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Raffaello D'Andrea

Raffaello D'Andrea

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
72
Citations
18850
World Ranking
812
National Ranking
22

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to the design and implementation of distributed automation systems for commercial applications.
  • 2016 - IEEE Robotics & Automation Award “For pioneering contributions to design and implementation of distributed cooperative robotics and automation systems for commercial applications.”

Overview

Raffaello D'Andrea is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and specializes in engineering with a focus on control and systems engineering, biomedical engineering, computer vision and pattern recognition, aerospace engineering, and electrical and electronic engineering.

Their research topics cover a range of areas including robot manipulation and learning, soft robotics and applications, advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials, robotic path planning algorithms, adaptive control of nonlinear systems, iterative learning control systems, and tactile and sensory interactions.

Significant recent publications include:

  • A Multi-Static Radar Network with Ultra-Wideband Radio-Equipped Devices, 2020, Sensors
  • Design, fabrication, modeling and control of a fabric-based spherical robotic arm, 2020, Mechatronics
  • Sim-to-Real for High-Resolution Optical Tactile Sensing: From Images to Three-Dimensional Contact Force Distributions, 2021, Soft Robotics
  • Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Transfer of Tactile Control Policies for Aggressive Swing-Up Manipulation, 2021, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • Design and Control of Drones, 2021, Annual Review of Control Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Frequent co-authors in their work include Carmelo Sferrazza, Matthias Hofer, Thomas Bi, Mark W. Mueller, and Matthias Höfer.

Publications are primarily found in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Mechatronics, Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich), Sensors, and Soft Robotics.

Recognition includes membership in the National Academy of Engineering awarded in 2020 for contributions to distributed automation systems for commercial applications.

Additionally, they received the IEEE Robotics & Automation Award in 2016 for pioneering contributions to distributed cooperative robotics and automation systems for commercial applications.

Best Publications

  • Coordinating Hundreds of Cooperative, Autonomous Vehicles in Warehouses

    Peter R. Wurman;Raffaello D'Andrea;Mick Mountz

  • Distributed control design for spatially interconnected systems

    R. D'Andrea;G.E. Dullerud

  • RoboEarth - A World Wide Web for Robots

    Markus Waibel;Michael Beetz;Raffaello D'Andrea;Rob Janssen

  • Distributed control design for systems interconnected over an arbitrary graph

    C. Langbort;R.S. Chandra;R. D'Andrea

  • A simple learning strategy for high-speed quadrocopter multi-flips

    Sergei Lupashin;Angela Schollig;Michael Sherback;Raffaello D'Andrea

  • A Computationally Efficient Motion Primitive for Quadrocopter Trajectory Generation

    Mark W. Mueller;Markus Hehn;Raffaello DAndrea

  • The Flight Assembled Architecture installation: Cooperative construction with flying machines

    Frederico Augugliaro;Sergei Lupashin;Michael Hamer;Cason Male

  • Stability and control of a quadrocopter despite the complete loss of one, two, or three propellers

    Mark W. Mueller;Raffaello D'Andrea

  • Guest Editorial Can Drones Deliver

    Raffaello D'Andrea

  • Near-optimal dynamic trajectory generation and control of an omnidirectional vehicle

    Tamás Kalmár-Nagy;Raffaello D’Andrea;Pritam Ganguly

  • Rapyuta: A Cloud Robotics Platform

    Gajamohan Mohanarajah;Dominique Hunziker;Raffaello D'Andrea;Markus Waibel

  • A platform for aerial robotics research and demonstration: The Flying Machine Arena

    Sergei Lupashin;Markus Hehn;Mark W. Mueller;Angela P. Schoellig

  • Design, modeling and control of an omni-directional aerial vehicle

    Dario Brescianini;Raffaello D'Andrea

  • Event-based state estimation with variance-based triggering

    Sebastian Trimpe;Raffaello D'Andrea

  • A flying inverted pendulum

    Markus Hehn;Raffaello D'Andrea

  • Quadrocopter Trajectory Generation and Control

    Markus Hehn;Raffaello D'Andrea

  • Fusing ultra-wideband range measurements with accelerometers and rate gyroscopes for quadrocopter state estimation

    Mark W. Mueller;Michael Hamer;Raffaello D'Andrea

  • Distributed control of heterogeneous systems

    G.E. Dullerud;R. D'Andrea

  • Quadrocopter ball juggling

    Mark Muller;Sergei Lupashin;Raffaello D'Andrea

  • Iterative MILP methods for vehicle-control problems

    M.G. Earl;R. D'Andrea

Frequent Co-Authors

Bassam Bamieh
Bassam Bamieh University of California, Santa Barbara
Anthony J. Calise
Anthony J. Calise Georgia Institute of Technology
Miroslav Krstic
Miroslav Krstic University of California, San Diego
Sanjay Lall
Sanjay Lall Stanford University
Richard M. Murray
Richard M. Murray California Institute of Technology
Robert S. H. Istepanian
Robert S. H. Istepanian Imperial College London

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