International Conference Papers
- A. Buo, V. Cammarota, M. Avagnale, P. Arpenti, V. Lippiello, F. RUGGIERO, CA-AC-MPC: CUDA-Accelerated actor-critic model predictive control, 2026 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Corfu, Greece, 2026,(to appear). [pdf]
- A. Ali, F.M. Romano, C. Gabellieri, P. van Goor, F. RUGGIERO, A. Franchi, Mind the gap: Online control allocation for multirotors with low-speed deadbands, 2026 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Corfu, Greece, 2026,(to appear). [pdf]
- G. D'Ago, J. Rodriguez-Nogueira, E. Matheson, F. RUGGIERO, M. Ferre, M. Di Castro,Active sway damping for cable-suspended robotic systems with CERN human robot interface integration, 2025 13th International Conference on Control, Mechatronics and Automation, Paris, France, 2025, DOI: 10.1109/ICCMA67641.2025.11369627. [pdf]
- J. Mellet, A. Barra, S. Marcellini, M.A. Trujillo Soto, G. Heredia, F. RUGGIERO, V. Lippiello, Design and control of an omnidirectional aerial robot with a miniaturized haptic joystick for physical interaction, 2025 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Charlotte, NC, USA, 2025, DOI: 10.1109/ICUAS65942.2025.11007780. [pdf]
- A. Capuozzo, F. RUGGIERO, V. Lippiello, Heave motion estimation from IMU measurements in hybrid aerial-amphibious drones and horizontal take-off window prediction, 2025 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Charlotte, NC, USA, 2025, DOI: 10.1109/ICUAS65942.2025.11007901. [pdf]
- R. Aliotta, P. Arpenti, F. RUGGIERO, Crutches-like bipedal walker with a reduced number of actuators, 2025 11th International Conference on Automation, Robotics, and Applications, Zagreb, HR, 2025, DOI: 10.1109/ICARA64554.2025.10977683. [pdf]
- R. Aliotta, F. Esposito, A. Palumbo, F. RUGGIERO, Understanding human behaviour in a robotic guide dog using parallel deep reinforcement learning, 2025 11th International Conference on Automation, Robotics, and Applications, Zagreb, HR, 2025, DOI: 10.1109/ICARA64554.2025.10977679. [pdf]
- M. Avagnale, G. D'Ago, M. Selvaggio, L.R. Buonocore, M. Di Castro, V. Lippiello, B. Siciliano, F. RUGGIERO, Oscillation suppression in cable-suspended robotic manipulation systems using nonlinear model predictive control, International Symposium of Robotics Research, Long Beach, CA, USA, 2024, (to appear). [pdf]
- H. Ullah, S.M. Orozco-Soto, N. Mazhar, I. Ahmad, V. Lippiello, F. RUGGIERO, Pushing and Rotating a Heavy Mass Rigid Body Using an Omnidirectional Aerial Manipulator, 2024 International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Industry, Rawalpindi, PK, 2024, DOI: 10.1109/ICRAI62391.2024.10894077. [pdf]
- V. Scognamiglio, J. Cacace, F. RUGGIERO, V. Lippiello, Fault Detection and Isolation for a Standard Quadrotor Using a Deep Neural Network Trained on a Momentum-based Estimator, 2024 IEEE 20th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Bari, I, 2024, DOI: 10.1109/CASE59546.2024.10711689. [pdf]
- H. Ullah, S.M. Orozco-Soto, S. D'Angelo, F. RUGGIERO, V. Lippiello, Horizontal Sustained Force Delivery with an Aerial Manipulator using Hybrid Force/Position Control, IEEE 25th International Carpathian Control Conference, Krynica Zdrój, P, 2024, DOI: 10.1109/ICCC62069.2024.10569948. [pdf]
- J. Mellet, A. Berra, A. Santi Seisa, V.N. Sankaranarayanan, K.N.G.W. Udayanga, M.A. Trujillo Soto, G. Heredia, G. Nikolakopoulos, V. Lippiello, F. RUGGIERO, Design of a Flexible Robot Arm for Safe Aerial Physical Interaction, 2024 IEEE 7th International Conference on Soft Robotics, San Diego, CA, USA, 2024, DOI: 10.1109/RoboSoft60065.2024.10522019. [pdf]
- V. Scognamiglio, R. Caccavale, P. Merone, A. De Crescenzo, F. RUGGIERO, V. Lippiello, Autonomous visual inspection of industrial plants using unmanned aerial vehicles, 2024 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Chania, Greece, 2024, DOI: 10.1109/ICUAS60882.2024.10556996. [pdf]
