ERC Advanced Grant
Professor Ollero, head of GRVC, interviewed by the ABC newspaper about the future of drones and their applications. The GRIFFIN technologies were disseminated.
Click here to read the full interview.
Last December 17 we had the GRIFFIN Year 1 Meeting. The meeting included one invited talk and 13 presentations of GRIFFIN members in different areas: design and prototypes, modelling, control, planning, manipulation, actuators and tools. The meeting was held in the New Aerial Robotics facility of the GRVC Robotics laboratory.
The meeting pointed out the relevant results obtained in the first year of the project. Many new experiments and publications in Journals and Conferences were planned.
The Jury of the Rei Jaume I Award in New Technologies was composed of 5 Nobel laureates and other relevant personalities of companies and institutions (see image of the Minutes below). In the image below you can see the Jury Minutes for the Rei Jaume I Award:
Professor Anibal Ollero was awarded this Monday November 25th with Rei Jaume I in New Technologies. The award ceremony was held in Lonja de los Mercaderes in Valencia, and count on a jury composed of 19 Nobel Prizes and the chair of His Majesty King Felipe VI. In the videos below, Ollero receives the award from hands of Felipe VI.
Anibal Ollero has won the 31st King Jaume I Award in New Technologies. These awards are very prestigious counting with 19 Nobel prizes in the Jury and are endowed with 100.000 euros.
The jury awarded the leadership of Anibal Ollero in aerial robotics and
his priceless capability to combine excellent research and technology
innovation with the technology transfer to companies. The jury
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”.
Ollero currently works as head of GRVC (Robotics, Vision and Control Group) and as scientific asessor of FADA-CATEC. In 2018 he received an ERC Advanced Grant to start the GRIFFIN Project, which aims to develop an unified framework with methods, tools and technologies for the development of flying robots with dexterous manipulation capabilities. The robots will be able to fly minimizing energy consumption, to perch on curved surfaces and to perform dexterous manipulation.
Next november 25th, in a Ceremony chaired by His Majesty King Felipe VI, at «Lonja de los Mercaderes» in Valencia, it will take place the «Rei Jaume I» awards ceremony, where Prof. Aníbal Ollero Baturone will receive the «New technologies» award. Aníbal is the head of the GRVC Robotics Laboratory at the University of Seville, scientific advisor at the Centre for Advanced Aerospace Technologies (CATEC), IEEE Fellow and the Principal Investigator of the GRIFFIN ERC Advanced Grant. The Jury of the awards had 20 Nobel Laureates among their members.
The Jury of the «New technologies» award highlights «the invaluable capability of Prof. Aníbal Ollero to combine excellence in research and technology innovation, with technology transfer to the companies in the Aerial Robotics area».
The video produced by the «Rei Jaume I» foundation can be found at http://www.fprj.es/videos/default.aspx?video=147 with a summary at http://www.fprj.es/videos/default.aspx?video=148
The program of activities related to the awards ceremony will take place from 22nd till 26th november.
