Aníbal Ollero Baturone, new full member of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Aníbal Ollero Baturone, new full member of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Aníbal Ollero Baturone , Professor of the Department of Systems and Automation at the Higher Technical School of Engineering of the University of Seville , will take office on September 19 as a full member of the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain.
The event, which will take place at the Palace of the Marquis of Villafranca in Madrid, headquarters of the Royal Academy of Engineering, will be attended by its President, Antonio Colino Martínez, as well as the Secretary General of the institution, Jaime Domínguez Abascal.
During the ceremony, Professor Ollero Baturone will deliver his inaugural address entitled "Towards Bio-Inspired Aerial Robotics." Additionally, Professor Javier Aracil Santonja will address the new member.
Aníbal Ollero Baturone joins the list of professors from the Higher Technical School of Engineering who throughout their career have been appointed members of the Royal Academy of Engineering, such as Javier Aracil Santonja, Antonio Barrero Ripoll, Jaime Domínguez Abascal and José Domínguez Abascal.
Academic and research career
Aníbal Ollero is the director of the GRVC Robotics Laboratory at the University of Seville, which has averaged over 70 members in the last five years, and the Scientific Director of the Advanced Center for Aerospace Technologies (CATEC) in Seville. He also leads the Robotics research team at AICIA. He has held professorships at the Universities of Santiago de Compostela and Málaga, and has been a researcher at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, USA) and at LAAS-CNRS in Toulouse (France).
He is the author of more than 900 publications, including more than 250 journal articles, 11 books and 16 edited books, being, according to Scopus, the author with the most publications on UAVs, aerial robotics and aerial manipulators.
He has led more than 190 research projects, including 45 international projects, and has coordinated seven European Commission Framework Programme project consortia on aerial robotics. He currently coordinates AERIAL-CORE, with 15 partners from 10 countries, on the application of Artificial Intelligence techniques in aerial robotics. He holds an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council to develop a new generation of bio-inspired aerial robots. He has transferred technologies through 89 contracts with 48 companies. He is the director of the Spanish Robotics Digital Innovation Hub (https://robotics-dih.eu/es/).
He has supervised 50 doctoral theses. He is an IEEE Fellow, co-chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, and coordinator of the Aerial Robotics Topic Group at euRobotics. He was a member of the euRobotics Board of Directors until March 2019 and founder and president of the Spanish Society for Robotics Research and Development (SEIDROB) until November 2017.
He has received 32 awards and distinctions, including the National Engineering Research Award (2021), the King Jaume I Award in New Technologies (2019), Overall Winner of the European Commission's ICT Innovation Radar Award (2017), chosen among the three European innovators of 2017 and among the candidates for European personalities of 2017 (European Business Summit, 2018), coordinator of the winning team of Challenge 3 of the 2020 MBZIRC International Robotics Competition, Andalusia Award for Engineering Development, FAMA Award from the University of Seville, National Automation Award 2022, First EU Drone Award, Best drone based application, Second EURON-EUROP 2010 Award for technology transfer, and other awards for the best work presented at various congresses and societies.
He is a member of the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain (induction pending) and of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Galicia. He also holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Málaga.
