Antonio Franchi
“Cooperative Manipulation”, in Encyclopedia of Robotics, Springer, 2023.
, “Multi-directional Thrust Aerial Rotor Vehicles”, in Encyclopedia of Robotics, Springer" pages =, 2023.
, “Indirect Force Control of a Cable-suspended Aerial Multi-Robot Manipulator”, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 6726-6733, 2022. preprint-pdf (8.41 MB) video (24.24 MB)
, “Motor-level N-MPC for Cooperative Active Perception with Multiple Heterogeneous UAVs”, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 7, pp. 2063-2070, 2022. preprint-pdf (1.02 MB) video (42.77 MB)
, “Toward Physical Human-Robot Interaction Control with Aerial Manipulators: Compliance, Redundancy Resolution, and Input Limits”, in 2022 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Philadelphia, PA, 2022.
, “Aerial Tele-Manipulation with Passive Tool via Parallel Position/Force Control”, Applied Sciences, Special issue on Aerial Robotics for Inspection and Maintenance, vol. 11, 2021.
, “Design of Multirotor Aerial Vehicles: a Taxonomy Based on Input Allocation”, The International Journal of Robotics Research, vol. 40, pp. 1015-1044, 2021. preprint-pdf (12.72 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)
, “A General Control Architecture for Visual Servoing and Physical Interaction Tasks for Fully-actuated Aerial Vehicles”, in 2021 Aerial Robotic Systems Physically Interacting with the Environment (AIRPHARO), Biograd na Moru, Croatia, 2021.
, “Hierarchical Control of Redundant Aerial Manipulators with Enhanced Field of View”, in 2021 Int. Conf. on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Athens, Greece, 2021.
, “Motor and Perception Constrained NMPC for Torque-controlled Generic Aerial Vehicles”, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 6, pp. 518-525, 2021. preprint-pdf (4.15 MB) video (26.2 MB)
, “A Novel Robust Hexarotor Capable of Static Hovering in Presence of Propeller Failure”, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2021. preprint-pdf (4.29 MB) video (13.92 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)
, “Past, Present, and Future of Aerial Robotic Manipulators”, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2021. preprint-pdf (9.4 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)
, “Understanding the Omnidirectional Capability of a Generic Multi-rotor Aerial Vehicle”, in 2021 Aerial Robotic Systems Physically Interacting with the Environment (AIRPHARO), Biograd na Moru, Croatia, 2021.
, “Whole-Body Teleoperation and Shared Control of Redundant Robots with Applications to Aerial Manipulation”, Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, vol. 102, 2021.
, “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)
, “Direct Acceleration Feedback Control of Quadrotor Aerial Vehicles”, in 2020 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Paris, France, 2020. preprint-pdf (1.7 MB) video (16.98 MB)
, “Direct Force Feedback Control and Online Multi-task Optimization for Aerial Manipulators”, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 331-338, 2020. preprint-pdf (3.35 MB) video (13.67 MB)
, “Full-pose Manipulation Control of a Cable-suspended load with Multiple UAVs under Uncertainties”, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 2185-2191, 2020. preprint-pdf (4.08 MB) video (13.69 MB)
, “Hierarchical nonlinear control for multi-rotor asymptotic stabilization based on zero-moment direction”, Automatica, 2020. preprint-pdf (3.63 MB)
, “Inertial Estimation and Energy-Efficient Control of a Cable-suspended Load with a Team of UAVs”, in 2020 Int. Conf. on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Athens, Greece, 2020. preprint-pdf (2.08 MB)
, “Nonlinear Model Predictive Control with Enhanced Actuator Model for Multi-Rotor Aerial Vehicles with Generic Designs”, Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, vol. 100, pp. 1213-1247, 2020. preprint-pdf (17.6 MB)
