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most citedReinforcement Learning Based Prediction of PID Controller Gains for Quadrotor UAVs

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physics.bio-ph2026

Universal Extremum Seeking Mechanism for Lift Variation in Soaring Birds Flight: A New Paradigm in Computational Physics and Biology

Simone Martini, Dipesh Kunwar, Sameh A. Eisa

In this letter, we reveal a universal, very simple extremum seeking natural feedback law and mechanism that governs, adapts, and generates in real-time, optimized lift variations f…

cs.RO2025

First Experimental Demonstration of Natural Hovering Extremum Seeking: A New Paradigm in Flapping Flight Physics

Ahmed A. Elgohary, Rohan Palanikumar, Simone Martini +1

In this article, we report the first attempt of experimental validation of the recently emerged new paradigm in hovering and flapping flight physics called "Natural Hovering Extrem…

eess.SY2025★ 1 cited

Reinforcement Learning Based Prediction of PID Controller Gains for Quadrotor UAVs

Serhat Sönmez, Luca Montecchio, Simone Martini +4

A reinforcement learning (RL) based methodology is proposed and implemented for online fine-tuning of PID controller gains, thus, improving quadrotor effective and accurate traject…

eess.SY2025

Dimensionality Reduction with Koopman Generalized Eigenfunctions

Simone Martini, Margareta Stefanovic, Kimon P. Valavanis

This paper presents a methodology to achieve lower-dimensional Koopman quasi-linear representations of nonlinear system dynamics using Koopman generalized eigenfunctions. The propo…

eess.SY2024

Koopman Analytical Modeling of Position and Attitude Dynamics: a Case Study for Quadrotor Control

Simone Martini, Kimon P. Valavanis, Margareta Stefanovic

This research presents a novel, analytical, Koopman Operator based formulation for position and attitude dynamics which can be used to derive control strategies for underactuated s…

eess.SY2023

Correction to Euler Lagrange Multirotor Model with Euler Angles Generalized Coordinates

Simone Martini, Kimon P. Valavanis, Margareta Stefanovic +2

This technical note proves analytically how the exact equivalence of the Newton-Euler and Euler-Lagrange modeling formulations as applied to multirotor UAVs is achieved. This is do…