Lorenzo Riano

Publications

Journal Articles

[1] Lorenzo Riano and T.M. M Mcginnity. Automatically Composing and Parameterizing Skills by Evolving Finite State Automata. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 60(4):639-650, January 2012. [ DOI | .pdf ]
[2] Lorenzo Riano and T. M. McGinnity. Quantifying the Role of Complexity in a System’s Performance. Evolving Systems, 2(3):189-198, April 2011. [ DOI | .pdf ]
[3] Lorenzo Riano and Martin Mcginnity. Design and Validation of a Robotic System to Interactively Teach Geometry. AT&P Journal, 2:91-96, 2010. [ .pdf ]

Conference Papers and Workshops

[1] Vivian Chu, Ian Mcmahon, Lorenzo Riano, Craig G Mcdonald, Qin He, Jorge Martinez Perez-tejada, Michael Arrigo, Naomi Fitter, John C Nappo, Trevor Darrell, and Katherine J Kuchenbecker. Using Robotic Exploratory Procedures to Learn the Meaning of Haptic Adjectives. In ICRA, IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2013. [ .pdf ]
[2] Ian Mcmahon, Vivian Chu, Lorenzo Riano, Craig G Mcdonald, Qin He, Jorge Martinez Perez-tejada, Michael Arrigo, Naomi Fitter, John C Nappo, Trevor Darrell, and Katherine J Kuchenbecker. Robotic Learning of Haptic Adjectives Through Physical Interaction. In IROS workshop on Advances in Tactile Sensing and Touch based Human-Robot Interaction, 2012. [ .pdf ]
[3] Lorenzo Riano and T M Mcginnity. A Robot that Autonomously Improves Skills by Evolving Computational Graphs. In 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Brisbane, Australia, 2012. [ .pdf ]
[4] Lorenzo Riano and T M Mcginnity. Autonomous Skills Creation and Integration in Robotics. In AAAI 2012 Spring Symposium on Designing Intelligent Robots: Reintegrating AI, Stanford, CA, 2012. [ .pdf ]
[5] Lorenzo Riano, Chris Burbridge, and T M Mcginnity. A Study of Enhanced Robot Autonomy in Telepresence. In Proceedings of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Systems, AICS, 2011. [ http ]
[6] Lorenzo Riano and T M Mcginnity. Autonomous Skills Buildings and Re-Use of Software in Robotics. In Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on, PR2 Workshop. IEEE Press, 2011. [ http ]
[7] Lorenzo Riano and Martin McGinnity. Emergent Behaviours Driven by Chaotic Dynamics. In In Proc. of Learning and Adaptive Behaviour in Robotics Systems, 2010.
[8] Lorenzo Riano and Martin McGinnity. Emergent Behaviours At The Edge of Chaos. In Proc. of Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, TAROS 10, 2010. [ .pdf ]
[9] Lorenzo Riano and T. M. Mcginnity. On the Emergence of Novel Behaviours From Complex Non Linear Systems. In Proceeding of BICA 2010, International Conference on Biological Inspired Cognitive Architectures. IOS Press, 2010. [ .pdf ]
[10] Ulrich Nehmzow and Lorenzo Riano. A Proposal For Continual Learning In Robotics. In Proc. of Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, TAROS 09, pages 1-7, 2009.
[11] Rosamaria Barone, Irene Macaluso, Lorenzo Riano, and Antonio Chella. A Brain Inspired Architecture for an Outdoor Robot Guide. In Proc. of AAAI 2008 Fall Symposium on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, 2008. [ .pdf ]
[12] A Chella, I Macaluso, D Peri, and L Riano. RoBotanic: a Robot Guide for Botanical Gardens. Early steps. In In Proc. of AI*IA 2007 Workshop for Cultural Heritage, pages 66-73, 2007.
[13] A Chella, I Macaluso, and L Riano. Automatic Landmark Detection and Recognition in Autonomous Robotics. In Proc. of IJCAI 2007, International Workshop on Attention in Cognitive Systems, page CD, 2007.
[14] A. Chella, I. Macaluso, and L. Riano. Automatic Place Detection and Localization in Autonomous Robotics. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on intelligent Robots and Systems, 2007, pages 741-746, LOS ALAMITOS - USA, 2007. IEEE Press. [ .pdf ]
[15] L Riano, A Chella, and R Rizzo. A New Unsupervised Neural Network for Pattern Recognition with Spiking Neurons. In Proc. World Congress on Computational Intelligence, page CD, July 2006.

Book Chapters

[1] A Chella, I Macaluso, and Riano L. Attention-based environment perception in autonomous robotics. In Lecture Notes In Artificial Intelligence Volume 4733, volume 4733, pages 579-591. Springer Verlag, 2007. [ .pdf ]
[2] A Chella, I Macaluso, and L. Riano. Attention-Based Landmark Selection in Autonomous Robotics. In Lecture Notes In Artificial Intelligence Volume 4840, volume 4840, pages 447-462. Springer Verlag, 2007.

Ph.D. Thesis

[1] Lorenzo Riano. Robotics Architectures for Indoor and Outdoor Museum Guides. PhD thesis, University of Palermo, 2008. [ .pdf ]