Iñaki Navarro

Biography and current work

Iñaki Navarro received the M.S. degree in telecommunication engineering in 2004, and the Ph.D. degree in robotics and automation in 2010, both from Univesidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Madrid, Spain. During 2012 he was postdoctoral researcher a ETSI Telecomunicación, UPM. He is currently postdoctoral fellow at the Distributed Intelligent Systems and Algorithms Laboratory, EPFL. His research interests include formation control of mobile robots, swarm robotics, distributed consensus of agents and mobile robotics, and machine learning.

Publications

2017

Simulation of Cooperative Automated Driving by Bidirectional Coupling of Vehicle and Network Simulators

I. Llatser; G. S. Jornod; A. Festag; D. Mansolino; I. Navarro Oiza et al. 

2017. 2017 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Redondo Beach, California, USA, June 11-14, 2017. p. 1881-1886. DOI : 10.1109/IVS.2017.7995979.

Challenges for Automated Cooperative Driving: The AutoNet2030 Approach

M. Obst; A. Marjovi; M. Vasic; I. Navarro Oiza; A. Martinoli et al. 

Automated Driving; Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, 2017. p. 561-570.

2016

Motion Planning for Urban Autonomous Driving using Bezier Curves and MPC

X. Qian; I. Navarro; A. De La Fortelle; F. Moutarde 

2016. 19th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL, NOV 01-04, 2016. p. 826-833. DOI : 10.1109/ITSC.2016.7795651.

Distributed Graph-Based Control of Convoys of Heterogeneous Vehicles using Curvilinear Road Coordinates

I. Navarro; F. Zimmermann; M. Vasic; A. Martinoli 

2016. 2016 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 1-4, 2016. p. 879-886. DOI : 10.1109/ITSC.2016.7795659.

An Overtaking Decision Algorithm for Networked Intelligent Vehicles Based on Cooperative Perception

M. Vasic; G. Lederrey; I. Navarro; A. Martinoli 

2016. IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Gothenburg, Sweden, June 19-22, 2016. p. 1054-1059. DOI : 10.1109/IVS.2016.7535519.

Noise-Resistant Particle Swarm Optimization for the Learning of Robust Obstacle Avoidance Controllers using a Depth Camera

I. Navarro; E. Di Mario; A. Martinoli 

2016. 2016 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 24-29, 2016. p. 685-692. DOI : 10.1109/CEC.2016.7743859.

Distributed Learning of Cooperative Robotic Behaviors using Particle Swarm Optimization

E. L. Di Mario; I. Navarro; A. Martinoli 

2016. International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, Marrakech, Morocco, June 15-18, 2014. p. 591–604. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-319-23778-7_39.

2015

On-Board Human-Aware Navigation for Indoor Resource-Constrained Robots: A Case-Study with the Ranger

Z. Talebpour; I. Navarro Oiza; A. Martinoli 

2015. 2015 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, Nagoya, Japan, December 11-13, 2015. p. 63-68. DOI : 10.1109/SII.2015.7404955.

The Khepera IV Mobile Robot: Performance Evaluation, Sensory Data and Software Toolbox

J. M. Soares; I. Navarro Oiza; A. Martinoli 

2015. ROBOT2015: Second Iberian Robotics Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, November 19-21, 2015. p. 767-781. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-319-27146-0_59.

Distributed Particle Swarm Optimization – Particle Allocation and Neighborhood Topologies for the Learning of Cooperative Robotic Behaviors

I. Navarro; E. L. Di Mario; A. Martinoli 

2015. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Hamburg, Germany, September 28 – October 02, 2015. p. 2958-2965. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2015.7353785.

Distributed vs. Centralized Particle Swarm Optimization for Learning Flocking Behaviors

I. Navarro; E. Di Mario; A. Martinoli 

2015. 13th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2015), York, United Kingdom, 20-24 July 2015. p. 302-309. DOI : 10.7551/978-0-262-33027-5-ch056.

