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Professor Aníbal Ollero, Andalusian Prize for Engineering and Industry 2020

The Andalusia Awards for Engineering and Industry were created in 2015 with the aim of promoting the industrial development of Andalusia. This year the prize 2020 has gone to the robotics professor at the Higher Technical School of Engineering of the University of Seville Aníbal Ollero. Professor Ollero, King Jaume I award winner, is currently one of the greatest European experts in drone technolo...
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Prof. Aníbal Ollero Baturone has been elected as an academic of the Royal Galician Academy of Sciences.

Real Academia Galega de Ciencias: "Our good friend and colleague Prof. Anibal Ollero Baturone, currently professor of Systems Engineering and Automation at the University of Seville. Who in the first years of creation of the Higher School of Industrial Engineers of Vigo, was the professor's first Department of Automation and Electronics. He was elected on October 8 academic of the Royal Galician ...
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GRVC is looking for a researcher assistant in manipulation robotics

GRVC is looking for a researcher assistant in manipulation robotics
The GRVC offers a position as research assistant at full time for the development of applications with lightweight manipulation robots. Candidates must meet the following requirements: Have the degree in industrial engineering, mechatronics, aerospace engineering, or electronics. Basic knowledge in manipulation robotics: kinematics, dynamics, control. Use of 3D CAD software: CATIA, Solid Wo...
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GRVC at the ICUAS 2020

GRVC at the ICUAS 2020
The GRVC will have an important presence at the International Conference of Unmanned Aerial Systems (ICUAS 2020) September 1-4 (http://www.uasconferences.com/2020_icuas/). The Conference is hybrid with physical presence in Athens and on-line. The GRVC researchers are authors of 6 papers to be presented at the Conference. 15:20 – 15:40 Wednesday B3.2 A Geometrical Approach Based on 4D...
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GRVC at ICRA 2020

GRVC at ICRA 2020
ICRA is the largest robotics meeting in the world and is the flagship conference of the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society and GRVC has some presentations. López López, Ricardo Tuesday 2nd of June 2020 at 15:15 in Biologically-Inspired Robots I (TuC19) Gómez Eguíluz, Augusto Thursday 4th of June 2020 at 14:30 on  a Workshop on Unconventional Sensors in Robotics: "ASAP: Adaptive Scheme fo...
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AERIAL-CORE “Virtual” General Meeting

AERIAL-CORE “Virtual” General Meeting
The 2nd AERIAL-CORE “Virtual” General Meeting was held on May 5 – 6 with the attendance of more than sixty persons from the 15 organizations that participate in the project. Due to the exceptional situation associated to the COVID-19 virus, the University of Zurich organized a videoconference that facilitated the realization of the presentations from all the partners. This second meeting wa...
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GRVC at the European Robotics Forum 2020

GRVC at the European Robotics Forum 2020
The GRVC had a significant presence in the European Robotics Forum 2020, held at the Trade Fair and Congress Centre of Malaga (FYCMA) from 3rd to March 3rd to 5th. The ERF is the largest event of the robotics and artificial intelligence community in Europe, attended by more than 800 experts and entrepreneurs.The GRVC showed in its stand at the Congress Centre prototypes of biomorphic aerial robots...
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Workshop at ERF 2020

Workshop at ERF 2020
Click here to download the Program and visit GRVC for more information.   One of the most important robotics events of Europe is going to start: European Robotics Forum, also known as ERF. This meeting will be held this year at Málaga (Spain) from 3 to 5 March. The reception will be organised in the Palacio de Ferias de Málaga, the venue that hosts the European Robotics Forum, in th...
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Iberian Robotics winners of the Challenge 3 of the MBZIRC

Iberian Robotics winners of the Challenge 3 of the MBZIRC
The Iberian Robotics team formed by the University of Seville, the Centro Avanzado de Tecnologías Aeroespaciales (CATEC) and the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) in Lisbon has won Challenge 3 of the MBZIRC International Robotics Competition, which can be considered the most important competition in the world of robotics. The General Coordinator of Iberian Robotics ("Team Leader") has been Profe...
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Do you want to work with us? We’re hiring!

