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Survey of Simulators for Aerial Robots: An Overview and In-Depth Systematic Comparisons
Cora A. Dimmig, Giuseppe Silano, Kimberly McGuire +4
Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV) research faces challenges with safety, scalability, costs, and ecological impact when conducting hardware testing. High-fidelity simulators offer a vi…
Automating Bird Diverter Installation through Multi-Aerial Robots and Signal Temporal Logic Specifications
Alvaro Caballero, Giuseppe Silano
This paper tackles the task assignment and trajectory generation problem for bird diverter installation using a fleet of multi-rotors. The proposed motion planner considers payload…
A Signal Temporal Logic Planner for Ergonomic Human-Robot Collaboration
Giuseppe Silano, Amr Afifi, Martin Saska +1
This paper proposes a method for designing human-robot collaboration tasks and generating corresponding trajectories. The method uses high-level specifications, expressed as a Sign…
MRS Drone: A Modular Platform for Real-World Deployment of Aerial Multi-Robot Systems
Daniel Hert, Tomas Baca, Pavel Petracek +18
This paper presents a modular autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) platform called the Multi-robot Systems (MRS) Drone that can be used in a large range of indoor and outdoor a…
Ergonomic Collaboration between Humans and Robots: An Energy-Aware Signal Temporal Logic Perspective
Giuseppe Silano, Amr Afifi, Martin Saska +1
This paper presents a method for designing energy-aware collaboration tasks between humans and robots, and generating corresponding trajectories to carry out those tasks. The metho…
Communications-Aware Robotics: Challenges and Opportunities
Daniel Bonilla Licea, Giuseppe Silano, Mounir Ghogho +1
The use of Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has seen significant growth in the research community, industry, and society. Many of these agents ar…
PACNav: A collective navigation approach for UAV swarms deprived of communication and external localization
Afzal Ahmad, Daniel Bonilla Licea, Giuseppe Silano +2
This article proposes Persistence Administered Collective Navigation (PACNav) as an approach for achieving decentralized collective navigation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swar…
MRS Modular UAV Hardware Platforms for Supporting Research in Real-World Outdoor and Indoor Environments
Daniel Hert, Tomas Baca, Pavel Petracek +16
This paper presents a family of autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) platforms designed for a diverse range of indoor and outdoor applications. The proposed UAV design is hig…
Mission Planning and Execution in Heterogeneous Teams of Aerial Robots supporting Power Line Inspection Operations
Alvaro Calvo, Giuseppe Silano, Jesus Capitan
A software architecture aimed at coordinating a team of heterogeneous aerial vehicles for inspection and maintenance operations in high-voltage power line scenarios is presented in…
A Multi-Layer Software Architecture for Aerial Cognitive Multi-Robot Systems in Power Line Inspection Tasks
Giuseppe Silano, Jan Bednar, Tiago Nascimento +3
This paper presents a multi-layer software architecture to perform cooperative missions with a fleet of quadrotors providing support in electrical power line inspection operations.…
Optimum Trajectory Planning for Multi-Rotor UAV Relays with Tilt and Antenna Orientation Variations
Daniel Bonilla Licea, Giuseppe Silano, Mounir Ghogho +1
Multi-rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) need to tilt in order to move; this modifies the UAV's antenna orientation. We consider the scenario where a multi-rotor UAV serves as a…
A Perception-Aware NMPC for Vision-Based Target Tracking and Collision Avoidance with a Multi-Rotor UAV
Andriy Dmytruk, Giuseppe Silano, Davide Bicego +2
A perception-aware Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) strategy aimed at performing vision-based target tracking and collision avoidance with a multi-rotor aerial vehicle is…
An Application of Stereo Thermal Vision for Preliminary Inspection of Electrical Power Lines by MAVs
Lyubomyr Demkiv, Massimiliano Ruffo, Giuseppe Silano +2
An application of stereo thermal vision to perform preliminary inspection operations of electrical power lines by a particular class of small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), aka M…
Power Line Inspection Tasks with Multi-Aerial Robot Systems via Signal Temporal Logic Specifications
Giuseppe Silano, Tomas Baca, Robert Penicka +2
A framework for computing feasible and constrained trajectories for a fleet of quad-rotors leveraging on Signal Temporal Logic (STL) specifications for power line inspection tasks…