Anibal Ollero interviewed by EL PAÍS
The head of the GRVC Lab was interviewed by the national newspaper EL PAÍS. He talks about the research on aerial robotics, mentioning the projects GRIFFIN and AERIAL-CORE.
Anibal Ollero won the Spanish National Research Award in Engineering 2021
The Director of GRVC Robotics Lab, Anibal Ollero, won the Spanish National Research Award in Engineering 2021 for his excellent research in Autonomous Systems.
The ceremony with the King of Spain will be held by the beginning of next year in Madrid.
More details of the awards are available on the Spanish government website.
Expodrónica 2021
“Expodrónica 2021 will have several international personalities in aerial robotics, Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) and Urban Air Mobility (UAM) as speakers. Anibal Ollero, Director of the GRVC Robotics Lab, coordinator of the H2020 AERIAL-CORE project and principal investigator of the GRIFFIN Advanced Grant of the European Research Council, and Antidio Viguria, coordinator of the Spanish Cervera Ne...
Director GRVC Aníbal Ollero – Speaker at BNEW 2021 Barcelona
Prof. Aníbal Ollero, director of the GRVC Robotics Laboratory at the University of Seville and Scientific advisor of CATEC will participate as speaker at event BNEW 2021-Barcelona (2º Barcelona New Economy Week), in the session entitled "BFUTURIST. Urban Air Mobility: the Future Revolution - Robotics at the Service of Citizens" on Thursday 07 October, 12:00h at Casa Seat.
Keynote Talk in AIRPHARO 2021
Prof. Aníbal Ollero, the AERIAL-CORE Project Coordinator, Director of the GRVC Robotics Laboratory at the University of Seville and Scientific advisor of the CATEC Aerospace Technology Center, will participate in The 1st AIRPHARO Workshop on Aerial Robotic Systems Physically Interacting with the Environment (AIRPHARO 2021) at Ilirija resort, in Biograd na Moru, Croatia, delivering the keynote enti...
News about the application of Artificial Intelligence to the drones
The journalist José Antonio González Martínez interviewed Anibal Ollero, AERIAL-CORE coordinator, about the application of Artificial Intelligence to the drones, as considered in the AERIAL-CORE H2020 project. The interview has been published by several Spanish Newspapers.
Read the article here
GRVC member Alejandro Suárez – Program Chair at ICUAS 2022
Our group member Alejandro Suárez will be involved as Program Chair in the International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS) 2022 that will be held in Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 21-24, 2022. The conference, is organized this year by Matko Orsag (University of Zagreb, Croatia) and Youmin Zhang (Concordia University, Canada), with Yan Wan (University of Texas, USA) also as Program Chair. I...
Published the Survey Paper “Past, Present, and Future of Aerial Robotic Manipulators”
The Survey Paper "Past, Present, and Future of Aerial Robotic Manipulators" by Anibal Ollero, Marco Tognon, Alejandro Suarez, Dongjun Lee and Antonio Franchi has been published by the IEEE Transactions on Robotics, the flagship journal of the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society, the most important society in robotics worldwide.
The paper aims to be a reference for experts in aerial manip...
New article in Horizon Magazine
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
“Resilient and Long-Term Autonomy for Aerial Robotic Systems” co-organized by Aníbal Ollero
Last Monday, 31 of May took place the workshop "Resilient and Long-Term Autonomy for Aerial Robotic Systems" for ICRA 2021.
Professor Anibal Ollero co-organized with:
Giuseppe Loianno, Agile Robotics and Perception Lab, NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Ivana Palunko, Laboratory for Inteligent Autonomous Systems, University of Dubrovnik, Croatia
Kimon Valavanis, University of Denver, ...
New workshop co-organizes by Anibal Ollero for the ICRA 2021
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...
A new article in “20 minutos” and in “ComputerWorld” about Anibal Ollero
A new article in "20 minutos" in 20bits section about Professor Anibal Ollero, the resercher with more papers about unmanned aerial robotics. The article also talks about Aerial-Core and Griffin ERC Advanced Grant project
Click here to read the article in "20 Minutos"
Here to read the article at the "Computer World"
News on the ABC: Aníbal Ollero is the author with most papers worldwide about drones indexed in Scopus
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.
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Workshop at the ERF 2021
This Tuesday, 13 April the workshop “Autonomy in Aerial Robotics for Inspection and Maintenance” was presented at the European Robotics Forum 2021, this year held as a virtual event. The euRobotics Board and local organising committee decided to postpone a physical ERF in Rotterdam for the next year. The ERF is the largest event of the robotics and artificial intelligence community in Europe.
T...
PhD Thesis Presentation by Carlos Rodríguez de Cos
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
Workshop at the ERF 2021
The ERF (European Robotics Forum) 2021, the most influential meeting of the robotics community in Europe, will be held this year online from 13-15 April 2021.
Interview by Steve Doswell with Anibal Ollero at the ERF 2020.
This year the head of GRVC and Professor of the University of Seville Anibal Ollero will organize with Jacob Rodriguez (Endesa-Enel), Stephane Menoret (Thales Group) an...
ICRA 2021 Aerial Robotics Workshop
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...
A New Article in RTVE about Drones
This Wednesday, March 3rd the Spanish TV “RTVE” in “Telediario” talks about the GRVC group, AERIAL-CORE and GRIFFIN projects.
Click here if you want to watch it
A new article in CORDIS about GRIFFIN project
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.
An article about AERIAL-CORE in “Tu Noticia Express”
The digital website “Tu Noticia Express” write an article about AERIAL-CORE and the capability to manipulate and inspect power lines.
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An article in the journal “20 Minutos” about AERIAL-CORE
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...
