Ground effect on rotorcraft unmanned aerial vehicles: A review

A Matus-Vargas, G Rodriguez-Gomez… - Intelligent Service …, 2021 - Springer
This article aims at collecting and discussing the results reached by the research community
regarding the study of the ground effect on small rotorcraft unmanned aerial vehicles …

Koopman operators for modeling and control of soft robotics

L Shi, Z Liu, K Karydis - Current Robotics Reports, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review We review recent advances in algorithmic development and
validation for modeling and control of soft robots leveraging the Koopman operator theory …

Analysis of ground effect for small-scale uavs in forward flight

X Kan, J Thomas, H Teng, HG Tanner… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The letter investigates how the behavior of small-scale unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is
influenced by the system's close proximity to the ground/rigid surfaces both at hover and in …

Acd-edmd: Analytical construction for dictionaries of lifting functions in koopman operator-based nonlinear robotic systems

L Shi, K Karydis - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Koopman operator theory has been gaining momentum for model extraction, planning, and
control of data-driven robotic systems. The Koopman operator's ability to extract dynamics …

Energy efficiency of trajectory generation methods for stop-and-go aerial robot navigation

N Kreciglowa, K Karydis… - … Conference on Unmanned …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The paper reports on the energy consumption of smooth trajectories for stop-and-go
navigation of aerial robots. We consider a decimeter-scale quadrotor tasked to travel on …

Safely catching aerial micro-robots in mid-air using an open-source aerial robot with soft gripper

Z Liu, C Mucchiani, K Ye, K Karydis - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022 - frontiersin.org
This work focuses on catching safely an aerial micro-robot in mid-air using another aerial
robot that is equipped with a universal soft gripper. To avoid aerodynamic disturbances such …

Enhancement for robustness of Koopman operator-based data-driven mobile robotic systems

L Shi, K Karydis - 2021 IEEE International Conference on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Koopman operator theory has served as the basis to extract dynamics for nonlinear system
modeling and control across settings, including non-holonomic mobile robot control. There …

Optimal steering of stochastic mobile robots that undergo collisions with their environment

Z Lu, K Karydis - 2019 IEEE International Conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The paper introduces a state-feedback closed-loop control approach with integrated
collision exploitation. We represent the system's kinematics in the form of a drift-diffusion …

A data-driven hierarchical control structure for systems with uncertainty

L Shi, H Teng, X Kan, K Karydis - 2020 IEEE Conference on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The paper introduces a Data-driven Hierarchical Control (DHC) structure to improve
performance of systems operating under the effect of system and/or environment uncertainty …

[图书][B] Data-Driven Modeling and Control via Koopman Operator Theory in Robotic Systems

L Shi - 2023 - search.proquest.com
With the development of more sophisticated robots that are increasingly aimed to venture
outside of the lab, the higher dimensionality, complexity and nonlinearities of the underlying …