Our colleage J. Raúl Ruiz Sarmiento won the “Robotnik” award for the best thesis in robotics, presented in the “Jornadas de Automática 2017” event, celebrated in Gijón, Spain, in the month of September. In the final round he presented his thesis, entitled “Probabilistic Techniques in Semantic Mapping for Mobile Robots“, co-directed by Prof. Javier González Jiménez and…
One of the works published along this year by the MAPIR group is bringing an important attention from the social media. The work, GADEN: A 3D Gas Dispersion Simulator for Mobile Robot Olfaction in Realistic Environments presents a simulation framework fusing mobile robotics and gas dispersion theory to ease the development of new algorithms and methods in…
The International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) is IEEE Robotics and Automation Society’s flagship conference and is a premier international forum for robotics researchers to present their work. In the 2017 conference held in SIngapore, the MAPIR group was represented by Jesús Briales, Mariano Jaimez, and Ruben Gómez-Ojeda who presented their works:
The edition of this year of the International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC 2017) has been held in the nice city of Coimbra, in Portugal, on April 26-28. MAPIR was there with the work:
The second meeting of the MoveCare project has been held in the Parador Nacional of Jarandilla de la Vega (Extremadura, Spain) in the beginning of April, hosted by the Consejería de Sanidad y Políticas Sociales – Junta de Extremadura. During an intense day of work, the partners presented the on-going work that is being carried out in…
The International Symposium on Olfaction and Electronic Nose (ISOEN) is the world’s premiere technical conference in artificial chemoreception (olfaction and taste). ISOEN 2017 provides a forum for scientists, engineers and practitioners to share their latest findings, innovations and products in the area of artificial chemoreception. In the 2017 conference held in Montreal(Canada), the MAPIR group…
The MoveCare project has started! Javier Gonzalez, Cipriano Galindo and Francisco-Angel Moreno attended the project Kick-off Meeting in Milan in mid-January. Two intense days of presentations, talks and brainstorming to start the ambitious tasks included in MoveCare. The partners found a great opportunity to gather in the University of Milan and exchange ideas, concerns and collaboration plans for the next months. Thanks to Alberto Borghese…
Jose Raul Ruiz Sarmiento defended his doctoral dissertation entitled “Probabilistic Techniques in Semantic Mapping for Mobile Robotics” on November 25th, 2016. The hard work and perseverance shown during his PhD, rewarded him with the Cum Laude calification. Congratulations!
To strengthen the colaborations between the different reserch groups and medical facilities that compose the Institute of Biomedical Research in Malaga (IBIMA), the last 23th November 2016 the institute held a co-working day. Our group participated in such event with a short presentation of our work and objectives, as well as stablishing interesting relationships for biomedical…
To share the knowledge and technical advances of our lab, the MAPIR group (represented on this occasion by Javier G. Monroy) attended the SMART RURAL “FIMART” innovation fair. In its third edition, this innovation fair brought together companies and research facilities with the aim to promote technology transfer and innovation in rural areas.
