Ugo Pattacini
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Bio

Ugo Pattacini was born in Foggia in 1977. He graduated in Electronic Engineering (cum laude) at University of Pisa in 2001, with a thesis on the design and realization of an optic-fiber micromachined accelerometer with integrated light sensor. In the period between 2001 and 2003 he worked at Racing Department of Magneti Marelli in Milan as SW developer for Formula 1 applications, dealing with the design and the implementation of integrated telemetry drivers and proprietary hard-constrained real-time operating systems for electronic control units of Toyota, Renault and Ferrari F1 cars. In 2004 he joined Toyota F1 team in Cologne, playing active role in the embedded software development of TF104, TF105 and TF106 car projects, focusing his activities on the vehicle dynamics and torque-based traction control strategies. In 2006 he moved to the Earth Observation Business Unit of Thales Alenia Space in Rome where he was concerned with the specifications design and trade-off analyses of the satellite data acquisition system for COSMO-SkyMed (ASI) and GMES (ESA) scientific programs.

From 2008 to 2010 he carried out PhD studies at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) on the synthesis and implementation of modular cartesian controllers for humanoid robots. Currently, he is with IIT involved in the development of the iCub platform, in particular concerning the advancements of the robot motor capabilities.

Ugo Pattacini was born in Foggia in 1977. He graduated in Electronic Engineering (cum laude) at University of Pisa in 2001, with a thesis on the design and realization of an optic-fiber micromachined accelerometer with integrated light sensor. In the period between 2001 and 2003 he worked at Racing Department of Magneti Marelli in Milan as SW developer for Formula 1 applications, dealing with the design and the implementation of integrated telemetry drivers and proprietary hard-constrained real-time ...

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Projects

RobotCub: ROBotic Open-architecture Technology for Cognition, Understanding and Behavior (EC-FP6). The main goal is to study cognition through the implementation of a humanoid robot with the size of a 3.5 year old child: the iCub. The project is meant to be open in many different ways: the platform is distributed openly, so as the software, and the project is open to including partners forming collaboration worldwide.

CHRIS: Cooperative Human Robot Interaction Systems (EC-FP7). The CHRIS project addresses the fundamental issues which would enable safe Human Robot Interaction (HRI).

EFAA: Experimental Functional Android Assistant (EC-FP7). The EFAA project will contribute to the development of socially intelligent humanoids by advancing the state of the art in both single human-like social capabilities and in their integration in a consistent architecture.

WYSIWYD: What You Say Is What You Did (EC-FP7). The WYSIWYD project will create a new transparency in human robot interaction (HRI) by allowing robots to both understand their own actions and those of humans, and to interpret and communicate these in human compatible intentional terms expressed as a language-like communication channel we call WYSIWYD Robotese (WR).

RobotCub: ROBotic Open-architecture Technology for Cognition, Understanding and Behavior (EC-FP6). The main goal is to study cognition through the implementation of a humanoid robot with the size of a 3.5 year old child: the iCub. The project is meant to be open in many different ways: the platform is distributed openly, so as the software, and the project is open to including partners forming collaboration worldwide.

CHRIS: Cooperative Human Robot Interaction Systems (EC-FP7). The CHRIS project ...

