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GRIFFIN presentation at ICUAS 19

This Thursday June 13th the GRIFFIN project was disseminated in its first paper «A simple Model for Gliding and Low.Amplitude Flapping Flight of a Bio-Inspired UAV» during the International Conference on Unmmaned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS). The paper was presented by the GRVC researcher Antonio Martín Alcántara and it showed how the first prototype developed inside the project works.

The ICUAS conferences are celebrated every year in the United States. This year the event is held in Atlanta (Georgia). This event is an important yearly date for the experts and researchers in UAVs.

Workshop at ICRA 2019

On May 23rd the ICRA 2019 workshop “The Future of Aerial Robotics: Challenges and Opportunities” was held in Montréal, Canada. During this event experts from several institutions and enterprises as University of Zagreb (LARICS), EPFL or DJI analysed the future evolution of the UAVs applications as well as issues like compliance and autonomy in aerial manipulation or the morphology for Aerial Robotics.

This workshop counted with the presence of the ERC Advanced grantee Anibal Ollero, who showed to assistants how the GRIFFIN ornithopters will work, fly and perch on curved surfaces.

Plenary talk at ISAR ’19

This year in the month of May the 3rd International Symposium on Aerial Robotics (ISAR) was held in Toronto, Canada. The head of GRVC Anibal Ollero is part of the organization committee and he delivered a plenary talk entitled “Aerial Robots with Manipulation Capabilities in Flight and Perched”, with the advances that in these moments are being developed inside the GRIFFIN project’s objectives.

Last year this event was held in Philadelphia, USA and count on the presence of group member Anibal Ollero and Arturo Torres, whom disseminated the AEROARMS, Multidrone and EUROC advances in their corresponding presentations “New Systems for Industrial Contact Inspection Pipes and Bridges by using Aerial Robotics Manipulators” and “UAL: an abstraction layer for unmanned vehicles”. The ISAR has become during this past three years in an important date for the UAVs experts in USA and Europe, thanks to the organisational skills of the New York University researcher Giuseppe Loianno. part of the IEEE TC on Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Vehicles.

Presentation of the GRIFFIN project at European Robotics Forum 2019

Next Thursday March 21st the ERC Advanced Grant GRIFFIN project will be presented in a workshop of European Robotics Forum 2019. This workshop, entitled «Aerial Robotics Technologies & Applications with the new European UAS regulation», is organized by the ERC grantee Anibal Ollero in conjuction with Mauricio Calva from Chevron and its title says, they will adress the issue of the fate of UAS inside the future U-Space.

This year the European Robotics Forum (ERF) will be held in Bucharest, Romania. ERF is one of the most important meetings of every year in Europe that brings euRobotics, a Brussels based international non-profit association created for all kind of stakeholder in European robotics. EuRobotics also organizes during the year another robotics meetings like European Robotics Week or European Robotics Week, held this year in Seville.

GRIFFIN project on spanish media

On the last Friday November 16th the GRIFFIN project’s was held at the Engineering School of the University of Seville. Meanwhile, the spanish newspaper El País published an interview with the head of the GRVC and CATEC’s scientific advisor Aníbal Ollero talking about the AEROARMS project.

In this interview the GRIFFIN project was mentioned. Ollero explained here what constitutes an ERC Advanced Grant, the goals of the project such as analyze and imitate the flight of a bird and how these goals would be reached. 

This interview can be read in this link  (spanish language).