Events

This year the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robotic Systems (IROS) has been held in Macau (China) between November 4th and some papers with advances discovered inside the AEROARMS project were disseminated . The GRVC – USE head Aníbal Ollero and the member Julio L. Paneque presented these papers produced inside the project: J. L. Paneque, J. R. Martínez-De Dios, A. Ollero:…

The week the final review of AEROARMS have been held in a german refinery. The member of the whole project consortium discussed all the thing developed inside the project and checked by themselves how the integrated platform of GRVC and the AEROX prototype of FADA-CATEC can perform inspection and maintenance tasks. The AEROARMS project has a budget of 5,7 million of euros. This project has be…

On May 23rd the ICRA 2019 workshop “The Future of Aerial Robotics: Challenges and Opportunities” was held in Montréal, Canada. During this event experts from several institutions and enterprises as University of Zagreb (LARICS), EPFL or DJI analysed the future evolution of the UAVs applications as well as issues like compliance and autonomy in aerial manipulation or the morphology for Aerial Robot…

This year in the month of May the 3rd International Symposium on Aerial Robotics (ISAR) will be held in Toronto, Canada. The head of GRVC Anibal Ollero is part of the organization committee and he will deliver a plenary talk entitled “Aerial Robots with Manipulation Capabilities in Flight and Perched”, in which the advanced of the third and last period of AEROARMS will be showed to the assistants….

This year the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation will be held at Montréal, Canada. The workshop entitled “The Future in Aerial Robotics: Challenges and Opportunities” was recently accepted in this conference and will take place on May 23rd in the room 517a of the Palais des Congrès de Montréal. According to its website, this workshop is focused on the analysis of the evolu…

Last week the FADA-CATEC member Miguel Ángel Trujillo participated in conjuction a Tüv Nord in the Hannover Messe 2019 industrial fair. The project partner Tüv Nord provided a stand in the event and showed the project innovations as AEROX prototype and the sensor from SENSIMA. Hannover Messe is an event held in Hannover (Germany) every year where all key technologies and core areas of indus…

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”. This workshop was fully crowded of people interested in the…

One of the most robotics events of Europe is going to start: European Robotics Forum, also known as ERF. This meeting will be held this year at Bucharest (Romania) from 20 to 22 March. This year the head of GRVC and coordinator of the AEROARMS project Anibal Ollero will organize in conjunction with Mauricio Calva (Chevron) a workshop entitled “Aerial Robotics Technologies and Applications w…

The H2020 AEROARMS project, had a stand at ICT 2018 (4-6 December 2018, Vienna, Austria) where the porject coordinator Aníbal Ollero and the FADA-CATEC member Miguel Ángel Trujillo 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 transfor…

From October 1st to October 5th took place the IROS 2018 edition at IFEMA of Madrid. The GRVC from the University of Seville 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 Manipulat…

Last 11th and 12th July the AEROARMS project performed on a gas refinery in Germany the first outdoor experiments. The AEROX system developed by FADA-CATEC flew to reach an elevated pipe and performed some contact inspections. This system was created to measure the thickness of the wall of a pipe and perform contact inspections.   These experiments were attended by researchers and e…

This Tuesday the spanish civil and military shipbuilding enterprise Navantia visited the facilities of FADA-CATEC and University of Seville. Firstly they approached to the FADA-CATEC headquarters and looked the effectiveness of the AEROX prototype and the indoor VICON testbed. Then they came to the Engineering School of the University of Seville and saw the platforms used and designed by the GRVC’…

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…

On June 11th Aníbal Ollero in conjuction with the GRVC group member Arturo Torres 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, Multidrone and AEROBI and explanations…

On March 13th. 2018 the workshop entitled “Aerial Robotics for Industrial Inspection, Maintenance and Transportation” took place with remarkable success. More than 50 attendees from companies, research centers and universities were witness of the advances on the H2020 projects AEROARMS, AEROBI, HYFLIERS and AEROWORKS. The attendees discussed about user needs, technology gaps and regulatory barrie…