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IIT Publications

  • 2014 - 3D Stereo Estimation and Fully Automated Learning of Eye-Hand Coordination in Humanoid Robots
    *Fanello S. R., *Pattacini U., *Gori I., *Tikhanoff V., *Randazzo M., *Roncone A., Odone F. and *Metta G.
    IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Madrid, spain, November 2014
  • 2014 - Automatic kinematic chain calibration using artificial skin: self-touch in the iCub humanoid robot
    *Roncone A., *Hoffmann M., *Pattacini U. and *Metta G.
    2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Hong Kong, China, May 31-June 7
  • 2014 - EFAA – A Companion Emerges from Integrating a Layered Cognitive Architecture
    Lallée S., Vouloutsi V., *Pattacini U., Wierenga S and Verschure P.
    9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Bielefeld, Germany
  • 2014 - Filter Forests for Learning Data-Dependent Convolutional Kernels
    *Fanello S. R., Keskin C., Kohli P., Izadi S., Shotton J., Criminisi A., *Pattacini U. and Paek T.
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 1709-1716, Columbus, Ohio
  • 2014 - Three-Finger Precision Grasp on Incomplete 3D Point Clouds
    *Gori I., *Pattacini U., *Tikhanoff V. and *Metta G.
    2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Hong Kong, China, May 31-June 7
  • 2013 - A Comprehensive Method for Power Grasp on Incomplete Point Clouds
    *Gori I., *Pattacini U., *Tikhanoff V. and *Metta G.
    Robotics, Science and Systems (RSS) 2013, Berlin, Germany, June 24-28, 2013
  • 2013 - Cooperative Human Robot Interaction Systems: IV. Communication of Shared Plans with Naïve Humans using Gaze and Speech
    Lallée S., Hamann K., Steinwender J., Warneken F., Martinez-Hernandez U., Barron-Gonzalez H., *Pattacini U., *Gori I., Petit M., *Metta G., Verschure P. and Dominey P. F.
    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 129 - 136, Tokyo (Japan)
  • 2013 - Exploring affordances and tool use on the iCub
    *Tikhanoff V., *Pattacini U., *Natale L. and *Metta G.
    IEEE/RAS International Conference of Humanoids Robotics (HUMANOIDS 2013), Atlanta, GA, USA, October 15-17, 2013
  • 2013 - Ranking the Good Points: A Comprehensive Method for Humanoid Robots to Grasp Unknown Objects
    *Gori I., *Pattacini U., *Tikhanoff V. and *Metta G.
    IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics - ICAR 2013
  • 2013 - The Coordinating Role of Language in Real-Time Multimodal Learning of Cooperative Tasks
    Petit M., Lallée S., Boucher J. D., Pointeau G., Cheminade P., Ognibene D., Chinellato E., *Pattacini U., *Gori I., Martinez-Hernandez U., Barron-Gonzalez H., Inderbitzin M., Luvizotto A., Vouloutsi V., Demiris Y., *Metta G. and Dominey P. F.
    IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, vol. 5, (no. 1), pp. 3-17, 1943-0604
  • 2013 - The iCub platform: a tool for studying intrinsically motivated learning
    *Natale L., *Nori F., *Metta G., *Fumagalli M., *Ivaldi S., *Pattacini U., *Randazzo M., *Schmitz A. and *Sandini G.
    Intrinsically motivated learning in natural and artificial systems
  • 2012 - DForC: a Real-Time Method for Reaching, Tracking and Obstacle Avoidance in Humanoid Robots
    *Gori I., *Pattacini U., *Nori F., *Metta G. and *Sandini G.
    IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots 2012, Nov.29-Dec.1, 2012. Business Innovation Center Osaka, Japan
  • 2012 - I reach faster when I see you look: gaze effects in human-human and human-robot face-to-face cooperation
    Boucher J. D., *Pattacini U., Lelong A., Bailly G., Elisei F., Fagel S., Dominey P. F. and Ventre-Dominey J.
    Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 1662-5218
  • 2012 - Towards a Platform-Independent Cooperative Human Robot Interaction System: III. An Architecture for Learning and Executing Actions and Shared Plans
    Lallée S., *Pattacini U., Lemaignan S., Lenz A., Melhuish C., *Natale L., Skachek S., Hamann K., Steinwender J., Sisbot A. E., *Metta G., Pipe T., Alami R., Warnier, Guitton, Warneken F. and Dominey P. F.
    IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, vol. 4, (no. 3), pp. 239 - 253, 1943-0604
  • 2011 - Reexamining Lucas-Kanade Method for Real-Time Independent Motion Detection: Application to the iCub Humanoid Robot
    *Ciliberto C., *Pattacini U., *Natale L., *Nori F. and *Metta G.
    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 4154-4160, San Francisco 25-30 settembre 2011
  • 2011 - The encoding of complex visual stimuli by a canonical model of the primary visual cortex: temporal population code for face recognition on the iCub robot
    Luvizotto A., Rennò-Costa C., *Pattacini U. and Verschure P.
    2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, pp. 313-318, Phuket, Tahiland, December 07-11
  • 2011 - Towards a Platform-Independent Cooperative Human-Robot Interaction System: II. Perception, Execution and Imitation of Goal Directed Act
    Lallée S., *Pattacini U., Boucher J. D., Lemaignan S., Lenz A., Melhuish C., *Natale L., Skachek S., Hamann K., Steinwender J., Sisbot A. E., *Metta G., Alami R., Warnier, Guitton, Warneken F. and Dominey P. F.
    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, San Francisco 25-30 settembre 2011
  • 2010 - An Experimental Evaluation of a Novel Minimum-Jerk Cartesian Controller for Humanoid Robots
    Pattacini U., Nori F., Natale L., Metta G. and Sandini G.
    2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 1668-1674, Taipei, Taiwan
  • 2010 - Design, Realization and Sensorization of the Dexterous iCub Hand
    Schmitz A., Pattacini U., Nori F., Natale L., Metta G. and Sandini G.
    10th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, pp. 186-191, Nashville, TN, December 6-8, 2010
  • 2010 - Integration of Vision and Central Pattern Generator Based Locomotion for Path Planning of a Nonholonomic Crawling Humanoid Robot
    Gay S., Degallier S., Pattacini U., Ijspeert A.J. and Santos-Victor J.
    2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 183-189, Taipei, Taiwan
  • 2010 - Robotic open-architecture technology for cognition, understanding, and behaviours - FP6-IST-004370
    *Metta G., *Natale L., *Nori F., *Pattacini U., *Sandini G., Vernon D., Santos-Victor J., Bernardino A., Lopes M. and Montesano L.
    4th International Conference on Cognitive Systems, Zurich, Switzerland, Jan 2010
  • 2009 - Proprioception of the hand contributes to visual recognition speed and accuracy: Evidence from the Multi-Modal Convergence Map model of Parietal Cortex Area 5
    Lallée S., Metta G., Natale L., Pattacini U. and Dominey P. F.
    Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience 2009, Washington, DC, USA
  • 2014 - 3D Stereo Estimation and Fully Automated Learning of Eye-Hand Coordination in Humanoid Robots
    *Fanello S. R., *Pattacini U., *Gori I., *Tikhanoff V., *Randazzo M., *Roncone A., Odone F. and *Metta G.
    IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Madrid, spain, November 2014
  • 2014 - Automatic kinematic chain calibration using artificial skin: self-touch in the iCub humanoid robot
    *Roncone A., *Hoffmann M., *Pattacini U. and *Metta G.
    2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Hong Kong, China, May 31-June 7

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Awards

First prize at the European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibitions (FET 11), Budapest, Hungary, 4-6 May 2011.

Best conference award at ROBIO2011 with the paper 'The encoding of complex visual stimuli by a canonical model of the primary visual cortex: temporal population coding for face rognition on the iCub robot'.

First prize at the European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibitions (FET 11), Budapest, Hungary, 4-6 May 2011.

Best conference award at ROBIO2011 with the paper 'The encoding of complex visual stimuli by a canonical model of the primary visual cortex: temporal population coding for face rognition on the iCub robot'.

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