Mirko Kovac

86 papers A* 9A 6C 1Journal 53Unranked 15
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
Bumper Drone: Elastic Morphology Design for Aerial Physical Interaction.
CoRR
Pongporn Supa, Alex Dunnett, Feng Xiao, Rui Wu, Mirko Kovac, Basaran Bahadir Kocer
2026 J jnl
Flapping Hydrofoil Propulsion for Uncrewed Surface Vehicles: Design and Experimental Evaluation.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.
Luca Romanello, Felix Koch, Elias Zorgati, Daniel Gebhart, Pham Huy Nguyen, Mirko Kovac, Sophie F. Armanini
2026 J jnl
Hydrodynamic Performance Enhancement of Unmanned Underwater Gliders with Soft Robotic Morphing Wings for Agility Improvement.
CoRR
Andrea Giordano, G. De Meurichy, V. Telazzi, Claudio Mucignat, Ivan Lunati, D. A. L. M. Louchard, M. Iovieno, Sophie F. Armanini, Mirko Kovac
2025 J jnl
AMBER: Aerial deployable gripping crawler with compliant microspine for canopy manipulation.
CoRR
P. A. Wigner, Luca Romanello, A. Hammad, Pham Huy Nguyen, Tian Lan, Sophie F. Armanini, Basaran Bahadir Kocer, Mirko Kovac
2025 J jnl
Aerial additive manufacturing: Toward on-site building construction with aerial robots.
Sci. Robotics
Yusuf Furkan Kaya, Lachlan Orr, Basaran Bahadir Kocer, Vijay Pawar, Robert Stuart-Smith, Mirko Kovac
2025 J jnl
Leaf Level Ash Dieback Disease Detection and Online Severity Estimation With UAVs.
IEEE Access
Elizabeth Bates, Marija Popovic, Conor Marsh, Ronald Clark, Mirko Kovac, Basaran Bahadir Kocer
2025 J jnl
Learning Agile Tensile Perching for Aerial Robots from Demonstrations.
CoRR
Kangle Yuan, Atar Babgei, Luca Romanello, Hai-Nguyen Nguyen, Ronald Clark, Mirko Kovac, Sophie F. Armanini, Basaran Bahadir Kocer
2025 — conf
Low-Cost 3D printed, Biocompatible Ionic Polymer Membranes for Soft Actuators.
RoboSoft
Nils Trümpler, Ryo Kanno, Niu David, Anja Huch, Pham Huy Nguyen, Maksims Jurinovs, Gustav Nyström, Sergejs Gaidukovs, Mirko Kovac
2025 J jnl
Low-Cost 3D printed, Biocompatible Ionic Polymer Membranes for Soft Actuators.
CoRR
Nils Trümpler, Ryo Kanno, Niu David, Anja Huch, Pham Huy Nguyen, Maksims Jurinovs, Gustav Nyström, Sergejs Gaidukovs, Mirko Kovac
2025 J jnl
Metamorphic Forward Adaptation Network: Dynamically Adaptive and Modular Multi-layer Learning.
Trans. Mach. Learn. Res.
Yu Sun, Vijja Wichitwechkarn, Ronald Clark, Mirko Kovac, Basaran Bahadir Kocer
2025 J jnl
Soft Aerial Robots: The Development of Adaptive, Multi-Functional and Multi-Terrain Aerial Robots.
Adv. Intell. Syst.
Pham Huy Nguyen, Salua Hamaza, P. Chirarattananon, Y. Chen, Mirko Kovac
2025 — conf
TumblerBots: Tumbling Robotic sensors for Minimally-invasive Benthic Monitoring.
RoboSoft
Luca Romanello, A. Teboul, Fabian Wiesemüller, Pham Huy Nguyen, Mirko Kovac, Sophie F. Armanini
2024 J jnl
A Soft Robotic Morphing Wing for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles.
Adv. Intell. Syst.
