Guglielmo Gemignani

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Guglielmo Gemignani is a robotics researcher whose work sits at the intersection of human-robot interaction, semantic mapping, and autonomous robot learning. His research addresses one of the central challenges in modern robotics: enabling robots to operate intelligently in real-world domestic and everyday environments, where they must build meaningful representations of their surroundings and adapt to user needs without requiring expert reprogramming. Gemignani's most influential contribution, "Living with Robots: Interactive Environmental Knowledge Acquisition" (2016, 41 citations), demonstrates how robots can acquire structured environmental knowledge through natural interaction with humans. His complementary work on online semantic mapping (2013, 37 citations) laid important groundwork for robots to construct representations that support both task execution and intuitive user communication. His research on teaching robots parametrized plans through spoken interaction (2015, 26 citations) further advances the vision of end-user robot programming through natural language. Beyond single-robot systems, Gemignani has explored multi-robot coordination, investigating how teams of autonomous robots can collaborate dynamically in changing environments. His work on language-based object grounding and qualitative spatial reasoning reflects a commitment to bridging the gap between human communication and robotic perception — making robots genuinely accessible partners in complex, unpredictable settings.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Living with robots: Interactive environmental knowledge acquisition

   41 citations · 2016
2. 2
   On-line semantic mapping

   37 citations · 2013
3. 3
   Teaching Robots Parametrized Executable Plans Through Spoken Interaction

   26 citations · 2015
4. 4
   Automatic Extraction of Structural Representations of Environments

   17 citations · 2015
5. 5
   Multi-robot search for a moving target: Integrating world modeling, task assignment and context

   10 citations · 2016
6. 6
   Language-Based Sensing Descriptors for Robot Object Grounding

   9 citations · 2015
7. 7
   Knowledge Representation for Robots through Human-Robot Interaction

   8 citations · 2013
8. 8
   Interactive Semantic Mapping: Experimental Evaluation

   6 citations · 2015
9. 9
   Approaching Qualitative Spatial Reasoning About Distances and Directions in Robotics

   5 citations · 2015
10. 10
    Context-Based Coordination for a Multi-Robot Soccer Team

    4 citations · 2015

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