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:
| Agro-food robotics | |
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 | How to estimate the fruit orchards blossoms using UAV technology? |
 | How to infer fruit maturity in sito using UAVs and electrochemical sensors? |
 | How to detect weed patches in grasslands fields at low altitudes? |
 | How to design a UAV-based high throughput plant phenotyping? |
| How to setup a UAV swarm for aerial surveying a large crop field? | |
| How to programming and customise an aerial surveying mission? | |
| Robotics for ecology management | |
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| How to build an Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) to support remote sensing practices with UAVs in fluvial ecosystems? | |
| How Small UAV and electrochemical gas sensor technology can be used for air pollutants control? | |
 | How to build a low-cost airborne thermography system via small UAV and low-cost IR sensors? |
| Education | |
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 | Has UAV education demand in universities been met? |
| Robotics for surveillance and security | |||
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| UAV-UGV collaborative approaches | Multi-robot area coverage | Autonomous indoor hovering | Aerial vision-based navigation |
Talks
- Digital systems, robotics and AI for agriculture, Innovative technologies for agriculture, soil and water management, Netherlands Water Partnership (NWP); Jun/2021. Keynotes speaker
- Intelligent drones that smell, touch and see: A farmer's fairytale. 1st Symposium in Plant OMICS Science 2020, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota (Colombia); Nov/2020. Keynotes speaker
- Applications of Robotics & Drones in Agriculture, Invocation of BSc students. Prestige Institute of Engineering, Management & Research, Indore, India. Nov/2020.
- Intelligent flying machines that smell and see like a farmer! BioSense Institute, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad (Serbia); Nov/2019.
- Precision farming using UAV’s. TValley Jaarcongres 2019, Saxion University of Applied Sciences, Enschede (Netherlands) ; Jun/2019.
- 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
- Special Session: Versatile and heterogeneous robots in agriculture. 5th Iberian Robotics Conference (ROBOT'2022 ), Zaragoza, Spain, 2022.
- Organizer: 1st International Workshop Drones Software Programming (ROSEN 2020). Wageningen University. December 1st, 2020
- Special Session: Deep Learning for Crop Science. IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI) 2020, Glasgow, Scotland (UK).
- Special Session: SENSOR PRODUCTS FOR ENTERPRISES CREATING TECHNOLOGICAL OPPORTUNITIES IN AIRBORNE REMOTE SENSING. TERRAENVISION, Barcelona, Spain, 2019.
- 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
- Editorial board: Smart Agricultural Technology, Springer
- Topic Editor: Sensors and Robotics in Plant Phenotyping and Precision Agriculture, Frontiers in Plant Science.
- Special issue Editor: Emerging Robots and Sensing Technologies in Geosciences, MDPI Sensors.
- Special issue Editor: Robotic Sensory Systems for Environment Protection and Conservation, MDPI Sensors.