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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.

New media appearances

This week we have made several appearances in the media. Here you can find and read all of them 📰👀:

– elEconomista : «Andalusia puts the drones on the runway» (https://lnkd.in/dZcFjfYb) [PDF: https://lnkd.in/dvhHKKrG] (mentioned with Fundación Andaluza para el Desarrollo Aeroespacial)

– La Vanguardia : «Robots with wings, a new generation of drones» (https://lnkd.in/dJ-NMFNj)

– Publicaciones del Sur, S. A. (Andalucía Información) : «Robotic birds, the new generation of drones» (https://lnkd.in/dw_iA7fx)

– Publicaciones del Sur, S. A. (VIVA) : «Robotic birds, a new generation of drones» (https://lnkd.in/dj_knquv)

New article accepted at IEEE

The paper titled: «Free as a Bird: Event-based Dynamic Sense-and-Avoid for Ornithopter Robot Flight», has been accepted and will be issued in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.

The authors: Juan Pablo Rodríguez Gómez, Raúl Tapia, María del Mar Guzmán García, J. Ramiro Martinez de Dios and Anibal Ollero are happy with the results obtained. We are all looking forward to the publishing of the paper 📝🐦🤖.