Francesco Vanni's Webpage


Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR)

Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Torre Norte – 8.17

e-mail: fvanni ( @ ) isr.ist.utl.pt

Tel: (+351) 218418088


2007 -

I am currently a Ph.D. student at Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica (ISR/IST), under the supervision of prof. António Pedro Aguiar. My reaserch is about guidance, navigation and control of single and multiple autonomous robotic vehicles.
2004 - 2007 M.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering at Politecnico di Milano and IST Lisboa, in the scope of the T.I.M.E. double degree project.
Thesis: "Coordinated Motion Control of Multiple Autonomous Underwater Vehicles".
Advisor at IST: Prof. António Pedro Aguiar
Advisor at Politecnico di Milano: Prof. Sergio Bittanti
2001 - 2004 B.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering at Politecnico di Milano.
Dissertation: "Project and Realization of an Optical Guidance System for Air-to-Air Missiles".
Advisor: Prof. Liliana Ferri degli Antoni
   


Publications
Francesco Vanni, A. Pedro Aguiar and António M. Pascoal,
Cooperative Path-Following of Underactuated Autonomous Marine Vehicles with Logic-based Communication,
to appear in Proc. of NGCUV 2008 - The 
IFAC Workshop on Navigation, Guidance and Control of Underwater Vehicles, Killaloe, Ireland, Apr. 2008
Francesco Vanni, A. Pedro Aguiar and António M. Pascoal,
Nonlinear Motion Control of Multiple Autonomous Underwater Vehicles,
in Proc. of CAMS’07 - The IFAC Conference on Control Applications in Marine Systems, Bol, Croatia, Sep. 2007
A. Pedro Aguiar, Reza Ghabcheloo, António M. Pascoal, Carlos Silvestre and Francesco Vanni,
Coordinated Path Following of Multiple Marine Vehicles: Theoretical Issues and Practical Constraints,
in Proc. of IWK - 52nd Internationales Wissenschaftliches Kolloquium, Ilmenau, Germany, Sep. 2007
Francesco Vanni, A. Pedro Aguiar and António M. Pascoal,
GREX project: Way-point guidance control,
Technical report. Instituto Superior Técnico - Institute for Systems and Robotics (IST/ISR), Lisbon, Portugal, Jan. 2007



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