Anibal Ollero Baturone

Aníbal Ollero (Sevilla, 1952) received his Engineer degree and the Doctor Engineer degree with award from the University of Seville.

Biografía

He worked in an engineering office and was assistant professor at the University of Seville until 1980. Later he was full professor at the Spanish Universities of Santiago de Compostela in Vigo, Málaga and Sevilla. In Vigo he was Associate Professor and Full Professor. He also was Director of Department, Secretary and Research Vice-Director of the Engineering School. In Málaga he was Full Professor, Director of the Engineering School and Head of three Departments.

Anibal Ollero has been also "stagiere" at the Laboratoire d'analyse et d'architecture des systèmes (LAAS-CNRS), Toulouse, France (1979), and visiting scientist (1990-1991) at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA. Since December 1992 he is Full Professor at the University of Seville where he has been Vice-Director of the Engineering School. He is currently leading GRVC with more than 75 members at the School of Engineering and the Association of Research and Industrial Cooperation of Andalucía (AICIA). He is currently Scientific Advisor of the Center for Advanced Aerospace Technologies (CATEC) with more than 70 members and has been Scientific Director of this Center.

Publications

He researched in autonomous aerial systems, robotics and automation, presenting the results in more than 750 publications including papers in journals (more than 210), book chapters (63), and Conference Proceedings. He is author or co-author of 10 books including a book on computer control "Premio Mundo Electrónico" (Spanish Award), a book on robotics, the book "Intelligent Mobile Robot Navigation", a book on "Teleoperation and Telerobotics" (Pearson- Prentice Hall, 2006) and a book on autonomous and distributed systems for applications on vehicles and natural environments (2008). Furthermore, he is editor or co-editor of 15 books including "Multiple Heterogeneous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles" (Springer, 2007, translated to Chinese in 2012), with 9 Chapters being co-author of 6, and "Cooperating Objects and Wireless Sensor Networks" (Hermes, 2007) with 6 Chapters being co-author of 3 Chapters. In August 2019 it was  published by Springer STAR the book Aerial Robotic Manipulation with 27 Chapters, co-edited with Prof. Siciliano, which is  the first book on Research and Innovation in this growing área.

He is the author with more papers of the world in unmanned aerial systems (Scopus) and has 5 papers in the list of 15 most cited papers in multiple unmanned aerial vehicles.

Projects

Professor Ollero has led or participated in more than 160 research and development projects, including more than 30 projects funded by the European Commission and other projects funded by NASA, the Spanish National Research Program, the Regional Research Program, and many institutions and companies

He has been coordinator of the successful European projects "Real-time coordination and control of multiple heterogeneous unmanned aerial vehicles" (COMETS) in the 5th Framework Programme, with 7 partners from 5 countries, and "Platform for Autonomous self-deploying and operation of Wireless sensor-actuator networks cooperating with AeRial objEcts" (AWARE) in the  6th Framework Programme, with 8 partners of 5 European countries. Both projects were evaluated as excellent achieving all the objectives and receiving several awards. He has been associated coordinator of the Network of Excellence  on Cooperating Objects (CONET) and of the Integrated Project FP7 project “PLAtform for the deployment and operation of heterogeneous NETworked cooperating objects” (PLANET).

Dr. Anibal Ollero has been recently the coordinator of the Integrated Projects of the 7th Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Commission: "Aerial Robotics Cooperative Assembly System" (Arcas Project) on aerial robotic manipulators for assembly applications, with 8 partners from 5 countries, that was evaluated as excellent and “Estimation and Control for Safe Wireless High Mobility Cooperative Industrial Systems”  (EC-SAFEMOBIL) on methods and technologies to increase the safety in the operation of autonomous aerial systems, with 9 partners from 5 countries. Both projects have finalized with very good results with world-wide first technology demonstrations. He also led the People (Marie Curie) "Multi-UAV Cooperation for long endurance applications" (MUAC-IREN).

From June 2015 until August 2019, he has been the coordinator of the European H2020 project AEROARMSh on "AErial RObotic system integrating multiple ARMS" and advanced manipulation capabilities for inspection and maintenance, with 10 partners from Spain, Germany, France and Switzerland. Moreover, from January 1 he is leading the participation of the University of Seville in the H2020 MARINE-UAS: Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Systems for Marine and Coastal Monitoring  Innovative Training Network (ITN-ETN) and is also co-leading the participation of the University of Seville in the project AEROBI (AErial RObotic System for In-Depth Bridge Inspection by Contact), TERRINET (The European Robotics Research Infrastructures Network), HYFLIERS (HYbrid FLying-rollIng with-snakE-aRm robot for contact inspection) and RIMA, the Digital Innovation Hub on robotics for Inspection and Maintenance.

