José Ramiro Martínez de Dios

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Full Professor in robot percepción Universidad de Sevilla
GRVC Robotics Lab Sevilla

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CONTACT

ETSI. Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería.
Camino de los Descubrimientos, s/n
41092, Sevilla. Spain.

Ph: +34 954 48 73 57
Fax: +34 954 48 73 40
Email: jdedios@us.es

Service in direction boards

Member of the Direction Board of the GRVC Robotics Laboratory of the University of Seville.
Member of the Director Board of the Spanish GT-ROB (2008-2016).
Scientific Secretariat of GT-ROB (2008-2012).

Research

Robot perception.
Aerial robotics.
Event vision for robots.
Cooperative perception.
Robot localization and mapping.
Multi-robot systems.
Robot-sensor network cooperation.
Internet of Things.

Selected publications

He has authored more than 140 peer reviewed publications (44 papers in journals, many ranked Q1 in JCR categories) with over 4.400 citations (H index: 30) including 3 Springer full books and the ‘Spanish Robotics Roadmap‘ of the Spanish GT-ROB. More information here.

Full books

‘Spanish Robotics Roadmap‘ of the Spanish GT-ROB. Comité Español de Automática. 2011. ISBN 978-84-615-4583-4.
‘Cluster-based Localization and Tracking in Ubiquitous Computing Systems’, J.R. Martinez de Dios, A. De San Bernabe, A Torres González, A. Ollero. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. 2017. 98. ISBN 978-3-662-54759-5.
‘A Remote Integrated Testbed for Cooperating Objects’, J. R. Martinez de Dios, A. Jiménez González, A. De San Bernabe, A. Ollero. Springer. 2013. 77. ISBN 978-3-319-01371-8.
‘Applications and Markets for Cooperating Objects’, S. Karnouskos, P. Marrón, G. Fortino, L. Mottola, J.R. Martinez de Dios, Springer. 2014. 120. ISBN 978-3642454004.

Selected 10 journal publications

FJ Fernández-Jiménez, JR Martínez-de Dios, ‘A Robot–Sensor Network Security Architecture for Monitoring Applications’, IEEE Internet of Things Journal 9 (8), 6288-6304, 2021. IP: 10,24 (Q1).
JP Rodríguez-Gómez, R Tapia, MMG Garcia, JR Martínez-de Dios, A. Ollero, ‘Free as a Bird: Event-Based Dynamic Sense-and-Avoid for Ornithopter Robot Flight’, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 7 (2), 5413-5420, 2022.
JL Paneque, JR Martínez-de Dios, A Ollero, D Hanover, S Sun, A Romero, D. Scaramuzza, ‘Perception-aware perching on powerlines with multirotors’, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 7 (2), 3077-3084, 2022.
FJ Perez-Grau, JR Martinez-de Dios, JL Paneque, JJ Acevedo, A. Viguria, J.R. Astorga, A. Ollero, ‘Introducing autonomous aerial robots in industrial manufacturing’, Journal of Manufacturing Systems 60, 312-324, 2021. IP: 10,22 (Q1).
A. Ollero, et al, ‘The AEROARMS project: Aerial robots with advanced manipulation capabilities for inspection and maintenance’ IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine 25 (4), pp. 12-23, 2018. IP: 4,25 (Q1). Citations: 154.
A. De San Bernabe, J.R. Martinez de Dios, A. Ollero, ‘Efficient integration of RSSI for tracking using Wireless Camera Networks’. Information Fusion, Vol. 36. pp. 296-312, 2017. IF: 6,639 (Q1).
L. Merino, F. Caballero, J.R. Martínez-de-Dios, I. Maza, A. Ollero, ‘An unmanned aircraft system for automatic forest fire monitoring and measurement’, Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, Vol. 65 (1), pp. 533-548, 2012. Citations: 476.
I. Maza, F. Caballero, J. Capitán, J.R. Martínez-de-Dios, A. Ollero, ‘Experimental results in multi-UAV coordination for disaster management and civil security applications’, Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems 61 (1), 563-585, 2011. Citations: 429.
JR Martinez-de Dios, BC Arrue, A Ollero, L Merino, F Gómez-Rodríguez, ‘Computer vision techniques for forest fire perception’, Image and vision computing 26 (4), 550-562, 2008. Citations: 187.
L Merino, F Caballero, JR Martínez‐de Dios, J Ferruz, A Ollero, ‘A cooperative perception system for multiple UAVs: Application to automatic detection of forest fires’, Journal of Field Robotics 23 (3‐4), 165-184, 2006. Citations: 366.
JR Martínez-de Dios, A de San Bernabé, A Viguria, A Torres-González, A. Ollero, ‘Combining unmanned aerial systems and sensor networks for earth observation’, Remote Sensing 9 (4), 336, 2017. IP: 3,244 (Q1).

