Angel Santamaria-Navarro, PhD
 angel.santamaria@upc.edu
 Associate Professor at UPC
 Robotics Researcher at IRI (CSIC-UPC)
 Barcelona, Catalunya

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May, 2025 Book chapter accepted at the Springer-Verlag book “Intelligent Transformative Technologies”.
Apr, 2025 Conference paper accepted at EEITE 2025 (Chania).
Mar, 2025 Conference paper accepted at ICTR 2025 (Thessaloniki).
Feb, 2025 Journal paper accepted at ACE: Architecture, City and Environment .
Sep, 2024 Journal paper accepted at IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine .
Jul, 2024 Journal paper accepted at IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics .
Apr, 2024 Journal paper accepted at IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles .
Mar, 2024 Horizon Europe project TRIFFID accepted.
Nov, 2023 Project BotNet accepted (funded by “Ajuntament de BCN” and “Fundació La Caixa”).
Nov, 2023 Journal paper accepted at Transportation Research Procedia .
Sep, 2023 Granted R3 acreditation as consolidated researcher.
Jul, 2023 SP National project LENA accepted.
Apr, 2023 Conference paper accepted at ARSO 2023 (Berlin).
Feb, 2023 New article collaboration for the Spanish newspaper ABC .
Jan, 2023 Foundation of the Spin-off Vaive Logistics s.l..
Oct, 2022 SP National project AUDEL accepted.
Oct, 2022 Chair of Intelligent Transportation Systems (2) at IROS 2022, Kyoto.
Jul, 2022 Journal paper accepted for publication at IEEE RA-L .
Jun, 2022 Successful demo of the EU LogiSmile project.
Apr, 2022 Journal paper accepted for publication at Journal of Field Robotics .
Nov, 2021 ISRR 2019 paper accepted for publication as Robotics Research book chapter.
Oct, 2021 Winner of a Beatriu de Pinós grant.
Jul, 2021 Conference paper accepted at IROS 2021 (Prague).
Mar, 2021 Journal paper accepted for publication at IEEE RA-L with IEEE ICRA 2021 presentation.
Jan, 2021 Conference paper accepted for publication at IEEE Aerospace Conference 2021 (Yellowstone).
Nov, 2020 New article at IEEE Spectrum .
Nov, 2020 Presentation of “Simultaneous Estimation of Pose and Shape of Unknown Space Objects” at ASCEND .
Oct, 2020 Conference paper accepted for publication at 17th ISER (Malta).
Jul, 2020 Conference paper accepted at IROS 2020 (Las Vegas).
Jun, 2020 Conference paper accepted at ASME DSCC 2020 (Pittsburgh).
May, 2020 JPL Team Bonus Award for the 1rst place at the DARPA Subterranean Challenge, Urban circuit.
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).
Sep, 2019 JPL Team Bonus Award for the 2nd place at the DARPA Subterranean Challenge, Tunnel circuit.
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).
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).
Nov, 2017 Journal paper accepted for publication at Autonomous Robots (Springer) .
Jun, 2017 See you at ICRA 2017 (Singapore).
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 .
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 .
Aug, 2016 Conference paper accepted at IEEE SSRR 2016 (Lausanne).
Feb, 2016 I’ll be in Vijay Kumar’s Lab until May (UPenn, Philadelphia).