National Projects

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RAISE project, spanish acronym for ‘Intelligent Aerial Robots in Tight Cooperation with IoT Systems for Advanced Viaduct Inspection’, will develop novel intelligent aerial robots in tight cooperation with IoT systems to enable advanced and comprehensive viaducts inspection.

The RESISTO project’s main objective is to increase the resilience of the electrical network in order to minimize the impact of extreme weather events, and other related risks, on the service to the citizen; taking advantage of and maximizing intelligence and flexibility in distribution networks in an integrated manner.

The ePARK+ project focuses on the research and development of different digital technologies, making it possible to obtain a technological demonstrator of an Intelligent Support System for Operation and Maintenance (O&M) of offshore wind farms using unmanned vehicles, as well as the demonstration of the operation of a prototype in a relevant and controlled environment.

The key element to substitute manned helicopters by electrical Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) for long-range inspections on power lines is the authorization of such long‐range missions from the national and international agencies concerned with the safety of UAS. They establish mechanisms for authorizing these flights, typically requiring that the UAS operator conducts a risk assessment study following the SORA methodology to identify mitigation actions to reduce risks and improve safety, such as equipping the UAS with an autonomous Detect and Avoid (D&A) system and Emergency Landing (EL).

This project addresses the development of a robotic on-orbit servicing technology prototype, considering a service platform consisting of a Rendez-Vous Service Vehicle (RVSV) equipped with a dual arm manipulator able to capture, docking and perform maintenance operations on client platforms, either satellites or space vehicles. The intended functionalities include de-orbiting, on-orbit assembly, maintenance, repair, refuelling, or plug-and-play modules.

ROBMIND proposes the valorization of the R&D efforts performed by the GRVC Robotics Lab group from the Universidad de Sevilla in aerial robotic manipulation and their application to the inspection and maintenance (I&M) of industrial settings. ROBMIND will develop the strengthening, building, validation with TRL6/7 in real industrial settings and analysis of exploitability of two intelligent aerial manipulation robots with automous capabilities developed by the GRVC Robotics Lab research group.

The HOLISTIC Project is a response to the need to increase the recurrence and productivity of inspections on electricity distribution lines. To this end, it proposes: 1) The use of unmanned aerial vehicles in long-range missions (well beyond line of sight, VBLOS) and 2) The exploitation of the data collected in flight missions by an expert system built on the basis of machine learning, deep learning and cloud computing techniques. The University of Seville is responsible for defining the operation of the proposed aircraft (a hybrid fixed-wing and tilt-rotor, VTOL model to be prototyped by the company Fuvex S.L.) for the correct performance of autonomous VBLOS missions.

HAERA is going to develop a hybrid aero-aquatic system for sampling, monitoring, and intervention to be used for water quality assessment in reservoirs and marshes. The system will be designed to maximize the coverage, increase the sampling frequency and success rate in the measurement of water quality, decrease the effect of spillages, and contribute to micro-plastic cleaning. Two different types of robotic systems will be integrated: fully-actuated multirotor robot and flapping wing bioinspired robot.

The deployment of Urban Air Mobility (UAM) services could revolutionize the way people move and packages are transported within and around cities by shortening commute times, reducing the amount of CO2, by passing ground congestion, enabling point-to-point flights across cities, and reducing traffic accidents. To achieve this paradigm shift is needed to develop systems that allow the safe operation of this type of transport and improve public acceptance of these type of new devices.

The ARM-EXTEND project proposes the development of the first robotic manipulation system with aerial and ground locomotion capabilities in an industrial environment and the first specifically designed for inspection and maintenance purposes in locations with very difficult access. The system will perform works at height that today are carried out manually with important risks of the persons and high operational costs.

AEROMAIN proposes the development of the worldwide first aerial robotic system with advanced manipulation capabilities to be applied in inspection and maintenance of energy systems and particularly in the maintenance of wind turbines, including contact inspection (i.e. ultrasonic inspection) and blade repairingof surface damagesor even “materials lost” of impacted areas (leading edge).

The main objective of the SATA project is to develop a system that allows fully autonomous landing of aircrafts, particularly helicopters, in static and moving platforms. Particularly, SATA is devoted to the development of technologies for landing of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) focusing the design and development of a system for the landing of autonomous helicopters in ship decks.

