Research

@inproceedings{xu2026ellipsoids,
  title={From Ellipsoids to Midair Control of Dynamic Hitches},
  author={Xu, Jiawei and Bhattacharya, Subhrajit and Saldaña, David},
  booktitle={2026 American Control Conference (ACC)},
  year={2026},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.08116}
}

@article{2026-from-hitch-to-lift-autonomous-cable-interlacing-by-multi-uav-teams-for-aerial-grasping-and-transportation,
  title = {From Hitch to Lift: Autonomous Cable Interlacing by Multi-UAV Teams for Aerial Grasping and Transportation},
  author = {Diego S. D'Antonio and Tongshu Wu and Subhrajit Bhattacharya and David Saldaña},
  year = {2026},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Robotics},
  doi = {10.1109/tro.2026.3677011}
}

@article{2025-modular-multirotors-from-quadrotors-to-fully-actuated-aerial-vehicles,
  title = {Modular Multirotors: From Quadrotors to Fully-Actuated Aerial Vehicles},
  author = {Jiawei Xu and Diego S. D'Antonio and David Saldaña},
  year = {2025},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering},
  pages = {19328-19339},
  volume = {22},
  doi = {10.1109/tase.2025.3594579},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/tase.2025.3594579}
}

@incollection{2025-reconfigurable-systems,
  title = {Reconfigurable Systems},
  author = {David Saldaña and Gedaliah Knizhnik and Bruno Gabrich and Mark Yim},
  year = {2025},
  booktitle = {Encyclopedia of Robotics},
  url = {https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=VU1s_Z8AAAAJ&citation_for_view=VU1s_Z8AAAAJ:sNmaIFBj_lkC}
}

@inproceedings{icra18modquad,

title = {ModQuad: The Flying Modular Structure that Self-Assembles in Midair},

author = {David Saldaña and Bruno Gabrich and Guanrui Li and Mark Yim and Vijay Kumar},

url = {https://youtu.be/t9kXrhDwXf0},

doi = {10.1109/ICRA.2018.8461014},

issn = {2577-087X},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-05-01},

urldate = {2018-05-01},

booktitle = {2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},

pages = {691-698},

keywords = {aerial robot, modquad, modular robots, multi-rotor, quadrotor, self-reconfiguration algorithms},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@article{2025-quasi-dynamic-crowd-vetting-collaborative-detection-of-malicious-robots-in-dynamic-communication-networks,
  title = {quasi-Dynamic Crowd Vetting: Collaborative Detection of Malicious Robots in Dynamic Communication Networks},
  author = {Matthew Cavorsi and Frederik Mallmann-Trenn and David Saldaña and Stephanie Gil},
  year = {2025},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Robotics},
  pages = {5533-5549},
  volume = {41},
  doi = {10.1109/tro.2025.3608702},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/tro.2025.3608702}
}

@inproceedings{7962962,

title = {Resilient consensus for time-varying networks of dynamic agents},

author = {David Saldaña and Amanda Prorok and Shreyas Sundaram and Mario F. M. Campos and Vijay Kumar},

doi = {10.23919/ACC.2017.7962962},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

urldate = {2017-01-01},

booktitle = {2017 American Control Conference (ACC)},

pages = {252-258},

keywords = {resilient consensus, robot networks, robot swarms},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@article{7822915,

title = {Resilient Flocking for Mobile Robot Teams},

author = {Kelsey Saulnier and David Saldaña and Amanda Prorok and George J. Pappas and Vijay Kumar},

doi = {10.1109/LRA.2017.2655142},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

urldate = {2017-01-01},

journal = {IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters},

volume = {2},

number = {2},

pages = {1039-1046},

keywords = {resilient consensus, robot networks, robot swarms},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}