people

The people that I collaborate with, making my research possible.

My research is mainly done in collaboration with: Paolo Robuffo Giordano, Marco Cognetti, Marco Tognon, Alexandre Krupa, Valerio Modugno, Giulio Turrisi, and the many students we supervise. In the past I have also collaborated with Giuseppe Oriolo, Leonardo Lanari, and Nicola Scianca.

PhD

Master

  • Stefano Riccardi, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (hosted at Inria Rennes), ongoing, with Paolo Robuffo Giordano
  • Marco Maffeo, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (hosted at Inria Rennes), ongoing, with Paolo Robuffo Giordano

Alumni

Here is a list of students that I co-advised in the past.

PhD

  • Francesco D’Orazio, Sapienza University of Rome, Nov. 2022 – Jan. 2024, with Giuseppe Oriolo

Master

  • Luigi Graziosi, Politecnico di Torino (hosted at Inria Rennes) Control Algorithms and Hardware Accelerations for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, 2025, with Marco Tognon and Marcello Traiola
  • Erwan Tanguy-Legac, Inria Rennes, M1 Internship, Domain-specific Hardware Acceleration for Model Predictive Path Integral Control, 2025, with Marco Tognon and Marcello Traiola
  • Ochidinma Ezeji, University College London, Stylized Trajectory Planning with MPPI, 2025, with Valerio Modugno and Giulio Turrisi
  • Giovanbattista Gravina, Sapienza University of Rome, Safe robot navigation in a crowd: Application to the TIAGo mobile manipulator, 2024, with Giuseppe Oriolo and Michele Cipriano
  • Matteo Facci, Sapienza University of Rome, Enhancing Tractor-Trailer System Stability through Nonlinear Anti-Jackknifing Model Predictive Control, 2023, with Giuseppe Oriolo
  • Shima Akbari, Sapienza University of Rome, Lane Following Control for Mobile Robots: Simulations and Experiments in the Duckietown Environment, 2022, with Giuseppe Oriolo
  • Francesco D’Orazio, Sapienza University of Rome, Rollover Prevention of a Wheel Mobile Manipulator using Control Barrier Functions, 2022, with Giuseppe Oriolo
  • Rossella Bonuomo, Sapienza University of Rome, Planning and Control of Tractor-Trailer Vehicles in Backward Motion with Intrinsically Stable MPC, 2022, with Giuseppe Oriolo
  • Christian D’Amico, Sapienza University of Rome, Mobile Robot Control via MPC with Control Barrier Functions: Validation in the simulated Duckietown Environment, 2021, with Giuseppe Oriolo

Bachelor

  • Michela Andreotti, Sapienza University of Rome, Formation control for mobile robots, 2022, with Giuseppe Oriolo
  • Immacolata Alessia Di Domenico, Sapienza University of Rome, Crowd navigation for a car-like robot, 2022, with Giuseppe Oriolo
  • Matteo Leonforte, Sapienza University of Rome, Control of a self-balancing robot, 2022, with Giuseppe Oriolo
  • Valerio De Luca, Sapienza University of Rome, Navigation via AprilTags in the Duckietown environment, 2021, with Giuseppe Oriolo
  • Maria Giulia Conti, Sapienza University of Rome, Pursuit-Evasion for mobile robots, 2021, with Giuseppe Oriolo
  • Gianluca Leotta, Sapienza University of Rome, Control and navigation of a mobile robot in the Duckietown environment, 2021, with Giuseppe Oriolo
  • Andrea D’Agostino, Sapienza University of Rome, Bug-like algorithms for mobile robot navigation, 2021, with Giuseppe Oriolo
  • Davide Ceriola, Sapienza University of Rome, Implementation of a controller for Pursuit-Evasion between mobile robots with visual tracking, 2021, with Giuseppe Oriolo