The objective of RIME is to build and validate through pilots a prototype of an intelligent aerial robot for inspection in electricity distribution lines and installations.

The project involves the dynamic modelling and control of the space robot, the development of simulation tools for particular manipulation operations, the design of mechatronic components, and experimental testing in indoor testbed.

The project is focused on the design, development and demonstration of a sewing unit intended to automate certain operations in cloth manufacturing, motivated by the necessity to overcome the lack of supplies of disposable suits during the first period of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The main objective of the ROBAIR project, developed within the Robotics Vision and Control research group, is the research on new methods and technologies to increase safety and reliability in aerial robotics. The project will include three main lines: research in safe and reliable platforms, safe and reliable multi-UAV cooperation and integration of aerial robots with ground systems.

ROBAUCO Project proposes new basic technologies for the development of autonomous, mobile and cooperative robots in order to carry out complex tasks.

HADA is a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft convertible in flight, capable of taking off, landing and hovering as a conventional helicopter, and flying on cruise regime in fixed-wing aircraft configuration with high efficiency. The configuration change from helicopter mode to airplane mode is achieved through mechanisms that make the deployment of the wings and the folding of the main rotor blades.

The general objective of the project is the design, development and experimentation of a platform providing the functionalities required for the cooperation among UAVs (Unmaned Aerial Vehicle) and among these ones and others devices in the environment like sensors, actuators and human interaction devices.

This project aims at the development of distibuted and autonomous systems technologies for the preservation of natural environments.

The project aims at the development of a system based on the use of aerial and ground robots and sensor networks for cooperative perception. The system is based on the joint application of Aerial Robotics and the technology of Wireless Sensor Networks.

El objetivo general del proyecto es el desarrollo de un sistema que permita estimar de forma totalmente automática la distribución de tamaños y el número de peces nadando en una jaula marina, suministrando también parámetros que permitan monitorizar el estado de la jaula y caracterizar el comportamiento de su población.

The general aim of the project is the development of a system that estimates the distribution of sizes and the number of fish wallowing in marine cages in an automatic way, it also calculates some parameters that allow to monitor the state of the cage and to characterize the behavior of its population.

The research, developments, and implementations performed the aeronautic industry in the context of the new European UAS regulations have been focused on the so-called open category.

Development of an unmanned aerial vehicle with Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL), with automatic and safe Landing (VTOL), an automatic and safe landing system as part of the U-SCUAR project, which has obtained a CDTI U-SCUAR project, which has obtained a grant from the CDTI in connection with the call of the aeronautical technology programme for 2022 under file number PTAG-20221006.

The objective is to design, develop, implement, and validate an architecture for the cooperation of multiple UAVs of the category “Specific” in non-EASA missions.

The objective of SPUAV is to design, develop, implement, and validate salient point detection methods suitable for the detection of obstacles in non-EASA missions for UAVs of the category “Specific”.

The goal of this project is to use an autonomous helicopter equipped with adequate sensors for inspection applications in facilities, buildings, construction sites, structures and objects in locations where personnel access is difficult and involves high risk or cost.

The main objective of the CROMAT project is the development of new methods and techniques for the cooperation of aerial and ground mobile robots. It is intended to develop technologies that could be used in applications such as inspection of utilities, infrastructure and large buildings, disaster detection and monitoring (fires, floods, volcano eruptions, earthquakes), exploration, surveillance, urban safety, humanitarian demining.

El proyecto ARTIC propone el desarrollo de un sistema robótico aéreo autónomo para la inspección de túneles, minas y otras infraestructuras subterráneas, que sea capaz de tener contacto físico con las paredes del túnel y realizar inspección por contacto con sensores de ultrasonidos para medir el ancho y profundidad de las grietas y sensores para detectar las barras , además de la inspección visual con cámaras.

The main objective of AEROCROS was the development of an aerial robotic system with a compliant, multilink manipulator arm for inspection by contact of bridges and road structures while it is flying, with a sensing module located at the end of the arm. The tests to assess the condition of cracks and rebars in reinforced concrete bridges need that a sensing module (i.e. ultrasonic) be in contact with the structure for a given amount of time to take the measurements.