Andrea Giordano, Liam Achenbach, Daniel Lenggenhager, Fabian Wiesemüller, Roger Vonbank, Claudio Mucignat, André Tristany Farinha, Pham Huy Nguyen, Robert K. Katzschmann, Sophie F. Armanini, Ivan Lunati, Sukho Song, Mirko Kovac
2024 J jnl
A Soft Robotic Morphing Wing for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles.
Adv. Intell. Syst.
Andrea Giordano, Liam Achenbach, Daniel Lenggenhager, Fabian Wiesemüller, Roger Vonbank, Claudio Mucignat, André Tristany Farinha, Pham Huy Nguyen, Robert K. Katzschmann, Sophie F. Armanini, Ivan Lunati, Sukho Song, Mirko Kovac
2024 A* conf
Aerial Tensile Perching and Disentangling Mechanism for Long-Term Environmental Monitoring.
ICRA
Tian Lan, Luca Romanello, Mirko Kovac, Sophie F. Armanini, Basaran Bahadir Kocer
2024 J jnl
Aerial Tensile Perching and Disentangling Mechanism for Long-Term Environmental Monitoring.
CoRR
Tian Lan, Luca Romanello, Mirko Kovac, Sophie F. Armanini, Basaran Bahadir Kocer
2024 J jnl
Camber-changing flapping hydrofoils for efficient and environmental-safe water propulsion system.
CoRR
Luca Romanello, Leonard Hohaus, David-Marian Schmitt, Mirko Kovac, Sophie F. Armanini
2024 J jnl
Exploring the Potential of Multi-modal Sensing Framework for Forest Ecology.
CoRR
Luca Romanello, Tian Lan, Mirko Kovac, Sophie F. Armanini, Basaran Bahadir Kocer
2024 J jnl
Features characterizing safe aerial-aquatic robots.
CoRR
Andrea Giordano, Luca Romanello, Diego Perez Gonzalez, Mirko Kovac, Sophie F. Armanini
2024 J jnl
Fresh Properties and Autonomous Deposition of Pseudoplastic Cementitious Mortars for Aerial Additive Manufacturing.
IEEE Access
Barrie Dams, Binling Chen, Yusuf Furkan Kaya, Lachlan Orr, Basaran Bahadir Kocer, Paul Shepherd, Mirko Kovac, Richard J. Ball
2024 — conf
Gotta Catch 'em All, Safely! Aerial-Deployed Soft Underwater Gripper.
RoboSoft
Luca Romanello, Daniel Joseph Amir, Heinrich Stengel, Mirko Kovac, Sophie F. Armanini
2024 J jnl
Gotta catch 'em all, safely! Aerial-deployed soft underwater gripper.
CoRR
Luca Romanello, Daniel Joseph Amir, Heinrich Stengel, Mirko Kovac, Sophie F. Armanini
2024 — conf
Hybrid Soft Electrostatic Metamaterial Gripper for Multi-surface, Multi-object Adaptation.
RoboSoft
Ryo Kanno, Pham H. Nguyen, Joshua Pinskier, David Howard, Sukho Song, Mirko Kovac
2024 J jnl
Hybrid Soft Electrostatic Metamaterial Gripper for Multi-surface, Multi-object Adaptation.
CoRR
Ryo Kanno, Pham H. Nguyen, Joshua Pinskier, David Howard, Sukho Song, Mirko Kovac
2024 J jnl
RaDro: Indoor Drone Tracking Using Millimeter Wave Radar.
Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol.
Heba Abdelnasser, Mohammad Heggo, Oscar Pang, Mirko Kovac, Julie A. McCann
2024 J jnl
Reinforcement Learning for Outdoor Balloon Navigation: A Successful Controller for an Autonomous Balloon.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag.
Simon L. Jeger, Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Florian Achermann, Oscar Pang, Mirko Kovac, Roland Yves Siegwart
2024 J jnl
TumblerBots: Tumbling Robotic sensors for Minimally-invasive Benthic Monitoring.
