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Oferta de empleo del centro tecnológico FADA-CATEC

El Centro Avanzado de Tecnologías Aeroespaciales (CATEC), ubicado en Sevilla, necesita incorporar a su área de Aviónica y Sistemas, un Ingeniero de Telecomunicaciones, Industrial, Informático o en Mecatrónica con al menos 4 años de experiencia.

En dependencia del Jefe de unidad y la Dirección Técnica se incorporará para realizar las siguientes actividades:

·       Diseño de drones altamente autónomos

·       Desarrollo de tecnologías para drones y robots aéreos

·       Gestión de proyectos de I+D tanto nacionales como europeos

·       Coordinación técnica de equipos de trabajo multidisciplinares

Experiencia requerida:

Se requieren al menos 4 años de experiencia profesional (en el sector académico o industrial) en el desarrollo de tecnologías para sistemas autónomos. Se valorará positivamente que el candidato tenga el título de Doctor Ingeniero y su tesis haya estado relacionada con robótica y/o sistemas autónomos. También se valorará positivamente experiencia en desarrollos tecnológicos relacionados con robótica aérea y/o sistemas multi-vehículo. Por último se valorará positivamente experiencia en participación en proyectos europeos H2020.

Incorporación: Inmediata

Se ofrece incorporación inmediata, con contrato indefinido y a jornada completa en un centro de referencia en el ámbito de las aeronaves no tripuladas, participando en proyectos de investigación y desarrollo tecnológico punteros a nivel internacional.

La retribución y demás condiciones del contrato se acordarán individualmente, en función de la idoneidad, con las personas seleccionadas.

Contacto: Antidio Viguria aviguria@catec.aero

Tutorial on Aerial Robotic Manipulation at IROS 2018

The Robotics, Vision and Control group (GRVC) of the University of Seville organizes a full-day tutorial on Aerial Robotic Manipulation at the IROS 2018 conference, that will be held in Madrid on October 5th, 2018. The tutorial provides an introduction to the theory and practice of aerial manipulation. Aerial manipulators are aerial robots with attached mechatronic devices as robotic arms or grippers, which are able to grasp, transport, position and manipulate objects and apply forces to the environment. The design, control and sensing of aerial manipulators present differences and challenges with respect to aerial robots that are the focus of this tutorial.

The mechatronic design of aerial manipulators is severely limited by the payload of the aerial platform. Installing arms with several DOFs involves the use of compact actuators, which also constraint the payload of the arm itself and its capacity to apply forces. Then, aerial manipulator controllers have to deal with the dynamic coupling of the movement of the arms, the disturbances of the contact forces and the weight of grasped objects. Additionally to the usual sensors in aerial robots, proprioceptive sensing of the state of the arms and mechanical devices is important for controller development. As aerial manipulators fly and interact closely with the environment, perception for estimation of relative pose with respect to the objects and the environment is critical. This tutorial aims at addressing all these issues from a practical point of view, introducing the different problems and presenting solutions that have been tested in practice in different applications.

More information can be found at: https://grvc.us.es/iros18tutorial/

ROBOT’2019: Fourth Iberian Robotics Conference will take place at School of Engineering, Porto Polytechnic, ISEP, Porto, Portugal (November, 2019).

ROBOT’2019 (https://web.fe.up.pt/~robot2019/) follows the three previous editions of the Iberian Robotics Conference held in Madrid in 2013, Lisbon 2015 and Seville 2017. This previous and successful events, both from the viewpoint of their scientific and technical quality, and for the important number of attending delegates, have motivated the organization of ROBOT 2019.

ROBOT’2019 main goal is to continue the precedent efforts in showing the robotic research and development of new applications in the Iberian Peninsula. Although focused on the works developed at Iberia the conference is open for good quality submissions from any country in the world.

As in previous editions the conference proceedings will be published by Springer – Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series, indexed by Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge and SCOPUS. Extended versions of the conference best papers will also be published in Special Issues from top Journals.

Robot’2019 is Organized by: SPR – Sociedade Portuguesa de Robótica and SEIDROB – Sociedad Española para la Investigación y Desarrollo en Robótica and will feature a set of special sessions in distinct fields related with robotics.

Important Dates

Special Session Proposals: April 15, 2019
Special Session Acceptance: April 22, 2019
Paper Submission: June 21, 2019
Notification: July 22, 2019
Early Registration: September 6, 2019
Camera Ready: September 6, 2019
Conference: November 20-22, 2019

SEIDROB/SPR Award for best Iberian PhD Thesis in Robotics

The Sociedad Española para la Investigación y desarrollo en Robótica (SEIDROB) and the Sociedade Portuguesa de Robótica (SPR) convene a prize for the best Iberian PhD Thesis in the field of Robotics for students who have defended their PhD in the 2017/18 and 2018/19 academic courses, until July 31, 2019.

The prize is endowed with 900 euros for the winner; winner and finalist will also receive an accrediting diploma.

The innovation contributed by the work as well as the experimental validation of the results and the number and quality of the (accepted) publications that have emerged from the PhD that have as authors the student author of the work and the advisor will be evaluated.

Students can submit their application by completing the form accessible at the address

https://form.jotformeu.com/70295862255361

also attaching the PhD in PDF format.

NOTE: The student must be a SEIDROB or a SPR student member for the year 2019. The advisor must be an individual SEIDROB or SPR member or, alternatively in the case of SEIDROB, his/her institution must be an institutional partner.

To become SEIDROB member, please follow the instructions at the web page https://seidrob.es/en/inscripcion/

To become SPR member, please follow the instructions at this web page.

The deadline for submission is July, 31, 2019.