Publications

@article{amigoni2026mapcompleteness,
  title   = {Estimating map completeness in robot exploration},
  author  = {Luperto, Matteo and Ferrara, Marco Maria, and Princisgh, Matteo, and Boracchi, Giacomo, and Amigoni, Francesco},
  journal = {Autonomous Robots},
  volume  = {50},
  number  = {1},
  pages   = {6},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.1007/s10514-025-10221-8}
}

@misc{antonazzi2026instanceuda,
  title  = {Instance-Guided Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Robotic Semantic Segmentation},
  author = {Michele Antonazzi and Lorenzo Signorelli and Matteo Luperto and Nicola Basilico},
  year   = {2026},
  eprint = {2602.01389},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv}
}

@inproceedings{ghisi2026vrider,
  title     = {Self-Paced Curriculum Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Superbike Racing in Simulation},
  author    = {Ghisi, Luca and Essenziale, Jacopo and D'Eramo, Carlo and Luperto, Matteo},
  booktitle = {1st Workshop on Generalization in Autonomous Driving (ICRA 2026)},
  year      = {2026},
  eprint    = {2606.09236},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv}
}

@inproceedings{carlotti2026selfsupervised,
  title     = {Self-supervised Domain Adaptation for Visual 3D Pose Estimation of Nano-drone Racing Gates by Enforcing Geometric Consistency},
  author    = {Carlotti, Nicholas and Antonazzi, Michele and Cereda, Elia and Nava, Mirko and Basilico, Nicola and Palossi, Daniele and Giusti, Alessandro},
  booktitle = {2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  year      = {2026},
  eprint    = {2603.02936},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv}
}

@misc{antonazzi2024roboticvision,
  title  = {Development and Adaptation of Robotic Vision in the Real-World: the Challenge of Door Detection},
  author = {Michele Antonazzi and Matteo Luperto and N. Alberto Borghese and Nicola Basilico},
  year   = {2025},
  eprint = {2401.17996},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.RO}
}

@inproceedings{tellaroli2026experience,
  title     = {Experience-Based Map Building Re-Exploration of Quasi-Dynamic Indoor Environments},
  author    = {Tellaroli, Mauro and Luperto, Matteo and Basilico, Nicola and Antonazzi, Michele},
  booktitle = {Workshop on Robots Meet Prior Maps: Leveraging Geometric and Semantic Priors for Real-World Robot Autonomy (ICRA 2026)},
  year      = {2026}
}

@inproceedings{martinelli2026moodynpc,
  author    = {Martinelli, Francesco and Ripamonti, Laura Anna and Borghese, Nunzio Alberto and Bultrini, Francesco and Zaniboni, Andrea},
  editor    = {De Paolis, Lucio Tommaso and Arpaia, Pasquale and Sacco, Marco},
  title     = {MoodyNPC: Personality and Facial Expressions for Virtual Humans},
  booktitle = {Extended Reality},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},
  address   = {Cham},
  pages     = {23--42},
  isbn      = {978-3-031-97778-7},
  doi       = {10.1007/978-3-031-97778-7_2}
}

@inproceedings{ligabue2026framework,
  author    = {Ligabue, Marco and Brambilla, Susanna and Ripamonti, Laura Anna and Bultrini, Francesco and Zaniboni, Andrea and Borghese, Nunzio Alberto},
  editor    = {De Paolis, Lucio Tommaso and Arpaia, Pasquale and Sacco, Marco},
  title     = {A Framework for Enhancing Emotion Expression in Non-Playable Characters Using Large Language Models},
  booktitle = {Extended Reality},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},
  address   = {Cham},
  pages     = {3--22},
  isbn      = {978-3-031-97778-7},
  doi       = {10.1007/978-3-031-97778-7_1}
}

@article{antonazzi2025privacy,
  title   = {Privacy-Preserving Robotic Perception for Object Detection in Curious Cloud Robotics},
  author  = {Antonazzi, Michele and Alberti, Matteo and Bassot, Alex and Luperto, Matteo and Basilico, Nicola},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Robotics},
  year    = {2025},
  doi     = {10.1109/TRO.2025.3613551}
}