CoRR
Luca Romanello, A. Teboul, Fabian Wiesemüller, Pham Huy Nguyen, Mirko Kovac, Sophie F. Armanini
2023 J jnl
Biopolymer Cryogels for Transient Ecology-Drones.
Adv. Intell. Syst.
Fabian Wiesemüller, Severin Meyer, Yijie Hu, Dominik Bachmann, Annapaola Parrilli, Gustav Nyström, Mirko Kovac
2023 J jnl
Biopolymer Cryogels for Transient Ecology-Drones.
Adv. Intell. Syst.
Fabian Wiesemüller, Severin Meyer, Yijie Hu, Dominik Bachmann, Annapaola Parrilli, Gustav Nyström, Mirko Kovac
2023 J jnl
Editorial: Soft aerial robots: Design, control, and applications of morphologically adaptive flyers.
Frontiers Robotics AI
Pham Huy Nguyen, Mirko Kovac, Begoña C. Arrue
2023 A* conf
Evaluating Immersive Teleoperation Interfaces: Coordinating Robot Radiation Monitoring Tasks in Nuclear Facilities.
ICRA
Harvey Stedman, Basaran Bahadir Kocer, Nejra van Zalk, Mirko Kovac, Vijay M. Pawar
2023 J jnl
FireDrone: Multi-Environment Thermally Agnostic Aerial Robot.
Adv. Intell. Syst.
David Häusermann, Sam Bodry, Fabian Wiesemüller, Aslan Miriyev, Severin Siegrist, Fan Fu, Sabyasachi Gaan, Matthias M. Koebel, Wim J. Malfait, Shanyu Zhao, Mirko Kovac
2023 J jnl
FireDrone: Multi-Environment Thermally Agnostic Aerial Robot.
Adv. Intell. Syst.
David Häusermann, Sam Bodry, Fabian Wiesemüller, Aslan Miriyev, Severin Siegrist, Fan Fu, Sabyasachi Gaan, Matthias M. Koebel, Wim J. Malfait, Shanyu Zhao, Mirko Kovac
2023 — conf
Hygroscopically-driven transient actuator for environmental sensor deployment.
RoboSoft
Manuela Heinrich, Fabian Wiesemüller, Xavier Aeby, Yusuf Furkan Kaya, Deeptanshu Sivaraman, Pham Huy Nguyen, Sukho Song, Gustav Nyström, Mirko Kovac
2023 A* conf
Learning Tethered Perching for Aerial Robots.
ICRA
Fabian Hauf, Basaran Bahadir Kocer, Alan Slatter, Hai-Nguyen Nguyen, Oscar Pang, Ronald Clark, Edward Johns, Mirko Kovac
2023 J jnl
Use of Superhydrophobic Surfaces for Performance Enhancement of Aerial-Aquatic Vehicles.
Adv. Intell. Syst.
Daniel Gortat, Alejandro Ortega Ancel, André Farinha, Raphael Zufferey, Mirko Kovac
2023 J jnl
Use of Superhydrophobic Surfaces for Performance Enhancement of Aerial-Aquatic Vehicles.
Adv. Intell. Syst.
Daniel Gortat, Alejandro Ortega Ancel, André Farinha, Raphael Zufferey, Mirko Kovac
2022 J jnl
AI reflections in 2021.
Nat. Mach. Intell.
Cameron Buckner, Risto Miikkulainen, Stephanie Forrest, Silvia Milano, James Zou, Carina Prunkl, Christopher Irrgang, I. Glenn Cohen, Hao Su, Robin R. Murphy, Russell H. Taylor, Axel Krieger, Mirko Kovac, Jathan Sadowski, Vidushi Marda
2022 J jnl
Aerial additive manufacturing with multiple autonomous robots.
Nat.