Do you want to work with us? We’re hiring!
The GRVC Robotics Laboratory at the University of Seville (https://grvc.us.es/), which is a main actor in Europe for aerial robotics,  has opened 10 positions for Senior Researchers (SR), Postdocts (PD), PhDs (PhD) and Senior Engineers ( SE) to work on  cutting edge aerial robotics projects (design, mechatronics, perception, control, planning and learning) including the ERC Adv...
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Start of H2020 Aerial-Core project

Start of H2020 Aerial-Core project
Last December 10-11 we had the Kick-off meeting of the new H2020 AERIAL-CORE project in Seville.  All the Work-packages were introduced in the meeting. Particular attention was devoted to the Work-package 2 Specification and Design. The main Management aspects were also discussed.  The Agenda included a visit to the new facilities of the GRVC Robotics Laboratory of the University of Seville. Fo...
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Anibal Ollero will receive the Rei Jaume I Prize on November 25th

Anibal Ollero will receive the Rei Jaume I Prize on November 25th
Next november 25th, in a Ceremony chaired by His Majesty King Felipe VI, at "Lonja de los Mercaderes" in Valencia, it will take place the "Rei Jaume I" awards ceremony, where Prof. Aníbal Ollero Baturone will receive the "New  technologies" award. Aníbal is the head of the GRVC Robotics Laboratory at the University of Seville, scientific advisor at the Centre for Advanced Aerospace Technologies (C...
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More than 50% of the spanish papers at IROS 2019 were from GRVC

More than 50% of the spanish papers at IROS 2019 were from GRVC
This year the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robotic Systems (IROS) has been held in Macau (China) between November 4th and 8th and 6 out of the 11 spanish papers were from GRVC. The GRVC head Aníbal Ollero and the members Pedro Sánchez and Julio L. Paneque presented several papers produced this year inside projects such as the ERC Advanced Grant project GRIFFIN, Multidrone, AERO...
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Presentation of RIMA 1st call in Seville

Presentation of RIMA 1st call in Seville
This Tuesday October 8th the 1st call of RIMA network was presented in an event which count on with the presence of GRVC, FADA-CATEC and CTA. The presentation took place at Parque Aerópolis in Seville, a place where this kind of events are usually held. Apart from explaining how the RIMA network operates, the initiative Robotics DIH was also presented by Silvia de los Santos from CTA as a service ...
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Upcoming of ROBOT 2019

Upcoming of ROBOT 2019
After its last edition in Lisbon in 2015, the Fourth Iberian Robotics Conference (ROBOT 2019) will be held at the School of Engineering of the Porto Polytechnic (Portugal). This event shows in every edition all the new advances in aerial robotics research produced inside the Iberian Peninsula. Despite this fact contributions from another countries are accepted. The previous editions of ROBOT we...
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Upcoming of RED-UAS 2019

Upcoming of RED-UAS 2019
This year in November the 2019 International Workshop on Research, Education and Development on Unmanned Aerial System (RED-UAS) will be held in Cranfield (UK). This workshop is focused in the UAS research and development, bringing together experts from academia, industry and government. This workshop is held every two years. The latest RED-UAS were held in Linköping (Sweden) in 2017 and in Can...
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Upcoming of ICUAS 2020

Upcoming of ICUAS 2020
In 2020 the International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles will be held for first time outside of the US, in practice in Athens (Greece). These conferences approaches the issues of integration of manned-unmanned aviation into the national airspace, legal, ethical and privacy issues, regulations, benefits of unmanned aviation to society, UAS/RPAS design for safety, reliability a...
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GRVC presence in Jornadas de AUTOMÁTICA 2019

GRVC presence in Jornadas de AUTOMÁTICA 2019
This year the GRVC professors Ramiro Martínez De Dios and Ángel Castaño came near to the 2019 AUTOMÁTICA Seminars to show several posters of projects like AEROARMS or the national project for EMASESA called SAAIC. These conferences had been held this year in Ferrol (Spain) from September 4th to 6th. The AUTOMATICA Seminars are a very important yearly date for the spanish academia experts in...
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Final review of AEROARMS

