• Autonomous Distributed 3D Radiation Field Estimation for Nuclear Environment Characterization 

      Mascarich, Frank; De Petris, Paolo; Nguyen, Dinh Huan; Khedekar, Nikhil Vijay; Alexis, Konstantinos (Chapter, 2021)
      This paper contributes a method designed to enable autonomous distributed 3D nuclear radiation field mapping. The algorithm uses a single radiation sensor and a sequence of spatially distributed and robotically acquired ...
    • Autonomous Exploration and General Visual Inspection of Ship Ballast Water Tanks using Aerial Robots 

      Dharmadhikari, Mihir; De Petris, Paolo; Kulkarni, Mihir; Khedekar, Nikhil Vijay; Nguyen, Dinh Huan; Stene, Arnt Erik; Sjøvold, Eivind; Solheim, Kristian; Gussiaas, Bente; Alexis, Konstantinos (Chapter, 2023)
      This paper presents a solution for the autonomous exploration and inspection of Ballast Water Tanks (BWTs) of marine vessels using aerial robots. Ballast tank compartments are critical for a vessel's safety and correspond ...
    • Autonomous teamed exploration of subterranean environments using legged and aerial robots 

      Kulkarni, Mihir; Dharmadhikari, Mihir; Tranzatto, Marco; Zimmermann, Samuel; Reijgwart, Victor; De Petris, Paolo; Nguyen, Dinh Huan; Khedekar, Nikhil Vijay; Papachristos, Christos; Ott, Lionel; Siegwart, Roland; Hutter, Marco; Alexis, Konstantinos (Chapter, 2022)
      This paper presents a novel strategy for autonomous teamed exploration of subterranean environments using legged and aerial robots. Tailored to the fact that subterranean settings, such as cave networks and underground ...
    • CERBERUS: Autonomous Legged and Aerial Robotic Exploration in the Tunnel and Urban Circuits of the DARPA Subterranean Challenge 

      Tranzatto, Marco; Mascarich, Frank; Bernreiter, Lukas; Godinho, Carolina; Camurri, Marco; Khattak, Shehryar; Dang, Tung; Reijgwart, Victor; Loeje, Johannes; Wisth, David; Zimmermann, Samuel; Nguyen, Dinh Huan; Fehr, Marius; Solanka, Lukas; Buchanan, Russell; Bjelonic, Marko; Khedekar, Nikhil Vijay; Valceschini, Mathieu; Jenelten, Fabian; Dharmadhikari, Mihir; Homberger, Timon; De Petris, Paolo; Wellhausen, Lorenz; Kulkarni, Mihir; Miki, Takahiro; Hirsch, Satchel; Montenegro, Markus; Papachristos, Christos; Tresoldi, Fabian; Carius, Jan; Valsecchi, Giorgio; Lee, Joonho; Meyer, Konrad; Wu, Xiangyu; Nieto, Juan; Smith, Andy; Hutter, Marco; Siegwart, Roland; Mueller, Mark; Fallon, Maurice; Alexis, Konstantinos (Journal article, 2021)
      Autonomous exploration of subterranean environments constitutes a major frontier for robotic systems as underground settings present key challenges that can render robot autonomy hard to achieve. This has motivated the ...
    • Design, Modeling, Control and Integration of Thrust Vectoring Rotors in Micro Aerial Vehicles 

      Brenne, Håvard (Master thesis, 2023)
      Denne masteroppgaven omhandler modellering, regulering og implementering av en rotor der retningen på løftekraften kan styres med dreiemomentmodulering. Videre tar oppgaven for seg simulering, rotor design og styring, og ...
    • Marsupial Walking-and-Flying Robotic Deployment for Collaborative Exploration of Unknown Environments 

      De Petris, Paolo; Khattak, Shehryar; Dharmadhikari, Mihir; Waibel, Gabriel; Nguyen, Dinh Huan; Montenegro, Markus; Khedekar, Nikhil Vijay; Alexis, Konstantinos; Hutter, Marco (Chapter, 2022)
      This work contributes a marsupial robotic system-of-systems involving a legged and an aerial robot capable of collaborative mapping and exploration path planning that exploits the heterogeneous properties of the two systems ...
    • Motion Primitives-based Navigation Planning using Deep Collision Prediction 

      Nguyen, Dinh Huan; Holm Fyhn, Sondre; De Petris, Paolo; Alexis, Konstantinos (Chapter, 2022)
      This paper contributes a method to design a novel navigation planner exploiting a learning-based collision prediction network. The neural network is tasked to predict the collision cost of each action sequence in a predefined ...
    • Resilient Collision-tolerant Navigation in Confined Environments 

      De Petris, Paolo; Nguyen, Dinh Huan; Kulkarni, Mihir; Mascarich, Frank; Alexis, Konstantinos (Chapter, 2021)
      This work presents the design and autonomous navigation policy of the Resilient Micro Flyer, a new type of collision-tolerant robot tailored to fly through extremely confined environments and manhole-sized tubes. The robot ...
    • Risk-aware Motion Planning for Collision-tolerant Aerial Robots subject to Localization Uncertainty 

      De Petris, Paolo; Dharmadhikari, Mihir; Nguyen, Dinh Huan; Alexis, Konstantinos (Chapter, 2022)
      This paper contributes a novel strategy towards risk-aware motion planning for collision-tolerant aerial robots subject to localization uncertainty. Attuned to the fact that micro aerial vehicles are often tasked to navigate ...
    • RMF-Owl: A Collision-Tolerant Flying Robot for Autonomous Subterranean Exploration 

      De Petris, Paolo; Nguyen, Dinh Huan; Dharmadhikari, Mihir; Kulkarni, Mihir; Khedekar, Nikhil Vijay; Mascarich, Frank; Alexis, Konstantinos (Chapter, 2022)
      This work presents the design, hardware realization, autonomous exploration and object detection capabilities of RMF-Owl, a new collision-tolerant aerial robot tailored for resilient autonomous subterranean exploration. ...