Researchers
Researchers
Prof. Miguel Hernando
PhD in Robotics and professor at UPM
Project Coordinator and main researcher. He received the M.S. in Electrical Engineering degree in 1997 and a Ph.D. in Robotics and Computer Vision in 2003 at UPM. He is also researcher at the Centre for Automation & Robotics (CAR UPM-CSIC). and Founder of the startup Biicode whose aim is to give to C/C++ a dependency Manager (currently Conan.io). His research interests include motion path planning, service robots, and microrobotics.
Prof. Ernesto Gambao
PhD in Robotics and professor at UPM
Received the GraduateLevel Engineering degree in 1991 and the Ph.D. degree in automatic control and robotics in 1996 from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM), Madrid, Spain. He is a Professor in the Department of Automatic Control, UPM. His research interests include robot motion planning, service robots, and micro robotics. He has participated in and coordinated numerous national and international R&D projects on robotics and automation. He has published several technical papers in these areas.
Carlos Prados
PhD candidate in Robotics and Automation at UPM
Main developer of ROMERIN. Working on impedance control, path planning, and climbing gaits over a custom-made control architecture for legged and climbing robots.
He received a degree in electronic and automation engineering from the Universidad de Valladolid in 2018. He received a master’s degree in automation and robotics from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) in 2020. From 2019 to 2021, he was a robotic engineer with the Engineering Department, European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. From 2021, he is PhD candidate in UPM.
Prof. Alberto Brunete
PhD in Robotics and professor at UPM
M.S. in Telecommunication Engineering and Ph.D. in Robotics and Automation Researcher at the Centre for Automation and Robotics (CAR UPM-CSIC). His main research activities are related to robotics and smart environments (ambient intelligence and ambient assisted living). In 2016 he has won the Spanish prize ABC Solidario together with Prof. Miguel Hernando.
Prof. Jose María Sebastián
PhD in Computer Vision and professor at UPM
Received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering, the M.S. degree in control engineering, and the Ph.D. degree in computer vision from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, in 1979, 1982, and 1987, respectively. He is currently a Teacher in the Control Department, Industrial Engineering School, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, where he has been since 1982. He teaches courses in computer vision and control engineering. His research interests include distance learning, teleoperation, and computer vision.
Prof. Luis Dávila Gómez
PhD in Digital Electronics and professor at UPM
Professor of Digital Electronic Systems, Microprocessors and Electronic Instrumentation.
