Team & visitors

THE LAB.

Researchers and students working on swarm robotics and autonomous systems, and the colleagues who come to work with us.

Group Launch at the beach. From left to right: Diego, Jesús, Nico, Héctor, Jose, Bosco, Yang, and Enric.
Group Launch at the beach. From left to right: Diego, Jesús, Nico, Héctor, Jose, Bosco, Yang, and Enric.
IROS 2025 group photo. From left to right: Yang, Jesús, Héctor, José, Diego, Nico.
IROS 2025 group photo. From left to right: Yang, Jesús, Héctor, José, Diego, Nico.

Principal investigator

Postdocs

  • Jingji Zhao
    Postdoc

    Jingji Zhao

    Postdoc working on multi-agent systems for robot swarms.

  • Yang Xu
    Postdoc

    Yang Xu

    Postdoc exploiting imperfections in distributed robot networks.

  • Jin Chen
    Postdoc

    Jin Chen

    Postdoc working on coordination and control of drone swarms.

Ph.D. students

Research assistants

  • Nicolás Ryzhov
    Research assistant

    Nicolás Ryzhov

    Research assistant working on trajectory planning for fixed-wing drones.

  • Ángel Olmedo
    Research assistant

    Ángel Olmedo

    Research assistant working on distributed map processing across drones.

Alumni

  • Ph.D. thesis: Energy-Aware Coverage Planning and Scheduling for Autonomous Aerial Robots.

    After: postdoc at ETH Zürich

    Adam Seewald
  • Bachelor thesis: Methodology for the generation of photogrammetric products with an open-source fixed-wing UAV.

    After: engineer at Intel

    Amit Ferencz
  • Bachelor thesis: Coordination of Crazyflie drones.

    After: engineer at Amazon Robotics

    Ángel Hurtado Flores
  • Bachelor thesis: Control of multi-agent systems and their applications.

    After: Ph.D. student at Lancaster, UK

    Antonio Acuaviva Huertos
  • Research assistant, 2024/25.

    After: research assistant at ETH Zürich

    Bosco Román
  • Research assistant, 2024/25.

    After: data scientist in industry

    Enric Morella

Visitors

  • Evangelos Ntouros
    May 2026

    Evangelos Ntouros

    Ph.D. student at the MAV Lab, TU Delft.

  • Joris van Gool
    August 2026

    Joris van Gool

    Ph.D. student at the University of Groningen.

  • Michael Epp
    January-March 2026

    Michael Epp

    Ph.D. student in control theory and multi-agent systems, TU Berlin.

  • Binbin Hu
    March 2026

    Binbin Hu

    Postdoc in control theory and swarm robotics, University of Groningen.

  • Ewoud Smeur
    July 2025

    Ewoud Smeur

    Assistant professor, Faculty of Aerospace, TU Delft.

  • Luis Gómez-Acebo
    June–October 2025

    Luis Gómez-Acebo

    Visiting student from IE University, Madrid.

  • Christos Verginis
    April 2025

    Christos Verginis

    Assistant professor in multi-robot systems, Uppsala University, Sweden.

  • Michele Cucuzzella
    June 2025

    Michele Cucuzzella

    Associate professor in systems and control, University of Groningen.

  • Heiko Hamann
    December 2024

    Heiko Hamann

    Full professor in swarm robotics, University of Konstanz.

  • Weijia Yao
    December 2024

    Weijia Yao

    Assistant professor in robotics, Hunan University.

  • Yu Zhou
    August 2024

    Yu Zhou

    Ph.D. student at INRIA Lille, France. Works on guiding vector fields for autonomous vehicles.

  • Eduardo Montijano
    September 2024

    Eduardo Montijano

    Associate professor at the University of Zaragoza. Works on multi-robot systems.

  • David Morilla Cabello
    August 2023

    David Morilla Cabello

    Ph.D. student at the University of Zaragoza. Works on collaborative perception.