CORDIS: “THE MAIN INNOVATION UNDER THE PROJECT AEROARMS LIES IN THE WORLD’S FIRST INTELLIGENT AERIAL ROBOTIC MANIPULATORS”

The latest updated “Results in Brief” of CORDIS (The European Commission’s primary service for EU-funded research results, in six languages) published the article with the title “AI-powered drones for difficult maintenance tasks” about the results of the H2020 AEROARMS project. This article states “The main innovation under the project AEROARMS (AErial RObotic system integrating multiple ARMS and...
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Rei Jaume I awards ceremony

Rei Jaume I awards ceremony
Anibal Ollero has won the 31st King Jaume I Award in New Technologies. These awards are very prestigious counting with 19 Nobel prizes in the Jury and are endowed with 100.000 euros. The jury awarded the leadership of Anibal Ollero  in aerial robotics and his priceless capability to combine excellent research and technology innovation with the technology transfer to companies.  The jury highlig...

Anibal Ollero Will Receive The Rei Jaume I Prize On November 25th

Anibal Ollero Will Receive The Rei Jaume I Prize On November 25th
The GRVC head Anibal Ollero won the Rei Jaume I Prize in New Technologies in June of this year. On November 25th he will collect this important spanish award in the prize-giving ceremony held in Lonja de los Mercaderes de València. This ceremony will be chaired by His Majesty the King of Spain Felipe VI and is one of the most important social events of the year in Spain. In June the jury awarde...

Dissemination of AEROARMS in IROS 2019

Dissemination of AEROARMS in IROS 2019
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:...
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AEROARMS project summary

AEROARMS project summary
The H2020 AEROARMS project started in October 2015 and since then has produced a huge amount of publicationes, experiments with aerial robotics and appearances in the media. This video shows the whole trajectory of the project sin it started until its end in July 2019 with a last technical demonstration in Germany.

Final review in Germany

Final review in Germany
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...
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Interview to Anibal Ollero in a spanish tv programme

Interview to Anibal Ollero in a spanish tv programme
This Tuesday June 18th the AEROARMS coordinator Anibal Ollero talked with the spanish tv programme crew La Tarde en 24h, which is daily broadcasted in the 24 Hours Channel. Ollero talked in this tv programme about the drones features, the efficiency and how the aerial robots can improve the inspection and maintenance tasks as well as save lives in this case. La tarde en 24 horas - La...

The AEROARMS project performs new integration experiments in Germany

The AEROARMS project performs new integration experiments in Germany
After the integration experiments performed at the cement factory of Holcim-Lafarge (Jerez de la Frontera, Spain), a refinery located in Germany has been the next stage for the industrial integration experiments of the project. These experiments had as an objective the localization and inspection of the refinery pipes. The integration tests were performed during almost one week and all the contrib...
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AEROARMS’ third period advances presented at ICRA 2019

AEROARMS’ third period advances presented at ICRA 2019
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...
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AEROARMS Campaign of industrial experiments

AEROARMS Campaign of industrial experiments
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...

Upcoming plenary talk at ISAR ’19

Upcoming plenary talk at ISAR ’19
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....
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AEROARMS presentations at ICRA 2019

AEROARMS presentations at ICRA 2019
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...
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AEROARMS starts its integration phase with positive results

AEROARMS starts its integration phase with positive results
In this moment AEROARMS is currently in its third and last period, so now its partners are starting to test how the advances consecuted in the second period could be applied to an industrial environment. That's why some GRVC and CATEC members came near to a cement factory in Jerez de laFrontera and made some experiments where drones made inspection tasks in the pipes of the cement factory. These e...
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A video of AEROX ranks 1st in the 2019 Engineering Drone Video of the Year Contest

A video of AEROX ranks 1st in the 2019 Engineering Drone Video of the Year Contest
On Sunday March 31st the 2019 Engineering Drone Video of the Year Contest organized by AUVSI finished its voting time in the social networks. The result was that the AEROX video of FADA-CATEC ranked 1st with 2380 votes. The winner will be announced in June during the fair at Chicago. This is the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhaCI1bpFwU  
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AEROARMS presence at Hannover Messe 2019

AEROARMS presence at Hannover Messe 2019
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...
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AEROARMS innovations has been exposed at ERF 2019

AEROARMS innovations has been exposed at ERF 2019
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...
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AEROARMS presentation at ERF 2019

AEROARMS presentation at ERF 2019
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...
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Stand at ICT 2018 (Vienna, Austria)

Stand at ICT 2018 (Vienna, Austria)
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...

