Ciro Potena PhD

Education and Research Experiences

October 2019 - On Going

PostDoc at Roma 3 University, under the supervision of Prof. Andrea Gasparri.

November 2015 - October 2019

Ph.D. Student in Engineering in Computer Science at Sapienza, University of Rome. I worked within the Lab RoCoCo. Lab, under the joint supervision of Prof. Daniele Nardi and Dr. Alberto Pretto.

December 2017 - May 2018

Visiting Ph.D. Student at the Autonomous System Lab (ASL) leb by Prof. Roland Siegwart.

October 2014

Master's degree in Robotics and Automation Engineering, University of Pisa. The title of my thesis was "A Visual Odometry system for Multi-Rotor Vehicles"

July 2011

Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering, University of Cassino. The title of my thesis was "Autonomous Parking Maneuver for a Car-Like Vehicle"

Projects

October 2019 - On Going

Currently working on PANTHEON, a project funded by the European Community Horizon 2020 programme under grant agreement 774571 for developing a new Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) system for the precision farming of hazelnut orchards.

November 2015 - October 2018

Worked on FLOURISH, a project funded by the European Community's Horizon 2020 programme under grant agreement no 644227-Flourish and from the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) under contract number 15.0029 for developing a multi-robot solution for sugar beet and sunflower precision farming.

July 2014 - October 2014

European Robotics Challenge EuRoC with the University of Pisa team.

Research Interests

Software modules to enhance perception and the autonomy level of farming robots, specifically SLAM, collaborative mapping, control, navigation, and crop/weed perception.

Vision-based navigation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). In other words, allowing aerial vehicles to fly the environment without loosing the line of sight with some targets of interest.

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Publications

For a full list of publications, have a look at my Google Scholar page.

ORCID iD
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In the following, a selected list of publications:

"A Navigation Architecture for Ackermann Vehicles in Precision Farming" R. F. Carpio and C. Potena and J. Maiolini and G. Ulivi and N. B. Rosselló and E. Garone and A. Gasparri. In: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol: 5, Issue: 2, April 2020, pages 1103 - 1110. (code, video, bibtex)

@inproceedings{cpmurgg_arxiv2019,

author = {R. F. {Carpio} and C. {Potena} and J. {Maiolini} and G. {Ulivi} and N. B. {Rosselló} and E. {Garone} and A. {Gasparri}},
title = {A Navigation Architecture for Ackermann Vehicles in Precision Farming},
journal = {IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters},
year = {2020},
volume = {5},
number = {2},
pages = {1103-1110},
doi = {10.1109/LRA.2020.2967306},
ISSN = {2377-3766 },
month = {April}

}

"AgriColMap: Aerial-Ground Collaborative 3D Mapping" C. Potena, R. Khanna, J. Nieto, R. Siegwart, D. Nardi, and A. Pretto. In: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol: 3, Issue: 2, April 2019, pages 1085-1092. (code, pdf, video, bibtex)

@inproceedings{pknsnp_arxiv2019,

author = {C. Potena and R. Khanna and J. Nieto and R. Siegwart and D. Nardi and A. Pretto},
title = {{A}gri{C}ol{M}ap: {A}erial-Ground Collaborative {3D} Mapping},
journal = {IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters},
year = {2019},
volume = {4},
number = {2},
pages = {1085-1092},
doi = {10.1109/LRA.2019.2894468},
ISSN = {2377-3766},
month = {April}

}

"Non-Linear Model Predictive Control with Adaptive Time-Mesh Refinement" C. Potena, B. Della Corte, D. Nardi, G, Grisetti and A. Pretto. IEEE International Conference on Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR), Brisbane, 2018 Best Student Paper Award Finalist. (code, pdf, bibtex)

@inproceedings{pdcSIMPAR2018,

author = {C. Potena and B. D. Corte and D. Nardi and G. Grisetti and A. Pretto},
title = {Non-Linear Model Predictive Control with Adaptive Time-Mesh Refinement},
booktitle = {2018 IEEE International Conference on Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR)},
doi = {10.1109/SIMPAR.2018.8376274},
year = {2018}

}

"An Effective Multi-Cue Positioning System for Agricultural Robotics", M. Imperoli, C. Potena, D. Nardi, G. Grisetti and A. Pretto. In: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol: 3, Issue: 4, October 2018, pages 3685-3692. (pdf, video, bibtex)

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title={An Effective Multi-Cue Positioning System for Agricultural Robotics},
author={Imperoli, Marco and Potena, Ciro and Nardi, Daniele and Grisetti, Giorgio and Pretto, Alberto},
journal={IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters},
volume = {3},
number = {4},
year={2018},
pages = {3685--3692},
doi={10.1109/LRA.2018.2855052}

}

"Effective Target Aware Visual Navigation for UAVs" C. Potena, D. Nardi and A. Pretto. The European Conference on Mobile Robotics (ECMR), Paris, 2017. (pdf, bibtex)

@inproceedings{potenaECMR2017,

author = {C. Potena and D. Nardi and A. Pretto},
title = {Effective Target Aware Visual Navigation for UAVs},
booktitle = {2017 European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR)},
doi = {10.1109/ECMR.2017.8098714},
year={2017}

}

"Automatic Model Based Dataset Generation for Fast and Accurate Crop and Weeds Detection" M. Di Cicco, C. Potena, G. Grisetti, A.Pretto. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vancouver, 2017. (pdf, video, bibtex)

@inproceedings{dpgp_IROS2017,

author = {M. Di Cicco and C. Potena and G. Grisetti and A. Pretto},
title = {Automatic Model Based Dataset Generation for Fast and Accurate Crop and Weeds Detection},
booktitle = {2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
doi = {10.1109/IROS.2017.8206408},
year={2017}

}

"Fast and Accurate Crop and Weed Detection with Summarized Train Sets for Precision Agriculture”, C. Potena, D. Nardi, and A. Pretto. International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS), Shangai, 2016, Best Student Paper Award Finalist. (pdf, bibtex)

@inproceedings{pnp_ias2016,

author={Potena, C. and Nardi, D. and Pretto, A.},
title={Fast and Accurate Crop and Weed Identification with Summarized Train Sets for Precision Agriculture},
booktitle={Proc. of the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-14)},
doi={10.1007/978-3-319-48036-7_9},
year={2016}

}

Contact Me

Department of Engineering, Rome 3 University. Via della Vasca Navale, 79, 00146, Roma, Italy.

Contact me at: cpotena[at]os[dot]uniroma3[dot]it