Publications

2006
  • Laure Amate and Maria-João Rendas, A Contribution to the Problem of Mapping Seabed Transition Zones, Proc. IEEE OCEANS'06, Boston, USA
  • Laure Amate and Maria-João Rendas,Minimum Description Length for Shape-based Segmentation of Seabed Images, Coll. Caractérisation du Milieu Marin, Seatechweek 2006, Brest, France.
  • Christian Barat and Maria-João Rendas, A robust visual attention system for detecting manufactured object in underwater video, Proc. IEEE OCEANS'06, Boston, USA.
  • S. Bertrand, T. Hamel and P. Lahanier,  Performance Improvement of an Adaptive Controller using Model Predictive Control : Application to an UAV Model, 4th  IFAC Symposium on Mechatronic Systems 2006.
  • O. Bourquardez, R. Mahony, T. Hamel and F. Chaumette,  Stability and performance of image based visual servo control using first order spherical image moments, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems - IROS 2006, Beijing, China.
  • F. Le Bras, R. Mahony, T. Hamel and P. Binetti, Adaptive filtering and image based visual servo control of a ducted fan flying robot,  Proceedings of the 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC06), San-Diego, USA.
  • V. Cadanat, P. Souères and T. Hamel, A reactive Path-following controller to guarantee     obstacle avoidance during the transient phase, International Journal of Robotics and Automation, 2006.
  • N. Guenard, T. Hamel, V. Moreau and R. Mahony,  Design of a Controller Allowed the Intuitive Control of an X4-flyer,  8th International IFAC Symposium on Robot Control, SYROCO 2006, Bologna, Italy.
  • N. Guenard, T. Hamel and L. Eck, Control laws for the teleoperation of an aerial vehicle known as an X4-flyer, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems - IROS 2006, Beijing, China.
  • T. Hamel and R. Mahony, Image based visual servo-control for a class of aerial robotic systems, Automatica, 2006.
  • T. Hamel and R. Mahony, Attitude estimation on SO(3) based on direct inertial measurements, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation - ICRA 2006, Orlando, Florida, USA.
  • R. Mahony and T. Hamel, Robust Non-linear Filters for Attitude Estimation on micro UAVs, in Advances in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: State of the art and the road to autonomy, Springer Verlag, 2006.  
  • R. Mahony, P. Corke and T. Hamel, Dynamic image-based visual servo control using centroid and optic flow features, Journal of Dynamic Systems Measurement and Control, 2006.
  • N. Metni, J.M. Pflimlin, T. Hamel and P.Souères, Attitude and Gyro Bias Estimation for a VTOL UAV, IFAC Journal on Control Engineering Practice, 2006.
  • J.-M. Pflimlin, T. Hamel, P. Souères and R. Mahony,  A Hierarchical Control Strategy for the Autonomous Navigation of a Ducted Fan Flying Robot,IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation - ICRA 2006, Orlando, Florida, USA.  
  • J.-M. Pflimlin, T. Hamel, P. Souères and R.Mahony, Position Control and Attitude Stabilization of a Ducted Fan VTOL UAV in Crosswind,  8th International IFAC Symposium on Robot Control, SYROCO 2006, Bologna, Italy.   
  • J.-M. Pflimlin, P. Souères and T. Hamel, Waypoint Navigation Control of a VTOL UAV Amidst Obstacles, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems - IROS,        2006, Beijing, China.
  • J-M. Pflimlin, T. Hamel and P. Soueres, Nonlinear Attitude and Gyroscope's Bias Estimation for a VTOL UAVInternational Journal of Systems Science, 2006.
  • Maria-João Rendas, Construction of Video Mosaics Using the Minimum Description Length, Proc. IEEE OCEANS'06, Boston, USA.
2005
  • Christian Barat and Maria-João Rendas, Robust Tracking of Longitudinal Objects Lying on the Sea Floor with an AUV equipped of a Scanning Sonar, Proc. IEEE OCEANS'05, Washington D.C., USA, September 2005.
