Publications
2023
Project DragLiner: Harnessing plasma Coulomb drag for satellite deorbiting to keep orbits clean; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Scientific Conference (2023, April)
Ultra-Light Floating Platform: An Orbital Emulator for Space Applications; ; ; ;
Poster (2023, May 30)
2022
Enabling Elements of Simulations Digital Twins and its Applicability for Information Superiority in Defence Domain; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Scientific Conference (2022, September 29)
Vision-Based Safety System for Barrierless Human-Robot Collaboration; ; ;
in 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (2022)
MEC-assisted Dynamic Geofencing for 5G-enabled UAV; ;
in IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (2022, May 16)
Enhancing Rover Teleoperation on the Moon With Proprioceptive Sensors and Machine Learning Techniques; ; ;
in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2022)
Thermophysical Change Detection on the Moon with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Diviner sensor; ; ; ; ; ;
Scientific Conference (2022)
Image features for quality analysis of thick blood smears employed in malaria diagnosis.; ; ;
in Malaria journal (2022), 21(1), 74
Concept of an Active Debris Removal 2-step capturing system for small satellites in Low Earth Orbit; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Scientific Conference (2022, October 12)
A model-based design of an onboard stereo vision system: obstacle motion estimation for cooperative automated vehicles; ;
in SN Applied Sciences (2022), 4(7), 1-18
5G Space Communications Lab: Reaching New Heights; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
in Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS) (2022)
Emulating Active Space Debris Removal Scenarios in Zero-G Lab; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Presentation (2022, June 02)
Nvidia Omniverse for Active Space Debris Removal Missions, an Overview; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Scientific Conference (2022, October 13)
Leveraging stretching directions for stationkeeping in Earth-Moon halo orbits;
in Advances in Space Research (2022), 69(1), 620-646
Stretching directions in cislunar space: Applications for departures and transfer design;
in Astrodynamics (2022)
Hardware-in-the-loop Proximity Operations in Cislunar Space; ; ; ; ; ;
Scientific Conference (2022, September 20)
Autonomous control for satellite rendezvous in near-Earth orbits; ; ; ;
Scientific Conference (2022, July)
Learning to Grasp on the Moon from 3D Octree Observations with Deep Reinforcement Learning; ; ;
in Proceedings of 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (2022, October 23)
Towards Online System Identification: Benchmark of Model Identification Techniques for Variable Dynamics UAV Applications; ;
in Proceedings of 2022 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS) (2022, July 26)
ET-Class, an Energy Transfer-based Classification of Space Debris Removal Methods and Missions; ; ; ; ;
in Frontiers in Space Technologies (2022)
2021
Global land dampness characterization using reflectometry by students (GOLDCREST): mission and CubeSat design; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
in Proceedings of the 12th European CubeSat symposium (2021, November 15)
Towards incremental autonomy framework for on-orbit vision-based grasping; ; ;
in Proceedings of the International Astronautical Congress, IAC-2021 (2021, October 29)
Localization System for Lightweight Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Inspection Tasks; ; ; ; ; ; ;
in Sensors (2021), 21(17 5937),
Enhancing Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Images via Multi-frame Super Resolution for Future Robotic Space Missions; ; ;
in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2021)
Lunar Surface Images Enhancement for Space Resources Localization and Extraction; ; ;
Poster (2021, April 19)
Deep Learning for Safe Human-Robot Collaboration; ; ;
in Advances in Automation and Robotics Research (2021, November 21)
Model-Based Systems Engineering to Design An Onboard Surround Vision System for Cooperative Automated Vehicles; ;
Scientific Conference (2021, December 17)
A SysML-based Design and Development of Stereo Vision System with Pose and Velocity Estimation for Cooperative Automated Vehicles; ;
Scientific Conference (2021, December 09)
SORA Methodology for Multi-UAS Airframe Inspections in an Airport; ; ; ;
in Drones (2021), 5(4 141),
Machine learning for surgical time prediction; ; ; ;
in Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine (2021)
Departure and Trajectory Design Applications using Stretching Directions;
Scientific Conference (2021, August)
Experimental Investigation of Soft-Landing of Quadrotors via Induced Wind Modeling Approach; ; ; ;
in Experimental Investigation of Soft-Landing of Quadrotors via Induced Wind Modeling Approach (2021)
Experimental Evaluation of a Team of Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Cooperative Construction; ; ; ; ; ; ;
in IEEE Access (2021)
Assessment of a textile portable exoskeleton for the upper limbs' flexion; ; ; ;
Scientific Conference (2021)
Solar-Aerodynamic Formation Flight for 5G Experiments; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
in Proceedings of the 12th European CubeSatSymposium (2021, November 15)
2020
