All Stories

  1. From sky to ground: Enabling autonomous vineyard traversal with UAV-derived navigation maps

    Article • Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, December 2026, Elsevier

    Riccardo Polvara

  2. Who Leads the Story? Comparing Autonomous vs. Adult-Supported Child-Robot Interactions

    Article • March 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Riccardo Polvara

  3. An Integrated Aerial-Ground System for Vineyard Mapping and Robotic Navigation

    Article • January 2026, Elsevier

    Riccardo Polvara

  4. A Retrieval Augmented Generation Approach for Planning on General Purpose Service Robots

    Article • January 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Riccardo Polvara

  5. Perception-Aware Autonomous Exploration in Feature-Limited Environments

    Article • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, January 2026, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Riccardo Polvara

  6. Keypoint Semantic Integration for Improved Feature Matching in Outdoor Agricultural Environments

    Article • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, December 2025, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Riccardo Polvara

  7. Adaptive robot localization in dynamic environments through self-learnt long-term 3D stable points segmentation

    Article • Robotics and Autonomous Systems, November 2024, Elsevier

    Riccardo Polvara

  8. AGRIDS: an Advanced Multi-Modal Mapping Architecture for Robotics and Agriculture

    Article • August 2024, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Riccardo Polvara

  9. LTS-NET: End-to-End Unsupervised Learning of Long-Term 3D Stable Objects

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Riccardo Polvara

  10. Robotic Grape Inspection and Selective Harvesting in Vineyards: A Multisensory Robotic System With Advanced Cognitive Capabilities

    Article • IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, January 2024, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Riccardo Polvara

  11. Learned Long-Term Stability Scan Filtering for Robust Robot Localisation in Continuously Changing Environments

    Article • September 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Riccardo Polvara

  12. Bacchus Long‐Term (BLT) data set: Acquisition of the agricultural multimodal BLT data set with automated robot deployment

    Article • Journal of Field Robotics, August 2023, Wiley

    Riccardo Polvara

  13. Navigate-and-Seek: A Robotics Framework for People Localization in Agricultural Environments

    Article • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, October 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Riccardo Polvara

  14. Benchmark of Visual and 3D Lidar SLAM Systems in Simulation Environment for Vineyards

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Riccardo Polvara

  15. Next-Best-Sense: A Multi-Criteria Robotic Exploration Strategy for RFID Tags Discovery

    Article • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, July 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Riccardo Polvara

  16. Sim-to-Real Quadrotor Landing via Sequential Deep Q-Networks and Domain Randomization

    Article • Robotics, February 2020, MDPI AG

    Riccardo Polvara

  17. Range extension for electromagnetic detection of subsea power and telecommunication cables

    Article • Journal of Marine Engineering & Technology, July 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor sanjay sharma, Riccardo Polvara

  18. Autonomous Vehicular Landings on the Deck of an Unmanned Surface Vehicle using Deep Reinforcement Learning

    Article • Robotica, April 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Riccardo Polvara

  19. Toward End-to-End Control for UAV Autonomous Landing via Deep Reinforcement Learning

    Article • June 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Angelo Cangelosi, Riccardo Polvara

  20. Vision-Based Autonomous Landing of a Quadrotor on the Perturbed Deck of an Unmanned Surface Vehicle

    Article • Drones, April 2018, MDPI AG

    Riccardo Polvara

  21. Obstacle Avoidance Approaches for Autonomous Navigation of Unmanned Surface Vehicles

    Article • Journal of Navigation, October 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Riccardo Polvara, Professor sanjay sharma

  22. Towards autonomous landing on a moving vessel through fiducial markers

    Article • September 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Riccardo Polvara

  23. TOWARD A MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM FOR MARINE OBSERVATION

    Article • August 2016, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Riccardo Polvara

  24. Advanced feature extraction and dimensionality reduction for unmanned underwater vehicle fault diagnosis

    Article • August 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Riccardo Polvara