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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

In the early hours of June 26th a tv report about AEROARMS was broadcasted on spanish tv. The tv documentarists came to the CATEC’s facilities to talk with Aníbal Ollero and Antidio Viguria about this project and its future innovations. Then they came to the GRVC’s laboratories to interview María Polvillo, worker of the group GRVC. You can see again the tv report in the next link: http://www.rtve....

On June 11th and 12th Aníbal Ollero in conjuction with some of our members were at the 2nd International Symposium on Aerial Robotics in Philadelphia (USA). The topic of the conference was "New systems for industrial contact inspection pipes and bridges by using aerial robotics manipulators", which included presentations of the H2020 projects AEROARMS and AEROBI and explanations about the prototyp...

The Robotics Laboratory (GRVC) at the University of Seville (Spain) has opened 8 positions for the new H2020 ERC Advanced Grant GRIFFIN (Principal Investigator Anibal Ollero) dealing with safe and long endurance flapping wing aerial robots with perching and manipulation capabilities. Aerial robotics topics: mechanical and mechatronic design, aerodynamic modelling and control, aerial soft roboti...

The European Research Council (ERC) has granted to the GRVC team leader Aníbal Ollero with an Advanced Grants award grant worth 2,5 millions of euros to keep researching in terms of aerial robotics. This project is called Griffin and is related to investigate the flight limits and work security. Several communications media as Diario de Sevilla or ABC have echoed this news. These are the links ...

Anibal Ollero is one of the candidates for the Award "European innovator of the year"  which is one of the 5 categories of the European Leadership Awards to “to recognise outstanding achievers in business, politics, entrepreneurship and innovation”

The European Commission 2017 Innovation Radar Prize has been awarded to the AEROARMS innovation developed by CATEC https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/2017-innovation-radar-prize-winners After the 20 pitches of the fourth finalists in each category the Jury, consisting of five members,  decided one award in each of the 5 categories and one Overall Winner. We are the Overall...

The Group of Robotics, Vision and Control at the University of Seville (Spain), has currently several research positions available to work in projects mainly dealing with aerial robotics and unmanned aerial systems. We are looking for highly motivated candidates with a Msc/PhD degree on Electrical Engineering, Aerospace, Computer Science, or related areas, to join our research teams. The succes...

On 2017-05-02 the Challenger Team GRVC-CATEC presented the "Aerial Robot Co-Worker in Plant Servicing" (ARCOW) to Dirk Hoke, Chief Executive Officer of Airbus DS.

GRVC had a relevant participation in the IEEE 2016 Conferences. In ICRA (Stockholm, Sweden, 16-21 May 2016) Professor Ollero delivered the keynote talk "Aerial robotic manipulation. Where are we going?" He also co-organized the successful Workshop "Aerial Robotics Manipulation: from Simulation to Real-Life" (http://www.aerial-manipulation-workshop.com/agenda.html) where he delivered the ...

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...

This year, the International Conference on Intelligent Robot and System (IROS) was held in Hamburg (Germany). IROS 2015 had 2541 registrations and a reserved space for booths during the 6 days exhibition. The Robotics, Vision and Control Group (GRVC) presented three papers and had a joint booth with DLR exhibiting the ARCAS and AEROARMS projects. In the booth, DLR exhibited the Flettner helicopte...