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Research
Research interests in general are:
- Field robotics.
- Mini/Micro Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs).
- Multi Robot Systems (MRS).
- Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC).
- Remote sensing (RS).
I have already worked with the following programmable aerial platforms (mostly quad-rotors):
| ASCTEC X-3D-BL Scientific (ASCTEC, Germany) | Dragonflyer (Draganfly Innovations, Canada) | AirRobot AR100B (AirRobot, Germany) | AscTec Hummingbird (ASCTEC, Germany) |
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| AscTec Pelican (ACTEC, Germany) | AirRobot AR200 (AirRobot, Germany) | Parrot Ar.Drone 1-2.0 (Parrot, France) | DJI Phantom 3 PRO (DJI, China) | DJI Matrice 100 (DJI, China) |
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Some of the research areas I have been working on:
| Robotics for environmental monitoring | |
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| Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) to sample aquatic ecosystems and support remote sensing practices with UAVs in fluvial environments. | |
| Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) and electrochemical gas sensor technology for air pollutants control | |
| Airborne thermography via small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) and low-cost IR sensors | |
| Robotics for environmental monitoring | |
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| UAV-USV collaborative approaches | Aerial heat monitoring and mapping |
| Robotics for agriculture and forestry | |
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| Aerial remote sensing | Aerial mission planning |
| Robotics for surveillance and security | |||
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| UAV-UGV collaborative approaches | Multi-robot area coverage | Autonomous indoor hovering | Aerial vision-based navigation |
| Education |
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| Teaching with quad-rotors |
Talks:
- Environmental Robotics: Towards a sustanaible planet. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (EPS), Madrid (Spain); Feb/2017.
- Precision agriculture management with quad-rotors. Beijing Institute of Technology, School of Automation, Beijing (China); Jul/2013.
- Research experiences and lessons learned with Quad-rotors. City College of New York-City University of New York, Robotics and Intelligent Systems Lab, NYC (USA); Nov/2012.
Workshop and conference organization
- 1st Workshop on High Emerging Robotics Operations for Remote Sensing the Environment (HERO 2018), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
- Special Session: Environmental Robotics. Second Iberian Robotics Conference (ROBOT'2015 ), Lisbon, Portugal, 2015.
Editorial positions
- Special issue Editor: Emerging Robots and Sensing Technologies in Geosciences, MDPI Sensors (IF: 2.475).
- Special issue Editor: Robotic Sensory Systems for Environment Protection and Conservation, MDPI Sensors (IF: 2.245).
