Alessandro Farinelli, Alberto Finzi and Fulvio Mastrogiovanni (Eds.)




Proceedings of the
AIRO 2016
The Third Italian Workshop on
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics


Workshop co-located with AI*IA 2016 Genoa, Italy
November 28, 2016
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Editors’ addresses:
Alessandro Farinelli
Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Verona,
Ca Vignal 2, Strada le Grazie 15 - 37134, Verona, Italy
alessandro.farinelli@univr.it

Alberto Finzi
DIETI, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
via Claudio 21- 80125 Napoli, Italy
alberto.finzi@unina.it

Fulvio Mastrogiovanni
DIBRIS, Università degli Studi di Genova
Via All’Opera Pia, 13 - 16145 Genova - Italy
fulvio.mastrogiovanni@unige.it
                                      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 stimulating
common ground. This volume contains the proceedings of the third edition of the
AIRO workshop1 , which was held in Genova, Italy, the 28nd of November 2016.
This edition of the AIRO workshop accepted 15 papers involving 48 authors.
The contributions covered several aspects of AI and Robotics, mainly concerned
with the following topics: multi-robot communication and coordination; adap-
tive human-robot collaboration; social robotics; task, path, motion planning and
execution; perception and interaction.
    The program of the workshop was completed by two keynote talks by Prof.
Alessandro Saffiotti, from University of Örebro, titled Towards proactive robots
for elder care and by Prof. Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi, from Northwestern University,
titled Motor primitives: a physical symbol system for action and learning.
    The research topics and the results collected in these proceedings illustrate
the work of an active and multidisciplinary research community and confirm
the growing interest for a forum where AI and Robotics researchers can find a
common ground.
    Among the numerous people that contributed to the success of AIRO 2016,
we would first of all thank the people that submitted their research papers to the
workshop and attended to the event. Moreover, we sincerely thank the program
committee members for their important work on the reviewing process.




Alessandro Farinelli, Alberto Finzi, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni
Workshop Organizers


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Chairs

   Alessandro Farinelli  University of Verona
   Alberto Finzi         University of Naples “Federico II”
   Fulvio Mastrogiovanni University of Genoa

Program Committee

   Jacopo Aleotti          University of Parma
   Francesco Amigoni       Politecnico di Milano
   Salvatore Anzalone      Université Pierre et Marie Curie
   Stefano Caselli         University of Parma
   Antonio Chella          University of Palermo
   Alessandro Farinelli    University of Verona
   Alberto Finzi           University of Naples “Federico II”
   Salvatore Gaglio        University of Palermo
   Stefano Ghidoni         University of Padua
   Giuseppina Gini         Politecnico di Milano
   Luca Iocchi             University of Rome “La Sapienza”
   Fulvio Mastrogiovanni   University of Genoa
   Matteo Matteucci        Politecnico di Milano
   Emanuele Menegatti      University of Padua
   Lorenzo Natale          Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
   Daniele Nardi           University of Rome “La Sapienza”
   Andrea Orlandini        Institute of Cognitive Science and Technologies, CNR
   Enrico Pagello          University of Padua
   Monica Reggiani         University of Padua
   Antonio Sgorbissa       University of Genoa
   Armando Tacchella       University of Genoa
   Renato Zaccaria         University of Genoa