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Real-World Deployment of a 5G-Connected Edge-Controlled Aerial Robot in Industrial Subterranean Mines
Achilleas Santi Seisa, Emanuele Pagliari, Gerasimos Damigos +2
This article presents the first real-world autonomous flight of a 5G-connected aerial robot controlled by an edge-offloaded controller, and aims to bridge the gap between controlle…
Real-time Point Cloud Data Transmission via L4S for 5G-Edge-Assisted Robotics
Gerasimos Damigos, Achilleas Santi Seisa, Nikolaos Stathoulopoulos +2
This article presents a novel framework for real-time Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data transmission that leverages rate-adaptive technologies and point cloud encoding metho…
Cloud-Assisted Remote Control for Aerial Robots: From Theory to Proof-of-Concept Implementation
Achilleas Santi Seisa, Viswa Narayanan Sankaranarayanan, Gerasimos Damigos +2
Cloud robotics has emerged as a promising technology for robotics applications due to its advantages of offloading computationally intensive tasks, facilitating data sharing, and e…
Combined Aerial Cooperative Tethered Carrying and Path Planning for Quadrotors in Confined Environments
Marios-Nektarios Stamatopoulos, Panagiotis Koustoumpardis, Achilleas Santi Seisa +1
In this article, a novel combined aerial cooperative tethered carrying and path planning framework is introduced with a special focus on applications in confined environments. The…
Barriers on the EDGE: A scalable CBF architecture over EDGE for safe aerial-ground multi-agent coordination
Viswa Narayanan Sankaranarayanan, Achilleas Santi Seisa, Akshit Saradagi +2
In this article, we propose a control architecture for the safe, coordinated operation of a multi-agent system with aerial (UAVs) and ground (UGVs) robots in a confined task space.…
Assisted Physical Interaction: Autonomous Aerial Robots with Neural Network Detection, Navigation, and Safety Layers
Andrea Berra, Viswa Narayanan Sankaranarayanan, Achilleas Santi Seisa +10
The paper introduces a novel framework for safe and autonomous aerial physical interaction in industrial settings. It comprises two main components: a neural network-based target d…
Design of a Flexible Robot Arm for Safe Aerial Physical Interaction
Julien Mellet, Andrea Berra, Achilleas Santi Seisa +7
This paper introduces a novel compliant mechanism combining lightweight and energy dissipation for aerial physical interaction. Weighting 400~g at take-off, the mechanism is actuat…
Cloud-Based Scheduling Mechanism for Scalable and Resource-Efficient Centralized Controllers
Achilleas Santi Seisa, Sumeet Gajanan Satpute, George Nikolakopoulos
This paper proposes a novel approach to address the challenges of deploying complex robotic software in large-scale systems, i.e., Centralized Nonlinear Model Predictive Controller…
A Resilient Framework for 5G-Edge-Connected UAVs based on Switching Edge-MPC and Onboard-PID Control
Gerasimos Damigos, Achilleas Santi Seisa, Sumeet Gajanan Satpute +2
In recent years, the need for resources for handling processes with high computational complexity for mobile robots is becoming increasingly urgent. More specifically, robots need…
A Kubernetes-Based Edge Architecture for Controlling the Trajectory of a Resource-Constrained Aerial Robot by Enabling Model Predictive Control
Achilleas Santi Seisa, Sumeet Gajanan Satpute, George Nikolakopoulos
In recent years, cloud and edge architectures have gained tremendous focus for offloading computationally heavy applications. From machine learning and Internet of Thing (IOT) to i…
PACED-5G: Predictive Autonomous Control using Edge for Drones over 5G
Viswa Narayanan Sankaranarayanan, Gerasimos Damigos, Achilleas Santi Seisa +3
With the advent of technologies such as Edge computing, the horizons of remote computational applications have broadened multidimensionally. Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV…
Edge Computing Architectures for Enabling the Realisation of the Next Generation Robotic Systems
Achilleas Santi Seisa, Gerasimos Damigos, Sumeet Gajanan Satpute +2
Edge Computing is a promising technology to provide new capabilities in technological fields that require instantaneous data processing. Researchers in areas such as machine and de…
An Edge Architecture Oriented Model Predictive Control Scheme for an Autonomous UAV Mission
Achilleas Santi Seisa, Sumeet Gajanan Satpute, Björn Lindqvist +1
In this article the implementation of a controller and specifically of a Model Predictive Controller (MPC) on an Edge Computing device, for controlling the trajectory of an Unmanne…