@article{GIUFFRIDA2025105149,
  title   = {An empirical evaluation of learning-based multi-agent path finding algorithms in warehouse environments},
  author  = {Andrea Giuffrida and Nicola Basilico and Francesco Amigoni},
  journal = {Robotics and Autonomous Systems},
  volume  = {194},
  pages   = {105149},
  year    = {2025},
  issn    = {0921-8890},
  doi     = {10.1016/j.robot.2025.105149}
}

@article{LUPERTO2025105137,
  title   = {Multi-robot rendezvous in communication-restricted unknown environments via backtracking and semantic frontier-based exploration},
  journal = {Robotics and Autonomous Systems},
  pages   = {105137},
  year    = {2025},
  issn    = {0921-8890},
  doi     = {10.1016/j.robot.2025.105137},
  author  = {Matteo Luperto and Mauro Tellaroli and Michele Antonazzi and Nicola Basilico}
}

@inproceedings{bassot2025vae,
  title     = {VAE-Informed Patrolling for Online Environmental Monitoring with Heterogeneous ASV-UAV Teams},
  author    = {Bassot, Alex and Antonazzi, Michele and Rodiani, Edoardo and Yanes Luis, Samuel and Luperto, Matteo and Basilico, Nicola},
  booktitle = {2025 European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR)},
  year      = {2025}
}

@article{yanesluis2025variational,
  title   = {Variational model-based Deep Reinforcement Learning for Non-Homogeneous Patrolling aquatic environments with multiple unmanned surface vehicles},
  author  = {Yanes Luis, Samuel and Basilico, Nicola and Antonazzi, Michele and Guti\'errez-Reina, Daniel and Toral Mar\'in, Sergio},
  journal = {Expert Systems with Applications},
  volume  = {270},
  pages   = {126483},
  year    = {2025},
  issn    = {0957-4174},
  doi     = {10.1016/j.eswa.2025.126483}
}

@inproceedings{luperto2025saliency,
  title     = {Biasing Frontier-Based Exploration with Saliency Areas},
  author    = {Luperto, Matteo and Stakanov, Valerii and Boracchi, Giacomo and Basilico, Nicola and Amigoni, Francesco},
  booktitle = {2025 European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR)},
  year      = {2025},
  eprint    = {2508.10689},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv}
}

@inproceedings{aditya2025quadruped,
  title     = {Robust localization, mapping, and navigation for quadruped robots},
  author    = {Aditya, Dyuman and Huang, Junning and Bohlinger, Nico and Kicki, Piotr and Walas, Krzysztof and Peters, Jan and Luperto, Matteo and Tateo, Davide},
  booktitle = {2025 European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR)},
  year      = {2025}
}

@inproceedings{bassot2025patrolling,
  title     = {Approximation Algorithms for Cooperative Multi-Robot Patrolling in Core-Periphery Graph Settings},
  author    = {Bassot, Alex and Carpin, Stefano and Basilico, Nicola},
  booktitle = {2025 IEEE 21st International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)},
  pages     = {2267--2274},
  year      = {2025},
  doi       = {10.1109/CASE58245.2025.11163740}
}

@inproceedings{brambilla2025arachnophobia,
  author    = {Brambilla, Susanna and Ligabue, Marco and Abate, Simone and Boccignone, Giuseppe and Borghese, N. Alberto and Ripamonti, Laura A.},
  booktitle = {2025 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG)},
  title     = {Virtual Reality Game-Based Classification of Arachnophobia: A Two-Step Clustering Approach},
  year      = {2025},
  pages     = {1--8},
  doi       = {10.1109/CoG64752.2025.11114142}
}

@inproceedings{chitti2025codesign,
  author    = {Chitti, Eleonora and Montereale, D. Andrea and De Sandi, Angelica and Mailland, Enrico and Borrellini, Linda and Cogiamanian, Filippo and Mellace, Denise and Marfoli, Angelica and Campo, Carmelo and Manzoni, Carlo and Ferrucci, Roberta and Borghese, N. Alberto},
  booktitle = {2025 IEEE Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health (SeGAH)},
  title     = {Co-Design of a Mixed Reality Application to Support Freezing of Gait Rehabilitation},
  year      = {2025},
  pages     = {1--7},
  doi       = {10.1109/SeGAH65397.2025.11168294}
}

