Mario Malizia

Researcher

Robotics & Autonomous Systems,
Royal Military Academy

Address

Avenue De La Renaissance 30, 1000 Brussels, Belgium

Contact Information

Email: Mario.Malizia@mil.be

Mario is a robotic researcher at the Robotics & Autonomous Systems unit of the Department of Mechanics of the Belgian Royal Military Academy. His research focuses on developing solutions for assisted teleoperation in semi-autonomous demining contexts.

He earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Politecnico di Milano in 2020 and 2023, respectively, with a thesis focused on developing a simulator-in-the-loop for autonomous navigation stack validation.

He then worked as a researcher at mOve Research Team focusing on autonomous driving applications in on-road and off-road contexts.

He was involved in the development of an autonomous vehicle that took part in the 1000Miglia 2023 race in Italy.

In 2024, Mario joined the Belgian Royal Military Academy to contribute to the BELGIAN project responsible for developing a new concept of semi-autonomous assisted teleoperation for the Belgian Army EOD Group.

2024

• A. M. Casado Fauli, M. Malizia, K. Hasselmann, E. Le Flécher, G. De Cubber, and B. Lauwens, “HADRON: Human-friendly Control and Artificial Intelligence for Military Drone Operations," in In Proceedings 33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, IEEE RO-MAN 2024, 2024.
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  @inproceedings{fauli2024hadronhumanfriendlycontrolartificial,
  title={HADRON: Human-friendly Control and Artificial Intelligence for Military Drone Operations},
  author={Casado Fauli, Ana Maria and Malizia, Mario and Hasselmann, Ken and Le Flécher, Emile and De Cubber, Geert and Lauwens, Ben},
  year={2024},
  booktitle={In Proceedings 33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, IEEE RO-MAN 2024},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  location = {Pasadena, USA},
  unit= {meca-ras},
  project= {HADRON},
  eprint={2408.07063},
  archivePrefix={arXiv},
  primaryClass={cs.RO},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.07063},
  }

• M. Malizia, A. M. Casado Fauli, K. Hasselmann, E. Le Flécher, G. De Cubber, and R. Haelterman, “Assisted Explosive Ordnance Disposal: Teleoperated Robotic Systems with AI, Virtual Reality, and Semi-Autonomous Manipulation for Safer Demining Operations," in 20th International Symposium Mine Action, 2024, pp. 52-55.
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  @inproceedings{maliziamineact2024,
  title={Assisted Explosive Ordnance Disposal: Teleoperated Robotic Systems with AI, Virtual Reality, and Semi-Autonomous Manipulation for Safer Demining Operations},
  author={Malizia, Mario and Casado Fauli, Ana Maria and Hasselmann, Ken and Le Flécher, Emile and De Cubber, Geert and Haelterman, Rob},
  booktitle={20th International Symposium Mine Action},
  publisher = {CTRO-HR},
  year = {2024},
  location = {Cavtat, Croatia},
  unit= {meca-ras},
  url={https://www.ctro.hr/userfiles/files/MINE%20ACTION_2024_ONLIINE.pdf},
  pages={52-55},
  project= {BELGIAN}
  }

• K. Hasselmann, M. Malizia, R. Caballero, F. Polisano, S. Govindaraj, J. Stigler, O. Ilchenko, M. Bajic, and G. De Cubber, “A multi-robot system for the detection of explosive devices," in “IEEE ICRA Workshop on Field Robotics", 2024.
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  @inproceedings{Hasselmannetal2024ICRAWSFRO,
  doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2404.14167},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14167},
  booktitle = {"IEEE ICRA Workshop on Field Robotics"},
  author = {Hasselmann, Ken and Malizia, Mario and Caballero, Rafael and Polisano, Fabio and Govindaraj, Shashank and Stigler, Jakob and Ilchenko, Oleksii and Bajic, Milan and De Cubber, Geert},
  title = {A multi-robot system for the detection of explosive devices},
  year = {2024},
  unit= {meca-ras},
  project= {AIDED, AIDEDEX}
  }