, “Omni-Plus-Seven (O7+): An Omnidirectional Aerial Prototype with a Minimal Number of Uni-directional Thrusters”, in 2020 Int. Conf. on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Athens, Greece, 2020. preprint-pdf (4.36 MB) video (10.59 MB)
, “Perception-constrained and Motor-level Nonlinear MPC for both Underactuated and Tilted-propeller UAVs”, in 2020 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Paris, France, 2020. video (21.66 MB) preprint-pdf (1.53 MB)
, Theory and Applications for Control of Aerial Robots in Physical Interaction Through Tethers, vol. 140. 2020. preprint-pdf (17.08 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)
, “Aerial Physical Interaction via IDA-PBC”, The International Journal of Robotics Research, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 403–421, 2019. preprint-pdf (7.38 MB) video (14.22 MB)
, “Cooperative Aerial Load Transportation via Sampled Communication”, IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 4, pp. 277-282, 2019. preprint-pdf (820.93 KB)
, “Development of SAM: cable-Suspended Aerial Manipulator”, in 2019 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Montreal, Canada, 2019. preprint-pdf (1.43 MB)
, “Distributed Estimation of State and Parameters in Multi-Agent Cooperative Manipulation”, IEEE Trans. on Control of Network Systems, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 690-701, 2019. preprint-pdf (5.44 MB)
, “Force-Moment Decoupling and Rotor-Failure Robustness for Star-Shaped Generically-Tilted Multi-Rotors”, in In 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Nice, France, 2019.
, “Input Allocation for the Propeller-Based Overactuated Platform ROSPO”, IEEE Trans. on Control Systems Technology, vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 2720-2727, 2019. preprint-pdf (3.05 MB)
, “Interaction Control of Platforms with Multi-directional Total Thrust”, in Aerial Robotic Manipulation, vol. 129, Springer, 2019, pp. 175-189. preprint-pdf (2.88 MB)
, “Online Leader Selection for Improved Collective Tracking and Formation Control: the Second Order Case”, IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 1415-1425, 2019. preprint-pdf (1.53 MB)
, “Platforms with Multi-directional Total Thrust”, in Aerial Robotic Manipulation, Springer, 2019, pp. 53-65. preprint-pdf (2.88 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)
, “UVDAR System for Visual Relative Localization with application to Leader-Follower Formations of Multirotor UAVs”, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 2637-2644, 2019. preprint-pdf (1.57 MB) video (24.25 MB)
, “Adaptive Trajectory Tracking for Quadrotor MAVs in Presence of Parameter Uncertainties and External Disturbances”, IEEE Trans. on Control Systems Technology, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 248–254, 2018.
, “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)“The AEROARMS Project: Aerial Robots with Advanced Manipulation Capabilities for Inspection and Maintenance”, IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, Special Issue on Floating-base (Aerial and Underwater) Manipulation, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 12-23, 2018. preprint-pdf (4.77 MB)
, “Control-Aware Motion Planning for Task-Constrained Aerial Manipulation”, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Special Issue on Aerial Manipulation, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 2478-2484, 2018.
, Also selected for presentation at the 2018 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Brisbane , Australia
preprint-pdf (5.54 MB) video (8.07 MB)“Design and Input Allocation for Robots with Saturated Inputs via Genetic Algorithms”, in 12th IFAC Symposium on Robot Control, Budapest, Hungary, 2018. preprint-pdf (759.54 KB)
, “Differential Flatness of Quadrotor Dynamics Subject to Rotor Drag for Accurate Tracking of High-Speed Trajectories”, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 620-626, 2018.
