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Chiara is an Assistant Professor in the Robotics and Mechatronics (RaM) group at the EEMCS Faculty of the University of Twente. She received, from the University of Pisa, her Ph.D. in Information Engineering in 2021 with a thesis in Physically Interacting Robotics for Logistic Applications; from the same institution, she received her MSc in Robotics and Automation Engineering with honors in 2017, and her BSc in Bioengineering in 2014. She was at LAAS-CNRS from November 2017 to May 2018 and a visiting Ph.D. student at the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) from November 2019 to May 2020. Her research interests include aerial robotic manipulation.

She is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. In 2021, she was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship for her project Flyflic. She is the local PI at UT of the MSCA staff exchange project Neutraweed and a co-applicant of the NWO-OTP AVIATOR project. She was a Work Package leader in the Horizon Europe AeroSTREAM project.

Organisations

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Publications

2026

Cyclic Nullspace Coordination: Perpetual Flight of Aerial Carriers for Static Suspension (2026)IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 34(4), 2022-2036. Gabellieri, C., Shen, Y., Paolucci, M. & Franchi, A.https://doi.org/10.1109/TCST.2026.3692228Lie Group Formulation of Recursive Dynamics Algorithms of Higher Order for Floating-Base Robots (2026)Journal of mechanisms and robotics, 18(7). Article 071008. Ali, A., Gabellieri, C. & Franchi, A.https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4071985Modeling Cable-Suspended Multidrone Manipulation Using Grasping Theory (2026)IEEE/ASME transactions on mechatronics (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Cortigiani, G., Shen, Y., Pozzi, M., Gabellieri, C., Malvezzi, M., Franchi, A. & Prattichizzo, D.https://doi.org/10.1109/TMECH.2026.3694490Cyclic Nullspace Coordination: Perpetual Flight of Aerial Carriers for Static Suspension (2026)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Gabellieri, C., Shen, Y., Paolucci, M. & Franchi, A.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2503.03481The Geometry of Coordinated Trajectories for Non-stop Flying Carriers Holding a Cable-Suspended Load (2026)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. van Goor, P., Gabellieri, C. & Franchi, A.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.17225Geometric Inverse Flight Dynamics on SO(3) and Application to Tethered Fixed-Wing Aircraft (2026)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Franchi, A. & Gabellieri, C.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2602.17166Nonlinear Predictive Control of the Continuum and Hybrid Dynamics of a Suspended Deformable Cable for Aerial Pick and Place (2026)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Rapuano, A., Shen, Y., Califano, F., Gabellieri, C. & Franchi, A.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2602.171996D Physical Interaction with an Omnidirectional Aerial Robot (2026)Drones , 10(2). Article 129. Veenstra, R., Ali, A., Gabellieri, C. & Franchi, A.https://doi.org/10.3390/drones10020129

2025

Predictive Admittance Control for Aerial Physical Interaction (2025)IEEE Robotics and automation letters, 10(11), 11235-11242. Alharbat, A., Gabellieri, C., Mersha, A. & Franchi, A.https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2025.3608653Exploring a New Design Paradigm for Omnidirectional MAVs for Minimal Actuation and Internal Force Elimination: Theoretical Framework and Control (2025)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Ali, A., Gabellieri, C. & Franchi, A.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2510.15071

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Courses academic year 2026/2027

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Courses academic year 2024/2025

Chiara is the local PI of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Staff Exchange project NEUTRAWEED, which includes the development of robotics and AI solutions to study weed communities that can coexist with crops.

She was the grant recipient of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship with her project,Flyflic (FLYing companion for Floating LItter Collection), Grant agreement ID: 101059875.

She is a co-aplicant of the NWO-OTP AVIATOR project, on contact-based inspection of composite materials using omnidirectional aerial robots.

She was a work package leader within the Horizon Europe AeroSTREAM project for Strengthening Research and Innovation Excellence in Autonomous Aerial Systems, Grant agreement ID: 101071270.

Current projects

Flyflic

FLYing companion for Floating LItter Collection

Plastic pollution is considered one of the most challenging environmental risks globally, and rivers have been identified as a dominant pathway for the accumulation of plastic in the oceans. The Flyflic (FLYing companion for Floating LItter Collection) project addresses this global challenge by deploying a first-of-its-kind robotic platform composed of multiple unmanned aerial robots to effectively collect litter from rivers and canals, thus preventing such litter from reaching our oceans.

AeroSTREAM

Strengthening Research and Innovation Excellence in Autonomous Aerial Systems

The project objectives are i) integrated and long term cooperation between HEIs from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, with partners from Spain, Czech Republic, and the Netherlands, ii) increased scientific excellence profiles of HEIs from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in the field of autonomous aerial systems, and shared capacities with partners from Spain, Czech Republic, and the Netherlands, and iii) improved quality of innovation management, technology transfer and citizen involvement of HEIs from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Particular set of actions is planned for achieving those objectives, such as common innovation strategy, staff exchange, experts visits, workshops and tutorials, hands‐on trainings, and PhD students co-mentoring.

NEUTRAWEED

weed-crop coexistence

NeutraWeed is a project involving 15 organizations from 9 different countries in 4 Continents in a worldwide network to study new robotic systems and AI algorithms able to recognize weed species and selectively remove them to attain Neutral Weed Communities

AVIATOR

Autonomous VIsion tAcTile rObots foR inspection of laminated composites

Address

University of Twente

Carré (building no. 15), room 3605
Hallenweg 23
7522 NH Enschede
Netherlands

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