2022
Nekoo, S. R., Acosta, J. Á., & Ollero, A., “Gravity compensation and optimal control of actuated multibody system dynamics“, IET Control Theory & Applications, Published.
A. Dmytruk, G. Silano, D. Bicego, D. Bonilla Licea, and M. Saska, “A Perception-Aware NMPC for Vision-Based Target Tracking and Collision Avoidance with a Multi-Rotor UAV“, 2022 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), Presented.
A. Chaudhary, T. Nascimento, and M. Saska, “Controlling a Swarm of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Using Full-Body k-Nearest Neighbor Based Action Classifier“, 2022 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), Presented.
J. Bednar, M. Petrlik, K. C. Teixeira Vivaldini, and M. Saska, “Deployment of Reliable Visual Inertial Odometry Approaches for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Real-world Environment“, 2022 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), Presented.
A. Calvo, G. Silano, and J. Capitan, “Mission Planning and Execution in Heterogeneous Teams ofAerial Robots supporting Power Line Inspection Operations“, 2022 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), Presented.
D. Hert, T. Baca, P. Petracek, V. Kratky, V. Spurny, M. Petrlik, M. Vrba, P. Stoudek, V. Walter, P. Stepan, J. Horyna, V. Pritzl, G. Silano, D. Bonilla Licea, P. Stibinger, R. Penicka, T. Nascimento, and M. Saska , “MRS Modular UAV Hardware Platforms for Supporting Research in Real-World Outdoor and Indoor Environments “, 2022 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), Presented.
W. Stewart, D. Floreano, E. Ebeid, “Lightweight device for energy harvesting from power lines with a fixed-wing UAV“, 2022 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), Presented.
Víctor Valseca, Julio L. Paneque, Jose Ramiro Martínez-de-Dios, Aníbal Ollero, “Real-time LiDAR-based Semantic Classification for Powerline Inspection”, IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems 2022, Presented.
A. Suarez, J. Cacace, M. Orsag, “Aerial Robotics for Inspection and Maintenance: Special Issue Editorial“, Applied Sciences, Published.
A. Suarez and A. Ollero, “Dual Arm Aerial Manipulation while Flying, Holding and Perching: Comparative Case Study”, ROBOT 2022, Presented.
F.J. Gañán, A. Suarez, R. Tapia, J.R. Martínez-de Dios and A. Ollero, “Aerial Manipulation System for Safe Human-Robot Handover in Power Line Maintenance“, RSS 2022 Workshop, Published.
Sanchez-Laulhe, E., Ruiz, C., Acosta, J. A., & Ollero, A., “Fuselage Aerodynamics and Weight Trade-Off at Low-Speed Ornithopter Flight“, 2022 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), Presented.
A. González-Morgado, C. Álvarez-Cía, G. Heredia and A. Ollero, “UAV FULLY-ACTUATED: MODELO, CONTROL Y COMPARACIÓN CON CONFIGURACIÓN COPLANARIA“, XLIII Jornadas de Automática, Presented.
Drew Hanover; Philipp Foehn; Sihao Sun; Elia Kaufmann; Davide Scaramuzza, “Performance, Precision, and Payloads: Adaptive Nonlinear MPC for Quadrotors“, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), Published.
E. Patsiouras, V. Mygdalis and I. Pitas, “Whitened self-attention for Powerline Element Detection”, IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2022), Presented.
S. R. Nekoo, J. Á. Acosta, G. Heredia, and A. Ollero, “A PD-type state-dependent Riccati equation with iterative learning augmentation for mechanical systems“, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, Published.
A. Brandao, D. Smrcka, E. Pairet, T. Nascimento, M. Saska, “Side-Pull Maneuver: A Novel Control Strategy for Dragging a Cable-Tethered Load of Unknown Weight Using a UAV“, IEEE Robotics And Automation Letters, Published.
G. Vasiljevic, D. Martinovic, M. Batos, S. Bogdan, “Validation of two-wire power line UAV localization based on the magnetic field strength“, 2022 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), Presented.
V. Cataffo, G. Silano, L. Iannelli, V. Puig, and L. Glielmo, “A Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Strategy for Autonomous Racing of Scale Vehicles”, 2022 International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), Presented.
J. Horyna, V. Kratky, E. Ferrante, M. Saska, “Decentralized multi-robot velocity estimation for UAVs enhancing onboard camera-based velocity measurements”, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2022, Presented.
I. Karakostas, V. Mygdalis, and I. Pitas, “Explaining and verifying the robustness of Visual Object Trackers to noise“, IEEE Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Workshop (IVMSP 2022) , Presented.
F. Patrona, I. Mademlis and I. Pitas, “Gesture Recognition by Self-Supervised Moving Interest Point Completion for CNN-LSTMs“, IEEE Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Workshop (IVMSP) 2022, Presented.
