Fiorella Sibona
Papers
13
Total Citations
272
H-Index
7
About
Fiorella Sibona is a leading researcher in industrial automation, specializing in human-robot interaction, autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), and sensor data fusion for smart manufacturing. Her work is pivotal to the Industry 4.0 and 5.0 paradigms, focusing on creating safe, flexible, and intuitive collaboration between humans and robots in shared workspaces. Her most cited survey, "Human-Robot Perception in Industrial Environments" (152 citations), provides a comprehensive analysis of perception technologies essential for future factories. Sibona has pioneered frameworks for path planning and collision avoidance in multi-agent systems, and developed the Sen3Bot Net, a meta-sensor network that enables smart factories by using AMRs as mobile sensing nodes. Her research on sensor data fusion for AMRs (12 citations) and online supervised global path planning (8 citations) directly addresses the critical challenge of safe human-robot coexistence. Notably, she has extended her expertise to smart farming, introducing the R-ECPS framework for robotics-focused digital twins. With a strong publication record from 2019 to 2025, Sibona’s contributions are shaping the next generation of adaptive, human-centric industrial environments.
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Top Papers
- 1Human-Robot Perception in Industrial Environments: A Survey152 citations · 2021
- 2Smart Sensors Applications for a New Paradigm of a Production Line52 citations · 2019
- 3Path planning in formation and collision avoidance for multi-agent systems12 citations · 2022
- 4Sensor data fusion for smart AMRs in human-shared industrial workspaces12 citations · 2019
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