricerca per l'Energia, l’Automazione e le Tecnologie dell'Elettromagnetismo), Napoli, Italy

Research Fellow

2017-2018, Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II", Napoli, Italy

PhD Fellow

2014-2017, Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II", Napoli, Italy

Teachings

Assistant Professor of "Reti di Calcolatori I"

2023-ongoing, Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II", Napoli, Italy

Assistant Professor of "Trasformazione digitale e tecnologie informatiche"

2022-ongoing, Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II", Napoli, Italy

Assistant Professor of "Ethical Machine Learning and Data Mining Laboratory"

2022-2023, Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II", Napoli, Italy

Organization of Seminars for the course of "Intelligent Robotics"

2020-2023, Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II", Napoli, Italy

Teaching Assistant of "Robotics and Autonomous Sensors"

2020-2021, Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II", Napoli, Italy

Teaching Assistant of "Robotica e Soluzioni Automatizzate"

2020-2021, Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II", Napoli, Italy

Organization of Seminars for the course of "Sistemi per il Governo dei Robot"

2016-2020, Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II", Napoli, Italy

Tutor of "Fondamenti di Informatica"

2016-2017, Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II", Napoli, Italy

Roles in Projects

INVERSE, local principal investigator

2024-2027, scientific responsible of the operative unit for the international research project INVERSE (INteractive robots that intuitiVely lEarn to inVErt tasks by ReaSoning about their Execution), ID 101136067, funded by the European Commission under HORIZON Research and Innovation Action. EC funding of 587,500.00 euros (7,999,873.50 euros in total for the project).

ICOSAF, responsable of the UNINA Group

2019-2022, responsable for activities 2.2, 5.2, and 6.3 of project ICOSAF (Integrated Collaborative systems for SmArt Factory), project no. ARS01_00861, funded by Italian Ministry of University and Research under PON RIcerca e Innovazione 2014-2020 Program

REFILLS, responsable of the UNINA group

2018-2020, responsable for WP4 (Reactive control algorithms and object perception) and WP5 (Testing, validation, evaluation and demonstration) of the project REFILLS (Robotics Enabling Fully-Integrated Logistics Lines for Supermarkets), ID 731590, H2020 Research and Innovation Action

RoMoLO, responsable of the UNINA group

2017-2018, responsable for OR1, OR3, OR7, and OR8 of project RoMoLO (Robot Modulari per la Logistica Ospedaliera), supported by the Italian Ministry for Economic Development, under EU-funded Actions for R&D

Conferences and Editorial Activities

Program Committee Membership

  • PC Member of the ICAPS workshop on Planning and Scheduling (PlanRob 2020-2023)
  • PC Member of the AI*IA Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (AIRO 2020, 2022)
  • Session Chair of the session on "Cognitive and Trustworthy Robotics" during the ICAPS workshop on Planning and Scheduling (PlanRob 2021)
  • PC Member of the 13th Workshop on Human-Friendly Robotics (HFR 2020)
  • PC Member for the "Robotic Track" of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2019)

Editorial Activities

  • Associate Editor of the IEEE/RJS International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2023 and 2024) for the topic "Robotics Systems"
  • Associate Editor of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023) for the topic "Robot Learning"

Invited Talks

  • Invited Speaker to the 50th anniversary of the GARTEUR (Group for Areonautics and Technology in Europe), session on "AI in Aeronautics" (2023)
  • Invited Speaker for the Workshop on Cognitive Robotics of the Italian Conference of Robotics and Intelligent Machines (I-RIM 2022)
Media

A flexible robotic depalletizing system for supermarket logistics


A reconfigurable gripper for robotic autonomous depalletizing in supermarket logistics


RGB-D recognition and localization of cases for robotic depalletizing in supermarkets


Kinesthetic teaching and attentional supervision of structured tasks in human–robot interaction


References
Link to Scholar.
Link to Scopus.