A. Christidis, C. Papaioannidis, and I. Pitas, “Monocular Weakly-Supervised Camera-Relative 3D Human Pose Estimation”, IEEE Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Workshop (IVMSP) 2022, Presented.
E. Patsiouras, V. Mygdalis, I. Pitas, “On the detection of powerline elements with efficient Transformers”, IEEE Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Workshop (IVMSP 2022) , Presented.
Julio L. Paneque, Víctor Valseca, Jose Ramiro Martínez-de-Dios, Aníbal Ollero, “Autonomous Reactive LiDAR-based Mapping for Powerline Inspection“, 2022 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), Presented.
Sihao Sun; Angel Romero; Philipp Foehn; Elia Kaufmann; Davide Scaramuzza, “A Comparative Study of Nonlinear MPC and Differential-Flatness-Based Control for Quadrotor Agile Flight“, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Published.
Nekoo, S. R., Acosta, J. Á., & Ollero, A., “A Search Algorithm for Constrained Engineering Optimization and Tuning the Gains of Controllers“, Expert Systems with Applications, Published.
E. Patsiouras, V. Mygdalis, I. Pitas, “A UAV Object Detection Benchmark for Vision-assisted Powerline Element Inspection“, International conference on systems, signals and image processing (IWSSIP 2022), Presented.
A. Afifi and M. van Holland, and A. Franchi, “Toward Physical Human-Robot Interaction Control with Aerial Manipulators: Compliance, Redundancy Resolution, and Input Limits”, 39th IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, Presented.
Alejandro Suarez, Rafael Salmoral, Ambar Garofano-Soldado, Guillermo Heredia, Anibal Ollero, “Aerial Device Delivery for Power Line Inspection and Maintenance“, 2022 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), Presented.
Garofano-Soldado, A., Sanchez-Cuevas, P.J., Heredia, G., Ollero, A., “Numerical-experimental evaluation and modelling of aerodynamic ground effect for small-scale tilted propellers at low Reynolds numbers“, Aerospace Science and Technology, Published.
Angel Romero; Sihao Sun; Philipp Foehn; Davide Scaramuzza, “Model Predictive Contouring Control for Time-Optimal Quadrotor Flight“, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Published.
J.A. Moreno, C. Ruiz*, Á. Satué, J.Á. Acosta, A. Ollero, “Design, development and testing of a Hybrid Fixed-Flapping wing UAV“, 2022 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), Presented.
E. Sanchez-Laulhe*, C. Ruiz, J.Á Acosta, A. Ollero, “Fuselage Aerodynamics and Weight Trade-Off at Low-Speed Ornithopter Flight“, 2022 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), Presented.
Robert Penicka; Yunlong Song; Elia Kaufmann; Davide Scaramuzza, “Learning Minimum-Time Flight in Cluttered Environments“, IEEE Robotics And Automation Letters, Published.
Yunlong Song, Mats Steinweg, Elia Kaufmann, and Davide Scaramuzza, “Autonomous Drone Racing with Deep Reinforcement Learning“, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Published.
V Walter, V Spurny, M Petrlik, T Baca, D Zaitlík, L Demkiv, and M Saska, “Extinguishing real fires by fully autonomous multirotor UAVs in the MBZIRC 2020 competition“, Field Robotics, Published.
P Štibinger, G Broughton, F Majer, Z Rozsypálek, A Wang, K Jindal, A Zhou, D Thakur, G Loianno, T Krajník, and M Saska, “Towards new frontiers in mobile manipulation: Team CTU-UPenn-NYU at MBZIRC 2020“, Field Robotics, Published.
Christian Pfeiffer; Simon Wengeler; Antonio Loquercio; Davide Scaramuzza, “Visual attention prediction improves performance of autonomous drone racing agents“, PLOS ONE, Published.
Elia Kaufmann; Leonard Bauersfeld; Davide Scaramuzza, “A Benchmark Comparison of Learned Control Policies for Agile Quadrotor Flight“, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Published.
Amedeo Fabris; Kevin Kleber; Davide Falanga; Davide Scaramuzza, “Geometry-aware Compensation Scheme for Morphing Drones“, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Published.
Robert Penicka; Davide Scaramuzza, “Minimum-Time Quadrotor Waypoint Flight in Cluttered Environments“, IEEE Robotics And Automation Letters, Published.
Giovanni Cioffi; Titus Cieslewski; Davide Scaramuzza, “Continuous-Time vs. Discrete-Time Vision-based SLAM: A Comparative Study“, IEEE Robotics And Automation Letters, Published.
Yunlong Song; Davide Scaramuzza, “Policy Search for Model Predictive Control with Application to Agile Drone Flight“, IEEE Transaction on Robotics (T-RO), Published.