A Real-Time Approach for Chance-Constrained Motion Planning with Dynamic Obstacles; ; ; ; ;
in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2020), 5(2), 3620-3625
BUILDING A PIECE OF THE MOON: CONSTRUCTION OF TWO INDOOR LUNAR ANALOGUE ENVIRONMENTS; ; ; ;
in Proceedings of the 71st International Astronautical Congress 2020 (2020, October 12)
TESTING ENVIRONMENTS FOR LUNAR SURFACE PERCEPTION SYSTEMS; COMBINING INDOOR FACILITIES, VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS AND ANALOGUE FIELD TESTS.; ; ; ; ;
Scientific Conference (2020, October 21)
Low-light image enhancement of permanently shadowed lunar regions with physics-based machine learning; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
in Low-light image enhancement of permanently shadowed lunar regions with physics-based machine learning (2020, December)
Control Strategy for Long-Term Station-keeping on Near-Rectilinear Halo Orbits; ;
Scientific Conference (2020, January)
High-Level Modular Autopilot Solution for Fast Prototyping of Unmanned Aerial Systems; ; ; ;
in IEEE Access (2020)
Fully-Actuated Aerial Manipulator for Infrastructure Contact Inspection: Design, Modeling, Localization, and Control; ; ; ; ; ;
in Sensors (2020)
Trajectory Tracking for Aerial Robots: an Optimization-Based Planning and Control Approach; ; ;
in Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (2020), 100
2019
Real-Time Human Head Imitation for Humanoid Robots; ; ; ;
in Proceedings of the 2019 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (2019, July)
Vision-Based Aircraft Pose Estimation for UAVs Autonomous Inspection without Fiducial Markers; ; ;
in IECON 2019-45th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (2019, October)
A case study on the impact of masking moving objects on the camera pose regression with CNNs; ; ;
in 2019 16th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS) (2019, November 25)
Faster Visual-Based Localization with Mobile-PoseNet; ; ;
in International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (2019, August 22)
High-throughput biomass estimation in rice crops using UAV multispectral imagery; ; ; ; ; ; ;
in Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (2019), 96(3-4), 573--589
A Collaborative Vacuum Tool for Humans and Robots; ;
in Proceedings of the Latin American Congress on Automation and Robotics (2019)
Deep Reinforcement Learning based Continuous Control for Multicopter Systems; ; ;
in International Conference on Control, Decision and Information CoDIT, Paris 23-26 April 2019 (2019, April 26)
Safety Protocol for Collaborative Human-Robot Recycling Tasks; ; ; ;
in IFAC-PapersOnLine (2019), 52(13), 2008--2013
Multirotor Aerodynamic Effects in Aerial Manipulation; ;
in Multirotor Aerodynamic Effects in Aerial Manipulation (2019)
A Real-Time 3D Path Planning Solution for Collision-Free Navigation of Multirotor Aerial Robots in Dynamic Environments; ; ; ;
in Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (2019), 93(1-2), 33-53
A Fast Solution to the Dual Arm Robotic Sequencing Problem;
in Advances in Automation and Robotics Research (2019)
2018
Model Predictive Control for Aerial Collision Avoidance in Dynamic Environments; ; ; ;
in 26th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), Zadar, Croatia, 19-22 June 2018 (2018, June)
Collision Avoidance Effects on the Mobility of a UAV Swarm Using Chaotic Ant Colony with Model Predictive Control; ; ; ; ; ;
in Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (2018)
The Power Line Inspection Software (PoLIS): A versatile system for automating power line inspection; ; ; ;
in Engineering applications of artificial intelligence (2018), 71
Aerial mapping of rice crops using mosaicing techniques for vegetative index monitoring; ; ; ; ; ;
in 2018 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS) (2018)
Towards trajectory planning from a given path for multirotor aerial robots trajectory tracking; ; ;
in 2018 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), Dallas 12-15 June 2018 (2018, June)
Lightweight and Compliant Long Reach Aerial Manipulator for Inspection Operations; ; ; ; ;
in 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (2018, October 01)
2017
Real-time graph-based SLAM in unknown environments using a small UAV; ;
in 2017 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS); Miami 13-16 June 2017 (2017)
Evasive Maneuvering for UAVs: An MPC Approach; ;
in ROBOT'2017 - Third Iberian Robotics Conference, Sevilla, Spain, 2017 (2017, November 22)
A Perspective of Security for Mobile Service Robots; ; ; ; ; ;
in Iberian Robotics Conference, Seville, Spain, 2017 (2017, November 22)
Implementation and validation of an event-based real-time nonlinear model predictive control framework with ROS interface for single and multi-robot systems; ; ;
in 2017 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA) (2017, August 30)
Hierarchical control of aerial manipulation vehicle; ; ; ; ;
in AIP Conference Proceedings (2017), 1798(1), 020069
Model predictive control for cooperative control of space robots; ; ; ;
in Model predictive control for cooperative control of space robots (2017, January)
Real time degradation identification of UAV using machine learning techniques; ; ;
in International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems ICUAS. Miami, USA, 2017 (2017, June 13)
Setup of the yaskawa sda10f robot for industrial applications, using ros-industrial; ; ; ;