MULTICOP considers cooperative teams of UAVs that have to navigate together to perform some tasks jointly, involving physical interaction with the environment. In particular, the project focuses on the problem of autonomous transport of goods. The motivating application for MULTICOP is the so-called drone delivery, where logistics can be enhanced with UAVs that transport and deliver goods. Nonetheless, this cooperative transport could also be useful for other applications such as search and rescue.

The DREAM project aims to develop aerial robotic systems for the inspection and maintenance of infrastructures within the civil engineering, the electrical and the petrochemical fields. The developed technologies will benefit the accomplishment of more regular tasks of inspection and maintenance, without increasing costs or risks. Environmental improvements will arise owing to the better asset management that results from these more efficient inspection and maintenance procedures.

INSPECTOR aims at the practical transference to industry of several technologies, tools and research regarding to the automation of inspection processes and industrial maintenance. Particularly, great improvements in efficiency are expected on challenging scenarios (dangerous or difficult to access).

IDRON aims to develop an unmanned aircraft inspection system for confined spaces so as to minimize the labour risks in inspections processes in this kind of spaces and increase the efficiency of inspection processes.

European cities are becoming difficult places to live due to noise, pollution and security. Moreover, the average age of people living European cities is growing and in a short period of time there will be an important community of elderly people. City Halls are becoming conscious of this problem and are studying solutions, for example by reducing the free car circulation areas.

The main objective of the project is to research and experiment distributed perception techniques by integrating multispectral cameras and wireless sensor networks. The goal is to develop perception techniques that integrate results from visual cameras, infrared cameras with perceptions obtained from sensors installed in wireless sensor network nodes.

The general objective is the development of a system that allows to estimate automatically the distribution of fish size and the number of fish in a sea cage. The system should also provide parameters for monitoring of sea cages and for characterising the behaviour of the fish population.

The objective of the project is to research in electro-optical systems for ship navigation help. Particularly, artificial vision and image processing systems are being developed for applications of automatic visual tracking and stabilization of sequences of images.

All the elements and systems of an airplane undergo a series of exhaustive test during their manufacturing, assembly and in the periodical revisions. The CATS project involves the design and development of a system that allows to automate the whole process of test design and edition, as well as their management and execution.

The research group developed a robot to shake biosolids in the framework of the project “Solar drying system of biosolids in purifying stations for sewage water (SSB)”.

The general objective of this project is to enhance and improve the functionalities of the system for navigation aid developed in SEOAN project. Image processing and artificial techniques are being developed for fusion of images and data as well as for robust tracking of multiple targets.

The web site could be use for executing some examples of the book without the need of installing or having any specific software on the client´s PC. And it is posible to see some robots in a tridimensional model.

The objective of the project is the development of an unmanned inspection system of sanitation collectors, which technological defiance is the consecution of an autonomous navigation without GPS for the obstacle detection and approximation control to panels and water sheets.

The objective of the project is the development of an automatic system for the identification, localization and monitoring of personnel in scarcely structured environments with intense human activity. The system will be used for the monitoring of activities and personnel in a wide range of environments ranging from construction sites and factories up to supermarkets and malls.

This project in the framework of the INNTERCONECTA Vehicle Initiative Consortium for Transport Operation & Road Inductive Applications (VICTORIA) is focused on the design and deveopment of an autoguided system for an electric bus.

This project is carried out in the framework of the INNTERCONECTA Command and control for interoperability of unmanned systems (CITIUS). In this period a parser for the C-BML language has been developed. This language allows the definition of different multi-purpose missions. In particular, four missions of interest in naval applications have been defined using this language.

The main goal is the design and development of an unmanned ground vehicle and its integration in a system with multiple unmanned vehicles in the framework of the INNTERCONECTA CITIUS on the command and control for interoperability of unmanned systems.

The objective of the project is to design, develop and validate a communication system for MANET (Ad-hoc Mobile Network) for autonomous systems. The communication system should allow the dynamic routing among nodes with high physical mobility.

This project is focused on the automatic operation of the circuit breakers that power the airplane primary systems. These devices are operated frequently during the functional tests that verify the integrity and functionality of the airplane subsystems.

The objective of the Futurassy project is the application of robotic systems in manufacturing and assembly lines of carbon fiber components in the aerospace industry. AICIA participates in the “Airbus Standard Robotic Cells,” consisting of the development of standard solutions for process automation of aircraft assembly using industrial robots, which should have low implementation cost, and be flexible, multi-functional, autonomous and efficient.

