Elia Trevisan

Postdoc, TU Delft

I am Postdoc at the Autonomous Multi-Robots Lab at the Delft University of Technology, where I have also obtained my PhD, advised by Javier Alonso-Mora and Robert Babuska. My research interests lie in the intersection of robotics, machine learning, and optimization, with a focus on interactions and autonomous navigation. Before joining the Autonomous Multi-Robots Lab, I earned a Master’s degree in Systems and Control from Delft University of Technology, where my thesis under Michel Verhaegen focused on system identification for high numerical aperture microscopy. I also hold a Bachelor’s degree in Automation Engineering from both Tongji University in Shanghai and the University of Bologna in Italy. During my undergraduate studies, I led a collaboration with Electrolux’s R&D team as part of my thesis with Gianluca Palli, researching robotic manipulators for appliance testing. My technical foundation began with a High School Diploma in Electrical Engineering from ITST J. F. Kennedy in Pordenone, Italy, where I gained practical experience in designing and testing electrical circuits and industrial automation systems.

Publications and preprints

Papers sorted by recency. Representative papers are highlighted. *Equal contribution.

Dynamic Risk-Aware MPPI for Mobile Robots in Crowds via Efficient Monte Carlo Approximations
Elia Trevisan*, Khaled A. Mustafa*, Godert Notten, Xinwei Wang, Javier Alonso-Mora
IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025
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Active Disturbance Rejection Control (ADRC) for Trajectory Tracking of a Seagoing USV: Design, Simulation, and Field Experiments
Jelmer van der Saag, Elia Trevisan, Wouter Falkena, Javier Alonso-Mora
IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025
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Sampling-based Model Predictive Control Leveraging Parallelizable Physics Simulations ⭐ …
Corrado Pezzato*, Chadi Salmi*, Elia Trevisan*, Max Spahn, Javier Alonso-Mora, Carlos Hernández Corbato
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL), 2025
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Multi-Modal MPPI and Active Inference for Reactive Task and Motion Planning ⭐ …
Yuezhe Zhang, Corrado Pezzato, Elia Trevisan*, Chadi Salmi, Carlos Hernández Corbato, Javier Alonso-Mora
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL), 2024
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Biased-MPPI: Informing Sampling-Based Model Predictive Control by Fusing Ancillary Controllers ⭐ …
Elia Trevisan, Javier Alonso-Mora
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL), 2024
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Interaction-Aware Sampling-Based MPC with Learned Local Goal Prediction
Walter Jansma, Elia Trevisan, Álvaro Serra-Gómez, Javier Alonso-Mora
IEEE International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems (MRS), 2023 (Best Paper Finalist)
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Multi-Agent Path Integral Control for Interaction-Aware Motion Planning in Urban Canals
Lucas Streichenberg*, Elia Trevisan*, Jen Jen Chung, Roland Siegwart, Javier Alonso-Mora
IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023
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Sampling-Based MPC Using a GPU-parallelizable Physics Simulator as Dynamic Model: an Open Source Implementation with IsaacGym
Corrado Pezzato*, Chadi Salmi*, Elia Trevisan*, Javier Alonso-Mora, Carlos Hernandez Corbato
Embracing Contacts Workshop at IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023 (Best Paper Finalist)
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Regulations Aware Motion Planning for Autonomous Surface Vessels in Urban Canals
Jitske de Vries, Elia Trevisan, Jules van der Toorn, Tuhin Das, Bruno Brito, Javier Alonso-Mora
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2022
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Theses

Joint Estimation of Object and Aberration for High Numerical Aperture Microscopy
Elia Trevisan
Master Thesis in Systems and Control at TU Delft, 2020 (Cum Laude)
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Contact

You are welcome to contact me regarding my research! My email is elia trv [at] gmail 。com