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Mon, 11/06/2023 - 09:30

On November 30th 2023 I will drop my position as associated research at LAAS-CNRS and focus only on my double affiliation between the University of Twente and the recent appointment to the Sapienza University of Rome

As of today I officially stop updating this website.

The means of communication also changed since 10 years ago when I created the website, and many other channels... more

Fri, 06/30/2023 - 07:13

I have recently opened three PhD student/researcher positions in aerial robotics in the fields of mechanical design, control, perception, and AI at the Robotics and Mechatronics department at the University of Twente (The Netherlands)

The links below provide information about the jobs and the application procedure:

One position is on design, prototype realization, and control... more

Fri, 06/30/2023 - 07:10

I had the honor to be elevated to the grade of IEEE Fellow (class of 2023).

This prestigious honour has been awarded by the IEEE – one of the largest association of technical professionals in the world – and acknowledges my work on “contribution to modelling, design, and control for aerial and distributed robotic systems”.

The elevation takes effect from 1 January 2023 and has... more

Sun, 11/21/2021 - 09:02

I am truly honored that a paper from my group has been awarded to be in the top three finalist papers competing for the Best UAV paper award at IEEE ICRA 2021!
An amazing result considering that this year ICRA had more than 4000 submissions and 2000 papers accepted, a huge number!

Honored also to represent Europe in aerial robotics in the finalist pool that included two other... more

Thu, 05/27/2021 - 10:55

I am honored to be listed 47th on the Top 100 AMiner AI2000 Most Influential Scholars in the Field of Robotics list for the decade 2011-2020

https://www.aminer.org/ai2000/robotics

This list consists of the topmost cited scholars in the field of Robotics over the past decade.

This is a huge achievement and an amazing... more

Mon, 03/22/2021 - 08:39

*Teams*: Rainbow (IRISA/Inria Rennes) and Robotics and Mechatronics group (Univ. Twente, Netherlands)

*Advisors of PhD*: Paolo Robuffo Giordano, Antonio Franchi, Quentin Delamare

*How to apply*: Interested candidates are requested to apply via this form:
https://team.inria.fr/rainbow/appl-form-... more

Thu, 09/03/2020 - 07:02

My former postdoc Markus Ryll just became professor of Autonomous Aerial Systems at TU-Munich, one of the best technical universities in the world and arguably the best in Germany, his home country.

https://www.lrg.tum.de/en/flr/organization/news/article/new-at-tum-prof-...

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Sat, 07/04/2020 - 09:53

The book 'Theory and Applications for Control of Aerial Robots in Physical Interaction Through Tethers' by Marco Tognon and myself is now published as a volume in the prestigious Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics book series (STAR)!

The book stems from a research line that my former Ph.D. student Marco Tognon and I pursued from 2015 till 2019 and presents in a unified, organized, and... more

Sat, 03/14/2020 - 09:53

It is a big pleasure to announce that our Special Issue on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems is now published on Autonomous Robots. Congratulations to all the authors!

Enjoy the top-level articles published in the issue!

https://link.springer.com/journal/10514/44/3
Autonomous Robots
Volume 44, Issue 3-4,... more

Thu, 10/17/2019 - 09:58

Marco Tognon has been awarded the "Prix de thèse Année 2018 du GDR Robotique" which awards the best PhD thesis among the ones defended in 2018 in any lab and university in France in the field of Robotics.

Marco Tognon's PhD thesis - entitled Theory and Applications for Control and Motion Planning for Aerial Robots in Physical Interaction with particular focus on Tethered Aerial... more

Thu, 10/10/2019 - 09:42

Giulia Michieletto has been one of the three finalists for the 2019 'Fabrizio Flacco' Young Author Best Paper Award of the Italian Chapter of the IEEE Robotica and Automation Society.

The award is given to a principal co-author of a recent paper published in one of the journals sponsored by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) who was a PhD student at the time of the paper... more

Fri, 05/24/2019 - 21:28

Marco Tognon has been awarded the 2019 Prix Aerospace Valley for the best PhD thesis in the field of aeronautics, space, and embedded systems. The prize is is given by the Aerospace Valley cluster, the first aeronautic and space cluster in Europe, which has over 500 affiliated companies responsible for some 120,000 jobs in the aviation and space flight industries and with some 8,500... more

Fri, 03/15/2019 - 17:05

We have five papers to be presented at the 2019 IEEE ICRA conference
four of them are primarily published in journals: IEEE Transactions on Robotics (1), IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2), IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine (1).