, Also selected for presentation at the 2018 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Brisbane , Australia
preprint-pdf (6.21 MB) video (10.14 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)
, “Fast Mutual Relative Localization of UAVs using Ultraviolet LED markers”, in 2018 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Dallas, TX, 2018, pp. 1217-1226. preprint-pdf (3.68 MB) video (11.25 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)
, “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)
, “Modeling and Control of Multiple Aerial-Ground Manipulator System with Load Flexibility”, in 2018 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Madrid, Spain, 2018. preprint-pdf (2.16 MB) video (3.71 MB)
, “Mutual Localization of UAVs based on Blinking Ultraviolet Markers and 3D Time-Position Hough Transform”, in 14th IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Munich, Germany, 2018. preprint-pdf (1.41 MB) video (11.43 MB)
, “A Novel Experimental Model and a Drag-optimal Allocation Method for Variable-Pitch Propellers in Multirotors”, IEEE Access, vol. 6, pp. 68155-68168, 2018. preprint-pdf (5.4 MB)
, “Omnidirectional Aerial Vehicles with Unidirectional Thrusters: Theory, Optimal Design, and Control”, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 2277-2282, 2018. preprint-pdf (3.44 MB)
, “Online Leader Selection for Improved Collective Tracking and Formation Maintenance”, IEEE Trans. on Control of Network Systems, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 3-13, 2018. arXiv-pdf (670.68 KB)
, “Shared Planning and Control for Mobile Robots with Integral Haptic Feedback”, The International Journal of Robotics Research, vol. 37, no. 11, pp. 1395-1420, 2018. preprint-pdf (16.41 MB) video-1-hil-simulations (9.17 MB) video-2-experiments (22.12 MB) video-3-user-study (23.48 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)
, “The Tele-MAGMaS: an Aerial-Ground Co-manipulator System”, IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 66-75, 2018. preprint-pdf (5.52 MB) video (21.39 MB)
, “Towards a Flying Assistant Paradigm: the OTHex”, in 2018 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Brisbane, Australia, 2018, pp. 6997-7002. preprint-pdf (2.88 MB) video (9.31 MB)
, “Towards Aerial Physical Locomotion: the Contact-Fly-Contact Problem”, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Special Issue on Aerial Manipulation, vol. 3, pp. 1514-1521, 2018.
, Also selected for presentation at the 2018 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Brisbane , Australia
preprint-pdf (654.75 KB) video (4.26 MB)“Trajectory Generation for Minimum Closed-Loop State Sensitivity”, in 2018 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Brisbane, Australia, 2018, pp. 286-293. preprint-pdf (1.11 MB) video (3.76 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)
, “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)
, “Adaptive Closed-loop Speed Control of BLDC Motors with Applications to Multi-rotor Aerial Vehicles”, in 2017 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Singapore, 2017. preprint-pdf (1.54 MB)
, “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)
, “Decentralized Simultaneous Multi-target Exploration using a Connected Network of Multiple Robots”, Autonomous Robots, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 989-1011, 2017. arXiv-pdf (3 MB) video-experiment-quadrotors (19.94 MB) video-sims-empty-space (3.86 MB) video-sims-office-space (3.97 MB) video-sims-town-space (4.68 MB)
, “Dynamic Decentralized Control for Protocentric Aerial Manipulators”, in 2017 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Singapore, 2017, pp. 6375-6380. preprint-pdf (3.63 MB) video (8.49 MB)
, “Dynamics, Control, and Estimation for Aerial Robots Tethered by Cables or Bars”, IEEE Transaction on Robotics, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 834-845, 2017. arXiv-pdf-v2 (1.44 MB)
