Ongoing
AURORAS – PLANNAVPID2024-161761OB-C22
Advanced Task Planning and Navigation for Robotics in the Primary Sector (PLANNAV)
Agencia Estatal de Investigación (MICIU/AEI, ERDF/EU) · 2025 – 2028 · PI: Francisco Martín Rico, José Miguel Guerrero Hernández
URJC subproject of AURORAS. Outdoor navigation on rugged terrain and symbolic task planning for fleets of robots working in agriculture and livestock farming.
ROB
Robótica inteligente para ciudades sostenibles (ROB)
Comunidad de Madrid · 2025 – 2028 · PI: José María Cañas Plaza
Regional research programme on intelligent robotics for sustainable cities in the Madrid region.
Integración y validación con hardware enlazado del guiado, navegación y control de operaciones orbitales de proximidad empleando inteligencia artificial
Agencia Estatal de Investigación · Dec 2022 – 2026 · PI: Xin Chen, Hodei Urrutxua Cereijo
Hardware-in-the-loop integration and validation of AI-based guidance, navigation and control for orbital proximity operations.
DMARCE – CASCARPID2021-126592OB-C22
Cybersecure And Safe Cognitive Architectures for Robots (CASCAR)
Agencia Estatal de Investigación (MICIU/AEI, ERDF/EU) · Sep 2022 – 2026 · PI: Francisco Martín Rico, Enrique Soriano Salvador
URJC subproject of DMARCE. Detection and mitigation of cybersecurity threats in robot software and cognitive architectures, keeping people and the environment safe.
Completed
CoreSenseGA 101070254
CoreSense: A Hybrid Cognitive Architecture for Deep Understanding
European Commission – Horizon Europe · Oct 2022 – Sep 2026 · PI: Francisco Martín Rico, José Miguel Guerrero Hernández
A theory of understanding and awareness for robots and a hybrid cognitive architecture on ROS 2, validated in manufacturing, drone inspection and social robotics.
Generación de trayectorias óptimas en entornos exteriores no planos para robots terrestres
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos · 2025 · PI: Miguel Ángel de Miguel Paraíso, Juan Sebastián Cely Gutiérrez
Optimal trajectory generation for ground robots in non-planar outdoor environments.
UPF4ROS
AIPLAN4EU – UPF4ROS
AIPlan4EU Focused Technical Project (European Commission – Horizon Europe) · Sep 2022 – Dec 2023 · PI: Francisco Martín Rico
Integration of the Unified Planning Framework into ROS 2, enabling planner-independent task planning for robots.
RoboCity2030-DIH-CM
RoboCity 2030 – Madrid Robotics Digital Innovation Hub
Comunidad de Madrid · 2019 – 2023 · PI: José María Cañas Plaza
Digital Innovation Hub connecting the robotics research groups of the Madrid region with companies and society.
MOCAP4ROS2
MOCAP4ROS2
ROSIN Focused Technical Project (European Commission – H2020) · Dec 2019 – Dec 2020 · PI: Francisco Martín Rico
Standard ROS 2 interfaces, drivers and tools for motion capture systems (Vicon, OptiTrack, Qualisys).
Planning4Papyrus
Planning4Papyrus
RobMoSys Experts Intake Project (European Commission – H2020) · Apr 2020 – Nov 2020 · PI: Francisco Martín Rico
Bringing symbolic task planning to the model-driven RobMoSys toolchain (Papyrus for Robotics).
ACTROS
ACTROS: Advanced Center for Training ROS
ROSIN Educational Project (European Commission – H2020) · Jan 2020 – Dec 2020 · PI: Francisco Martín Rico
A reference training centre at URJC for ROS and ROS 2 courses for students and professionals, using the lab robots.
MROS
MROS: Metacontrol for ROS 2 Systems
RobMoSys Integrated Technical Project (European Commission – H2020) · Oct 2019 – Sep 2020 · PI: Francisco Martín Rico
Metacontrol for ROS 2: robots that reason about their own architecture and reconfigure themselves at runtime.
