Academic year 2025/26

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How to complete the credits for this module
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Aims: This module presents basic methods and recent results in modeling and control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with main emphasis on quadrotors.

Contents: Introduction to the course. Mathematical modeling of UAVs. Attitude, height and position control. Trajectory generation and tracking. State estimation.
Fault-diagnosis and fault tolerant control. Seminars defined on a yearly basis.

Prerequisites: This module has no strict prerequisites. However, familiarity with concepts of automatic control will help.

ECTS credits for this module: 3 credits (out of 12 credits for the whole course).

Exams dates and reservations for this module will be available on the course webpage on Sapienza e-learning

Lectures for this module

Period: first part of the first semester

Begin:  Thursday, 25th September 2025 End:  Thursday, 6th November 2025

Final schedule/rooms: Tue 16:00-19:00, Thu 14:00-16:00, room B2, via Ariosto 25


Material for this module

updated course material is available on the Sapienza e-learnig platform


How to complete the credits for this module

Please check the information in the main page of the Elective in Robotics course.

Office hours for students
Please, visit my page on corsidilaurea

Registration to exams

Please check the information in the main page of the Elective in Robotics course. In order to get the final grade (for 12 credits), please register only once you have acquired the credits of all modules.

Last update: September 12th, 2025