The objective of the project is to develop a robotized inspection system for the inspection of cauldrons of combined cycle power plants and for the detection of steam leaks.

The main goal of this project is the design and development of technology for the automation and remote control of commercial ground vehicles. Work in 2008 has been focused in the automation of the functional prototype vehicle, a Bobcat 2200 model.

Project ATLANTIDA sets out to explore an automated approach to aerial traffic management applicable without solution of continuity to any scene of operation of air vehicles, including the conventional aviation, the civilian and military applications of UAVs, the operation of VLJs and the future systems of personal aerial transport.

The objective of the project is to develop robotic systems for the inspection of cauldrons of combined cycle power plants and for the detection of steam leaks.

The overall objective of the PROMA project is the design, development and testing of the control system of a special purpose vehicle dedicated to fire fighting. These vehicles are produced in small series according to customer specifications, and therefore the control system must be very flexible and easily modified.

The objective of the COVE project is the design and development of a communication system for a special purpose vehicle dedicated to fire fighting.

The relations between robotics and energy for space and terrestrial applications are studied. The main objective of this study is, in general terms, the identification of technologies in different domains defined by the European Space Agency (ESA), that could be relevant for European space industry.

Aquaculture is growing very fast (near 15% per year), with productions of about 20 million tons per year produced in about 200.000 ponds or cages, which represent 20% of the world fisheries requirement. The main objective is the improvement of the production process in fish farms using new perception and control technologies.

This project aims the development of new methods and technologies for the control of mobile robot with articulated components. Both articulated vehicles, and conventional vehicles with on-board articulated elements are included. The project considers several different articulated elements from relative simple devices (pan & tilt systems for camera orientation, fork and lift devices) to articulated arms. The Project integrates four different Subprojects.

The research has focused in methods for the application of robotics and automation technologies in processes of alimentary industries.

The goal is development of computer tools to facilitate the design of fuzzy control systems for environment protection.

The objective of this project is the design and development of a machine to estimate the volume and weight of the fish using optical methods.

The research has focused in a system for disaster prevention, information and communications systems for help in forest fire suppression, and vision systems for quality control.

In the project, computer vision techniques and range sensors are used to determine the number, size and shape of individuals of different species in various growth stages.

New methods for outdoor position estimation and automatic steering of large vehicles are developed in this project. These methods are being implemented in trucks driving autonomously on test tracks.

The objective of this project is the design, development and implementation of a control system for a forest processor machine.

Design and implementation of new fuzzy model identification and fuzzy control techniques. Application to biotechnological processes.

Design, development and implementation of perception and control techniques for mobile robots. New computer vision techniques for tracking and position estimation. Intelligent control based on environment perception.

Cooperation Hispano-Austriaca. Colaboration with University of Graz (Austria) in order to develop new technologies related to autonomous vehicles guidance. 

The main objective of the project was the design and development of a robotic manipulator for Space applications such as the operation in space minisatellites.

Spanish-German integrated actions with Weingaten School of Engineering for the development of fuzzy methods and applications in mobile robotics.

The goal is the development of new optical measurement and verification techniques with industrial applications.

Design and development of autonomous vehicles and navigation systems for outdoor applications such as inspection, surveillance and transportation. Development ot the Romeo 3R system.

The main goal of this project is the development of perception and communicacion techniques to be used for the autonomous visual inspection of electric power systems.

The general objective is the development of a system that allows to estimate automatically the distribution of fish size and the number of fish in a sea cage. The system should also provide parameters for monitoring of sea cages and for characterising the behaviour of the fish population.

The goal of this project is to improve the BOSQUE system by adding a system of detection of false alarms.

Design and development of models to predict floods in the Guadalquivir river basin. Dynamic models using fuzzy logic and learning techniques from data collected in recent floods have been developed.

The objective of the project is the design of advanced control systems for new 650 Kw. wind generators.

The main objective is the design of a new system for internal visual inspection of small diameter urban network pipes. the system will include a robot capable of carrying a vision system inside pipes without interrupting the service to the end users. The robot will be able to inspect 100 millimeters diameter pipes and to negotiate right angles and Ts.

This project was a collaboration with the University of Malaga. A mobile robot has been designed, built and experimented in greenhouses. Special attention was devoted to greenhouse spraying.