  • Christian Barat and Maria-João Rendas, Exploiting natural contours for automatic sonar-to-video calibration, Proc. IEEE OCEANS'05, Brest, France.
  • N. Guénard, T. Hamel and V. Moreau, Dynamic modelling and remote control design for an X4-flyer, IEEE - 5th International Conference on Control and Automation - ICCA 2005, Budapest, Hongrie.
  • R. Mahony and T. Hamel, Image Based Visual Servo Control for Tracking Linear Image Features, International Journal of Non-linear and Robust Control, 2005, Vol. 40, No. 2.
  • R. Mahony, T. Hamel and J.-M. Pflimlin, Complementary filter design on the special orthogonal group SE(3), Proceedings of the 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and the European Control Conference  - CDC-ECC05, Seville, Spain.
  • R. Mahony, A. Van Brasch, P. Corke and T. Hamel, Dynamic image based visual servo control using centroid features, Proceedings of the 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and the European Control Conference  - CDC-ECC05, Seville, Spain.
  • N. Metni and T. Hamel,  Visual Tracking Control of Aerial Robotics Systems with Adaptive Depth Estimation, Proceedings of the 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and the European Control Conference  - CDC-ECC05,  Seville, Spain.
  • N. Metni, J.-M. Pflimlin, T. Hamel and P. Souères, Attitude and Gyro Bias Estimation for a Flying UAV,  International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems - IROS 2005 - IEEE-RSJ, Edmonton, Canada.
  • J.-M. Pflimlin and T. Hamel and P. Souères,  A Nonlinear Observer on SO(3) Group for Attitude and  Gyro Bias Estimation for a Flying UAV,   16th IFAC World Congress 2005, Prague, République Tchèque.  
  • Maria-João Rendas, Information Driven Adaptive Observation Strategies for Ocean Observation, Int. Advanced Robotics Program, Workshop on Underwater Robotics for Sustainable Management of Marine Ecosystems and Environmental Monitoring, Geneva, Italy, November 2005.
  • Maria-João Rendas and Laure Amate, Learning the shape of extended benthic contours by optimal filtering in shape space, 8th IEEE Int. Symp. on Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology (UUST)}, NewHampshire, USA, August 2005.
  • Maria-João Rendas, Optimal Sampling Network Design Using Localised Statistical Models, European Operational Oceanography: Present and Future, Proc. of the Int. Conf. on EuroGOOS, Brest, France, June 2005.
2004
  • Christian Barat and Maria-João Rendas, Benthic Contour Mapping with a Profiler Sonar, Proc. Int. Soc.of Offshore and Polar Eng. (ISOPE) 2004, Toulon, France, May 2004.
  • Christian Barat,  Maria-João Rendas, Benthic Boundary Detection and Tracking Using a Profiler Sonar, Sea Technology, 2004.
  • N. Guénard,  T. Hamel and V. Moreau, Modélisation et élaboration de commande de stabilisation de vitesse et de correction d'assiette pour un drone de type X4-Flyer, Congrès International Francophone en Automatique - CIFA 2004, Douz, Tunisie.
  • T. Hamel and R. Mahony,   Pure 2D Visual control for a class of under-actuated dynamic,   IEEE - International Conference Robotics and Automation - ICRA 2004}, New Orléans, LA, USA.
  • R. Mahony and T. Hamel, Robust Trajectory Tracking for a Scale Model Autonomous Helicopter, International Journal of Non-linear and Robust Control, 2004, Vol.14, pp:1035-1039.
  • N. Metni and T. Hamel, A AUV for Bridges Inspection: Visual Servoing Control Law with Orientation Limits,    IFAC Workshop on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles IAV 2004, Lisbonne, Portugal.
  • N. Metni, F. Derkx, J.L. Sorin and T. Hamel, The current use of UAV for civil applications : Bridge inspection and Traffic surveillance, UVS Tech - International Conference Unmanned Vehicle Systems Technology, 2004, Bruxelles, Belgique.
  • J.-M. Pflimlin, P. Souères and T. Hamel, Hovering flight stabilization in wind gusts for ducted  fan UAV, 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control - CDC 04, Paradise Island, Bahamas.
