Profile
Lucio R. Salinas
Robotics, teleoperation, and automatic control for uncrewed systems
Assistant Researcher at CONICET and lecturer at the National University of San Juan. His work focuses on robotics, teleoperation, automatic control, human-robot interaction, uncrewed vehicles, multi-agent systems, digital twins, and simulation.
Research topics
My work sits at the intersection of automatic control, robotics, teleoperation, multi-agent systems, and digital twins, with a particular interest in uncrewed vehicles and transferable tools for applied research.
Current roles
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Assistant Researcher
CONICET – Instituto de Automática (INAUT), Universidad Nacional de San Juan
2019–present
- Main topic: teleoperation and control of uncrewed vehicles.
- Development and implementation of control and autonomous navigation algorithms for mobile robots.
- Design of human-robot interfaces and simulation/experimentation environments.
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Instructor / Assistant Lecturer
Universidad Nacional de San Juan – Facultad de Ingeniería
2024–present
- Part-time appointment in the Department of Electronics and Automation.
- Courses: Identification, Simulation and Optimization; Signals and Systems.
- Additional appointment in the Graduate Program in Control Systems Engineering; course in Analog Electronics.
Featured projects
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Protecting environments with UAV swarms
UK Research & Innovation – Innovate UK, Future Flight Challenge (Phase 3)
2022–2024
International project on the use of UAV swarms for environmental protection, monitoring, and response in complex scenarios.
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Swarm technology and digital twinning to enable coordination and utilisation of high numbers of 100kg payload UAVs in aid delivery and firefighting applications
UK Research & Innovation – Innovate UK, Future Flight Challenge (Phase 2)
2020–2022
Design of coordination strategies and digital twins for heavy-payload UAV systems.
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UAV swarm digital twin system II
University of Bristol / Windracers
2024
Digital twin of a multi-UAV system based on the ULTRA platform.
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UAV swarm digital twin system I
University of Bristol / Distributed Avionics
2022
Digital twin of a multi-UAV system based on the Believer UAV platform.
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RAT20 Robot Argentino Teleoperado
Instituto de Automática (CONICET-UNSJ) / Ministerio de Defensa
2020
Prototype teleoperation system for a mobile dual-manipulator robot.
Selected publications
View all publicationsL.R. Salinas, G. Tzoumas, S. Hauert, “Scalable real-time multi-UAV coverage path planning for large geographical areas”. International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), San Juan, Argentina.
Contact
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