GRIFFIN: General compliant aerial Robotic manipulation system Integrating Fixed and Flapping wings to INcrease range and safety

Moreover he was the co-leader of EUROC Challenge 3 ARCOW on the application of aerial robotics for aircraft manufacturing that was been selected between the two finalists of Challenge 3, between 34 participants in this Challenge. He also led  the AL-ROBOTICS team participating in the MBZIRC competition.

In 2018 he received an ERC Advanced Grant from the European Research council with a budget of 2,5 millions of euros to start a project called GRIFFIN (General compliant aerial Robotic manipulation system Integrating Fixed and Flapping wings to INcrease range and safety).

From December 2019 he is the coordinator of the H2020 Project AERIAL-CORE (AERIAL COgnitive integrated multi-task Robotic system with Extended operation range and safety) which is  a joint effort of important aerial robotic actors in Europe to develop an integrated aerial cognitive robotic system that will have unprecedented capabilities on the operational range and safety in the interaction with aerial co-workers and objects in the environment.

He has been General Coordinator of the team Iberian Robotics that won the Challenge 3 MBZIRC International Robotics Competition, February 2020.

Moreover, he has been the principal investigator of more than 60 Spanish projects and is currently the principal investigator of ARM-EXTEND on the application of hybrid aerial-ground robots for inspection and maintenance.

Developed methods, technologies and applications

In the above and other projects he has developed methods, technologies and applications in unmanned aerial systems, robotics, control and autonomous systems in general, including:

• Methods and technologies for aerial robotics manipulation (AEROARMS). ARCAS and AEROMAIN, including the development in ARCAS of the first worldwide general purpose aerial robotics manipulators with 6 and 7 degrees of freedom robotic arms and with perception and planning functionalities, and first worldwide aerial robotic manipulator for industrial contact inspection
• Methods for autonomous landing of rotary wing and fixed wing unmanned aerial vehicles on mobile platforms, including the first landing withoud GPS by using a tether (EC-SAFEMOBIL).
• Methods and technologies for systems of multiple autonomous aerial vehicles including safety increasing and tracking of multiple mobile targets (EC-SAFEMOBIL), cooperation for long endurance missions (CLEAR), cooperation for marine and coastal applications (MARINE-UAS), cooperation of heterogeneous UAVs (COMET) for detection and monitoring in forest fires applications.
• Systems for autonomous aerial vehicles including  slung load transportation with one and several helicopters connected to the load (first worldwide demonstration in the AWARE project), new techniques for control and perception in aerial robotics, fault detection and reconfiguration, configuration changes, fault detection and reconfiguration, trajectory generation under uncertainty, safety and reliability (ROBAIR), interaction with the environment, and development of new vehicles with rotary wing and fixed wing.
• Self-deployment and reconfiguration with autonomous aerial systems of wireless sensors and actuator networks (AWARE), including new functionalities for detection, monitoring and tracking by integrating aerial and ground systems, and wireless sensor network technologies (AEROSENS)
• Cooperation of aerial and ground autonomous systems and robots (CROMAT).
• New control, perception (localization, mapping and tracking), planning  and reactivity for robots.
• Development of prototypes of ground robots such as ROMEO 3R and 4R, AURORA and RAM.
• Guidance of autonomous vehicles including heavy vehicles at high speed such 16 Tons. trucks at 100 Km/h and 60 Tons dumpers at  40 Km/h, maneuvering of articulated vehicles.
• Network robot systems and applications in urban environments (URUS).
• Systems for autonomous forest fires detection and monitoring including infrared and visual cameras in ground and aerial systems and wireless sensor networks.
• Systems for space applications including planning techniques for orbital systems  (MINIMAN), teleoperation (Tribolab experiment) and exploration rovers.
• Systems for acuiculture applications including biomass estimation in marine cages by means of computer visión.
• Optimal multicriteria design of control systems,  including fuzzy control systems, and methods for multicriteria analysis.

