Ciao, I'm Riccardo

Ciao,
I'm Riccardo, a Senior Lecturer (Asst. Professor in US) in Robotics and Autonomous Systems at the Lincoln Center for Autonomous Systems (LCAS), University of Lincoln (UK). My research focuses on making robots move autonomously under uncertainty. In order to do so, they must be able to have access to their own sensory data and reason on them.

Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in LCAS and an associate member of the Autonomous Learning Robots (ALR) Lab, Karlsruher Institut fur Technologie (Germany). I was involved in the European H2020 BACCHUS project, focused on mobile robotic platforms for active inspection and harvesting in agricultural areas. I've also been part of the National Centre for Nuclear Robotics (NCNR), a project funded by EPSRC and comprising many international leaders in AI and Robotics. In this project, I developed learning-based solutions for autonomous navigation and recovery of a mobile manipulator.

I obtained a PhD title as a candidate at the Autonomous Marine Systems research group, University of Plymouth (UK). There, I applied model-free deep reinforcement learning techniques to the autonomous landing of a drone on the deck of an unmanned surface vehicle. I also hold a BSc and MSc in Computer Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

What excites me most about these fields are the challenging, multidisciplinary problems that require me to use my background in Computer Engineering, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence to develop an integrated solution. I am particularly motivated by the development and efficient implementation of novel algorithms that enable robots to acquire information from different sensors, integrate them and find a safe path for navigation purpose.

I am also involved in robotics competition to bring more students closer to robotics and AI. In 2023, I co-founded the LCASTOR team, which takes part every year in the RoboCup @Home competition. competition.

If you are interested in my work, please let me know—I would be very interested to hear of potential collaborations!