See you in Montreal!

Here is the list of accepted papers:

T-RO + ICRA:
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Sat, 12/22/2018 - 15:57

The issue of December 2018 of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine features 8 papers on the special topic 'Robotic Technologies for Predictive Maintenance of Assets and Infrastructure’

2 of these papers are co-authored by us:

[1] The AEROARMS Project: Aerial Robots with Advanced Manipulation Capabilities for Inspection and... more

Fri, 01/26/2018 - 00:24

I am the recipient, together with Nora Ayanian, Robert Fitch, and Lorenzo Sabattini, of the 2018 RAS Most Active Technical Committee Award from the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society for our service as co-chairs of the Technical Committee on Multi-Robot Systems.

http://www... more

Sun, 01/14/2018 - 20:09

We have got accepted seven papers in total for the 2018 IEEE ICRA conference (6) and the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (5). See you in Brisbane!

Here is the list of accepted papers:

RA-L + ICRA 2018:
[1],
[2],
[3],... more

Mon, 10/09/2017 - 14:26

Description
The autumnal session of the GT-UAV 2017 will be hosted at LAAS-CNRS in Toulouse on October 19th, 2017.

During the event several talks about UAVs will be proposed by senior researchers and students as well.

Unmanned aerial vehicles, also known as aerial robot, UAVs, UASs, or civilian drones, are robots capable to fly autonomously or semi-... more

Sat, 06/10/2017 - 19:19

I am the promoter and the principal organizer of the GDR MACS Tutorial held in conjunction with the 2017 IFAC World Congress

Dates&Venue: 8 Jul 2017 - Pierre Baudis Congress Center, Toulouse (France)

Website: https://mecav2017.sciencesconf.org/

Program:
08:50 - 09:00 Intro

09:00 - 10:30
Modeling and... more

Sat, 04/29/2017 - 09:11

The Tele-MAGMaS team, which I coordinated, has demonstrated the first example of Multiple Aerial-Ground Manipulator System, a heterogeneous multi-robot system composed by a ground manipulator and an aerial robot cooperating together to manipulate a long object. 

Tele-MAGMaS team: 
LAAS-CNRS: A. Franchi (coordinator), N. Staub, D. Bicego, V. Arellano, Q.... more

Sat, 02/25/2017 - 15:10

We have got accepted all the five papers that we submitted to the 2017 IEEE ICRA conference. See you in Singapore!

Here is the list: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5].


References... more

Wed, 02/15/2017 - 11:43

I am a co-organizer of the 2017 IFACT accepted Full-day Workshop "Rigidity Theory for Multi-agent Systems Meets Parallel Robots", an event of the Full-day workshop at the 2017 IFAC World Congress in Toulouse (France)

The workshop will be held on 9th July 2017 in the 2017 IFAC conference venue in Toulouse.

More information available at the workshop website:... more

Sun, 02/12/2017 - 14:02

I was the main organizer of the 1st Review Meeting of AeRoArms at LAAS-CNRS (Feb. 6th-9th 2017).

You can find here some pictures of this exciting event!

Thu, 02/02/2017 - 08:26

I am the co-funder and program co-chair of the 1st edition of the International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems, MRS 2017, in Los Angeles, California.

MRS is a new initiative of the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Multi-Robot Systems. The goal of the conference is to bring together researchers who are in the field of multi-robot systems (MRS) both directly and... more

Sun, 12/04/2016 - 17:04

I am a co-organizer of the 2017 ICRA accepted Full-day Workshop "Workshop on Human Multi-Robot Systems Interaction", an event of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Singapore.

The workshop will be held on June 2nd 2017 in the 2017 ICRA conference venue in Singapore.

More information available at the workshop website:... more

Sun, 11/20/2016 - 18:18

Our proposed project, Tele-MAGMaS, has been selected as one of the 5 finalists of the Kuka Innovation Award 2017 Advanced Mechatronics Challenge https://www.kuka.com/en-de/press/events/kuka-innovation-award.

UPDATE: watch the Tele-MAGMaS demonstration at the Hannover Fair... more

Mon, 11/14/2016 - 15:30

In October 2016 I was appointed Associate Editor of the IEEE Transaction on Robotics, one of the most prestigious journal in the Robotics community.

Thu, 08/04/2016 - 19:24

On June 27th, 2016 I have defended and obtained my Professorial Habilitation (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, HDR, in French). The HDR title has been bestowed by the Toulouse Institute of Technology (Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, INPT). The defense took place at LAAS-CNRS in Toulouse.

The title of my HDR thesis is " Methods... more

Mon, 07/18/2016 - 19:00

In May 2016 I was elevated to the grade of IEEE Senior member.

If you wonder what senior member "means", look here: http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/senior/index.html .

Sun, 07/03/2016 - 11:40

We have got accepted all the six papers that we submitted to the 2016 IROS conference.

Here is the list: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6].


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Fri, 02/05/2016 - 13:25

I am a promoter and part of the organizing committee of the IEEE RAS Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems (MRSSS 2016).

Dates&Venue: 6-10 June 2016 @ National University of Singapore, Republic of Singapore

Website: http://www.comp.nus.edu.... more

Sat, 01/16/2016 - 12:32

I am a co-organizer of the ICRA 2016 Half-day Workshop "Workshop on Fielded Multi-Robot Systems Operating on land, Sea, and Air", an event of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Stockholm, Sweden.

More information will be available soon at the workshop website http://mrs-icra2016.sciencesconf.org/.

Sat, 01/16/2016 - 12:31

I am a co-organizer of the ICRA 2016 Half-day Workshop "Workshop on Aerial Robotics Manipulation: from Simulation to Real-life", an event of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Stockholm, Sweden.

More information will be available soon at the workshop website: http://www.aerial-manipulation-workshop.... more

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 16:02

The kick-off meeting of the AEROARMS project was held in Sevilla (Spain) last 2-3 June 2015. If you want to know more about this project look here.

Wed, 04/22/2015 - 15:15

I am co-organizing the workshop Principles of Multi-Robot Systems at the 2015 RSS, Robotics Science and Systems conference in July 16th, Rome, Italy.

You can visit the website http://mrs-rss2015.sciencesconf.org/ for more information on the list of speakers and the call for contribution.

Abstract: The objective of this workshop... more

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 09:42

In September 2014 I co-founded the new IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Multi-Robot Systems together with Lorenzo Sabattini, Nora Ayanian, and Robert Fitch.

The goal of the TC is to create a gathering point for the wide and diversified community of researchers interested in Multi-Robot Systems.

I am currently serving as a co-chair of the TC.

You can find... more

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 15:17

I am a co-organizer of the IROS 2014 Full-day Workshop "The future of multiple-robot research and its multiple identities", an event of the ... more

Sun, 01/26/2014 - 20:24

I am the main organizer of the ICRA 2014 Half-day Workshop On the Centrality of Decentralization in Multi-robot Systems: Holy Grail or False Idol?, an event of the 2014 IEEE International Conference of Robotics and Automation, Hong Kong, China.

More information at the ... more

Thu, 05/02/2013 - 23:26
Sat, 03/23/2013 - 23:00

I was appointed as associate editor of IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine in January 2013.

This is the official announcement (Vol. 20(1), Page: 112, 2013):

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Sat, 02/02/2013 - 00:41
Sun, 10/28/2012 - 11:08

In 2012 I co-organized two demo events on Intercontinental Shared Control of Multiple UAVs.

Sat, 02/11/2012 - 01:51

I am one of the organizers of the ICRA 2012 Workshop on Haptic Teleoperation of Mobile Robots: Theory, Applications and Perspectives, which has been selected as an event of the 2012 IEEE International Conference of Robotics and Automation, St. Paul, MN.

More information at the... more

Wed, 09/15/2010 - 00:22

I am the winner of the IEEE RAS Italian Chapter Young Author Best Paper Award 2010 with the paper [1] realated to my research on Multi-robot Exploration. The RAS Italian Chapter has been the recipient of the "RAS Chapter of the year award" twice, both in 2006 and 2009.

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