Ketao Zhang, Pisak Chermprayong, Feng Xiao, Dimos Tzoumanikas, Barrie Dams, Sebastian Kay, Basaran Bahadir Kocer, Alec Burns, Lachlan Orr, Christopher L. Choi, Durgesh Dattatray Darekar, Wenbin Li, Steven Hirschmann, Valentina Soana, Shamsiah Awang Ngah, Sina Sareh, Ashutosh Choubey, Laura Margheri, Vijay M. Pawar, Richard J. Ball, Chris Williams, Paul Shepherd, Stefan Leutenegger, Robert Stuart-Smith, Mirko Kovac
2022 J jnl
Aerial-aquatic robots capable of crossing the air-water boundary and hitchhiking on surfaces.
Sci. Robotics
Lei Li, Siqi Wang, Yiyuan Zhang, Shanyuan Song, Chuqian Wang, Shaochang Tan, Wei Zhao, Gang Wang, Wenguang Sun, Fuqiang Yang, Jiaqi Liu, Bohan Chen, Haoyuan Xu, Pham Huy Nguyen, Mirko Kovac, Li Wen
2022 J jnl
An Aerial Parallel Manipulator With Shared Compliance.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.
Brett Stephens, Lachlan Orr, Basaran Bahadir Kocer, Hai-Nguyen Nguyen, Mirko Kovac
2022 A conf
Immersive View and Interface Design for Teleoperated Aerial Manipulation.
IROS
Basaran Bahadir Kocer, Harvey Stedman, Patryk Kulik, Izaak Caves, Nejra van Zalk, Vijay M. Pawar, Mirko Kovac
2022 A conf
On a Balanced Delta Robot for Precise Aerial Manipulation: Implementation, Testing, and Lessons for Future Designs.
IROS
Angus B. Clark, Nicholas Baron, Lachlan Orr, Mirko Kovac, Nicolás Rojas
2022 J jnl
Transient bio-inspired gliders with embodied humidity responsive actuators for environmental sensing.
Frontiers Robotics AI
Fabian Wiesemüller, Ziwen Meng, Yijie Hu, André Farinha, Yunus Govdeli, Pham H. Nguyen, Gustav Nyström, Mirko Kovac
2022 — conf
VRTAB-Map: A Configurable Immersive Teleoperation Framework with Online 3D Reconstruction.
ISMAR Adjunct
Harvey Stedman, Basaran Bahadir Kocer, Mirko Kovac, Vijay M. Pawar
2021 — conf
Challenges in Control and Autonomy of Unmanned Aerial-Aquatic Vehicles.
MED
André Farinha, Julien di Tria, Raphael Zufferey, Sophie F. Armanini, Mirko Kovac
2021 A* conf
Deep Neuromorphic Controller with Dynamic Topology for Aerial Robots.
ICRA
Basaran Bahadir Kocer, Mohamad Abdul Hady, Harikumar Kandath, Mahardhika Pratama, Mirko Kovac
2021 J jnl
Optic Flow-Based Reactive Collision Prevention for MAVs Using the Fictitious Obstacle Hypothesis.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.
Feng Xiao, Peter Zheng, Julien di Tria, Basaran Bahadir Kocer, Mirko Kovac
2021 A* conf
Robotic Electrospinning Actuated by Non-Circular Joint Continuum Manipulator for Endoluminal Therapy.
ICRA
Zicong Wu, Chuqian Lou, Zhu Jin, Shaoping Huang, Ning Liu, Yun Zou, Mirko Kovac, Anzhu Gao, Guang-Zhong Yang
2021 J jnl
Robotic Electrospinning Actuated by Non-Circular Joint Continuum Manipulator for Endoluminal Therapy.
CoRR
Zicong Wu, Chuqian Lou, Zhu Jin, Shaoping Huang, Ning Liu, Yun Zou, Mirko Kovac, Anzhu Gao, Guang-Zhong Yang
2021 J jnl
Self-Sensing Cellulose Structures With Design-Controlled Stiffness.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.
