• May 2026: The paper "Sensitivity-Aware Model Predictive Control for Robots with Parametric Uncertainty", by T. Belvedere, M. Cognetti, G. Oriolo, P. Robuffo Giordano, published in the IEEE Transactions on Robotics in 2025, has won the 2025 Best Paper Award of the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Optimization for Robotics.
  

• Sept 2025: Our new book Foundations of Robotics is out!

Co-authored with my colleagues Bruno Siciliano, Luigi Villani and Alessandro De Luca, the book is published by Springer in their "Advanced Textbooks in Control and Signal Processing" series.

• Oct 2024: The paper "A vision-based control scheme for safe navigation in a crowd", by P. Carboni, G. Nardini, E. Santini, G. Gravina, M. Cipriano, F. D'Orazio, T. Belvedere, G. Oriolo, has won the Best Paper Award at the 17th International Workshop on Human-Friendly Robotics (HFR 2024).


• May 2020: The paper "Humanoid robots in aircraft manufacturing: The Airbus use cases", by A. Kheddar, G. Oriolo, L. Lanari et al, published in the IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine in 2019, has won the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine Best Paper Award for 2020.

I received the Ph.D. in Control Engineering in 1992 from Sapienza University of Rome. In 1994 I joined the Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering (DIAG) of the same university, where I am currently a Full Professor of Automatic Control and Robotics. I am also the director of the DIAG Robotics Lab. I have held teaching positions at various italian universities, including the universities of Siena, of Cassino and of Roma Tre, and I have been Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Santa Barbara. I am a Fellow of the IEEE.

I have been Associate Editor (2001-2005) and Senior Editor (2009-2014) of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics. I serve on the Program Committee of several international conferences, including the European Control Conference, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), and many others. I have also been Organization Chair for the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation which took place in Rome. From 2007 to 2011 I have been on the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. In 2008 and 2009 I have served as Area Chair for the RSS conference series. From 2014 to 2016 I have been Editor of the Conference Paper Review Board of the IROS Conference series.

My research interests are in control and robotics, and in particular: humanoid robots; mobile robots; UAVs; visual motion control; multi-robot systems; sensor-based map building, localization and navigation; remote control and laboratories; motion planning; learning control; kinematically redundant robots; assistive robotics. In these areas I have published 3 books and over 230 papers in international journals and conferences. A description of some recent research is here.

• A. S. Habib, N. Scianca, L. Lanari, G. Oriolo, "Feasibility-based convexification of MPC footstep constraints for humanoid gait generation," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 11, no. 10, pp. 11450-11457, 2026 (pdf) (link). DOI:10.1109/LRA.2026.3723320

• G. Gravina, F. D'Orazio, M. Cipriano, T. Belvedere, G. Oriolo, "Crowd navigation in a multi-room environment: A model predictive control framework for mobile robots," Frontiers in Robotics and AI, vol. 13, pp. 1-19, 2026 (pdf) (link). DOI:10.3389/frobt.2026.1812386
  

• F. D’Orazio, S. Samavi, X. Du, S. Zhou, G. Oriolo, Angela P. Schoellig, "SM²ITH: Safe mobile manipulation with interactive human prediction via task-hierarchical bilevel Model Predictive Control," 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vienna, Austria, pp. -, 2026 (pdf). DOI:
  

• B. Siciliano, L. Villani, G. Oriolo, A. De Luca, Foundations of Robotics, Advanced Textbooks in Control and Signal Processing, Springer Cham, 2025. DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-85523-8

• D. Marussi, M. Cipriano , N. Scianca, L. Lanari, G. Oriolo, "Humanoid motion generation in complex 3D environments," Robotics, 2025, vol. 14, no. 82, 2025 (pdf). DOI:10.3390/robotics14060082
  

• S. Akbari , N. Akbari , G. Oriolo , S. Galeani, "Visual urban navigation for mobile robots: Implementation in the Duckietown environment," IEEE/IFAC 9th International Conference on Control Automation and Diagnosis (ICCAD'25), July 1-3, 2025, Barcelona, Spain, 2025 (pdf). DOI: 10.1109/ICCAD64771.2025.11099311
  

• M. Cipriano, G. Oriolo, A. Cherubini, "Singularity-free trajectory tracking for steerable wheeled mobile robots," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 6199-6206, 2025 (pdf) (link). DOI:10.1109/LRA.2025.3564209

• T. Belvedere , M. Cognetti, G. Oriolo, P. Robuffo Giordano, "Sensitivity-aware Model Predictive Control for robots with parametric uncertainty," IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 41, pp. 3039-3058, 2025 (pdf) (link). DOI:10.1109/TRO.2025.3554415

• N. Scianca, F. M. Smaldone, L. Lanari, G. Oriolo, "A feasibility-driven MPC scheme for robust gait generation in humanoids," Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 189, 104957, 2025 (pdf) (link). DOI:10.1016/j.robot.2025.104957

