Biography
J. Ramiro Martinez de Dios is Full Professor at Univ. de Sevilla. His R&D activities focus mainly on aerial robot perception, multi-robot cooperation, robot localization and mapping and sensor fusion. On these topics, he has authored or co-authored more than 130 publications including the author of 4 Springer full books. He has coordinated >12 R&D projects and participated in other 60 R&D projects, including 25 projects funded by the European Commission in FPIV, FPV, FPVI, FP6 and H2020. He has coordinated 11 technology transfer contracts and participated in the other 23 transfer contracts to companies such as EADS, Boeing BR&TE, Iberdrola, Iturri and others. He has been a member of the Direction Committee of the Robotics Group of CEA-IFAC Spanish Section between 2008-2016 and a member of the Editorial Board of 7 JCR-indexed journals. He has been recipient or co-recipient of 5 international awards including the Best European Drone Based “First EU Drone Award. Best drone-based application” and coordinated the GRVC-CATEC team one of the two finalists (out of more than 50 teams) in the aerial robotics in the EUROC, European Robotics Challenge.