THE LAB.
Researchers and students working on swarm robotics and autonomous systems, and the colleagues who come to work with us.
Principal investigator
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Principal investigatorHéctor García de Marina
Runs the Swarm Systems Lab. Ramón y Cajal researcher and ERC Starting Grant recipient.
Postdocs
Ph.D. students
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Ph.D. studentJesús Bautista Villar
Ph.D. student working on robot swarms from a control theory point of view.
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Ph.D. studentJosé Hinojosa Hidalgo
Ph.D. student working on distributed network infrastructures for robot swarms.
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Ph.D. studentDiego Vela
Ph.D. student analysing guiding vector fields for multi-robot coordination.
Research assistants
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Research assistantNicolás Ryzhov
Research assistant working on trajectory planning for fixed-wing drones.
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Research assistantÁngel Olmedo
Research assistant working on distributed map processing across drones.
Alumni
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Ph.D. thesis: Energy-Aware Coverage Planning and Scheduling for Autonomous Aerial Robots.
After: postdoc at ETH Zürich
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Bachelor thesis: Methodology for the generation of photogrammetric products with an open-source fixed-wing UAV.
After: engineer at Intel
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Bachelor thesis: Coordination of Crazyflie drones.
After: engineer at Amazon Robotics
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Bachelor thesis: Control of multi-agent systems and their applications.
After: Ph.D. student at Lancaster, UK
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Visitors
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April 2025Christos Verginis
Assistant professor in multi-robot systems, Uppsala University, Sweden.
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August 2024Yu Zhou
Ph.D. student at INRIA Lille, France. Works on guiding vector fields for autonomous vehicles.
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September 2024Eduardo Montijano
Associate professor at the University of Zaragoza. Works on multi-robot systems.
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August 2023David Morilla Cabello
Ph.D. student at the University of Zaragoza. Works on collaborative perception.




