Antonio Franchi is a Permanent CNRS Researcher (CR1) at LAAS-CNRS in Toulouse, France. From 2010 to 2013 he was Research Scientist and then Senior Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Germany, and the scientific leader of the group “Autonomous Robotics and Human Machine Systems”. He received the Laurea degree (summa cum laude) in Electronic Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Control and System Theory from the Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, in 2005 and 2010, respectively. He was a visiting student with the University of California at Santa Barbara in 2009. His main research interests include autonomous systems and robotics, with a special regard to control, planning, estimation, human-machine systems, haptics, and hardware/software architectures.
He published more than 70 papers in international journals and conferences and in 2010 he was awarded with the “IEEE RAS ICYA Best Paper Award” for his research on Multi-robot Exploration. He is currently Associate Editor of the IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. He is a funding co-chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Multi-Robot Systems. He co-organized several technical workshops at the ICRA, IROS, and RSS confefences.