Scientific Publications

Thesis

Ph.D.

[T1] Diego A. Mercado-Ravell. Autonomous Navigation and Teleoperation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles using Monocular Vision (Navigation autonome et télé-opération de véhicules aériens en utilizant la vision monoculaire). University of Technology of Compiègne, France. 2015. [download]

M.Sc.

[T2] Diego A. Mercado-Ravell. Quad-rotors Formation Control using a Leader-Follower Approach (Control de Formación de quadrirotores en un esquema líder-seguidor). CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico City. 2012. [download]

Public Datasets and Repositories

Cyclists and cyclist orientations datset: https://gitlab.com/MaryChelo/cimat-cyclist

DonkieTown, a Low-cost Experimental Testbed for Research on Autonomous Cars: https://github.com/L4rralde/DonkieTown

Scientific Journals (JCR)

[J1] E. Guerrero,  D. Mercado-Ravell, R. Lozano and C. García. Swing-Attenuation for a Quadrotor transporting a Cable-Suspended Payload. ISA Transactions, 2017, 10.1016/j.isatra.2017.01.027. IF=6.3, Q1 [download]

[J2] D. Mercado-Ravell, M. Maia and J. Diez. Modeling and Control of Unmanned Aerial/Underwater Vehicles using Hybrid Control. Control Engineering Practice, 2018, Vol. 76, pp. 112-122. 10.1016/j.conengprac.2018.04.006 . IF=5,4, Q1 [download]

[J3] I. Dominguez**, R. Miranda-Colorado, L. T. Aguilar and D. Mercado-Ravell. A Methodology for Setting-up a Low-cost Quadrotor Experimental Platform. Control Engineering Practice, Vol. 143, 2024, 105803, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conengprac.2023.105803.  IF=5,4, Q1 [download] 

[J4] E. Guerrero, O. Hernández, G. Valencia,  D. Mercado-Ravell, F. López, J. Hoyo. Robust IDA-PBC for Under-actuated Systems with Inertia Matrix Dependent of the Unactuated Coordinates: Application to a UAV Carrying a Load. Nonlinear Dynamics, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-021-06776-7. IF=5.2, Q1. [download] 

[J5] H. Tovanche-Picón**, J. González-Trejo, A. Flores-Abád, M. A. García and D. Mercado-Ravell*.  Real-time Safe Validation of Autonomous Landing in Populated Areas: from Virtual Environments to Robot-in-the-loop. Virtual Reality, 28, 66, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10055-024-00965-6, IF=4.4, Q1.

[J6] F. Oliva-Palomo, D. Mercado-Ravell* and P. Castillo. Aerial transportation control of suspended payloads with multiple agents. Journal of the Franklin Institute, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfranklin.2024.106787, IF=3,7, Q1.

[J7] J. Gonzalez-Trejo**, D. Mercado-Ravell*, I. Becerra and R. Murrieta-Cid, "On the Visual-based Safe Landing of UAVs in Populated Areas: a Crucial Aspect for Urban Deployment" in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters and IROS presentation,vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 7902-7909, Oct. 2021, doi: 10.1109/LRA.2021.3101861. IF=4,6, Q2 [download]

[J8] A. Manzanilla**, S. Reyes, M. Garcia, D. Mercado-Ravell* and R. Lozano. Autonomous Navigation for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles: Real-Time Experiments using Computer Vision. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) and ICRA19 presentation, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 1351-1356, April 2019.  doi: 10.1109/LRA.2019.2895272. IF=4,6, Q2 [download]

[J9] J. Gonzalez-Trejo**, D. Mercado-Ravell* and U. Jaramillo-Avila. Monitoring Social-distance in Wide Areas during Pandemics: a Density Map and Segmentation Approach. Applied Intelligence, 2022. 10.1007/s10489-022-03172-5, IF=3,4, Q2 [download] 

[J10] F.  Garibaldi-Márquez, G. Flores, D. Mercado-Ravell, A. Ramírez, L. Valentín. Weed Classification from Natural Corn Field-multi-plant Images based on Shallow and Deep Learning. Sensors, 2022. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22083021 . IF=3.4, Q2. [download] 

[J11] D. Mercado-Ravell, M. Maia and J. Diez. Aerial-Underwater Systems, a New Paradigm in Unmanned Vehicles. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, Springer, 2018, 10.1007/s10846-018-0820-x.  IF=3.1, Q2 [download]

[J12] J. Gonzalez-Trejo** and D. Mercado-Ravell*. Lightweight Density Map Architecture for UAVs Safe Landing in Crowded Areas. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, Springer. 102, 7 (2021).  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-021-01380-8. IF=3.1, Q2 [download]

[J13] M. García-Venegas**, D. Mercado-Ravell*, L. A. Pinedo-Sanchez and C. Carballo-Monsivais. On the Safety of Vulnerable Road Users by Cyclist Orientation Detection  using Deep Learning. Machine Vision and Applications, 32, 109 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00138-021-01231-4. IF=2,4, Q2 [download]