Selected 10 conference publications

L Merino, F Caballero, JR Martinez-de Dios, A Ollero, ‘Cooperative fire detection using unmanned aerial vehicles’, IEEE ICRA, 2005. Citations: 167.
AG Eguíluz, JP Rodríguez-Gómez, R Tapia, FJ Maldonado, JÁ Acosta, J.R. Martínez-de Dios, A. Ollero, ‘Why fly blind? Event-based visual guidance for ornithopter robot flight’, IEEE/RSJ IROS, 2021.
JP Rodríguez-Gómez, AG Eguíluz, JR Martínez-de Dios, A Ollero, ‘Asynchronous event-based clustering and tracking for intrusion monitoring in UAS’, IEEE ICRA, 8518-8524, 2020. Citations: 26.
AG Eguíluz, JP Rodríguez-Gómez, JR Martínez-de Dios, A Ollero, ‘Asynchronous event-based line tracking for time-to-contact maneuvers in UAS’, IEEE/RSJ IROS Citations, 2020. Citations: 18.
JL Paneque, JR Martínez-de Dios, A Ollero, ‘Multi-sensor 6-dof localization for aerial robots in complex GNSS-denied environments’, IEEE/RSJ IROS, 2019. Citations: 12.
JJ Ruiz, A Viguria, JR Martinez-de-Dios, A Ollero, ‘Immersive displays for building spatial knowledge in multi-UAV operations’, Int. Conf. on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), pp. 1043-1048, 2015. Citations: 36.
A Torres-González, JR Martinez-De Dios, A Ollero, ‘Efficient robot-sensor network distributed SEIF range-only SLAM’, IEEE ICRA, pp. 1319-1326, 2014. Citations: 25.
L Merino, F Caballero, JR Martínez de Dios, I Maza, A Ollero, ‘Automatic forest fire monitoring and measurement using unmanned aerial vehicles’, International Congress on Forest Fire Research, 2010. Citations: 59.
JR Martinez-De Dios, A Ollero, ‘Automatic detection of windows thermal heat losses in buildings using UAVs’, World Automation Congress, 2006, Citations: 59.
A Jiménez-González, JR Martínez-de Dios, A Ollero, ‘An integrated testbed for heterogeneous mobile robots and other cooperating objects’, IEEE/RSJ IROS, 2010. Citations: 15.

R&D projects

Principal Investigator of the University of Seville work in over 7 EU projects in calls FP6, FP7, H2020 and Horizon Europe on aerial robot technologies and WP/task, aswell as responsible in other 20 EU-funded projects. He has been the Principal Investigator of 8 Spanish projects on aerial robotics and WP responsible in other more than 18 projects.

