Dr. Giovanni Toffetti Carughi
Dr. Giovanni Toffetti Carughi
ZHAW
School of Engineering
Forschungsschwerpunkt Distributed Systems
Steinberggasse 13
8400 Winterthur
Arbeit an der ZHAW
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Projekte
- Lightweight Multimodal Multilingual Context-Aware Machine Translation for AI Documents / Projektleiter:in / laufend
- Supervised Human-Interactive Embodied Learning and Development / Projektleiter:in / laufend
- 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., Spatharakis, D., Dimolitsas, I., Kapoor, G., Fu, L., Toffetti, G., Militano, L., Bohnert, T. M., Zafeiropoulos, A., & Papavassiliou, S. (2026). Edge AI-driven robotic applications in the computing continuum. IEEE Internet of Things Magazine. https://doi.org/10.1109/MIOT.2026.3655981
- Militano, L., Arteaga, A., Toffetti Carughi, G., & Mitton, N. (2023). The cloud-to-edge-to-IoT continuum as an enabler for search and rescue operations. Future Internet, 15(2), 55. https://doi.org/10.3390/fi15020055
- Toffetti Carughi, G., Brunner, S., Blöchlinger, M., Spillner, J., & Bohnert, T. M. (2017). Self-managing cloud-native applications : design, implementation and experience. Future Generation Computer Systems, 72, 165–179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2016.09.002
Buchbeiträge, peer-reviewed
Toffetti Carughi, G., & Bohnert, T. M. (2019). Cloud robotics with ROS. In A. Koubaa (Ed.), Robot operating system (ROS) (pp. 119–146). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20190-6_5
Schriftliche Konferenzbeiträge, peer-reviewed
- Fu, L., Salimpour, S., Militano, L., Edelman, H., Queralta, J. P., & Toffetti Carughi, G. (2025). ROSBag MCP server : analyzing robot data with LLMs for agentic embodied AI applications [Conference paper]. 70–77. https://doi.org/10.1109/roboticcc68732.2025.00025
- Fu, L., Kapoor, G., Militano, L., Toffetti Carughi, G., & Bohnert, T. M. (2025, July 2). IoRT ROS 2 applications : evaluating Zenoh and VPN for robotic networking in the edge-cloud continuum [Conference paper]. https://doi.org/10.1109/iscc65549.2025.11326186
- Stoop, P., Ratnayake, T., & Toffetti, G. (2024). A method for multi-robot asynchronous trajectory execution in MoveIt2 [Conference paper]. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 17694–17700. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10611498
- Toffetti, G., Militano, L., Tharaka, R., & Straub, M. (2023). ROS-based robotic applications orchestration in the compute continuum : challenges and approaches [Conference paper]. Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 16th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, 49. https://doi.org/10.1145/3603166.3632555
- Murphy, S., Militano, L., Toffetti Carughi, G., & Maurer, R. (2022). Efficient delivery of robotics programming educational content using cloud robotics [Conference paper]. 2022 7th International Conference on Robotics and Automation Engineering (ICRAE 2022), 222–226. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRAE56463.2022.10056179
- Toffetti, G., Militano, L., Murphy, S., Maurer, R., & Straub, M. (2022, October 8). Cloud native robotic applications with GPU sharing on Kubernetes. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Kyoto, Japan, 23-27 October 2022. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2210.03936
- Borla, N., Kuster, F., Langenegger, J., Ribera, J., Honegger, M., & Toffetti, G. (2021, May 20). Teat pose estimation via RGBD segmentation for automated milking. Task-Informed Grasping: Agri-Food Manipulation (TIG-III) Workshop at ICRA 2021, Xi’an, China, 30 May - 5 June 2021. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-22586
- Roost, D., Meier, R., Toffetti Carughi, G., & Stadelmann, T. (2020, August 31). Combining reinforcement learning with supervised deep learning for neural active scene understanding. Active Vision and Perception in Human(-Robot) Collaboration Workshop at IEEE RO-MAN 2020 (AVHRC’20), Online, 31 August - 4 September 2020. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-20419
- Toffetti Carughi, G., Lötscher, T., Kenzhegulov, S., Spillner, J., & Bohnert, T. M. (2017). Cloud robotics : SLAM and autonomous exploration on PaaS [Conference paper]. UCC ’17 Companion Companion Proceedings of The10th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, 65–70. https://doi.org/10.1145/3147234.3148100
- Spillner, J., Ramírez López, M., & Toffetti Carughi, G. (2017). Cloud-native databases : an application perspective [Conference paper]. In Z. Á. Mann & V. Stolz (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 (pp. 102–116). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-79090-9_7
Weitere Publikationen
- Salimpour, S., Fu, L., Rachwał, K., Bertrand, P., O’Sullivan, K., Jakob, R., Keramat, F., Militano, L., Toffetti Carughi, G., Edelman, H., & Peña Queralta, J. (2025). Towards embodied agentic AI : review and classification of LLM- and VLM-driven robot autonomy and interaction. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2508.05294
- Lötscher, T., Marti, C., Ramírez López, M., Spillner, J., & Toffetti Carughi, G. (2016). Service Prototyping Lab Report - 2016 (Y1). ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3709
- Toffetti Carughi, G., Brunner, S., Blöchlinger, M., Dudouet, F., & Edmonds, A. (2015). An architecture for self-managing microservices. AIMC ’15 Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Automated Incident Management in Cloud. https://doi.org/10.1145/2747470.2747474
- Brunner, S., Blöchlinger, M., Toffetti Carughi, G., Spillner, J., & Bohnert, T. M. (2015). Experimental evaluation of the cloud-native application design [Conference paper]. 2015 IEEE/ACM 8th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), 488–493. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3782
Mündliche Konferenzbeiträge und Abstracts
Edmonds, A., Bohnert, T. M., & Toffetti Carughi, G. (2015). MCN : beyond NFV. 7th Cloud Control Workshop, Nässlingen, 9-11 June 2015.