[12/2023] -

New Article on Scientific Report Journal

Our article “A mirror therapy system using virtual reality and an actuated exoskeleton for the recovery of hand motor impairments: a study of acceptability, usability, and embodiment” has been published on Scientific Report journal.

[12/2023] -

New RA-L Article

Our article “A Sim-to-Real Deep Learning-based Framework for Autonomous Nano-drone Racing” has been published on the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) journal.

[11/2023] -

“Quality of Life” Label!

[11/2023] -

New RAS Article

Our article “Self-Supervised Prediction of the Intention to Interact with a Service Robot” has been published on the Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) journal.

[11/2022] -

Demo Deployed at Swiss Robotics Days 2022

[09/2022] -

Nanocopter AI Challenge at IMAV22

Our team won the 1st Nanocopter AI Challenge which took place at IMAV2022 in Delft.

[06/2022] -

Innosuisse grant for VRHEM

Our project titled “Virtual Reality and Hand Exoskeleton for Mirror Therapy: a Feasibility Study (VRHEM)” has been granted by Innosuisse - Swiss Innovation Agency

[06/2022] -

Publication at CASE 2022

Our paper “Selecting Objects on Conveyor Belts Using Pointing Gestures Sensed by a Wrist-worn Inertial Measurement Unit” will be published at the 2022 IEEE 18th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE).

[05/2022] -

Publication at CIRP 2022

Our paper Towards the integration of a pointing-based human-machine interface in an industrial control system compliant with the IEC 61499 standard” will be published in the Proceedings of the 55th CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems 2022.

[01/2022] -

Publications at HRI 2022

Our works “Interacting with a Conveyor Belt in Virtual Reality using Pointing Gestures” and “PointIt: A ROS Toolkit for Interacting with Co-located Robots using Pointing Gestures” (code here) will be published at the 17th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2022).

[10/2021] -

New PLR Article

Our article “Semantic segmentation on Swiss3DCities: A benchmark study on aerial photogrammetric 3D pointcloud dataset” has been published on the Pattern Recognition Letters (PRL) journal. This is the result of the collaboration we had with Nomoko. Check my related implementation of a 3D Point Cloud Segmentation model.

[03/2021] -

Publication at ICRA 2021

Our paper “Pointing at Moving Robots: Detecting Events from Wrist IMU Data” will be published at the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).

[09/2019] -

NeuralRope#1 is Live

The art installation featuring a neural network (implemented by my colleagues and me) running live at the Besso’s tunnel in Lugano is now open.

[05/2019] -

Publication at ICRA 2019

Our paper “Proximity Human-Robot Interaction Using Pointing Gestures and a Wrist-mounted IMU” will be published at the 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).

[03/2019] -

Best Video Award at HRI 2019