Mirko Kovac

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2007-2024
Publications (10 Years): 54

Top Topics

Biologically Inspired

Sensor Placement

Autonomous Robots

Top Venues

IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.

Adv. Intell. Syst.

Publications

Tian Lan, Luca Romanello, Mirko Kovac, Sophie F. Armanini, Basaran Bahadir Kocer
Aerial Tensile Perching and Disentangling Mechanism for Long-Term Environmental Monitoring. ICRA (2024)
Ryo Kanno, Pham H. Nguyen, Joshua Pinskier, David Howard, Sukho Song, Mirko Kovac
Hybrid Soft Electrostatic Metamaterial Gripper for Multi-surface, Multi-object Adaptation. RoboSoft (2024)
Andrea Giordano, Liam Achenbach, Daniel Lenggenhager, Fabian Wiesemüller, Roger Vonbank, Claudio Mucignat, André Tristany Farinha, Pham Huy Nguyen, Robert K. Katzschmann, Sophie F. Armanini, Ivan Lunati, Sukho Song, Mirko Kovac
A Soft Robotic Morphing Wing for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles. Adv. Intell. Syst. 6 (6) (2024)
Andrea Giordano, Liam Achenbach, Daniel Lenggenhager, Fabian Wiesemüller, Roger Vonbank, Claudio Mucignat, André Tristany Farinha, Pham Huy Nguyen, Robert K. Katzschmann, Sophie F. Armanini, Ivan Lunati, Sukho Song, Mirko Kovac
A Soft Robotic Morphing Wing for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles. Adv. Intell. Syst. 6 (6) (2024)
Tian Lan, Luca Romanello, Mirko Kovac, Sophie F. Armanini, Basaran Bahadir Kocer
Aerial Tensile Perching and Disentangling Mechanism for Long-Term Environmental Monitoring. CoRR (2024)
Luca Romanello, Daniel Joseph Amir, Heinrich Stengel, Mirko Kovac, Sophie F. Armanini
Gotta catch 'em all, safely! Aerial-deployed soft underwater gripper. CoRR (2024)
Barrie Dams, Binling Chen, Yusuf Furkan Kaya, Lachlan Orr, Basaran Bahadir Kocer, Paul Shepherd, Mirko Kovac, Richard J. Ball
Fresh Properties and Autonomous Deposition of Pseudoplastic Cementitious Mortars for Aerial Additive Manufacturing. IEEE Access 12 (2024)
Simon L. Jeger, Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Florian Achermann, Oscar Pang, Mirko Kovac, Roland Yves Siegwart
Reinforcement Learning for Outdoor Balloon Navigation: A Successful Controller for an Autonomous Balloon. IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag. 31 (2) (2024)
Luca Romanello, Daniel Joseph Amir, Heinrich Stengel, Mirko Kovac, Sophie F. Armanini
Gotta Catch 'em All, Safely! Aerial-Deployed Soft Underwater Gripper. RoboSoft (2024)
Ryo Kanno, Pham H. Nguyen, Joshua Pinskier, David Howard, Sukho Song, Mirko Kovac
Hybrid Soft Electrostatic Metamaterial Gripper for Multi-surface, Multi-object Adaptation. CoRR (2024)
David Häusermann, Sam Bodry, Fabian Wiesemüller, Aslan Miriyev, Severin Siegrist, Fan Fu, Sabyasachi Gaan, Matthias M. Koebel, Wim J. Malfait, Shanyu Zhao, Mirko Kovac
FireDrone: Multi-Environment Thermally Agnostic Aerial Robot. Adv. Intell. Syst. 5 (9) (2023)
Pham Huy Nguyen, Mirko Kovac, Begoña C. Arrue
Editorial: Soft aerial robots: Design, control, and applications of morphologically adaptive flyers. Frontiers Robotics AI 10 (2023)
Daniel Gortat, Alejandro Ortega Ancel, André Farinha, Raphael Zufferey, Mirko Kovac
Use of Superhydrophobic Surfaces for Performance Enhancement of Aerial-Aquatic Vehicles. Adv. Intell. Syst. 5 (2) (2023)
Fabian Wiesemüller, Severin Meyer, Yijie Hu, Dominik Bachmann, Annapaola Parrilli, Gustav Nyström, Mirko Kovac
Biopolymer Cryogels for Transient Ecology-Drones. Adv. Intell. Syst. 5 (7) (2023)
Fabian Hauf, Basaran Bahadir Kocer, Alan Slatter, Hai-Nguyen Nguyen, Oscar Pang, Ronald Clark, Edward Johns, Mirko Kovac
Learning Tethered Perching for Aerial Robots. ICRA (2023)