AEROARMS in ICRA 2017 AEROARMS team was present in the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), which was held in Singapore, May 29-June 3, 2017. The venue for ICRA 2017 was the Sands Expo and Convention Centre in Singapore. AEROARMS had a successful participation in ICRA 2017 with presentations, paper contributions and an active role in the organization of a wor…

AEROARMS and its coordinator are co-organising the Workshop entitled “Aerial Robotics, from prototypes to industrial applications” to be held next March 24, 10.45-12.15, at the European Robotics Forum, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK The workshop will focus on the TRL increase analysing the state of Aerial Robotics for Inspection and the current existing prototypes and practical applications. The alread…

Aeroams was presented by the coordinator, Prof. Anibal Ollero, at the 12th Workshop on “Innovation in the construction processes”, of the Spanish Construction Tecnology Platform, which took place last November 15 in Seville.  

AEROARMS was disseminated in the Inspection and Maintenance Robotics Seminar, which was held in Amsterdam (Netherlands) on October 25-26, 2016. The objective was also to know possible applications of aerial robotic systems with multiple arms and advanced manipulation capabilities in tasks of inspection and maintenance of the industrial environments considered in the Seminar. Follow the link to …

AEROARMS will be present in the 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2016), which will be held in Daejeon, Korea, October 9-14, 2016. The venue for IROS 2016 is the Daejeon Convention Center (DCC). The program will integrate workshops and tutorials, plenaries, mini-plenaries, special sessions, exhibitions, robot demonstrations, an industrial forum and soci…

AEROARMS coorganized the Workshop ROBIM in Madrid last July 7, 2016. The programme included presentations about the European Framework (Anne Bajart from the European Commission and Reinhard Lafrenz from euRobotics), Funding in Spain of robotics projects (Enrique Pelayo and Carlos Toledo from CDTI) and 12 project presentations including AEROARMS. Follow this link to see the programme: http…

The AEROARMS project was present in the biannual industrial fair AUTOMATICA 2016 which took place in Munich from 21 to 24 of June within the SPARC-euRobotics booth. The aerial manipulation prototypes, videos and rollup shown caught the attention of hundred of visitors.   You can watch the interview that Community Conrad made us there in the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?…

AEROARMS was present in Washington, USA, in The 2016 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS) with the following presentation: “A Robust Decentralised Strategy for Multi-Task Control of Unmanned Aerial Systems. Application on Underactuated Aerial Manipulator” by J.A. Acosta, C.R. de Cos and A. Ollero.(See http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=7502675) &nbsp…;

The King of Spain, Felipe VI, accompanied by the the Queen Letizia, the President of Andalucia and the Spanish Minister of Employment, visited the facilities of FADA-CATEC last May 2016. Our coordinator, Professor Anibal Ollero, made a presentation of the project to the attendants who showed great interest.

AEROARMS will have a strong participation in ICRA 2016. Thus we will have the following presentations: 1. Keynote talk May 19, ThK1T3, 8:00-8:20, Room A2 Anibal Ollero (University of Seville, Spain) Aerial robotic manipulation. Where are we going? 2. Workshop Aerial Robotics Manipulation: from Simulation to Real-Life http://www.aerial-manipulation-workshop.com/agenda.html May 20, Friday…

The project AEROARMS supported, together with the project AEROWORKS, the organization of the Workshop “Aerial Robotics for Inspection and Maintenance (ARIM)” in the European Robotics Forum (21-23 March, Ljubljana, Slovenia), http://www.erf2016.eu/). The Workshop was Co-organized by Anibal Ollero (AEROARMS coordinator and also coordinator of the Aerial Robotics Topic Group of euRobotics) and Ekkeha…

The ARCAS and AEROARMS projects had a joint booth in IROS 2015. In the booth, DLR exhibited the Flettner helicopter with a KUKA LWR arm and the University of Seville a multi-rotor system with two four degrees of freedom arms. We also had three screens where the general ARCAS video and other videos provided by partners were displayed. In addition, we exhibited both ARCAS and AEROARMS posters. IRO…

The kick-off meeting of the AEROARMS Project was held in Sevilla (Spain) last 2-3 June 2015.