I'm a PhD Candidate at the Robotics and Mechatronics (RaM) group.

I'm originally from Cairo, Egypt; where I obtained my BSc degree in Mechatronics Engineering in 2014 from the German University in Cairo (GUC). A couple of years later I moved to Italy to obtain my MSc in Control Engineering in 2019 from Sapienza University of Rome (Sapienza Università di Roma). During my master studies I joined LAAS-CNRS in Toulouse (6 Months) for my master internship and thesis working under the supervision Prof. Antonio Franchi, Dr. Marco Tognon and Prof. Giuseppe Oriolo as my internal supervisor from Sapienza.

My Research interests include: Aerial Robotics; Multi-rotor aerial vehicles (MRAV, UAVs); Modelling and control of robotic systems. SW/HW components for multi-rotor UAVs.

My PhD is focused on design, modelling and control of a novel omnidirectional morphing multi-rotor UAV that we call the OmniMorph.

Expertise

  • Engineering

    • Rotors
    • Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
    • Aerodynamic Interference
    • Minimization
    • Optimal Controller
    • Prototype
    • Servomotors
  • Computer Science

    • Robot

Organisations

Publications

2024

Invisible Servoing: a Visual Servoing Approach with Return-Conditioned Latent Diffusion (2024)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Gerges, B., Bazzana, B., Botteghi, N., Aboudorra, Y. & Franchi, A.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2409.13337Gain Scheduling Position Control for Fully-actuated Morphing Multi-rotor UAVs (2024)In 2024 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS) (pp. 15-22). Aboudorra, Y., Saini, A. & Franchi, A.https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUAS60882.2024.10557108Modelling, Analysis, and Control of OmniMorph: an Omnidirectional Morphing Multi-rotor UAV (2024)Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems: Theory and Applications, 110(1). Article 21. Aboudorra, Y., Gabellieri, C., Brantjes, R., Sablé, Q. & Franchi, A.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-024-02054-x

2023

Physical Human-Aerial Robot Interaction and Collaboration: Exploratory Results and Lessons Learned (2023)In 2023 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS) (pp. 956-962). Article 10156609. IEEE. Afifi, A., Corsini, G., Sablé, Q. L. G., Aboudorra, Y., Sidobre, D. & Franchi, A.https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUAS57906.2023.10156609Modelling, Analysis and Control of OmniMorph: an Omnidirectional Morphing Multi-rotor UAV (2023)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Aboudorra, Y., Gabellieri, C., Sablé, Q. & Franchi, A.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2305.16871

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