Selected international projects

‘TEMA. Trusted Extremely Precise Mapping and Prediction for Emergency Management‘. European Commission (Horizon Europe. Grant Agreement ID: 101093003). Coordinator of USE work: J. Ramiro Martinez de Dios/A. Ollero. Start date: December 2022. End date: November 2026.
‘AeroSTREAM. Strengthening Research and Innovation Excellence in Autonomous Aerial Systems‘. European Commission (Horizon Europe. Grant Agreement ID: 101071270). Coordinator of USE work: J. Ramiro Martinez de Dios. Start date: July 2022. End date: June 2025.
‘GRIFFIN. General compliant aerial Robotic manipulation system Integrating Fixed and Flapping wings to INcrease range and safety‘. European Commission (ERC Advanced Grant. Grant Agreement ID: 788247). Project Manager: Anibal Ollero. Start date: November 2018. End date: April 2024.
‘PILOTING. PILOTs for robotic INspection and maintenance Grounded on advanced intelligent platforms and prototype applications‘. European Commission (H2020, Grant Agreement ID: 871542). Start date: January 2020. End date: December 2023.
‘AERIAL-CORE. AERIAL Cognitive integrated multi-task Robotic system with Extended operation range and safety‘. European Commission (H2020, Grant Agreement ID: 871479). Project Manager: Anibal Ollero. Start date: December 2019. End date: November 2023.
‘ARIESS. Augmented Reality and Indoor Navigation for Enhanced ASSembly‘. European Commission (H2020, Grant Agreement ID: 755490). Coordinator of USE work: J. Ramiro Martinez de Dios. Start date: September 2017. End date: October 2021.
‘AeRoTwin. Twinning Coordination Action for Spreading Excellence in Aerial Robotics‘. European Commission (H2020, Grant Agreement ID: 810321). Coordinator of USE work: J. Ramiro Martinez de Dios/Anibal Ollero. Start date: September 2018. End date: February 2022.
‘AEROARMS. AErial RObotic system integrating multiple ARMS and advanced manipulation capabilities for inspection and maintenance‘. European Commission (H2020, Grant Agreement ID: 644271). Project Manager: Anibal Ollero. Start date: June 2015. End date: August 2019.
‘EUROC. European Robotics Challenges. ARCOW. Aerial Robot Co-Worker in Plant Servicing‘. European Commission (FP7, Grant Agreement ID: 608849). Coordinators of USE work: A. Ollero and J. Ramiro Martinez de Dios. Start date: January 2014. End date: December 2017.
‘EC-SAFEMOBIL, Estimation and Control for Safe Wireless High Mobility Cooperative Industrial Systems‘. European Commission (FP7, Grant Agreement: 288082). Project Manager: Anibal Ollero. Start date: July 2011. End date: January 2016.
‘ARCAS. Aerial Robotics Cooperative Assembly System‘. European Commission (FP7, Grant Agreement ID: 287617). Project Manager: Anibal Ollero. Start date: November 2011. End date: November 2015.
‘PLANET, PLAtform for the deployment and operation of heterogeneous NETworked cooperating objects‘. European Commission (FP7, Grant Agreement ID: 257649). Coordinators of USE work: J. Ramiro Martinez de Dios/A. Ollero. Start date: October 2010. End date: December 2014.
‘CONET, Cooperating Object Network of Excellence‘. European Commission (FP7, Grant Agreement ID: 224053). Coordinators of USE work: J. Ramiro Martinez de Dios/A. Ollero. Start date: June 2008. End date: November 2012.
‘AWARE, Platform for Autonomous self-deploying and operation of Wireless sensor-actuator networks cooperating with aerial objects‘. European Commission (FP6, Grant Agreement ID: 033579). Project Manager: Anibal Ollero. Start date: June 2006. End date: May 2009.

Selected spanish projects

‘ROBMIND. Intelligent Aerial Robots for Inspection and Maintenance of Industrial Settings‘. Proof of Concept 2021. Spanish Ministry of Innovation. Coordinator: J. Ramiro Martínez de Dios/A. Ollero. Start date: December 2021. End date: November 2023.
‘RIME. Intelligent Aerial Robots for Inspection and Maintenance of Electrical Infrastructure’. Andalucía Regional Government. Coordinator: J. Ramiro Martínez de Dios/A. Ollero. Start date: Abril 2021. End date: Mayo 2023.
‘HAAERA. Aquatic-aerial Hybrid Robotic System for Sampling and Monitoring’, National R&D Plan. Start date: September 2021. End date: August 2024.
‘ARM-EXTEND. Aerial Robot Manipulation System with Terrestrial Locomotion for Extension of Efficiency and Endurance in Maintenance Missions’. National R&D Plan. Coordinator: J. Ramiro Martínez de Dios/A. Ollero. Start date: January 2018. End date: June 2021.
‘Aerial Robotic Manipulation System for Maintenance of Power Plant and Distribution Systems’, National R&D Plan. Start date: January 2015. End date: December 2017.
‘DETECTRA. Distributed Perception based on Multiespectral 3D Sensors’. Andalucía Regional Government. Coordinator: J. Ramiro Martínez de Dios/A. Ollero. Start date: January 2008. End date: July 2011.
‘Integrated Navigation Aid System’. National R&D Plan. Start date: January 2004. End date: December 2007.