A Distributed Noise-Resistant Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for High-Dimensional Multi-Robot Learning

E. L. Di Mario; I. Navarro; A. Martinoli 

2015. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Seattle, Washington, USA, May 26-30, 2015. p. 5970-5976. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2015.7140036.

SwarmViz: An Open-Source Visualization Tool for Particle Swarm Optimization

G. Jornod; E. L. Di Mario; I. Navarro; A. Martinoli 

2015. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Sendai, Japan, May 25-28, 2015. p. 179-186. DOI : 10.1109/CEC.2015.7256890.

Distributed Particle Swarm Optimization using Optimal Computing Budget Allocation for Multi-Robot Learning

E. L. Di Mario; I. Navarro; A. Martinoli 

2015. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Sendai, Japan, May 25-28 2015. p. 566-572. DOI : 10.1109/CEC.2015.7256940.

2014

Variable Threshold Algorithm for Division of Labor Analyzed as a Dynamical System

M. Castillo-Cagigal; E. Matallanas; I. Navarro; E. Caamano-Martin; F. Monasterio-Huelin et al. 

Ieee Transactions On Cybernetics. 2014. Vol. 44, num. 12, p. 2242-2252. DOI : 10.1109/Tcyb.2014.2305194.

Electrical energy balance contest in Solar Decathlon Europe 2012

E. Matallanas; J. Solorzano; M. Castillo-Cagigal; I. Navarro; E. Caamano-Martin et al. 

Energy And Buildings. 2014. Vol. 83, p. 36-43. DOI : 10.1016/j.enbuild.2014.03.076.

Passive design strategies and performance of Net Energy Plus Houses

E. Rodriguez-Ubinas; C. Montero; M. Porteros; S. Vega; I. Navarro et al. 

Energy And Buildings. 2014. Vol. 83, p. 10-22. DOI : 10.1016/j.enbuild.2014.03.074.

Experiences and methodology in a multidisciplinary energy and architecture competition: Solar Decathlon Europe 2012

I. Navarro; A. Gutierrez; C. Montero; E. Rodriguez-Ubinas; E. Matallanas et al. 

Energy And Buildings. 2014. Vol. 83, p. 3-9. DOI : 10.1016/j.enbuild.2014.03.073.

Analysis of Fitness Noise in Particle Swarm Optimization: From Robotic Learning to Benchmark Functions

E. L. Di Mario; I. Navarro; A. Martinoli 

2014. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Beijing, China, July 6-11, 2014. p. 2785-2792. DOI : 10.1109/CEC.2014.6900514.

The Role of Environmental and Controller Complexity in the Distributed Optimization of Multi-Robot Obstacle Avoidance

E. Di Mario; I. Navarro; A. Martinoli 

2014. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Hong Kong, China, May 31 – June 7, 2014. p. 571-577. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6906912.

2013

The Effect of the Environment in the Synthesis of Robotic Controllers: A Case Study in Multi-Robot Obstacle Avoidance using Distributed Particle Swarm Optimization

E. Di Mario; I. Navarro; A. Martinoli 

2013. 12th European Conference on Artificial Life, Taormina, Italy, September 2-6, 2013. p. 561-568. DOI : 10.7551/978-0-262-31709-2-ch081.

A Plume Tracking Algorithm Based on Crosswind Formations

T. Lochmatter; E. A. Goel; I. Navarro; A. Martinoli 

2013. Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, Lausanne, Switzerland, November 2010. p. 91-102. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-32723-0_7.

2010

A Plume Tracking Algorithm based on Crosswind Formations

T. Lochmatter; E. Aydin; I. Navarro Oiza; A. Martinoli 

2010. Int. Symp. on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, Lausanne, Switzerland, November, 2010.

2008

A Distributed Scalable Approach to Formation Control in Multi-Robot Systems

I. Navarro; J. Pugh; A. Martinoli; F. Matia 

2008. International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, November 17-19, 2008.