[ENG] The director of GRVC, Anibal Ollero, is one of the persons at the MUPIs exhibition "Sevilla también es ciencia", located at the Avenida de la Constitución, where he shares space with other personalities from the Sevillian scientific field. [ESP] El director de GRVC, Anibal Ollero, es una de las figuras presentes en la exposición de MUPIs "Sevilla También es ciencia", situada en la Avenida...

On September 9, researchers Antonio González Morgado, Carlos Álvarez Cía, Guillermo Heredia Benot and Aníbal Ollero Baturone received the ROBOTNIK award for the best article from the robotics thematic group of the Jornadas de Automática 2022 organized by CEA, for their article UAV FULLY-ACTUATED: MODELO CONTROL Y COMPARACIÓN CON CONFIGURACIÓN COPLANARIA. This paper presents the design and construc...

Our Director Anibal Ollero received the Automatica Spanish National Award due to “Leadership in Aerial Robotics, technology transfer to companies and creation of research groups and university Departments”. The ceremony was last September 8th in the “43th Jornadas de Automatica” that was held in Logroño (La Rioja, Spain). You can watch the presentation of Professor Alfonso García Cerezo, Univer...

Fernando Ruiz, Begoña Arrue and Aníbal Ollero have been awarded the 2nd Best Poster Award at the Soft Aerial Robotics Workshop (Robosoft 2022) that took place in Edinburgh from April 4-7th, 2022. The poster deals with the "Design and control of a Flexible UAV adaptable to the environment", here is the link to the posters and a video presentation can be found here. It is the first UAV built enti...

El pasado viernes, Anibal Ollero, recibió el Premio Andalucía al Desarrollo de la Ingeniería, entregado por el Colegio de Ingenieros Industriales de Andalucía Occidental. Este premio se concede en base al reconocimiento de Anibal Ollero como "una de las voces más reconocidas del panorama internacional en tecnología de drones y el investigador con más publicaciones sobre vehículos aéreos no tripula...

Anibal Ollero has been appointed as a member of the Real Academia Galega de Ciencias - Galician Royal Academy of Sciences. In the video you can find his introduction made by professor Pedro Merino, and later on the intervention of Anibal Ollero. Among other things, Anibal talks about GRIFFIN and Aerial-Core projects.   https://youtu.be/Av2vXWxO25I  

This week we have made several appearances in the media. Here you can find and read all of them 📰👀: - elEconomista : "Andalusia puts the drones on the runway" (https://lnkd.in/dZcFjfYb) [PDF: https://lnkd.in/dvhHKKrG] (mentioned with Fundación Andaluza para el Desarrollo Aeroespacial) - La Vanguardia : "Robots with wings, a new generation of drones" (https://lnkd.in/dJ-NMFNj)...

The director of GRVC research group at the Universidad de Sevilla, Anibal Ollero, was recently interviewed by Canal Sur TV. The interview was broadcasted the 25th of January on EnRed, and in it Aníbal talks about the state of research in drone technologies, and about some of the works currently being developed alongside his team.

Horizon the EU Research and Innovation Magazine published an article about the possiblity of using bird-like robots to assist in medical emergencies and hunt down drones. Read the full article here

Next Monday, 31st of May will take place the workshop: “Resilient and Long-Term Autonomy for Aerial Robotic Systems” at 2pm – 10pm (CET) – 08am  (GMT-04) for the ICRA 2021 The workshop is organize by: Anibal Ollero, University of Seville, ETS Ingenieria, Sevilla, España Giuseppe Loianno, Agile Robotics and Perception Lab, NYU Tandon School of Engineering Ivana Palunko, Laboratory for...

Prof. Aníbal Ollero is the author with most papers worldwide about drones indexed in the Scopus research database (219 papers vs 159 of the following author). In addition, GRVC Robotics Lab has 5 papers among the 15 most cited papers on multi-drone systems in Scopus. The article in ABC also describes different projects that are being carried out by GRVC like GRIFFIN and AERIAL-CORE. Read the ar...

Carlos Rodríguez de Cos from GRVC has obtained the “best qualification” Doctor’s degree with the thesis called: “Nonlinear Control Strategies for Outdoor Aerial Manipulators” directed by Aníbal Ollero and José Ángel Acosta Rodríguez

This year we will co-organize the ICRA2021 workshop on "Resilient and Long-Term Autonomy for Aerial Robotics Systems". All the info below. Abstract This workshop will be devoted to analyzing two main challenges related to aerial robotics: their resilience and the ability to perform long term missions. Resilience is related to the ability of the system to provide some degree of redundancy, robust...

CORDIS (The European Commission’s primary service for EU-funded research result, in six languages) published an article with the title “If it flies like a bird and perches like a bird … then it’s a robot” about the GRIFFIN project The article shows the video of the evolution of the project You can read the article clicking here.

AERIAL-CORE is developing pioneering innovations in the field of unmanned aerial vehicles applied to the supervision and maintenance of facilities thanks to artificial intelligence. Anibal Ollero, head of the GRVC and scientific advisor of FADA-CATEC: “AERIAL-CORE is an example of how technology can help people and how innovation is put at the service of society to avoid risks in work at height...

This Wednesday, February 16th the Spanish TV “RTVE” in “Noticias Andalucía” talks about the GRVC group and the AERIAL-CORE project. Click here if you want to watch it  

The digital website “Tuercas y Tornillos” from Costa Rica write an article about ARCAS (Aerial Robotics Cooperative Assembly System). Click here to read the full article

Professor Aníbal Ollero, head of the GRVC, has eexplained for the journal El Español the AERIAL-CORE project. The objective of this project is to develop the technologies necessary for a drone system to be able to inspect and manipulate large facilities in a semi-autonomous way. Professor Anibal Ollero, the project coordinator clarifies: “The aerial robot not only has to take data and images, i...

Ivan Maza, Associate Professor and GRVC Robotics Lab member since 2000, has received the “Manuel Losada Villasante Award” (VIII edition) to excellent researchers in the Innovation category for his project on Drone Traffic Management within the U-space context. More info here

Pedro Sánchez Cuevas from GRVC has obtained the “best qualification” Doctor’s degree with the thesis called: “Modelling and Control of Aerial Manipulators Considering Aerodynamic Effects” directed by Aníbal Ollero and Guillermo Heredia.

Members of GRVC Robotics Laboratory at the University of Seville have won IEEE IROS 2020 as the Best Application Paper Award with the paper: MHYRO: Modular HYbrid RObot for contact inspection and maintenance in oil and gas plants by A. Lopez-Lore, P. J. Sanchez-Cuevas, A. Suarez, A. Ollero and G. Heredia. IROS (International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems), with more than 21.0...

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...

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...

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...

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...