She was named an AAAI fellow in 2008 "for significant contributions to coordination and competition in multirobot and multiagent systems, for leadership in the AI community, and for inspiring the next generation".
POINTY allowed programmers to develop and test programs interactively, as opposed to have to compile and debug them using assembly language on the real time robot controller.
[13] This paper proposes an architecture with a banking system, a communication infrastructure, advertising, and methods for brokered transactions among agents.
It describes an implemented prototype for the market, which was later extended to support bids for tasks that have time and precedence constraints.
Gini and her co-authors created the most complex autonomous task ever done by a group of very small robots, the University of Minnesota Scout.
[14] The methods presented are distinctive in that they rely on extremely limited computing power and sensing in the robots, no communications, and no central controller.
Gini and her co-authors proposed to use data collected by robots to create maps of indoor environments that are made of segments rather than probabilistic certainty grids.
The paper provides bounds on the cost of the solution achieved, and includes experimental results obtained with real robots and in simulation in a variety of environments.
Gini also has work on economic regimes models to characterize market conditions in the form of recurrent statistical patterns.