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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

This week our professors Aníbal Ollero, Ramiro Martínez de Dios and Ángel Castaño were training a summer course at UNIA with some CATEC's members. Today a videoSummary has been released with an interview to Aníbal and images of the course. See the summary on the video below:

Between the days June 13th and 15th the International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS) took place at the Dallas Marriot City Center in Dallas, TX (USA). During this event our members Aníbal Ollero and Arturo Torres showed the outcome of the AEROARMS and EUROC project investigations. Aníbal Ollero showed the AEROARMS results during the presentation entitled “On the use of the velocit...

Our professors Aníbal Ollero, Ramiro Martínez de Dios and Ángel Castaño in conjuction with CATEC members Antonio Jiménez, Francisco Alarcón and Miguel Ángel Trujillo will teach several workshops over the course “The future of drones: aerial robotics”. This course will take place at the Cartuja campus of International University of Andalusia (UNIA) on 25, 26 and 27 June. The registrations are open....

Anibal Ollero has been elected between the 15 European personalities of the year, candidates to the European Leadership Awards. He is one of the three elected Innovator Award candidates: http://interactive.euronews.com/European-Leadership-Award-2018 The Award Gala ceremony is next May 23, 2018 at the Egmont Palace, Brussels. The details are in: http://europeanleadershipawards.eu

H2020 project AEROBI is in its last year now. On March 19th, a technical demonstration was held in a real bridge in Algodonales (Cádiz). FADA-CATEC and GRVC showed three autonomous platforms in different inspection tasks. Here is a short video summarizing the demo.  

The international news media EURONEWS has reported about ICT 2017 Overall Prize, awarded to the AEROARMS inspection technology developed by CATEC last November 9th in Budapest. This report was published too on it´s online web euronews.com in English version; http://www.euronews.com/2017/12/04/new-drone-technology-wins-innovation-radar-prize-2017, Spanish version http://es.euronews.com/2017/12/04/e...

Anibal Ollero, head of the GRVC and President of the Spanish Society for Research and Development in Robotics (SEIDROB) has signed an agreement with Satoshi Tadokoro, President of the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society (RAS) by which SEIDROB becomes Sister Society of IEEE-RAS. The agreement, which is reported in the web of IEEE RAS (http://www.ieee-ras.org/), promotes becoming membership of b...

ARCOW project, coordinated by the GRVC-USE group, has been classified to the Final Stage of the European Robotics Challenges (EUROC). EUROC is a cascade-funding project from the UE FP7 ICT program that is structured in three Challenges. More than 30 teams started in the first Stage of Challenge3 (Plant Servicing and Inspection) and only two of them have been classified for the final StageIII. T...

A team composed by Airbus DS, FADA-CATEC and GRVC (Universidad de Sevilla), represented by Airbus won the prize for best drone based application at the EU Drone Awards. The award was collected in the European Parlament, last January 24, by Juan Ramón Astorga (Manufacturing Engineering department at the CBC plant, Puerto de Santa Maria, Cadiz), Antidio Viguria (FADA-CATEC) and Anibal Ollero (GR...

The IEEE Technical Committee on "Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles", co-chaired by the GRVC Director Anibal Ollero, was distinguished, between the 38 existing Technical Committees, with the RAS Most Active Technical Committee Award (see http://www.ieee-ras.org/about-ras/latest-news/716-2016-ras-award-recipients-announced). The award was received at the Awards Luncheon during the annual...

The project Aerial Robotics Cooperative Assembly Systems (ARCAS), funded by the European Commission under FP7, has concluded with excellent results achieving all its objectives. The final review was in Luxembourg last January 20-21. ARCAS has demonstrated, for the first time, indoor and outdoor aerial robotics manipulators (helicopters and multi-rotors), with 6/7 DoF robotic arms, and recently ...

The project AEROARMS (AErial RObotic system integrating multiple ARMS and advanced manipulation capabilities for inspection and maintenance, http://www.aeroarms-project.eu/) was launched last June in the kick-off meeting held in the School of Engineering of the University of Seville. This project, coordinated by Professor Aníbal Ollero, is funded by the European Commission program Horizon 2020 for...