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Career

· Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley2025–
· Assistant Professor, New York University2018–2025
· Research Scientist and Team Leader, GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania2015–2018
· Research Scientist, Lecturer and Team Leader, University of Pennsylvania2015–
· Postdoctoral Researcher, GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania2014–2015
· Ph.D. in Computer and Control Engineering, University of Naples "Federico II"2011–2014
· Internship and Master Thesis, ETH Zürich2009–2010
· Exchange Student, KTH Royal Institute of Technology2008–2009
· Master (Laurea Specialistica) in Automation Engineering, University of Naples "Federico II"2007–2010
· Bachelor (Laurea Triennale) in Automation Engineering, University of Naples "Federico II"2004–2007

Publications (0)

Estimation, Control, and Planning for Aggressive Flight With a Small Quadrotor With a Single Camera and IMU
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2017
285
cited
Fast, autonomous flight in GPS‐denied and cluttered environments
J. Field Robotics · 2017
214
cited
System for deployment of groups of unmanned micro aerial vehicles in GPS-denied environments using onboard visual relative localization
Auton. Robots · 2017
159
cited
A Distributed Optimization Framework for Localization and Formation Control: Applications to Vision-Based Measurements
IEEE Control Systems · 2016
146
cited
Cooperative Transportation Using Small Quadrotors Using Monocular Vision and Inertial Sensing
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2018
146
cited
Autonomous landing on a moving vehicle with an unmanned aerial vehicle
J. Field Robotics · 2019
140
cited
Model Predictive Trajectory Tracking and Collision Avoidance for Reliable Outdoor Deployment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
IEEE/RJS International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems · 2018
139
cited
Autonomous Navigation and Mapping for Inspection of Penstocks and Tunnels With MAVs
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2017
135
cited
Toward image based visual servoing for aerial grasping and perching
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · 2014
126
cited
Autonomous Flight for Detection, Localization, and Tracking of Moving Targets With a Small Quadrotor
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2017
116
cited
Swarm Distribution and Deployment for Cooperative Surveillance by Micro-Aerial Vehicles
Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems · 2016
114
cited
Toward autonomous avian-inspired grasping for micro aerial vehicles
Bioinspiration & Biomimetics · 2014
106
cited
Localization, Grasping, and Transportation of Magnetic Objects by a Team of MAVs in Challenging Desert-Like Environments
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2018
102
cited
Visual Servoing of Quadrotors for Perching by Hanging From Cylindrical Objects
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2016
100
cited
Visual Inertial Odometry Swarm: An Autonomous Swarm of Vision-Based Quadrotors
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2018
97
cited
Cooperative autonomous search, grasping, and delivering in a treasure hunt scenario by a team of unmanned aerial vehicles
J. Field Robotics · 2018
94
cited
Multi-Robot Collaborative Perception With Graph Neural Networks
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2022
92
cited
Aggressive Flight With Quadrotors for Perching on Inclined Surfaces
2016
91
cited
Visual-inertial direct SLAM
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · 2016
88
cited
Autonomous deployment of swarms of micro-aerial vehicles in cooperative surveillance
International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems · 2014
83
cited
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