Carl John Salaan — accepted AI-conference papers

2026

Autonomous Drone-Ground Robot Alignment through Ground Robot Visual Servo Control with Drone Detection and Tilt Correction

Sean Clark Dominguez, Jeanette Pao, Immanuel Paradela, John Mel Bolaybolay, Earl Ryan Aleluya, Francis Jann Alagon +6

ICRA 2026poster

Retrieving ground robots from dangerous environments after their operation is a challenging task that poses risks for the personnel. Some researchers often employ drones for retrieval, which makes operations safer. However, this setup requires an accurate method that guarantees drone and ground robo…

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2025

Autonomous Drone-Ground Robot Alignment Through Ground Robot Visual Servo Control With Drone Detection and Tilt Correction

Sean Clark Dominguez, Jeanette C. Pao, Immanuel P. Paradela, John Mel Bolaybolay, Earl Ryan M. Aleluya, Francis Jann Alagon +6

RA-L 2025

Retrieving ground robots from dangerous environments after their operation is a challenging task that poses risks for the personnel. Some researchers often employ drones for retrieval, which makes operations safer. However, this set-up requires an accurate method that guarantees drone and ground rob

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2022

Drone with Pneumatic-tethered Suction-based Perching Mechanism for High Payload Application

Jim David Ang, Lester Librado, Carl John Salaan, Jonathan Maglasang, Kristine Sanchez, Marcelo Ang

IROS 2022poster

Concrete infrastructures provide the means to connect cities and transport people and goods. They require regular inspection to assess their current conditions. Aerial work platforms and underbridge platforms or scaffolding are the common equipment used for inspection of elevated infrastructure. The…

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2022

Meshing and Insulation Strategies for Shelled UAVs in Proximal Inspection of Distribution Utility Lines

Lester G. Librado, Christian Y. Cahig, Charles Alver G. Banglos, Jeanette C. Pao, Carl John Salaan

RA-L 2022

Aerial robotics brought breakthroughs in inspection across various industries. Power utilities recently adopted drone technologies for visual inspection of their assets. In the cluttered environments of distribution-level networks, shelled drones can offer proximal inspection albeit getting in conta

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2019

Development and Experimental Validation of Aerial Vehicle With Passive Rotating Shell on Each Rotor

Carl John Salaan, Kenjiro Tadakuma, Yoshito Okada, Yusuke Sakai, Kazunori Ohno, Satoshi Tadokoro

RA-L 2019

Aerial robotics is a fast-growing field of robotics and has been successfully used in various applications. Still, it faces many challenges, such as dealing with unavoidable obstacles in a cluttered environment. Recently, a flying robot with a protective shell that can rotate passively was introduce

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2017

UAV with two passive rotating hemispherical shells for physical interaction and power tethering in a complex environment

Carl John Salaan, Kenjiro Tadakuma, Yoshito Okada, Eri Takane, Kazunori Ohno, Satoshi Tadokoro

ICRA 2017poster

For the past few years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been successfully employed in several investigations and exploration tasks such as aerial inspection and manipulations. However, most of these UAVs are limited to open spaces distant from any obstacles because of the high risk of falling a…

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2016

Improvement of UAV's flight performance by reducing the drag force of spherical shell

Carl John Salaan, Yoshito Okada, Koichi Hozumi, Kazunori Ohno, Satoshi Tadokoro

IROS 2016poster

In recent years, several researchers focused their work on the mechanisms to protect the UAV from the dangerous collision with obstacles particularly the application of a spherical shell. However, this mechanism has some drawbacks when used in real-world mission especially in an outdoor environment.…

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2015

Proposal and experimental validation of a design strategy for a UAV with a passive rotating spherical shell

Shoma Mizutani, Yoshito Okada, Carl John Salaan, Takuma Ishii, Kazunori Ohno, Satoshi Tadokoro

IROS 2015poster

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) such as multicopters are expected to be used for inspection of aged infrastructure or for searching damaged buildings in the event of a disaster. However, in a confined space in such environments, UAVs suffer a high risk of falling as a result of contact with an obsta…

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