Marko Car

About

Marko Car is a robotics researcher whose work spans autonomous aerial and ground systems, multi-robot coordination, and aerial manipulation. Based at the Laboratory for Robotics and Intelligent Control Systems (LARICS), his research has made meaningful contributions to the cooperative deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), particularly in logistics, search and rescue, and agricultural applications. Car's most influential work, "Decentralized Planning and Control for UAV–UGV Cooperative Teams" (2018, 108 citations), established robust frameworks for autonomous multi-robot collaboration. His early investigation into aerial-ground systems for packet delivery (2016, 49 citations) pioneered the concept of multi-armed aerial manipulators performing real-world transportation tasks. He further advanced aerial robotics by demonstrating precise peg-in-hole insertion using impedance-based force control (2018, 32 citations), a technically demanding milestone in physical aerial interaction. Beyond aerial systems, Car has extended his expertise into agricultural robotics, developing compliant plant exploration frameworks and robotic irrigation management systems. His contributions to human-in-the-loop multi-agent control and centroid vectoring for UAV stabilization further demonstrate his broad technical range. Car's collective body of work reflects a consistent drive to bridge theoretical robotics with real-world autonomous systems deployment.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Decentralized planning and control for UAV–UGV cooperative teams

   108 citations · 2018
2. 2
   Aerial-ground robotic system for autonomous delivery tasks

   49 citations · 2016
3. 3
   Impedance Based Force Control for Aerial Robot Peg-in-Hole Insertion Tasks

   32 citations · 2018
4. 4
   Compliant Plant Exploration for Agricultural Procedures With a Collaborative Robot

   20 citations · 2021
5. 5
   Human-in-the-loop control of multi-agent aerial systems

   16 citations · 2016
6. 6
   Geometric Tracking Control of Aerial Robots Based on Centroid Vectoring

   6 citations · 2019
7. 7
   Robotic Irrigation Water Management: Estimating Soil Moisture Content by Feel and Appearance

   6 citations · 2022
8. 8
   End-effector force estimation method for an unmanned aerial manipulator

   4 citations · 2019
9. 9
   Centroid vectoring control using aerial manipulator: Experimental results

   3 citations · 2019
10. 10
    From ERL to MBZIRC: Development of An Aerial-Ground Robotic Team for Search and Rescue

    2 citations · 2021

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