Final review of AEROARMS
This week in a refinery located in Germany the AEROARMS final review has been held with the 10 members of the consortium and the European Commision. The advances were discussed in several meeting and the integrated platform developed by GRVC-USE and the AEROX prototype of FADA-CATEC flew near the pipes to performs inspection tasks in front of all the assistants. The AEROARMS project has a b...
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GRVC participates in the first landing method without GPS

GRVC participates in the first landing method without GPS
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...
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Interview to Anibal Ollero in a spanish tv programme

Interview to Anibal Ollero in a spanish tv programme
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...
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GRVC presence at ICUAS ’19

GRVC presence at ICUAS ’19
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...
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New integration experiments of AEROARMS in Germany

New integration experiments of AEROARMS in Germany
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...
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Visit of Endesa to GRVC facilities

Visit of Endesa to GRVC facilities
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...
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Rei Jaume I awards ceremony

Rei Jaume I awards ceremony
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...
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GRVC presence at ISAR ’19

GRVC presence at ISAR ’19
On May 27th and 28 the 3rd International Symposium on Aerial Robotics was held with a lot of expositions about the current innovations in the field of unmanned aircraft vehicles, as perception and navigation or control. This conference is always supported and co-organized by IEEE RAS TC on the Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles  and this year the ISAR conference has been held in Toronto,...
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Successful workshop at ICRA 2019

Successful workshop at ICRA 2019
On May 23rd the ICRA 2019 workshop “The Future of Aerial Robotics: Challenges and Opportunities” was held in Montréal, Canada. During this event experts from several institutions and enterprises as University of Zagreb (LARICS), EPFL or DJI analysed the future evolution of the UAVs applications as well as issues like compliance and autonomy in aerial manipulation or the morphology for Aerial Robot...
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AEROARMS Campaign of industrial experiments

AEROARMS Campaign of industrial experiments
A campaign of industrial experiments and demonstrations is being conducted in the H2020 European Research and Innovation project AEROARMS funded by the European Commission.  In these demonstrations the aerial robotic manipulation methods and technologies developed in AEROARMS are being validated in the inspection and maintenance of industrial plants. The AEROARMS consortium is composed by 10 pa...
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Upcoming plenary talk at ISAR 2019

Upcoming plenary talk at ISAR 2019
This year in the month of May the 3rd International Symposium on Aerial Robotics (ISAR) will be held in Toronto, Canada. The head of GRVC Anibal Ollero is part of the organization committee and he will deliver a plenary talk entitled "Aerial Robots with Manipulation Capabilities in Flight and Perched", focused on topics developed in H2020 AEROARMS project and ERC Advanced Grant GRIFFIN project. ...
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Upcoming workshop at ICRA 2019

Upcoming workshop at ICRA 2019
Next May 23rd 2019 the workshop entitled "The Future of Aerial Robotics: Challenges and Opportunities" will be held at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), which will take place this year in Montréal, Canada. This workshop will be focused on the analysis of the evolution of aerial robotics technologies and applications in order to identify the most relevant challeng...
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AEROARMS appears in a Euronews report

AEROARMS appears in a Euronews report
Euronews has released a report inside its series "Real Economy". This report is entitled "Innovation: Europe's road to growth" and members from GRVC explain how projects like AEROARMS can boost and improve the competitiveness and investments in technologies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AGlRZQTri8&t=
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Durable project kick-off meeting

Durable project kick-off meeting
Last week the DURABLE project kick-off meeting was held in Biarritz (France) and count on the presence of members from GRVC (University of Seville), CTA, CATEC, Basque Energy Cluster, Lortek S. Coop. and Alerion Technologies. DURABLE aims to increase the performance of sustainable energies trough the validation and demonstration of aerial robotics technologies in the maintenance tasks of wind and ...
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AEROARMS starts its integration phase with positive results

AEROARMS starts its integration phase with positive results
In this moment AEROARMS is currently in its third and last period, so now its partners are starting to test how the advances consecuted in the second period could be applied to an industrial environment. That’s why some GRVC and CATEC members came near to a cement factory in Jerez de laFrontera and made some experiments where drones made inspection tasks in the pipes of the cement factory. These e...
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The challenges in spanish sciences

