Dr. Giovanni Toffetti Carughi
Dr. Giovanni Toffetti Carughi
ZHAW
School of Engineering
Forschungsschwerpunkt Distributed Systems
Steinberggasse 13
8400 Winterthur
Arbeit an der ZHAW
Arbeits- und Forschungsschwerpunkte
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Projekte
- Humanoid Robots for Cleaning and Sterilization of Medical Equipment / Stellv. Projektleiter:in / laufend
- Lightweight Multimodal Multilingual Context-Aware Machine Translation for AI Documents / Projektleiter:in / laufend
- Supervised Human-Interactive Embodied Learning and Development / Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
- TomGrowthAI / Co-Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
- NEPHELE – A Lightweight Software Stack and Synergetic Meta-Orchestration Framework for the Next Generation Compute Continuum / Teammitglied / abgeschlossen
- Digital Mobility/Logistics Hub / Teammitglied / abgeschlossen
- Enterprise Cloud Robotics Platform / Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
Publikationen
Beiträge in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift, peer-reviewed
- Filinis, N. et al. (2026) 'Edge AI-driven robotic applications in the computing continuum', IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, 9(3), pp. 132–139. doi: 10.1109/MIOT.2026.3655981.
- Militano, L. et al. (2023) 'The cloud-to-edge-to-IoT continuum as an enabler for search and rescue operations', Future Internet, 15(2), p. 55. doi: 10.3390/fi15020055.
- Toffetti Carughi, G. et al. (2017) 'Self-managing cloud-native applications : design, implementation and experience', Future Generation Computer Systems, 72, pp. 165–179. doi: 10.1016/j.future.2016.09.002.
Buchbeiträge, peer-reviewed
Toffetti Carughi, G. and Bohnert, T. M. (2019) 'Cloud robotics with ROS', in Koubaa, A. (ed.) Robot operating system (ROS). Cham: Springer, pp. 119–146. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-20190-6_5.
Schriftliche Konferenzbeiträge, peer-reviewed
- Fu, L. et al. (2025) 'ROSBag MCP server : analyzing robot data with LLMs for agentic embodied AI applications'. IEEE, pp. 70–77. doi: 10.1109/roboticcc68732.2025.00025.
- Fu, L. et al. (2025) 'IoRT ROS 2 applications : evaluating Zenoh and VPN for robotic networking in the edge-cloud continuum'. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/iscc65549.2025.11326186.
- Stoop, P., Ratnayake, T. and Toffetti, G. (2024) 'A method for multi-robot asynchronous trajectory execution in MoveIt2', in 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). IEEE, pp. 17694–17700. doi: 10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10611498.
- Toffetti, G. et al. (2023) 'ROS-based robotic applications orchestration in the compute continuum : challenges and approaches', in Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 16th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing. Association for Computing Machinery, p. 49. doi: 10.1145/3603166.3632555.
- Murphy, S. et al. (2022) 'Efficient delivery of robotics programming educational content using cloud robotics', in 2022 7th International Conference on Robotics and Automation Engineering (ICRAE 2022). IEEE, pp. 222–226. doi: 10.1109/ICRAE56463.2022.10056179.
- Toffetti, G. et al. (2022) 'Cloud native robotic applications with GPU sharing on Kubernetes', in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Kyoto, Japan, 23-27 October 2022. arXiv. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2210.03936.
- Borla, N. et al. (2021) 'Teat pose estimation via RGBD segmentation for automated milking', in Task-Informed Grasping: Agri-Food manipulation (TIG-III) Workshop at ICRA 2021, Xi'an, China, 30 May - 5 June 2021. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-22586.
- Roost, D. et al. (2020) 'Combining reinforcement learning with supervised deep learning for neural active scene understanding', in Active Vision and Perception in Human(-Robot) Collaboration Workshop at IEEE RO-MAN 2020 (AVHRC'20), online, 31 August - 4 September 2020. University of Essex. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-20419.
- Spillner, J., Ramírez López, M. and Toffetti Carughi, G. (2017) 'Cloud-native databases : an application perspective', in Mann, Z. Á. and Stolz, V. (eds) Advances in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing... Autor: Zoltán Ádám Mann Advances in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing : Workshops of ESOCC 2017, Oslo, Norway, September 27-29, 2017, Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer, pp. 102–116. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-79090-9_7.
- Toffetti Carughi, G. et al. (2017) 'Cloud robotics : SLAM and autonomous exploration on PaaS', in UCC '17 Companion Companion Proceedings of the10th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 65–70. doi: 10.1145/3147234.3148100.
Weitere Publikationen
- Salimpour, S. et al. (2025) Towards embodied agentic AI : review and classification of LLM- and VLM-driven robot autonomy and interaction. arXiv. doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.05294.
- Lötscher, T. et al. (2016) Service Prototyping Lab Report - 2016 (Y1). Winterthur: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-3709.
- Toffetti Carughi, G. et al. (2015) 'An architecture for self-managing microservices', in AIMC '15 Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Automated Incident Management in Cloud. New York: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2747470.2747474.
- Brunner, S. et al. (2015) 'Experimental evaluation of the cloud-native application design', in 2015 IEEE/ACM 8th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC). IEEE, pp. 488–493. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-3782.
Mündliche Konferenzbeiträge und Abstracts
Edmonds, A., Bohnert, T. M. and Toffetti Carughi, G. (2015) 'MCN : beyond NFV', in 7th Cloud Control Workshop, Nässlingen, 9-11 June 2015.