Rafael Fierro

Orcid: 0000-0002-5574-7246

Affiliations:
  • University of New Mexico, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Albuquerque, USA
  • University of Texas at Arlington, TX, USA (PhD)


According to our database1, Rafael Fierro authored at least 109 papers between 1997 and 2024.

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2024
Safe Motion Planning for Serial-Chain Robotic Manipulators via Invariant Sets.
IEEE Control. Syst. Lett., 2024

2023
Robust Linear-Velocity-Free Formation Tracking of Multiple Quadrotors With Unknown Disturbances.
IEEE Trans. Control. Netw. Syst., December, 2023

Aggressive Formation Tracking for Multiple Quadrotors Without Velocity Measurements Over Directed Topologies.
IEEE Trans. Aerosp. Electron. Syst., October, 2023

Robust Image-Based Landing Control of a Quadrotor on an Unpredictable Moving Vehicle Using Circle Features.
IEEE Trans Autom. Sci. Eng., April, 2023

Essential Technologies and Concepts for Massive Space Exploration: Challenges and Opportunities.
IEEE Trans. Aerosp. Electron. Syst., February, 2023

Kernel Machine to Estimate a Lyapunov Function and Region of Attraction (ROA) for Nonlinear Systems.
IEEE Access, 2023

Multi-Agent Partial Observable Safe Reinforcement Learning for Counter Uncrewed Aerial Systems.
IEEE Access, 2023

Autonomous Multi-Robot Servicing for Spacecraft Operation Extension.
IROS, 2023

2022
Low-Complexity Leader-Following Formation Control of Mobile Robots Using Only FOV-Constrained Visual Feedback.
IEEE Trans. Ind. Informatics, 2022

Low-Complexity Control for Vision-Based Landing of Quadrotor UAV on Unknown Moving Platform.
IEEE Trans. Ind. Informatics, 2022

Geometric Formation Tracking of Quadrotor UAVs Using Pose-Only Measurements.
IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. II Express Briefs, 2022

Multi-Robot System for Autonomous Cooperative Counter-UAS Missions: Design, Integration, and Field Testing.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics, 2022

Multi-agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Countering Uncrewed Aerial Systems.
Proceedings of the Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems - 16th International Symposium, 2022

Towards Stable Interstellar Flight: Levitation of a Laser-Propelled Sailcraft.
Proceedings of the American Control Conference, 2022

2021
Adaptive Image-Based Leader-Follower Formation Control of Mobile Robots With Visibility Constraints.
IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron., 2021

Consensus With Persistently Exciting Couplings and Its Application to Vision-Based Estimation.
IEEE Trans. Cybern., 2021

Vision-Based Formation Control of Mobile Robots With FOV Constraints and Unknown Feature Depth.
IEEE Trans. Control. Syst. Technol., 2021

Geometric Formation Tracking of Aerial Robot Swarms Without Linear Velocity Measurements Over Directed Networks.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, 2021

Robust Image-based Landing Control of a Quadrotor on an Unknown Moving Platform Using Circle Features.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics, 2021

Modeling and Stability of a Laser Beam-Driven Sail.
Proceedings of the 2021 American Control Conference, 2021

2020
Jointly Optimized 3D Drone Mounted Base Station Deployment and User Association in Drone Assisted Mobile Access Networks.
IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., 2020

Resilient and Cybersecure Distributed Control of Inverter-Based Islanded Microgrids.
IEEE Trans. Ind. Informatics, 2020

A Practical Visual Servo Control for Aerial Manipulation Using a Spherical Projection Model.
IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron., 2020

Real-time Quadrotor Navigation Through Planning in Depth Space in Unstructured Environments.
CoRR, 2020

Adaptive synchronization of multi-agent systems with resilience to communication link faults.
Autom., 2020

2019
Exploiting Heterogeneity in Teams of Robotic Agents Using Hybrid Communications.
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, 2019

2018
Force-Driven Traffic Simulation for a Future Connected Autonomous Vehicle-Enabled Smart Transportation System.
IEEE Trans. Intell. Transp. Syst., 2018

Distributed Estimation and Control for Leader-Following Formations of Nonholonomic Mobile Robots.
IEEE Trans Autom. Sci. Eng., 2018

