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Alcherio Martinoli
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BIOGRAPHY
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Alcherio Martinoli has a Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ), and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). He is the head of the Swarm-Intelligent Systems Group (SWIS, see http://swis.epfl.ch) and before joining EPFL he carried out research activities at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering of the ETHZ (one year), at the Institute of Industrial Automation of the Spanish Research Council in Madrid, Spain (one year), and at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, U.S.A. (4 years), where he is maintaining a part-time Visiting Associate position in Mechanical Engineering. His research interests focus on techniques to design, control, model, and optimize distributed, real-time, embedded systems, including swarms of robots, sensor and actuator networks, intelligent vehicles, and micro- and nano-systems. He is currently associate editor for the new journal on Swarm Intelligence published by Springer Verlag and reviewer for fifteen major international journals and fifteen international conferences in his area of expertise. He has been general co-chair for IEEE SIS 2005, program co-chair for ANTS 2006, steering committee member for ROBOCOMM 2007, and associate editor for IEEE ICRA 2007 and 2008. He received from the EPFL General Student Association the 2006 Best Teacher Award for Computer and Communication Sciences and the Best Paper Award at DARS 2006.
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MAIN PUBLICATIONS
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J. Pugh and A. Martinoli, ``The Cost of Reality: Effects of
Real-World Factors on Multi-Robot Search,'' in Proceedings
of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation,
pp. 397-404, 2007.
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C. M. Cianci, X. Raemy, J. Pugh, and A. Martinoli, ``Communication in a Swarm
of Miniature Robots: The e-Puck as an Educational Tool for
Swarm Robotics,'' in Proceedings of Simulation of Adaptive
Behavior (SAB-2006), Swarm Robotics Workshop, Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS), pp. 103-115, 2007.
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N. Correll and A. Martinoli, ``System Identification of Self-Organizing
Robotic Swarms,'' in Proceedings of the 8th Int. Symp. on
Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS), Distributed
Autonomous Robotic Systems, pp. 31-40, Springer Verlag, 2006.
Best Paper Award.
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A. Martinoli, K. Easton, and W. Agassounon, ``Modeling Swarm Robotic
Systems: A Case Study in Collaborative Distributed
Manipulation,'' Int. Journal of Robotics Research, vol. 23,
no. 4, pp. 415-436, 2004.
Special Issue on Experimental Robotics, B. Siciliano, editor.
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A. T. Hayes, A. Martinoli, and R. M. Goodman, ``Distributed Odor Source
Localization,'' IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 2, no. 3,
pp. 260-271, 2002.
Special Issue on Artificial Olfaction, H. T. Nagle, J. W. Gardner,
and K. Persaud, editors.
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CURRENT WORK
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• Distributed Robotic Systems for Sound and Odor Localization
• Distributed Robotic Systems for Coverage and Inspection
• Power-Aware Resource Allocation and Attention in (Mobile) Sensor Networks
Alcherio Martinoli’s research is sponsored by the Swiss National Science Foundation, the National Center of Competence in Research for Mobile Information and Communication Systems, the EPFL Integrated Systems Center, the Federal Institute for Materials Science and Technology, and the European Commission.
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MISSION
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Alcherio Martinoli’s research mission focuses on the development of (automatic) design, modeling, control, and optimization methodologies for self-organized, collectively intelligent, distributed systems. A special emphasis is currently set on real-time, embedded systems such as mobile robots, sensor and actuators networks, intelligent vehicles, and micro- and nano-systems. Alcherio’s further interests lie in the understanding and control of natural, collective systems and mixed societies consisting of natural and artificial components. His research policy relies on a continuous loop between theory and real-world experiments using modeling and computational techniques.
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Associate Professor 