Main technology transfer contracts

Coordination of 10 technology transfer contracts with companies (AIRBUS, ITURRI, IBERDROLA, WAKE and others) and WP responsible in other 20 technology transfer contracts.

‘SIMOC. Situational Consciousness through Multi-sensor Onboard Computer Vision’. Funded by: WAKE. Coordinator: J. Ramiro Martinez de Dios. Start date: December 2022. End date: June 2025.
‘PASCUAS. Planning Architecture for Multiple Specific Category UAVs’. Funded by: UAVNavigation. Coordinator: J. Ramiro Martinez de Dios. Start date: December 2022. End date: June 2025.
‘Localization of Defects in Confined Environments using Drones’. Funded by: CUALICONTROL. Start date: January 2019. End date: December 2020.
‘SILCAE. Integrated System for Worker Identification, Localization, and Monitoring in Working Areas’. Funded by: CLEVER TECNOLOGÍA. Coordinator: J. Ramiro Martinez de Dios. Start date: October 2014. End date: December 2015.
‘SWARMCOM. New Multivehicle Communication Strategies’. Funded by: TTI NORTE. Coordinator: J. Ramiro Martinez de Dios. Start date: June 2013. End date: December 2014.
‘INSROCA. Design and Development of Robot for Inspection of Combined-Cycle Power Plants’. Funded by: IBERDROLA. Coordinator: J. Ramiro Martinez de Dios. Start date: December 2010. End date: December 2013.
‘MYCUAS. Command and Control Station for Unmanned Aerial System in Frontier and Perimeter Surveillance’. Funded by: BOEING RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY EUROPE. Start date: November 2010. End date: March 2011.
‘ROBOCA. Research in Robotic Inspection Systems for Leak Detection in Combined-Cycle Power Plants’. Funded by: IBERDROLA. Coordinator: J. Ramiro Martinez de Dios. Start date: July 2007. End date: December 2009.
‘SIUREX. Extra-hospital Urgency System’. Funded by: Grupo ITURRI. Coordinator: J. Ramiro Martinez de Dios. Start date: June 2008. End date: June 2009.
‘MONIF. Monitoring and Measuring of Forest Fires with Helicopters’. Funded by: FAASA AVIACION. Start date: October 2009. End date: May 2012.
‘PROTEC-SENS’. Funded by: Grupo Iturri. Coordinator: J. Ramiro Martinez de Dios. Start date: November 2006. End date: November 2009.
‘Biomass Estimation Computer Vision System for Fish Farms’. Funded by: CULMAREX S.A. Coordinator: J. Ramiro Martinez de Dios. Start date: July 2006. End date: December 2007.
‘DETECTRA. Distributed Perception based on Multiespectral 3D Sensors’. Andalucía Regional Government. Coordinator: J. Ramiro Martínez de Dios/A. Ollero. Start date: January 2008. End date: July 2011.
‘Integrated Navigation Aid System’. National R&D Plan. Start date: January 2004. End date: December 2007.

Organization of events

General chair and chair of 5 robotics international conferences and workshops including IEEE SSRR 2022. Organizer of 13 Special Sessions and member of the Technical Program Committee of more than 50 conferences with participation of both academia and industry.

General Chair of IEEE SSRR2022.
Organizer of Session ‘Robots cooperating with sensor networks’ in ROBOT2017.
General Chair of ROBOSENSE2014.
Chair of Workshop ‘Interactive Aerial Robots’ in 23rd Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation.
General Chair of International Workshop on Networks of Cooperating Objects, Chicago (USA), 2011.
General Chair of International Symposium on Robotics and Applications (ISORA’06).