J.Chebbi, Y.Brière, “Robust active disturbance rejection control for systems with internal uncertainties: Multirotor UAV application“, Journal of Field Robotics, Published.
Antonio Paolillo, Fabrizio Colella, Nicola Nosengo, Fabrizio Schiano, William Stewart, Davide Zambrano, Isabelle Chappuis, Rafael Lalive, Dario Floreano, “How to Compete with Robots: Assessing Job Automation Risks and Resilient Alternatives”, Science Robotics, Published.
J.P. Rodríguez-Gómez, R. Tapia, M.M. Guzmán, J.R. Martínez-de Dios and A. Ollero, “Free as a Bird: Event-based Dynamic Sense-and-Avoid for Ornithopter Robot Flight“, IEEE Robotics And Automation Letters, Published.
Mohamed Aymane Ahajjam, Daniel Bonilla Licea, Mounir Ghogho, Abdellatif Kobbane, “Short-term Multi-horizon Residential Electric Load Forecasting using Deep Learning and Signal Decomposition Methods“, Applied Energy, Submitted.
Saeed Rafee Nekoo, Jose Angel Acosta, Guillermo Heredia, and Anibal Ollero, “A PD-Type State-Dependent Riccati Equation with Iterative Learning Augmentation for Mechanical Systems“, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, Published.
Amin Basiri, Valerio Mariani, Giuseppe Silano, Muhammad Aatif, Luigi Iannelli, and Luigi Glielmo, “A survey on the application of path-planning algorithms for multi-rotor UAVs in precision agriculture“, The Journal of Navigation, Published.
Saeed Rafee Nekoo, José Ángel Acosta, and Anibal Ollero, “Quaternion-based State-dependent Differential Riccati Equation for Quadrotor Drones: Regulation Control Problem in Aerobatic Flight“, Robotica, Published.
Leonard Bauersfeld and Davide Scaramuzza, “Range, Endurance, and Optimal Speed Estimates for Multicopters“, Robotics and Perception Group, UZH, Published.
William Stewart, Enrico Ajanic, Matthias Müller, Dario Floreano, “How to Swoop and Grasp Like a Bird With a Passive Claw for a High-Speed Grasping“, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Published.
Julio L. Paneque, Jose Ramiro Martínez-de-Dios, Aníbal Ollero, Drew Hanover, Sihao Sun, Ángel Romero, Davide Scaramuzza, “Perception-Aware Perching on Powerlines With Multirotors“, IEEE Robotics And Automation Letters and IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Published.
M. Jacquet, M. Kivits, H. Das, and A. Franchi, “Motor-level N-MPC for Cooperative Active Perception with Multiple Heterogeneous UAVs“, IEEE Robotics And Automation Letters, Published.
2021
E. Cuniato, J. Cacace, M. Selvaggio and V. Lippiello, “A hardware-in-the-loop simulator for physical human-aerial manipulator cooperation“, 20th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, December 2021.
D. Makrygiannis, C. Papaioannidis, I. Mademlis and I. Pitas, “Optimal video handling in on-line hand gesture recognition using Deep Neural Networks“, IEEE Series of Symposiums on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2021), December, 2021.
V. Lippiello and J. Cacace, “Robust Visual Localization of a UAV Over a Pipe-Rack Based on the Lie Group SE(3)“, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, November, 2021.
V. Kratky, P. Petracek, T. Nascimento, M. Cadilova, M. Skobrtal, P. Stoudek and M. Saska, “Safe Documentation of Historical Monuments by An Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle“, ISPRS Journal on Geo-Information, November, 2021.
S.R. Nekoo, J.A. Acosta and A. Ollero, “Gravity compensation and optimal control of actuated multibody system dynamics“, IET Control Theory & Applications, October, 2021.
C. Papaioannidis and I. Pitas, “Learning Robust Features for 3D Object Pose Estimation“, IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Systems (ICAS 2021), October, 2021.
S. Papadopoulos, I. Mademlis and I. Pitas, “Semantic Image Segmentation Guided by Scene Geometry“, IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Systems (ICAS 2021), October, 2021.
I. Pitas, “Optimal multidimensional cyclic convolution algorithms for deep learning and computer vision applications“, IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Systems (ICAS 2021), October, 2021.
M. Hamandi, Q. Sable, M. Tognon and A. Franchi, “Understanding the Omnidirectional Capability of a Generic Multi-rotor Aerial Vehicle“, 2021 Aerial Robotic Systems Physically Interacting with the Environment (AIRPHARO) doi= {10.1109/AIRPHARO52252.2021.9571051}, October, 2021.
G. Corsini, M. Jacquet, A.E. Jimenez-Cano, A. Afifi, D. Sidobre and A. Franchi, “A General Control Architecture for Visual Servoing and Physical Interaction Tasks for Fully-actuated Aerial Vehicle“, Aerial Robotic Systems Physically Interacting with the Environment (AIRPHARO 2021) doi= {10.1109/AIRPHARO52252.2021.9571053}, October, 2021.
