Simone de Marco

University of Bologna, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Simone de Marco is a leading researcher in aerial robotics and nonlinear control theory, with a focus on the challenging intersection of manipulation and autonomous flight. Their seminal work on "Output tracking for quadrotor-based aerial manipulators" (2015, 13 citations) pioneered feedback control strategies that enable quadrotors equipped with robotic arms to precisely track end-effector trajectories—a critical capability for tasks like inspection, grasping, and assembly in hard-to-reach environments. This foundational contribution has shaped the design of aerial manipulators for both industrial and field robotics. De Marco has also advanced the mathematics of control on matrix Lie groups (2017, 11 citations), providing rigorous frameworks for output regulation in systems with rotational and translational dynamics. Earlier in their career, they contributed to the DEXARM project (2006, 6 citations), developing an integrated joint for a human-scale, dexterous robot arm intended for orbital servicing and planetary exploration. More recently, their work on homography estimation from direct point correspondence (2021, 6 citations) addresses real-time visual servoing for dynamic scenarios like landing on moving platforms. With a career spanning space robotics, nonlinear observers, and aerial manipulation, de Marco’s research consistently bridges theoretical elegance with practical autonomy, earning recognition for enabling robots to operate with precision in complex, unstructured environments.