RTI2018-100683-B-I00
Detección y caracterización automática de problemas de ciberseguridad en plataformas robóticas
Plan Nacional (Spanish Government) · 2020 – 2021 · PI: Camino Fernández Llamas
Automatic detection and characterisation of cybersecurity problems in robotic platforms.
ARViz
ARViz: Augmented Reality Visualizer for ROS/ROS 2
ROSIN Focused Technical Project (European Commission – H2020) · Jul 2018 – Dec 2019 · PI: Francisco Martín Rico
Augmented-reality visualisation of ROS and ROS 2 data on head-mounted displays.
Retorno al hogarTIN2016-76515-R
Retorno al hogar: Sistema de mejora de la autonomía a personas con daño cerebral adquirido y dependientes en su integración en la sociedad
MINECO · 2017 – 2019 · PI: Miguel Cazorla Quevedo
Assistive robotics to improve the autonomy of people with acquired brain injury and dependent people at home.
SIRMAVEDDPI2013-40534-R
SIRMAVED: Development of a comprehensive monitoring and interactive robotic system for people with acquired brain damage and dependent people
MINECO · 2013 – 2016 · PI: Miguel Cazorla
Monitoring and interactive robotic system to support people with acquired brain damage and dependent people.
RoboterapiaPI10/02567
Roboterapia en Demencia
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos · 2011 – 2013 · PI: José María Cañas Plaza
Social robots as a therapeutic tool for people with dementia.
RoboCity2030-II2010/00109/001
Robots de servicios para la calidad de vida de los ciudadanos en áreas metropolitanas (Robocity2030-II)
Comunidad de Madrid · 2010 – 2013 · PI: José María Cañas Plaza
Service robots to improve the quality of life of citizens in metropolitan areas.
DPI2007-66556-C03-01
Generación de comportamientos cooperantes en grupos de robots móviles
CICyT · Oct 2007 – Aug 2010 · PI: José María Cañas Plaza
Generation of cooperative behaviours in groups of mobile robots.
MAVROMURJC-CM-2007-CET-1694
MAVROM: Mecanismos de atención visual en robots móviles
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos · 2008 · PI: José María Cañas Plaza
Visual attention mechanisms for mobile robots.
Robocampeones 2007CCT005-06-00275
Robocampeones 2007
Comunidad de Madrid · 2007 · PI: José María Cañas Plaza
Robotics competition to bring robotics to secondary-school students.
RoboCity2030S-0505/DPI/0176
RoboCity 2030
Comunidad de Madrid · 2006 – 2009 · PI: José María Cañas Plaza
First RoboCity2030 programme on service robots for the citizens of Madrid.
ACRACEDPI2004-07993-C03-01
ACRACE: Arquitectura para el control de robots autónomos cooperantes basada en esquemas
CICyT · Dec 2004 – Dec 2007 · PI: Vicente Matellán Olivera
A schema-based architecture to control cooperating autonomous robots.
Open source
Open-source software developed and maintained by the lab.
PlanSys2
ROS 2 Planning System
PDDL-based symbolic task planning for ROS 2. The reference planning framework in the ROS 2 ecosystem.
EasyNav
EasyNavigation
Open-source navigation system for ROS 2: representation-agnostic (costmaps, gridmaps, Octomap, point clouds), real-time, modular and simple to deploy.
NavMap
NavMap
C++ and ROS 2 library that represents navigable surfaces as triangular meshes, with layers, fast queries and multi-floor support.
MOCAP4ROS2
MOCAP4ROS2
Standard interfaces, drivers and tools to use motion capture systems (Vicon, OptiTrack, Qualisys) in ROS 2.
YAETS
Yet Another Execution Tracing System
Asynchronous C++ function-execution tracing, with Python tools to analyse the results as Gantt charts and histograms.
cascade_lifecycle
Cascade Lifecycle
Activation trees of ROS 2 lifecycle (managed) nodes: a node's state changes propagate to the nodes that depend on it.