F. Patrona, I. Mademlis and I. Pitas, “An Overview of Hand Gesture Languages for Autonomous UAV Handling“, Aerial Robotic Systems Physically Interacting with the Environment (AIRPHARO 2021), October, 2021.
A.M. Casado-Fauli, P. Ramon-Soria, C. Martin Diaz de Espada, M.A. Trujillo, A. Viguria and A. Ollero, “Assisted Flight Control for Aerial Contact UAVs in Industrial Environments“, Aerial Robotic Systems Physically Interacting with the Environment (AIRPHARO 2021), October, 2021.
A. Suarez, H. Romero, R. Salmoral, J.A. Acosta, J. Zambrano and A. Ollero, “Experimental Evaluation of Aerial Manipulation Robot for the Installation of Clip Type Bird Diverters: Outdoor Flight Tests“, Aerial Robotic Systems Physically Interacting with the Environment (AIRPHARO 2021), October, 2021.
C. Vourtsis, W. Stewart and D. Floreano, “Robotic Elytra: Insect-inspired Protective Wings for Resilient and Multi-modal Drones“, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, October, 2021.
L. Demkiv, M. Ruffo, G. Silano, J. Bednar and M. Saska, “An Application of Stereo Thermal Vision for Preliminary Inspection of Electrical Power Lines by MAVs“, Aerial Robotic Systems Physically Interacting with the Environment (AIRPHARO 2021), October, 2021.
E. Soria, F. Schiano and D. Floreano, “Distributed Predictive Drone Swarms in Cluttered Environments“, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, October, 2021.
I. Armengol, A. Suarez, G. Heredia and A. Ollero, “Design, Integration and Testing of Compliant Gripper for the Installation of Helical Bird Diverters on Power Lines“, Aerial Robotic Systems Physically Interacting with the Environment (AIRPHARO 2021), October, 2021.
C. Vourtsis, V. C. Rochel, F. R. Serrano, W. Stewart and D. Floreano, “Insect Inspired Self-Righting for Fixed-Wing Drones“, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, October, 2021.
G. Vasiljevic, D. Martinovic, M. Orsag and S. Bogdan, “Grabbing power line conductors based on the measurements of the magnetic field strength“, Aerial Robotic Systems Physically Interacting with the Environment (AIRPHARO 2021), October, 2021.
C. Papaioannidis, I. Mademlis and I. Pitas, “Autonomous UAV Safety by Visual Human Crowd Detection Using Multi-Task Deep Neural Networks“, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021), October, 2021.
J.P. Rodríguez-Gómez, R. Tapia, A. Gómez Eguíluz, J.R. Martínez-de Dios and A. Ollero, “UAV human teleoperation using event-based and frame-based cameras“, Aerial Robotic Systems Physically Interacting with the Environment (AIRPHARO 2021), October, 2021.
Y. Stasinchuk, M. Vrba, M. Petrlík, T. Báca, V. Spurný, D. Hert, D. Žaitlík, T. Nascimento and M. Saska, “A Multi-UAV System for Detection and Elimination of Multiple Targets“, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021), October, 2021.
I. Diez de los Rios, A. Suarez, E. Sanchel-Laulhe, I. Armengol and A. Ollero, “Winged Aerial Robot: Modular Design Approach“, 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), October, 2021.
V. Pritzl, P. Stephan and M. Saska, “Autonomous Flying into Buildings in a Firefighting Scenario“, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021), October, 2021.
N. Iversen, A. Kramberger, O.B. Schofield and E. Ebeid, “Novel Power Line Grasping Mechanism with Integrated Energy Harvester for UAV applications“, 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), October, 2021.
F.J. Fernández-Jiménez and J.R. Martínez-de Dios, “A Robot-Sensor Network Security Architecture for Monitoring Applications“, IEEE Internet of Things, September, 2021.
M. Mohammadi, D. Bicego, A. Franchi, D. Barcelli and D. Prattichizzo, “Aerial Tele-Manipulation with Passive Tool via Parallel Position/Force Control“, Applied Sciences, Special issue on Aerial Robotics for Inspection and Maintenance, September, 2021.
C. Pfeiffer and D. Scaramuzza, “Expertise Affects Drone Racing Performance“, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. and IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021), September, 2021.
L. Bauersfeld and D. Scaramuzza, “Range, Endurance, and Optimal Speed Estimates for Multicopters“, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. and IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021), September, 2021.
D . Hanover, P. Foehn, S. Sun, E. Kaufmann and D. Scaramuzza, “Performance, Precision, and Payloads: Adaptive Nonlinear MPC for Quadrotors“, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. and IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021), September, 2021.
