Publications
This is only a list of my papers, so don't forget to check the list of published papers at LIRA-Lab, where you can download some of them in either PostScript or PDF format.
My Ph.D. thesis
Selected publications (things I'm happy about)
Complete list (things I'm happy about + the rest for the records)
Selected publications (in a sort of chronological order, recent publications were preferred)
G.Metta, G. Sandini, L. Natale, L. Craighero, L. Fadiga. Understanding mirror neurons: a bio-robotic approach. Interaction Studies. Volume 7 Issue 2. pp. 197-232, 2006.
G. Metta, P. Fitzpatrick, L. Natale. YARP: yet another robot platform. In the International Journal on Advanced Robotics Systems, Special Issue on Software Development and Integration in Robotics. March 2006.
M. Lungarella, G. Metta, R. Pfeifer, G. Sandini. Developmental Robotics: A Survey. Connection Science. 15(4), pp. 151-190. 2003.
G. Metta and P. Fitzpatrick. Early Integration of Vision and Manipulation. In Adaptive Behavior special issue on Epigenetic Robotics. Vol 11 Issue 2 (2003) pp. 109-128.
G. Metta and P. Fitzpatrick. Better Vision through Manipulation. In Second International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems. August 10-11, 2002 Edinburgh, Scotland.
G. Metta, L. Natale, S. Rao, G. Sandini, Development of the “mirror system”: a computational model. In Conference on Brain Development and Cognition in Human Infants. Emergence of Social Communication: Hands, Eyes, Ears, Mouths. Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy. June 7-12, 2002.
G. Metta, G. Sandini. Embodiment and complex systems. A commentary on Barbara Webb: Can robots make good models of biological behaviour? In Behavioral and Brain Sciences. (accepted for publication, to appear in 2002).
L. Natale, G. Metta, G. Sandini. Development of Auditory-evoked Reflexes: Visuo-acoustic Cues Integration in a Binocular Head. Robotics and Autonomous Systems. Vol 39 Issue 2, pp. 87-106 (2002).
F. Panerai, G. Metta, G. Sandini. Learning Visual Stabilization Reflexes in Robots with Moving Eyes. Neurocomputing. Vol 48 Issue 1-4, pp. 323-337, 2002.
G. Metta. An Attentional System for a Humanoid Robot Exploiting Space Variant Vision. In IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots. pp. 359-366. Tokyo, Japan, November 22-24, 2001.
F. Panerai, G. Metta, G.Sandini. Learning VOR-like stabilization reflexes in robots. In 8th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN 2000), Bruges, Belgium, April 26-28 2000.
F. Panerai, G. Metta and G. Sandini. Visuo-inertial Stabilization in Space-variant Binocular Systems. In Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Special Issue on Biomimetic Robotics. Vol 30 No 1-2 pp. 195-214 (2000).
G.Metta, G.Sandini and J.Konczak. A Developmental Approach to Visually-Guided Reaching in Artificial Systems. Neural Networks Vol 12 No 10 pp. 1413-1427 (1999).
G.Sandini, G.Metta and J.Konczak. Human Sensori-motor Development and Artificial Systems. In AIR&IHAS '97, Japan 1997.
E.Grosso, G.Metta, A.Oddera and G.Sandini. Robust visual servoing in 3D reaching tasks. In IEEE transactions on robotics and automation. Vol 12, No 5, October 1996.
M.Salganicoff, G.Metta, A.Oddera and G.Sandini. A direct approach to vision guided manipulation. In International Conference on Advanced Robotics, Tokyo (Japan), November 1-2, 1993. Abstract (HTML).
G.Sandini, F.Gandolfo, G.Metta and A.Oddera. The role of vision in two-arms manipulation. In IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. New York (USA) June 15-18, 1993.