Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT)

Francesco Nori

Position	Team Leader
Area	Cognitive Humanoids Lab


Phone	+39 010 71 781 420
Mobile	+39 334 61 39 016
Website	http://people.liralab.it/iron/

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Bio

Francesco Nori was born in Padova in 1976. He received his D.Eng. degree (highest honors) from the University of Padova (Italy) in 2002. During the year 2002 he was a member of the UCLA Vision Lab as a visiting student under the supervision of Prof. Stefano Soatto, University of California Los Angeles. During this collaboration period he started a research activity in the field of computational vision and human motion tracking. In 2003 Francesco Nori started his Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Ruggero Frezza at the University of Padova, Italy. During this period the main topic of his research activity was modular control with special attention on biologically inspired control structures. Francesco Nori received his Ph.D. in Control and Dynamical Systems from the University of Padova (Italy) in 2005. In the year 2006 he moved to the University of Genova and started his PostDoc at the laboratory for integrated advanced robotics (LiraLab) , beginning a fruitful collaboration with Prof. Giorgio Metta and Prof. Giulio Sandini. In 2007 Francesco Nori has moved to the Italian Institute of technology where he is currently hired as a team leader.

Publications

Nori, F., Metta, G., & Sandini, G. (2008). Exploiting Motor Modules in Modular Contexts. In Robust Intelligent Systems (Vol. XII 299, 81).

Chiovetto, E., Nori F., Sandini, G., & Pozzo, T. (2008). Muscle synergies as a tool to study coordination between voluntary movements and posture. In Society for Neuroscience (Vol. 960.15).

De Michieli, L., Nori, F., Sandini, G., & Piniprato, P. (2008). Study on Humanoid Robot Systems: an Energy Approach. In Proceedings of Humanoids 2008, IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots.

Degallier, Righetti, L., Natale, L., Nori, F., Metta, G., & Ijspeert, A. (2008). A modular bio-inspired architecture for movement generation for the infant-like robot iCub. In Proceedings of the second IEEE RAS / EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob).

Dominey, P. F., Metta, G., Natale, L., & Nori, F. (2008). Anticipation and Initiative in Dialog and Behavior During Cooperative Human-Humanoid Interaction. In Proceedings of Humanoids 2008, IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots.

Dominey, P. F., Metta, G., Nori, F., & Natale, L. (2008). Learning Through Coaching in Cooperative Side-by-Side Human-Humanoid Interaction. In Workshop Imitation and Coaching in Humanoid Robots, IEEE-RAS Conference on Humanoid Robots.

Fiorilla, A. E., Tsagarakis, N., Nori, F., & Sandini, G. (2008). Design of a 2-Finger Hand Exoskeleton for finger stiffness measurements. Journal of Applied Bionics and Biomechanics.

Metta, G., Vernon, D., Natale, L., Nori, F., & Sandini, G. (2008). The iCub humanoid robot: an open Platform for research in embodied cognition. In Workshop on Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems.

Sciutti, A., Nori, F., Metta, G., Pozzo, T., & Sandini, G. (2008). A study on the perceptual and motor bases of prediction. In Gnb (Ed.), Proceedings of the First National Conference on Bioengineering. Pisa.

Sciutti, A., Nori, F., Metta, G., Pozzo, T., & Sandini, G. (2008). Motor and perception-basedprediction. In E. C. on V. Perception (Ed.), Perception 37 ECVP Abstract Supplement. Utrecht.

Jamone, L., Metta, G., Nori, F., & Sandini, G. (2006). James: A Humanoid Robot Acting over an Unstructured World. In Proceedings of Humanoids 2008. IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots, University of Genova, Italy.

Nori, F., Metta, G., Jamone, L., & Sandini, G. (2006). Adaptive Combination of Motor Primitives. In Workshop on Motor Development part of AISB06: Adaptation in Artificial and Biological Systems.University of Bristol, England.

Projects

RobotCub is a 5 years long project funded by the European Commission through Unit E5 Cognitive Systems, Interaction & Robotics. The main goal is to study cognition through the implementation of a humanoid robot the size of a 3.5 year old child: the iCub.

The Viactors project aims at developing and exploiting actuation technologies for a new generation of robots that can co-exist and co-operate with people and get much closer to the human manipulation and locomotion performance than today’s robots do. At the same time these robots are expected to be safe, in the sense that interacting with them should not constitute a higher injury risk to humans than the interaction with another cautious human. This requires that robots with similar size and mass as the humans also have comparable power, strength, velocity and interaction compliance.

The ITALK project aims to develop artificial embodied agents able to acquire complex behavioural, cognitive, and linguistic skills through individual and social learning.