Month: February 2016

The IEEE Technical Committee on "Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles", co-chaired by the GRVC Director Anibal Ollero, was distinguished, between the 38 existing Technical Committees, with the RAS Most Active Technical Committee Award (see http://www.ieee-ras.org/about-ras/latest-news/716-2016-ras-award-recipients-announced). The award was received at the Awards Luncheon during the annual...

GRVC was present at the last European Robotics Forum (21-23 March 2016, Ljubljana, Slovenia), you can find the pdf version of the program here. The ARCAS project, coordinated by Prof. Anibal Ollero, GRVC Director, was selected to be presented in the session "Step Change Results from FP7 Projects", March 21 afternoon,organized by the European Commission. Moreover the AEROARMS project was presente...

The project Aerial Robotics Cooperative Assembly Systems (ARCAS), funded by the European Commission under FP7, has concluded with excellent results achieving all its objectives. The final review was in Luxembourg last January 20-21. ARCAS has demonstrated, for the first time, indoor and outdoor aerial robotics manipulators (helicopters and multi-rotors), with 6/7 DoF robotic arms, and recently ...