Dissemination material

Type Date Place Audience Potential content
Journal paper June 2023 Robotics 2023, 12, 74. https://doi.org/10.3390/robotics12030074 Scientific and industry audience Watch the Next Step: A Comprehensive Survey of Stair-Climbing Vehicles, Pappalettera, A.; Bottiglione, F.; Mantriota, G.; Reina, G.
Journal paper June 2023 Vehicle System Dynamics, DOI: 10.1080/00423114.2023.2220440 Scientific and industry audience On the vehicle dynamics prediction via model-based observation, Antonio Leanza, Giacomo Mantriota and Giulio Reina
Journal paper July 2023 Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, Volume 210, 2023, 107888, ISSN 0168-1699, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2023.107888. Scientific and industry audience Where am I heading? A robust approach for orientation estimation of autonomous agricultural robots, Antonio Leanza, Rocco Galati, Angelo Ugenti, Eugenio Cavallo, Giulio Reina,
Journal paper July 2023 Robotica. 2023;41(10):3211-3232. doi:10.1017/S0263574723000966 Scientific and industry audience Modeling and validation of a novel tracked robot via multibody dynamics. Grazioso A, Ugenti A, Galati R, Mantriota G, Reina G.
Conference paper August 2023 Proc. SPIE 12621, Multimodal Sensing and Artificial Intelligence: Technologies and Applications III, 1262113 (9 August 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2673962 Scientific and industry audience “Automated detection and counting of grape bunches using a farmer robot”, Rosa Pia Devanna, Giulio Reina, and Annalisa Milella
Workshop participation September 2023 IEEE CAS FORUM ON INDUSTRY FOR AGRIFOOD ELECTRONICS (IAFE), Torino, September 27, 2023 Scientific and industry audience The STAR project (R. Galati, G. Reina, Yael Nemirovsky)
Special track organization October 2023 Symposium: Mobile Robot and Unmanned Ground Vehicles, at ASME 2023 IMECE International Mechanical Engineering Congress, New Orleans, Oct. 29 – Nov. 2, 2023 Scientific and industry audience The STAR project (R. Galati, G. Reina, Yael Nemirovsky, Stefan Rilling)
Conference paper November 2023 2023 IEEE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP on Metrology for Agriculture and Forestry, MetroAgriFor23, Pisa, Italy Scientific and industry audience “A Glance at the Behaviour of a Tracked Mobile Robot on Different Agricultural Surfaces” (A. Leanza, R. Galati, G. Reina)
Journal paper November 2023 Environmental Research, Vol. 238, Part 2, 2023, 117191, ISSN 0013-9351, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2023.117191 Scientific and industry audience “Estimating soil surface roughness by proximal sensing for soil erosion modeling implementation at field scale”, Giovanni Matranga, Francesco Palazzi, Antonio Leanza, Annalisa Milella, Giulio Reina, Eugenio Cavallo, Marcella Biddoccu,
Conference paper November 2023 The 16th IFToMM World Congress, Tokyo, Japan Scientific and industry audience “Considerations on Motion Energy Consumption for Autonomous Robots” (R. Galati, G. Mantriota, G. Reina)
ICT-AGRI-FOOD Kick-off Event 2022 Joint Call 30 & 31 January 2024 Warsaw, Poland Scientific and industry audience Presentation of the STAR project
Special Issue on Indexed journal February 2024 Special issue on Robotics and AI for Precision Agriculture, Robotics https://www.mdpi.com/journal/robotics/special_issues/6I728O9Q5W Scientific and industry audience Presentation of the STAR project
Conference session August 2024 Special Session at IEEE CASE 2024 with title: In-field Digital technologies, Robotics and AI for Sustainable Agriculture, Bari, Italy https://ras.papercept.net/conferences/conferences/CASE24/program/CASE24_ProgramAtAGlanceWeb.html Scientific and industry audience Project information and results
Webinar October 24th, 2024 Talk title: “Giving Smell Sense to Agricultural Robotics”, Breakfast Club, Green ERA-Hub Scientific and industry audience Project information and results dissemination, https://www.greenerahub.eu/events/event-three-yp8z8-yc6gn-tb96e https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVZOzuQlS-0
Journal paper December 2024 Boosting grape bunch detection in RGB-D images using zero-shot annotation with Segment Anything and GroundingDINO, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168169924010020 Scientific and industry audience
Journal paper 2025 On the climbing ability of passively suspended tracked robots, ASME. J. Mechanisms Robotics https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4067624 Scientific and industry audience
Conference paper 2025 Ugenti, A. et al. (2025). The STAR Project: Giving Smell Sense to Agricultural Robotics. In: Carbone, G., Quaglia, G. (eds) Proceedings of I4SDG Workshop 2025 – IFToMM for Sustainable Development Goals. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 179. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-91151-4_71 Scientific and industry audience Presentation of project results