S. Sun, A. Romero, P. Foehn, E. Kaufmann and D. Scaramuzza, “A Comparative Study of Nonlinear MPC and Differential-Flatness-Based Control for Quadrotor Agile Flight“, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters and IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021), September, 2021.
A. Romero, S. Sun, P. Foehn and D. Scaramuzza, “Model Predictive Contouring Control forNear-Time-Optimal Quadrotor Flight“, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters and IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021), September, 2021.
A. Gómez Eguíluz, J.P. Rodríguez-Gómez, R. Tapia, F.J. Maldonado, J.Á. Acosta, J.R. Martínez-de Dios and A. Ollero, “Why fly blind? Event-based visual guidance for ornithopter robot flight“, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2021), September, 2021.
Y. Song, M. Steinweg, E. Kaufmann and D. Scaramuzza, “Autonomous Drone Racing with Deep Reinforcement Learning“, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2021), September, 2021.
A. Dietsche, G. Cioffi, J. Hidalgo-Carrio and D. Scaramuzza, “Powerline Tracking with Event Cameras“, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2021), September, 2021.
N. Iversen, O.B. Schofield, L. Cousin, N. Ayoub, G. Vom Bögel and E. Ebeid, “Design, Integration and Implementation of an Intelligent and Self-Recharging Drone System for Autonomous Power Line Inspection“, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, September, 2021.
I. Karakostas, V. Mygdalis and I. Pitas, “Adversarial Optimization Scheme for Online Tracking Model Adaptation in Autonomous Systems“, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2021), September, 2021.
W. Stewart, E. Ajanic, M. Müller and D. Floreano, “Gone with the Wind: How to Swoop and Grasp like a Bird”, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, September, 2021.
D. Horla, W. Giernacki, T. Baca, V. Spurny and M. Saska, “AL-TUNE: In-flight tuning of an altitude controller for UAVs“, Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, August, 2021.
B. Barros Carlos, A. Franchi and G. Oriolo, “Towards Safe Human-Quadrotor Interaction: Mixed-Initiative Control via Real-Time NMPC“, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Special Issue on Shared Autonomy for Physical Human-Robot Interaction doi = {10.1109/LRA.2021.3096502}, August, 2021.
R. Fan, J. Cheng, Y. Yu, J. Deng, G. Giakos and I. Pitas, “Long-Awaited Next-Generation Road Damage Detection and Localization System is Finally Here“, 29th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2021), August, 2021.
C. Papaioannidis, D. Makrygiannis, I. Mademlis and I. Pitas, “Learning Fast and Robust Gesture Recognition“, 29th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2021), August, 2021.
D. Bonilla Licea, G. Silano, M. Ghogho and M. Saska, “Optimum Trajectory Planning for Multi-Rotor UAV Relays with Tilt and Antenna Orientation Variations“, 29th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2021), August, 2021.
F. Patrona, I. Mademlis and I. Pitas, “Self-Supervised Convolutional Neural Networks for Fast Gesture Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction“, IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation for Sustainability 2021(ICIAfS 2021), August, 2021.
P. Foehn, A. Romero and D. Scaramuzza, “Time-Optimal Planning for Quadrotor Waypoint Flight“, Science Robotics, July, 2021.
M. Ryll, D. Bicego, M. Giurato, M. Lovera and A. Franchi, “FAST-Hex – A Morphing Hexarotor: Design, Mechanical Implementation, Control and Experimental Validation“, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics doi= {10.3390/app11198955}, July, 2021.
L. Bauersfeld, E. Kaufmann, P. Foehn, S. Sun and D. Scaramuzza, “NeuroBEM: Hybrid Aerodynamic Quadrotor Model“, Robotics: Science and Systems 2021, July, 2021.
V. Kratky, A. Alcantara, J. Capitan, P. Stepan, M. Saska and A. Ollero, “Autonomous Aerial Filming with Distributed Lighting by a Team of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles“, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters and IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, July, 2021.
M. Hamandi, F. Usai, Q. Sable, N. Staub, M. Tognon and A. Franchi, “Design of Multirotor Aerial Vehicles: a Taxonomy Based on Input“, The International Journal of Robotics Research doi = {10.1177/02783649211025998, July, 2021.
J. Cacace, S.M. Orozco-Soto, A. Suarez, A. Caballero, M. Orsag, S. Bogdan, G. Vasiljevic, E. Ebeid, J.A. Acosta Rodriguez and A. Ollero, “Safe Local Aerial Manipulation for the Installation of Devices on Power Lines: AERIAL-CORE First Year Results and Designs“, Applied Sciences, July, 2021.
F. Nekovar, J. Faigl and M. Saska, “Multi-tour Set Traveling Salesman Problem in Planning Power Transmission Line Inspection“, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, July, 2021.