Interview to Aníbal Ollero in spanish daily “El País”

Interview to Aníbal Ollero in spanish daily “El País”
Aníbal Ollero, head of the GRVC and scientific advisor of FADA-CATEC explained in a interview published in the spanish daily "El País" which are the capabilities of the AEROARMS project's drones and how its application to industry can improve the safety of the work at heights in pipe inspections. The application of the AEROARMS improvements could save near 70,000 euros and speed up the pace of wor...
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AEROARMS presence at IROS 2018

AEROARMS presence at IROS 2018
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...
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Interview to Aníbal Ollero at Cadena SER (Spain)

Interview to Aníbal Ollero at Cadena SER (Spain)
After the AEROARMS project was approved by the European Comission, its coordinator Aníbal Ollero came near to the spanish radio broadcast Cadena SER to talk about the project result and the possible consequences of its implementation. https://www.ivoox.com/comision-europea-valora-muy-positivamente-proyecto-audios-mp3_rf_28789769_1.html

The industrial inspection drone project called AEROARMS has sucessfully pased the European Comission’s evaluation.

The industrial inspection drone project called AEROARMS has sucessfully pased the European Comission’s evaluation.
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 ...

AEROARMS experiments on gas refinery in Germany

AEROARMS experiments on gas refinery in Germany
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...

Visit of Navantia to the AEROARMS spanish partners facilities

Visit of Navantia to the AEROARMS spanish partners facilities
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'...
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New appearence of AEROARMS on the tv media

New appearence of AEROARMS on the tv media
In the early hours of June 26th a tv report about AEROARMS was broadcasted on spanish tv. The tv documentarists came to the CATEC’s facilities to talk with Aníbal Ollero and Antidio Viguria about this project and its future innovations. Then they came to the GRVC’s laboratories to interview María Polvillo, worker of the group GRVC from the University of Seville. You can see again this tv report in...

AEROARMS presentation at ICUAS ’18

AEROARMS presentation at ICUAS ’18
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...
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AEROARMS presentations at ISAR ’18

AEROARMS presentations at ISAR ’18
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...
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EUROPEAN LEADERSHIPS AWARDS 2018

EUROPEAN LEADERSHIPS AWARDS 2018
AEROARMS coordinator  Anibal Ollero was nominated by Euronews and the European Business Summit (EBS) for the European innovator of the year title at this edition of the European Leadership Awards 2018. In a public votation can choose "Which candidate best deserves the title ‘European innovator of the year’ for their recent achievements?" One of the 5 categories of the European Leadership Awards...

Our presence in ERF 2018

Our presence in ERF 2018
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...
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Euronews cover AEROARMS Prize

Euronews cover AEROARMS Prize
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...

Overal Winner of the Innovation Radar Prize 2017

Overal Winner of the Innovation Radar Prize 2017
The European Commission 2017 Innovation Radar Prize has been awarded to the AEROARMS innovation developed by CATEC https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/2017-innovation-radar-prize-winners After the 20 pitches of the fourth finalists in each category the Jury, consisting in five members,  decided one award in each of the 5 categories and one Overall Winner. We are the Overall...

AEROARMS Innovation finalist in the European Commission Innovation Radar Prize

AEROARMS Innovation finalist in the European Commission Innovation Radar Prize
The AEROX prototype from FADA-CATEC has been selected as one of the finalists in the “Industrial & Enabling Tech” category of the European Commission Innovation Radar Prize. The innovation is summarised in https://ec.europa.eu/futurium/en/industrial-enabling-tech/catec and the video is in https://youtu.be/DsUiAGelj7Q   The public voted for their favorites until 15 October 2017. T...
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SEIDROB Sister Society of IEEE-RAS

SEIDROB Sister Society of IEEE-RAS
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 the membershi...
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Aerial Robotics 2017

Aerial Robotics 2017
Anibal Ollero (from University of Seville) was present in International Symposium on Aerial Robotics, last June 19-20, 2017 in Philadelphia, PA, USA giving presence to Aeroarms team. http://aerialrobotics.seas.upenn.edu/program/program-overview  A session program was given by AEROARMS: Tuesday June 20, 08:30-09:00am Anibal Ollero (Univ. of Seville) Advances in aerial robotic manipulation for...

