Gianluca Antonelli
Università degli studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Ingegneria dei Trasporti (Italy), Constructor University, MTS3 (United States), Center for Advanced Aerospace Technologies, Bitron (Italy), Compagnie Maritime d'Expertises (France), Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Naples Federico II, University of Genoa, University of Salento
Papers
135
Total Citations
5,415
H-Index
38
About
Gianluca Antonelli is a distinguished robotics researcher whose work spans underwater robotics, aerial manipulation, multi-robot systems, and kinematic control of redundant systems. A professor at the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Antonelli has made foundational contributions to autonomous and remotely operated vehicles, most notably through his widely cited book and research on underwater robots — from ROVs to intervention-capable autonomous systems — which has accumulated nearly 250 citations. His development of the Null-Space-Based Behavioral (NSB) control framework, explored across multiple papers totaling over 330 citations combined, has become a cornerstone methodology for coordinating multi-robot formations and autonomous navigation. Antonelli also contributed significantly to aerial robotics through the AEROARMS project (242 citations), advancing dual-arm aerial manipulators for industrial inspection and maintenance. His theoretical work on stability analysis for priority-based inverse kinematics (237 citations) and distributed control of interconnected systems (217 citations) further demonstrates his breadth. With a portfolio exceeding 2,000 citations across key robotics disciplines, Antonelli's research has profoundly shaped how autonomous systems perceive, coordinate, and interact with complex environments — making his work essential reading for students and researchers in modern robotics.
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Top Papers
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- 4A Fuzzy-Logic-Based Approach for Mobile Robot Path Tracking229 citations · 2007
- 5Interconnected dynamic systems: An overview on distributed control217 citations · 2013
- 6Underwater Robots: Motion and Force Control of Vehicle-Manipulator Systems188 citations · 2006
- 7The null-space-based behavioral control for autonomous robotic systems180 citations · 2007
- 86D interaction control with aerial robots: The flying end-effector paradigm170 citations · 2019
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- 10Decentralized time-varying formation control for multi-robot systems157 citations · 2014