Multiple Pursuer-Based Intercept via Forward Stochastic Reachability.
Proceedings of the 2018 Annual American Control Conference, 2018

2017
Cooperative circumnavigation of a moving target with multiple nonholonomic robots using backstepping design.
Syst. Control. Lett., 2017

Cable-suspended load lifting by a quadrotor UAV: hybrid model, trajectory generation, and control.
Auton. Robots, 2017

Automated aerial suspended cargo delivery through reinforcement learning.
Artif. Intell., 2017

Formation control of quadrotor UAVs without linear velocity measurements.
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, 2017

Robust hybrid control for swinging-up and balancing an inverted pendulum attached to a UAV.
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications, 2017

2016
Collision-free consensus in multi-agent networks: A monotone systems perspective.
Autom., 2016

Optical Wireless Communications for Heterogeneous DARS.
Proceedings of the Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, 2016

Orthogonal vector field-based control for a multi-robot system circumnavigating a moving target in 3D.
Proceedings of the 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2016

Sensor localization using hybrid RF/optical wireless communications for an aerial data mule.
Proceedings of the 2016 American Control Conference, 2016

2015
Exploiting Heterogeneous Robotic Systems in Cooperative Missions.
CoRR, 2015

Collision-free consensus via order preservation in multi-agent networks.
Proceedings of the 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2015

Building coalitions of heterogeneous agents using weighted bipartite graphs.
Proceedings of the 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2015

Lift of a cable-suspended load by a quadrotor: A hybrid system approach.
Proceedings of the American Control Conference, 2015

2014
Stable formation of groups of robots via synchronization.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2014

Autonomous lift of a cable-suspended load by an unmanned aerial robot.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Conference on Control Applications, 2014

2013
Mobile Heterogeneous Sensor Network for Prioritized Sensing.
J. Commun., 2013

On the compression of locational and environmental data in multi-vehicle missions: a control systems approach.
Int. J. Control, 2013

Decentralized identification and control of networks of coupled mobile platforms through adaptive synchronization of chaos.
CoRR, 2013

A reinforcement learning approach towards autonomous suspended load manipulation using aerial robots.
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2013

Learning swing-free trajectories for UAVs with a suspended load.
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2013

Stability analysis of a model for the market dynamics of a smart grid.
Proceedings of the 52nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2013

Decentralized output synchronization of heterogeneous linear systems with fixed and switching topology via self-triggered communication.
Proceedings of the American Control Conference, 2013

Decentralized estimation of topology changes in wireless robotic networks.
Proceedings of the American Control Conference, 2013

2012
Agile Load Transportation : Safe and Efficient Load Manipulation with Aerial Robots.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag., 2012

A Grid-Based Approach to Formation Reconfiguration for a Class of Robots with Non-Holonomic Constraints.
Eur. J. Control, 2012

Trajectory generation for swing-free maneuvers of a quadrotor with suspended payload: A dynamic programming approach.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2012

A Real World Coordination Framework for Connected Heterogeneous Robotic Systems.
Proceedings of the Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, 2012

A binary consensus approach to decentralized coordination of nonholonomic sensor networks.
Proceedings of the 51th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2012

Optimal self-triggering for nonlinear systems via Approximate Dynamic Programming.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Control Applications, 2012

2011
Prioritized Sensor Detection for Environmental Mapping: Theory and Experiments.
J. Intell. Robotic Syst., 2011

A Disjunctive Programming Approach for Motion Planning of Mobile Router Networks.
Int. J. Robotics Autom., 2011

Heterogeneous sensor network for prioritized sensing.
Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2011

Decentralized connectivity and user localization via wireless robotic networks.
Proceedings of the Workshops Proceedings of the Global Communications Conference, 2011

Cooperative navigation for heterogeneous autonomous vehicles via approximate dynamic programming.
Proceedings of the 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, 2011

Stability of feedback linearization under intermittent information: A target-pursuit case.
Proceedings of the American Control Conference, 2011

Swarming of mobile router networks.
Proceedings of the American Control Conference, 2011

Adaptive sampling for tracking in pursuit-evasion games.
Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, 2011

2010
Decentralized grid-based algorithms for formation reconfiguration and synchronization.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2010

Multi-vehicle testbed for decentralized environmental sensing.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2010

