Dr. Giovanni Toffetti Carughi
Dr. Giovanni Toffetti Carughi
ZHAW
School of Engineering
Forschungsschwerpunkt Distributed Systems
Steinberggasse 13
8400 Winterthur
Work at ZHAW
Focus
Professional development teaching
Network
ORCID digital identifier
Social media
Projects
- Lightweight Multimodal Multilingual Context-Aware Machine Translation for AI Documents / Project leader / ongoing
- Supervised Human-Interactive Embodied Learning and Development / Project leader / ongoing
- TomGrowthAI / Co-project leader / completed
- NEPHELE – A Lightweight Software Stack and Synergetic Meta-Orchestration Framework for the Next Generation Compute Continuum / Team member / completed
- Digital Mobility/Logistics Hub / Team member / completed
- Enterprise Cloud Robotics Platform / Project leader / completed
Publications
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Filinis, Nikos; Spatharakis, Dimitrios; Dimolitsas, Ioannis; Kapoor, Gaurav; Fu, Lei; Toffetti, Giovanni; Militano, Leonardo; Bohnert, Thomas M.; Zafeiropoulos, Anastasios; Papavassiliou, Symeon,
2026.
Edge AI-driven robotic applications in the computing continuum.
IEEE Internet of Things Magazine.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/MIOT.2026.3655981
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Militano, Leonardo; Arteaga, Adriana; Toffetti Carughi, Giovanni; Mitton, Nathalie,
2023.
The cloud-to-edge-to-IoT continuum as an enabler for search and rescue operations.
Future Internet.
15(2), pp. 55.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/fi15020055
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Toffetti Carughi, Giovanni; Brunner, Sandro; Blöchlinger, Martin; Spillner, Josef; Bohnert, Thomas Michael,
2017.
Self-managing cloud-native applications : design, implementation and experience.
Future Generation Computer Systems.
72, pp. 165-179.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2016.09.002
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Toffetti Carughi, Giovanni; Bohnert, Thomas Michael,
2019.
In:
Koubaa, Anis, ed.,
Robot operating system (ROS).
Cham:
Springer.
pp. 119-146.
Studies in computational intelligence ; 831.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20190-6_5
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Fu, Lei; Salimpour, Sahar; Militano, Leonardo; Edelman, Harry; Queralta, Jorge Peña; Toffetti Carughi, Giovanni,
2025.
ROSBag MCP server : analyzing robot data with LLMs for agentic embodied AI applications[paper].
In:
2025 International Conference on Robotic Computing and Communication (RoboticCC).
International Conference on Robotic Computing and Communication (RoboticCC), Naples, Italy, 8-10 December 2025.
IEEE.
pp. 70-77.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/roboticcc68732.2025.00025
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Fu, Lei; Kapoor, Gaurav; Militano, Leonardo; Toffetti Carughi, Giovanni; Bohnert, Thomas Michael,
2025.
In:
2025 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC).
30th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Bologna, Italy, 2-5 July 2025.
IEEE.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/iscc65549.2025.11326186
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Stoop, Pascal; Ratnayake, Tharaka; Toffetti, Giovanni,
2024.
A method for multi-robot asynchronous trajectory execution in MoveIt2[paper].
In:
2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Yokohama, Japan, 13-17 May 2024.
IEEE.
pp. 17694-17700.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10611498
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Toffetti, Giovanni; Militano, Leonardo; Tharaka, Ratnayake; Straub, Mark,
2023.
ROS-based robotic applications orchestration in the compute continuum : challenges and approaches[paper].
In:
Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 16th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing.
16th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), Taormina, Italy, 4-7 December 2023.
Association for Computing Machinery.
pp. 49.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3603166.3632555
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Murphy, Seán; Militano, Leonardo; Toffetti Carughi, Giovanni; Maurer, Remo,
2022.
Efficient delivery of robotics programming educational content using cloud robotics[paper].
In:
2022 7th International Conference on Robotics and Automation Engineering (ICRAE 2022).
7th International Conference on Robotics and Automation Engineering (ICRAE), Singapore, 18-20 November 2022.
IEEE.
pp. 222-226.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRAE56463.2022.10056179
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Toffetti, Giovanni; Militano, Leonardo; Murphy, Seán; Maurer, Remo; Straub, Mark,
2022.
Cloud native robotic applications with GPU sharing on Kubernetes[paper].
In:
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Kyoto, Japan, 23-27 October 2022.
arXiv.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2210.03936
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Borla, Nicolas; Kuster, Fabian; Langenegger, Jonas; Ribera, Juan; Honegger, Marcel; Toffetti, Giovanni,
2021.
Teat pose estimation via RGBD segmentation for automated milking[paper].
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.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-22586
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Roost, Dano; Meier, Ralph; Toffetti Carughi, Giovanni; Stadelmann, Thilo,
2020.
Combining reinforcement learning with supervised deep learning for neural active scene understanding[paper].
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.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-20419
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Toffetti Carughi, Giovanni; Lötscher, Tobias; Kenzhegulov, Saken; Spillner, Josef; Bohnert, Thomas Michael,
2017.
Cloud robotics : SLAM and autonomous exploration on PaaS[paper].
In:
UCC '17 Companion Companion Proceedings of the10th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing.
10th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC '17), Austin, USA, 5-8 December 2017.
Association for Computing Machinery.
pp. 65-70.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3147234.3148100
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Spillner, Josef; Ramírez López, Manuel; Toffetti Carughi, Giovanni,
2017.
Cloud-native databases : an application perspective[paper].
In:
Mann, Zóltan Ádám; Stolz, Volker, 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.
3rd International Workshop on Cloud Adoption and Migration (CloudWays), Oslo, Norway, 27-29 September 2017.
Cham:
Springer.
pp. 102-116.
Communications in Computer and Information Science ; 824.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-79090-9_7
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Salimpour, Sahar; Fu, Lei; Rachwał, Kajetan; Bertrand, Pascal; O'Sullivan, Kevin; Jakob, Robert; Keramat, Farhad; Militano, Leonardo; Toffetti Carughi, Giovanni; Edelman, Harry; Peña Queralta, Jorge,
2025.
arXiv.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2508.05294
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Lötscher, Tobias; Marti, Christof; Ramírez López, Manuel; Spillner, Josef; Toffetti Carughi, Giovanni,
2016.
Service Prototyping Lab Report - 2016 (Y1).
Lab Reports
; 1.
Winterthur:
ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3709
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Toffetti Carughi, Giovanni; Brunner, Sandro; Blöchlinger, Martin; Dudouet, Florian; Edmonds, Andrew,
2015.
An architecture for self-managing microservices[paper].
In:
AIMC '15 Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Automated Incident Management in Cloud.
International Workshop on Automated Incident Management in Cloud (AIMC'15), Bordeaux, France, 21-24 April 2015.
New York:
Association for Computing Machinery.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/2747470.2747474
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Brunner, Sandro; Blöchlinger, Martin; Toffetti Carughi, Giovanni; Spillner, Josef; Bohnert, Thomas Michael,
2015.
Experimental evaluation of the cloud-native application design[paper].
In:
2015 IEEE/ACM 8th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC).
4th International Workshop on Clouds and (eScience) Application Management (CloudAM), Limassol, Cyprus, 7-10 December 2015.
IEEE.
pp. 488-493.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3782
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Edmonds, Andrew; Bohnert, Thomas Michael; Toffetti Carughi, Giovanni,
2015.
In:
7th Cloud Control Workshop, Nässlingen, 9-11 June 2015.