Seeking postdoc in robotics or artificial intelligence
Giuseppe Borghi
I finished my Ph.D. track this month and I'm looking for a postdoc
position in
the area of Robotics or Artificial Intelligence focused on my research
interests.
My main research interests are in the field of autonomous mobile
robotics and in particular on map learning, self-localization, motion
planning and sensor data processing.
I have enclosed a copy of my CV.
Please, contact me at the address below if you have any information.
Thanks.
Giuseppe Borghi
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GIUSEPPE BORGHI
Curriculum Vitae et Studiorum
PERSONAL DATA
Birthdate: 7/12/64.
Birthplace: Milano.
Citizenship: Italian.
Marital Status: Married.
Office Address:
Politecnico di Milano
Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione
Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32
20133 Milano, Italy
Voice: (39) (2) 2399-3416
Fax: (39) (2) 2399-3411
Email: bor...@elet.polimi.it
Url: http://www.elet.polimi.it/~borghi
Home Address:
S. Antonio, 9
T. 20045 Besana B.za
Milano, Italy
Voice: (39) (362) 995661
Languages spoken
Mother tongue Italian, and speaks English and Spanish sufficiently.
EDUCATION
1992 Laurea (Master of Arts) in Electronics Engineering at Politecnico
di Milano; final
score 95/100.
Dissertation title :
ARDPID : Architettura distribuita per la pianificazione dinamica delle
azioni di un robot mobile reale dotato di multisensorialità.
(ARDPID : Distributed Architecture for Dynamic Action Planning for a
Multisensor Mobile
Robot.)
Supervisor : Prof. Marco Somalvico, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
1993-1996 Ph.D. student in Industrial Electronics and Computer Science -
Dipartimento di
Elettronica e Informatica - Università degli Studi di Padova. The
final examination is
expected to take place in November 1997.
Dissertation title :
A Model of the Robot-Environment Interaction for Autonomous Robots
Endowed with an
Uninterpreted Sensory-Motor Apparatus.
Supervisor : Prof. Enrico Pagello, University of Padova, Italy.
AFFILIATIONS
1992- Member of the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Project of the
Politecnico di Milano (PM-
AI&R Project).
1992- Co-coordinator of the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
Laboratory of the Politecnico di
Milano.
MEMBERSHIPS
1995- Member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.
1995- Member of the IEEE System, Man and Cybernetics Society.
1995- Member of AI*IA (Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence).
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Areas of interest: Autonomous Robotics - Mobile Robotics
1992 - 1995 Path planning algorithms for mobile robot based on the
following approaches :
artificial potential fields, free-ways and multi-resolution
representation (quadtree
representation of the free-space).
1992 - 1995 Development of real autonomous agents through machine
learning techniques based
on evolutionary algorithm. The training is based on supervised
reinforcement
learning (learning classifier systems).
1992 - Blackboard based distributed control architectures for
autonomous mobile robots for
both simulation and control of a real robot.
1992 - Mobile robot self-localization based on optimal sensor
exploration accomplished by a
laser range finder. The algorithm chooses the exploration leading to
the optimal
uncertainty reduction of the a posterior robot location estimate both
in polygonal and
in curvilinear environments.
1993 - Autonomous map learning for a mobile robot endowed an
uninterpreted sensory-
motor apparatus. The approach is based on the computation of the
perceptual
equivalence classes and sensory-motor relation induced by the
robot-environment
interaction. A multi-level representation of the robot-environment
interaction is used
to obtain a model of the world based on a Partially Observable Markov
Decision
Process.
1995 - Statistical characterization of the odometric uncertainty. The
developed algorithm
allows to obtain an estimate of the expected odometric error and
associated
uncertainty for any arbitrary robot trajectory using a non stationary
error model.
WORKING ACTIVITIES
1992-1995 Targeted Project on Robotics of the Italian National Research
Council "URMAD :
mobile robotic unit for aid to handicapped person". Design and
implementation of
the world model manager and of the path planner module.
1992-1995 Targeted Project on Robotics of the Italian National Research
Council "MANUEL :
programming of robot working in unstructured environment".
Development of an
obstacle avoidance module based on artificial potential field
approach.
TEACHING ACTIVITIES (ASSISTANT)
1992-1993 "Industrial Robotics", Prof. Marco Somalvico, Politecnico di
Milano.
"Artificial Intelligence ", Prof. Marco Somalvico, Politecnico di
Milano.
"Fundamentals of Computer Science", Prof. Marco Colombetti, Bachelor
in
Mechanical Engineering, Lecco.
1993/1994 "Robotics", Prof. Giuseppina Gini, Politecnico di Milano.