  • Maria-João Rendas, Statistical Stochastic Maps for Autonomous Plume Tracing under Turbulent Flow, Proc. IFAC 5th Symp. on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles (IAV) 2004, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2004.
  • Stefan Rolfes and Maria-João Rendas, Statistical Snakes: Application To Tracking Of Benthic Contours, Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2004, Sendai, Japan, September 2004.
  • Stefan Rolfes and Maria-João Rendas, Statistical Snakes: Application To Tracking Of Benthic Contours, Proc. IFAC 5th Symp. on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles (IAV) 2004, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2004.
2003
  • Christian Barat and Maria-João Rendas, Tracking benthic boundaries using a profiler sonar: a mixture model approach, Proc. IEEE OCEANS'03, San Diego, California, USA, October 2003.
  • Christian Barat and Maria-João Rendas, Benthic boundaries tracking using a profiler sonar, Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, November 2003.
  • A. Chriette, T. Hamel and R. Mahony, Zero-dynamics analysis for IBVS control of an under-actuated rigid body dynamics,  7th IFAC Symposium Robot Control - SYROCO 2003,        Wroclaw, Pologne.
  • A. Dzul-Lopez, T. Hamel and R. Lozano, Modélisation et commande non linéaire pour un hélicoptère bi-rotor co-axial, Journal Européen des Systèmes Automatisés, Série JESA, 2003, Vol.37, No. 10, pp:177--195.
  • J.-P. Folcher, Steering Control of an Underwater Vehicle: an Anti-Windup Design, 7th IEEE Int. Symp. on Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology (UUST), New Hampshire, USA, August 2003.
  • Maria-João Rendas and Christian Barat, Using statistical mixture models for tracking natural underwater boundaries, 7th IEEE Int. Symp. on Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology (UUST), New Hampshire, USA, August 2003.
  • Maria-João Rendas, Stefan Roles and Malcolm Thomson, Maerl mapping with an underwater vehicle using vision, Proc. of the Int. Symposium on Environmental Software Systems (ISESS) 2003, Vienna, Austrich, May 2003.
  • Maria-João Rendas, Isabel Lourtie and Georges Pichot, Adaptive sampling for sand bank mapping using autonomous underwater vehicle equiped of an altimeter, Proc. of the Int. Symposium on Environmental Software Systems (ISESS) 2003, Vienna, Austrich, May 2003.
  • Maria-João Rendas, SUMARE: Adaptive AUV missions in the North Sea, Unmaned Underwater Vehicle Showcase (UUVS) 2003, Southampton, UK, September 2003.
2002
  • Stefan Rolfes, Maria-João Rendas, Statistical Environment Representation for navigation in natural environments, J. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Elsevier, 129 :136, vol. 41, 2002.
  • Maria-João Rendas, Stefan Rolfes, Underwater Robot navigation using benthic contours, Proc. Oceans 2002.
  • Stefan Rolfes, Maria-João Rendas, Mobile Robot Localisation Based on Random Closed Set Model Maps, Proc. ICRA 2002.
  • Christian Barat, Maria-João Rendas, Classification of Sonar Measures using optimized wavelets, Proc. Oceans 2002.
  • Maria-João Rendas, Yoan Hebrard, The underwater vehicle MAUVE: a user-friendly tool for coastal survey, Proc. UT’02.
2001
2000
  • Maria-João Rendas, Stefan Rolfes, Learning Safe Navigation in Uncertain Environments, J. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Elsevier, 31:34, 2000.
  • Maria-João Rendas  Matteo Perrone, Using Field Subspaces for On-Line Survey Guidance,Oceans'2000.
  • Stefan Rolfes, Maria-João Rendas, Statistical Environment representation to support the navigation of mobile robots in unstructured environments, Proc. ICRA 2000
  • Stefan Rolfes, Maria-João Rendas, Using Autonomous Underwater Vehicles  for seabed habitat mapping, Proc. ICES 2000.
  • Stefan Rolfes, Maria-João Rendas, Relocalisation without explicit feature description in natural environments, Proc. ETFA 2000.
1999
  • .Maria-João Rendas, Stefan Rolfes. Using Non-linear Filtering Techniques for Robot Localisation in Sparse Environments using Perceptual Sensors., Proc. of the 7th International Symposium on Intelligent Robotic Systems (SIRS’99), Coimbra, Portugal, July 1999.
1998
  • Maria-João Rendas, José Santos-Victor, et al. Uncertainty Modeling and Perceptual Guiding for Safe Operation in Unknown Environments, International Journal on Intelligent Control Systems, vol 2, n'2, pp. 235-285, 1998.
  • Maria-João Rendas, José Moura, Ambiguity Analysis of Source Location, IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol 46, n'2, pp. 294-305, Fevrier 1998.
  • Maria-João Rendas, Isabel Lourtie, Jean-Pierre Cléro, Raoul Duranton, Didier Sauzade, I. Herdman, R. Bozzano, Georges Pichot, Miniaturized and Reconfigurable Instrumentation for Multipurpose Survey with a Mini Autonomous Underwater Vehicule (MAUVE), Third European Marine Science and Technology Conference, Project Synopses, vol IV : Advanced Systems, Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 1367-1379, 23-27 Mai 1998.
  • Maria-João Rendas, Isabel Lourtie, AUV Navigation : Increased Robustness and Observability by Fusion of Active and Passive Modes, OCEANS'98, Nice, France, , vol 1, pp. 347-35128 Aout-1er Octobre 1998.
  • Maria-João Rendas, Isabel Lourtie, Temporal combination of positioning modes for AUV navigation in perturbed environments, Int. Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'98), Victoria, Canada, octobre 13-17, 1998, pp. 1107-1110.
  • Maria-João Rendas and Stefan Rolfes,  Learning Safe Navigation in Uncertain Environments, Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Intellingent Robot. Systems (SIRS'98), Edinbourg, Ecosse, Juin, 21-24, 1998, pp. 175-184. Voted in the best ten papers, selected for publication in a special issue of Robotics and Autonomous Systems.
  • Maria-João Rendas and Stefan Rolfes, S, Path Planning in Extended Uncertain Environments, IECON'98, Aachen, Germany, 31 Aout-4 Septembre, 1998, pp. 1152-1157.
  • Maria-João Rendas, Emmanuel Turcci, AUV Mission Preparation as a Multi-criteria Optimization Problem Using Statistical Performance Prediction, OCEANS'98, Nice, France, 28 Aout-1er Octobre, 1998, vol 3, pp. 1749-1753.
  •  Maria-João Rendas and Stefan Rolfes, Fuzzy Shape Recognition for Robot Repositioning, 14th Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Brisbane, Australia, 17-20 Aout 1998, vol II, pp. 1715-1717.
  • Stefan Rolfes, and Maria-João Rendas, Shape Recognition: a Fuzzy Approach, M.J, ICRA'98, Leuve, Belgium, Mai 1998.
  • Maria-João Rendas, Nathalie Vasquez, Using a priori Current Knowledge on AUV Navigation, OCEANS'98, Nice, France, 28 Aout-1er Octobre, 1998, vol 2, pp. 849-853.
1997
1996
  • Maria João Rendas, and Stefan Rolfes, Propagating Multiple Hypothesis for Unknown Environment Learning,  Symposium on Intelligent Robotic Systems (345-352), pp.345-352, July1996.
  • Maria João Rendas, and Stefan Rolfes, Representation Interne Floue d'environnements Inconnus en Robotique Mobile,Rencontres Francophones sur la Logique Floue et ses Applications, Nancy, Cepadues Editions, pp. 259-266, 4-5 December 1996.
  • Maria João Rendas, Paula Santana, Acoustic Fish Classification, Proc. 3rd European Conference on Underwater Acoustics, Luxemburg, Ed. J.S. Papadakis, Foundation for Research and Technology, Hellas, Crete, pp. 711-716, 1996.

 


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