Publications by Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski

Reconfigurable Drone System for Transportation of Parcels With Variable Mass and Size

Dario Floreano, Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski, Leonardo Cencetti, Fabrizio Schiano

Cargo drones are designed to carry payloads with predefined shape, size, and/or mass. This lack of flexibility requires a fleet of diverse drones tailored to specific cargo dimensions. Here we propose a new reconfigurable drone based on a modular design th ...

2022

Downside Up:Rethinking Parcel Position for Aerial Delivery

Dario Floreano, Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski, Mir Alikhan Bin Mohammad Feroskhan, William John Stewart

The conventional approach to parcel placement in most delivery drone designs today is to place the parcel centrally beneath the drone's rotor plane. However, if the parcel is too large, this will result in an obstruction of the propeller slipstream, incurr ...

2020

A Morphing Cargo Drone for Safe Flight in Proximity of Humans

Dario Floreano, Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski, Mir Alikhan Bin Mohammad Feroskhan, William John Stewart

Delivery drones used by logistics companies today are equipped with unshielded propellers, which represent a major hurdle for in-hand parcel delivery. The exposed propeller blades are hazardous to unsuspecting bystanders, pets, and untrained users. One sol ...

2020

Human-friendly solutions for last-centimeter drone delivery

Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski

The popularity of delivery drones is constantly increasing due to their ability to deliver packages more rapidly and economically than current transportation methods. Consequently, drones have been employed by logistics companies for delivering payloads to ...

EPFL2020

Inquiry-Based Learning with RoboGen: An Open-Source Software and Hardware Platform for Robotics and Artificial Intelligence

Dario Floreano, Alice Ghislaine Concordel, Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski, Joshua Evan Auerbach

It has often been found that students appreciate hands-on work, and find that they learn more with courses that include a project than those relying solely on conventional lectures and tests. This type of project driven learning is a key component of “Inqu ...

2019

Last-Centimeter Personal Drone Delivery: Field Deployment and User Interaction

Dario Floreano, Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski, Stefano Mintchev

Drones are rapidly becoming an affordable and often faster solution for parcel delivery than terrestrial vehicles. Existing transportation drones and software infrastructures are mostly designed by logistics companies for trained users and dedicated infras ...

2018

Wall-contact sliding control strategy for a 2D caged quadrotor

Dario Floreano, Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski, Pu Bai

This paper addresses the trajectory tracking problem of a 2D caged flying robot in contact with a wall. To simplify the contact problem, the models are constructed on a vertical two-dimensional plane, and our objective is to let the quadrotor hover or move ...

IEEE2018

An origami-inspired cargo drone

Dario Floreano, Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski, Stefano Mintchev

Multicopters stand to revolutionize parcel delivery because of their capability to operate in areas with unsuitable road infrastructure and precisely maneuver in cluttered environments. However, current multicopters for delivery can be dangerous for people ...

2017

Foldable aircraft with protective cage for transportation and transportability

Dario Floreano, Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski, Stefano Mintchev

An aerial vehicle, configured to transport cargo, and including a propulsion system and a foldable cage is described. The foldable cage is substantially linear while in a folded configuration, and substantially circular while in a deployed configuration. M ...

2017

Rapid Evolution of Robot Gaits

Dario Floreano, Grégoire Hilaire Marie Heitz, Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski, Joshua Evan Auerbach

The promise of Evolutionary Robotics (ER) to completely automatize the design of robot controllers and/or morphologies is an idea with great appeal not only to researchers, but also to students. However, when attempting to grab and hold student interest, t ...

ACM2015

RoboGen: Robot Generation through Artificial Evolution

Dario Floreano, Ludovic Daler, Andrea Maesani, Titus Cieslewski, Pradeep Ruben Fernando, Grégoire Hilaire Marie Heitz, Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski, Ilya Loshchilov, Joshua Evan Auerbach, Deniz Aydin

Science instructors from a wide range of disciplines agree that hands-on laboratory components of courses are pedagogically necessary (Freedman, 1997). However, certain shortcomings of current laboratory exercises have been pointed out by several authors ( ...

The MIT Press2014

Vertical take-off and landing aerial vehicle

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, Adrien Briod, Adam Klaptocz, Ludovic Daler, Arnaud Garnier, Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski

A VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) aerial flying vehicle comprising an inner frame, a gimbal system and an outer frame, the inner frame comprising a propulsion system and a control system, the propulsion system being able to generate a lift force. The ...

2014

A Collision Resilient Flying Robot

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, Adrien Briod, Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski

Flying robots that can locomote efficiently in GPS-denied cluttered environments have many applications, such as in search and rescue scenarios. However, dealing with the high amount of obstacles inherent to such environments is a major challenge for flyin ...

John Wiley & Sons2014

Contact-based navigation for an autonomous flying robot

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, Adrien Briod, Adam Klaptocz, Arnaud Garnier, Marco Pagnamenta, Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski

Autonomous navigation in obstacle-dense indoor environments is very challenging for flying robots due to the high risk of collisions, which may lead to mechanical damage of the platform and eventual failure of the mission. While conventional approaches in ...

2013