Robot autonomy | Francesco Del Duchetto

Videos

Projects

Trustworthy and Explainable Robots for Agricultural Applications (AgriForwards CDT Studentship), Funded by Douglas Bomford Trust, with a significant donation made by Tillett & Hague Technology Ltd, University of Lincoln (PI: Dr Francesco Del Duchetto).
Lindsey: the Tour Guide Robot, Funded by Lincolnshire County Council, Partners: University of Lincoln (PI: Prof Marc Hanheide). Link: https://lcas.lincoln.ac.uk/wp/projects/lindsey-a-robot-tour-guide/
Trustworthy Accessible Robots for Inclusive Cultural experienceS (TARICS), Funded by UKRI TAS Hub, Partners: University of Lincoln (PI: Maria Galvez Trigo), University of Nottingham, Lincolnshire County Council, NICER Group - Nottingham International Consortium for Educational Research. Link: https://tas.ac.uk/research-projects-2022-23/tarics/

References

2023

In-the-Wild Failures in a Long-Term HRI Deployment

Francesco Del Duchetto, Ayse Kucukyilmaz, Marc Hanheide, and 1 more author

In Workshop on Robot Execution Failures and Failure Management Strategies at ICRA 2023, 2023

Bib

@inproceedings{del2023wild,
  title = {In-the-Wild Failures in a Long-Term HRI Deployment},
  author = {Del Duchetto, Francesco and Kucukyilmaz, Ayse and Hanheide, Marc and others},
  booktitle = {Workshop on Robot Execution Failures and Failure Management Strategies at ICRA 2023},
  year = {2023},
}

2022

A Unified Topological Representation for Robotic Fleets in Agricultural Applications

Gautham Das, Grzegorz Cielniak, Francesco Del Duchetto, and 8 more authors

Manuscript Submitt. Publ, 2022

Bib

@article{das2022unified,
  title = {A Unified Topological Representation for Robotic Fleets in Agricultural Applications},
  author = {Das, Gautham and Cielniak, Grzegorz and Del Duchetto, Francesco and Zhu, Zuyuan and Heselden, James and Dichtl, Johann and Hanheide, Marc and Pearson, Simon and Fentanes, Jaime Pulido and Binch, Adam and others},
  journal = {Manuscript Submitt. Publ},
  year = {2022},
}

2021

RAL

Navigate-and-seek: a robotics framework for people localization in agricultural environments

Riccardo Polvara, Francesco Del Duchetto, Gerhard Neumann, and 1 more author

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2021

Bib Code

@article{polvara2021navigate,
  title = {Navigate-and-seek: a robotics framework for people localization in agricultural environments},
  author = {Polvara, Riccardo and Del Duchetto, Francesco and Neumann, Gerhard and Hanheide, Marc},
  journal = {IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters},
  volume = {6},
  number = {4},
  pages = {6577--6584},
  year = {2021},
  publisher = {IEEE},
}

2019

Lindsey the Tour Guide Robot-Usage Patterns in a Museum Long-Term Deployment

Francesco Del Duchetto, Paul Baxter, and Marc Hanheide

In IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2019

Bib

@inproceedings{del2019lindsey,
  title = {Lindsey the Tour Guide Robot-Usage Patterns in a Museum Long-Term Deployment},
  author = {Del Duchetto, Francesco and Baxter, Paul and Hanheide, Marc},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robot \& Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)},
  year = {2019},
  organization = {IEEE},
}

2018

RAL

Do not make the same mistakes again and again: Learning local recovery policies for navigation from human demonstrations

Francesco Del Duchetto, Ayse Kucukyilmaz, Luca Iocchi, and 1 more author

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2018

Bib Code

@article{del2018not,
  title = {Do not make the same mistakes again and again: Learning local recovery policies for navigation from human demonstrations},
  author = {Del Duchetto, Francesco and Kucukyilmaz, Ayse and Iocchi, Luca and Hanheide, Marc},
  journal = {IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters},
  volume = {3},
  number = {4},
  pages = {4084--4091},
  year = {2018},
  publisher = {IEEE},
}