Carlo Pinciroli (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), “Simulation platforms and sim2real gap”

Carlo Pinciroli is an Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator of the Robotics Engineering department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), where he leads the NEST (Novel Engineering for Swarm Technologies) Lab. With additional appointments in WPI’s Artificial Intelligence Program, Computer Science, and Fire Protection Engineering, his research centers on swarm robotics.

He is the creator of ARGoS, a widely used, high-performance robot swarm simulator, and the driving force behind Buzz, a programming language designed for real-world robot swarms, recognized by MIT Technology Review and Communications of the ACM. Their work has received funding from NSF, NASA, Amazon Science, Raytheon Technologies, and other major institutions, advancing both simulation accuracy and real-world swarm applications.

This talk will take place as part of SCIoI member Mohsen Raoufi’s seminar “Introduction to Collective Robotics: Where Complexity Meets Robotics,” which provides an overview on the topic of collective robotics while exploring key areas like complexity science, network science, and engineering.

This talk will take place in person at SCIoI and will be available as a live stream.

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