"Fundamentals of Computer Science", Prof. Marco Colombetti, Bachelor
in
Mechanical Engineering, Lecco.
1994/1995
1995/1996
1996/1997 "Fundamentals of Computer Science ", Prof. Andrea Bonarini,
Politecnico di Milano.
THESES TUTORING
Tutoring for many Master Theses in the following courses at the
Politecnico di Milano :
Artificial Intelligence; Prof. Marco Somalvico.
Robotics; Prof. Giuseppina Gini.
Industrial Robotics; Prof. Marco Somalvico.
Knowledge Engineering and Expert Systems; Prof. Marco Colombetti.
REVIEWING ACTIVITIES
Reviewer for the following international journals :
IEEE Transactions on System, Man and Cybernetics.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Large experience in C programming under UNIX SUN OS using X11 and XView
library and
Inter Processes Communication mechanisms.
System administrator of a SUN workstations LAN for several years.
Large experience in designing, repairing and programming mobile and
manipulator robots.
Experience in programming with languages such as VAL, AML, and others.
Experience in image processing and in designing of several sensor
systems for autonomous
robots.
Large experience using software such as Mathematica, Matlab, Microsoft
Office and others.
Experience in system and time series identification and control.
Experience with neural networks for unsupervised data classification.
PUBLICATIONS
International Journals
Published
[1] Colombetti M., Dorigo M., and Borghi G., Behavior Analysis and
Training. A Methodology
for Behavior Engineering. In IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and
Cybernetics-Part B,
Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 365-380, June 1996.
Submitted
[2] Borghi G. and Caglioti V. On the Odometric Uncertainty : A Model
Based on Differential
Parameters and its Calibration. Submitted to IEEE Transaction on
Robotics and Automation.
[3] Borghi G. and Caglioti V. Uncertainty Minimization in the
Self-Location of Mobile Robots in
Curvilinear Environment. Submitted to IEEE Transaction on Robotics and
Automation.
Proceedings of International Conferences
[4] Borghi G. and Caglioti V., Optimum Explorations in the
Self-localization of Mobile Robots in
Polygonal Environments. Proceedings of ICAR '95, pp. 521-528, Sant
Feliu de Guixols, Spain,
1995.
[5] Borghi G. and Brugali D., Autonomous Map Learning for a Multi-Sensor
Mobile Robot Using
Diktiometric Representation and Negotiation Mechanism. Proceedings of
ICAR '95, pp. 993-
997, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain, 1995.
[6] Colombetti M., Borghi G. and Dorigo M. Robot Shaping: The Hamster
Experiment.
Proceedings of the Sixth Int. Symposium on Robotics And Manufacturing,
Montpellier,
France, 1996.
Proceedings of National Conferences
[7] Borghi G. and Pagello E. Computing Perceptual and Sensory-Motor
Equivalence Classes for
Map Learning. Proceedings of the AI*IA-96 Workshop on Planning Robot
Actions in
Complex Environments, Naples, Italy, 1996.
[8] Borghi G. and Tosolini L. Real-time Obstacle Avoidance in
Sonar-based Mobile Robot
Navigation Using Harmonic Potential Functions. Proceedings of the
Italian Workshop on
Automatic Planning Roma, Italy, 1993.
Technical Reports
[9] Borghi G. Distributed Organization of Hybrid Modules to Generate
Plans in Dynamic
Environments for an Autonomous Mobile Robot. Tech. Report 94#003,
Politecnico di Milano
Dip. Elettronica e Informazione, Italy, 1994.
REFEREES
Professor Enrico Pagello
Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informatica
Università degli Studi di Padova.
Via Gradenigo, 6/A 35131 PADOVA PD, Italia
Tel. +39-49-8285784
E-mail: pag...@ladseb.pd.cnr.it
Professor Marco Colombetti
Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione
Politecnico di Milano.
Via Ponzio, 34/5, 20133 Milano MI, Italia
Tel. +39-2-2399-3525
E-mail: colo...@elet.polimi.it
Professor Giuseppina Gini
Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione
Politecnico di Milano.
Via Ponzio, 34/5, 20133 Milano MI, Italia
Tel. +39-2-2399-3426
E-mail: gi...@elet.polimi.it
Ing. Vincenzo Caglioti
Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione
Politecnico di Milano.
Via Ponzio, 34/5, 20133 Milano MI, Italia
Tel. +39-2-2399-3416
E-mail: cagl...@elet.polimi.it
Ing. Andrea Bonarini
Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione
Politecnico di Milano.
Via Ponzio, 34/5, 20133 Milano MI, Italia
Tel. +39-2-2399-3525
E-mail: bona...@elet.polimi.it