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27 papers
Learning Aerodynamics for the Control of Flying Humanoid Robots
Antonello Paolino, Gabriele Nava, Fabio Di Natale +8
Robots with multi-modal locomotion are an active research field due to their versatility in diverse environments. In this context, additional actuation can provide humanoid robots…
iRonCub 3: The Jet-Powered Flying Humanoid Robot
Davide Gorbani, Hosameldin Awadalla Omer Mohamed, Giuseppe L'Erario +11
This article presents iRonCub 3, a jet-powered humanoid robot, and its first flight experiments. Unlike traditional aerial vehicles, iRonCub 3 aims to achieve flight using a full-b…
From CAD to URDF: Co-Design of a Jet-Powered Humanoid Robot Including CAD Geometry
Punith Reddy Vanteddu, Gabriele Nava, Fabio Bergonti +3
Co-design optimization strategies usually rely on simplified robot models extracted from CAD. While these models are useful for optimizing geometrical and inertial parameters for r…
Nonlinear In-situ Calibration of Strain-Gauge Force/Torque Sensors for Humanoid Robots
Hosameldin Awadalla Omer Mohamed, Gabriele Nava, Punith Reddy Vanteddu +2
High force/torque (F/T) sensor calibration accuracy is crucial to achieving successful force estimation/control tasks with humanoid robots. State-of-the-art affine calibration mode…
Co-Design Optimisation of Morphing Topology and Control of Winged Drones
Fabio Bergonti, Gabriele Nava, Valentin Wüest +4
The design and control of winged aircraft and drones is an iterative process aimed at identifying a compromise of mission-specific costs and constraints. When agility is required,…
Learning to Walk and Fly with Adversarial Motion Priors
Giuseppe L'Erario, Drew Hanover, Angel Romero +5
Robot multimodal locomotion encompasses the ability to transition between walking and flying, representing a significant challenge in robotics. This work presents an approach that…
Failure Detection and Fault Tolerant Control of a Jet-Powered Flying Humanoid Robot
Gabriele Nava, Daniele Pucci
Failure detection and fault tolerant control are fundamental safety features of any aerial vehicle. With the emergence of complex, multi-body flying systems such as jet-powered hum…
Online Non-linear Centroidal MPC for Humanoid Robots Payload Carrying with Contact-Stable Force Parametrization
Mohamed Elobaid, Giulio Romualdi, Gabriele Nava +3
In this paper we consider the problem of allowing a humanoid robot that is subject to a persistent disturbance, in the form of a payload-carrying task, to follow given planned foot…
Whole-Body Trajectory Optimization for Robot Multimodal Locomotion
Giuseppe L'Erario, Gabriele Nava, Giulio Romualdi +4
The general problem of planning feasible trajectories for multimodal robots is still an open challenge. This paper presents a whole-body trajectory optimisation approach that addre…
Modeling and Control of Morphing Covers for the Adaptive Morphology of Humanoid Robots
Fabio Bergonti, Gabriele Nava, Luca Fiorio +2
This article takes a step to provide humanoid robots with adaptive morphology abilities. We present a systematic approach for enabling robotic covers to morph their shape, with an…
Nonlinear Model Identification and Observer Design for Thrust Estimation of Small-scale Turbojet Engines
Affaf Junaid Ahamad Momin, Gabriele Nava, Giuseppe LErario +5
Jet-powered vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) drones require precise thrust estimation to ensure adequate stability margins and robust maneuvering. Small-scale turbojets have bec…
Centroidal Aerodynamic Modeling and Control of Flying Multibody Robots
Tong Hui, Antonello Paolino, Gabriele Nava +5
This paper presents a modeling and control framework for multibody flying robots subject to non-negligible aerodynamic forces acting on the centroidal dynamics. First, aerodynamic…
Recent Advances in Human-Robot Collaboration Towards Joint Action
Yeshasvi Tirupachuri, Gabriele Nava, Lorenzo Rapetti +3
Robots existed as separate entities till now, but the horizons of a symbiotic human-robot partnership are impending. Despite all the recent technical advances in terms of hardware,…
Trajectory Advancement for Robot Stand-up with Human Assistance
Yeshasvi Tirupachuri, Gabriele Nava, Lorenzo Rapetti +2
Physical interactions are inevitable part of human-robot collaboration tasks and rather than exhibiting simple reactive behaviors to human interactions, collaborative robots need t…
Modeling, Identification and Control of Model Jet Engines for Jet Powered Robotics
Giuseppe L'Erario, Luca Fiorio, Gabriele Nava +5
The paper contributes towards the modeling, identification, and control of model jet engines. We propose a nonlinear, second order model in order to capture the model jet engines g…
Trajectory Advancement during Human-Robot Collaboration
Yeshasvi Tirupachuri, Gabriele Nava, Lorenzo Rapetti +2
As technology advances, the barriers between the co-existence of humans and robots are slowly coming down. The prominence of physical interactions for collaboration and cooperation…
Jerk Control of Floating Base Systems with Contact-Stable Parametrised Force Feedback
Ahmad Gazar, Gabriele Nava, Francisco Javier Andrade Chavez +1
Nonlinear controllers for floating base systems in contact with the environment are often framed as quadratic programming (QP) optimization problems. Common drawbacks of such QP ba…
Model Based In Situ Calibration with Temperature compensation of 6 axis Force Torque Sensors
Francisco Javier Andrade Chavez, Gabriele Nava, Silvio Traversaro +2
It is well known that sensors using strain gauges have a potential dependency on temperature. This creates temperature drift in the measurements of six axis force torque sensors (F…
Towards Partner-Aware Humanoid Robot Control Under Physical Interactions
Yeshasvi Tirupachuri, Gabriele Nava, Claudia Latella +5
The topic of physical human-robot interaction received a lot of attention from the robotics community because of many promising application domains. However, studying physical inte…
A Control Architecture with Online Predictive Planning for Position and Torque Controlled Walking of Humanoid Robots
Stefano Dafarra, Gabriele Nava, Marie Charbonneau +8
A common approach to the generation of walking patterns for humanoid robots consists in adopting a layered control architecture. This paper proposes an architecture composed of thr…
Exploiting Friction in Torque Controlled Humanoid Robots
Gabriele Nava, Diego Ferigo, Daniele Pucci
A common architecture for torque controlled humanoid robots consists in two nested loops. The outer loop generates desired joint/motor torques, and the inner loop stabilises these…
An Optimization Based Control Framework for Balancing and Walking: Implementation on the iCub Robot
Marie Charbonneau, Gabriele Nava, Francesco Nori +1
A whole-body torque control framework adapted for balancing and walking tasks is presented in this paper. In the proposed approach, centroidal momentum terms are excluded in favor…
Modeling and Control of Humanoid Robots in Dynamic Environments: iCub Balancing on a Seesaw
Gabriele Nava, Daniele Pucci, Nuno Guedelha +4
Forthcoming applications concerning humanoid robots may involve physical interaction between the robot and a dynamic environment. In such scenario, classical balancing and walking…
A Predictive Momentum-Based Whole-Body Torque Controller: Theory and Simulations for the iCub Stepping
Stefano Dafarra, Francesco Romano, Gabriele Nava +1
When balancing, a humanoid robot can be easily subjected to unexpected disturbances like external pushes. In these circumstances, reactive movements as steps become a necessary req…