, “Hierarchical Control of the Over-Actuated ROSPO Platform via Static Input Allocation”, in 20th IFAC World Congress, Toulouse, France, 2017. preprint-pdf (1.71 MB)
, “Human-Collaborative Schemes in the Motion Control of Single and Multiple Mobile Robots”, in Trends in Control and Decision-Making for Human-Robot Collaboration Systems, Springer, 2017, pp. 301-324. preprint-pdf (6.37 MB)
, “Landing and take-off on/from sloped and non-planar surfaces with more than 50 degrees of inclination”, in 2017 International Micro Air Vehicle Conference, Toulouse, France, 2017, pp. 97-102. preprint-pdf (3.57 MB)
, “Multi-Robot Path Planning with Maintenance of Generalized Connectivity”, in The 1st Int. Symp. on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems, Los Angeles, CA, 2017. preprint-pdf (2.56 MB)
, “Nonlinear Control of Multi-Rotor Aerial Vehicles Based on the Zero-Moment Direction”, in 20th IFAC World Congress, Toulouse, France, 2017. preprint-pdf (1.04 MB)
, “Position Tracking Control for an Aerial Robot Passively Tethered to an Independently Moving Platform”, in 20th IFAC World Congress, Toulouse, France, 2017. preprint-pdf (1.24 MB)
, “Towards Robotic MAGMaS: Multiple Aerial-Ground Manipulator Systems”, in 2017 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Singapore, 2017, pp. 1307-1312. preprint-pdf (4.99 MB) video (2.77 MB)
, “Visual Marker based Multi-Sensor Fusion State Estimation”, in 20th IFAC World Congress, Toulouse, France, 2017. preprint-pdf (1.92 MB)
, “Aerial Robots with Rigid/Elastic-joint Arms: Single-joint Controllability Study and Preliminary Experiments”, in 2016 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and System, Daejeon, South Korea, 2016, pp. 1667-1672. preprint-pdf (482.67 KB)
, “Aggressive Maneuver Regulation of a Quadrotor UAV”, in Robotics Research, The 16th International Symposium ISRR, vol. 114, Springer, 2016, pp. 95-112. preprint-pdf (934.12 KB) video_no_sat (652.65 KB) video_no_sat_zoom (1005.42 KB) video_sat_8_5 (748.78 KB) video_sat_8_5_zoom (1.43 MB) video_sat_7 (646.52 KB) video_sat_7_zoom (1.27 MB)
, “Bearing Rigidity Theory in SE(3)”, in 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, NV, 2016, pp. 5950-5955. 2016o-MicCenFra-preprint.pdf (204.99 KB)
, “Cooperative Aerial Tele-Manipulation with Haptic Feedback”, in 2016 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and System, Daejeon, South Korea, 2016, pp. 5092-5098. preprint-pdf (2.51 MB) video (4.03 MB)
, “Decentralized Motion Control for Cooperative Manipulation with a Team of Networked Mobile Manipulators”, in 2016 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Stockholm, Sweden, 2016, pp. 441-446. preprint-pdf (1.19 MB) video (2.9 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)
, “Differential Flatness and Control of Protocentric Aerial Manipulators with Any Number of Arms and Mixed Rigid-/Elastic-Joints”, in 2016 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and System, Daejeon, South Korea, 2016, pp. 561-566. preprint-pdf (1.94 MB) tech_report-pdf (1015.82 KB) video (5.4 MB)
, “From Tracking to Robust Maneuver Regulation: an Easy-to-Design Approach for VTOL Aerial Robots”, in 2016 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Stockholm, Sweden, 2016, pp. 2965-2970. preprint-pdf (1.58 MB) video (9.15 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)
, “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)
, “Multi-Robot Localization via GPS and Relative Measurements in the Presence of Asynchronous and Lossy Communication”, in 15th European Control Conference, Aalborg, Denmark, 2016.
, “Observer-based Control of Position and Tension for an Aerial Robot Tethered to a Moving Platform”, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 732-737, 2016.
