Riccardo Rosati
Papers
12
Total Citations
209
H-Index
9
About
Riccardo Rosati is a leading figure in cognitive robotics and knowledge representation and reasoning (KR&R), with a career spanning foundational work on autonomous agents and multi-robot systems. His research centers on enabling robots to reason about actions under uncertainty, particularly through the integration of sensing, concurrency, and exogenous events. Rosati’s major contributions include the development of the action language *E*, which provides a formal semantics grounded in autoepistemic description logic for handling both qualitative and probabilistic uncertainty in robotic planning. His seminal 1997 paper on planning with sensing for a mobile robot (35 citations) and his 2009 work on reasoning under uncertainty (32 citations) are cornerstone references in the field. Beyond theory, Rosati has advanced practical robotics, notably through his work on emergent cooperative behaviors in robot teams (25 citations) and the design of cognitive soccer robots, which demonstrate how distributed coordination can achieve complex tasks. His research on minimal belief and negation as failure in multi-agent systems further underscores his impact on logical foundations for autonomous agents. With over 200 total citations across his most influential papers, Rosati’s work continues to inspire researchers tackling the challenges of intelligent, sensing-aware robotic systems.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1Planning with sensing for a mobile robot35 citations · 1997
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- 4Moving a robot: the KR&R approach at work26 citations · 1996
- 5Emergent behaviors of a robot team performing cooperative tasks25 citations · 2003
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- 7Collaborative Emergent Actions between Real Soccer Robots16 citations · 2001
- 8Design and Implementation of Cognitive Soccer Robots11 citations · 2002
- 9Coordination in Multi-Agent Autonomous Cognitive Robotic Systems9 citations · 2000
- 10Minimal Belief and Negation as Failure in Multi-Agent Systems5 citations · 2003