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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
58
Citations
21586
World Ranking
1812
National Ranking
60

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to control aspects of aerial robotics

Overview

Robert Mahony is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia and has a research focus primarily in the fields of Engineering and Computer Science. Their work spans several subfields including Aerospace Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. The research domains cover a wide range of topics such as Inertial Sensor and Navigation, Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization, Target Tracking and Data Fusion in Sensor Networks, Advanced Vision and Imaging, Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems, Advanced Memory and Neural Computing, and CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors.

Mahony's recent published papers include:

  • "VDO-SLAM: A Visual Dynamic Object-aware SLAM System," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "EqVIO: An Equivariant Filter for Visual-Inertial Odometry," 2023, IEEE Transactions on Robotics
  • "Equivariant Filter (EqF)," 2022, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
  • "Equivariant Systems Theory and Observer Design," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Equivariant Filter Design for Inertial Navigation Systems with Input Measurement Biases," 2022, 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Mahony include Pieter van Goor, Tarek Hamel, Yonhon Ng, Alessandro Fornasier, and Jochen Trumpf.

The scientist's work has been published predominantly in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), IFAC-PapersOnLine, Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.

Mahony was awarded the IEEE Fellow distinction in 2017 for contributions to control aspects of aerial robotics.

Best Publications

  • Optimization Algorithms on Matrix Manifolds

    P.-A. Absil;R. Mahony;R. Sepulchre

  • Nonlinear Complementary Filters on the Special Orthogonal Group

    R. Mahony;T. Hamel;J.-M. Pflimlin

  • Multirotor Aerial Vehicles: Modeling, Estimation, and Control of Quadrotor

    R. Mahony;V. Kumar;P. Corke

  • Modelling and control of a large quadrotor robot

    Paul Pounds;Robert Mahony;Peter Corke

  • Control of a quadrotor helicopter using visual feedback

    E. Altug;J.P. Ostrowski;R. Mahony

  • A complementary filter for attitude estimation of a fixed-wing UAV

    M. Euston;P. Coote;R. Mahony;Jonghyuk Kim

  • Dynamic modelling and configuration stabilization for an X4-flyer

    Tarek Hamel;Robert Mahony;Rogelio Lozano;James Ostrowski

  • Integrator Backstepping using Barrier Functions for Systems with Multiple State Constraints

    K.B. Ngo;R. Mahony;Zhong-Ping Jiang

  • A Practical Visual Servo Control for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

    N. Guenard;T. Hamel;R. Mahony

  • Riemannian Geometry of Grassmann Manifolds with a View on Algorithmic Computation

    P.-A. Absil;R. Mahony;Rodolphe Sepulchre

  • Landing a VTOL Unmanned Aerial Vehicle on a Moving Platform Using Optical Flow

    B. Herissé;T. Hamel;R. Mahony;F-X Russotto

  • Modelling and control of a quad-rotor robot

    Paul Pounds;Robert Mahony;Peter Ian Corke

  • Visual servoing of an under-actuated dynamic rigid-body system: an image-based approach

    T. Hamel;R. Mahony

  • Complementary filter design on the special orthogonal group SO(3)

    R. Mahony;T. Hamel;J.-M. Pflimlin

  • Design of a four-rotor aerial robot

    Paul Pounds;Robert Mahony;Peter Hynes;Jonathan M. Roberts

  • Robust trajectory tracking for a scale model autonomous helicopter

    Robert Mahony;Tarek Hamel

  • Attitude estimation on SO[3] based on direct inertial measurements

    T. Hamel;R. Mahony

  • Image-Based Visual Servo Control of the Translation Kinematics of a Quadrotor Aerial Vehicle

    O. Bourquardez;R. Mahony;N. Guenard;F. Chaumette

  • Towards dynamically favourable Quad-Rotor aerial robots

    Paul Pounds;Robert Mahony;Joel Gresham;Peter Ian Corke

  • Hovering flight and vertical landing control of a VTOL Unmanned Aerial Vehicle using optical flow

    B. Herisse;F.-X. Russotto;T. Hamel;R. Mahony

  • Fast Image Reconstruction with an Event Camera

    Cedric Scheerlinck;Henri Rebecq;Daniel Gehrig;Nick Barnes

Frequent Co-Authors

Tarek Hamel
Tarek Hamel Université Côte d'Azur
Peter Corke
Peter Corke Queensland University of Technology
Rodolphe Sepulchre
Rodolphe Sepulchre University of Cambridge
John B. Moore
John B. Moore Australian National University
François Chaumette
François Chaumette University of Rennes
Iven Mareels
Iven Mareels IBM (United States)
Stefano Stramigioli
Stefano Stramigioli University of Twente
Pascal Morin
Pascal Morin Sorbonne University
Claude Samson
Claude Samson French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA

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