Salvatore Anzalone, Gloria Beraldo, Luca Buoncompagni, Alberto Castellini, Alberto Finzi (Eds.)
Copyright '2023 for the individual papers by the papers' authors. Copyright '2023 for the volume as a collection by its editors. This volume and its papers are published under the Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Editors' addresses: 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 aims 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 9th edition of the AIRO workshop1, which was held on 30 November 2022 in conjunction with the 21th International Conference of the Italian Association for Arti cial Intelligence (AIxIA 2022). This edition of the AIRO workshop accepted 17 papers (16 inlcuded in this volume, 15 as short papers, one as a poster) involving 67 authors. The program was structured into seven sections: Human-Robot Interaction, Social Robotics, Planning, Learning and Robotics, Multi-robots, Perception and Navigation, Industrial Robotics and Applications, and a nal panel. The contributions covered several aspects of AI and Robotics in the areas of industrial, surgical, service and social robotics, they were mainly concerned with the following research topics: human-robot interaction, robot learning, robot planning, robot perception, multi-robots, cloud robotics, ontologies, robot navigation.
The workshop program also included a nal panel session on Arti cial Intelligence for Robotics: E ectiveness, Limits and Prospects organized in collaboration with SIRI (Associazione Italiana di Robotica ed Automazione). The panel was coordinated and moderated by Alessandro Farinelli and Alberto Finzi (AIRO side) jointly with Enrico Pagello (SIRI side) involving invited speakers from both the industry and the university: Giulio Farina (CEO, Salvagnini Robotica), Stefano Tonello (President of BOD, IT+Robotics), Nicola Castaman (IT+Robotics), Francesco Amigoni (Politecnico di Milano), Alessandro Farinelli (Universita di Verona), Andrea Orlandini (ISTC-CNR).
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 in a forum where AI and Robotics researchers can nd a common ground.
Salvatore Anzalone, Gloria Beraldo, Luca Buoncompagni, Alberto Castellini, Alberto Finzi Workshop Organizers 1 https://www.airo-aixia.it/airo2022/
Gloria Beraldo ISTC- CNR Luca Buoncompagni University of Genoa Alberto Castellini University of Verona
Alberto Finzi University of Naples \Federico II"
Salvatore Anzalone Universite Paris 8 Federico Bianchi University of Verona Gloria Beraldo ISTC-CNR Luca Buoncompagni University of Genoa Jonathan Cacace University of Naples \Federico II" Riccardo Caccavale University of Naples \Federico II" Alberto Castellini University of Verona Alessandro Farinelli University of Verona Alberto Finzi University of Naples \Federico II" Luca Iocchi University of Rome \La Sapienza" Fulvio Mastrogiovanni University of Genoa Andrea Orlandini ISTC-CNR Carmine Recchiuto University of Genoa Maddalena Zuccotto University of Verona