Alcherio Martinoli is a roboticist and a full professor at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering where he heads the Distributed Systems and Algorithms Laboratory.
Alcherio Martinoli | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Swiss |
| Alma mater | EPFL, ETH |
| Children | 2 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Robotics, computer science |
| Institutions | EPFL, Caltech |
| Thesis | Swarm Intelligence in Autonomous Collective Robotics: From Tools to the Analysis and Synthesis of Distributed Control Strategies (1999) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jean-Daniel Nicoud |
| Notable students | Nikolaus Correll |
| Website | people |
Biography
editMartinoli received his PhD degree in computer science in 1999 at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) working under Jean-Daniel Nicoud. Martinoli did a post-doc with Rodney M. Goodman at Caltech, where he headed the Collective Robotics Group. In 2007, he joined EPFL as an SNSF Assistant Professor in School of Information and Communication. He has moved to School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2008 as an associate professor. He became a full Professor in 2024.[1]
He is the recipient of a Swiss National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award[2] as well as the 2001 KiTi prize for young Swiss-Italian researchers who have distinguished themselves in the field of science, art, or humanities, as well as a "Best Paper Award" at the 2006 Conference on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS)[3]
Work
editMartinoli's research interests are in swarm robotics, swarm Intelligence, and self-organization with applications to transportation systems and large-scale networks of sensors and actuators. Martinoli is widely recognized for his work on distributed odor localization,[4] modeling and designing swarm robotic systems,[5][6] and mixed systems consisting of animals and robots,[7] which has been cited more than 5000 times.[4]
Martinoli and his laboratory have also taken a leading role in various open-source projects affecting the robotics community at large, most notably the software Swistrack, a multi-object tracking system for single and multi-camera systems, the Khepera III Toolbox for the Khepera III robot,[8] and the e-Puck mobile robot[9] in collaboration with Francesco Mondada.
References
edit- ^ Alcherio Martinoli's website at EPFL, last retrieved November 11, 2015.
- ^ Swiss National Science Foundation Project 116913
- ^ DARS 2006 website at the University of Minnesota, last retrieved November 11, 2015.
- ^ a b Google Scholar, Alcherio Martinoli
- ^ IEEE Intelligent Systems, "Nature's Guide to Robot Design", by Danna Voth, November/December 2002, pp. 4-6.
- ^ National Geographic, "Swarm Theory", by Peter Miller, July 2007, pp. 126-147.
- ^ ARTE TV, Alice aux Pays de Cafards (52min)
- ^ Khepera III Toolbox on Wikibooks, last retrieved November 11, 2015.
- ^ Francesco Mondada, Michael Bonani, Xavier Raemy, James Pugh, Christopher Cianci, Adam Klaptocz, Stephane Magnenat, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, Alcherio Martinoli. The e-puck, a robot designed for education in engineering, Proceedings of the 9th conference on autonomous robot systems and competitions, pages 59-65, 2009.