• G. Gasbarrone, N. Scianca, L. Lanari, G. Oriolo, "A decentralized cooperative transportation scheme for humanoid robots," 2024 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2024), France, Nancy, pp. 381-387, 2024 (pdf) (link). DOI:10.1109/Humanoids58906.2024.10769869


• F. D’Orazio, T. Belvedere, S. Tarantos, G. Oriolo, "Maintaining balance of mobile manipulators for safe pick-up tasks," 18th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV 2024), Dubai, UAE, pp. 1207-1212, 2024 (pdf) (link). DOI: 10.1109/ICARCV63323.2024.10821705
  

• T. Belvedere, N. Scianca, L. Lanari, G. Oriolo, "Joint-level IS-MPC: a whole-body MPC with centroidal feasibility for humanoid locomotion", 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024), Abu Dhabi, UAE, pp. 11240-11247, 2024 (pdf) (link). DOI:10.1109/IROS58592.2024.10801628


• P. Carboni, G. Nardini, E. Santini, G. Gravina, M. Cipriano, F. D'Orazio, T. Belvedere, G. Oriolo, "A vision-based control scheme for safe navigation in a crowd," 17th International Workshop on Human-Friendly Robotics (HFR 2024), Lugano, Switzerland, pp. 73-83, 2024 (pdf) (link). DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-81688-8_6


• S. G. Tarantos, T. Belvedere, G. Oriolo, "Dynamics-aware navigation among moving obstacles with application to ground and flying robots," Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 172, 104582, 2024 (pdf) (link). DOI:10.1016/j.robot.2023.104582

• M. Cipriano, M. R. O. A. Maximo, N. Scianca, L. Lanari, G. Oriolo, "Feasibility-aware plan adaptation in humanoid gait generation," 2023 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Austin, USA, pp. 1-8, 2023 (pdf) (link). DOI:10.1109/Humanoids57100.2023.10375146

• M. Cipriano, P. Ferrari, N. Scianca, L. Lanari, G. Oriolo, "Humanoid motion generation in a world of stairs," Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 168, 104495, 2023 (pdf) (link). DOI:10.1016/j.robot.2023.104495

• M. Selvaggio, A. Garg, F. Ruggiero, G. Oriolo, B. Siciliano, "Non-prehensile object transportation via model predictive non-sliding manipulation control," IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 31, no. 5, pp. 2231-2244, 2023 (pdf) (link). DOI:10.1109/TCST.2023.3277224

• P. Ferrari, L. Rossini, F. Ruscelli, A. Laurenzi, G. Oriolo, N. G. Tsagarakis, E. Mingo Hoffman, "Multi-contact planning and control for humanoid robots: Design and validation of a complete framework," Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 166, 104448, 2023 (pdf) (link). DOI:10.1016/j.robot.2023.104448

• Sistemi di Controllo (9 crediti, Laurea in Ingegneria Informatica e Automatica)
  
• Autonomous and Mobile Robotics (6 credits, Master in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Master in Control Engineering)
• Applicazioni dell'Automatica: Introduction to Mobile Robotics (1 credito, Laurea in Ingegneria Informatica e Automatica)
• Argomenti di tesi/Thesis topics
• Information about the Master in Control Engineering
• Information about the Master in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

Old courses

• Applicazioni dell'Automatica: Introduction to Mobile Robotics (up to 2024, 1 credito, Laurea in Ingegneria Informatica e Automatica)
• Underactuated Robots (up to 2022, 3 credits, Master in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Master in Control Engineering)
• Fondamenti di Automatica (up to 2018, 9 credits, Laurea in Ingegneria Elettronica; 6 credits, Laurea in Ingegneria delle Comunicazioni)
• Elective in Robotics (up to 2011, Master in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics; also Laurea Magistrale in Ingegneria dei Sistemi, Laurea Magistrale in Ingegneria Elettronica)
• 2010 SIDRA Doctoral School on Robotics
• Controlli Automatici (Ingegneria Elettronica, vecchio ordinamento)
• Controlli Automatici I modulo (Laurea in Ingegneria Elettronica, ordinamento 509)
• Controlli Automatici II modulo (Laurea/Laurea Specialistica in Ingegneria Elettronica, ordinamento 509)
• Multi-Robot Systems (3 credits, Master in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Master in Control Engineering)
• Control of Autonomous Multi-Agent Systems (6 credits, Master in Control Engineering)
• Sistemi Adattativi (Laurea Specialistica in Ingegneria dei Sistemi e Laurea Specialistica in Ingegneria Elettronica, ordinamento 509)
• Control of Nonholonomic Systems (Corso di Dottorato in Ingegneria dei Sistemi)
• Complementi di Controlli Automatici (Università di Roma Tre)