Giovanni Beltrame, Polytechnique Montréal

Research

Swarm Robotics Collective systems Emergent behavior Release Engineering Safe AI Validation Airships Avionics

Latest papers

Personalizing brain stimulation: continual learning for sleep spindle detection.
Journal of neural engineering · 2025 · senior author
Neurophysiological effects of targeting sleep spindles with closed-loop auditory stimulation.
Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2025
Overcoming boundaries: Interdisciplinary challenges and opportunities in cognitive neuroscience.
Neuropsychologia · 2024

All 6 publications

Latest funding

A Smart Drone System for Silage Management
NSERC · 2025 · Principal investigator
$30,000
Continuous operation of battery operated robot swarms
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$37,500
Collective Perception in Swarm Robotics
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$142,348

All 18 grants and awards

6 publications.

01

Personalizing brain stimulation: continual learning for sleep spindle detection.

Sobral M, Jourde HR, Ehsan M Bajestani S, Coffey EBJ, Beltrame G

Journal of neural engineering2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/adebb1 PMID: 40609549

02

Neurophysiological effects of targeting sleep spindles with closed-loop auditory stimulation.

Jourde HR, Sobral M, Beltrame G, Coffey EBJ

Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society2025

DOI: 10.1093/sleepadvances/zpaf007 PMID: 40626105

03

Overcoming boundaries: Interdisciplinary challenges and opportunities in cognitive neuroscience.

Brignol A, Paas A, Sotelo-Castro L, St-Onge D, Beltrame G, Coffey EBJ

Neuropsychologia2024

DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108903 PMID: 38750788

04

The Portiloop: A deep learning-based open science tool for closed-loop brain stimulation.

Valenchon N, Bouteiller Y, Jourde HR, L'Heureux X, Sobral M, Coffey EBJ, Beltrame G

PloS one2022Senior author

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0270696 PMID: 35994482

05

From Design to Deployment: Decentralized Coordination of Heterogeneous Robotic Teams.

St-Onge D, Varadharajan VS, Švogor I, Beltrame G

Frontiers in robotics and AI2020Senior author

DOI: 10.3389/frobt.2020.00051 PMID: 33501219

06

Timing Information Propagation in Interactive Networks.

Hafnaoui I, Nicolescu G, Beltrame G

Scientific reports2019Senior author

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-40801-5 PMID: 30872733

A Smart Drone System for Silage Management

Principal investigatorNSERC2025Mitacs Accelerate

Principal investigators: Beltrame, Giovanni

Keywords: Animal production and animal primary products

$30,000

Continuous operation of battery operated robot swarms

Principal investigatorNSERC2023Alliance Grants

Principal investigators: Beltrame, Giovanni GM

Keywords: Energy maintenance; Long-term autonomy; Persistent operation; Swarm Robotics

$37,500

Collective Perception in Swarm Robotics

Principal investigatorNSERC2023Research Tools and Instruments

Principal investigators: Beltrame, Giovanni

$142,348

ENVIA - Simulation environment for AI-driven vehicles

Principal investigatorNSERC2022Alliance Grants

Principal investigators: Beltrame, Giovanni GM

Keywords: airships; avionics; control; control barrier functions; real2sim; reinforcement learning; safe learning; sim2real

$304,880

Enhanced awareness for mobile cobots in manufacturing assembly

Co-investigatorNSERC2021Alliance Grants

Principal investigators: St-Onge, David D

Keywords: decentralized task allocation; human-robot interaction; multi-robots systems; natural human-machine interface; robotic grasping

$171,400

Robotic Perception in Extreme Environments

Principal investigatorNSERC2021Research Tools and Instruments

Principal investigators: Beltrame, Giovanni

$126,235

Human-in-the-loop Control of Multi-Vehicle Autonomous Systems

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020New Frontiers in Research Fund - Exploration

Principal investigators: Beltrame, Giovanni

Keywords: Autonomous vehicles Cognitive load Multi-robot systems Fault-detection adaptive automation

$250,000

Swarm-based Subterranean Exploration

Principal investigatorNSERC2020Research Tools and Instruments

Principal investigators: Beltrame, Giovanni

$131,972

Engineering Resilient Swarm Robotics Systems

Principal investigatorNSERC2019Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Beltrame, Giovanni

Keywords: swarm robotics; safe ai; collective systems; release engineering; emergent behavior; validation

$196,000

Robust multi-robot localization and mapping_x000d_

Principal investigatorNSERC2019Alliance Grants

Principal investigators: Beltrame, Giovanni

$30,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Computer and Software Engineering
Génie mécanique
Génie informatique et génie logiciel

Co-authors at Polytechnique Montréal, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.

David St-Onge

Génie mécanique

2 shared papers, latest 2024

Gabriela Nicolescu

Génie informatique et génie logiciel

1 shared papers, latest 2019

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Swarm Robotics Dear Professor Beltrame, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Personalizing brain stimulation: continual learning for sleep spindle detection." (2025), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your NSERC-funded project "A Smart Drone System for Silage Management" (2025), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]