, Also selected for presentation at the 2016 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Stockholm , Sweden
preprint-pdf (1.42 MB) video (8.54 MB)“A Rigidity-Based Decentralized Bearing Formation Controller for Groups of Quadrotor UAVs”, in 2016 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and System, Daejeon, South Korea, 2016, pp. 5099-5106. preprint-pdf (2.99 MB) video (4.05 MB)
, “Takeoff and Landing on Slopes via Inclined Hovering with a Tethered Aerial Robot”, in 2016 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Daejeon, South Korea, 2016, pp. 1702-1707. preprint-pdf (974.21 KB) video (28.46 MB)
, “Battery-aware Dynamical Modeling and Identification for the Total Thrust in Multi-rotor UAVs using only an Onboard Accelerometer”, in 2015 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Seattle, WA, 2015, pp. 3341-3346. preprint-pdf (779.35 KB) video (8.85 MB)
, “Bearing-Only Formation Control Using an SE(2) Rigidity Theory”, in 54rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Osaka, Japan, 2015, pp. 6121-6126. preprint-pdf (1.61 MB)
, “Control of Motion and Internal Stresses for a Chain of Two Underactuated Aerial Robots”, in 14th European Control Conference, Linz, Austria, 2015, pp. 1620-1625. preprint-pdf (307.59 KB)
, “Decentralized Parameter Estimation and Observation for Cooperative Mobile Manipulation of an Unknown Load using Noisy Measurements”, in 2015 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Seattle, WA, 2015, pp. 5517-5522. preprint-pdf (1023.7 KB)
, “Design, Identification and Experimental Testing of a Light-Weight Flexible-joint Arm for Aerial Physical Interaction”, in 2015 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Seattle, WA, 2015, pp. 870-876. preprint-pdf (1.28 MB) video (10 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)
, “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)
, “Nonlinear Observer for the Control of Bi-Tethered Multi Aerial Robots”, in 2015 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Hamburg, Germany, 2015, pp. 1852-1857. preprint-pdf (1.45 MB) video (8.31 MB)
, “Nonlinear Observer-based Tracking Control of Link Stress and Elevation for a Tethered Aerial Robot using Inertial-only Measurements”, in 2015 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Seattle, WA, 2015, pp. 3994-3999. preprint-pdf (224.15 KB) video (8.84 MB)
, “Decentralized Rigidity Maintenance Control with Range Measurements for Multi-Robot Systems”, The International Journal of Robotics Research, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 105-128, 2014. arXiv-pdf-v3-last-version (4.19 MB)
, “Distributed Estimation of the Inertial Parameters of an Unknown Load via Multi-Robot Manipulation”, in 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Los Angeles, CA, 2014, pp. 6111-6116. preprint-pdf (1.13 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)
, “Multi-Target Visual Tracking with UAVs”, in 2014 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Chicago, IL, 2014, pp. 656-661. preprint-pdf (499.72 KB)
, “A Nonlinear Force Observer for Quadrotors and Application to Physical Interactive Tasks”, in IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, Besançon, France, 2014, pp. 433-440. preprint-pdf (1.11 MB)
, “Reshaping the Physical Properties of a Quadrotor through IDA-PBC and its Application to Aerial Physical Interaction”, in 2014 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Hong Kong, China, 2014, pp. 6258-6265. preprint-pdf (553.49 KB) video (7.15 MB)
, “Rigidity Theory in SE(2) for Unscaled Relative Position Estimation using only Bearing”, in 2014 European Control Conference, Strasbourg, France, 2014, pp. 2703-2708. preprint-pdf (410.91 KB)
, “Semi-autonomous Trajectory Generation for Mobile Robots with Integral Haptic Shared Control”, in 2014 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Hong Kong, China, 2014, pp. 6468-6475. preprint-pdf (3.45 MB) video (9.23 MB)
, “A Semi-autonomous UAV Platform for Indoor Remote Operation with Visual and Haptic Feedback”, in 2014 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Hong Kong, China, 2014, pp. 3862-3869. preprint-pdf (1.63 MB) video (9.59 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)
, “Bilateral Control of the Degree of Connectivity in Multiple Mobile-robot Teleoperation”, in 2013 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2013. preprint-pdf (1.95 MB) video (4.73 MB)
, “Experimental Validation of a New Adaptive Control for Quadrotors”, in 2013 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Tokyo, Japan, 2013. preprint-pdf (943.33 KB)
, “Hand Driven UAV Formation for Cooperative Grasping and Transportation: the Flying Hand”, RSS 2013 Work. on Aerial Mobile Manipulation. Berlin, Germany, 2013.
, “Human-assisted Parallel Multi-target Visiting in a Connected Topology”, 6th Int. Work. on Human-Friendly Robotics. Rome, Italy, 2013.
