Understanding Neutral Weed Communities - Crops Interactions and Identification of Artificial Intelligence Algorithms for Species-Specific Weed Management Using Robots

Project Information

NEUTRAWEED

Grant agreement ID: 101182891

DOI

10.3030/101182891

EC signature date 16 October 2024

Start date 1 November 2024

End date 31 October 2028

Funded under

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Total cost

No data

EU contribution

€ 1 237 400,00

Coordinated by

SCUOLA SUPERIORE DI STUDI UNIVERSITARI E DI PERFEZIONAMENTO S ANNA
Italy

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Deliverables

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Project on-line Platform

NEUTRAWEED’s partners will set up a platform that will be online six months after the start of the project. The partners will regularly update the website with materials from research, experimental, and networking activities performed during the project. The website’s materials will be accessible to validate the conclusions of scientific publications. NEUTRAWEED’s partners will guarantee immediate open access to all research outputs under open licenses or access under fair and reasonable conditions to legal entities in the case of a public emergency if requested by the granting authority.

Documents, reports (1)

Plan for dissemination and exploitation including communication activities

A Plan for Dissemination and Exploitation Including Communication Activities will be drawn up by month six and updated during the project in accordance with the Data Management Plan (DMP). The DEP will describe all the measures for the dissemination of all key results throughout the project and after the project ends to all groups of stakeholders and for their exploitation by all potential users. In the Plan it will be codified that any scientific and/or non-academic communication regarding this project has been authorized by all partners beforehand to prevent IP issues between academic and non-academic organizations. Scientific outputs from this work will be published in the two progress reports. External dissemination and communication of these reports will be agreed upon with the Consortium and the Project Management Board. All news releases will use the NEUTRAWEED house style, formatting, and design. All media contact throughout the project will be delivered in a coherent and unified manner and recorded for audit purposes.

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (17)

Otto—Design and Control of an 8-DoF SEA-Driven Quadrupedal Robot

Author(s): Antonello Scaldaferri, Simone Tolomei, Francesco Iotti, Paolo Gambino, Michele Pierallini, Franco Angelini, Manolo Garabini
Published in: IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society, Issue 6, 2026, ISSN 2644-1284
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/OJIES.2025.3567112

TraQuad: A Modular Tracked Legged Multimodal Quadrupedal Robot

Author(s): Alok Ranjan, Francesco Iotti, Franco Angelini, Manolo Garabini
Published in: IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Issue 30, 2025, ISSN 1083-4435
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2025.3560078

Ground‐based robotic remote sensing for standardized biodiversity monitoring in coastal habitats

Author(s): Giovanni Di Lorenzo, Simonetta Bagella, Micaela del Valle Rasino, Maria Laura Carranza, Manolo Garabini, Franco Angelini
Published in: Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 2026, ISSN 2056-3485
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/RSE2.70074

OmniQuad: A wheeled-legged hybrid robot with omnidirectional wheels

Author(s): Francesco Iotti, Alok Ranjan, Franco Angelini, Manolo Garabini
Published in: Mechanism and Machine Theory, Issue 214, 2025, ISSN 0094-114X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.MECHMACHTHEORY.2025.106125

Learning-Based Foot-Shape-Aware Foothold Selection for Quadrupedal Robots

Author(s): Simone Tolomei, Dominik Belter, Jakub Bednarek, Franco Angelini, Manolo Garabini
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, Issue 55, 2025, ISSN 2168-2216
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TSMC.2025.3563974

Continuous-time constrained linear quadratic regulator for switched linear systems

Author(s): Pietro Gori, Michele Pierallini, Franco Angelini, Manolo Garabini
Published in: Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, Issue 58, 2026, ISSN 1751-570X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.NAHS.2025.101625

