Publications

2024

Singh, Chantelle; Kazemi, Shahab; Buzzatto, Joao; Stol, Karl

Dexterity Assessment of Fully-Actuated UAVs Proceedings Article

In: 15th annual International Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Competition, pp. 132–139, Bristol, United Kingdom, 2024, (Paper no. IMAV2024-15).

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Kay, Nicholas; Richards, Peter; Stol, Karl; Buchanan, Rory; Bannwarth, Jérémie

Effect of Aerodynamic Summation on Multirotor UAV Hover Performance Proceedings Article

In: 15th annual International Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Competition, pp. 148–155, Bristol, United Kingdom, 2024, (Paper no. IMAV2024-17).

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Carlier, Nicholas; Ma, Trista Yuting; Kay, Nicholas; Pirooz, Amir; Azorin-Molina, Cesar

Effects of Simultaneous Turbulence and Ice Accretion on Small Fixed-Wing UAV Performance Proceedings Article

In: 15th annual International Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Competition, pp. 236–242, Bristol, United Kingdom, 2024, (Paper no. IMAV2024-28).

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Singh, Chantelle; Kazemi, Shahab; Kirk, Jonty; Chan, Katrina; Stol, Karl

A Study of Gain Tuning for Prolonged Physical Contact of Fully-Actuated UAVs Proceedings Article

In: 15th annual International Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Competition, pp. 262–269, Bristol, United Kingdom, 2024, (Paper no. IMAV2024-31).

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Spaans, Jos; Gilbert, Sam; Stol, Karl A.; Al-Zubaidi, Salim

System Identification for Fully-Actuated UAV Control Allocation Proceedings Article

In: 2024 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), pp. 193-200, IEEE Chania, Crete, Greece, 2024.

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Bannwarth, Jérémie XJ; Kazemi, Shahab; Stol, Karl

Frequency-dependent H-infinity control for wind disturbance rejection of a fully actuated UAV Journal Article

In: Robotica, pp. 1-15, 2024.

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2023

Kazemi, Shahab; Stol, Karl

Parametric study on tilt-rotor octocopter control in the presence of wind and physical contact disturbances Proceedings Article

In: 2023 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA 2023), pp. 1-9, Australian Robotics and Automation Association Sydney, NSW, Australia, 2023.

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Chen, Junyi; Kay, Nicholas; Stol, Karl

Measuring Disturbance Response of a Fully-Actuated UAV using Surging Flow Wind Tunnel Experiments Proceedings Article

In: 14th Annual International Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Competition, pp. 192–198, Aachen, Germany, 2023.

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Yang, David; Al-Zubaidi, Salim; Stol, Karl

Determining the moment of inertia tensor of a UAV using a motion capture system Proceedings Article

In: 14th Annual International Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Competition, pp. 48–55, Aachen, Germany, 2023.

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Liu, Iris; Swaraj, Suvarna; Al-Zubaidi, Salim; Stol, Karl

Analysis of admittance control for a fully-actuated, tactile UAV Proceedings Article

In: 14th Annual International Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Competition, pp. 100–107, Aachen, Germany, 2023.

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Probine, Caleb; Stol, Karl

Performance Comparisons on Fully-Actuated Multirotors with Different Actuation Modes Proceedings Article

In: 14th Annual International Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Competition, pp. 126–133, Aachen, Germany, 2023.

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Probine, Caleb; Yang, David; Stol, Karl; Kay, Nicholas

Model Predictive Control on an Over-actuated Octocopter for Wind Disturbance Rejection Proceedings Article

In: 14th Annual International Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Competition, pp. 148–155, Aachen, Germany, 2023.

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Edwards, Matthew; Taylor, Joshua; Stol, Karl; Al-Zubaidi, Salim; Kay, Nicholas

Assessing the Agility of a Variable-Tilt UAV Proceedings Article

In: 14th Annual International Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Competition, pp. 156–163, Aachen, Germany, 2023.

