Aníbal Ollero received his Electrical Engineering degree and the Doctor Engineer degree with award from the University of Seville.

He worked in an engineering office and was assistant professor at the University of Seville (1976-1980). Later he was full professor at the Spanish Universities of Santiago de Compostela in Vigo, Málaga and Sevilla. In Vigo he was Associate Professor and Full Professor. He also was Director of the Department of "Electrical, Computers and System Engineering" and Secretary and Research Vice-Director of the Engineering School. In Málaga he was Full Professor, Director of the Engineering School and Head of the Departments of "Computer Science and Engineering", " Electronics, Automation and System Engineering", and "System Engineering and Automation".

He has been also "stagiere" at the Laboratoire d'Automatique et d'Analyse des Systemes(LAAS-CNRS),Toulouse, France (1979), and visiting scientist (1990-1991) at the " Robotics Institute", Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA. Since December 1992 he is Full Professor at the University of Seville where he has been Vice-Director of the Engineering School. He is currently leading GRVC with more than 70 members at the School of Engineeringand the Association of Research and Industrial Cooperation of Andalucía (AICIA). He is currently Scientific Advisor of the Center for Advanced Aerospace Technologies (CATEC) with more than 70 members and has been Scientific Director of this Center.

He researched in autonomous aerial systems, robotics and automation, presenting the results in more than 560 PUBLICATIONS, including papers in journals (128), book chapters (38), and Conference Proceedings. He is author or co-author of 8 books including a book on computer control "Premio Mundo Electrónico" (Spanish Award), a book on robotics, the book "Intelligent Mobile Robot Navigation" (Springer, 2005), a book on "Teleoperation and Telerobotics" (Pearson- Prentice Hall, 2006) and a book on autonomous and distributed systems for applications on vehicles and natural environments (2008). Furthermore, he is editor or co-editor of 12 books including Multiple Heterogeneous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Springer, 2007, translated to Chinese in 2012), with 9 Chapters being co-author of 6, and "Cooperating Objects and Wireless Sensor Networks" (Hermes, 2007) with 6 Chapters being co-author of 3 Chapters.

He has led or participated in more than 140 research and development PROJECTS, including 24 projects funded by the European Commission and other projects funded by NASA, the Spanish National Research Program, the Regional Research Program, and many institutions and companies.

He has been coordinator of the successful European projects "Real-time coordination and control of multiple heterogeneous unmanned aerial vehicles" (COMETS) in the 5th Framework Programme, with 7 partners from 5 countries, and "Platform for Autonomous self-deploying and operation of Wireless sensor-actuator networks cooperating with AeRial objEcts" (AWARE), in the 6th Framework Programme, with 8 partners of 5 European countries, that were evaluated as excellent achieving all his objectives. Recently, he has been associated coordinator of the Network of Excellence on Cooperating Objects (CONET).

In the above and other projects he has developed methods, technologies and applications in unmanned aerial systems, robotics, control and autonomous systems in general, including:

• Methods and technologies in aerial robotics manipulation

• Systems for autonomous aerial vehicles including autonomous landing in mobile platforms, slung load transportation, new techniques for control and perception in aerial robotics, configuration changes, fault detection and reconfiguration, trajectory generation under uncertainty, safety and reliability (ROBAIR), interaction with the environment, and development of new vehicles with rotary wing and fixed wing.

• Methods and technologies for systems of multiple autonomous aerial systems including safety increasing (EC-SAFEMOBIL, CLEAR) and cooperation of heterogeneous systems (COMETS) for tracking, detection and monitoring for applications such as surveillance, and forest fires.

• Self deployment and reconfiguration with autonomous aerial systems of wireless sensors and actuator networks (AWARE), imcluding the joint transportation of loads by means of several helicopters and new functionalities for detection, monitoring and tracking by integrating aerial and ground systems.

• New techniques for control, fault detection, perception and planning in aerial robotics including the development of new unmanned aerial systems

• Cooperation of Unmanned Aerial and Ground Vehicles (CROMAT)

• Integration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and robots with wireless sensor networks (AEROSENS).

