Research

List of selected ongoing and previous projects I participated in:

• SymbiCloud Robot-Assisted Hastily Formed Knowledge Networks (2016-). Project founded by Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF).
• CUAS Collaborative Unmanned Aircraft Systems (2011-2016). The project was founded by Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF, more information...)
• SHERPA Smart collaboration between Humans and ground aErial Robots for imProving rescuing activities in Alpine environments) - EU founded project in period between 2013-2017. The goal of SHERPA was 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. The technological platform and the alpine rescuing scenario were the occasion to address a number of research topics about cognition and control pertinent to the project goals. The project consortium was composed of seven top academic groups, two SMEs, and the Italian Association of Alpine Rescuers with the role of endcuser and evaluator of the project outcomes for the specific application of search and rescuing in the alpine scenario.
• NFFP4-031 (finished in 2009)
• NFFP4-007 (finished in 2009)
• MACS (Multi-sensory Autonomous Cognitive Systems) project - funded by the European Commission - finished in 2007
  "The main objective of the MACS project is to explore and exploit the concept of affordances for the design and implementation of autonomous mobile robots acting goal-directedly in a dynamic environment. The claim is to develop affordance-based control as a method for robotics." (more information...)
• WITAS (Wallenberg Laboratory for Information Technology and Autonomous Systems) project - finished in 2005.
  "WITAS was a research project during years 1997-2005. It was engaged in goal-directed basic research in the area of intelligent autonomous vehicles and other autonomous systems. focussing on the development of an airborne computer system that is able to make rational decisions about the continued operation of the aircraft, based on various sources of knowledge including pre-stored geographical knowledge, knowledge obtained from vision sensors, and knowledge communicated to it by data link."  (more information...)