Riccardo Giubilato
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V. (DLR), University of Padua
Papers
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Total Citations
324
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About
Riccardo Giubilato is a robotics and autonomous systems researcher whose work sits at the intersection of planetary exploration, simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), and multi-robot collaboration. Affiliated with the German Aerospace Center (DLR), he has made significant contributions to advancing the autonomy of robotic systems designed for extreme and unstructured environments, particularly planetary surfaces. Giubilato's most impactful work includes his involvement in the ARCHES space-analogue demonstration mission, which explored heterogeneous teams of autonomous robots for collaborative scientific sampling — a paper that has garnered nearly 100 citations. His extensive research on visual SLAM, including rigorous comparative evaluations of stereo and monocular methods on resource-constrained hardware like the NVIDIA Jetson TX2, has become a reference point for practitioners deploying robotic systems in the field. His work on multi-session mapping and relocalization addresses a critical challenge for long-term planetary rover operations. Beyond Earth-based demonstrations, Giubilato has contributed to real mission design, most notably through DLR's autonomous navigation experiment aboard the MMX Rover destined for Phobos. With over 290 cumulative citations, his research meaningfully advances the state of the art in robust, terrain-aware robot autonomy for the next generation of space exploration.
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- 9A comparison of monocular and stereo visual FastSLAM implementations12 citations · 2016
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