Kovac, Mirko - Imperial College London - Faculty of Engineering, Department of Aeronautics

个人简介

Before his appointment in London, he was post-doctoral researcher at the Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory as part of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University in Cambridge, USA. He obtained his PhD with the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). He received his M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) in 2005. During his studies he was research associate with the University of California in Berkeley USA, RIETER Automotive Switzerland, the WARTSILA Diesel Technology Division in Switzerland, and CISERV in Singapore. Since 2006, he has presented his work at numerous international conferences and has won several best paper and best presentation awards. He has also delivered and been invited to more than 60 keynote lectures at research institutions world-wide.

研究领域

Prof. Mirko Kovac is Director of the Aerial Robotics Laboratory at Imperial College London and the Head of the Materials and Technology Centre of Robotics at the Empa Material Science Institute in Switzerland. His research focusses on the development of novel, biologically inspired flying robots for distributed sensing in air and water and on autonomous robotic construction for digital infrastructure systems. Prof. Kovac's particular specialisation is in robot design, fluid-structure interaction and multi-modal robot mobility.

近期论文

查看导师新发文章（温馨提示：请注意重名现象，建议点开原文通过作者单位确认）

Zhang K, Chermprayong P, Xiao F, Tzoumanikas D, Dams B, Kay S, Kocer BB, Burns A, Orr L, Choi C, Darekar DD, Li W, Hirschmann S, Soana V, Ngah SA, Sareh S, Choubey A, Margheri L, Pawar V, Ball RJ, Williams C, Shepherd P, Leutenegger S, Stuart-Smith R, Kovac Mclose, 2022, Aerial additive manufacturing with multiple autonomous robots, Nature, Vol: 609, Pages: 709-717, ISSN: 0028-0836 Stephens B, Orr L, Kocer BB, Nguyen H-N, Kovac Mclose, 2022, An aerial parallel manipulator with shared compliance, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Pages: 1-8, ISSN: 2377-3766 Stephens B, Nguyen H-N, Hamaza S, Kovac Mclose, 2022, An integrated framework for autonomous sensor placement with aerial robots, IEEE-ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, ISSN: 1083-4435 Li L, Wang S, Zhang Y, Song S, Wang C, Tan S, Zhao W, Wang G, Sun W, Yang F, Liu J, Chen B, Xu H, Nguyen P, Kovac M, Wen Lclose, 2022, Aerial-aquatic robots capable of crossing the air-water boundary and hitchhiking on surfaces., Science Robotics, Vol: 7, Pages: 1-13, ISSN: 2470-9476 Kocer B, Hady A, Kandath H, Pratama M, Kovac Mclose, 2021, Deep neuromorphic controller with dynamic topology for aerial robots, ICRA 2021, Publisher: IEEE, Pages: 110-116 Kovac M, Sequeira Guedes Tristany Farinha A, di Tria J, Zufferey R, Armanini Sclose, 2021, Challenges in control and autonomy of unmanned aerial-aquatic vehicles, 29th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), Publisher: IEEE, Pages: 937-942 Wiesemuller F, Winston C, Poulin A, Aeby X, Miriyev A, Geiger T, Nystrom G, Kovac Mclose, 2021, Self-sensing cellulose structures with design-controlled stiffness, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol: 6, Pages: 4017-4024, ISSN: 2377-3766 Xiao F, Zheng P, Di Tria J, Kocer BB, Kovac Mclose, 2021, Optic flow based reactive collision prevention for MAVs using the fictitious obstacle hypothesis, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol: 6, Pages: 3144-3151, ISSN: 2377-3766 Miriyev A, Kovac M, 2020, Skills for physical artificial intelligence, Nature Machine Intelligence, Vol: 2, Pages: 658-660, ISSN: 2522-5839 Farinha A, Zufferey R, Zheng P, Armanini SF, Kovac Mclose, 2020, Unmanned aerial sensor placement for cluttered environments, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol: 5, Pages: 6623-6630, ISSN: 2377-3766 Hamaza S, Kovac M, 2020, Omni-drone: on the design of a novel aerial manipulator with omni-directional workspace, 17th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR), Publisher: IEEE, Pages: 153-158, ISSN: 2325-033X Zheng P, Tan X, Kocer BB, Yang E, Kovac Mclose, 2020, TiltDrone: a fully-actuated tilting quadrotor platform, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol: 5, Pages: 6845-6852, ISSN: 2377-3766 Debruyn D, Zufferey R, Armanini SF, Winston C, Farinha A, Jin Y, Kovac Mclose, 2020, MEDUSA: a multi-environment dual-robot for underwater sample acquisition, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol: 5, Pages: 4564-4571, ISSN: 2377-3766 Dams B, Sareh S, Zhang K, Shepherd P, Kovac M, Ball RJclose, 2020, Aerial additive building manufacturing: three-dimensional printing of polymer structures using drones, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Construction Materials, Vol: 173, Pages: 3-14, ISSN: 1747-650X Zufferey R, Ancel AO, Farinha A, Siddall R, Armanini SF, Nasr M, Brahmal R, Kennedy G, Kovac Mclose, 2019, Consecutive aquatic jump-gliding with water-reactive fuel, Science Robotics, Vol: 4, Pages: 1-11, ISSN: 2470-9476 Zufferey R, Ancel AO, Raposo C, Armanini SF, Farinha A, Siddall R, Berasaluce I, Zhu H, Kovac Mclose, 2019, SailMAV: Design and Implementation of a Novel Multi-Modal Flying Sailing Robot, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol: 4, Pages: 2894-2901, ISSN: 2377-3766 Armanini SF, Siddall R, Kovac M, 2019, Modelling and simulation of a bioinspired aquatic micro aerial vehicle, AIAA Aviation 2019 Forum, Publisher: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Pages: 1-18 Zhang K, Zhu Y, Lou C, Zheng P, Kovac Mclose, 2019, A design and fabrication approach for pneumatic soft robotic arms using 3D printed origami skeletons, 2nd IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), Publisher: IEEE, Pages: 821-827 Hai-Nguyen N, Siddall R, Stephens B, Navarro-Rubio A, Kovac Mclose, 2019, A passively adaptive microspine grapple for robust, controllable perching, 2nd IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), Publisher: IEEE, Pages: 80-87 Petersen KH, Napp N, Stuart-Smith R, Rus D, Kovac Mclose, 2019, A review of collective robotic construction, Science Robotics, Vol: 4, Pages: 1-10, ISSN: 2470-9476