J. Horyna, T. Baca and M. Saska, “Autonomous Collaborative Carrying of a Beam-Type Payload by a Pair of Multi-rotor Helicopters“, International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), July, 2021.
V. Walter, V. Spurný, M. Petrlík, T. Báča, D. Žaitlík and M. Saska, “Extinguishing of Ground Fires by Fully Autonomous UAVs Motivated by the MBZIRC 2020 Competition“, International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), July, 2021.
M. Petrlik, T. Krajnik and M. Saska, “LIDAR-based Stabilization, Navigation and Localization for UAVs Operating in Dark Indoor Environments“, International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), July, 2021.
M. Terlizzi, G. Silano, L. Russo, M. Aatif, A. Basiri, V. Mariani, L. Iannelli and L. Glielmo, “A Vision-Based Algorithm for a Path Following Problem“, International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), July, 2021.
G. Silano, J. Bednar, T. Nascimento, J. Capitan, M. Saska and A. Ollero, “A Multi-Layer Software Architecture for Aerial Cognitive Multi-Robot Systems in Power Line Inspection Tasks“, International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), July, 2021.
V. Ramachandran, F. Schilling, A. Wu and D. Floreano, “Smart textiles that teach: Fabric-based haptic devices improve rates of motor learning“, Advanced Intelligent Systems, July, 2021.
A. Suarez, R. Salmoral, P. Zarco-Periñan and A. Ollero, “Experimental Evaluation of Aerial Manipulation Robot in Contact with 15 kV Power Line: Shielded and Long Reach Configurations“, IEEE Access, July, 2021.
F.J. Perez-Grau, J.R. Martinez-de Dios, J.L. Paneque, J.J. Acevedo, A. Torres-González, A. Viguria, J.R. Astorga and A. Ollero, “Introducing autonomous aerial robots in industrial manufacturing“, Journal of Manufacturing Systems, June, 2021.
S.R. Nekoo, J.A. Acosta, G. Heredia and A. Ollero, “Soft-Landing of Multi-Rotor Drones on Rack of Pipes using a Robust Nonlinear Control and Wind Modeling“, International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), June, 2021.
A. Ollero, M. Tognon, A. Suarez, D. Lee and A. Franchi, “Past, Present, and Future of Aerial Robotic Manipulators“, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, June, 2021.
N. Iversen, A. Kramberger, O. B. Schofield and E. Ebeid, “Pneumatic-Mechanical Systems in UAVs: Autonomous Power Line Sensor Unit Deployment“, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May, 2021.
E. Soria, F. Schiano and D. Floreano, “Non-linear Model Predictive Control of Aerial Multi-Robot Systems“, Nature Machine Intelligence, May, 2021.
W. Stewart, L. Guarino, E. Piskarev and D. Floreano, “Passive Perching with Energy Storage for Winged Aerial Robots“, Advanced Intelligent Systems, May, 2021.
S. Papadopoulos, I. Mademlis and I. Pitas, “Neural vision-based semantic 3D world modeling“, IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision Workshops (WACVW 2021), April, 2021.
D. Martinović, S. Bogdan and Z. Kovačić, “Mathematical Considerations for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Navigation in the Magnetic Field of Two Parallel Transmission Lines“, Applied Sciences, April, 2021.
T. Baca, M. Petrlik, M. Vrba, V. Spurny, R. Penicka, D. Hert and M. Saska, “The MRS UAV System: Pushing the Frontiers of Reproducible Research, Real-world Deployment, and Education with Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles“, Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, April, 2021.
Y. Yu, K. Wang, R. Guo, V. Lippiello and X. Yi, “A framework to design interaction control of aerial slung load systems: transfer from existing flight control of under-actuated aerial vehicles“, International Journal of System Science, April, 2021.
E. Nurellari, D. Bonilla Licea, M. Ghogho and M.E. Rivero-Angeles, “On Trajectory Design for Intruder Detection in Wireless Mobile Sensor Networks“, IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, March, 2021.
E. Baskaya, M. Hamandi, M. Bronz and A. Franchi, “A Novel Robust Hexarotor Capable of Static Hovering in Presence of Propeller Failure“, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, March, 2021.
D. Horla, M. Hamandi, M. Giernacki and A. Franchi, “Optimal Tuning of the Lateral-Dynamics Parameters for Aerial Vehicles with Bounded Lateral Force“, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, March, 2021.
M. Jacquet and A. Franchi, “Motor and Perception Constrained NMPC for Torque-controlled Generic Aerial Vehicles https://www.ieee-icra.org/files/ICRA2021AwardList.pdf“, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, March, 2021.
G. Silano, T. Baca, R. Penicka, D. Liuzza and M. Saska, “Power Line Inspection Tasks with Multi-Aerial Robot Systems via Signal Temporal Logic Specifications“, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, March, 2021.
