Nicola De Carli

Postdoctoral Researcher, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

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Department of Decision and Control Systems

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Stockholm, Sweden

ndc@kth.se

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

Jun 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: