Research topics
For a recent overview on my research (updated at June 2016) you can check out my HDR thesis and HDR defense,
and you can also check out the slides of my talks available here
List of research topics divided by areas:
Control:
- Motion control of multiple robots, Aerial Robotics, Connectivity maintenance, Rigidity maintenance, Leader selection, Aerial Physical Interaction
Estimation:
Planning:
Human-Machine Systems:
Software and hardware:
A partial selection of my research topics follows.
A complete list, with associated papers, is provided by the "Research Topics" block on the right side of the page.
Consider the problem of localizing and encircling a target using a multi-robot system. This kind of task is interesting in view of the large number of potential applications, among which we mention observation (retrieve and merge data about an object from different viewpoints), escorting (protect a member of the system from unfriendly agents) and entrapment (prevent the motion of an alien object).
In these works we address the problem of controlling a group of robots using only bearing measurements, e.g., the measurements that one could obtain directly from onboard cameras. First we conduct a detailed theoretical analysis and then we present an extensive simulative and experimental work with multiple quadrotor UAVs. 
This algorithm addresses a distributed, visibility-based pursuit-evasion problem in which one or more searchers must coordinate to guarantee detection of any and all evaders in an unknown planar environment while using only local information. The motivation is to develop algorithms to enable teams of robots to perform bomb or intruder detection and other related security tasks. It is a distributed clearing algorithm for a team of d-searchers with limited range sensors. 