J.P. Rodríguez-Gómez, A. Gómez Eguíluz, J.R. Martínez-de Dios and A. Ollero, “Auto-tuned event-based perceptionscheme for intrusion monitoring withUAS“, IEEE Access, March, 2021.
G. Silano and L. Iannelli, “MAT-Fly: an educational platform for simulating Unmanned Aerial Vehicles aimed to detect and track moving objects“, IEEE Access, March, 2021.
M. Macchini, M. Lortkipanidze, F. Schiano and D. Floreano, “The Impact of Virtual Reality and Viewpoints in Wearable Telerobotics“, IEEE VR 2021, March, 2021.
C. Pfeiffer and D. Scaramuzza, “Human-Piloted Drone Racing: VisualProcessing and Control“, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, February, 2021.
G. Torrente, E. Kaufmann, P. Fohn and D. Scaramuzza, “Data-Driven MPC for Quadrotors“, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, February, 2021.
P. Štibinger, G. Broughton, F. Majer, Z. Rozsypálek, A. Wang, K. Jindal, A. Zhou, D. Thakur, G. Loianno, T. Krajník and M. Saska, “Mobile Manipulator for Autonomous Localization, Grasping and Precise Placement of Construction Material in a Semi-structured Environment“, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, February, 2021.
J.P. Rodríguez-Gómez, R. Tapia, J.L. Paneque, P. Grau, A. Gómez Eguíluz, J.R. Martínez-de Dios and A. Ollero, “The GRIFFIN Perception Dataset: Bridging the Gap Between Flapping-Wing Flight and Robotic Perception“, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, January 2021.
C. Symeonidis, E. Kakaletsis, I. Mademlis, N. Nikolaidis, A. Tefas and I. Pitas, “Vision-based UAV Safe Landing exploiting Lightweight Deep NeuralNetworks“, International Conference on Image and Graphics Processing (ICIGP), 2021, January, 2021.
P. Petrácek, V. Walter, T. Báca and M. Saska, “Bio-inspired compact swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles without communication and external localization“, Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, January, 2021.
V. Spurny, V. Pritzl, V. Walter, M. Petrlik, T. Baca, P. Stepan, D. Zaitlik and M. Saska, “Autonomous Firefighting Inside Buildings by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle“, IEEE Access, January, 2021.
I. Karakostas, V. Mygdalis, A. Tefas and I. Pitas, “Occlusion detection and drift-avoidance framework for 2D visual object tracking“, Elsevier Signal Processing: Image Communication, January, 2021.
A. Suarez, M. Perez, G. Heredia, and A. Ollero, “Cartesian Aerial Manipulator with Compliant Arm“, Applied Sciences – Special Issue, January, 2021.
2020
C.R. de Cos, M.J. Fernandez, P.J. Sanchez-Cuevas, J.A. Acosta and A. Ollero, “High-Level Modular Autopilot Solution for Fast Prototyping of Unmanned Aerial Systems“, IEEE Access, December, 2020.
A. Suarez, P.J. Sanchez-Cuevas, G. Heredia and A. Ollero, “Aerial Physical Interaction in Grabbing Conditions with Lightweight and Compliant Dual Arms“, Applied Sciences – Special Issue, December, 2020.
S. G. Nurzaman, L. Wang, F. Iida, J. Lipton, D. Floreano and D. Rus, “Design Optimization of Soft Robots [From the Guest Editors]“, IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 10-11, December, 2020.
Y. Song, S. Naji, E. Kaufmann, A. Loquercio and D. Scaramuzza, “Flightmare: A Flexible Quadrotor Simulator“, Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), November, 2020.
M. Macchini, J. Frogg, F. Schiano and D. Floreano, “Does spontaneous motion lead to intuitive Body-Machine Interfaces? A fitness study of different body segments for wearable telerobotics“, 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, November, 2020.
H. Heidari and M. Saska, “Collision-free trajectory planning of multi-rotor UAVs in a wind condition based on modified potential field“, Mechanism and Machine Theory 156 (2021) 104140, October, 2020.
D. Kostadinov and D. Scaramuzza, “Online Weight-adaptive Nonlinear Model Predictive Control“, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, October, 2020.
A. Gómez Eguíluz, J.P. Rodríguez-Gómez, J.R. Martínez-de Dios and A. Ollero, “Asynchronous Event-based Line Tracking for Time-to-Contact Maneuvers in UAS“, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, October, 2020.
Y. Song and D. Scaramuzza, “Learning High-Level Policies for Model Predictive Control“, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, October, 2020.
A. Lopez-Lora, P.J. Sanchez-Cuevas, A. Suarez, A. Garofano-Soldado, A. Ollero and G. Heredia, “MHYRO: Modular HYbrid RObot for contact inspection and maintenance in oil&gas plants“, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, October, 2020.
