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Antonio Paolillo

Researcher

IDSIA Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence, USI-SUPSI
Lugano, Switzerland

antonio [dot] paolillo [at] idsia.ch / supsi.ch

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I am a researcher at IDSIA in Lugano since May 2020.

Previously, I was a post-doc at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland (from October 2019 to April 2020); Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland (January 2018 - August 2019); CNRS-University of Montpellier, France (April 2015 - December 2017). From April to November 2015, I have been a visiting researcher at the CNRS-AIST Joint Robotics Laboratory of Tsukuba, Japan. In June 2015, I participated in the DARPA Robotics Challenge as a member of the AIST-NEDO team. In March 2015, I received my Ph.D. in System Engineering from Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, and, in January 2011, my Master's degree in Electronic Engineering from the same University. From January to July 2014, I was a visiting scholar at CNRS-University of Montpellier, France, and from May to December 2010, a visiting student at Örebro University, Sweden.

My research interests are robotic control, machine learning for robotic perception, humanoid robots, visual servoing.

News

[07/2023] The next edition of the workshop "Human-Friendly Robotics" (HFR) will be in Lugano (and I will be the general chair)! Have a look at the presentation slide!
[04/2023] The paper "Imitation Learning-based Visual Servoing for Tracking Moving Objects" has been presented at HFR23 in Munich (check out my publications page)
[07/2023] My project titled "Visual Servoing for Embedded Nano-drone Systems" (ViSENSy), co-written with Dr. D. Palossi, has been granted by Hasler Foundation
[04/2023] Our activities on the use of virtual reality and wearable robotics for hand rehabilitation featured on Swiss TV, Radiotelevisione Svizzera (RSI)! Watch the video!
[04/2023] The paper "Fast Predictive Visual Servoing: a Reference Governor-based Approach," in collaboration with M. Forgione, D. Piga (from IDSIA), and E. Mingo Hoffman (IIT) has been published in Control Engineering Practice (check out my publications page)
[01/2023] The paper titled "Dynamical System-based Imitation Learning for Visual Servoing using the Large Projection Formulation," in collaboration with M. Saversiano (Uni Trento) and P. Robuffo Giordano (INRIA) has been accepted to ICRA2023 (check out my publications page)
[10/2022] Kick-off meeting of the European project SERMAS (check out the webpage of the project)
[07/2022] The paper "Visual Servoing with Geometrically Interpretable Neural Perception" has been accepted to IROS2022 (check out my publications page)
[06/2022] My project titled "Virtual Reality and Hand Exoskeleton for Mirror Therapy: a Feasibility Study (VRHEM)" has been granted by Innosuisse - Swiss Innovation Agency
[04/2022] The paper "How to compete with robots by assessing job automation risks and resilient alternatives" has been published in Science Robotics
[03/2022] Two contributions have been presented at HRI2022 (check out my publications page)

Recent publications

For a full list of my publications, please go here.
  • R. Felici, M. Saveriano, L. Roveda, A. Paolillo, "Imitation Learning-based Visual Servoing for Tracking Moving Objects," Human-Friendly Robotics, 2023
  • A. Paolillo, M. Forgione, D. Piga, E. Mingo Hoffman, "Fast predictive visual servoing: A reference governor-based approach," Control Engineering Practice, 2023
  • A. Paolillo, P. Robuffo Giordano, M. Saveriano, "Dynamical System-based Imitation Learning for Visual Servoing using the Large Projection Formulation," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2023
  • A. Paolillo, M. Nava, D. Piga, A. Giusti, "Visual Servoing with Geometrically Interpretable Neural Perception," IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2022
  • A. Paolillo, G. Abbate, A. Giusti, S. Trakic, H. Dzafic, A. Fritz, J. Guzzi, "Towards the integration of a pointing-based human-machine interface in an industrial control system compliant with the IEC 61499 standard," Procedia CIRP , 107, 1077-1082, 2022
  • A. Paolillo, F. Colella, N. Nosengo, F. Schiano, W. Stewart, D. Zambrano, I. Chappuis, R. Lalive, D. Floreano, "How to compete with robots by assessing job automation risks and resilient alternatives, Science Robotics 7 (65), eabg5561, 2022.
  • A. Paolillo , M. Saveriano, "Learning Stable Dynamical Systems for Visual Servoing," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 8636--8642, 2022.
  • J. Guzzi, G. Abbate, A. Paolillo, A. Giusti, "Interacting with a Conveyor Belt in Virtual Reality using Pointing Gestures," ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2022.
  • G. Abbate, A. Giusti, A. Paolillo, B. Gromov, L. Gambardella, A. E. Rizzoli, J.Guzzi, "PointIt: A ROS Toolkit for Interacting with Co-located Robots using Pointing Gestures," 2022.
  • M. Nava, A. Paolillo, J. Guzzi, L. M. Gambardella and A. Giusti, "Learning Visual Localization of a Quadrotor Using Its Noise as Self-Supervision," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2022.