Expansión: “Spain in the drone sector, leaders both in Europe and globally”
The Spanish newspaper “Expansión”, one of the most important economic press in Spain, analyzes the importance of Spain in the drone sector, leaders both in Europe and globally.
Anibal Ollero, head of the GRVC, and the University of Seville had a special mention thanks to the “12 HORIZON2020 projects, 4 national projects and 12 contracts with companies.
The AERIAL-CORE project appears in the ...
A new article in RTVE about GRVC
This Wednesday, February 16th the Spanish TV “RTVE” in “Noticias Andalucía” talks about the GRVC group and the AERIAL-CORE project.
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Article in Business Insider about the AERIAL-CORE project
Anibal Ollero, head of the GRVC and scientific advisor of FADA-CATEC explained in an interview published in Business Insider the capabilities of the AERIAL-CORE project.
Professor Anibal Ollero, explain the three different areas the project is focused on:“The first is inspection at long distances; the second, handling; the third, a new activity that we have called 'aerial co-working', which con...
TYT publish an article about ARCAS
The digital website “Tuercas y Tornillos” from Costa Rica write an article about ARCAS (Aerial Robotics Cooperative Assembly System).
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EuropaPress: “AERIAL-CORE projects intend to consolidate European leadership in aerial robotics applications”
EuropaPress news agency has published in section PortalTIC about the AERIAL-CORE project. AERIAL-CORE pretend to consolidate European leadership in inspection and maintenance with Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Anibal Ollero, head of the GRVC and scientific advisor of FADA-CATEC explained: “It’s an example how technologies can help the people and the innovations is at the service of society to av...
Anibal Ollero and the AERIAL-CORE project for reduce the risks of working at height
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...
Anibal Ollero for elDiario.es “The key of our project is that we use cognitive techniques of artificial intelligence”
An article published in elDiario.es is about the innovation in drones in Spain with special mention to AERIAL-CORE and GRIFFIN two projects led by Anibal ollero and GRVC
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Ivan Maza has received the “Manuel Losada Villasante Award” in the Innovation category
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
4 New Phd from GRVC
This past year 2020 four members from GRVC have obtained the Doctor´s degree.
Francisco Alarcón – Thesis: “Accurate navigation applied to landing maneuvers on mobile platforms for unmanned aerial vehicles”
Tin Muskardin – Thesis: “Autonomous landing of fixed-wing aircraft on mobile platforms”
Margarida Costa Faria – Thesis: “Autonomous 3D Online Exploration of Large Unknown Environments...
PhD Thesis Presentation By Pedro Sánchez Cuevas
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.
Anibal Ollero in the presentation of the Andalucía I+D+I
Yesterday, 15th of December 2020, the Professor Anibal Ollero was in the presentation of the Magazine “Andalucía I+D+I” in La Casa de ABC de Sevilla.
The Magazine includes the article “Drones that are inspired by the mythological griffin” with an interview to Anibal Ollero. In this interview the head of GRVC laboratory at the University of Seville and 2019 Rei Jaume I award in New Technologies,...
MHYRO: Best Application Paper Award
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...
Free access to IROS 2020
Online presentations in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2020) from 25/10/20 to 30/11/20 - FREE ACCESS
F. J. Maldonado, J. Á . Acosta, J. Tormo-Barbero, P. Grau, M. M. Guzmán and A. Ollero , «Adaptive Nonlinear Control For Perching of a Bioinspired Ornithopter». Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (...
Professor Aníbal Ollero, Andalusian Award for Engineering and Industry 2020
The Andalusian Awards for Engineering and Industry were created in 2015 with the aim of promoting the industrial development of Andalusia. This year the award 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 technology.
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Prof. Aníbal Ollero Baturone has been elected as 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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Workshop at ERF 2020
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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...
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...
Professor Ollero gave a lecture at the Royal Seville Academy of Sciences
Last Wednesday on the 22th of January, Professor Ollero gave a lecture about the evolution of aerial robotics and its possible future. The Vice Chancellor Rector for Research were present at the lecture that took place at the Royal Seville Academy of Sciences.
Professor Ollero has been on the set of Canal Sur
Proffesor Anibal Ollero, head of GRVC and recently given the Rei Jaume I award in New Technologies, was interviewed 30th of January by Canal Sur Television about the future of drones and their applications.
Click here to see the show
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...
Article of the Director of de ABC Journal (Sevilla) about the GRVC
The article refers the interview to Professor Anibal Ollero, director of GRVC and mentions the Jaume I award and the projects and publications of GRVC.
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PhD thesis presentation by Francisco Alarcón
Franciscon Antonio Alarcón Romero from FADA-CATEC has obtained a "Cum Laude" Doctor's degree with the thesis called: "Accurate navigation applied to landing maneuvers on mobile platforms for unmanned aerial vehicles" directed by Aníbal Ollero and Antidio Viguria (FADA-CATEC)
Professor Ollero, head of GRVC, interviewed by the ABC newspaper about the future of drones and their applications
Click here to read the full interview
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...
Jury Minutes for the Rei Jaume I Award
The Jury of the Rei Jaume I Award in New Technologies was composed of 5 Nobel laureates and other relevant personalities of companies and institutions (see image of the Minutes below). In the image below you can see the Jury Minutes for the Rei Jaume I Award:
Anibal Ollero has received the Rei Jaume I Award
VideoEntrega2Professor Anibal Ollero was awarded this Monday November 25th with Rei Jaume I in New Technologies. The award ceremony was held in Lonja de los Mercaderes in Valencia, and count on a jury composed of 19 Nobel Prizes and the chair of His Majesty King Felipe VI. In the videos below, Ollero receives the award from hands of Felipe VI.
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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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...