Salvatore M.Anzalone, Alessandro Farinelli, Alberto Finzi, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni (Eds.)
AIRO 2017 Arti Copyright @2018 for the individual papers by the papers authors. Copying permitted for private and academic purposes. This volume is published and copyrighted by its editors. The goal of the Italian workshop series on Arti cial Intelligence and RObotics (AIRO) is to present, discuss and assess recent advances in the deployment of Arti cial Intelligence (AI) methods in Robotics. AI principles and methods play a crucial role in several areas of the robotics research (e.g. eld, service, social robotics, etc.) and are pervasively exploited at various levels of robot architectures for di erent purposes: sensing and perception, reasoning and decision, learning, intelligent control, adaptive and social behavior, veri cation and validation methods, etc. Starting from these diverse -yet intertwined- research elds, the AIRO workshop series aim at providing an established long-term Italian forum where the AI community and the Robotics community may nd an interesting and stimulating common ground. This volume contains the proceedings of the third edition of the AIRO workshop1, which was held in Bari, Italy, on November 14-15 2017. This edition of the AIRO workshop accepted 11 papers involving 48 authors. The contributions covered several aspects of AI and Robotics, mainly concerned with the following topics: industrial, assistive, eld robotics, human monitoring, activity detection, scene recognition, system assessment and benchmarking.
The program of the workshop was completed by two keynote talks by Prof. Luca Iocchi, from \La Sapienza" Universita di Roma, titled Arti cial Intelligence & Human-Robot Interaction and by Prof. Antonio Chella, from Universita degli Studi di Palermo, titled Towards Robot Consciousness.
The research topics and the results collected in these proceedings illustrate the work of an active and multidisciplinary research community and con rm the growing interest for a forum where AI and Robotics researchers can nd a common ground.
Among the numerous people that contributed to the success of AIRO 2017, we would rst 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. Salvatore M. Anzalone, Alessandro Farinelli, Alberto Finzi, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni Workshop Organizers 1 https://airo2017.wordpress.com/
Salvatore M. Anzalone Universite Paris 8 Alessandro Farinelli University of Verona Alberto Finzi University of Naples \Federico II" Fulvio Mastrogiovanni University of Genoa