in Advances in Automation and Robotics Research in Latin America (2017)
Design of Mechanically Actuated Aerodynamic Braking System on a Formula Student Race Car; ; ; ;
in Journal of the Institution of Engineers (India): Mechanical Engineering Division (2017), 99
Operational space control of a lightweight robotic arm actuated by shape memory alloy wires: A comparative study; ; ; ;
in Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures (2017)
Towards image mosaicking with aerial images for monitoring rice crops; ; ;
in Advances in Automation and Robotics Research in Latin America (2017)
Analyzing and improving multi-robot missions by using process mining; ; ;
in Autonomous Robots (2017)
Multi-Robot Interfaces and Operator Situational Awareness: Study of the Impact of Immersion and Prediction; ; ; ; ;
in Sensors (2017), 17(8 1720),
Area exploration with a swarm of UAVs combining deterministic Chaotic Ant Colony Mobility with position MPC; ; ; ; ; ;
in 2017 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS) (2017, July 27)
Characterization of the Aerodynamic Ground Effect and Its Influence in Multirotor Control; ;
in International Journal of Aerospace Engineering (2017)
Experimental approach to the aerodynamic effects produced in multirotors flying close to obstacles; ;
in Experimental approach to the aerodynamic effects produced in multirotors flying close to obstacles (2017, November 12)
Multirotor UAS for bridge inspection by contact using the ceiling effect; ;
in Multirotor UAS for bridge inspection by contact using the ceiling effect (2017, June 13)
2016
A Modularization Approach for Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of Distributed Fast Systems; ; ;
in 24th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), Athens, Greece, June 21-24, 2016 (2016, June 22)
A real-time model predictive position control with collision avoidance for commercial low-cost quadrotors; ; ;
in IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control (MSC 2016), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2016 (2016, September 20)
A tracking error control approach for model predictive position control of a quadrotor with time varying reference; ; ;
in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics ROBIO, Qingdao, China, 2016 (2016, December 06)
Estimating speed profiles from aerial vision - A comparison of regression based sampling techniques; ;
in Proceedings of the IEEE 24th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (2016, June)
Adaptive Control of Robotic arm with Hysteretic Joint; ; ; ;
in 4th International Conference on Control, Mechatronics and Automation (ICCMA'16), Barcelona, Spain 2016 (2016)
Adaptive Control of Hysteretic Robotic arm in Operational Space; ; ; ;
in 5th International Conference on Mechatronics and Control Engineering ICMCE, venice, Italy, 2016 (2016, December 14)
Control of Aerial Manipulation Vehicle in Operational Space; ; ; ;
in 8th International Conference on Electronics, Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Ploiesti, Romania, 30 June-02 July 2016 (2016, July 01)
Model Predictive Control for Spacecraft Rendezvous; ; ; ;
in 4th International Conference on Control, Mechatronics and Automation ICCMA '16, Barcelona, Spain, 2016 (2016)
UAV degradation identification for pilot notification using machine learning techniques; ; ; ;
in Proceedings of 21st IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation ETFA 2016 (2016, September 06)
Vision-Based Steering Control, Speed Assistance and Localization for Inner-CityVehicles; ; ; ; ;
in Sensors (2016), 16(3), 362
Lightweight robotic arm actuated by Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) Wires; ; ;
in 8th International Conference on Electronics, Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Ploiesti, Romania, 30 June-02 July 2016 (2016, July 01)
Operational Space Control of a Lightweight Robotic Arm Actuated By Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) Wires; ; ;
in ASME 2016 Conferences on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems, Vermont 28-30 September 2016 (2016, September)
2015
Visual odometry based absolute target geo-location from micro aerial vehicle; ; ;
in International Conference on Robotics, Automation, Control and Embedded Systems (RACE), 2015 (2015, February 20)
Context-based Selection and Execution of Robot Perception Graphs; ; ;
in 20th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA'15) (2015, September)
Design optimization of front and rear aerodynamic wings of a high performance race car with modified airfoil structure; ;
in 2015 International Conference on Nascent Technologies in the Engineering Field (ICNTE) (2015, January)
Vision Based Fuzzy Control Approaches for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles;
in 16th World Congress of the International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA) 9th Conference of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT) (2015, July)
Towards an Autonomous Vision-Based Unmanned Aerial System against Wildlife Poachers; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
in Sensors (2015), 15(12), 29861
Vision Based Fuzzy Control Autonomous Landing with UAVs: From V-REP to Real Experiments; ;
in 23nd IEEE Mediterranean Conference of Control and Automation (MED), 2015, Torremolinos 2015, Spain (2015, June)
2014