@inproceedings{carrer2025etherea,
  author    = {Carrer, Edoardo and Brambilla, Susanna and Ligabue, Marco and Chitti, Eleonora and Boccignone, Giuseppe and Borghese, N. Alberto and Ripamonti, Laura A.},
  booktitle = {2025 IEEE Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health (SeGAH)},
  title     = {Etherea: a Video Game for Individuals With Motor Disabilities With Eye-Tracking-Based Interaction},
  year      = {2025},
  pages     = {1--8},
  doi       = {10.1109/SeGAH65397.2025.11168449}
}

@article{dui2025codesign,
  title   = {Co-Design and Field Testing of a Platform to Support the Screening of Learning Difficulties},
  author  = {Dui, Linda Greta and Piazzalunga, Chiara and Toffoli, Simone and Malavolti, Milad and Lunardini, Francesca and Basilico, Nicola and Luperto, Matteo and Antonazzi, Michele and Borghese, N. Alberto and Maggi, Luca and Savanovic, Arso and Krpic, Andrej and Fontolan, Stefania and Bortolozzo, Marisa and Franceschini, Sandro and Bonometti, Stefano and Termine, Cristiano and Ferrante, Simona},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies},
  year    = {2025}
}

@article{brambilla2025stress,
  author  = {Brambilla, Susanna and Boccignone, Giuseppe and Borghese, Nunzio Alberto and Ripamonti, Laura A.},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Games},
  title   = {Stress Assessment in Virtual Reality Horror Games Using Players' Behavioral and Physiological Data},
  year    = {2025},
  volume  = {17},
  number  = {3},
  pages   = {827--838},
  doi     = {10.1109/TG.2025.3563258}
}

@article{chitti2025miemo,
  author  = {Chitti, Eleonora and Actis-Grosso, Rossana and Ricciardelli, Paola and Olivari, Benedetta and Carenzi, Cecilia and Tedoldi, Mariantonia and Borghese, N. Alberto},
  title   = {MiEmo: A multi-modal platform on emotion recognition for children with autism spectrum condition},
  journal = {Computers in Human Behavior Reports},
  volume  = {17},
  pages   = {100549},
  year    = {2025},
  issn    = {2451-9588},
  doi     = {10.1016/j.chbr.2024.100549}
}

@inproceedings{borghese2025reaching,
  author    = {Borghese, N. Alberto and Chitti, Eleonora},
  editor    = {Palinko, Oskar and Bodenhagen, Leon and Cabibihan, John-John and Fischer, Kerstin and {\v{S}}abanovi{\'{c}}, Selma and Winkle, Katie and Behera, Laxmidhar and Ge, Shuzhi Sam and Chrysostomou, Dimitrios and Jiang, Wanyue and He, Hongsheng},
  title     = {Reaching and Grasping with NAO Robot},
  booktitle = {Social Robotics},
  year      = {2025},
  publisher = {Springer Nature Singapore},
  address   = {Singapore},
  pages     = {25--32},
  isbn      = {978-981-96-3519-1},
  doi       = {10.1007/978-981-96-3519-1_3}
}

@article{luperto2024socially,
  title   = {Exploring the viability of socially assistive robots for at-home cognitive monitoring: Potential and limitations},
  author  = {Luperto, Matteo and Romeo, Marta and Lunardini, Francesca and Monroy, Javier and Hern\'andez Garc\'ia, Daniel and Abbate, Carlo and Cangelosi, Angelo and Ferrante, Simona and Gonzalez-Jimenez, Javier and Basilico, Nicola and Borghese, N. Alberto},
  journal = {International Journal of Social Robotics},
  year    = {2024},
  doi     = {10.1007/s12369-024-01158-6}
}

@misc{antonazzi2024r2snet,
  title  = {R2SNet: Scalable Domain Adaptation for Object Detection in Cloud-Based Robots Ecosystems via Proposal Refinement},
  author = {Michele Antonazzi and Matteo Luperto and N. Alberto Borghese and Nicola Basilico},
  year   = {2024}
}

