Papers
12
Total Citations
173
H-Index
7
About
Jan Dentler’s research sits at the intersection of autonomous aerial robotics, multi-agent coordination, and robotic manipulation, with a strong emphasis on real-world deployment in challenging environments. His early, highly cited work on UAV swarms introduced a novel mobility model combining chaotic ant colony algorithms with model predictive control (MPC), achieving collision-free, efficient area exploration—a foundational contribution that has garnered over 90 citations. Dentler’s impact extends to cooperative localization, where he developed the “Atlas” ROS framework for dynamic sensor fusion among multiple UAVs, and to aerial manipulation, where he pioneered operational space control for quadrotors with attached manipulators. More recently, his work has advanced into space robotics and dexterous manipulation, including a widely-read survey on visual servoing for on-orbit servicing and a generative 6-DoF grasp synthesis method using latent diffusion models (GraspLDM). His 2024 contributions on object-centric reconstruction with 3D Gaussian splatting further demonstrate his commitment to enabling autonomous systems to perceive and interact with unknown, dynamic objects. With over 160 total citations and a trajectory from swarm exploration to space-grade manipulation, Dentler’s work is shaping the future of autonomous robotics in both terrestrial and orbital domains.
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- 3GraspLDM: Generative 6-DoF Grasp Synthesis Using Latent Diffusion Models15 citations · 2024
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- 5Control of aerial manipulation vehicle in operational space12 citations · 2016
- 6Visual Servoing for Robotic On-Orbit Servicing: A Survey10 citations · 2024
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- 8Model predictive control for cooperative control of space robots7 citations · 2017
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