Fabian Wiesemüller, Crystal E. Winston, Alexandre Poulin, Xavier Aeby, Aslan Miriyev, Thomas Geiger, Gustav Nyström, Mirko Kovac
2021 J jnl
Undulatory Swimming Performance Explored With a Biorobotic Fish and Measured by Soft Sensors and Particle Image Velocimetry.
Frontiers Robotics AI
Fabian Schwab, Fabian Wiesemüller, Claudio Mucignat, Yong-Lae Park, Ivan Lunati, Mirko Kovac, Ardian Jusufi
2020 J jnl
MEDUSA: A Multi-Environment Dual-Robot for Underwater Sample Acquisition.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.
Diego Debruyn, Raphael Zufferey, Sophie F. Armanini, Crystal E. Winston, André Farinha, Yufei Jin, Mirko Kovac
2020 — conf
Omni-Drone: on the Design of a Novel Aerial Manipulator with Omni-directional Workspace.
UR
Salua Hamaza, Mirko Kovac
2020 J jnl
Skills for physical artificial intelligence.
Nat. Mach. Intell.
Aslan Miriyev, Mirko Kovac
2020 J jnl
TiltDrone: A Fully-Actuated Tilting Quadrotor Platform.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.
Peter Zheng, Xinkai Tan, Basaran Bahadir Kocer, Erdeng Yang, Mirko Kovac
2020 J jnl
Unmanned Aerial Sensor Placement for Cluttered Environments.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.
André Farinha, Raphael Zufferey, Peter Zheng, Sophie F. Armanini, Mirko Kovac
2019 — conf
A Design and Fabrication Approach for Pneumatic Soft Robotic Arms Using 3D Printed Origami Skeletons.
RoboSoft
Ketao Zhang, Yifan Zhu, Chuqian Lou, Peter Zheng, Mirko Kovac
2019 — conf
A Passively Adaptive Microspine Grapple for Robust, Controllable Perching.
RoboSoft
Hai-Nguyen Nguyen, Robert Siddall, Brett Stephens, Alberto Navarro-Rubio, Mirko Kovac
2019 J jnl
A review of collective robotic construction.
Sci. Robotics
Kirstin H. Petersen, Nils Napp, Robert Stuart-Smith, Daniela Rus, Mirko Kovac
2019 J jnl
An Integrated Delta Manipulator for Aerial Repair: A New Aerial Robotic System.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag.
Pisak Chermprayong, Ketao Zhang, Feng Xiao, Mirko Kovac
2019 J jnl
Bioinspired design of a landing system with soft shock absorbers for autonomous aerial robots.
J. Field Robotics
Ketao Zhang, Pisak Chermprayong, Dimos Tzoumanikas, Wenbin Li, Marius Grimm, Mariusz Smentoch, Stefan Leutenegger, Mirko Kovac
2019 J jnl
Consecutive aquatic jump-gliding with water-reactive fuel.
Sci. Robotics
Raphael Zufferey, Alejandro Ortega Ancel, André Farinha, Robert Siddall, Sophie F. Armanini, Maya Nasr, R. V. Brahmal, Grant Kennedy, Mirko Kovac
2019 J jnl
Fully autonomous micro air vehicle flight and landing on a moving target using visual-inertial estimation and model-predictive control.
J. Field Robotics
Dimos Tzoumanikas, Wenbin Li, Marius Grimm, Ketao Zhang, Mirko Kovac, Stefan Leutenegger
2019 J jnl
SailMAV: Design and Implementation of a Novel Multi-Modal Flying Sailing Robot.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.
Raphael Zufferey, Alejandro Ortega Ancel, Célia Raposo, Sophie Franziska Armanini, André Farinha, Robert Siddall, Ion Berasaluce, Haijun Zhu, Mirko Kovac
2018 J jnl
Power and Control Autonomy for High-Speed Locomotion With an Insect-Scale Legged Robot.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.
