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Reinforcement Learning for Outdoor Balloon Navigation: A Successful Controller for an Autonomous Balloon

Simon Jeger, Mirko Kovac

Autonomous ballooning allows for energy-efficient long-range missions but introduces significant challenges for planning and control algorithms, due to their single degree of actuation: vertical rate control through either buoyancy or vertical thrust. Late ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2024

Leaf Level Ash Dieback Disease Detection and Online Severity Estimation With UAVs

Mirko Kovac

Ash dieback, caused by the fungal pathogen Hymenoscyphus fraxineus, is devastating ash tree populations across U.K. and Europe, with projections indicating that up to 80% of ash trees may die as a result of the disease. The extensive loss of this keystone ...

2025

Aerial Tensile Perching and Disentangling Mechanism for Long-Term Environmental Monitoring

Mirko Kovac

Aerial robots show significant potential for forest canopy research and environmental monitoring by providing data collection capabilities at high spatial and temporal resolutions. However, limited flight endurance hinders their application. Inspired by na ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

Use of an unmanned aerial-aquatic vehicle for acoustic sensing in freshwater ecosystems

Mirko Kovac, Raphael Zufferey

Freshwater ecosystems are endangered, underfunded and understudied, making new methods such as passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) essential for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of data collection. However, many challenges are still to be addressed ...

Wiley2023

Aerial-Aquatic Robots as a New Paradigm for Blue Carbon Monitoring and Sequestration

Mirko Kovac

The relentless rise of the global atmospheric carbon dioxide levels emphasizes the need for novel and innovative approaches to carbon sequestration strategies. This paper highlights how natural carbon dioxide removal methods can integrate with novel roboti ...

IEEE2024

Deposition dynamics and analysis of polyurethane foam structure boundaries for aerial additive manufacturing

Mirko Kovac

Additive manufacturing in construction typically consists of ground-based platforms. Introducing aerial capabilities offers scope to create or repair structures in dangerous or elevated locations. The Aerial Additive Manufacturing (AAM) project has develop ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2024

Search for high-mass exclusive diphoton production with tagged protons in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV

Emilio Perez, Thomas L. Sterling, Jiahui Fan, Mateusz Adam Dabrowski, Ian Smith, Matthias Finger, Jian Zhao, Jan Steggemann, Konstantin Androsov, Qian Wang, Michele De Palma, Anna Mascellani, Yi Zhang, Jian Wang, Joanna Malgorzata Wanczyk, Pedro Camilo de Oliveira e Silva, Rakesh Chawla, Myun Sik Kim, Thomas Mountford, Varun Sharma, Mirko Kovac, Shivom Sharma, Chang-Hyun Park, Jae-Woo Choi, Rahul Kumar Gupta, Hua Zhang, Mike Seidel, Joo Yeon Kim, Matteo Galli, Matthias Wolf, James Gonzalo King, Shubhajit Das, Xiaoqiang Wang, Zhenyu Wang, Xin Chen, Gabriele Grosso, Rishi Sharma, Chia-Chun Chen, Jia Liu, Jung Eung Park, Ekaterina Kuznetsova, Siyuan Wang, Mithlesh Kumar, Chenyang Wang, Xiaoxin Gao, Aman Sharma, Junyin Zhang, Subham Choudhury, Seonwoo Lee, Mingyang Liu, Davide Di Croce, Patrick Berger, Jordy Daniel Müller, Marie Jane Francine Jones, Wei-Hsiang Lin, Wanyun Xie, Hyungjun Lee, Vu Trung Tin Nguyen, Junfeng Xiao, Wanting Jin, Zeming Chen, Maria Isabel Cordero Campana, Young Min Kim, Ling Zhou, Weilin Li, Haoze He, Andrea Santoro, Thomas Ka Chung Lam, Özdemir Can Kara, Bokyoung Kim, Notash Shafiei, Shaohui Yang, Haiyuan Wang, Youngro Lee, Dong Hyun Kim, Florian Hartmann, Muhammad Awais Naeem, Lu Wang, Shailesh Mishra, Tianqi Liu, Zhuan Shi, Leyu Zhang, Yihong Chen, Changliang Li, Sudipto Sarkar, Fang Wang, Yikai Yang, Boya Wang, Guoyuan Liu, Venu Gopal Agarwal, Zihan Wu, Hong-Bin Yang, Yunzhen Yao, Chenxu Liu, Xiaowu Sun, Zihan Hu

A search is presented for high-mass exclusive diphoton production via photon-photon fusion in proton-proton collisions at root s = 13 TeV in events where both protons survive the interaction. The analysis utilizes data corresponding to an integrated lumino ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2024

TumblerBots: Tumbling Robotic sensors for Minimally-invasive Benthic Monitoring

Fabian Wiesemüller, Mirko Kovac

Robotic systems show significant promise for water environmental sensing applications such as water quality monitoring, pollution mapping and biodiversity data collection. Conventional deployment methods often disrupt fragile ecosystems, preventing de ...

2025

Drone‐Based Solar Cell Inspection With Autonomous Deep Learning

Mirko Kovac

Regular inspection and maintenance are crucial for ensuring the optimal performance of solar panels. However, conventional manual methods can be laborious, time consuming, and expensive, especially for large and inaccessible installations. Aerial inspectio ...

Wiley2024

Fresh Properties and Autonomous Deposition of Pseudoplastic Cementitious Mortars for Aerial Additive Manufacturing

Mirko Kovac

Additive Manufacturing (AM) in relation to the construction industry is an emerging technology. However, ground-based AM on construction scales may be limited by the dimensions, reach and weight of the ground-based deposition platform. Aerial additive manu ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2024

Performance analysis of jump-gliding locomotion for miniature robotics

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Mirko Kovac

Recent work suggests that jumping locomotion in combination with a gliding phase can be used as an effective mobility principle in robotics. Compared to pure jumping without a gliding phase, the potential benefits of hybrid jump-gliding locomotion includes ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Bioinspired Jumping Locomotion for Miniature Robotics

Mirko Kovac

In nature, many small animals use jumping locomotion to move in rough terrain. Compared to other modes of ground locomotion, jumping allows an animal to overcome obstacles that are relatively large compared to its size. In this thesis we outline the main d ...

EPFL2010

The rise of aerial additive manufacturing in construction: a review of material advancements

Mirko Kovac, Yusuf Furkan Kaya

The construction industry has recently increased the adoption of additive manufacturing (AM, also known as 3D-printing) technologies. This review paper presents the state of the art of ground-based AM systems in construction, focusing comprehensively on de ...

2024

A Soft Robotic Morphing Wing for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles

Mirko Kovac

Actuators based on soft elastomers offer significant advantages to the field of robotics, providing greater adaptability, improving collision resilience, and enabling shape-morphing. Thus, soft fluidic actuators have seen an expansion in their fields of ap ...

WILEY2024

Aerial Locomotion in Cluttered Environments

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Mirko Kovac, Adam Klaptocz, Jürg Markus Germann

Many environments where robots are expected to operate are cluttered with objects, walls, debris, and different horizontal and vertical structures. In this chapter, we present four design features that allow small robots to rapidly and safely move in 3 dim ...

Springer-Verlag Berlin2016

Towards the Self Deploying Microglider; Gliding Flight and Bioinspired Wing Folding Mechanism

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Mirko Kovac, Grégory Savioz

The Self Deploying Microglider project aims at developing a novel palm sized robot that can climb up walls, deploy itself into the air, recover from every position in air and perform subsequent goal directed gliding and attachment to walls. So far, we deve ...

2007

The locomotion capabilities of the EPFL jumpglider: A hybrid jumping and gliding robot

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Mirko Kovac

Recent work suggests that wings can be used to prolong the jumps of miniature jumping robots. However, no functional miniature jumping robot has been presented so far that can successfully apply this hybrid locomotion principle. In this video publication, ...

2011

A 1.5g SMA-actuated Microglider looking for the Light

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Mirko Kovac, Jean-Daniel Nicoud, André Guignard

Unpowered flight can be used in microrobotics to overcome ground obstacles and to increase the traveling distance per energy unit. In order to explore the potential of goal-directed gliding in the domain of miniature robotics, we developed a 22cm microglid ...

Ieee Service Center2007

A miniature 7g jumping robot

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Mirko Kovac, André Guignard

Jumping can be a very efficient mode of locomotion for small robots to overcome large obstacles and travel in natural, rough terrain. In this paper we present the development and characterization of a novel 5cm, 7g jumping robot. It can jump obstacles as h ...

2008

Aerial additive manufacturing: Toward on-site building construction with aerial robots

Mirko Kovac, Yusuf Furkan Kaya

Recent advancements in large-scale additive manufacturing have extended its application in the building industry, delivering notable gains in productivity, efficiency, environmental sustainability, and safety compared with traditional construction methods. ...

2025