Publications
“Decentralized Methods for Cooperative Task Execution in Multi-robot Systems”, "La Sapienza" University of Rome, 2009. 2009-Franchi_PhDThesis.pdf (14.02 MB)
, “Mutual Localization in a Multi-Robot System with Anonymous Relative Position Measures”, Department of Computer and System Sciences Antonio Ruberti, 2009. pdf (1.29 MB)
, “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, vol. 6, pp. 7611-7618, 2021. preprint-pdf (1.49 MB) video (928.39 KB)
, “Simultaneous Calibration of Odometry and Sensor Parameters for Mobile Robots”, IEEE Transaction on Robotics, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 475-492, 2013. preprint-pdf (1.71 MB)
, “The Sensor-based Random Graph Method for Cooperative Robot Exploration”, IEEE/ASME Transaction on Mechatronics, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 163-175, 2009.
, Winner of the IEEE RAS ICYA Best Paper Award 2010 link
preprint-pdf (1.15 MB)“Mutual Localization in Multi-Robot Systems using Anonymous Relative Measurements”, The International Journal of Robotics Research, vol. 32, no. 11, pp. 1303-1322, 2013. preprint-pdf (3.28 MB) video (5.98 MB)
, “Ground and Aerial Mutual Localization using Anonymous Relative-Bearing Measurements”, IEEE Transaction on Robotics, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 1133-1151, 2016. preprint-pdf (4.74 MB) video (10.02 MB)
, “Decentralized Multi-Robot Encirclement of a 3D Target with Guaranteed Collision Avoidance”, Autonomous Robots, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 245-265, 2016. arXiv-pdf-v2-last-version (4.71 MB) arXiv-pdf-v1-first-version-(Old) (4.47 MB)
, “Two Measurement Scenarios for Anonymous Mutual Localization in Multi-UAV Systems”, in 2nd IFAC Workshop on Multivehicle Systems, Espoo, Finland, 2012. preprint-pdf (1.09 MB)
, “On the Solvability of the Mutual Localization Problem with Anonymous Position Measures”, in 2010 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Anchorage, AK, 2010, pp. 3193-3199. pdf (836.33 KB) video (3.03 MB)
, “A Randomized Strategy for Cooperative Robot Exploration”, in 2007 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Rome, Italy, 2007, pp. 768-774. pdf (802.55 KB)
, “Probabilistic Mutual Localization in Multi-agent Systems from Anonymous Position Measures”, in 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, GA, USA, 2010, pp. 6534-6540. pdf (1.26 MB)
, “Mutual Localization using Anonymous Bearing Measurements”, in 2011 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, San Francisco, CA, 2011, pp. 469-474. preprint-pdf (1.24 MB) video (4.73 MB)
, “Mutual Localization in a Multi-Robot System with Anonymous Relative Position Measures”, in 2009 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, St. Louis, MO, 2009, pp. 3974-3980. pdf (1.93 MB) video (3.52 MB)
, “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)
, “Distributed Target Localization and Encirclement with a Multi-robot System”, in 7th IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles, Lecce, Italy, 2010. pdf (929.67 KB)
, “A decentralized strategy for cooperative robot exploration”, in ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Robot communication and coordination, Athens, Greece, 2007, vol. 318. pdf (2.67 MB)
, “Decentralized cooperative exploration: Implementation and experiments”, in 10th Int. Conf. on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Baden-Baden, Germany, 2008, pp. 348-355. pdf (634.37 KB)
, “Communication-based and Communication-less approaches for Robust Cooperative Planning in Construction with a Team of UAVs”, in 2020 Int. Conf. on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Athens, Greece, 2020. preprint-pdf (947.92 KB) video (10.76 MB)
, “Aerial Grasping of a Moving Target with a Quadrotor UAV”, in 2012 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vilamoura, Portugal, 2012, pp. 4985-4992. preprint-pdf (2.12 MB) video (7.13 MB)
, “3D Mutual Localization with Anonymous Bearing Measurements”, in 2012 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, St. Paul, MN, 2012. preprint-pdf (1.87 MB)
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