Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering

Antonio Franchi è risultato vincitore della procedura selettiva  a 1 posto di Professore di I fascia

Antonio Franchi è risultato vincitore della procedura selettiva  a 1 posto di Professore di I fascia
presso il Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Automatica e Gestionale Antonio Ruberti,
Settore Concorsuale 09/G1, SSD ING-INF/04 - codice concorso 2021POE008,
bandito con Decreto Rettorale  2575/2021 del 6/10/2021, i cui atti sono stati approvati con
Decreto Rettorale n. 2623/2022 del 12/09/2022.
Nell'ambito della procedura ai fini della chiamata da parte del Consiglio di
dipartimento, il Prof. Antonio Franchi terrà un seminario pubblico
sulle attività di ricerca da lui svolte e in corso di svolgimento.

Il seminario si terrà in modalità telematica mercoledì 28 settembre alle ore 12:00,
all’indirizzo

https://uniroma1.zoom.us/j/84042994264?pwd=bnQ5ellzYWpEVElGMUh4UWF6RGlhQT09.
 
Title
Is control a solved problem in robotics UAV research?

Abstract
In these days, UAV and robotics research are dominated by data-driven approaches that mainly focus on scientific problems related to perception and other AI-related issue.
The design, modeling, and control problems, which have been the backbone of UAV research in the past decades, seem to decline in terms of popularity.
Perhaps there are no more relevant open control problems for UAVs; or maybe problems that are still open are perceived as solved because of some sort of 'mass hallucination’;
or attention goes to problems neglected in the past because they were too hard to solve, but now appear within reach thanks to the new AI wave;
or problems that are still open in control are so difficult that everybody pretend to ignore them, much alike the 'Fox and the Grapes'.
In this talk, I will give my technical point of view on whether there are still significant open problems in the design and control of UAV.
I will try then to critically rank such open problems in terms of difficulty, providing possible research directions to be explored toward their solution.

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