- S. D'Angelo, F. Pagano, F. Longobardi, F. RUGGIERO, V. Lippiello, Efficient development of model-based controllers in PX4 firmware: A template-based customization approach, 2024 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Chania, Greece, 2024, DOI: 10.1109/ICUAS60882.2024.10556938. [pdf]
- M. Selvaggio, F. Esposito, V. Lippiello, F. RUGGIERO, Shared-control teleoperation methods for a cable-suspended dual-arm unmanned aerial manipulator, 2024 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Chania, Greece, 2024, DOI: 10.1109/ICUAS60882.2024.10557097. [pdf]
- G. D'Ago, M. Selvaggio, C. Marzio, L.R. Buonocore, A. Suarez, A. Gonzalez-Morgado, J. Villanueva, A. Ollero, F. RUGGIERO, A model-based oscillation suppression approach for a cable-suspended dual-arm aerial manipulator, 2024 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Chania, Greece, 2024, DOI: 10.1109/ICUAS60882.2024.10557014. [pdf]
- A. Berra, V.N. Sankaranarayanan, A.S. Seisa, J. Mellet, K.N.G.W.G. Udayanga, S. Satpute, F. RUGGIERO, V. Lippiello, S. Tolu, G. Nikolakopoulos, M.A. Trujillo, G. Heredia, Assisted physical interaction: Autonomous aerial robots with neural network detection, navigation, and safety layers, 2024 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Chania, Greece, 2024, DOI: 10.1109/ICUAS60882.2024.10557050. [pdf]
- J. Mellet, J. Cacace, F. RUGGIERO, V. Lippiello, Neural-network for position estimation of a cable-suspended payload using inertial quadrotor sensing, 20th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, Rome, Italy, pp. 80-87, 2023, DOI: 10.5220/0012204100003543. [pdf]
- A. Fimiani, P. Arpenti, M. Gatti, F. RUGGIERO, Sensorless reduction of cane oscillations aimed at improving robotic grapevine winter pruning, 20th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, Rome, Italy, pp. 640-647, 2023, DOI: 10.5220/0012182500003543. [pdf]
- V. Morlando, V. Lippiello, F. RUGGIERO, Tethering a human with a quadruped robot: A guide dog to help visually impaired people, 31st Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Limassol, Cyprus, pp. 547-553, 2023, DOI: 10.1109/MED59994.2023.10185715. [pdf]
- S. Roos-Hoefgeest Toribio, J. Cacace, V. Scognamiglio, I. Alvarez, R.C. González de los Reyes, F. RUGGIERO, V. Lippiello, A vision-based approach for unmanned aerial vehicles to track industrial pipes for inspection tasks, 2023 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Warsaw, Poland, pp. 1183-1190, 2023, DOI: 10.1109/ICUAS57906.2023.10156565. [pdf]
- S. Marcellini, F. RUGGIERO, V. Lippiello, Nonlinear model predictive control for repetitive area reconnaissance with a multirotor drone, 2023 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Warsaw, Poland, pp. 515-522, 2023, DOI: 10.1109/ICUAS57906.2023.10155895. [pdf]
- S. D'Angelo, F. Pagano, F. RUGGIERO, V. Lippiello, Development of a control framework to autonomously install clip bird diverters on high-voltage lines, 2023 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Warsaw, Poland, pp. 377-382, 2023, DOI: 10.1109/ICUAS57906.2023.10156403. [pdf]
- V. Morlando, G. Neglia, F. RUGGIERO, Drilling task with a quadruped robot for silage face measurements, 2023 IEEE International Workshop on Measurements and Applications in Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Naples, Italy, 2023 (in press). [pdf]
- F. Bertoncelli, M. Selvaggio, F. RUGGIERO, L. Sabattini, Task-oriented contact optimization for pushing manipulation with mobile robots, 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Kyoto, Japan, pp. 1639-1646, 2022, DOI: 10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9982177. [pdf]
- P. Arpenti, A. Donaire, F. RUGGIERO, V. Lippiello, Uniform global exponential stabilizing passivity-based tracking controller applied to planar biped robots, 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Kyoto, Japan, pp. 6739-6745, 2022, DOI: 10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981206. [pdf]
