Publications by Davide Scaramuzza

Microgravity induces overconfidence in perceptual decision-making

Davide Scaramuzza, Christian Pfeiffer, Leyla Loued-Khenissi

Does gravity affect decision-making? This question comes into sharp focus as plans for interplanetary human space missions solidify. In the framework of Bayesian brain theories, gravity encapsulates a strong prior, anchoring agents to a reference frame via ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Training Efficient Controllers via Analytic Policy Gradient

Dario Floreano, Davide Scaramuzza, Valentin Wüest

Control design for robotic systems is complex and often requires solving an optimization to follow a trajectory accurately. Online optimization approaches like Model Predictive Control (MPC) have been shown to achieve great tracking performance, but requir ...

New York2023

The current state and future outlook of rescue robotics

Dario Floreano, Roland Siegwart, Auke Ijspeert, Davide Scaramuzza, Stefano Mintchev, Tomislav Horvat, Kamilo Andres Melo Becerra, Marco Hutter

Robotic technologies, whether they are remotely operated vehicles, autonomous agents, assistive devices, or novel control interfaces, offer many promising capabilities for deployment in real‐world environments. Postdisaster scenarios are a particularly rel ...

2019

The Foldable Drone: A Morphing Quadrotor That Can Squeeze and Fly

Dario Floreano, Davide Scaramuzza, Stefano Mintchev

The recent advances in state estimation, perception, and navigation algorithms have significantly contributed to the ubiquitous use of quadrotors for inspection, mapping, and aerial imaging. To further increase the versatility of quadrotors, recent works i ...

2019

A smartphone application to determine body length for body weight estimation in children: a prospective clinical trial

Davide Scaramuzza

The aim of this study was to test the feasibility and accuracy of a smartphone application to measure the body length of children using the integrated camera and to evaluate the subsequent weight estimates. A prospective clinical trial of children aged 0–< ...

Springer Verlag2018

Accurate Angular Velocity Estimation with an Event Camera

Davide Scaramuzza

We present an algorithm to estimate the rotational motion of an event camera. In contrast to traditional cameras, which produce images at a fixed rate, event cameras have independent pixels that respond asynchronously to brightness changes, with microsecon ...

2017

EVO: A Geometric Approach to Event-Based 6-DOF Parallel Tracking and Mapping in Real Time

Davide Scaramuzza

2017

Past, Present, and Future of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping: Toward the Robust-Perception Age

Davide Scaramuzza

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) consists in the concurrent construction of a model of the environment (the map), and the estimation of the state of the robot moving within it. The SLAM community has made astonishing progress over the last 30 y ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

A Flexible Technique for Accurate Omnidirectional Camera Calibration and Structure from Motion

Roland Siegwart, Davide Scaramuzza

In this paper, we present a flexible new technique for single-viewpoint omnidirectional camera calibration. The proposed method only re-quires the camera to observe a planar pattern shown at a few different orienta-tions. Either the camera or the planar pa ...

2006

A Toolbox for Easily Calibrating Omnidirectional Cameras

Roland Siegwart, Davide Scaramuzza

In this paper, we present a novel technique for calibrating central omnidirectional cameras. The proposed procedure is very fast and completely automatic, as the user is only asked to collect a few images of a checker board, and click on its corner points. ...

2006

Automatic Self-Calibration of a Vision System during Robot Motion

Roland Siegwart, Davide Scaramuzza

This paper presents a new technique to estimate the extrinsic parameters of a robot-vision sensor system. More in general, this technique can be adopted to calibrate any robot bearing sensor. It is based on the Extended Kalman Filter. It is very simple and ...

2006

Precise Bearing Angle Measurement Based on Omnidirectional Conic Sensor and Defocusing

Roland Siegwart, Davide Scaramuzza

Recent studies on multi-robot localization have shown that the uncertainty of robot location may be considerably reduced by optimally fusing odometry and the relative angles of sight (bearing) among the team members. However, the latter requires the capabi ...

2005

Ball Detection and Predictive Ball Following Based on a Stereoscopic Vision System

Davide Scaramuzza

In this paper we describe an efficient software architecture for object-tracking, based on a stereoscopic vision system, that has been applied to a mobile robot controlled by a PC. After analyzing the epipolar rectification required to correct the original ...

2005