Benjamin Goldberg, Raphael Zufferey, Neel Doshi, Elizabeth Farrell Helbling, Griffin Whittredge, Mirko Kovac, Robert J. Wood
2018 J jnl
Rotorigami: A rotary origami protective system for robotic rotorcraft.
Sci. Robotics
Pisak Chermprayong, Marc Emmanuelli, Haris Nadeem, Mirko Kovac
2017 J jnl
A biologically inspired, flapping-wing, hybrid aerial-aquatic microrobot.
Sci. Robotics
Hongqiang Wang, E. Farrell Helbling, Noah T. Jafferis, Raphael Zufferey, Aaron C. Ong, Kevin Y. Ma, Nicholas G. Gravish, Pakpong Chirarattananon, Mirko Kovac, Robert J. Wood
2017 J jnl
Efficient Aerial-Aquatic Locomotion With a Single Propulsion System.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.
Yu Herng Tan, Robert Siddall, Mirko Kovac
2017 A conf
SpiderMAV: Perching and stabilizing micro aerial vehicles with bio-inspired tensile anchoring systems.
IROS
K. Zhang, Pisak Chermprayong, T. M. Alhinai, Robert Siddall, Mirko Kovac
2015 A* conf
A water jet thruster for an aquatic micro air vehicle.
ICRA
Robert Siddall, Mirko Kovac
2015 — conf
High-Power Propulsion Strategies for Aquatic Take-off in Robotics.
ISRR (1)
Robert Siddall, Grant Kennedy, Mirko Kovac
2015 — conf
Tensile Web Construction and Perching with Nano Aerial Vehicles.
ISRR (1)
Adam Braithwaite, Talib Alhinai, Maximilian Haas-Heger, Edward McFarlane, Mirko Kovac
2014 A* conf
3D printing with flying robots.
ICRA
Graham Hunt, Faidon Mitzalis, Talib Alhinai, Paul A. Hooper, Mirko Kovac
2012 A conf
Aerodynamic evaluation of four butterfly species for the design of flapping-gliding robotic insects.
IROS
Mirko Kovac, Daniel M. Vogt, Daniel Ithier, Michael Smith, Robert J. Wood
2012 — conf
Multi-stage micro rockets for robotic insects.
Robotics: Science and Systems
Mirko Kovac, Maria Bendana, Rohit Krishnan, Jessica Burton, Michael Smith, Robert J. Wood
2011 C conf
Aerial Locomotion in Cluttered Environments.
ISRR
Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Adam Klaptocz, Jürg Germann, Mirko Kovac
2011 — conf
The EPFL jumpglider: A hybrid jumping and gliding robot with rigid or folding wings.
ROBIO
Mirko Kovac, Wassim-Hraiz, Oriol Fauria, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano
2011 — conf
The locomotion capabilities of the EPFL jumpglider: A hybrid jumping and gliding robot.
ROBIO
Mirko Kovac, Wassim-Hraiz, Oriol Fauria, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano
2010 — —
Bioinspired Jumping Locomotion for Miniature Robotics.
Mirko Kovac
2010 J jnl
Steerable miniature jumping robot.
Auton. Robots
Mirko Kovac, Manuel Schlegel, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano
2010 — ch.
Towards a Self-Deploying and Gliding Robot.
Flying Insects and Robots
Mirko Kovac, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano
2009 A conf
A miniature jumping robot with self-recovery capabilities.
IROS
Mirko Kovac, Manuel Schlegel, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano
2009 A conf
A miniature jumping robot with self-recovery capabilities.
IROS
Mirko Kovac, Manuel Schlegel, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano
2008 A* conf
A miniature 7g jumping robot.
ICRA
Mirko Kovac, Martin Fuchs, André Guignard, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano
2007 A* conf
A 1.5g SMA-actuated Microglider looking for the Light.
ICRA
Mirko Kovac, André Guignard, Jean-Daniel Nicoud, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano