activity
20222025
most citedA review of path following control strategies for autonomous robotic vehicles: theory, simulations, and experiments

83 citations · 115 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

7 papers

eess.SY2025

Equivariant Observer for Bearing Estimation with Linear and Angular Velocity Inputs

Gil Serrano, Marcelo Jacinto, Bruno J. Guerreiro +1

This work addresses the problem of designing an equivariant observer for a first order dynamical system on the unit-sphere. Building upon the established case of unit bearing vecto…

eess.SY2025

Distributed consensus-based observer design for target state estimation with bearing measurements

Marcelo Jacinto, Pedro Trindade, Francisco Rego +1

This paper introduces a novel distributed consensus-based observer design that enables a group of agents in an undirected communication network to solve the problem of target track…

eess.SY2025

Vision-Based Multirotor Control for Spherical Target Tracking: A Bearing-Angle Approach

Marcelo Jacinto, Rita Cunha

This work addresses the problem of designing a visual servo controller for a multirotor vehicle, with the end goal of tracking a moving spherical target with unknown radius. To add…

eess.SY2025

Leader-Follower Formation Tracking Control of Quadrotor UAVs Using Bearing Measurements

S. Doodeman, Z. Tang, M. Jacinto +2

This work addresses the practical problem of distributed formation tracking control of a group of quadrotor vehicles in a relaxed sensing graph topology with a very limited sensor…

cs.RO2024

Physics-Informed Neural Network for Multirotor Slung Load Systems Modeling

Gil Serrano, Marcelo Jacinto, Jose Ribeiro-Gomes +4

Recent advances in aerial robotics have enabled the use of multirotor vehicles for autonomous payload transportation. Resorting only to classical methods to reliably model a quadro…

cs.RO2023★ 32 cited

Pegasus Simulator: An Isaac Sim Framework for Multiple Aerial Vehicles Simulation

Marcelo Jacinto, João Pinto, Jay Patrikar +4

Developing and testing novel control and motion planning algorithms for aerial vehicles can be a challenging task, with the robotics community relying more than ever on 3D simulati…

cs.RO2022★ 83 cited

A review of path following control strategies for autonomous robotic vehicles: theory, simulations, and experiments

Nguyen Hung, Francisco Rego, Joao Quintas +6

This article presents an in-depth review of the topic of path following for autonomous robotic vehicles, with a specific focus on vehicle motion in two dimensional space (2D). From…