, “Human-Centered Design and Evaluation of Haptic Cueing for Teleoperation of Multiple Mobile Robots”, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, & Cybernetics. Part B: Cybernetics, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 597-609, 2013. preprint-pdf (4.95 MB)
, “Interactive Demo: Haptic Remote Control of Multiple UAVs with Autonomous Cohesive Behavior”, Int. Work. on Towards Fully Decentralized Multi-Robot Systems: Hardware, Software and Integration, at 2013 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation. Karlsruhe, Germany, 2013.
, “Multi-target Simultaneous Exploration with Continual Connectivity”, 2th Int. Work. on Crossing the Reality Gap - From Single to Multi- to Many Robot Systems, at 2013 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation. Karlsruhe, Germany, 2013.
, “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)
, “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)
, “A Passivity-Based Decentralized Strategy for Generalized Connectivity Maintenance”, The International Journal of Robotics Research, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 299-323, 2013. preprint-pdf (3.83 MB) video1 (9.79 MB)
, “RGB-D based Haptic Teleoperation of UAVs with Onboard Sensors: Development and Preliminary Results”, in 2013 IROS Work. on Vision-based Closed-Loop Control and Navigation of Micro Helicopters in GPS-denied Environments, Tokyo, Japan, 2013.
, “Semi-Autonomous Haptic Teleoperation Control Architecture of Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles”, IEEE/ASME Transaction on Mechatronics, Focused Section on Aerospace Mechatronics, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 1334-1345, 2013. preprint-pdf (3.66 MB)
, “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)
, “SwarmSimX and TeleKyb: Two ROS-integrated Software Frameworks for Single- and Multi-Robot Applications”, Int. Work. on Towards Fully Decentralized Multi-Robot Systems: Hardware, Software and Integration, at 2013 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation. Karlsruhe, 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)
, “Towards Autonomous-collaborative and Haptic-tele-operated UAVs with Fully-onboard State Estimation and Physical Interaction Capabilities”, in 2013 IROS Work. on From Remotely-Controlled to Autonomous-Collaborative Robots, Tokyo, Japan, 2013.
, “Vision-based Autonomous Control of a Quadrotor UAV using an Onboard RGB-D Camera and its Application to Haptic Teleoperation”, in 2nd IFAC Workshop on Research, Education and Development of Unmanned Aerial Systems, Compiegne, France, 2013. preprint-pdf (1.37 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)
, “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)
, “Bilateral Teleoperation of a Group of UAVs with Communication Delays and Switching Topology”, in 2012 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, St. Paul, MN, 2012. preprint-pdf (1.46 MB) video (4.01 MB)
, “Bilateral Teleoperation of Groups of Mobile Robots with Time-Varying Topology”, IEEE Transaction on Robotics, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 1019 -1033, 2012. preprint-pdf (4.11 MB)
, “On Cooperative Patrolling: Optimal Trajectories, Complexity Analysis, and Approximation Algorithms”, IEEE Transaction on Robotics, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 592-606, 2012. preprint-pdf (1.55 MB)
, “Decentralized Control of Parallel Rigid Formations with Direction Constraints and Bearing Measurements”, in 51th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control , Maui, HI, 2012, pp. 5310-5317. preprint-pdf (798.4 KB)
, “Distributed Pursuit-Evasion without Mapping or Global Localization via Local Frontiers”, Autonomous Robots, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 81-95, 2012. preprint-pdf (3.29 MB) video1 (880.59 KB)
, “Experiments on Intercontinental Haptic Control of Multiple UAVs”, in 12th Int. Conf. on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Jeju Island, Korea, 2012, pp. 227-238. preprint-pdf (1.49 MB) video (10.01 MB)
, “Interactive Planning of Persistent Trajectories for Human-Assisted Navigation of Mobile Robots”, in 2012 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vilamoura, Portugal, 2012, pp. 2641-2648. preprint-pdf (2.15 MB) video (9.02 MB)
, “Intercontinental Haptic Control and Advanced Supervisory Interfaces for Groups of Multiple UAVs”, 5th Int. Work. on Human-Friendly Robotics. Bruxelles, Belgium, 2012.
