Nicola De Carli
Postdoctoral Researcher, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Department of Decision and Control Systems
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Stockholm, Sweden
About
I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Decision and Control Systems at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, where I work with Prof. Dimos Dimarogonas. Before joining KTH, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Rainbow team at IRISA-CNRS, Rennes, France, from April 2024 to January 2025, where I worked with Dr. Marco Tognon and Dr. Paolo Robuffo Giordano. I received my Ph.D. from IRISA-CNRS as part of the Rainbow team, under the supervision of Dr. Paolo Robuffo Giordano and Prof. Paolo Salaris.
My research lies at the intersection of control theory and robotics. I am particularly interested in developing principled methods for autonomous systems that can perceive, reason, and act safely in unstructured environments.
More specifically, I work on multi-robot systems, distributed observer design, active perception, formal methods, and safety-critical control. My research is motivated by applications in aerial robotics, underwater robotics and cooperative transportation.
Research Interests
- Multi-robot systems
- Observer design
- Signal Temporal Logic
- Safety-critical robotics
- Active perception
- Model predictive control
- Cooperative manipulation
news
| August 2026 | In August, our paper “Demonstration of space robot teleoperation over a lossy and delayed network using ATMOS.” will be presented at the IFAC World Congress. |
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| July 2026 | The arXiv version of our new paper “STL-GCS: A Planner-Controller Framework for Signal Temporal Logic via Graphs of Time-varying Convex Sets” is now online. |
| June 2026 | Our paper “Perception-Aware Control for Cooperative Cable-Suspended Transportation Under Sensing Constraints” has been accepted for publication at IROS 2026. |
| June 2026 | I will attend the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), where I will present our paper “Distributed {NMPC} for Cooperative Aerial Manipulation of Cable-Suspended Loads”. I am also happy that two additional works that I co-authored will be presented by my co-authors: |