Contract

Furthermore, Aníbal Ollero has been the principal investigator in more than 50 contracts with industries, including recently AIRBUS GROUP, EADS, BOEING RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY EUROPE, NAVANTIA, INDRA, ITURRI and many others, transferring technologies to many companies and generating industrial products including automatic testing systems of the airplanes CN235, C295 and A400M (EADS-CASA, from 2000), flight management systems, navigation, guidance and control for unmanned aerial systems for several companies, automatic tracking and stabilisation systems using infrared and visual cameras, (Navantia 2002-2008), automatic control of fish farms (Acuinova, 1999-2001), robotic forestry machines (Servicios Forestales, 1999-2000), automatic forest fire detection systems with false alarm reduction (E.N. Bazán 1998-2000), automatic control of wind-turbine generators (Desarrollos Eólicos, 1998), and others.

He has been supervisor of 47 PhD Thesis that have received 10 awards.

Professor Ollero is IEEE Fellow "for contributions to the development and deployment of aerial robot's", co-chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Systems, that was awarded as the RAS most active TC, Member of the Board of Directors of euRobotics (2015-2019), Coordinator of the Aerial Robotics Topic Group of euRobotics and president until November 2017 of the Spanish Society for Research and Development in Robotics (SEIDROB). He has been Member of the Scientific Council of CNRS (France), member of the European Robotics Network Board (2008-2010), Vice-Chair (2005-2008) of the Technical Board of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), Chair of the Coordinating Committee of "Mechatronics, Robotics and Components" (2002-2005), Chair of the Coordinating Committee on "Manufacturing and Instrumentation" (1999-2002), Chair of the Technical Committee on "Components and Instruments" (1993-1999), and Chair of the Working Group on "Intelligent Components and Instruments" (1991-1993).

He is associated editor of the Journal Field Robotics (Wiley), and member of the Executive Advisory Board of the Journal of Intelligent and Robotics Systems (Springer). He has been member of the editorial committee of several Journals including Control Engineering Practice (1993-2005), IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics (1995-2008) and "Revista Iberoamericana de Automática e Informática"

Currently

He is teaching robotics, Unmanned Aerial Systems and Aerospace Robotics courses (undergraduate and Master/PhD levels) in curricula of Aerospace Engineering, Industrial Engineering and  Engineering on Electronics, Robotics and Mechatronics.

Awards

Anibal Ollero won in June 2019 the 31st King Jaume I Award in New Technologies

Aníbal Ollero has delivered by invitation more than 150 plenary lectures and invited talks in conferences, courses and other events. Also he has been supervisor of 47 PhD Thesis that have received 10 awards.

He is the recipient of 26 awards including:

• Best Application Paper Award in IEEE IROS 2020 Andalucía Award to the development of the engineering
• Challenge 3 MBZIRC International Robotics Competition, February 2020.
• Rey Jaime I Award in New Technologies.
• FAMA Award to research trajectory in Engineering and Architecture, University of Seville (November, 2018)
• IEEE Fellow for contributions to the development and deployment of aerial robots, IEEE-ras (November, 2018)
• Elected among the three European Innovators of the year 2017 and included among the European Personalities of the year 2017 (May, 2017)
• Overall Winner of the Innovation Radar Prize 2017, DG Connect. European Commission (November, 2017) between 25 finalists;
• First EU Drone Award, Best drone based application,  European Parliament, (January, 2017);
• Award of the IEEE RAS, as chair of the Most Active Technical Committee (ICRA 2016);
• Best IROS Jubilee Video Award finalist “10 years in the Cooperation of Unmanned Aerial Systems”,  to celebrate the 25th edition of IROS (1988-2012), Major achievement/ milestone in intelligent robotics and/or intelligent systems research in the last 25 years;
• EUROP-EURON Robotics Technology Transfer second award, the IV "Javier Benjumea Puigcervert Award" by the scientific excellence and the scientific-technical and social interest of the work on "Autonomous distributed systems for applications in vehicles and natural environments", 2010
• Outstanding Service Award. International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), 2008
• Award to the best idea on robotic manipulation. Spanish Inventors Club, 2004
• Mundo Electrónico Award to the best Spanish work in Electronics and Informatics.

Anibal Ollero won in June 2019 the 31st King Jaume I Award in New Technologies. The jury, which included 5 Nobel Laureates and personalities from companies and institutions awarded the leadership of Anibal Ollero in aerial robotics and highlighted the "Invaluable ability to combine excellence in research and technological innovation with the transfer of technology to companies in the field of aerial robotics".

Other awards include best paper in several international and national conferences and the PhD award of the University of Seville.

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