[J14] B. Yam-Viramontes**, H. Cardona-Reyes, J. González-Trejo, C. Trujillo and D. Mercado-Ravell*. Commanding a Drone through Body Gestures, Improving the User Experience. J Multimodal User Interfaces, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12193-022-00396-0. IF=2.2, Q3  [download] 

[J15] D. Mercado-Ravell*, P. Castillo and R. Lozano. Sliding Mode Collision-Free Navigation for Quadrotors using Monocular Vision. Robotica, 2018, 1-17. doi:10.1017/S0263574718000516.  IF=1,9, Q3 [download]

[J16] L.A. Pinedo-Sánchez**, D. Mercado-Ravell* and C.A Carballo-Monsivais. Vibration Analysis in Bearings for Failure Prevention using CNN. J Braz. Soc. Mech. Sci. Eng. Springer, 42, 628 (2020). doi:10.1007/s40430-020-02711-w. IF=1,8, Q3 [download] 

[J17] E. Larralde-Ortiz**, A. Luviano-Juárez, F. Mirelez-Delgado and D. Mercado-Ravell*. DonkieTown: a Low-cost Experimental Testbed for Research on Autonomous Cars. IEEE Latin America Transactions, 21(6), 715–722. https://latamt.ieeer9.org/index.php/transactions/article/view/7756.  IF=1.3, Q3 [dowload] 

[J18] D. Mercado-Ravell*, P. Castillo and R. Lozano. Visual Detection and Tracking with UAVs, Following a Mobile Object. Advanced Robotics. 2019. doi: 10.1080/01691864.2019.1596834. IF=1,4, Q4 [download]

* Corresponding author

** Student is the main author

Book Chapters

D. Mercado-Ravell*, . Castillo and  R. Lozano. Indoor Navigation Strategies for Aerial Autonomous Systems. Ch. 11 "Teleoperation". Vol.  1, pp. 263-276, Elsevier, 2017.

International Conferences

[C1] J. Gonzalez-Trejo** and D. Mercado-Ravell*, Dense Crowds Detection and Surveillance with Drones using Density Maps, 2020 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), Athens, Greece, 2020. [download] 

[C2] B. A. Yam-Viramontes** and D. Mercado-Ravell*, Implementation of a Natural User Interface to Command a Drone, 2020 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), Athens, Greece, 2020. [download] 

[C3] M. Maia, D. Mercado-Ravell and J. Diez. Design and Implementation of Multirotor Aerial-Underwater Vehicles with Experimental Results. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent  Robots and Systems (IROS), Vancouver, 2017. [download]

[C4] D. Mercado-Ravell, M. Maia, F. Diez. Aerial-underwater systems, a new paradigm in unmanned vehicles. International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 1690-1695. Miami, 2017. [download]

[C5] J. Flores-Delgado**, L. Martínez-Santos, R. Lozano, I. Gonzalez-Hernandez, D. Mercado-Ravell. Embedded control using monocular vision: Face tracking.  International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 1285-1291. Miami, 2017. [download]

[C6] E. Guerrero, D. Mercado-Ravell, R. Lozano and C. García. Passivity Based Control for a Quadrotor UAV Transporting a Cable-Suspended Payload with Minimum Swing. IEEE Conference on  Decision and Control (CDC), Japan, 2015. [download]

[C7] D. Mercado-Ravell*, P Castillo, R Lozano. Quadrotor's trajectory tracking control using monocular vision navigation. International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS),  844-850. Denver, 2015. [download]

[C8] M. E. Guerrero, D. Mercado-Ravell, R. Lozano, C.  D. García, IDA-PBC methodology for a quadrotor uav transporting a cable-suspended payload.  International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 470-476. Denver, 2015. [download]

[C9] D. Mercado-Ravell*, P. Castillo, R. Castro and R. Lozano. 2-Sliding  Mode  Trajectory  Tracking  Control  and  EKF Estimation for  Quadrotors. 19th IFAC World Congress, South Africa, 2014. [download]

[C10] D. Mercado-Ravell*, P. Castillo and R. Lozano. Quadrotors Data Fusion using a Particle Filter. International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS). Orlando, 2014. [download]

[C11] D. Mercado-Ravell*, R. Castro and R. Lozano. Quadrotors Flight Formation Control using a Leader-Follower Approach. European Control Conference (ECC), Switzerland, 2013. [download]

[C12] D. Mercado-Ravell*, G. Flores, P. Castillo, J. Escareno, R. Lozano. Gps/ins/optic flow data fusion for position and velocity estimation.  International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 486-491. Atlanta, 2013. [download]

[C13] D. Mercado-Ravell*, R. Castro-Linares, R. Lozano. Quadrotors Trajectory Tracking Control with Inaccurate GPS Measurements. Research, Education and Development of Unmanned Aerial Systems 2 (1), 142-146. France, 2013. [download]

[C14] D. Mercado-Ravell*, R. Castro, R. Lozano. Control de Quadri-rotores en un Esquema de Formación Líder-Seguidor. 15th Latin American Control Conference (CLCA), Perú. 2012. [download]

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