AEROARMS team was present in ICUAS 2017!

AEROARMS team was present in ICUAS 2017!
The 2017 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS'17, took place last June 13-16 in the city of Miami, FL. http://www.uasconferences.com/program.php AEROARMS team gave some regular presentations during the program: June 15th, Thursday 10:00-10:20 Sanchez, G. Heredia, A. Ollero. Multirotor UAS for Bridge Inspection by Contact Using the Ceiling Effect June 15th, Thursday 1...

AEROARMS participation in ICRA 2017

AEROARMS participation in ICRA 2017
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...
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Success of the ERF 2017 workshop

On March 24th. 2017  the Workshop entitled “Aerial Robotics, from prototypes to industrial applications” took place with remarkable success. More than 50 attendees from companies, research centers and universities were witness of presentations of the AEROARMS, AEROBI &AEROWORKS projects, as well as 5 technologies presentations.  The attendees discussed about user needs, technology gaps and reg...

ERF 2017 Workshop: Aerial Robotics Inspection, from prototypes to industrial applications

ERF 2017 Workshop: Aerial Robotics Inspection, from prototypes to industrial applications
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...

Aeroarms passed the first period review

Aeroarms passed the first period review
AEROARMS has passed successfully the review of the first period (18 months), February 8 and 9 at LAAS-CNRS in Toulouse (France). The review included presentations of the work performed in all the Work-packages and demonstrations. The demonstrations included very innovative systems developed by the partners. Several CNRS platforms, including hexa-rotors with tilted axis that are able to mov...

AEROARMS public demonstrations

AEROARMS public demonstrations
AEROARMS performed several demonstrations in Toulouse February  6-7, 2017. CNRS demonstrated in the indoor testbed the tilted 6- rotor platform performing contact inspection, tethered landing and take-off on a pipe, fault tolerant control of tilted rotor and  flycrane for transportation. The University of Seville performed dual arm autonomous visual guided grasping with a compliant dual arm ...
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AEROARMS in the Inspection and Maintenance Robotics Seminar 2016

AEROARMS in the Inspection and Maintenance Robotics Seminar 2016
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 in IROS 2016

AEROARMS in IROS 2016
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...

Workshop: Robotics for Inspection and Maintenance (ROBIM)

Workshop: Robotics for Inspection and Maintenance (ROBIM)
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...

AEROARMS In AUTOMATICA 2016

AEROARMS In AUTOMATICA 2016
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 in ICUAS 2016

AEROARMS in ICUAS 2016
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)  ...
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AEROARMS is presented to the King of Spain

AEROARMS is presented to the King of Spain
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 in ICRA 2016

AEROARMS in ICRA 2016
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...
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AEROARMS in the EUROPEAN ROBOTICS FORUM 2016

AEROARMS  in the EUROPEAN ROBOTICS FORUM 2016
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...

FP7 ARCAS Concluded with excellent results

FP7 ARCAS Concluded with excellent results
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 ...
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2015 Guido Dorso Award

2015 Guido Dorso Award
Our colleague Bruno Siciliano has been the recipient of the 36th edition of the "Guido Dorso Award" which recognizes every year those fellows who have contributed their work to support the needs of development and progress of Southern Italy. Bruno has received the award for the section "University". Distinguished fellows from the political, economic and cultural world received the award in the pas...
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Booth IROS 2015

Booth IROS 2015
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...

Applications/specifications meeting

Applications/specifications meeting
The meeting was held in the offices of Alstom Inspection Robotics at Technopark in Zurich. The goals achieved in the meeting were: Identified the specific inspection and maintenance tasks we would like to focus on the project. Understood all the aspects related to those tasks (operational context, sensors to be used, restrictions, etc.). Preparation of the use cases In addition, a bri...
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