RM-Act 2.0: A Modular Harmonic Actuator Towards Improved Torque Density

Author(s): Ramesh Krishnan Muttathil Gopanunni, Alok Ranjan, Lorenzo Martignetti, Franco Angelini, Manolo Garabini
Published in: Actuators, Issue 14, 2025, ISSN 2076-0825
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/ACT14110538

A Reproducible Benchmarking Methodology to Assess Robotic Locomotion Over Irregular Terrains: A Practical and Scalable Approach

Author(s): David Rodriguez-Cianca, Paulino Sendin, Giuseppe Alfonso, Davide De Benedittis, Simone Tolomei, Franco Angelini, Manolo Garabini, Diego Torricelli
Published in: IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 2025, ISSN 1070-9932
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/MRA.2025.3631570

Gait Adaptation and Iterative Control: A Switched Systems Optimization Framework for Quadrupedal Robots

Author(s): Pietro Gori, Michele Pierallini, Franco Angelini, Manolo Garabini
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, Issue 55, 2025, ISSN 2168-2216
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TSMC.2025.3604639

Soft Bilinear Inverted Pendulum: A Model to Enable Locomotion With Soft Contacts

Author(s): Davide De Benedittis, Franco Angelini, Manolo Garabini
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, Issue 55, 2025, ISSN 2168-2216
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TSMC.2024.3504342

RM-Act: A Novel Modular Harmonic Actuator

Author(s): Ramesh Krishnan Muttathil Gopanunni, Alok Ranjan, Lorenzo Martignetti, Franco Angelini, Manolo Garabini
Published in: Actuators, Issue 14, 2025, ISSN 2076-0825
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/ACT14100492

Fishing for Data: Modeling, Optimal Planning, and Iterative Learning Control for Flexible Link Robots

Author(s): Michele Pierallini, Ramesh Krishnan Muttathil Gopanunni, Franco Angelini, Antonio Bicchi, Manolo Garabini
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Issue 33, 2025, ISSN 1063-6536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2025.3550030

Aerial Robots Carrying Flexible Cables: Dynamic Shape Optimal Control via Spectral Method Model

Author(s): Yaolei Shen, Antonio Franchi, Chiara Gabellieri
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Issue 41, 2026, ISSN 1552-3098
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2025.3562459

Harnessing Robotics for European Union Forest Habitats Monitoring: Toward a Robotic-Assisted Framework for Standardized Field Surveys

Author(s): Simone Tolomei, Giovanni Di Lorenzo, Franco Angelini, Leopoldo de Simone, Emanuele Fanfarillo, Tiberio Fiaschi, Silvia Cannucci, Simona Maccherini, Paolo Remagnino, Claudia Angiolini, Manolo Garabini
Published in: IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 2025, ISSN 1070-9932
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/MRA.2025.3584343

Grasp It Like a Pro 3.0: An Expert-Based Data-Driven Algorithm for Grasping Unknown Objects in Cluttered Environments

Author(s): Gabriele Gambino, Simone Tolomei, Franco Angelini, Manolo Garabini
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Issue 23, 2026, ISSN 1545-5955
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TASE.2026.3674643

Botany Meets Robotics in Alpine Scree Monitoring

Author(s): Davide De Benedittis, Giovanni Di Lorenzo, Franco Angelini, Barbara Valle, Marina Serena Borgatti, Paolo Remagnino, Marco Caccianiga, Manolo Garabini
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics, Issue 2, 2025, ISSN 2997-1101
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TFR.2025.3632773

Contact-Implicit Optimal Planning and Iterative Learning Control for Quadrupedal Robots

Author(s): Pietro Gori, Vincenzo Degiacomo, Michele Pierallini, Franco Angelini, Manolo Garabini
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2026, ISSN 0278-0046
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2025.3645471

Conference proceedings (1)

Manipulation of Elasto-Flexible Cables with Single or Multiple UAVs

Author(s): Chiara Gabellieri, Lars Teeuwen, Yaolei Shen, Antonio Franchi
Published in: 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/IROS60139.2025.11246978