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The GRVC Robotics Lab of the University of Seville is hiring!

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Candidates please write an email to the address grvc.recruitment@gmail.com with the Subject “Call GRVC December 2022” and one of the category listed below (1,2,3, 4, 5 or 6), attaching a motivation letter with references and a Curriculum Vitae.

The GRVC Robotics Laboratory of the University of Seville announces contracts to work on new Horizon Europe and Spanish projects in the following categories:

  • 1) Postdoctoral contracts to lead projects and work packages in the design of unmanned aerial vehicle systems and in intelligent systems for aerial robotics.
  • 2) PhD Thesis in aerial robotics: aerial manipulation, control systems, perception systems and multi-UAV planning systems
  • 3) Research and Development engineers in orbital robotics, modeling and control of unmanned aerial vehicles, and robotics applications in maritime environments
  • 4) Technicians for the development of prototypes and applications of aerial, space and maritime robotics
  • 5) RPAS pilots familiar with Pixhakw and Arduino
  • 6) Technician for administration tasks

Seville is a city with a great historical and cultural tradition, and a moderate cost of living. Seville has an important role in the aerospace sector and has been recently chosen as the headquarters of the Spanish Space Agency. The GRVC Robotics Lab of the University of Seville, in collaboration with the Center for Advanced Aerospace Technologies (CATEC), is developing a new “Center for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Urban Air Mobility”, with excellent equipment and facilities, in this new area which will have a great growth in the coming years.

We offer the Integration into an international team of a leading robotics laboratory, with a salary, higher than the ones in the Spanish official calls, to be agreed according to experience and category.

[Español]

Se ruega a los candidatos enviar un correo electrónico a la dirección grvc.recruitment@gmail.com indicando en el Asunto “Convocatoria GRVC Diciembre 2022” y la categoría de la lista visible más abajo seleccionada (1, 2, 3, 4, 5 o 6) adjuntando una carta de motivación con referencias y el Curriculum Vitae.

El Laboratorio de Robótica GRVC de la Universidad de Sevilla anuncia contratos para trabajar en sus nuevos proyectos de investigación y desarrollo, de las convocatorias Horizon Europe y españolas, en las siguientes categorías:

  • 1) Contratos postdoctorales para la dirección de proyectos y paquetes de trabajo en diseño de sistemas de vehículos aéreos no tripulados y en sistemas inteligentes para robótica aérea.
  • 2) Contratos para la realización del doctorado en robótica aérea: manipulación aérea, sistemas de control, sistemas de percepción y planificación multi-UAV
  • 3) Contratos de ingenieros para investigación y desarrollo en robótica orbital, modelado y control de vehículos aéreos no tripulados y aplicaciones de robótica en entornos marítimos
  • 4) Contratos de técnicos para desarrollo de prototipos y aplicaciones de robótica aérea, espacial y marítima
  • 5) Piloto de RPAS con conocimiento de Pixhawk y Arduino
  • 6) Contrato para técnico de administración

Los candidatos seleccionados se incorporarán a un equipo internacional de un laboratorio líder en robótica, con sueldo, de mayor cuantía que los de las convocatorias oficiales españolas, a convenir según experiencia y puesto.

Sevilla es una ciudad con gran tradición histórica y cultural, y coste de vida moderado. Sevilla tiene un importante papel en el sector aeroespacial y ha sido recientemente elegida como sede de la Agencia Espacial Española. El GRVC Robotics Lab de la Universidad de Sevilla, en colaboración con el Centro Avanzado en Tecnologías Aeroespaciales (CATEC), están desarrollando un nuevo “Centro de Vehículos Aéreos No Tripulados y Movilidad Aérea Urbana”, con excelente equipamiento e instalaciones, en esta nueva área que tendrá un gran crecimiento en los próximos años.

Nature Communications publishes paper on autonomous perching of ornithopter robots from GRIFFIN ERC Advanced Grant

The prestigious journal Nature Communications has published the paper “How ornithopters can perch autonomously on a branch” (https://lnkd.in/d87ueYUP).
This is a result of the GRIFFIN Advanced Grant of the European Research Council (https://lnkd.in/gmiKa39h ) of Anibal Ollero, that has developed the first flapping and gliding bioinspired robotic birds, with fully autonomous capabilities of flying and perching. 
The paper describes the flapping wing robot and the leg-claw system for the autonomous perching on a branch.
This work paves the way towards the application of flapping-wing robots for long range observation and logistic missions, also including manipulation after perching.

Aníbal Ollero, plenary speaker at Robot 2022, presents research on aerial robotics

Last November 23 Aníbal Ollero delivered a plenary presentation entitled «Aerial Manipulators and Bioinspired Robots» at the Robot 2022 Fifth Iberian Robotics Conference. The presentation showcased recent research from the H2020 AERIAL-CORE project, which Ollero is coording, on aerial manipulation techniques, including manipulation while flying and perching.

Ollero also presented results from his ERC Advanced Grant GRIFFIN, including more efficient prototypes of bioinspired flapping-wing aerial robots that are capable of fully autonomous indoor and outdoor flight, with on-board perception for guidance and obstacle detection and avoidance. Finally, Ollero provided a glimpse into the future, presenting preliminary results on manipulation with flapping-wing robots.

GRVC members were invited to participate in several panels in UNVEX 2022

UNVEX 2022, the main drones national event in Spain, was held in the FIBES exhibition centre in Seville from 14 to 16 September of 2022. Several GRVC members were invited to participate in different UNVEX panels.

Aníbal Ollero (https://grvc.us.es/head-of-the-laboratory/), director of the GRVC Robotics Lab, was invited to one of the main plenary panels of UNVEX: the «Technological challenges» panel 11 moderated by Antonio Sousa. Aníbal presented the main achievements of two initiatives he is leading and coordinating: the AERIAL-CORE EU Project (https://aerial-core.eu/) and the GRIFFIN ERC Advanced Grant (https://griffin-erc-advanced-grant.eu/).

Guillermo Heredia moderated the panel 19 («Training») and participated with a presentation about PhD, Master and Undergraduate Students in UAS at the University of Seville.

Finally, Ivan Maza (https://personal.us.es/imaza/) was invited to participate in the panel 17 about Counter-UAS systems. He presented the EU Project COURAGEOUS (https://courageous-isf.eu/) where the GRVC Robotics Lab is participating in the development of a standardized test methodology for detection, tracking and identification of nefarious drones’ utilising countermeasure systems to protect the lower airspace.

Anibal Ollero receives the Automatica Spanish National Award

The GRIFFIN Principal Investigator, Anibal Ollero, received the Automatica Spanish National Award due to “Leadership in Aerial Robotics, technology transfer to companies and creation of research groups and university Departments”. The ceremony was last September 8th in the “43th Jornadas de Automatica” that was held in Logroño (La Rioja, Spain).

You can watch the presentation of Professor Alfonso García Cerezo, Universidad de Málaga in the following link:
https://lnkd.in/dnn8vRgu
You can also watch the video of the award ceremony by the president of CEA, Professor Carlos Balaguer, Carlos III University, and speech of Aníbal Ollero in the following link:
https://lnkd.in/d8c4vgYr