Mattia Piccinini

Job Title: PhD Student

Bio: Mattia Piccinini received a B.Sc. in industrial engineering and an M.Sc. in mechatronics engineering, both cum laude and both from the University of Trento, Italy, respectively in 2017 and 2019. He is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Trento, Italy. From March to June 2022, he was a visiting Ph.D. student at the Universität der Bundeswehr, Munich, Germany. His research focuses on motion planning, control and state estimation methods for racing autonomous vehicles.

Publications available here [6]

Journal Articles

A Physics-Driven Artificial Agent for Online Time-Optimal Vehicle Motion Planning and Control

Mattia Piccinini , Sebastiano Taddei , Matteo Larcher , Mattia Piazza , Francesco Biral

IEEE Access, 2023

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Fast Planning and Tracking of Complex Autonomous Parking Maneuvers With Optimal Control and Pseudo-Neural Networks

Edoardo Pagot , Mattia Piccinini , Enrico Bertolazzi , Francesco Biral

IEEE Access, 2023

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Robust and Sample-Efficient Estimation of Vehicle Lateral Velocity Using Neural Networks With Explainable Structure Informed by Kinematic Principles

Mauro Da Lio , Mattia Piccinini , Francesco Biral

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2023

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A Predictive Neural Hierarchical Framework for On-line Time-Optimal Motion Planning and Control of Black-Box Vehicle Models

Mattia Piccinini , Matteo Larcher , Edoardo Pagot , Davide Piscini , Leone Pasquato , Francesco Biral

Vehicle System Dynamics, 2022

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Conference Papers

Real-time Optimal Control of an Autonomous RC Car with Minimum-Time Maneuvers and a Novel Kineto-Dynamical Model

Edoardo Pagot , Mattia Piccinini , Francesco Biral

2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020

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Workshop Papers

Real-time Autonomous Parking in Unstructured Scenarios with an Indirect Optimal Control Approach

Edoardo Pagot , Mattia Piccinini , Alice Plebe , Enrico Bertolazzi , Francesco Biral

Behavior-Driven Autonomous Driving in Unstructured Environments (BADUE), IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022

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