@inproceedings{tellaroli2024fbe,
  author    = {Tellaroli, Mauro and Luperto, Matteo and Antonazzi, Michele and Basilico, Nicola},
  booktitle = {2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  title     = {Frontier-Based Exploration for Multi-Robot Rendezvous in Communication-Restricted Unknown Environments},
  year      = {2024},
  pages     = {5807-5812},
  doi       = {10.1109/IROS58592.2024.10801321}
}

@inproceedings{dui2024codesign,
  title     = {Co-design of a remote evaluation tool for handwriting disorders},
  author    = {Dui, Linda G. and Antonazzi, Michele and Fontolan, Stefania and Basilico, Nicola and Luperto, Matteo and Piazzalunga, Chiara and Toffoli, Simone and Franceschini, Sandro and Termine, Cristiano and Borghese, N. Alberto and Ferrante, Simona},
  booktitle = {International Conference on NeuroRehabilitation (ICNR)},
  year      = {2024},
  doi       = {10.1007/978-3-031-77584-0_62}
}

@inproceedings{alvarenga2024learning,
  title     = {Learning Generalizable Patrolling Strategies through Domain Randomization of Attacker Behaviors},
  author    = {Alvarenga, Camila D. and Basilico, Nicola and Carpin, Stefano},
  booktitle = {2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  pages     = {4406--4412},
  year      = {2024},
  doi       = {10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10610052}
}

@inproceedings{alvarenga2024combining,
  title     = {Combining Coordination and Independent Coverage in Multi-Robot Graph Patrolling},
  author    = {Alvarenga, Camila D. and Basilico, Nicola and Carpin, Stefano},
  booktitle = {2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  pages     = {4413--4419},
  year      = {2024},
  doi       = {10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10611463}
}

@inproceedings{chitti2024xrfog,
  author    = {Chitti, Eleonora and Serrano, Pierpaolo and Borghese, N. Alberto},
  booktitle = {2024 IEEE 12th International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health (SeGAH)},
  title     = {XR-FOG: A mixed reality approach to treat Freezing of Gait in patients with Parkinson's disease},
  year      = {2024},
  pages     = {1--5},
  doi       = {10.1109/SeGAH61285.2024.10639585}
}

@inproceedings{borghese2024airca,
  author    = {Borghese, N. A. and Ciardo, F. and Chitti, E. and Scuotto, R. S. and Actis-Grosso, R. and Cavallo, F. and Fiorini, L. and Pugi, L. and Olivari, B. and Tedoldi, M. and Carenzi, C. and Ricciardelli, P.},
  editor    = {Fiorini, Laura and Sorrentino, Alessandra and Siciliano, Pietro and Cavallo, Filippo},
  title     = {AIRCA: Co-Design of Scenarios for Treating Autism Spectrum Condition with NAO Robot},
  booktitle = {Ambient Assisted Living},
  year      = {2024},
  publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},
  address   = {Cham},
  pages     = {16--29},
  isbn      = {978-3-031-77318-1},
  doi       = {10.1007/978-3-031-77318-1_2}
}

@article{ambrosini2024speech,
  author  = {Ambrosini, Emilia and Giangregorio, Chiara and Lomurno, Eugenio and Moccia, Sara and Milis, Marios and Loizou, Christos and Azzolino, Domenico and Cesari, Matteo and Cid Gala, Manuel and Gal{\'a}n de Isla, Carmen and Gomez-Raja, Jonathan and Borghese, Nunzio Alberto and Matteucci, Matteo and Ferrante, Simona},
  title   = {Automatic Spontaneous Speech Analysis for the Detection of Cognitive Functional Decline in Older Adults: Multilanguage Cross-Sectional Study},
  journal = {JMIR Aging},
  volume  = {7},
  pages   = {e50537},
  year    = {2024},
  issn    = {2561-7605},
  doi     = {10.2196/50537}
}