- M. Lei, M. Selvaggio, T. Wang, F. RUGGIERO, C. Zhou, C. Yao, Y. Zheng, Dual-arm object transportation via model predictive control and external disturbance estimation, 2022 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Mexico City, Mexico, pp. 2328-2334, 2022, DOI: 10.1109/CASE49997.2022.9926627. [pdf]
- A. Teimoorzadeh, A. Donaire, P. Arpenti, F. RUGGIERO, Robust energy shaping for mechanical systems with dissipative forces and disturbances, 2022 European Control Conference, London, England, pp. 1409-1414, 2022, DOI: 10.23919/ECC55457.2022.9838430. [pdf]
- V. Morlando, F. RUGGIERO, Disturbance rejection for legged robots through a hybrid observer, 30th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Athens, Greece, pp. 743-748, 2022, DOI: 10.1109/MED54222.2022.9837169. [pdf]
- D. Morra, E. Cervera, L.R. Buonocore, J. Cacace, F. RUGGIERO, V. Lippiello, M. Di Castro, Visual control through narrow passages for an omnidirectional wheeled robot, 30th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Athens, Greece, pp. 551-556, 2022, DOI: 10.1109/MED54222.2022.9837221. [pdf]
- V. Morlando, M. Selvaggio, F. RUGGIERO, Nonprehensile object transportation with a legged manipulator, 2022 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Philadelphia, USA, pp. 6628-6634, 2022, DOI: 10.1109/ICRA46639.2022.9811810. [pdf]
- G. D'Ago, M. Lefebvre, L.R. Buonocore, F. RUGGIERO, M. Di Castro, V. Lippiello, Modelling and control of a variable-length flexible beam on inspection ground robot, 2022 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Philadelphia, USA, pp. 8231-8237, 2022, DOI: 10.1109/ICRA46639.2022.9812444. [pdf]
- E. Cuniato, J. Cacace, M. Selvaggio, F. RUGGIERO, V. Lippiello, A hardware-in-the-loop simulator for physical human-aerial manipulator cooperation, 20th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, Slovenia, pp. 830-835, 2021, DOI: 10.1109/ICAR53236.2021.9659398. [pdf]
- F. Bertoncelli, F. RUGGIERO, L. Sabattini, Characterization of grasp configurations for multi-robot object pushing, 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems, United Kingdom, pp. 38-46, 2021, DOI: 10.1109/MRS50823.2021.9620678. [pdf]
- P. Arpenti, A. Donaire, F. RUGGIERO, V. Lippiello, Energy pumping-and-damping for gait robustification of underactuated planar biped robots within the hybrid zero dynamics framework, 2020 IEEE-RAS 20th International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Germany, pp. 415-421, 2021, DOI: 10.1109/HUMANOIDS47582.2021.9555787. [pdf]
- Z. Pastori, F. RUGGIERO, V. Lippiello, M. Di Castro, Bayesian optimization approach to input shaper design for flexible beam vibration suppression, 21st IFAC World Congress, Germany, pp. 9150-9156, 2020, DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2020.12.2159. [pdf]
- M. Nacusse, P. Arpenti, F. RUGGIERO, V. Lippiello, Gait generation for underactuated compass-like robots using dissipative forces in the controller, 21st IFAC World Congress, Germany, pp. 9023-9030, 2020, DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2020.12.2022. [pdf]
- P. Arpenti, F. RUGGIERO, V. Lippiello, Interconnection and damping assignment passivity-based control for gait generation in underactuated compass-like robots, 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Paris, F, pp. 9802-9808, 2020, DOI: 10.1109/ICRA40945.2020.9196598. [pdf]
- F. Bertoncelli, F. RUGGIERO, L. Sabattini, Linear time-varying MPC for nonprehensile object manipulation with a nonholonomic mobile robot, 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Paris, F, pp. 11032-11038, 2020, DOI: 10.1109/ICRA40945.2020.9197173. [pdf]
