AeroSTREAM Summer School 2022

Dr. Javier Alonso-Mora is an Associate Professor at the Cognitive Robotics department of the Delft University of Technology, where he leads the Autonomous Multi-robots Laboratory. He is a Principal Investigator at the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan SolAníbal Ollero received his Electrical Engineering degree and the Doctor Engineer degree with award from the University of Seville. He worked in an engineering office and was assistant professor at the University of Seville (1976-1980). Later he was full professor at the Spanish Universities of Santiago de Compostela in Vigo, Málaga and Sevilla. In Vigo he was Associate Professor and Full Professor. He also was Director of the Department of “Electrical, Computers and System Engineering” and Secretary and Research Vice-Director of the Engineering School. In Málaga he was Full Professor, Director of the Engineering School and Head of the Departments of “Computer Science and Engineering”, ” Electronics, Automation and System Engineering”, and “System Engineering and Automation”. He has been also “stagiere” at the Laboratoire d’Automatique et d’Analyse des Systemes(LAAS-CNRS),Toulouse, France (1979), and visiting scientist (1990-1991) at the ” Robotics Institute”, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA. Since December 1992 he is Full Professor at the University of Seville where he has been Vice-Director of the Engineering School. He is currently leading GRVC with more than 70 members at the School of Engineeringand the Association of Research and Industrial Cooperation of Andalucía (AICIA). He is currently Scientific Advisor of the Center for Advanced Aerospace Technologies (CATEC) with more than 70 members and has been Scientific Director of this Center.
He researched in autonomous aerial systems, robotics and automation, presenting the results in more than 560 PUBLICATIONS, including papers in journals (128), book chapters (38), and Conference Proceedings. He is author or co-author of 8 books including a book on computer control “Premio Mundo Electrónico” (Spanish Award), a book on robotics, the book “Intelligent Mobile Robot Navigation” (Springer, 2005), a book on “Teleoperation and Telerobotics” (Pearson- Prentice Hall, 2006) and a book on autonomous and distributed systems for applications on vehicles and natural environments (2008). Furthermore, he is editor or co-editor of 12 books including Multiple Heterogeneous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Springer, 2007, translated to Chinese in 2012), with 9 Chapters being co-author of 6, and “Cooperating Objects and Wireless Sensor Networks” (Hermes, 2007) with 6 Chapters being co-author of 3 Chapters.
He has led or participated in more than 140 research and development PROJECTS, including 24 projects funded by the European Commission and other projects funded by NASA, the Spanish National Research Program, the Regional Research Program, and many institutions and companies.
He has been coordinator of the successful European projects “Real-time coordination and control of multiple heterogeneous unmanned aerial vehicles” (COMETS) in the 5th Framework Programme, with 7 partners from 5 countries, and “Platform for Autonomous self-deploying and operation of Wireless sensor-actuator networks cooperating with AeRial objEcts” (AWARE), in the 6th Framework Programme, with 8 partners of 5 European countries, that were evaluated as excellent achieving all his objectives. Recently, he has been associated coordinator of the Network of Excellence on Cooperating Objects (CONET).utions ( AMS Institute) and co-founder of The Routing Company. He is actively involved in the Delft robotics ecosystem, including the Robotics Institute, the Transportation Institute and Robovalley.

Before joining TU Delft, Dr. Alonso-Mora was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He received his Ph.D. degree in robotics from ETH Zurich, where he worked in the Autonomous Systems Lab, and in partnership with Disney Research Zurich. Dr. Alonso-Mora holds a Diploma in Engineering and a Diploma in Mathematics from the Technical University of Barcelona ( UPC), where he was part of the Interdisciplinary Higher Education Centre (CFIS) and the Robotics Institute (IRI).

His main research interest is in navigation, motion planning and control of autonomous mobile robots, with a special emphasis on multi-robot systems, on-demand transportation and robots that interact with other robots and humans in dynamic and uncertain environments. He is the recipient of multiple prizes and grants, including an ERC Starting Grant (2021), the ICRA Best Paper Award on Multi-robot Systems (2019), an Amazon Research Award (2019) and a talent scheme VENI award from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (2017).