Thesis

• Integrated Modeling and Robust Control for Full-Envelope Flight of Robotic Helicopters, M. La Civita, Ph.D. Thesis, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 2003 [BibTeX Reference].

Publications

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• AWARE: Platform for Autonomous self-deploying and operation of Wireless sensor-actuator networks cooperating with unmanned AeRial vehiclEs, A. Ollero, M. Bernard, M. La Civita, L. van Hoesel, P.J. Marron, J. Lepley, E. de Andres, IEEE International Workshop on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics, 2007, 27-29 September 2007, pp. 1-6.
• Design and Flight Testing of a High-Bandwidth H-infinity Loop Shaping Controller for a Robotic Helicopter, M. La Civita, G. Papageorgiou, W. C. Messner, T. Kanade, Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 29, No. 2, March-April 2006, pp. 485-494. [BibTeX Reference].
• Design and Flight Testing of a Gain-Scheduled H-infinity Loop Shaping Controller for Wide-Envelope Flight of a Robotic Helicopter, M. La Civita, G. Papageorgiou, W. C. Messner, T. Kanade, Proceedings of the 2003 American Control Conference, pp. 4195-4200, Denver, CO, 4-6 June 2003. [BibTeX Reference].
• Integrated Modeling and Robust Control for Full-Envelope Flight of Robotic Helicopters, M. La Civita, G. Papageorgiou, W. C. Messner, T. Kanade, Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, vol.1, pp 552- 557, Taipei, Taiwan, 14-19 September 2003. [BibTeX Reference].
• Design and Flight Testing of a High-Bandwidth H-infinity Loop Shaping Controller for a Robotic Helicopter, M. La Civita, G. Papageorgiou, W. C. Messner, T. Kanade, Proceedings of the AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit, AIAA-2002-4836, Montery, CA, August 2002. [BibTeX Reference].
• Modeling of Small-Scale Helicopters with Integrated First-Principles and System-Identification Techniques, M. La Civita, W. C. Messner, T. Kanade, Proceedings of the 58th Forum of the American Helicopter Society, pp 2505-2516, Montreal, Canada, June 2002. [BibTeX Reference]. (Submitted to the Journal of the American Helicopter Society).
• Applications of Linear Programming for Linear Systems Trajectory Generation, M. La Civita, W. Messner, The 7th Mechatronics Forum International Conference, M2000-289. September 2000.
• Path Planning between Two Points for a Robot Experiencing Localization Error in Known and Unknown Environments, H. Choset, M. La Civita, J. C. Park, FSR'99 Proceedings of the International Conference on Field and Service Robotics, August 1999, pp. 98-103.
• Optimization of an Engine Mounting System for Vibro-Acoustic Comfort Improvement, M. La Civita, A. Sestieri, Proceedings of the 17th International Modal Analysis Conference, February 1999, pp. 1998-2004.
• On Antiresonance Interpretation And Energy Concentration Along Continuous One-Dimensional Systems, M. La Civita, A. Sestieri, Proceedings of the 15th International Modal Analysis Conference, February 1997, pp. 778-784.