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Email:

stefano.nolfi@istc.cnr.it

Telephone:

+ 39 06 44595233

Fax:

+ 39 06 44595243

Address:

Via S. Martino della Battaglia 44 - 00185 Rome - Italy

Personal website:

http://laral.istc.cnr.it/nolfi

Group membership:

Laboratory of Autonomous Robotics and Artificial Life

Additional details

Profile

Position:

Research Director

Stefano Nolfi is a research director of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) and director of the Laboratory of Autonomous Robots and Artificial Life of the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies. He is one of the founders of Evolutionary Robotics. His research activities focus on the evolution and development of behavioural and cognitive skills in natural and artificial embodied agents (robots). He authored/co-authored more than 130 peer-reviewed scientific publications including a monograph book on Evolutionary Robotics published by MIT Press in 2000, and an edited book on Evolution of Communication and Language in Embodied Agents published by Springer Verlag in 2010. He coordinated and participated to several research projects founded by international agencies including the currently running ITALK project (founded by the European Commission and coordinated by the University of Plymouth, UK) and H2Swarm project (founded by the European Science Foundations that he coordinates).

For more information see http://laral.istc.cnr.it/nolfi

Publications

Contributo in volume

2005

Evolving a Simulated Robotic Arm Able to Grasp Objects

Massera G., Nolfi S., Cangelosi A.

Source: . Singapore: World Scientific Publ. Co., 2005

2004

Coordination and behavior integration in cooperating simulated robots.

Baldassarre G., Parisi D., Nolfi S.

Source: . Cambridge [MA]: MIT Press, 2004

Contributo in atti di convegno

2005

Drosoph: A Biological approach to Body-Brain Co-Evolution

Mazzapioda M., Nolfi S.

Source: II Workshop italiano di Vita Artificiale, Roma, 2005

Evolving a Simulated Robotic Arm Able to Grasp Objects

Massera G., Nolfi S., Cangelosi A.

Source: Cognition and Action: Proceeding of the Ninth Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop Progress in Neural Processing, Singapore, 2005

The SWARM-BOTS Project

Dorigo M., Tuci E., Groß R., Trianni v., Halva Labella T., Nouyan S., Ampatzis C., Debebourg J-L., Baldassarre G., Nolfi S., Mondada F., Floreano D., Gambardella L

Source: SAB 2004 International Workshop on Swarm Robotics, pp. 31–44, Santa Monica, CA, July 17, 2004,

Toward a Person-Follower Robot

Gigliotta O., Caretti M., Shokur S., Nolfi S.

Source: Second RoboCare Workshop. Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione, CNR, Roma, 2005

Un Controllo Distribuito basato su Reti Neurali per il movimento di un robot esapodo

Massera G., Nolfi S.

Source: II Workshop Italiano di Vita Artificiale, Roma, 2005

2004

Hole Avoidance: Experiments in coordinated motion on rough terrain

Trianni V., Nolfi S., Dorigo M.

Source: Intelligent Autonomous Systems 8, pp. 29–36, 2004

Articolo

2004

Evolutionary Robotics: Looking Forward.

Nolfi S.

Source: Connection science (Print) 4 (2004): 223–225., info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Nolfi S./titolo:Evolutionary Robotics: Looking Forward./doi:/rivista:Connection science (Print)/anno:2004/pagina_da:223/pagina_a:225/intervallo_pagine:223–225/volume:4

Evolving self-organizing behaviors for a swarmbot

Dorigo M., Trianni V., Sahin E., Gross R., Labella T. H., Baldassarre G., Nolfi S., Deneubourg J.-L., Mondada F., Floreano D., Gambardella L. M.

Source: Autonomous robots 17 (2004): 223–245. doi:10.1023/B:AURO.0000033973.24945.f3, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Dorigo M., Trianni V., Sahin E., Gross R., Labella T. H., Baldassarre G., Nolfi S., Deneubourg J.-L., Mondada F., Floreano D., Gambardella L. M./titolo:Evolving self-organizing behaviors for a swarmbot/doi:10.1023/B:AURO.0000033

Evolving the neural controller for a robotic arm able to grasp objects on the basis of tactile sensors.

Bianco R., Nolfi S.

Source: Adaptive behavior 12 (2004): 37–45., info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Bianco R., Nolfi S./titolo:Evolving the neural controller for a robotic arm able to grasp objects on the basis of tactile sensors./doi:/rivista:Adaptive behavior/anno:2004/pagina_da:37/pagina_a:45/intervallo_pagine:37–45/volume:

Swarm-bot: A new distributed robotic concept.

Mondada F., Pettinaro G., Guigrard A., Kwee I., Floreano D., Denebourg J-L, Nolfi S., Gambardella L.M., Dorigo M.

Source: Autonomous robots 17 (2004): 193–221. doi:10.1023/B:AURO.0000033972.50769.1c, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Mondada F., Pettinaro G., Guigrard A., Kwee I., Floreano D., Denebourg J-L, Nolfi S., Gambardella L.M., Dorigo M./titolo:Swarm-bot: A new distributed robotic concept./doi:10.1023/B:AURO.0000033972.50769.1c/rivista:Autonomous rob

Toward open-ended evolutionary robotics: evolving elementary robotic units able to self-assemble and self-reproduce.

Bianco R., Nolfi S.

Source: Connection science (Print) 4 (2004): 227–248., info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Bianco R., Nolfi S./titolo:Toward open-ended evolutionary robotics: evolving elementary robotic units able to self-assemble and self-reproduce./doi:/rivista:Connection science (Print)/anno:2004/pagina_da:227/pagina_a:248/interva

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