The challenges in spanish sciences
In April 9th the GADEA Foundation organized a panel discussion about the state of science in Spain. This roundatable meeting was moderated by the GRVC head Aníbal Ollero and count on the presence of important researchers as Margarita Paneque Sosa (CSIC Andalucía) and Pedro Jordano Barbudo from the Doñana Biology station. After this pannel discussion and institutional presentation of GADEA was held...
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Exposition at Dronedays workshop

Exposition at Dronedays workshop
This Tuesday March 26st professor Ramiro Martínez de Dios were talking about how drones can help us in our work and daily life in a session entitled "Drones as robot coworkers". This sessions was held inside the workshop Dronedays, organized by LARICS. LARICS is the acronym for Laboratory for Robotics and Intelligent Control Systems. It's a research laboratory within the University of Zagre...
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GRVC presence at ERF 2019

GRVC presence at ERF 2019
On the past March 21st the workshop "Aerial robotics technologies and application with the new european UAS regulation" was held at the European Robotics Forum in Bucharest, Romania. Anibal Ollero exposed the AEROARMS results in a presentation entitled "Aerial robotic manipulation new technologies and contact inspection applications". Also, the ERC Advanced Grant GRIFFIN project overview and objec...
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Workshop at ERF 2019

Workshop at ERF 2019
One of the most robotics events of Europe is going to start: European Robotics Forum, also known as ERF. This meeting will be held this year at Bucharest (Romania) from 20 to 22 March. This year the head of GRVC Anibal Ollero will organize in conjunction with Mauricio Calva (Chevron) a workshop entitled "Aerial Robotics Technologies and Applications with the new European UAS regulation". Inside...
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Drones for water collectors inspection

Drones for water collectors inspection
This weekend the local tv-channel Canal Sur broadcasted a report about the drones development for the water collectors inspection of Seville. This project is leaded by EMASESA and relies on GRVC for the development of the GNSS-Denied system (without GPS), FADA-CATEC for the drone miniaturization and ELIMCO as marketer. This drone will be able to shoot and cast images of the environment just as ...
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GRVC has started to work in a new national I&M project

GRVC has started to work in a new national I&M project
At the beginning of February the spanish I&M project DREAM was released in a kick-off meeting. This project is funded under the FEDER-INTERCONNECTA programme of CDTI and it aims to develop aerial robotic systems for the inspection and maintenance of infrastructures within the civil engineering, the electrical and the petrochemical fields, with to objective of increase and improve the inspectio...
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Our presence in the RIMA kick-off meeting (Paris)

Our presence in the RIMA kick-off meeting (Paris)
GRVC joint with CATEC have attended the Kick off Meeting of the European project Robotics for infrastructures Inspection & MAintenance (RIMA) in Paris, with a presentation of the national and international projects where GRVC is collaborating or participating. RIMA is a 4-year project aiming to achieve this by establishing a network of 13 Digital Innovation Hubs (DIH) on robotics and a ...
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Anibal Ollero elevated to IEEE fellow

Anibal Ollero elevated to IEEE fellow
Anibal Ollero head of the GRVC has been elevated to IEEE Fellow for contributions to the development and deployment of aerial robots, a satisfying new with which the GRVC group has closed its successful year 2018.   According to the IEEE web, the IEEE Fellow is "a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest a...
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Stand at ICT 2018

Stand at ICT 2018
The H2020 AEROARMS project had a stand at ICT 2018 (4-6 December 2018, Vienna, Austria) where we exhibited a poster and videos of the experiments in refineries  of the AEROX system that obtained the Overall Award in ICT 2017. The ICT event is focused on the European Union's priorities in the digital transformation of society and industry. This event was an opportunity to all the people invo...
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H2020 AEROBI project has finished with good results

H2020 AEROBI project has finished with good results
This Tuesday November 29th the AEROBI experiments were tested by members from the European Commission under a bridge of Algodonales de la Sierra (Cádiz). There where kind of three experiments: visual inspection, contact inspection (both with platforms designed by FADA-CATEC) and bridge beam deflection measurements. The results of these experiments were subsequently discussed and approved in the ci...
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Anibal Ollero awarded the FAMA prize of University of Seville