A multi-vehicle testbed for multi-modal, decentralized sensing of the environment.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2010

Connectivity Maintenance of a Heterogeneous Sensor Network.
Proceedings of the Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, 2010

An adaptive coverage control algorithm for deployment of nonholonomic mobile sensors.
Proceedings of the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2010

Tethering of mobile router networks.
Proceedings of the American Control Conference, 2010

2009
A Geometric Optimization Approach to Detecting and Intercepting Dynamic Targets Using a Mobile Sensor Network.
SIAM J. Control. Optim., 2009

Guest Editorial for the Special Issue on Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles.
J. Intell. Robotic Syst., 2009

Stabilization of Nonholonomic Robot Formations: A First-state Contractive Model Predictive Control Approach.
J. Comput. Inf. Technol., 2009

A discrete grid abstraction for formation control in the presence of obstacles.
Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2009

Prioritized sensor detection via dynamic Voronoi-based navigation.
Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2009

A grid-based approach to formation reconfiguration in cluttered environments.
Proceedings of the 10th European Control Conference, 2009

A geometric optimization approach to tracking maneuvering targets using a heterogeneous mobile sensor network.
Proceedings of the 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2009

2008
An information-driven framework for motion planning in robotic sensor networks: Complexity and experiments.
Proceedings of the 47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2008

First-state contractive model predictive control of nonholonomic mobile robots.
Proceedings of the American Control Conference, 2008

2007
A Multi-Vehicle Framework for the Development of Robotic Games: The Marco Polo Case.
Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2007

On Motion Coordination of Multiple Vehicles with Nonholonomic Constraints.
Proceedings of the American Control Conference, 2007

Visual tracking of mobile robots in formation.
Proceedings of the American Control Conference, 2007

A Geometric Optimization Approach to Detecting and Intercepting Dynamic Targets.
Proceedings of the American Control Conference, 2007

2006
A Vision-based Nonlinear Decentralized Controller for Unmanned Vehicles.
Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2006

Dynamic Boundary Tracking Using Dynamic Sensor Nets.
Proceedings of the 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2006

Robust vision-based nonlinear formation control.
Proceedings of the American Control Conference, 2006

A hierarchical optimization algorithm for cooperative vehicle networks.
Proceedings of the American Control Conference, 2006

2005
Optimal Positioning Strategies for Shape Changes in Robot Teams.
Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2005

Autopilot-based Nonlinear UAV Formation Controller with Extremum-Seeking.
Proceedings of the 44th IEEE IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and 8th European Control Conference Control, 2005

Cooperative hybrid control of robotic sensors for perimeter detection and tracking.
Proceedings of the American Control Conference, 2005

2004
System intelligence requires distributed learning.
Proceedings of the Intelligent Control, 2004

2003
Modeling Distributed Autonomous Robots Using CHARON: Formation Control Case Study.
Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Symposium on Object-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing (ISORC 2003), 2003

A dual-mode model predictive controller for robot formations.
Proceedings of the 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2003

Hybrid control of reconfigurable robot formations.
Proceedings of the American Control Conference, 2003

2002
A vision-based formation control framework.
IEEE Trans. Robotics Autom., 2002

A Framework and Architecture for Multi-Robot Coordination.
Int. J. Robotics Res., 2002

2001
Cooperative localization and control for multi-robot manipulation.
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2001

Hybrid Control of Formations of Robots.
Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2001

Real-Time Vision-Based Control of a Nonholonomic Mobile Robot.
Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2001

Hierarchical Hybrid Modeling of Embedded Systems.
Proceedings of the Embedded Software, First International Workshop, 2001

On controlling aircraft formations.
Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2001

2000
A Framework and Architecture for Multirobot Coordination.
Proceedings of the Experimental Robotics VII [ISER 2000, 2000

1999
Hybrid control for a class of underactuated mechanical systems.
IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern. Part A, 1999

1998
Control of a nonholonomic mobile robot using neural networks.
IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, 1998

1997
A framework for hybrid control design.
IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern. Part A, 1997

Robust Practical Point Stabilization of a Nonholonomic Mobile Robot Using Neural Networks.
J. Intell. Robotic Syst., 1997

Control of a nonholomic mobile robot: Backstepping kinematics into dynamics.
J. Field Robotics, 1997


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