Journal Papers:
- HPA-MPC: Hybrid Perception-Aware Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Quadrotors with Suspended Loads, Mrunal Sarvaiya, Guanrui Li, and Giuseppe Loianno. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, RA-L, 2025 [paper], [video]
- Human-aware Physical Human-Robot Collaborative Transportation and Manipulation with Multiple Aerial Robots, Guanrui Li*, Xinyang Liu*, and Giuseppe Loianno. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, T-RO, 2025 [paper], [video](*: equal contribution)
- RotorTM: A Flexible Simulator for Aerial Transportation and Manipulation Guanrui Li, Xinyang Liu, and Giuseppe Loianno. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, T-RO, 2024 [paper], [video], [code]
- Physics-Inspired Temporal Learning of Quadrotor Dynamics for Accurate Model Predictive Trajectory Tracking, Alessandro Saviolo, Guanrui Li, and Giuseppe Loianno. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, RA-L, 2022 [paper], [video]
- Cooperative Transportation of Cable Suspended Payloads with MAVs using Monocular Vision and Inertial Sensing, Guanrui Li, Rundong Ge, and Giuseppe Loianno. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, RA-L, 2021 [paper], [video]
Conference Papers:
- Enhancing Human-Drone Spatial Awareness with a Mixed Reality Interface for Drone Assisted Interactive Navigation, Sanket A. Salunkhe*, Pranav Nedunghat*, Luca Morando, Guanrui Li, and Giuseppe Loianno. 2025 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), ICUAS 2025 (under review, *: equal contribution)
- Decentralized nonlinear model predictive control for safe collision avoidance in quadrotor teams with limited detection range, Manohari Goarin, Guanrui Li, Alessandro Saviolo, and Giuseppe Loianno. proceedings of the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2025
- Optimal Trajectory Planning for Cooperative Manipulation with Multiple Quadrotors Using Control Barrier Functions, Arpan Pallar*, Guanrui Li*, and Giuseppe Loianno. proceedings of the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2025(*: equal contribution)
- Experimental System Design of an Active Fault-Tolerant Quadrotor, Jennifer Yeom, Roshan Balu T M B, Guanrui Li, Giuseppe Loianno. 2024 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), ICUAS 2024
- Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Cooperative Transportation and Manipulation of Cable Suspended Payloads with Multiple Quadrotors, Guanrui Li, Giuseppe Loianno. proceedings of the 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2023 [paper], [video]
- Geometric Fault-Tolerant Control of Quadrotors in Case of Rotor Failures: An Attitude Based Comparative Study, Jennifer Yeom, Guanrui Li, and Giuseppe Loianno. proceedings of the 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2023
- Vision-based Detection and Tracking for Relative Localization of Aerial Swarms, Rundong Ge*, Moonyoung Lee*, Vivek Radhakrishnan, Yang Zhou, Guanrui Li, Giuseppe Loianno. proceedings of the 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2022
- Learning Model Predictive Control for Quadrotors, Guanrui Li*, Alex Tunchez*, and Giuseppe Loianno. proceedings of the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2022(*: equal contribution) [paper], [video]
Outstanding Deployed Systems Paper Award Finalist! - Aggressive Visual Perching with Quadrotors on Inclined Surfaces, Jeffrey Mao, Guanrui Li, Stephen Nogar, Christopher Kroninger, and Giuseppe Loianno. proceedings of the 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2021 [paper], [video]
- PCMPC: Perception-Constrained Model Predictive Control for Quadrotors with Suspended Loads using a Single Camera and IMU, Guanrui Li*, Alex Tunchez*, and Giuseppe Loianno. proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2021(*: equal contribution) [paper], [video]
- Design and Experimental Evaluation of Distributed Cooperative Transportation of Cable Suspended Payloads with Micro Aerial Vehicles , Guanrui Li, and Giuseppe Loianno. 17th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, ISER 2020 [paper], [video]
- Efficient Trajectory Library Filtering for Quadrotor Flight in Unknown Environments , Vaibhav Viswanathan, Eric Dexheimer, Guanrui Li, Giuseppe Loianno, Michael Kaess, Sebastian Scherer. proceedings of the 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2020 [paper], [video]
- ModQuad-DoF: A Novel Yaw Actuation for Modular Quadrotors , Bruno Gabrich, Guanrui Li, and Mark Yim. proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2020 [paper], [video]
- ModQuad-Vi: A Vision-Based Self-Assembling Modular Quadrotor , Guanrui Li, Bruno Gabrich, David Saldana, Jnaneshwar Das, Vijay Kumar and Mark Yim. proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2019 [paper], [video]
- ModQuad: The Flying Modular Structure that Self-Assembles in Midair , David Saldana*, Bruno Gabrich*, Guanrui Li, Mark Yim, and Vijay Kumar. proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2018 [paper], [video]
Workshop papers:
- Observabilty-Aware Trajectories for Geometric and Inertial Self-Calibration , Christoph Bohm, Guanrui Li, Giuseppe Loianno, and Stephan Weiss. Power-On-and-Go Robots: ‘Out-of-the-Box’ Systems for Real-World Applications, Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) Conference, RSS 2020 [paper]
- Vision-based Cooperative Transportation with MAVs , Guanrui Li, and Giuseppe Loianno. Robot Learning Workshop(NSF-funded) @ Lehigh University, 2019