@article{Luperto2023movecare,
  title   = {Integrating Social Assistive Robots, IoT, Virtual Communities and Smart Objects to Assist at-Home Independently Living Elders: the MoveCare Project},
  author  = {Luperto, Matteo and Monroy, Javier and Renoux, Jennifer and Lunardini, Francesca and Basilico, Nicola and Bulgheroni, Maria and Cangelosi, Angelo and Cesari, Matteo and Cid, Manuel and Ianes, Aladar and Gonzalez-Jimenez, Javier and Kounoudes, Anastasis and Mari, David and Prisacariu, Victor and Savanovic, Arso and Ferrante, Simona and Borghese, N. Alberto},
  journal = {International Journal of Social Robotics},
  volume  = {15},
  number  = {3},
  pages   = {517--545},
  year    = {2023},
  doi     = {10.1007/s12369-021-00843-0}
}

@article{LUPERTO2023104346,
  title   = {Seeking at-home long-term autonomy of assistive mobile robots through the integration with an IoT-based monitoring system},
  journal = {Robotics and Autonomous Systems},
  volume  = {161},
  pages   = {104346},
  year    = {2023},
  issn    = {0921-8890},
  doi     = {10.1016/j.robot.2022.104346},
  author  = {Matteo Luperto and Javier Monroy and Francisco-Angel Moreno and Francesca Lunardini and Jennifer Renoux and Andrej Krpic and Cipriano Galindo and Simona Ferrante and Nicola Basilico and Javier Gonzalez-Jimenez and N. Alberto Borghese}
}

@article{DIFEBBO2023119226,
  title   = {A decision support system for Rey-Osterrieth complex figure evaluation},
  journal = {Expert Systems with Applications},
  volume  = {213},
  pages   = {119226},
  year    = {2023},
  issn    = {0957-4174},
  doi     = {10.1016/j.eswa.2022.119226},
  author  = {Davide Di Febbo and Simona Ferrante and Marco Baratta and Matteo Luperto and Carlo Abbate and Pietro Davide Trimarchi and Fabrizio Giunco and Matteo Matteucci}
}

@inproceedings{antonazzi2023doordetection,
  author    = {Antonazzi, Michele and Luperto, Matteo and Basilico, Nicola and Borghese, N. Alberto},
  booktitle = {2023 European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR)},
  title     = {Enhancing Door-Status Detection for Autonomous Mobile Robots During Environment-Specific Operational Use},
  year      = {2023},
  pages     = {1-8},
  doi       = {10.1109/ECMR59166.2023.10256289}
}

@inproceedings{dui2023serious,
  author    = {Dui, Linda Greta and Piazzalunga, Chiara and Toffoli, Simone and Fontolan, Stefania and Franceschini, Sandro and Bortolozzo, Marisa and Borghese, Nunzio Alberto and Termine, Cristiano and Ferrante, Simona},
  booktitle = {2023 IEEE EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI)},
  title     = {Serious games for a technology-enhanced early screening of handwriting difficulties},
  year      = {2023},
  pages     = {1--4},
  doi       = {10.1109/BHI58575.2023.10313501}
}

@inproceedings{brambilla2023tuning,
  author    = {Brambilla, Susanna and Boccignone, Giuseppe and Borghese, Alberto Nunzio and Croci, Daniele and Ripamonti, Laura Anna},
  title     = {Tuning Stressful Experience in Virtual Reality Games},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter},
  series    = {CHItaly '23},
  year      = {2023},
  isbn      = {9798400708060},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address   = {New York, NY, USA},
  articleno = {27},
  numpages  = {8},
  doi       = {10.1145/3605390.3605412}
}

@inproceedings{brambilla2023strex,
  author    = {Brambilla, Susanna and Boccignone, Giuseppe and Borghese, N. Alberto and Croci, Daniele and Ripamonti, Laura A.},
  booktitle = {2023 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG)},
  title     = {StrEx: Towards a Modulator of Stressful Experience in Virtual Reality Games},
  year      = {2023},
  pages     = {1--4},
  doi       = {10.1109/CoG57401.2023.10333136}
}

@inproceedings{chitti2022varcade,
  author    = {Chitti, Eleonora and others},
  booktitle = {2022 IEEE 10th International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health (SeGAH)},
  title     = {Evaluation of the V-Arcade serious games framework to support upper limbs rehabilitation at home for children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis},
  address   = {Sydney, Australia},
  year      = {2022},
  pages     = {1--6},
  doi       = {10.1109/SEGAH54908.2022.9978554}
}