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Feb, 2020 1rst place at DARPA Subterranean Challenge, urban competition (Elma, Washington).
Jan, 2020 Two conference papers accepted for publication at IEEE ICRA 2020 (Paris).
Nov, 2019 Conference paper accepted for publication at IEEE Aerospace Conference 2020 (Yellowstone).
Oct, 2019 I got a permanent position at NASA-JPL as Robotics Research Technologist.
Sep, 2019 JPL Team Bonus Award for the 2nd place at DARPA Subterranean tunnel competition.
Aug, 2019 2nd place at DARPA Subterranean Challenge, tunnel competition (Pittsburgh).
Jul, 2019 Two conference papers accepted for publication at ISRR 2019 (Hanoi).
Feb, 2019 Moving to NASA-JPL, Caltech Institute of Technology.
Jan, 2019 Three book chapters accepted in a Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR).
Oct, 2018 My student J. Marti Saumell defended his excellent master thesis .
Sep, 2018 AEROARMS received excellent comments during its 2nd review (Sevilla).
Jul, 2018 9th general meeting of AEROARMS project (Roma).
May, 2018 Journal paper accepted for publication at IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine .
Apr, 2018 Full book accepted for publication at Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR) .
Mar, 2018 Finalist of the Georges Giralt PhD award for the best european thesis in robotics (Tampere).
Feb, 2018 Conference paper accepted for publication at ECC 2018 (Cyprus).
Feb, 2018 8th general meeting of AEROARMS project (Madrid).
Nov, 2017 Journal paper accepted for publication at Autonomous Robots (Springer) .
Oct, 2017 7th general meeting of AEROARMS project (Hamburg).
Jun, 2017 See you at ICRA 2017 (Singapore).
May, 2017 6th general meeting of AEROARMS project (Barcelona).
Apr, 2017 PhD thesis defended (excellent cum laude).
Apr, 2017 Two conference papers accepted for presentation at ICUAS 2017 (Miami).
Mar, 2017 Journal paper accepted for publication at IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics .
Feb, 2017 AEROARMS received excellent comments during its midterm review (Toulouse).
Jan, 2017 The RA-L paper has also been accepted for presentation at ICRA 2017 (Singapore).
Nov, 2016 Journal paper accepted for publication at RA-L .
Nov, 2016 4th general meeting of AEROARMS project (Napoli).
Aug, 2016 Conference paper accepted at IEEE SSRR 2016 (Lausanne).
Jun, 2016 3rd general meeting of AEROARMS project (Toulouse).
Feb, 2016 I’ll be in Vijay Kumar’s Lab until May (UPenn, Philadelphia).