, “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)
, “Rigidity Maintenance Control for Multi-Robot Systems”, in 2012 Robotics: Science and Systems Conference, Sydney, Australia, 2012. preprint-pdf (2.47 MB)
, “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)
, “Shared Trajectory Planning for Human-in-the-loop Navigation of Mobile Robots in Cluttered Environments”, 5th Int. Work. on Human-Friendly Robotics. Bruxelles, Belgium, 2012.
, “SwarmSimX: Real-time Simulation Environment for Multi-robot Systems”, in 3rd Int. Conf. on Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots, Tsukuba, Japan: , 2012. preprint-pdf (1023.48 KB)
, “A Synergetic High-level/Reactive Planning Framework with Application to Human-Assisted Navigation”, 2012 IEEE IROS Work. on Real-time Motion Planning: Online, Reactive, and in Real-time. Vilamoura, Portugal, 2012. pdf-preprint (1.63 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)
, “Bilateral Teleoperation of Groups of UAVs with Decentralized Connectivity Maintenance”, in 2011 Robotics: Science and Systems Conference, Los Angeles, CA, 2011. preprint-pdf (1.8 MB) video (14.5 MB)
, “Bilateral Teleoperation of Multiple UAVs with Decentralized Bearing-only Formation Control”, in 2011 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, San Francisco, CA, 2011, pp. 2215-2222. preprint-pdf (1.14 MB) video (8.23 MB)
, “Decentralized Bilateral Aerial Teleoperation of Multiple UAVs - Part I: a Top-Down Perspective”, RSS 2011 Workshop on 3D Exploration, Mapping, and Surveillance with Aerial Robots. Los Angeles, CA, 2011.
, “Distributed Online Leader Selection in the Bilateral Teleoperation of Multiple UAVs”, in 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control , Orlando, FL, 2011, pp. 3559-3565. preprint-pdf (1.2 MB)
, “An Evaluation of Haptic Cues on the Tele-Operator’s Perceptual Awareness of Multiple UAVs’ Environments”, in IEEE World Haptics Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, 2011, pp. 149-154. preprint-pdf (2.04 MB)
, “Experiments of Passivity-Based Bilateral Aerial Teleoperation of a Group of UAVs with Decentralized Velocity Synchronization”, in 2011 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, San Francisco, CA, 2011, pp. 163-170. preprint-pdf (1.45 MB) video (4.76 MB)
, “Haptic Teleoperation of Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles over the Internet”, in 2011 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Shanghai, China, 2011, pp. 1341-1347. preprint-pdf (1.34 MB) video (4.92 MB)
, “Measuring an Operator's Maneuverability Performance in the Haptic Teleoperation of Multiple Robots”, in 2011 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, San Francisco, CA, 2011, pp. 3039-3046. preprint-pdf (1.2 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)
, “A Passivity-Based Decentralized Approach for the Bilateral Teleoperation of a Group of UAVs with Switching Topology”, in 2011 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Shanghai, China, 2011, pp. 898-905. preprint-pdf (870.58 KB) video (4.84 MB)
, “Distributed Pursuit-Evasion with Limited-Visibility Sensor Via Frontier-based Exploration”, in 2010 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Anchorage, AK, 2010, pp. 3562-3568. pdf (1.03 MB) video (2.95 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)
, “On Optimal Cooperative Patrolling”, in 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, GA, USA, 2010, pp. 7153-7158. pdf (465.44 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)
, “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)
, “Towards Bilateral Teleoperation of Multi-Robot Systems”, 3rd Int. Work. on Human-Friendly Robotics. Tuebingen, Germany, 2010.
, “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)
, “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)
, “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)“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)
, “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)
, “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)
,