G. Cioffi and D. Scaramuzza, “Tightly-coupled Fusion of Global Positional Measurementsin Optimization-based Visual-Inertial Odometry“, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, October, 2020.
P. Arpenti, F. Ruggiero and V. Lippiello, “Interconnection and damping assignment passivity-based control for gait generation in underactuated compass-like robots“, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), September, 2020.
C. Papaioannidis, V. Mygdalis and I. Pitas, “Domain-Translated 3D Object Pose Estimation“, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, September, 2020.
A. Suarez, J. Cacace and M. Orsag, “Aerial Robotics for Inspection and Maintenance“, Applied Sciences – Special Issue, September, 2020.
P. Foehn and D. Scaramuzza, “CPC: Complementary Progress Constraints forTime-Optimal Quadrotor Trajectories“, ArXiv, September, 2020.
D. Bicego and J. Mazzetto and M. Farina and R. Carli and A. Franchi, “Nonlinear Model Predictive Control with Enhanced Actuator Model for Multi-Rotor Aerial Vehicles with Generic Designs“, Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems DOI: 10.1007/s10846-020-01250-9, September, 2020.
A. Suarez, A. Caballero, A. Garofano, P.J. Sanchez-Cuevas, G. Heredia and A. Ollero, “Aerial Manipulator with Rolling Base for Inspection of Pipe Arrays“, IEEE Access, September, 2020.
M. Perez-Jimenez, M. A. Montes-Grova, P. Ramon-Soria, B.C. Arrue and A. Ollero., “POSITRON: lightweight active positioning compliant joints robotic arm in power lines inspection“, International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2020, September, 2020.
E. Umili, M. Tognon, D. Sanalitro, G. Oriolo and A. Franchi, “Communication-based and communication-less approaches for robust cooperative planning in construction with a team of UAVs“, International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2020, September, 2020.
A. Petitti, D. Sanalitro, M. Tognon, A. Milella, J. Cortés and A. Franchi, “Inertial estimation and energy-efficient control of a cable-suspended load with a team of UAVs“, International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2020, September, 2020.
M. Hamandi, K. Sawant, M. Tognon and A. Franchi, “Omni-plus-seven (O+7): An omnidirectional aerial prototype with a minimal number of uni-directional thrusters“, International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2020, September, 2020.
C.R. de Cos and J.A. Acosta, “Explicit Aerodynamic Model Characterization of a Multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in Quasi-Steady Flight“, Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics, August, 2020.
A. Suarez, P. Grau, G. Heredia and A. Ollero, “Winged Aerial Manipulation Robot with Dual Arm and Tail“, Applied Sciences, July, 2020.
G. Michieletto, A. Cenedese, L. Zaccarian and A. Franchi, “Hierarchical nonlinear control for multi-rotor asymptotic stabilization based on zero-moment direction“, Automatica DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2020.108991, July, 2020.
T. Nascimento and M. Saska, “Fast Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Very-Small Aerial Vehicles“, International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2020, June, 2020.
T. Uzakov, M. Saska and T. Nascimento, “UAV Vision-Based Nonlinear Formation Control Applied to Inspection of Electrical Power Lines“, International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2020, June, 2020.
J.J. Acevedo, I. Maza, A. Ollero and B.C. Arrue, “An Efficient Distributed Area Division Method For Cooperative Monitoring Applications with Multiple UAVs“, Sensors Vol 20(12), pp. 1-17, June, 2020.
M. Jacquet, G. Corsini, D. Bicego and A. Franchi, “Perception-constrained and Motor-level Nonlinear {MPC} for both Underactuated and Tilted-propeller UAVs“, International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May, 2020.
A. Suarez, F. Real, V. M. Vega, G. Heredia, A. Rodriguez-Castaño and A. Ollero, “Compliant Bimanual Aerial Manipulation: Standard and Long Reach Configurations“, IEEE Access, May, 2021.
M. Hamandi, M.Tognon and A. Franchi, “Direct Acceleration Feedback Control of Quadrotor Aerial Vehicles“, International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May, 2022.
A. Suarez, V. M. Vega, M. Fernandez, G. Heredia and A. Ollero, “Benchmarks for Aerial Manipulation“, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, April, 2020.
S. R. Nekoo, J. Á. Acosta, and A. Ollero, “Collision Avoidance of SDRE Controller using Artificial Potential Field Method: Application to Aerial Robotics“, International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), April, 2020.
D. Sanalitro, H. J. Savino, M. Tognon, J. Cortés and A. Franchi, “Full-Pose Manipulation Control of a Cable-Suspended Load With Multiple UAVs Under Uncertainties“, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2020.2969930, January, 2020.