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Marco La Civita
PhD Student, MechE

No longer a member of RI.

Email address: marcol@andrew.cmu.edu

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• Helicopter Lab - A vision-guided robot helicopter which can function in any weather conditions using only on-board intelligence and computing power.

• Autonomous Helicopter - Develop a vision-guided robot helicopter

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• Design and Flight Testing of a High-Bandwidth H-infinity Loop Shaping Controller for a Robotic Helicopter
  M. La Civita, G. Papageorgiou, W. Messner, and T. Kanade
  Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 29, No. 2, March, 2006, pp. 485 - 494.

• Integrated Modeling and Robust Control for Full-Envelope Flight of Robotic Helicopters
  M. La Civita, G. Papageorgiou, W. Messner, and T. Kanade
  Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 1, September, 2003, pp. 552 - 557.

• 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. Messner, and T. Kanade
  Proceedings of the 2003 American Control Conference, June, 2003, pp. 4195 - 4200.

• Integrated Modeling and Robust Control for Full-Envelope Flight of Robotic Helicopters
  M. La Civita
  doctoral dissertation, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, January, 2003. [Abstract]

• Design and Flight Testing of a High-Bandwidth H-infinity Loop Shaping Controller for a Robotic Helicopter
  M. La Civita, G. Papageorgiou, W. Messner, and T. Kanade
  Proceedings of the AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit, August, 2002.

• Modeling of Small-Scale Helicopters with Integrated First-Principles and System-Identification Techniques
  M. La Civita, W. Messner, and T. Kanade
  Proceedings of the 58th Forum of the American Helicopter Society, June, 2002, pp. 2505 - 2516.

• Applications of Linear Programming for Linear Systems Trajectory Generation
  M. La Civita and W. Messner
  The 7th Mechatronics Forum International Conference, September, 2000.

• Path Planning between Two Points for a Robot Experiencing Localization Error in Known and Unknown Environments
  H. Choset, M. La Civita, and J. Park
  FSR'99 Proceedings of the International Conference on Field and Service Robotics, August, 1999, pp. 98-103. [Abstract]
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