Service as editor

Member of the Editorial Board of 9 JCR journals including Associated Editor of IEEE RA-L since 2021 and editor of Int. J. of Advanced Robotic Systems (since 2016) and SENSORS (since 2018), among others.

Associated Editor of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, since 2022.
Editor of MDPI Sensors, since 2018.
Associated Editor of International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2016-2020.
Editor of International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2011-2017.
Editor of Journal of Sensors, 2016-2019.
Editor of Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2016-2019.

Teaching

PhD. Theses supervised

Fernández Jiménez, Francisco José. ‘Cybersecurity Architecture based on Cooperation between Robots and Wireless Sensor Networks’. Defense in March 2023.
Rodríguez, Juan Pablo. ‘Event-based Perception for Aerial Robots: From Multirotors to Ornithopters’. Defense in March 2023.
Arbanas, Barbara. ‘Decentralized Mission Planning for Heterogeneous Robotic Teams Based in Hierarchical Task Representation’. Defended in 2022.
Torres Gonzalez, Arturo Eugenio. ‘Range-only SLAM schemes exploiting robot-sensor network cooperation’. Defended in 2017.
De San Bernabe Clemente, Alberto. ‘Effcient Information-driven Localization and Tracking in Ubiquitous Systems Combining Range and Bearing Sensors’. Defended in 2014.
Jiménez González, Adrián, ‘Methods and Tools for Ubiquitous Robotics Integrating Mobile Robots and Distributed Sensors’. Defended in 2013.

Current courses

‘Mobile and Service Robotics‘, Master in Robotics, Electronics, and Automation Engineering. Since 2017/18.
‘Advanced Robotics‘, Degree in Robotics, Mechatronics and Electronics Engineering. Since 2018/19.
‘Sensor Networks and Autonomous Systems‘, Degree in Telecommunication Engineering. Since 2013/14.
‘Robotics‘, Degree in Electrical Engineering. Since 2018/19.
‘Robot Control and Programming‘, Degree in Robotics, Mechatronics and Electronics Engineering. Since 2019/20.

Past courses

‘Intelligent Robotics‘, Master on Computational Engineering and Intelligent Systems, Basque Country University. 2016/17.
‘Robotic Projects‘, Master in Robotics, Electronics, and Automation Engineering. From 2016/17 to 2017/18.
‘Industry Automation Engineering‘, Máster on Automation, Robotics and Telematics. From 2010/11 to 2014/15.
‘Perception Systems‘, Degree in Electrical Engineering. From 2003/04 to 2013/14.
‘Automatic Control‘, Degree in Electrical Engineering. From 2002/03 to 2004/05.
‘Computer-based Control‘, Degree in Robotics, Mechatronics and Electronics Engineering. From 2006/07 to 2015/16.
‘Industrial Automation and Robotics‘, Degree in Robotics, Mechatronics and Electronics Engineering. From 2009/10 to 2015/16.

Awards

‘Best Drone-Based Solution’ of the 1st EU Drone Awards at ARCOW. Aerial Robot Co-Worker in Plant Servicing (2017).
‘Best Paper Awards’ in 8th International Workshop on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics SSRR2010, to the paper entitled ‘Fire Monitoring with Multiple UAVs for Search and Rescue Missions’ by I. Maza, F. Caballero, J. Capitán, J.R. Martínez-de Dios and A. Ollero.
‘2010 EURON/EUROP ROBOTICS TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AWARDS’.
‘Best Paper Presentation Award’ in 10th Conference on Mobile Robots and Competitions ROBOTICA’2010 to paper ‘Towards an open testbed for the cooperation of robots and wireless sensor networks’ by A. Jiménez, J. R. Martínez de Dios and A.Ollero.
‘Best Paper Award’ in the World Automation Congress WAC’2004 to paper entitled ‘A New Traning-Based Approach for Robust Thresholding’ by J.R. Martínez-de Dios y A. Ollero.