Publications
“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.
, “Shared Control: Balancing Autonomy and Human Assistance with a Group of Quadrotor UAVs.”, IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, Special Issue on Aerial Robotics and the Quadrotor Platform, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 57-68, 2012. preprint-pdf (7.17 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)
, “Fundamental Actuation Properties of Multi-rotors: Force-Moment Decoupling and Fail-safe Robustness”, IEEE Trans. on Robotics, vol. 34, no. 3, 2018. preprint-pdf (4.27 MB) video-1-explaination (708.53 KB) video-2-triggered_failures (7.25 MB) video-3-hitting_failure (4.71 MB)
, “Full-Pose Tracking Control for Aerial Robotic Systems with Laterally-Bounded Input Force”, IEEE Trans. on Robotics, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 534-541, 2018. preprint-pdf (3.69 MB) video-1 (21.32 MB) video-2 (16.88 MB) video-3 (4.22 MB)
, “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)
, “6D Interaction Control with Aerial Robots: The Flying End-Effector Paradigm”, The International Journal of Robotics Research, vol. 38, no. 9, pp. 1045-1062, 2019. preprint-pdf (6.86 MB) video-1 (10.22 MB) video-2 (17.98 MB) video-3 (13.97 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)
, “A Truly Redundant Aerial Manipulator exploiting a Multi-directional Thrust Base”, in 12th IFAC Symposium on Robot Control, Budapest, Hungary, 2018. preprint-pdf (995.27 KB)
, “An Open-Source Hardware/Software Architecture for Quadrotor UAVs”, in 2nd IFAC Workshop on Research, Education and Development of Unmanned Aerial Systems, Compiegne, France, 2013. preprint-pdf (1.24 MB)
, “Modeling, Control and Design Optimization for a Fully-actuated Hexarotor Aerial Vehicle with Tilted Propellers”, in 2015 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Seattle, WA, 2015, pp. 4006-4013. preprint-pdf (2.14 MB) video (8.98 MB)
, “Modeling and Control of FAST-Hex: a Fully-Actuated by Synchronized-Tilting Hexarotor”, in 2016 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and System, Daejeon, South Korea, 2016, pp. 1689-1694. preprint-pdf (952.56 KB) video (22.85 MB)
, “Energy-Efficient Trajectory Generation for a Hexarotor with Dual-Tilting Propellers”, in 2018 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Madrid, Spain, 2018. preprint-pdf (771.41 KB)
, “Control of Statically Hoverable Multi-Rotor Aerial Vehicles and Application to Rotor-Failure Robustness for Hexarotors”, in 2017 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Singapore, 2017. preprint-pdf (2.98 MB) video (2.97 MB)
, “6D Physical Interaction with a Fully Actuated Aerial Robot”, in 2017 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Singapore, 2017, pp. 5190-5195. preprint-pdf (3.04 MB) video (9.52 MB)
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