gianpaolo.conte@liu.se
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Research profile: I'm currently employed as Research Engineer at the division of Artificial Intelligence and Integrated Computer System at Linköping University in Sweden ( AIICS ). My main research interests are in the area of Guidance, Navigation and Control of aircrafts. I have spent part of my research time on the development of a Terrain Aided Navigation system for aircrafts which can cope with GPS jamming problems. I am specialist in the field of applied Kalman filter for INS/GPS integration. I have been working on the development of hardware/software architectures for autonomous navigation of industrial unmanned helicopters. I have gained experience in aircraft and rotorcraft dynamics modeling using system identification techniques. I have been working with experimental and numerical methods for rotor blades and propellers aerodynamic design. I’ve gained substantial experience in the field of flight-testing and post-flight log data analysis. I also like to develope, build and fly innovative Micro Aerial Vehicle platforms. I'm licensed flight-test pilot of the Yamaha Rmax helicopter. Here you can find some pictures of our platform. Education: Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Linköping University, Sweden. May 2009. Licentiate degree in Computer Science, Linköping University, Sweden. March 2007. M.Sc. degree in Aerospace Engineering, Turin Polytechnic, Italy. October 2001. PhD thesis: Gianpaolo Conte, “Vision-Based Localization and Guidance for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles” [download] Dissertation No 1260, Department of Computer and Information Science. ISBN 978-91-7393-603-3 Linköping University, Sweden. May 2009. Licentiate thesis: G. Conte, “Navigation Functionalities for an Autonomous UAV Helicopter” Licentiate Thesis No 1307, Department of Computer and Information Science. ISBN 978-91-85715-35-0 Linköping University, Sweden. March 2007.
Master thesis: | G. Conte, “Performance Study of an Electrical Regenerative Motorglider” MSc Thesis, Department of Aerospace Engineering. Turin Polytechnic, Italy. October 2001.
Publications: | A Visual Navigation System for UAS Based on Geo-referenced Imagery G. Conte and P. Doherty. In Proceeding of the ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences. 2011. Vision-based Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Navigation Using Geo-referenced Information [download] G. Conte and P. Doherty. In EURASIP Journal of Advances in Signal Processing, 2009. High Accuracy Ground Target Geo-location Using Autonomous Micro Aerial Vehicle Platforms [download] G. Conte, M. Hempel, P. Rudol, D. Lundström, S. Duranti, M. Wzorek and P. Doherty. In Proceeding of the AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit. Honolulu, Hawaii. 2008. An Integrated UAV Navigation System Based on Aerial Image Matching G. Conte and P. Doherty. In Proceeding of the IEEE Aerospace Conference. Big Sky, MT. 2008. Utilizing Model Structure for Efficient Simultaneous Localization and Mapping for a UAV Application R. Karlsson, T. B. Schön, D. Törnqvist, G. Conte, and F. Gustafsson. In Proceeding of the IEEE Aerospace Conference. Big Sky, MT. 2008. Micro Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Visual Servoing for Cooperative Indoor Exploration P. Rudol, M. Wzorek, G. Conte and P. Doherty. In Proceeding of the IEEE Aerospace Conference. Big Sky, MT. 2008. In-Flight Identification of the Augmented Flight Dynamics of the Rmax Unmanned Helicopter [download] S. Duranti, G. Conte. In Proceeding of the 17th IFAC Symposium on Automatic Control in Aerospace. Toulouse, France. 2007. Linkmav, a Protoype Rotary Wing Micro Aerial Vehicle [download] S. Duranti, G. Conte, D. Lundström, P. Rudol, M. Wzorek, P. Doherty. In Proceeding of the 17th IFAC Symposium on Automatic Control in Aerospace. Toulouse, France. 2007. From Motion Planning to Control - A Navigation Framework for an Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle [download] M. Wzorek, G. Conte, P. Rudol, T. Merz, S. Duranti, P. Doherty. 21th Bristol UAV Systems Conference. Bristol, UK. 2006. RoboCupRescue - Robot League Team RescueRobots Freiburg (Germany) [download] A. Kleiner, C. Dornhege, R. Kümmerle, M. Ruhnke, B. Steder, B. Nebel, P. Doherty, M. Wzorek, P. Rudol, G. Conte, S. Durante, and D. Lundström. In RoboCup 2006 (CDROM Proceedings), Team Description Paper, Rescue Robot League, (Bremen, Germany), 2006. Dynamic 3D Path Following for an Autonomous Helicopter [download] G. Conte, S. Duranti, T. Merz. In Proceeding of the 5th IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles. Lisbon, Portugal. 2004. Autonomous Landing of an Unmanned Aerial Helicopter Based on Vision and Inertial Sensing [download] T. Merz, S. Duranti, and G. Conte. In Proceeding of the 9th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER 04). Singapore. 2004. International Awards: 1st place in the outdoor competition at the: 3rd US-European Competition and Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicles 7th European Micro Aerial Vehicle Conference and Flight Competition Toulouse, France. September 17-21, 2007. 3rd place in the indoor competition at the: 3rd US-European Competition and Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicles 7th European Micro Aerial Vehicle Conference and Flight Competition Toulouse, France. September 17-21, 2007. Best rotorcraft award at the: 1st US-European Competition and Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicles Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. September 17-23, 2005.
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