- F. Bertoncelli, F. RUGGIERO, L. Sabattini, Wheel slip avoidance through a nonlinear model predictive control for object pushing with a mobile robot, 10th IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles, Gdansk, PL, 2019, DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2019.08.043. Nominated for the Young Author Best Paper Award. [pdf]
- A. Gutiérrez-Giles, F. RUGGIERO, V. Lippiello, B. Siciliano, Closed-loop control of a nonprehensile manipulation system inspired by a pizza-peel mechanism, European Control Conference, Naples, I, pp. 1580-1585, 2019, DOI: 10.23919/ECC.2019.8796077. [pdf]
- P. Arpenti, D. Serra, F. RUGGIERO, V. Lippiello, Control of the TORA system through the IDA-PBC without explicit solution of the matching equations, 3rd IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing, Naples, I, 2019, DOI: 10.1109/IRC.2019.00069. [pdf]
- D. Serra, J. Ferguson, F. RUGGIERO, A. Siniscalco, A. Petit, V. Lippiello, B. Siciliano, On the experiments about the nonprehensile reconfiguration of a rolling sphere on a plate, 26th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Zadar, HR, pp. 13-20, 2018, DOI: 10.1109/MED.2018.8442769. [pdf]
- A. Gutiérrez-Giles, F. RUGGIERO, V. Lippiello, B. Siciliano, Modelling and control of a robotic hula-hoop system without velocity measurements, 20th IFAC World Congress, Toulouse, F, pp. 9808-9814, 2017, DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2017.08.889. [pdf]
- D. Serra, F. RUGGIERO, V. Lippiello, B. Siciliano, A nonlinear least squares approach for nonprehensile dual-hand robotic ball juggling, 20th IFAC World Congress, Toulouse, F, pp. 11485-11490, 2017, DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2017.08.1595. [pdf]
- V. Lippiello, F. RUGGIERO, Orbital stabilization of a VToL UAV for landing on oscillating platforms, 2016 International Symposium on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics, Lausanne, CH, pp. 131-138, 2016, DOI: 10.1109/SSRR.2016.7784289. [pdf]
- M. Crespo, A. Donaire, F. RUGGIERO, V. Lippiello, B. Siciliano, Design, implementation and experiments of a robust passivity-based controller for a rolling-balancing system, 13th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, Lisbon, P, pp. 79-89, 2016, DOI: 10.5220/0005981700790089. Best Paper Award. [pdf]
- D. Serra, A.C. Satici, F. RUGGIERO, V. Lippiello, B. Siciliano, An optimal trajectory planner for a robotic batting task: The table tennis example, 13th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, Lisbon, P, pp. 90-101, 2016, DOI: 10.5220/0005982000900101. Nominated for the Best Student Paper Award. [pdf]
- A.C. Satici, F. RUGGIERO, V. Lippiello, B. Siciliano, Intrinsic Euler-Lagrange dynamics and control analysis of the ballbot, 2016 American Control Conference, Boston, MA, USA, pp. 5685-5690, 2016, DOI: 10.1109/ACC.2016.7526560. [pdf]
- A.C. Satici, F. RUGGIERO, V. Lippiello, B. Siciliano, Coordinate-free framework for robotic pizza tossing and catching, 2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Stockholm, S, pp. 3932-3939, 2016, DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2016.7487582. [pdf]
- F. RUGGIERO, M. Trujillo, R. Cano, H. Ascorbe, A. Viguria, C. Peréz, V. Lippiello, A. Ollero, B. Siciliano, A multilayer control for multirotor UAVs equipped with a servo robot arm, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Seattle, WA, USA, pp. 4014-4020, 2015, DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2015.7139760. [pdf]
- V. Lippiello, F. RUGGIERO, D. Serra, Emergency landing for a quadrotor in case of a propeller failure: A PID approach, 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Chicago, IL, USA, pp. 4782-4788, 2014, DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2014.6943242. [pdf]
- V. Lippiello, F. RUGGIERO, D. Serra, Emergency landing for a quadrotor in case of a propeller failure: A backstepping approach, 12th IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics, Toyako-Cho, Hokkaido, J, 2014, DOI: 10.1109/SSRR.2014.7017647. [pdf]
