Journal papers

Ruini, F., and Cangelosi, A. (2009), Extending the Evolutionary Robotics approach to Flying Machines: an Application to MAV Teams. Neural Networks (Advances in Neural Networks Research: IJCNN 2009), 22, 812-821 [pdf].

Book chapters

Ruini, F., Cangelosi, A., Fontanari, J.F., and Perlovsky, L. (proposal submitted to CISDA 2010, IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defence Applications), Computational Intelligence Approaches to Autonomous Collective Aerial Systems for Defence and Security Applications [draft pdf].

Ruini, F., Petrosino, G., Saglimbeni, F., and Parisi, D. (2010), The strategic level and the tactical level of behaviour. In Gray, J. & Nefti-Meziani, S. (ed.) Advances in Cognitive Systems, IET Publisher, Herts, UK.

Conference proceedings

Ruini, F., and Cangelosi, A. (submitted to TAROS 2010, 11th Conference Towards Autonomous Robotics Systems), An Incremental Approach to the Evolutionary Design of Autonomous Controllers for Micro-unmanned Aerial Vehicles [draft pdf].

Ruini, F., and Cangelosi, A (in press), An Evolutionary Robotics 3D Model for Autonomous MAVs navigation, Target Tracking and Group Coordination. In Proceedings of IJCNN 2010, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks [pdf].

Ruini, F., and Cangelosi, A. (2009), Un modello 3D di robotica evolutiva per lo sviluppo di controller autonomi per robot volanti. In Miglino, O., Ponticorvo, M., Rega, A., and Rubinacci, F. (ed.), Modelli, Sistemi e Applicazioni di Vita Artificiale e Computazione Evolutiva. WIVACE 2009. Atti del VI Workshop Italiano di Vita Artificiale e Computazione Evolutiva, pp. 177-185 [pdf] [e-book].

Ruini, F., Cangelosi, A., and Zetule, F. (2009), Individual and Cooperative Tasks performed by MAV Teams driven by Embodied Neural Network Controllers. In Proceedings of IJCNN 2009, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (pp. 2717-2724) [pdf].

Ruini, F., and Cangelosi, A. (2008), Distributed Control in Multi-Agent Systems: A Preliminary Model of Autonomous MAV Swarms. In Proceedings of FUSION 2008, Eleventh International Conference on Information Fusion (pp. 1043-1050) [pdf].

Ruini, F., and Parisi, D. (2007), Vivere in un ambiente che contiene cibo e predatori. In Proceedings of WIVACE 2007, IV Italian Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation [pdf].

Peer-reviewed abstracts

Ruini, F., and Cangelosi, A. (2010), Intelligent autonomous controllers based on genetically evolved neural networks for flying robots: experiments in two and three dimensions. In Proceedings of PCCAT 2010, Postgraduate Conference for Computing: Applications and Theory [pdf].

Ruini, F., and Cangelosi, A. (2008), Evolutionary Algorithm Based Neural Network Controllers: an Application to MAV Swarms. In Proceedings of WIVACE 2008, V Italian Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation [pdf].

Ruini, F., and Parisi, D. (2008), Selective attention in artificial organisms. In Bullock, S., Noble, J., Watson, R., and Bedau, M.A. (ed.), Proceedings of ALIFE XI, Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, p. 799. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA [pdf].

Posters

Ruini, F. (2009), Autonomous controllers based on neural networks for Micro-unmanned Aerial Vehicles: an Evolutionary Robotics approach. University of Plymouth, Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems Inaugural Meeting [pdf].

Non-published

Ruini, F., and Cangelosi, A. (accepted for KIMAS 2009, International Conference on Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems - conference subsequently cancelled), Evolutionary Multi-Agent Systems as a Methodology for Developing Autonomous Controllers for MAV Teams [pdf].

MSc thesis

Ruini, F. (2007), La motivazione come determinante del comportamento di organismi artificiali: una simulazione di Artificial Life [pdf].

BSc thesis

Ruini, F. (2004), L’integrazione di un modulo per la condivisione di Students’ Notes all’interno del portale LMS Moodle [pdf] [zip].