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Al-Zubaidi, Salim; Stol, Karl

Analysis of the Transient Response of UAV Rotors Proceedings Article

In: 14th Annual International Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Competition, pp. 164-169, Aachen, Germany, 2023.

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Kay, Nicholas; Buchanan, Rory; Richards, Peter; Stol, Karl

Generating sinusoidal flow surges in a large closed-loop wind tunnel Proceedings Article

In: 16th International Conference on Wind Engineering, International Association for Wind Engineering Florence, Italy, 2023.

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Lin, Tzu-Jui; Stol, Karl A.

Faster navigation of semi-structured forest environments using multirotor UAVs Journal Article

In: Robotica, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 735–755, 2023.

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2022

Souza, Pedro Henrique Mendes; Stol, Karl

Constrained Dynamics of an Aerial Manipulator Interacting With Flexible Cantilever Beams Journal Article

In: IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, pp. 1-9, 2022.

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Lin, Tzu-Jui; Stol, Karl A.

Autonomous Surveying of Plantation Forests Using Multi-Rotor UAVs Journal Article

In: Drones, vol. 6, no. 9, 2022, ISSN: 2504-446X.

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Al-Zubaidi, Salim; Stol, Karl A.

Preliminary design optimisation of a novel fixed-tilt heterogeneous UAV for horizontal agility Proceedings Article

In: 2022 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), pp. 1489-1496, 2022.

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Bannwarth, Jérémie Xavier Joseph

Aerodynamic Modelling and Wind Disturbance Rejection of Multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles PhD Thesis

ResearchSpace@ Auckland, 2022.

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2021

Busch, Christopher Alexander Maximilian; Stol, Karl A.; Mark, Wannes

Dynamic tree branch tracking for aerial canopy sampling using stereo vision Journal Article

In: Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, vol. 182, pp. 106007, 2021, ISSN: 0168-1699.

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Buzzatto, Joao; Mendes, Pedro H.; Perera, Navin; Stol, Karl; Liarokapis, Minas

The New Dexterity Omnirotor Platform: Design, Modeling, and Control of a Modular, Versatile, All-Terrain Vehicle Proceedings Article

In: 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 6336-6343, 2021.

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Lin, TJ; Stol, Karl

Fast Trajectory Tracking of Multi-Rotor UAVs using First-Order Model Predictive Control Proceedings Article

In: Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA), 2021.

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Stol, Karl; Souza, PH

Analysis and Design of a Novel Fully-Actuated Compact Multirotor Proceedings Article

In: Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA), 2021.

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2019

Hioka, Yusuke; Kingan, Michael; Schmid, Gian; McKay, Ryan; Stol, Karl A.

Design of an unmanned aerial vehicle mounted system for quiet audio recording Journal Article

In: Applied Acoustics, vol. 155, pp. 423-427, 2019, ISSN: 0003-682X.

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Bannwarth, Jérémie X. J.; Chen, Z. Jeremy; Stol, Karl A.; MacDonald, Bruce A.; Richards, Peter J.

Aerodynamic Force Modeling of Multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Journal Article

In: AIAA Journal, vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 1250-1259, 2019.

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Chen, Z. J.; Stol, K. A.; Richards, P. J.

Preliminary design of multirotor UAVs with tilted-rotors for improved disturbance rejection capability Journal Article

In: Aerospace Science and Technology, vol. 92, pp. 635-643, 2019, ISSN: 1270-9638.

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Souza, Pedro H. Mendes; Stol, Karl A.

An Analytical Dynamics Approach for Nonlinear Trajectory-Tracking Control of Quadrotors: Numerical and Experimental Results Proceedings Article

In: 2019 Australian & New Zealand Control Conference (ANZCC), pp. 122-127, 2019.

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Lin, Tzu-Jui; Stol, Karl A.

Towards Automated Under-Canopy Exploration of Plantation Forests Proceedings Article

In: 2019 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), pp. 1201-1208, 2019.

