{"id":5314,"date":"2025-10-07T10:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T09:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mecatron.rma.ac.be\/?page_id=5314"},"modified":"2025-10-07T11:22:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T10:22:50","slug":"arlotta-andrea","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mecatron.rma.ac.be\/index.php\/people\/arlotta-andrea\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrea Arlotta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><section class=\"kc-elm kc-css-645566 kc_row\"><div class=\"kc-row-container  kc-container\"><div class=\"kc-wrap-columns\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-787305 kc_col-sm-12 kc_column kc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-611331\" style=\"height: 20px; clear: both; width:100%;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"kc-elm kc-css-471459 kc_row\"><div class=\"kc-row-container  kc-container\"><div class=\"kc-wrap-columns\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-644452 kc_col-sm-4 kc_column kc_col-sm-4\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-88614 kc_shortcode kc_single_image\">\n\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mecatron.rma.ac.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/thumbnail_arlotta.jpg\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" \/>    <\/div>\n<div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-236588 kc_text_block\"><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: inherit; font-size: 1.25em; font-style: inherit;\">Robotics Researcher<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Robotics &#038; Autonomous Systems,<br \/>Royal Military Academy<\/p>\n<h4>Address<\/h4>\n<p>Avenue De La Renaissance 30, 1000 Brussels, Belgium<\/p>\n<h4>Contact Information<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Call<\/strong>: &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Email<\/strong>: <a href=\"mailto:Andrea.Arlotta@mil.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andrea.Arlotta@mil.be<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-329926 kc_col-sm-7 kc_column kc_col-sm-7\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-807008 kc_text_block\"><\/p>\n<div data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Andrea Arlotta is a robotics researcher at the Robotics &#038; Autonomous Systems unit of the Department of Mechanics of the Belgian Royal Military Academy, where he focuses on \u00a0perception, informative path planning, and multi-robot systems for real-world field robotics.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>He earned a National Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence (Agrifood &#038; Environment) from the University of Naples Federico II (https:\/\/www.phd-ai.it\/ ), with a dissertation on \u201cSmart Vehicles for Active Monitoring in Precision Agriculture Settings.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Andrea holds an M.Sc. in Robotics Engineering from the University of Genoa, where his thesis delivered an autonomous robot for weeding in rice cultivation; earlier, he completed a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering with a thesis on presence andcybersickness in VR.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Beyond academia, Andrea bridges research and industry: he developed HMI interfaces at ALTEN\/IMA T&#038;T, worked as a robotics engineer at Vitibot and Arvatec on precision-agriculture robots, and built avionics-grade microcontroller software at Brancaro Industries.<\/div>\n<p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-6062 kc_col-sm-1 kc_column kc_col-sm-1\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-115483 kc-raw-code\"><script src=\"https:\/\/kit.fontawesome.com\/5feed4ac07.js\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.rawgit.com\/jpswalsh\/academicons\/master\/css\/academicons.min.css\">\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 36px; color: Dodgerblue;\">\r\n<center>\r\n<a href=\"mailto:Andrea.Arlotta@mil.be\"> <i class=\"fas fa-envelope fas-3x\"><\/i><\/a><br>\r\n\r\n<\/center>\r\n<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 36px; color: Dodgerblue;\">\r\n<center>\r\n\r\n<\/center>\r\n<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"kc-elm kc-css-255438 kc_row\"><div class=\"kc-row-container  kc-container\"><div class=\"kc-wrap-columns\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-188466 kc_col-sm-12 kc_column kc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-619566\" style=\"height: 20px; clear: both; width:100%;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"kc-elm kc-css-715922 kc_row\"><div class=\"kc-row-container  kc-container\"><div class=\"kc-wrap-columns\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-259267 kc_col-sm-12 kc_column kc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\">\n<div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-7191 kc-title-wrap \">\n\n\t<h2 class=\"kc_title\">Publications<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-807346 kc_text_block\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"papercite\">2023<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"papercite_bibliography\">\n<li>    A. Arlotta, M. Lippi, and A. Gasparri, &#8220;A ROS-based Architecture for Object Detection and Relative Localization for a Mobile Robot with an Application to a Precision Farming Scenario,\" in <span style=\"font-style: italic\">2023 31st Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED)<\/span>,  2023, pp. 131-136.    <br \/>   <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" id=\"papercite_0\" class=\"papercite_toggle\">[BibTeX]<\/a>            <a href='http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1109\/MED59994.2023.10185904' class='papercite_doi' title='View on publisher site'>[DOI]<\/a>\n<div class=\"papercite_bibtex\" id=\"papercite_0_block\">\n<pre><code class=\"tex bibtex\">@INPROCEEDINGS{10185904,\nauthor={Arlotta, Andrea and Lippi, Martina and Gasparri, Andrea},\nbooktitle={2023 31st Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED)},\ntitle={A ROS-based Architecture for Object Detection and Relative Localization for a Mobile Robot with an Application to a Precision Farming Scenario},\nyear={2023},\nvolume={},\nnumber={},\npages={131-136},\nkeywords={Location awareness;Robot motion;Target tracking;Robot vision systems;Computer architecture;Object detection;Cameras},\ndoi={10.1109\/MED59994.2023.10185904}\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>    A. Arlotta, M. Lippi, and A. Gasparri, &#8220;An EKF-Based Multi-Object Tracking Framework for a Mobile Robot in a Precision Agriculture Scenario,\" in <span style=\"font-style: italic\">2023 European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR)<\/span>,  2023, pp. 1-6.    <br \/>   <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" id=\"papercite_1\" class=\"papercite_toggle\">[BibTeX]<\/a>            <a href='http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1109\/ECMR59166.2023.10256338' class='papercite_doi' title='View on publisher site'>[DOI]<\/a>\n<div class=\"papercite_bibtex\" id=\"papercite_1_block\">\n<pre><code class=\"tex bibtex\">@INPROCEEDINGS{10256338,\nauthor={Arlotta, Andrea and Lippi, Martina and Gasparri, Andrea},\nbooktitle={2023 European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR)},\ntitle={An EKF-Based Multi-Object Tracking Framework for a Mobile Robot in a Precision Agriculture Scenario},\nyear={2023},\nvolume={},\nnumber={},\npages={1-6},\nkeywords={Robot motion;Tracking;Robot vision systems;Pipelines;Cameras;Agriculture;Mobile robots},\ndoi={10.1109\/ECMR59166.2023.10256338}\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"kc-elm kc-css-943023 kc_row\"><div class=\"kc-row-container  kc-container\"><div class=\"kc-wrap-columns\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-662349 kc_col-sm-12 kc_column kc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-25809\" style=\"height: 20px; clear: both; width:100%;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":250,"parent":3120,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5314","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mecatron.rma.ac.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mecatron.rma.ac.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mecatron.rma.ac.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mecatron.rma.ac.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mecatron.rma.ac.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5314"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mecatron.rma.ac.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5327,"href":"https:\/\/mecatron.rma.ac.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5314\/revisions\/5327"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mecatron.rma.ac.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mecatron.rma.ac.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mecatron.rma.ac.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}