Staff
DLR German Aerospace Center
Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics
Analysis and Control of Advanced Robotic Systems
Oberpfaffenhofen
Muenchener Str. 20
82234 Wessling
| telephone: | +49 8153 28-1716 |
| email: | Moritz Maier |
Member of the Flying Robots team, Fellow of Munich Aerospace
Research topics
- Modeling and control of unmanned aerial vehicles and robots
- Take-off and landing of UAVs under severe conditions and on moving platforms
- Physical interaction between rotary-wing UAVs and a stationary robotic manipulator
- Aerial Manipulation
Publications
Journal papers
[J1] Maier, Moritz ; Oeschger, André ; Kondak, Konstantin: "Robot-assisted Landing of VTOL UAVs: Design and Comparison of Coupled and Decoupling Linear State-space Control Approaches". In: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 1 (1), Jan. 2016, pages 114 - 121. DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2015.2502920. ISSN 2377-3766.
Conference papers
[C1] Tomić, Teodor* ; Maier, Moritz* ; Haddadin, Sami: "Learning Quadrotor Maneuvers From Optimal Control and Generalizing in Real-Time". In: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2014, pages 1747–1754. DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907087 * equal contribution
[C2] Maier, Moritz ; Kondak, Konstantin: "Landing of vtol uavs using a stationary robot manipulator: A new approach for coordinated control". In: IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Dec. 2015, pages 1497–1502.
[C3] Maier, Moritz ; Oeschger, André ; Kondak, Konstantin: "Robot-assisted Landing of VTOL UAVs: Design and Comparison of Coupled and Decoupling Linear State-space Control Approaches". In: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2016.
[C4] Moritz Maier ; Konstantin Kondak: "Robot assisted landing of VTOL UAVs on ships: A simulation case study of the touch-down phase". In: IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), Aug. 2017, pages 2094-2101.
[C5] Moritz Maier ; Konstantin Kondak ; Christian Ott: "Enabling Robot Assisted Landing of Heavy UAV Rotorcraft via Combined Control and Workload Sharing". In: IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Sept. 2017, pages 5128-5134.
Workshops
[W1] Huber, Felix ; Maier, Moritz; Kondak, Konstantin: "Manipulation capabilities of a system composed of a helicopter and 7DoF lightweight manipulator". In: ICRA Workshop on Aerial Robotics Manipulation and Load Transportation, May 2015, Seattle, USA.
[W2] Maier, Moritz: "Robotic Manipulator System for Rotary-wing UAVs Operating from Ships". In: 10th AIRTEC International Congress, Nov. 2015, Munich, Germany.
Diploma thesis
[T1] Maier, Moritz: "Learning Quadrotor Maneuvers from Optimal Control", Technische Universität München, Diploma thesis, May 2013. http://elib.dlr.de/85798/
Students
[S1] Viet Duc Pham: Design, analysis, and implementation of a rotationally decoupling hinge for a UAV helicopter landing system, Bachelor's thesis, 15.10.2014 - 15.02.2015
[S2] André Oeschger: Nonlinear Modeling and Linear Control of a Novel Robotic Landing System for Rotary-wing UAVs, Diploma thesis, 01.02. - 31.08.2015
[S3] Daniel Martínez García: Ground contact modeling for VTOL UAVs landing on moving platforms, Internship, 01.09.2015 - 30.11.2015
[S4] Patrick Jiskra: Ground contact modeling for VTOL UAVs landing on moving platforms, Master's thesis, 11.04. - 10.10.2016
[S5] Fabian Beck: Task-space Control of an Unmanned Helicopter Equipped with a 7-DoF Robot Arm, Master's thesis, 03.04. - 30.11.2017
Videos
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907087
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8WDL9RyDgM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6_uVIhORAg