David Häusermann, Sam Bodry, Fabian Wiesemüller, Aslan Miriyev, Severin Siegrist, Fan Fu, Sabyasachi Gaan, Matthias M. Koebel, Wim J. Malfait, Shanyu Zhao, Mirko Kovac
FireDrone: Multi-Environment Thermally Agnostic Aerial Robot. Adv. Intell. Syst. 5 (9) (2023)
Daniel Gortat, Alejandro Ortega Ancel, André Farinha, Raphael Zufferey, Mirko Kovac
Use of Superhydrophobic Surfaces for Performance Enhancement of Aerial-Aquatic Vehicles. Adv. Intell. Syst. 5 (2) (2023)
Manuela Heinrich, Fabian Wiesemüller, Xavier Aeby, Yusuf F. Kaya, Deeptanshu Sivaraman, Pham Huy Nguyen, Sukho Song, Gustav Nyström, Mirko Kovac
Hygroscopically-driven transient actuator for environmental sensor deployment. RoboSoft (2023)
Fabian Wiesemüller, Severin Meyer, Yijie Hu, Dominik Bachmann, Annapaola Parrilli, Gustav Nyström, Mirko Kovac
Biopolymer Cryogels for Transient Ecology-Drones. Adv. Intell. Syst. 5 (7) (2023)
Harvey Stedman, Basaran Bahadir Kocer, Nejra van Zalk, Mirko Kovac, Vijay M. Pawar
Evaluating Immersive Teleoperation Interfaces: Coordinating Robot Radiation Monitoring Tasks in Nuclear Facilities. ICRA (2023)
Basaran Bahadir Kocer, Harvey Stedman, Patryk Kulik, Izaak Caves, Nejra van Zalk, Vijay M. Pawar, Mirko Kovac
Immersive View and Interface Design for Teleoperated Aerial Manipulation. IROS (2022)
Fabian Wiesemüller, Ziwen Meng, Yijie Hu, Andre Farinha, Yunus Govdeli, Pham H. Nguyen, Gustav Nyström, Mirko Kovac
Transient bio-inspired gliders with embodied humidity responsive actuators for environmental sensing. Frontiers Robotics AI 9 (2022)
Lei Li, Siqi Wang, Yiyuan Zhang, Shanyuan Song, Chuqian Wang, Shaochang Tan, Wei Zhao, Gang Wang, Wenguang Sun, Fuqiang Yang, Jiaqi Liu, Bohan Chen, Haoyuan Xu, Pham Nguyen, Mirko Kovac, Li Wen
Aerial-aquatic robots capable of crossing the air-water boundary and hitchhiking on surfaces. Sci. Robotics 7 (66) (2022)
Brett Stephens, Lachlan Orr, Basaran Bahadir Kocer, Hai-Nguyen Nguyen, Mirko Kovac
An Aerial Parallel Manipulator With Shared Compliance. IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 7 (4) (2022)
Fabian Wiesemüller, Ziwen Meng, Yijie Hu, Andre Farinha, Yunus Govdeli, Pham H. Nguyen, Gustav Nyström, Mirko Kovac
Transient bio-inspired gliders with embodied humidity responsive actuators for environmental sensing. Future Internet 9 (2022)
Ketao Zhang, Pisak Chermprayong, Feng Xiao, Dimos Tzoumanikas, Barrie Dams, Sebastian Kay, Basaran Bahadir Kocer, Alec Burns, Lachlan Orr, Christopher Choi, Durgesh Dattatray Darekar, Wenbin Li, Steven Hirschmann, Valentina Soana, Shamsiah Awang Ngah, Sina Sareh, Ashutosh Choubey, Laura Margheri, Vijay M. Pawar, Richard J. Ball, Chris Williams, Paul Shepherd, Stefan Leutenegger, Robert Stuart-Smith, Mirko Kovac
Aerial additive manufacturing with multiple autonomous robots. Nat. 609 (7928) (2022)
Harvey Stedman, Basaran Bahadir Kocer, Mirko Kovac, Vijay M. Pawar
VRTAB-Map: A Configurable Immersive Teleoperation Framework with Online 3D Reconstruction. ISMAR Adjunct (2022)
Angus B. Clark, Nicholas Baron, Lachlan Orr, Mirko Kovac, Nicolás Rojas
On a Balanced Delta Robot for Precise Aerial Manipulation: Implementation, Testing, and Lessons for Future Designs. IROS (2022)
Cameron Buckner, Risto Miikkulainen, Stephanie Forrest, Silvia Milano, James Zou, Carina Prunk, Christopher Irrgang, I. Glenn Cohen, Hao Su, Robin R. Murphy, Russell H. Taylor, Axel Krieger, Mirko Kovac, Jathan Sadowski, Vidushi Marda
AI reflections in 2021. Nat. Mach. Intell. 4 (1) (2022)
Zicong Wu, Chuqian Lou, Zhu Jin, Shaoping Huang, Ning Liu, Yun Zou, Mirko Kovac, Anzhu Gao, Guang-Zhong Yang
Robotic Electrospinning Actuated by Non-Circular Joint Continuum Manipulator for Endoluminal Therapy. ICRA (2021)
Zicong Wu, Chuqian Lou, Zhu Jin, Shaoping Huang, Ning Liu, Yun Zou, Mirko Kovac, Anzhu Gao, Guang-Zhong Yang
Robotic Electrospinning Actuated by Non-Circular Joint Continuum Manipulator for Endoluminal Therapy. CoRR (2021)
Fabian Wiesemüller, Crystal Winston, Alexandre Poulin, Xavier Aeby, Aslan Miriyev, Thomas Geiger, Gustav Nyström, Mirko Kovac
Self-Sensing Cellulose Structures With Design-Controlled Stiffness. IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 6 (2) (2021)
Fabian Schwab, Fabian Wiesemüller, Claudio Mucignat, Yong-Lae Park, Ivan Lunati, Mirko Kovac, Ardian Jusufi
Undulatory Swimming Performance Explored With a Biorobotic Fish and Measured by Soft Sensors and Particle Image Velocimetry. Frontiers Robotics AI 8 (2021)
André Farinha, Julien di Tria, Raphael Zufferey, Sophie F. Armanini, Mirko Kovac
Challenges in Control and Autonomy of Unmanned Aerial-Aquatic Vehicles. MED (2021)
Feng Xiao, Peter Zheng, Julien di Tria, Basaran Bahadir Kocer, Mirko Kovac
Optic Flow-Based Reactive Collision Prevention for MAVs Using the Fictitious Obstacle Hypothesis. IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 6 (2) (2021)
Basaran Bahadir Kocer, Mohamad Abdul Hady, Harikumar Kandath, Mahardhika Pratama, Mirko Kovac
Deep Neuromorphic Controller with Dynamic Topology for Aerial Robots. ICRA (2021)
Peter Zheng, Xinkai Tan, Basaran Bahadir Kocer, Erdeng Yang, Mirko Kovac
TiltDrone: A Fully-Actuated Tilting Quadrotor Platform. IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 5 (4) (2020)
Aslan Miriyev, Mirko Kovac
Skills for physical artificial intelligence. Nat. Mach. Intell. 2 (11) (2020)
Diego Debruyn, Raphael Zufferey, Sophie F. Armanini, Crystal Winston, André Farinha, Yufei Jin, Mirko Kovac
MEDUSA: A Multi-Environment Dual-Robot for Underwater Sample Acquisition. IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 5 (3) (2020)
Salua Hamaza, Mirko Kovac
Omni-Drone: on the Design of a Novel Aerial Manipulator with Omni-directional Workspace. UR (2020)
André Farinha, Raphael Zufferey, Peter Zheng, Sophie F. Armanini, Mirko Kovac
Unmanned Aerial Sensor Placement for Cluttered Environments. IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 5 (4) (2020)
Raphael Zufferey, Alejandro Ortega Ancel, Célia Raposo, Sophie Franziska Armanini, André Farinha, Robert Siddall, Ion Berasaluce, Haijun Zhu, Mirko Kovac
SailMAV: Design and Implementation of a Novel Multi-Modal Flying Sailing Robot. IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 4 (3) (2019)
Pisak Chermprayong, Ketao Zhang, Feng Xiao, Mirko Kovac
An Integrated Delta Manipulator for Aerial Repair: A New Aerial Robotic System. IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag. 26 (1) (2019)
Raphael Zufferey, Alejandro Ortega Ancel, André Farinha, Robert Siddall, Sophie F. Armanini, M. Nasr, R. V. Brahmal, Grant Kennedy, Mirko Kovac
Consecutive aquatic jump-gliding with water-reactive fuel. Sci. Robotics 4 (34) (2019)
Kirstin H. Petersen, Nils Napp, Robert Stuart-Smith, Daniela Rus, Mirko Kovac
A review of collective robotic construction. Sci. Robotics 4 (28) (2019)
Ketao Zhang, Pisak Chermprayong, Dimos Tzoumanikas, Wenbin Li, Marius Grimm, Mariusz Smentoch, Stefan Leutenegger, Mirko Kovac
Bioinspired design of a landing system with soft shock absorbers for autonomous aerial robots. J. Field Robotics 36 (1) (2019)
Ketao Zhang, Yifan Zhu, Chuqian Lou, Peter Zheng, Mirko Kovac
A Design and Fabrication Approach for Pneumatic Soft Robotic Arms Using 3D Printed Origami Skeletons. RoboSoft (2019)
Hai-Nguyen Nguyen, Robert Siddall, Brett Stephens, Alberto Navarro-Rubio, Mirko Kovac
A Passively Adaptive Microspine Grapple for Robust, Controllable Perching. RoboSoft (2019)
Dimos Tzoumanikas, Wenbin Li, Marius Grimm, Ketao Zhang, Mirko Kovac, Stefan Leutenegger
Fully autonomous micro air vehicle flight and landing on a moving target using visual-inertial estimation and model-predictive control. J. Field Robotics 36 (1) (2019)
Pisak Chermprayong, Marc Emmanuelli, Haris Nadeem, Mirko Kovac
Rotorigami: A rotary origami protective system for robotic rotorcraft. Sci. Robotics 3 (22) (2018)
Benjamin Goldberg, Raphael Zufferey, Neel Doshi, Elizabeth Farrell Helbling, Griffin Whittredge, Mirko Kovac, Robert J. Wood
Power and Control Autonomy for High-Speed Locomotion With an Insect-Scale Legged Robot. IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 3 (2) (2018)
Hongqiang Wang, E. Farrell Helbling, Noah T. Jafferis, Raphael Zufferey, Aaron C. Ong, Kevin Y. Ma, Nicholas G. Gravish, Pakpong Chirarattananon, Mirko Kovac, Robert J. Wood
A biologically inspired, flapping-wing, hybrid aerial-aquatic microrobot. Sci. Robotics 2 (11) (2017)
Yu Herng Tan, Robert Siddall, Mirko Kovac
Efficient Aerial-Aquatic Locomotion With a Single Propulsion System. IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 2 (3) (2017)
K. Zhang, Pisak Chermprayong, T. M. Alhinai, Robert Siddall, Mirko Kovac
SpiderMAV: Perching and stabilizing micro aerial vehicles with bio-inspired tensile anchoring systems. IROS (2017)
Robert Siddall, Grant Kennedy, Mirko Kovac
High-Power Propulsion Strategies for Aquatic Take-off in Robotics. ISRR (1) (2015)
Adam Braithwaite, Talib Alhinai, Maximilian Haas-Heger, Edward McFarlane, Mirko Kovac
Tensile Web Construction and Perching with Nano Aerial Vehicles. ISRR (1) (2015)
Robert Siddall, Mirko Kovac
A water jet thruster for an aquatic micro air vehicle. ICRA (2015)
Graham Hunt, Faidon Mitzalis, Talib Alhinai, Paul A. Hooper, Mirko Kovac
3D printing with flying robots. ICRA (2014)
Mirko Kovac, Daniel M. Vogt, Daniel Ithier, Michael Smith, Robert J. Wood
Aerodynamic evaluation of four butterfly species for the design of flapping-gliding robotic insects. IROS (2012)
Mirko Kovac, Maria Bendana, Rohit Krishnan, Jessica Burton, Michael Smith, Robert J. Wood
Multi-stage micro rockets for robotic insects. Robotics: Science and Systems (2012)
Mirko Kovac, Wassim-Hraiz, Oriol Fauria, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano
The EPFL jumpglider: A hybrid jumping and gliding robot with rigid or folding wings. ROBIO (2011)
Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Adam Klaptocz, Jürg Germann, Mirko Kovac
Aerial Locomotion in Cluttered Environments. ISRR (2011)
Mirko Kovac, Wassim-Hraiz, Oriol Fauria, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano
The locomotion capabilities of the EPFL jumpglider: A hybrid jumping and gliding robot. ROBIO (2011)
Mirko Kovac, Manuel Schlegel, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano
Steerable miniature jumping robot. Auton. Robots 28 (3) (2010)
Mirko Kovac, Manuel Schlegel, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano
A miniature jumping robot with self-recovery capabilities. IROS (2009)
Mirko Kovac, Manuel Schlegel, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano
A miniature jumping robot with self-recovery capabilities. IROS (2009)
Mirko Kovac, Martin Fuchs, André Guignard, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano
A miniature 7g jumping robot. ICRA (2008)
Mirko Kovac, André Guignard, Jean-Daniel Nicoud, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano
A 1.5g SMA-actuated Microglider looking for the Light. ICRA (2007)