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# AIRO 2021
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics 2021

### Proceedings of the 8th Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
co-located with the the 20th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2021)

### Anywhere, 30 November 2021.

Edited by

### Salvatore Anzalone *
Luca Buoncompagni **
Alberto Castellini ***
Alberto Finzi ****

* Université Paris 8, Laboratoire CHArt, 2, Rue de la Liberté - 93526 Saint Denis, France
** Università di Genova, Dipartimento di Informatica, Bioingegneria, Robotica e Ingegneria dei Sistemi, viale F. Causa 15, 16145 Genova, Italy
*** Università di Verona, Dipartimento di Informatica, Ca Vignal 2, Strada le Grazie 15, 37134 Verona, Italy
**** Università di Napoli "Federico II", Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e Tecnologie dell'Informazione, via Claudio 21, 80125 Napoli, Italy

## Table of Contents

- Preface
  Summary: There were 11 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 10 papers were accepted for this volume, 0 as regular papers and 10 as short papers.

### Session 1: Collaborative and Social Robotics (short papers)

- Towards an Ontological Core for Cognitively Justified Robots 1-7
  Stefano Borgo, Roberta Ferrario, Claudio Masolo, Daniele Porello
- The Role of Intelligent Telepresence Robots for Continuously Caring Elderly People at Home 8-14
  Gloria Beraldo, Riccardo De Benedictis, Rami Reddy Devaram, Amedeo Cesta, Gabriella Cortellessa
- Trust Metrics for Task Assignment in Cooperative Teams of Robots 15-20
  Alberto Grillo, Carmine Recchiuto, Stefano Carpin, Antonio Sgorbissa
- Cloud Services for Social Robots and Artificial Agents 21-26
  Lucrezia Grassi, Carmine Recchiuto, Antonio Sgorbissa
- A GAN-based Approach for Generating Culture-Aware Co-Speech Gestures 27-33
  Ariel Gjaci, Carmine Recchiuto, Antonio Sgorbissa

### Session 2: Robot Planning and Learning (short papers)

- Multi-robot Sanitization of Railway Stations Based on Deep Q-Learning 34-39
  Riccardo Caccavale, Vincenzo Calà, Mirko Ermini, Alberto Finzi, Vincenzo Lippiello, Fabrizio Tavano
- A First Approach to AGI-based Robot Task Planning 40-49
  Michele Thiella, Elisa Tosello, Enrico Pagello
- Learning Environment Properties in Partially Observable Monte Carlo Planning 50-57
  Maddalena Zuccotto, Alberto Castellini, Marco Piccinelli, Enrico Marchesini, Alessandro Farinelli

### Session 3: Mobile Robotics (short papers)

- Predicting Performance of SLAM Algorithms 58-63
  Matteo Luperto, Valerio Castelli, Fabio Bonsignorio, Francesco Amigoni
- People-Aware Navigation: AI-driven Approaches to Enhance the Robot’s Navigation Capabilities 64-70
  Gloria Beraldo, Alberto Bacchin, Emanuele Menegatti

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