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Overview

Robert Mahony is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Computer Science, with significant contributions in Aerospace Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

Their work focuses on advanced technical topics including 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.

Robert Mahony has published extensively in a variety of academic venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IFAC-PapersOnLine
  • Automatica
  • IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Their recent papers highlight a range of topics within robotics and control systems. Notable publications are:

  • "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)

Collaborations are a significant element of Mahony's research activity. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Pieter van Goor
  • Tarek Hamel
  • Yonhon Ng
  • Alessandro Fornasier
  • Jochen Trumpf

The range of Mahony's scholarly output reflects sustained engagement in topics such as sensor navigation, robotic perception, and system control design. Their research intersects complex system theory and practical implementation in robotics and inertial navigation frameworks.

Best Publications

  • Nonlinear Complementary Filters on the Special Orthogonal Group

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Convergence of the Iterates of Descent Methods for Analytic Cost Functions

    P.-A. Absil

  • 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

  • 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

  • Real-time model predictive control for quadrotors

    Moses Bangura;Robert Mahony

  • Continuous-Time Intensity Estimation Using Event Cameras

    Cedric Scheerlinck;Nick Barnes;Robert E. Mahony

  • Gradient-Like Observers for Invariant Dynamics on a Lie Group

    C. Lageman;J. Trumpf;R. Mahony

  • Image-based visual servo control of aerial robotic systems using linear image features

    R. Mahony;T. Hamel

  • Implementation of a Nonlinear Attitude Estimator for Aerial Robotic Vehicles

    Minh-Duc Hua;Guillaume Ducard;Tarek Hamel;Robert Mahony

  • The geometry of weighted low-rank approximations

    J.H. Manton;R. Mahony;Yingbo Hua

  • Hover control via Lyapunov control for an autonomous model helicopter

    R. Mahony;T. Hamel;A. Dzul

  • Brief paper: Image based visual servo control for a class of aerial robotic systems

    Tarek Hamel;Robert Mahony

  • Robust Nonlinear Fusion of Inertial and Visual Data for position, velocity and attitude estimation of UAV

    T. Cheviron;T. Hamel;R. Mahony;G. Baldwin

Frequent Co-Authors

Nick Barnes
Nick Barnes Australian National University
Davide Scaramuzza
Davide Scaramuzza University of Zurich
Tom Drummond
Tom Drummond Monash University

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