My Publications

Journals

C. Zito and E. Ferrante. One-shot learning for autonomous aerial manipulation. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 05 Octobre 2022. DOI:10.3389/frobt.2022.960571

S. Veselic, C. Zito and D. Farina. Human-Robot Interaction With Robust Prediction of Movement Intention Surpasses Manual Control.  Frontiers in  Neurorobotics, 30 September 2021. DOI:10.3389/fnbot.2021.695022. [link]

R. Howard and C. Zito. Learning Transferable Push Manipulation Skills in Novel Contexts.  Frontiers in  Neurorobotics, 07 June 2021. DOI:10.3389/fnbot.2021.671775. [link]

J. Stüber, C. Zito and R. Stolkin. Let’s Push Things Forward: A Survey on Robot Pushing. Frontiers in Robotics and AI 7:8.Jan 2020. DOI:10.3389/frobt.2020.00008. [link][full paper pdf]

C. Zito, V. Ortenzi, M. Adjigble, M. S. Kopicki, R. Stolkin and J. L. Wyatt.  Hypothesis-based Belief Planning for Dexterous Grasping. CORR arXiv:1903.05517 [cs.RO] (cs.AI). March 2019. [pdf]

C. J. Rosales, F. Spinelli, M. Gabiccini, C. Zito and J. L. Wyatt. GPAtlasRRT: A Local Tactile Exploration Planner for Recovering the Shape of Novel Objects. International Journal of Humanoid Robotics (IJHR), Special Issue “Tactile perception for manipulation: new progress and challenges”. Volume 15, Issue 01, 27 pp. February 2018. DOI: 10.1142/S0219843618500147 [link] [abstract] (College Best Paper Award)

Conferences

Y. Nakajima,  H. Mori,  C. Zito, A. Barsky and T. Ogata. Using a Recurrent Neural Network Model for a Double-Arm Robot Learning Drumming Tasks. In Proc. of the 37th Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ), 2019. [pdf] [bib]
Original title: 双腕ロボットに向けた再帰型神経回路モデルを用いたドラミングタスクの学習

C. Zito, M. Adjigble, B. D. Denoun, L. Jamone, M. Hansard and R. Stolkin. Metrics and Benchmarks for Remote Shared Controllers in Industrial Applications. In Proc. of the Workshop on Task-Informed Grasping (TIG-II): From Perception to Physical Interaction, Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2019. [pdf] [poster] [bib].

C. Zito, T. Deregowski and R. Stolkin. 2D Linear Time-Variant Controller for Human’s Intention Detection for Reach-to-Grasp Trajectories in Novel Scenes. In Proc. of the Workshop on Task-Informed Grasping (TIG-II): From Perception to Physical Interaction, Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2019. [pdf]

E. Arruda, C. Zito, M. Sridharan, M. Kopicki and J. L. Wyatt. Generative Grasp Synthesis from Demonstration using Parametric Mixtures. In Proc. of the Workshop on Task-Informed Grasping (TIG-II): From Perception to Physical Interaction, Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2019. [pdf]

K. Heiwolt, C. Zito, M. Nowak, C. Castellini and R. Stolkin. Automatic Detection of Myocontrol Failures Based upon Situational Context Information. IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR). 2019. (Finalist Best Student Award) [pdf][bib]

J. Stüber, M. Kopicki and C. Zito. Feature-Based Transfer Learning for Robotic Push Manipulation. In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). 2018. DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2018.8460989 [pdf]

C. Zito, M. S. Kopicki, R. Stolkin, C. Borst, F. Schmidt, M. A. Roa and J. L. Wyatt.  Sequential Trajectory Re-Planning with Tactile Information Gain for Dextrous Grasping under Object-Pose Uncertainty. In Proc. of  IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 2013-2040. 2013. DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2013.6696930 [pdf]

C. Zito, R. Stolkin, M. Kopicki, J. L. Wyatt. Two-level RRT Planner for Robotic Push Manipulation. In Proc. of  IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 678-685. 2012. DOI:10.1109/IROS.2012.6385828 [pdf]

C. Zito, F. Tesser, M. Nicolao, P. Cosi. Statistical Context-Dependent Units Boundary Correction for Corpus-Based Unit-Selection Text-To-Speech. in Abstract Book & CD-Rom Proceedings of AISV 2011, 7th Conference of Associazione Italiana di Scienze della Voce, “Contesto comunicativo e variabilità nella produzione e percezione della lingua”, pp. 392–403, 26-28 gennaio 2011, Università del Salento  Lecce. [link][pdf]