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    Measurement and Exploration in Volcanic Environments

    Volcanic environments are a challenging application for UAVs. About 10 % of the world's population lives in areas directly threatened by volcanoes, and scientists are continuously asked to perform measurements...

    Carmelo Donato Melita, Domenico Longo in Handbook of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (2015)

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    A Multi-axis Control Board Implemented via an FPGA

    Most of robotic applications rely on the use of DC motors with quadrature encoder feedback. Typical applications are legged robots or articulated chassis multi-wheeled robots. In these applications system desi...

    Domenico Longo, Giovanni Muscato in Research and Education in Robotics - EUROBOT 2009 (2010)

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    A New Traction Control Architecture for Planetary Exploration Robots

    Planetary exploration rovers are often redundantly actuated, for mechanical robustness and reliability purposes. This paper describes the Integral Redistribution Traction Control Architecture (IR-TCA) applied ...

    Daniele Caltabiano, Domenico Longo, Giovanni Muscato in Climbing and Walking Robots (2006)