Online learning-based robust visual tracking for autonomous landing of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles; ; ;
in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2014 International Conference on (2014, May)
Robust real-time vision-based aircraft tracking from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles; ; ; ;
in Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014 IEEE International Conference on (2014, May)
Monocular Visual-Inertial SLAM-Based Collision Avoidance Strategy for Fail-Safe UAV Using Fuzzy Logic Controllers; ; ;
in Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (2014), 73(1-4), 513-533
Adaptive Control of Aerial Manipulation Vehicle; ; ;
in Porceedings of the 4th IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONTROL SYSTEM, COMPUTING AND ENGINEERING (2014, November)
Design and Analysis of a Tubular Space Frame Chassis of a High Performance Race Car; ;
in International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology (2014), 03(02),
HMPMR strategy for real-time tracking in aerial images, using direct methods; ; ; ;
in Machine Vision and Applications (2014), 25(5), 1283-1308
Towards autonomous detection and tracking of electric towers for aerial power line inspection; ; ;
in 2014 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS) (2014)
The NOAH Project: Giving a Chance to Threatened Species in Africa with UAVs; ; ; ; ;
in Bissyandé, Tegawendé F.; van Stam, Gertjan (Eds.) e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries (2014)
Using the Cross-Entropy method for control optimization: A case study of see-and-avoid on unmanned aerial vehicles; ; ; ;
in Control and Automation (MED), 2014 22nd Mediterranean Conference of (2014, June)
Setting up a testbed for UAV vision based control using V-REP amp; ROS: A case study on aerial visual inspection; ;
in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2014 International Conference on (2014)
V-REP & ROS Testbed for Design, Test, and Tuning of a Quadrotor Vision Based Fuzzy Control System for Autonomous Landing; ;
in Porceedings of The International Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Competition 2014 (2014, August)
A supervised approach to electric tower detection and classification for power line inspection; ; ;
in 2014 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) (2014)
2013
UAS see-and-avoid strategy using a fuzzy logic controller optimized by Cross-Entropy in Scaling Factors and Membership Functions; ; ;
in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2013 International Conference on (2013)
Real-time Adaptive Multi-Classifier Multi-Resolution Visual Tracking Framework for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles; ; ;
in Second Workshop on Research, Development and Education on Unmanned Aerial Systems (RED-UAS 2013) (2013)
Modeling and Control of Aerial Manipulation Vehicle with Visual sensor; ;
in Second Workshop on Research, Development and Education on Unmanned Aerial Systems (RED-UAS 2013) (2013, November)
A Hierarchical Tracking Strategy for Vision-Based Applications On-Board UAVs; ; ; ;
in Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems (2013), 72(3-4), 517-539
Towards autonomous air-to-air refuelling for UAVs using visual information; ;
in 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (2013)
A vision-based strategy for autonomous aerial refueling tasks; ; ; ;
in Robotics and Autonomous Systems (2013), 61(8), 876--895
Autonomous Guided Car Using a Fuzzy Controller; ; ; ; ;
in Sen Gupta, Gourab; Bailey, Donald; Demidenko, Serge; Carnegie, Dale (Eds.) Recent Advances in Robotics and Automation (2013)
Autonomous Landing of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle using Image-Based Fuzzy Control; ;
in Second Workshop on Research, Development and Education on Unmanned Aerial Systems (RED-UAS 2013) (2013)
2012
A Hierarchical Strategy for Real-Time Tracking On-Board UAVs; ; ; ;
in ICUAS 2012 : 2012 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (2012, June)
A hierarchical strategy for real-time tracking on-board uavs; ; ; ;
in ICUAS 2012: 2012 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (2012)
Rapid Prototyping Framework for Visual Control of Autonomous Micro Aerial Vehicles; ; ;
in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (2012), 193
Quadcopter see and avoid using a fuzzy controller; ; ;
in Uncertainty modeling in knowlege engineering and decision making : proceedings of the 10th International FLINS Conference (2012)
Adaptive Control System based on Lineal Control Theory for the Path-Following Problem of a Car-Like Mobile Robot; ; ; ;
in IFAC Conference on Advances in PID Control PID'12 (2012)
2011
A multi-resolution image alignment technique based on direct methods for pose estimation of aerial vehicles; ;
in 2011 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (2011)
On-board and ground visual pose estimation techniques for UAV control; ; ;
in Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (2011), 61(1), 301--320
2010
Fuzzy-4D/RCS for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles; ; ;
in BICS 2010 Conference on Brain-Inspired Cognitive Systems (2010, July)
2009
Trinocular ground system to control UAVs; ; ;
in 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (2009)
Visual servoing using fuzzy controllers on an unmanned aerial vehicle; ; ;
in EUROFUSE 2009. workshop on on preference modelling and decision analysis (2009, September)