- L.R. Buonocore, V. Lippiello, S. Manfredi, F. Ruggiero, Effects on packet losses on formation control of unmanned aerial vehicles, 19th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control, Cape Town, ZA, pp. 1234-1240, 2014, DOI: 10.3182/20140824-6-ZA-1003.02216. [pdf]
- F. RUGGIERO, J. Cacace, H. Sadeghian, V. Lippiello, Impedance control of VToL UAVs with a momentum-based external generalized forces estimator, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Hong Kong, C, pp. 2093-2099, 2014, DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907146. [pdf]
- V. Lippiello, R. Mebarki, F. RUGGIERO, Visual coordinated landing of a UAV on a mobile robot manipulator, IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics, Linkoping, S, pp. 1-7, 2013, DOI: 10.1109/SSRR.2013.6719338. [pdf]
- V. Lippiello, F. RUGGIERO, Exploiting redundancy in Cartesian impedance control of UAVs equipped with a robotic arm, 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vilamoura, P, pp. 3768-3773, 2012, DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2012.6386021. [pdf]
- V. Lippiello, F. RUGGIERO, Monocular eye-in-hand robotic ball catching with parabolic motion estimation, 10th International IFAC Symposium on Robot Control, Dubrovnik, HR, pp. 229-234, 2012, DOI: 10.3182/20120905-3-HR-2030.00015. [pdf]
- V. Lippiello, F. RUGGIERO, Cartesian impedance control of a UAV with a robotic arm, 10th International IFAC Symposium on Robot Control, Dubrovnik, HR, pp. 704-709, 2012, DOI: 10.3182/20120905-3-HR-2030.00158. [pdf]
- V. Lippiello, F. RUGGIERO, 3D monocular robotic ball catching with an iterative trajectory estimation refinement, 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, St. Paul, MN, pp. 3950-3955, 2012, DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2012.6224994. [pdf]
- J.-C. Ryu, F. RUGGIERO, K.M. Lynch, Control of nonprehensile rolling manipulation: Balancing a disk on a disk, 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, St. Paul, MN, pp. 3232-3237, 2012, DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2012.6225044. [pdf]
- M. Momeni-K., S.C. Diamantas, F. RUGGIERO, B. Siciliano, Height estimation from a single camera view, International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications, Roma, I, 2012. [pdf]
- F. Caccavale, G. Muscio, V. Lippiello, F. Pierri, F. RUGGIERO, L. Villani, Kinematic control with force feedback for a redundant bimanual manipulation system, 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, San Francisco, CA, pp. 4194-4200, 2011, DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2011.6094865. [pdf]
- V. Lippiello, F. RUGGIERO, B. Siciliano, L. Villani, Human-like visual grasp of unknown objects, International Conference on Applied Bionics and Biomechanics, Venice, I, 2010. [pdf]
- V. Lippiello, F. RUGGIERO, B. Siciliano, L. Villani, Preshaped visual grasp of unknown objects with a multi-fingered hand, 2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Taipei, ROC, pp. 5894-5899, 2010, DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2010.5650680. [pdf]
- V. Lippiello, F. RUGGIERO, L. Villani, Floating visual grasp of unknown objects, 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, St. Louis, MO, pp. 1290-1295, 2009, DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354350. [pdf]
- V. Lippiello, F. RUGGIERO, L. Villani, Exploiting redundancy in closed-loop inverse kinematics for dexterous object manipulation, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics, Munich, D, 2009. [pdf]
- V. Lippiello, F. RUGGIERO, Surface model reconstruction of 3D objects from multiple views, 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Kobe, J, pp. 2400-2405, 2009, DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152652. [pdf]