Aníbal Ollero Baturone new academic number of the Royal Sevillian Academy of Sciences

The Royal Sevillian Academy of Sciences (RASC) This Wednesday celebrated a solemn session at the Higher Technical School of Engineering of the University of Seville, On the occasion of the act of taking possession as an academic number of the Professor of Systems and Automatic Engineering, Aníbal Ollero Baturone.

During the ceremony, which took place at 7:00 p.m. in the University Hall of the University Center, Professor Ollero delivered his entrance speech entitled “Air, self -employed, efficient and safe”, in which he addressed the main advances in aerial robotics and their applications in different scientific and industrial fields.

The speech was answered by the academic numerary Javier Aracil Santonja, who highlighted Ollero's professional career and welcomed the new member of the institution official.

The incorporation of Aníbal Ollero to the RASC means recognition of his outstanding work in the field of engineering and his contribution to scientific and technological development.

Anibal Ollero Baturone 

He is director of the GRVC Robotics Laboratory of the Higher Technical School of Engineering of the University of Seville, with more than 70 average members in the last 5 years, as well as a scientific director of the Advanced Center for Aerospace Technologies (CATEC) of Seville. He has been a professor at the Universities of Santiago de Compostela and Malaga, and researcher at the Robotics Institute of the 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 and the Royal Academy of Sciences of Galicia, he has also recently been appointed Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Malaga.