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Jiawei Xu
Research Assistant & 5-th year Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science and Engineering
Activities and Research
Adaptive Transportation of Bendable Objects Using Dual UAVs
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Research Items
Published
J. Xu, L. Gao, R. Fierro, and D. Saldaña, "AirBender: Adaptive Transportation of Bendable Objects Using Dual UAVs", in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 2790-2797, March 2025, doi: 10.1109/LRA.2025.3536276.
J. Xu, T. Vu, D. S. D'Antonio, and D. Saldaña, "MochiSwarm: A testbed for robotic micro-blimps in realistic environments", ICRA 2025
K., H., J. Xu, E. Jeffs, and D. Saldaña, "KT-Imitation: Efficient Visual Imitation for Autonomous Navigation Based on Keypoint Timeline", Latin American Robotics Symposium ( LARS ), 2024, Arequipa, Peru
N. Gandhi, J. Xu, D. Saldaña, and L. T. X. Phan, "Rotor Fault Detection and Isolation in Aerial Vehicles with Dozens of Rotors", Latin American Robotics Symposium ( LARS ), 2024, Arequipa, Peru
Z. Yao, S. Hou, J. Xu, M. C. Chuah, "CrackNex: a Few-shot Low-light Crack Semantic Segmentation Model Based on Retinx Theory for UAV Inspections", International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024, Yokohama, Japan.
Li, K., Hou, S., Negash, M., Xu, J., Jeffs, E., D'Antonio, D.S. and Saldaña, D., 2023, October, "A Novel Low-Cost, Recyclable, Easy-to-Build Robot Blimp For Transporting Supplies in Hard-to-Reach Locations", In 2023 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) (pp. 36-42). IEEE.
J. Xu, D. S. D'Antonio, D. J. Ammirato and D. Saldaña, "SBlimp: Design, Model, and Translational Motion Control for a Swing-Blimp," 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Detroit, MI, USA, 2023, pp. 6977-6982, doi: 10.1109/IROS55552.2023.10341796.
J. Cui, J. Xu, D. Saldana and J. Trinkle, "Toward Fine Contact Interactions: Learning to Control Normal Contact Force with Limited Information," 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), London, United Kingdom, 2023, pp. 3926-3932, doi: 10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10161224.
J. Xu and D. Saldaña, "Finding Optimal Modular Robots for Aerial Tasks," 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), London, United Kingdom, 2023, pp. 11922-11928, doi: 10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10160555.
D. S. D'Antonio, J. Xu, G. A. Cardona, and D. Saldaña. "Customizable-ModQuad: a Versatile Hardware-Software Platform to Develop Lightweight and Low-cost Aerial Vehicles," IROS 2022 Workshop on MiniRobots, Kyoto, Japan.
B. Zhu, J. Xu, A. Charway and D. Saldaña, "PogoDrone: Design, Model, and Control of a Jumping Quadrotor," 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2022, pp. 2031-2037, doi: 10.1109/ICRA46639.2022.9811970.
J. Xu, D. S. D'Antonio and D. Saldaña, "Modular Multi-Rotors: From Quadrotors to Fully-Actuated Aerial Vehicles," 2021, arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.00788.
J. Xu, D. S. D’Antonio and D. Saldaña, "H-ModQuad: Modular Multi-Rotors with 4, 5, and 6 Controllable DOF," 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021, pp. 190-196, doi: 10.1109/ICRA48506.2021.9561016.
Under Review
J. Xu, D. S. D'Antonio, D. Saldaña, "Modular Multi-Rotors: From Quadrotors to Fully-Actuated Aerial Vehicles", to IEEE T-ASE
