Publications
“FAST-Hex - A Morphing Hexarotor: Design, Mechanical Implementation, Control and Experimental Validation”, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2021. preprint-pdf (4.75 MB) video (36.54 MB)
, “Optimal Tuning of the Lateral-Dynamics Parameters for Aerial Vehicles with Bounded Lateral Force”, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 6, pp. 3949-3955, 2021. preprint-pdf (3.16 MB) video (16.08 MB)
, “A Study on Force-based Collaboration in Swarms”, Swarm Intelligence, vol. 14, pp. 57-82, 2019. preprint-pdf (18.52 MB)
, “A Truly Redundant Aerial Manipulator System with Application to Push-And-Slide Inspection in Industrial Plants”, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 1846-1851, 2019. preprint-pdf (4.39 MB) video (23.61 MB)
, “Aerial Co-Manipulation with Cables: The Role of Internal Force for Equilibria, Stability, and Passivity”, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Special Issue on Aerial Manipulation, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 2577-2583, 2018.
, Also selected for presentation at the 2018 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Brisbane , Australia
preprint-pdf (4.84 MB)“A Study on Force-based Collaboration in Flying Swarms”, in 11th Int. Conf. on Swarm Intelligence ANTS 2018, Rome, Italy, 2018. preprint-pdf (6.78 MB)
, “A Force-based Bilateral Teleoperation Framework for Aerial Robots in Contact with the Environment”, in 2015 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Seattle, WA, 2015, pp. 318-324. preprint-pdf (5.77 MB) video (9.13 MB)
, “The Flying Hand: a Formation of UAVs for Cooperative Aerial Tele-Manipulation”, in 2014 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Hong Kong, China, 2014, pp. 4335-4341. preprint-pdf (2.89 MB) video (4.44 MB)
, “The Flying Hand: a Teleoperation Framework for Cooperative Aerial Grasping and Transportation”, Automatica.it 2014, Convegno Annuale dei Docenti e Ricercatori Italiani in Automatica. Bergamo, Italy, 2014.
, “Image-based Road Network Clearing without Localization and without Maps using a Team of UAVs”, in 2014 European Control Conference, Strasbourg, France, 2014, pp. 1902-1908. preprint-pdf (1.82 MB) video (13.1 MB)
, “Turning a Near-hovering Controlled Quadrotor into a 3D Force Effector”, in 2014 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Hong Kong, China, 2014, pp. 6278-6284. preprint-pdf (1.2 MB) video (8.81 MB)
, “Hand Driven UAV Formation for Cooperative Grasping and Transportation: the Flying Hand”, RSS 2013 Work. on Aerial Mobile Manipulation. Berlin, Germany, 2013.
, “The TeleKyb Framework for a Modular and Extendible ROS-based Quadrotor Control”, in 6th European Conference on Mobile Robots, Barcelona, Spain, 2013. pdf-preprint (1.19 MB)
, “Modeling and Control of UAV Bearing-Formations with Bilateral High-Level Steering”, The International Journal of Robotics Research, Special Issue on 3D Exploration, Mapping, and Surveillance, vol. 31, no. 12, pp. 1504-1525, 2012. preprint-pdf (3.81 MB)
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