• New control, perception and planning for mobile robots including the development of prototypes such as ROMEO 3R and 4R, AURORA and RAM

• Guidance of autonomous vehicles ncluding heavy vehicles at high speed such 16 Tons. trucks at 100 Km/h and 60 Tons dumpers at 40 Km/h, maneuvering of articulated vehicles.

• Network Robot Systems (SIRE) and applications to Urban services (URUS)

• Systems for autonomous forest fires detection and monitoring including infrared and visual cameras in ground and aerial systems and wireless sensor networks.

• Systems for space applications including planning techniques for orbital systems (MINIMAN), teleoperation (Tribolab experiment) and exploration rovers.

• Systems for acuiculture applications including biomass estimation in marine cages by means of computer vision.

• Optimal multicriteria design of control systems, including fuzzy control systems, and methods for multicriteria analysis

Furthermore, he has been the principal investigator in more than 50 contracts with industries, including recently EADS, BOEING RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY EUROPE, NAVANTIA, INDRA, ITURRI and many others, transferring technologies to many companies and generating industrial products including automatic testing systems of the airplanes CN235, C295 and A400M (EADS-CASA, from 2000), flight management systems, navigation, guidance and control for unmanned aerial systems for several companies, automatic tracking and stabilisation systems using infrared and visual cameras, (Navantia 2002-2008), automatic control of fish farms (Acuinova, 1999-2001), robotic forestry machines (Servicios Forestales, 1999-2000), automatic forest fire detection systems with false alarm reduction (E.N. Bazán 1998-2000), automatic control of wind-turbine generators (Desarrollos Eólicos, 1998), and others.

He has been supervisor of 29 PhD Thesis that have received many awards (6 awards the last Thesis).

Professor Ollero is co-chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Systems, Coordinator of the Aerial Robotics Topic Group of euRobotics/SPARC, Member of the Scientific Council of CNRS (France), and president of the Spanish Society for Research and Development in Robotics (SEIDROB). He has been member of the European Robotics Network Board (2008-2010), Vice-Chair (2005-2008) of the Technical Board of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), Chair of the Coordinating Committee of "Mechatronics, Robotics and Components" (2002-2005), Chair of the Coordinating Committee on "Manufacturing and Instrumentation" (1999-2002), Chair of the Technical Committee on "Components and Instruments" (1993-1999), and Chair of the Working Group on "Intelligent Components and Instruments" (1991-1993). He is currently the President of the Spanish Society for Research and Development in Robotics (SEIDROB).

He is associated editor of the Journal of Field Robotics (Wiley), editor at large (Europe) of the Journal of Intelligent and Robotics Systems (Springer) and editor of the "Revista Iberoamericana de Automática e Informática". He has been editor of Control Engineering Practice (1993-2005) and IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics (1995-2008).

He has delivered by invitation more than 120 plenary lectures in conferences, courses and other events.

He is the recipient of 14 awards including the 2010 EUROP-EURON Robotics Technology Transfer second award to the Project AWARE, the IV "Javier Benjumea Puigcervert Award" by the scientific excellence and the scientific-technical and social interest of the work on "Autonomous distributed systems for applications in vehicles and natural environments" (2007), the Mundo Electrónico Award to the best Spanish work in Electronics and Informatics, the award of the Spanish inventors society, several awards to the best paper in international and national conferences and the PhD award

He is currently co-chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Coordinator of the Aerial Robotics Topic Group of euRobotics/SPARC, member of the Conseil Scientifique of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) (France). He has been member of the Board of the European Robotics Network EURON (2008-2010), Vice-Chair (1993-1998) of the Technical Board of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) where he has also been Chair of the Coordinating Committee Mechatronics, Robotics and Components (2002-2005), Chair of the Coordinating Committee on Manufacturing and Instrumentation (1999-2002), Chair of the Technical Committee on Components and Instruments (1993-1999), and Chair of the Working Group on Intelligent Components and Instruments (1991-1993).

He is associate editor of the Journal of Field Robotics, "editor at large" of the Journal of Intelligent and Robotics Systems and "Revista Iberoamericana de Automática e Informática". He was associate editor of Control Engineering Practice (1993-2005) and IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics (1995-2008).

He is currently teaching courses in robotics and Unmanned Aerial Systems in Curricula of Aerospace Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Telecommunication Engineering, and Master/PhD Programs.