AMCO Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Control

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Control

AMCO is a research group in the Department of Information Engineering at the University of Padova.

Gian Antonio Susto at the IFAC World Congress
AMCO research presentation at IFAC World Congress

What we do

Research areas

  • Reinforcement Learning

    Agents that learn optimal behaviour by trial and error, maximising the cumulative reward they receive from their environment. Applications range from games and robotics to NLP and biology.

  • Continual Learning

    Models that learn sequentially from new data without forgetting what they already know, balancing plasticity and stability while keeping updates efficient.

  • Fairness & Explainable AI

    Opening up black-box models: methods to interpret their decisions, and to detect and mitigate the bias and discrimination they can learn from data.

  • Visual Anomaly Detection

    Unsupervised learning that finds anomalous images and segments the problematic regions, with interpretable results — from industrial parts to medical scans.

  • Industrial Collaborations

    Joint work with companies and research institutions on AI for real industrial systems — predictive maintenance, control optimisation and anomaly detection under real-data, hardware and deployment constraints.

About us

Who we are

We are a research group dedicated to building trustworthy and intelligent AI systems that perform reliably in the real world. In reinforcement learning and control, our work spans industrial process optimization, smart mobility and traffic management, and human-robot collaboration, paired with algorithmic fairness and interpretable, efficient anomaly detection for industrial and edge deployments. A parallel line of research in computer vision and continual learning — covering visual anomaly detection, object recognition with YOLO, weakly supervised learning and active learning — keeps our models adaptive as the data they see keeps changing.

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