Publications
International journal publications
2023
Pigozzi, Medvet, Bartoli, Rochelli; Factors Impacting Diversity and Effectiveness of Evolved Modular Robots; ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization (TELO); 2023
Seriani, Carrato, Medvet, Cernigoi, Zibai, Gallina; A Powered Floor System with Integrated Robot Localization; Electronics; 2023
2022
Ferigo, Iacca, Medvet, Pigozzi; Evolving Hebbian Learning Rules in Voxel-based Soft Robot; IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (TCDS); 2022
Nadizar, Medvet, Nichele, Huse Ramstad, Pellegrino, Zullich; Merging Pruning and Neuroevolution: towards Robust and Efficient Controllers for Modular Soft Robots; Knowledge Engineering Review (KER); 2022
Ferigo, Medvet, Iacca; Optimizing the Sensory Apparatus of Voxel-based Soft Robots through Evolution and Babbling; Springer Nature Computer Science; 2022
Pigozzi, Medvet; Evolving Modularity in Soft Robots through an Embodied and Self-Organizing Neural Controller; Artificial Life; 2022
2021
Ferigo, Iacca, Medvet, Pigozzi; Evolving Hebbian Learning Rules in Voxel-based Soft Robots; IEEE TechRxiv; 2021
Talamini, Medvet, Nichele; Criticality-driven Evolution of Adaptable Morphologies of Voxel-Based Soft-Robots; Frontiers in Robotics and AI; 2021
Seriani, Marcini, Caruso, Gallina, Medvet; Crowded Environment Navigation with NEAT: Impact of Perception Resolution on Controller Optimization; Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems (JINT); 2021
Salvato, Fenu, Medvet, Pellegrino; Crossing the Reality Gap: a Survey on Sim-to-Real Transferability of Robot Controllers in Reinforcement Learning; IEEE Access; 2021
2020
Medvet, Bartoli, De Lorenzo, Seriani, 2D-VSR-Sim: a Simulation Tool for the Optimization of 2-D Voxel-based Soft Robots, SoftwareX, 2020
Medvet, Bartoli, De Lorenzo, Seriani, Design, Validation, and Case Studies of 2D-VSR-Sim, an Optimization-friendly Simulator of 2-D Voxel-based Soft Robots, arXiv, 2020
Seriani, Medvet, Carrato, Gallina, A Complete Framework for the Synthesis of Powered Floors Systems, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2020
Medvet, Seriani, Bartoli, Gallina, Evolutionary Optimization of Sliding Contact Positions in Powered Floor Systems for Mobile Robots, at - Automatisierungstechnik, 2020
Talamini, Bartoli, De Lorenzo, Medvet, On the Impact of the Rules on Autonomous Drive Learning, Applied Sciences, 2020
International conference publications
2023
Bernardi, Medvet, Bartoli, De Lorenzo; Examining the Role of Incentives in Scholarly Publishing with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning; Annual Conference on Artificial Life (Alife); 2023
Nadizar, Medvet, Walker, Risi; Neural Cellular Automata Enable Self-Discovery of Physical Configuration in Modular Robots Driven by Collective Intelligence; The Distributed Ghost Workshop (DistributedGhost@Alife); 2023
Nadizar, Medvet, Walker, Risi; A Fully-distributed Shape-aware Neural Controller for Modular Robots; ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO); 2023
Medvet, Pozzi, Manzoni; A General Purpose Representation and Adaptive EA for Evolving Graphs; ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO); 2023
Pigozzi, Camerota Verdù, Medvet; How the Morphology Encoding Influences the Learning Ability in Body-Brain Co-Optimization; ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO); 2023
Pigozzi, Woodman, Medvet, Kramer-Bottiglio, Bongard; Morphology Choice Affects the Evolution of Affordance Detection in Robots; ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO); 2023
Medvet, Nadizar; GP for Continuous Control: Teacher or Learner? The Case of Simulated Modular Soft Robots; XX Genetic Programming Theory & Practice (GPTP); 2023
Nadizar, Medvet; On the Effects of Collaborators Selection and Aggregation in Cooperative Coevolution: an Experimental Analysis; 26th European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP); 2023
2022
Medvet, Nadizar, Manzoni; JGEA: a Modular Java Framework for Experimenting with Evolutionary Computation; Workshop Evolutionary Computation Software Systems (EvoSoft@GECCO); 2022
