Preface


The goal of the Italian workshop series on Artificial Intelligence and RObotics
(AIRO) is to present, discuss and assess recent advances in the deployment of
Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods in Robotics. Indeed, AI principles and meth-
ods play a crucial role in several areas of the robotics research (e.g. field, service,
social robotics, etc.) and are pervasively exploited at various levels of robot archi-
tectures for different purposes: sensing and perception, human-robot interaction,
intelligent control, cognition, behavior and reasoning models, distributed knowl-
edge representation and computational ontologies, engineering tools, software
architectures, and fast-prototyping techniques, learning, real-time systems and
robot morphology. Starting from these diverse research fields, the AIRO work-
shop series aim at providing an established long-term Italian forum where the
AI community and the Robotics community may find an interesting and stimu-
lating common ground. Specifically, this volume contains the proceedings of the
second edition of the AIRO workshop1 , which was held in Ferrara, Italy, the
22nd of September 2015. This edition of the AIRO workshop accepted 14 papers
involving 56 authors from 6 countries. The contributions covered several aspects
of AI and Robotics, mainly concerned with the following topics: social robotics
and human-robot interaction, learning and robotics, multi-robot systems and
cooperation with team of robots, robot architectures.
    The program of the workshop was completed by the keynote talk by Prof.
Emanuele Menegatti titled Robot perception: from people tracking to neuro-
robotics and focussed on the robot perception topics investigated at the Intelli-
gent Autonomous Systems Laboratory of the University of Padua.
    Overall, the varieties of research topics and results collected in these proceed-
ings reflects an intense and stimulating research activity along with a growing
interest for a forum where the AI and Robotics communities can find a common
ground.
    Among the numerous people that contribute to the success of AIRO 2015,
we would first of all thank the people that submitted their research paper to the
workshop and attended to the event. Moreover, we sincerely thank the program
committee for their important work on the reviewing process.




Alberto Finzi, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, Andrea Orlandini, Antonio Sgorbissa
Workshop Organizers


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    http://airo2015.istc.cnr.it
Program Committee

Salvatore Maria Anzalone (Sorbonne University, Paris, France)
Alessandro Farinelli (Verona University, Verona, Italy)
Alberto Finzi (University of Napoli “Federico II”, Naples, Italy)
Luca Iocchi (Sapienza University, Rome, Italy)
Serena Ivaldi (INRIA, Nancy, France)
Fulvio Mastrogiovanni (University of Genova, Genova, Italy)
Daniele Magazzeni (King’s College, London, UK)
Daniele Nardi (Sapienza University, Rome, Italy)
AndreA Orlandini (ISTC-CNR, Rome, Italy)
Antonio Sgorbissa (University of Genova, Genova, Italy)