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Kutia, James

Aerial manipulation for canopy sampling PhD Thesis

ResearchSpace@ Auckland, 2019.

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2018

Kutia, James R.; Stol, Karl A.; Xu, Weiliang

Aerial Manipulator Interactions With Trees for Canopy Sampling Journal Article

In: IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 1740-1749, 2018.

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Bannwarth, J. X. J.; Chen, Z. J.; Stol, K. A.; MacDonald, B. A.; Richards, P. J.

Development of a Wind Tunnel Experimental Setup for Testing Multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Turbulent Conditions Proceedings Article

In: 2018 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), pp. 724-729, 2018.

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Rijk, Lucas J; Beedie, Seumas M; Stol, Karl A

Precision weed spraying using a multirotor UAV Proceedings Article

In: The 10th International Micro-Air Vehicles Conference, 2018.

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Lin, Tzu-Jui; Long, Siyu; Stol, Karl A.

Automated Perching of a Multirotor UAV atop Round Timber Posts Proceedings Article

In: 2018 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), pp. 486-491, 2018.

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Chen, Z. Jeremy; Bannwarth, Jérémie X. J.; Stol, Karl A.; Richards, Peter J.

Analysis of a Multirotor UAV with Tilted-Rotors for the Purposes of Disturbance Rejection Proceedings Article

In: 2018 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), pp. 864-873, 2018.

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2017

Mel, Daniel H. S. De; Stol, Karl A.; Mills, Jay A. D.; Eastwood, Blair R.

Vision-based object path following on a quadcopter for GPS-denied environments Proceedings Article

In: 2017 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), pp. 456-461, 2017.

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2016

Hioka, Yusuke; Kingan, Michael; Schmid, Gian; Stol, Karl A.

Speech enhancement using a microphone array mounted on an unmanned aerial vehicle Proceedings Article

In: 2016 IEEE International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), pp. 1-5, 2016.

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Kutia, James R.; Xu, Weiliang; Stol, Karl A.

Modeling and characterization of a canopy sampling aerial manipulator Proceedings Article

In: 2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), pp. 679-684, 2016.

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Bannwarth, J. X. J.; Chen, Z. J.; Stol, K. A.; MacDonald, B. A.

Disturbance accomodation control for wind rejection of a quadcopter Proceedings Article

In: 2016 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), pp. 695-701, 2016.

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Kutia, James R.; Stol, Karl A.; Xu, Weiliang

Initial flight experiments of a canopy sampling aerial manipulator Proceedings Article

In: 2016 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), pp. 1359-1365, 2016.

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Jiang, Shutong; Stol, Karl A; Xu, Weiliang; Graham, Bryan

Towards autonomous flight of an unmanned aerial system in plantation forests Proceedings Article

In: 2016 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), pp. 911-919, 2016.

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2015

Kutia, James R.; Stol, Karl A.; Xu, Weiliang

Canopy sampling using an aerial manipulator: A preliminary study Proceedings Article

In: 2015 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), pp. 477-484, 2015.

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Jarrett, C.; Perry, K.; Stol, K. A.

Controller comparisons for autonomous railway following with a fixed-wing UAV Proceedings Article

In: 2015 6th International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Applications (ICARA), pp. 104-109, 2015.

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How, David-Reyner C.; Barbarich-Bacher, Bianca A.; Stol, Karl A.

Design and analysis of a UAV for skydiving Proceedings Article

In: 2015 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), pp. 348-355, 2015.

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2014

Kendall, Alex G.; Salvapantula, Nishaad N.; Stol, Karl A.

On-board object tracking control of a quadcopter with monocular vision Proceedings Article

In: 2014 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), pp. 404-411, 2014.

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2007

Kim, Tae Soo; Stol, Karl; Kecman, Vojislav

Control of 3 DOF Quadrotor Model Proceedings Article

In: Kozłowski, Krzysztof (Ed.): Robot Motion and Control 2007, pp. 29–38, Springer London, London, 2007, ISBN: 978-1-84628-974-3.

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