Luca Bartolomei

I am currently a Senior Computer Vision Engineer at Magic Leap, Inc.

In April 2023 I completed a PhD at Vision for Robotics Lab at ETH Zürich, Switzerland, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Margarita Chli. My research focused mostly on active perception, path planning, 3D mapping, reinforcement learning and multi-robot coordination. Plus, my interests include visual-inertial odometry, Structure-from-Motion and camera-based SLAM.

I finished my Master in Robotics, System and Control in 2018 always at ETH Zürich, while I got a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano (PoliMi) in 2015.

During the PhD, I worked as a Computer Vision Reseach Intern at Magic Leap, Inc., while in between the Bachelor and the Master studies, as a Software Engineer Intern at Schindler Aufzüge AG.

[github | google scholar]

Publications

Thesis

L. Bartolomei, “Towards Robust Active Planning for Autonomous Aerial Navigation”. Doctoral Thesis, ETH Zurich, 2023.
[pdf | ETH research collection]

Journals

L. Bartolomei, L. Teixeira, and M. Chli, “Fast Multi-UAV Decentralized Exploration of Forests”. In IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2023.
[pdf | Bibtex | Video | Code]

D. Morilla-Cabello, L. Bartolomei, L. Teixeira, E. Montijano, and M. Chli, “Sweep-Your-Map: Efficient Coverage Planning for Aerial Teams in Large-Scale Environments”. In IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2022.
[pdf | Bibtex | Video]

Y. Kompis, L. Bartolomei, R. Mascaro, L. Teixeira and M. Chli, “Informed Sampling Exploration Path Planner for 3D Reconstruction of Large Scenes”. In IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2021.
[pdf | Bibtex | Video]

Conferences

S.Bone, L. Bartolomei, F. Kennel-Maushart and M. Chli, “Decentralised Multi-Robot Exploration using Monte Carlo Tree Search”. In IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023.
[pdf | Bibtex | Video | Code]

L. Bartolomei, Y. Kompis, L. Teixeira and M. Chli, “Autonomous Emergency Landing for Multicopters using Deep Reinforcement Learning”. In IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022.
[pdf | Bibtex | Video | IROS Presentation | Code]

Y. Pan, Y. Kompis, L. Bartolomei, R. Mascaro, C. Stachniss and M. Chli, “Voxfield: Non-Projective Signed Distance Fields for Online Planning and 3D Reconstruction”. In IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022.
[pdf | Bibtex | Video | Code]

M. Hüppi, L. Bartolomei, R. Mascaro and M. Chli, “T-PRM: Temporal Probabilistic Roadmap for Path Planning in Dynamic Environments”. In IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022.
[pdf | Bibtex | Video | IROS Presentation | Code]

L. Bartolomei, L. Teixeira and M. Chli, “Semantic-aware Active Perception for UAVs using Deep Reinforcement Learning”. In IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2021.
[pdf | Bibtex | Video | IROS Presentation]

L. Bartolomei, L. Teixeira and M. Chli, “Perception-aware Path Planning for UAVs using Semantic Segmentation”. In IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020.
[pdf | Bibtex | Video | IROS Presentation]

L. Bartolomei, M. Karrer and M. Chli, “Multi-robot Coordination with Agent-Server Architecture for Autonomous Navigation in Partially Unknown Environments”. In IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020.
[pdf | Bibtex | Video | IROS Presentation | Code]

A. Gawel, H. Blum, J. Pankert, K. Krämer, L. Bartolomei, S. Ercan, F. Farshidian, M. Chli, F. Gramazio, R. Siegwart, M. Hutter and T. Sandy, “A Fully-Integrated Sensing and Control System for High-Accuracy Mobile Robotic Building Construction”. In IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2019.
[pdf | Bibtex | Video]

Workshops

Y. Kompis, L. Bartolomei and M. Chli, “Fully Autonomous Live 3D Reconstruction with an MAV: Hardware-and Software-Setup”. In Research Demos at International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2021.
[pdf | Bibtex | Video | Code]

H. Blum, S. Rohrbach, M. Popovic, L. Bartolomei and R. Siegwart, “Active Learning for UAV-based Semantic Mapping”. In Workshop on Informative Path Planning and Active Sampling, RSS Workshop, 2019.
[pdf | Bibtex]

Past Experience

Projects

Teaching at ETH Zürich

Tutorial on Path Planning.

Tutorial on path planning at the first Robotics Summer School at ETH Zürich, 2019-2022.
[Summer School | Tutorial | Code]

Undergraduate Thesis at ETH Zürich

3D Radiation Mapping using a small UAV.

Master's thesis at Vision for Robotics Lab, ETH Zürich.
Supervised by Prof. Dr. Margarita Chli.

Calibration and set-up of two independent cameras mounted on servos for UAVs relative pose estimation.

Semester thesis at Vision for Robotics Lab, ETH Zürich.
Supervised by Prof. Dr. Margarita Chli.
[pdf]

Other projects