Dr. Giovanni Toffetti Carughi

ZHAW School of Engineering
Forschungsschwerpunkt Distributed Systems
Steinberggasse 13
8400 Winterthur

+41 (0) 58 934 69 64
giovanni.toffetticarughi@zhaw.ch

Work at ZHAW

Focus

Robotics, Cloud, AI

Network

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-0740-1355

Social media

Projects

NEPHELE – A Lightweight Software Stack and Synergetic Meta-Orchestration Framework for the Next Generation Compute Continuum / Team member / laufend
TomGrowthAI / Co-project leader / abgeschlossen
Digital Mobility/Logistics Hub / Team member / abgeschlossen
Enterprise Cloud Robotics Platform (ECRP) / Project leader / abgeschlossen

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

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
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

Book parts, peer-reviewed

Toffetti Carughi, Giovanni; Bohnert, Thomas Michael,

2019.

Cloud robotics with ROS

.

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

Conference contributions, peer-reviewed

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

Other publications

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
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
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

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

Edmonds, Andrew; Bohnert, Thomas Michael; Toffetti Carughi, Giovanni,

2015.

MCN : beyond NFV.

In:

7th Cloud Control Workshop, Nässlingen, 9-11 June 2015.

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