Month: June 2019

The aerial robotics research group GRVC and FADA-CATEC have developed recently a new landing method for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) without GPS. This landing method can be used in movable platforms and it's the very first technology that allows to the UAVs to land in all kind of surfaces and in automatic mode. The goal of this method is the UAV landing in movable platforms without GNSS and w...

This Tuesday June 18th the GRVC head Anibal Ollero talked with the spanish tv programme crew La Tarde en 24h, which is daily broadcasted in the 24 Hours Channel. Ollero talked in this tv programme about the drones features, the efficiency and how the aerial robots can improve the inspection and maintenance tasks as well as save lives in this case. Also, he exposed the next steps in the aerial r...

After the workshops and presentations at ERF and ICRA it was the turn of the ICUAS conference, held this year in Atlanta (Georgia, USA). The GRVC members Pablo Ramón Soria, Jesús Capitán, Antonio Martín and the head Aníbal Ollero were present in this event to talk in several papers about the advances in the H2020 projects AEROARMS, HYFLIERS, RESIST and Multidrone, as well as the ERC Advanced Grant...

After the integration experiments performed at the cement factory of Holcim-Lafarge (Jerez de la Frontera, Spain), a refinery located in Germany has been the next stage for the industrial integration experiments of the project. These experiments had as an objective the localization and inspection of the refinery pipes. The integration tests were performed during almost one week and all the contrib...

On Friday June 7th some members from the spanish enterprise Endesa came to the GRVC facilities to see the aerial robotics prototypes and their applications developed inside the ETSI laboratories, like the the drones developed for H2020 HYFLIERS. The visit included several technical demonstrations with the aerial robots, for example drones interacting with factory workers and the demonstration of b...

Anibal Ollero has won the 31st King Jaume I Award in New Technologies. These awards are very prestigious counting with 19 Nobel prizes in the Jury and are endowed with 100.000 euros. The jury awarded the leadership of Anibal Ollero  in aerial robotics and his priceless capability to combine excellent research and technology innovation with the technology transfer to companies. The jury highlighte...