Curriculum
B.S. 2003, Electrical & Computer Engineering, California Institute of Technology.
B.A. 2003, Physics, Occidental College.
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Topics of Interest
Applying swarm intelligence to sensor and actuator networks, especially using threshold-based algorithms and other swarm-intelligent methods for distributed control. Of primary interest is the measuring/monitoring of spatially and temporally localized phenomena.
Past and ongoing areas of investigation include:
- Multi-level modeling of wireless sensor & actuator networks.
- Distributed monitoring of spatio-temporally unpredictable ephemeral events (i.e., acoustics).
- Mobility in sensor & actuator networks; robotic sensor networks.
- Resource allocation and power management in wireless sensor networks.
- Threshold-based & market-based algorithms.
- Automatic/adaptive deployment & re-configuration of robotic sensor networks.
- Environmental monitoring and modeling using wireless sensor networks.
Current projects
Swarm-Intelligent Algorithms for Power and Information Management in Sensor Networks
The e-Puck educational robot
SwisTrack – Multi-Object Tracking Software for Robotics and Biology
Realistic Multi-Robot Simulation (Webots)
Teaching Activities
Swarm Intelligence, Sections IC & STI (2004-2007)
SWIS-IP5: Simulation of Acoustic Propagation & Radio Communication in Webots
Informatique I & II, Sections GM & EL (2006)
SWIS-SP6: Low Power Sensor Network for Collective Vision
SWIS-SP7: Low Power Sensor Network for Collective Hearing
SWIS-SP9: Ant-based Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
SWIS-SP17: Simulated Realistic Communication Devices in Webots
TAYLOR-SWIS-MP2: A Framework for Bird Song Detection, Recognition, and Localization using Acoustic Sensor Networks
SWIS-SU7: Power Aware Control of an Environmental Sensor Network
Publications
2013
Self-Organized Robotic Systems: Large-Scale Experiments in Aggregation and Self-Assembly using Miniature Robots
G. Mermoud; A. Prorok; L. Matthey; C. M. Cianci; N. Correll et al.
Handbook of Collective Robotics; Singapore: Pan Stanford Publishing, 2013. p. 229-259. 2010
Towards Optimally Efficient Field Estimation with Threshold-Based Pruning in Real Robotic Sensor Networks
A. Prorok; C. M. Cianci; A. Martinoli
2010. 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 3-8. p. 5453-5459. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509782. 2009
The e-puck, a Robot Designed for Education in Engineering
F. Mondada; M. Bonani; X. Raemy; J. Pugh; C. Cianci et al.
2009. 9th Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, Castelo Branco, Portugal, May 7, 2009. p. 59-65. Distributed intelligent algorithms for robotic sensor networks monitoring discontinuous anisotropic environmental fields
C. M. Cianci / A. Martinoli (Dir.)
Lausanne, EPFL, 2009. 2008
Assembly of Configurations in a Networked Robotic System: A Case Study on a Reconfigurable Interactive Table Lamp
C. M. Cianci; J. Nembrini; A. Prorok; A. Martinoli
2008. IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, September 21-23, 2008. p. 1–7. DOI : 10.1109/SIS.2008.4668318. Exploration of an Incremental Suite of Microscopic Models for Acoustic Event Monitoring Using a Robotic Sensor Network
C. M. Cianci; J. Pugh; A. Martinoli
2008. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Pasadena, CA, US, May 19-23, 2008. p. 3290-3295. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2008.4543712. Dynamic Control of a Robotic Swarm using a Service-Oriented Architecture
V. M. Trifa; C. M. Cianci; D. Guinard
2008. 13th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB 2008), Beppu, Japan, January 31 – February 2, 2008. 2007
Toward Multi-Level Modeling of Robotic Sensor Networks: A Case Study in Acoustic Event Monitoring
C. M. Cianci; T. Lochmatter; J. Pugh; A. Martinoli
2007. International Conference on Robot Communication and Coordination (ROBOCOMM), Athens, Greece, October 15-17, 2007. p. 1-8. DOI : 10.4108/ICST.ROBOCOMM2007.2275. Communication in a Swarm of Miniature Robots: The e-Puck as an Educational Tool for Swarm Robotics
C. M. Cianci; X. Raemy; J. Pugh; A. Martinoli
2007. Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB-2006), Swarm Robotics Workshop, Rome, Italy, October, 2006. p. 103-115. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-540-71541-2_7. 2006
Self-Organized Embedded Sensor/Actuator Networks for ”Smart” Turbines
N. Correll; C. M. Cianci; X. Raemy; A. Martinoli
2006. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems Workshop on Network Robot System: Toward intelligent robotic systems integrated with environments, Beijing, China, October, 10. 2005
Threshold-based algorithms for power-aware load balancing in sensor networks
C. M. Cianci; V. Trifa; A. Martinoli
2005. IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium (SIS2005), Pasadena, California, United States, June 8-10, 2005. p. 349-356. DOI : 10.1109/SIS.2005.1501642. 2003
Fusion of Lidar and Stereo Range for Mobile Robots
K. Nickels; A. Castano; C. M. Cianci
2003. International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), Coimbra, Portugal, June 30 – July 3, 2003. p. 65-70.