Aníbal Ollero Baturone new full academician of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Aníbal Ollero Baturone new full academician of the Royal Academy of Engineering
The Professor of the Department of Systems and Automation of the Higher Technical School of Engineering of the University of Seville , Aníbal Ollero Baturone , will take office on September 19 as a full academician of the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain.
The event, which will take place at the Marquis of Villafranca Palace 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 course, Professor Ollero Baturone will develop his entrance speech under the title "Towards bio-inspired aerial robotics." Likewise, the academic Javier Aracil Santonja will dedicate a few words to the new member.
Aníbal Ollero Baturone joins the list of professors at the Higher Technical School of Engineering who throughout their career have been named members of the Royal Academy of Engineering, such as Javier Aracil Santonja, Antonio Barrero Ripoll, Jaime Domínguez Abascal and José Dominguez Abascal.
Academic and research career
Aníbal Ollero is director of the GRVC Robotics Laboratory at the University of Seville, with more than 70 members on average in the last 5 years, as well as Scientific Director of the Advanced Center for Aerospace Technologies (CATEC) of Seville. He also directs the AICIA Robotics research team. He has been a Professor at the Universities of Santiago de Compostela and Málaga, and a researcher at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, USA) and the LAAS-CNRS of Tolouse (France).
He is the author of more than 900 publications, including more than 250 articles in magazines, 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 directed more than 190 research projects, including 45 international projects, being coordinator of 7 project consortia of the European Commission Framework Program on aerial robotics and currently coordinates AERIAL-CORE, with 15 partners from 10 countries, on the application of Artificial Intelligence techniques in Aerial Robotics. He has an “Advanced Grant” from the “European Research Council” in which he is developing a new generation of bio-inspired aerial robots. He has transferred technologies in 89 contracts with 48 companies. He is director of the Spanish Robotics Robotics Digital Innovation Hub. ( https://robotics-dih.eu/es/ ).
He has been director of 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” of euRobotics. He has been a member of the “Board of Directors” of euRobotics until March 2019 and founder and president of the Spanish Society for Research and Development of Robotics (SEIDROB) until November 2017.
He has received 32 awards and distinctions, including the National Engineering Research Award (2021), the Rey Jaume I award in New Technologies (2019), Overall Winner of the ICT Innovation Radar Award of the European Commission (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 University Award of Seville, National Automatic Award 2022, First EU Drone Award, Best drone based application, Second EURON-EUROP 2010 Award for technology transfer, and other awards for the best works presented at various conferences and societies.
He is a member of the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain (pending inauguration) and of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Galicia. He is also an Honorary Doctor from the University of Malaga.