Medvet, Rusin; Impact of Morphology Variations on Evolved Neural Controllers for Modular Robots; XVI International Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation (WIVACE); 2022
Nadizar, Medvet, Nichele, Pontes-Filho; Collective control of modular soft robots via embodied Spiking Neural Cellular Automata; Workshop on From Cells to Societies: Collective Learning across Scales (Cells2Societies@ICLR); 2022 (Best poster award)
Pigozzi, Tang, Medvet, Ha; Evolving Modular Soft Robots without Explicit Inter-Module Communication using Local Self-Attention; ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO); 2022
Medvet, Nadizar, Pigozzi; On the Impact of Body Material Properties on Neuroevolution for Embodied Agents: the Case of Voxel-based Soft Robots; Workshop on Neuroevolution at Work (NEWK@GECCO); 2022
Nadizar, Medvet, Miras; On the Schedule for Morphological Development of Evolved Modular Soft Robots; 25th European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP); 2022 (Best student poster award)
Ferigo, Soros, Medvet, Iacca; On the Entanglement between Evolvability and Fitness: an Experimental Study on Voxel-based Soft Robots; Annual Conference on Artificial Life (Alife); 2022
Furlan, Medvet, Nadizar, Pigozzi; On the Mutual Influence of Human and Artificial Life: an Experimental Investigation; Annual Conference on Artificial Life (Alife); 2022
Pigozzi; Shape Change and Control of Pressure-based Soft Agents; Annual Conference on Artificial Life (Alife); 2022
2021
Salvato, Fenu, Medvet, Pellegrino; Characterization of Modeling Errors Affecting Performances of a Robotics Deep Reinforcement Learning Controller in a Sim-to-Real Transfer; 44th International Convention on Information, Communication and Electronic Technology (MIPRO); 2021
Nadizar, Medvet, Pellegrino, Zullich, Nichele; On the Effects of Pruning on Evolved Neural Controllers for Soft Robots; Workshop on Neuroevolution at Work (NEWK@GECCO); 2021
Medvet, Pigozzi, Bartoli, Rochelli; Biodiversity in Evolved Voxel-based Soft Robots; ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO); 2021 (Best paper award at complex systems track)
Ferigo, Iacca, Medvet; Beyond Body Shape and Brain: Evolving the Sensory Apparatus of Voxel-based Soft Robots; 24th European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation (EvoAPPS); 2021
2020
Talamini, Medvet, Bartoli, De Lorenzo, Communication in Decision Making: Competition favors Inequality, 3rd Annual Conference on Artificial Life (Alife), 2020, Montréal (Canada)
Bartoli, Catto, De Lorenzo, Medvet, Talamini, Mechanisms of Social Learning in Evolved Artificial Life, 3rd Annual Conference on Artificial Life (Alife), 2020, Montréal (Canada)
Medvet, Bartoli, De Lorenzo, Fidel, Evolution of Distributed Neural Controllers for Voxel-based Soft Robots, ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), 2020, Cancun (Mexico)
2019
Bortolussi, Gulisano, Medvet, Palyvos-Giannas, Automatic Translation of Spatio-Temporal Logics to Streaming-Based Monitoring Applications for IoT-Equipped Autonomous Agents, 6th International Workshop on Middleware and Applications for the Internet of Things (M4IoT@Middleware), 2020, Davis (USA)
Talamini, Medvet, Bartoli, De Lorenzo, Evolutionary Synthesis of Sensing Controllers for Voxel-based Soft Robots, Annual Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE), 2019, Newcastle upon Tyne (United Kingdom)
Medvet, Seriani, Bartoli, Gallina, Design of Powered Floor Systems for Mobile Robots with Differential Evolution, 22nd European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation (EvoApplication), 2019, Leipzig (Germany)
Talamini, Medvet, Bartoli, Communication-based Cooperative Tasks: how the Language Expressiveness affects Reinforcement Learning, 34th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), 2019, Limassol (Cyprus)
2018
Talamini, Scaini, Medvet, Bartoli, Selfish vs. Global Behavior Promotion in Car Controller Evolution, 1st GECCO Workshop on Decomposition Techniques in Evolutionary Optimization (DTEO), 2018, Kyoto (Japan)