Anibal Ollero awarded the FAMA prize of University of Seville
This Tuesday November 27th professor Anibal Ollero receives the FAMA prize from University of Seville's chancellor Miguel Angel Castro Arroyo due his long and successfull career in aerial robotics and automation. This trajectory includes european projects such as ARCAS FP7, H2020 AEROARMS and AEROBI and also the ERC Advanced Grant GRIFFIN project. The FAMA prizes are granted to the university p...
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Interview to Aníbal Ollero in spanish daily “El País”

Interview to Aníbal Ollero in spanish daily “El País”
Aníbal Ollero, head of the GRVC and scientific advisor of FADA-CATEC explained in a interview published in the spanish daily "El País" which are the capabilities of the AEROARMS project's drones and how its application to industry can improve the safety of the work at heights in pipe inspections. The application of the AEROARMS improvements could save near 70,000 euros and speed up the pace of wor...
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GRIFFIN kick-off meeting on November 16th

GRIFFIN kick-off meeting on November 16th
At November 1st started up the most ambitious project of GRVC after AEROARMS: GRIFFIN. This project funded an ERC Advanced Grant will be officially presented at the Engineering School of the University of Seville in a kick-off meeting with presentations of our members, whom talk about which will be the next challenges in aerial robotics systems with flapping wings. Anyone who wish to assist to thi...
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[UPDATE] EuRobotics Week 2018

[UPDATE] EuRobotics Week 2018
On November 16th will start the European Robotics Week, an event full of various interactive robotics related events across Europe. This events aims to show how robots will impact in our daily lives (work, education...) and it's intended to wide public. One month before the official announcement of this activity, 650 events has been promoted and there are another 1000 events expected. Every yea...
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AEROBI project’s demo at Amphipolis (Greece)

AEROBI project’s demo at Amphipolis (Greece)
The H2020 european project for the inspection of difficult civil areas called AEROBI was tested in Amphipolis (Greece) between October 8th and 11th. On this occasion the project integration was proved through experiments where some drones inspected a bridge by contact and thus build a 3D map which showed the bridge warpings.   Finally, the project's final conclusions and posible ind...
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Our presence at IROS 2018

Our presence at IROS 2018
From October 1st to October 5th took place the IROS 2018 edition at IFEMA of Madrid. The GRVC group provided two stands to the assistants so they could find out information about the group and its projects, and about the AEROARMS project. Also, on October 3rd a keynote by Aníbal Ollero was held. This keynote was entitled "Challenge in Aerial Robotics Manipulation" and Aníbal talked about th...
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Keynote at IROS 2018

Keynote at IROS 2018
During the first week of October the IROS 2018 edition is being held at Madrid. The head of the group Aníbal Ollero talked about the innovations in aerial robotics and automation on a keynote entitled "Challenge in Aerial Robotic Manipulation". Aníbal Ollero presented as example the results of the AEROARMS project, which was sucessfully valued by the European Comission in the last month of ...
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Interview To Aníbal Ollero At Cadena SER (Spain)

Interview To Aníbal Ollero At Cadena SER (Spain)
After the AEROARMS project was approved by the European Comission, its coordinator Aníbal Ollero came near to the spanish radio broadcast Cadena SER to talk about the project result and the possible consequences of its implementation. https://www.ivoox.com/comision-europea-valora-muy-positivamente-proyecto-audios-mp3_rf_28789769_1.html
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The industrial inspection drone project called AEROARMS has sucessfully pased the European Comission’s evaluation.

The industrial inspection drone project called AEROARMS has sucessfully pased the European Comission’s evaluation.
This week some members from the European Comission reviewed the current progresses during the growth of AEROARMS project. These innovations involve the multi-sensor map building, interactions with another robots and the pipe thickness measurements. Thanks to these experiments the members from the European Comission tested how this innovations work. The drone developed during this draft was ...
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Visit of Navantia to the GRVC’s facilities

Visit of Navantia to the GRVC’s facilities
This Tuesday the spanish civil and military shipbuilding enterprise Navantia visited our facilities at the Engineering School of the University of Seville to see our works at the H2020 projects as AEROARMS and AEROBI. They came to the laboratories and saw our platform Darius with the robotic arms developed for the AEROARMS project and the breakthroughts obtained in projects like Hyfliers. N...
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