Aníbal Ollero Baturone , director of the Robotics, Vision and Control Group (GRVC) and professor at the Higher Technical School of Engineering of the University of Seville , has received the ICUAS Achievement 2024 Award, being the first recipient of this recognition . The organization wanted to reward the decades of work and "outstanding achievements and contributions in unmanned aviation and aerial robotics" of Professor Ollero, who was also the honorary president of this edition, held from June 4 to 7 in Chania ( Crete, Greece).

The director of the GRVC received the award from Kimon Valavanis, from the University of Denver, president of the ICUAS Association, and the general presidents of ICUAS 2024, Nikos Tsourveloudis and Didier Theilliol, members of the Technical University of Crete and the University of Lorraine respectively, in a ceremony held on June 6 in the Hellenic city and which included the main leaders in development and research of aerial robotics worldwide .

Professor Aníbal Ollero, who is also the Scientific Director of the Advanced Center for Aerospace Technologies (CATEC) of Seville , counts among his achievements being the author with the most publications on UAVs, aerial robotics and aerial manipulators according to Scopus and has directed more than 190 research projects, 45 of which are international , more than fifty doctoral theses and he is a member of the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain, of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Galicia and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Malaga.

About ICUAS 2024

The International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS) is the most important conference on research in unmanned aerial systems worldwide . Held annually since 2008, its objective is to bring together the most advanced researchers and the most innovative works on this type of specialized robotics. This year's edition has had as its central axis the civil and public domain use, as well as the social impact, of unmanned aviation and its effect on the quality of daily life.

The workshops and conferences of this year's edition have been focused on five main areas; bio-inspired aerial platforms, hybrid platforms, resistant design of prototypes, human factors to take into account and the framework and regulations for the integration of these devices into the national airspace. ICUAS 2024 has brought together in the same forum national and international organizations, official bodies, industrial agents, representatives of the private sector, public authorities, potential users and professionals, as well as researchers who have been able to show their proposals to the world, as is the case of the Robotics, Vision and Control Group and the eight academic works presented during this edition and that correspond to various research projects carried out this year.