ProfessorMirko Kovac
Honorary Professor
Department of Aeronautics - Faculty of Engineering
Orcid identifier0000-0002-9720-2463 (opens in a new tab)
- Honorary ProfessorDepartment of Aeronautics - Faculty of Engineering
- 020 7594 5063 (Work)
- 326, City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus, United Kingdom
PUBLICATIONS
- JOURNAL ARTICLESELECTEDLearning from nature how to land aerial robots20 May 2016Science352(6288):895-896American Association for the Advancement of ScienceCo-authors:
- Kovac M
DOIDOI: 10.1126/science.aaf6605 (opens in a new tab) - JOURNAL ARTICLE13 Jul 2026Nature Machine Intelligence8(7):1038-1044Springer Science and Business Media LLCCo-authors:
- Song S,
- Mazzolai B,
- Kovač M
DOIDOI: 10.1038/s42256-026-01260-6 (opens in a new tab) - JOURNAL ARTICLEMay 2026IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters11(5):6440-6446Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)Co-authors:
- Romanello L,
- Koch F,
- Zorgati E
DOIDOI: 10.1109/lra.2026.3681184 (opens in a new tab) - PREPRINT6 Jun 2025openRxivCo-authors:
- Bevan PA,
- Banks-Leite C,
- Kovac M
DOIDOI: 10.1101/2025.06.02.657416 (opens in a new tab) - JOURNAL ARTICLEAerial additive manufacturing: Toward on-site building construction with aerial robots23 Apr 2025SCIENCE ROBOTICS10(101):13 pagesAMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCECo-authors:
- Kaya YF,
- Orr L,
- Kocer BB
DOIDOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.ado6251 (opens in a new tab) - JOURNAL ARTICLELeaf Level Ash Dieback Disease Detection and Online Severity Estimation With UAVs2025IEEE ACCESS13:55499-55511 (13 pages)IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INCCo-authors:
- Bates E,
- Popovic M,
- Marsh C
DOIDOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3541980 (opens in a new tab) - JOURNAL ARTICLEDeposition dynamics and analysis of polyurethane foam structure boundaries for aerial additive manufacturing31 Dec 2024VIRTUAL AND PHYSICAL PROTOTYPING19(1):18 pagesTAYLOR & FRANCIS LTDCo-authors:
- Dams B,
- Orr L,
- Kaya YF
DOIDOI: 10.1080/17452759.2024.2305213 (opens in a new tab) - JOURNAL ARTICLEAug 2024Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies8(3)Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)Co-authors:
- Abdelnasser H,
- Heggo M,
- Pang O
DOIDOI: 10.1145/3678549 (opens in a new tab) - JOURNAL ARTICLEReinforcement Learning for Outdoor Balloon Navigation: A Successful Controller for an Autonomous BalloonJun 2024IEEE ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION MAGAZINE31(2):26-38 (13 pages)IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INCCo-authors:
- Jeger SL,
- Lawrance N,
- Achermann F
DOIDOI: 10.1109/MRA.2023.3271203 (opens in a new tab) - CONFERENCE13 May 20242024 IEEE 7th International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft)2024 IEEE 7th International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft)IEEECo-authors:
- Romanello L,
- Amir DJ,
- Stengel H
DOIDOI: 10.1109/robosoft60065.2024.10522045 (opens in a new tab) - JOURNAL ARTICLEA Soft Robotic Morphing Wing for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles12 Mar 2024ADVANCED INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS10 pagesWILEYCo-authors:
- Giordano A,
- Achenbach L,
- Lenggenhager D
DOIDOI: 10.1002/aisy.202300702 (opens in a new tab) - JOURNAL ARTICLEAerial additive manufacturing with multiple autonomous robots (vol 609, pg 709, 2022)8 Feb 2024NATURE626(7998):E5 (1 page)NATURE PORTFOLIOCo-authors:
- Zhang K,
- Chermprayong P,
- Xiao F
DOIDOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07030-x (opens in a new tab) - CONFERENCEAerial-Aquatic Robots as a New Paradigm for Blue Carbon Monitoring and Sequestration2024International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)2024 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS, ICUAS829-834 (6 pages)IEEECo-authors:
- Nguyen PH,
- Kovac M
DOIDOI: 10.1109/ICUAS60882.2024.10556836 (opens in a new tab) - JOURNAL ARTICLEFresh Properties and Autonomous Deposition of Pseudoplastic Cementitious Mortars for Aerial Additive Manufacturing2024IEEE ACCESS12:34606-34631 (26 pages)IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INCCo-authors:
- Dams B,
- Chen B,
- Kaya YF
DOIDOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3373188 (opens in a new tab) - CONFERENCEHybrid Soft Electrostatic Metamaterial Gripper for Multi-surface, Multi-object Adaptation20247th International Conference on Soft Robotics (ROBOSOFT)2024 IEEE 7TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFT ROBOTICS, ROBOSOFT851-857 (7 pages)IEEECo-authors:
- Kanno R,
- Nguyen PH,
- Pinskier J
DOIDOI: 10.1109/ROBOSOFT60065.2024.10522020 (opens in a new tab) - JOURNAL ARTICLEUse of an unmanned aerial-aquatic vehicle for acoustic sensing in freshwater ecosystems25 Dec 2023REMOTE SENSING IN ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION17 pagesWILEYCo-authors:
- Lawson J,
- Farinha A,
- Romanello L
DOIDOI: 10.1002/rse2.373 (opens in a new tab) - JOURNAL ARTICLESep 2023Advanced Intelligent Systems5(9):11 pagesWileyCo-authors:
- Hausermann D,
- Bodry S,
- Wiesemuller F
DOIDOI: 10.1002/aisy.202300101 (opens in a new tab) - CONFERENCE4 Jul 20232023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)11972-11978IEEECo-authors:
- Stedman H,
- Kocer BB,
- van Zalk N
DOIDOI: 10.1109/icra48891.2023.10161011 (opens in a new tab) - CONFERENCE4 Jul 20232023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)1298-1304IEEECo-authors:
- Hauf F,
- Kocer BB,
- Slatter A
DOIDOI: 10.1109/icra48891.2023.10161135 (opens in a new tab) - JOURNAL ARTICLE1 Jul 2023Advanced Intelligent Systems5(7)WileyCo-authors:
- Wiesemuller F,
- Meyer S,
- Hu Y
DOIDOI: 10.1002/aisy.202300037 (opens in a new tab) - JOURNAL ARTICLEJul 2023Advanced Intelligent Systems5(7)WileyCo-authors:
- Wiesemüller F,
- Meyer S,
- Hu Y
DOIDOI: 10.1002/aisy.202370030 (opens in a new tab) - CONFERENCE26 Jun 2023The 2023 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems401-406IEEECo-authors:
- Awad H,
- Heggo M,
- Pang O
DOIDOI: 10.1109/ICUAS57906.2023.10156123 (opens in a new tab) - JOURNAL ARTICLE21 Apr 2023Frontiers in Robotics and AI10Frontiers Media S.A.Co-authors:
- Nguyen PH,
- Kovač M,
- Arrue BC
DOIDOI: 10.3389/frobt.2023.1196942 (opens in a new tab) - JOURNAL ARTICLE1 Feb 2023IEEE-ASME Transactions on Mechatronics28(1):38-49Institute of Electrical and Electronics EngineersCo-authors:
- Stephens B,
- Nguyen H-N,
- Hamaza S
DOIDOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2022.3202116 (opens in a new tab)
