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Leonardo Santens

Leonardo Santens

MSc. Research Assistant

MSc. Research Assistant

Selected publications

  1. The Spinning Blimp flying indoors with its red helium envelope and rotating wing.
    2025Conference paper

    The Spinning Blimp: Design and Control of a Novel Minimalist Aerial Vehicle Leveraging Rotational Dynamics and Locomotion

    Leonardo Santens, Diego S. D’Antonio, Shuhang Hou, David Saldaña

    IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

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    BibTeX
    @inproceedings{2025-spinning-blimp,
  title = {The Spinning Blimp: Design and Control of a Novel Minimalist Aerial Vehicle Leveraging Rotational Dynamics and Locomotion},
  author = {Leonardo Santens and Diego S. D’Antonio and Shuhang Hou and David Saldaña},
  year = {2025},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04112}
}