8 papers
STL-Based Motion Planning and Uncertainty-Aware Risk Analysis for Human-Robot Collaboration with a Multi-Rotor Aerial Vehicle
Giuseppe Silano, Amr Afifi, Martin Saska +1
This paper presents a motion planning and risk analysis framework for enhancing human-robot collaboration with a Multi-Rotor Aerial Vehicle. The proposed method employs Signal Temp…
The N-5 Scaling Law: Topological Dimensionality Reduction in the Optimal Design of Fully-actuated Multirotors
Antonio Franchi
The geometric design of fully-actuated and omnidirectional N-rotor aerial vehicles is conventionally formulated as a parametric optimization problem, seeking a single optimal set o…
Switching Among Feedback-Linearizing Output Sets (Melds): Dwell-Time and Compatibility Guarantees
Mirko Mizzoni, Pieter van Goor, Barbara Bazzana +1
We study switching among multiple square selections of output functions (melds) drawn from a deck of candidate outputs for nonlinear systems that are static feedback linearizable v…
Stability Analysis of Geometric Control for a Canonical Class of Underactuated Aerial Vehicles with Spurious Forces
Simone Orelli, Mirko Mizzoni, Antonio Franchi
Standard geometric control relies on force-moment decoupling, an assumption that breaks down in many aerial platforms due to spurious forces naturally induced by control moments. W…
Synchronous Observer Design for Landmark-Inertial SLAM with Almost-Global Convergence
Arkadeep Saha, Pieter van Goor, Antonio Franchi +1
Landmark Inertial Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (LI-SLAM) is the problem of estimating the locations of landmarks in the environment and the robot's pose relative to those…
Input-Output Extension of Underactuated Nonlinear Systems
Mirko Mizzoni, Amr Afifi, Antonio Franchi
This letter proposes a method to integrate auxiliary actuators that enhance the task space capabilities of commercial underactuated systems, leaving the internal certified low leve…