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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.

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Location
San Juan, Argentina
22 indexed journal articles
13 national R&D projects
2 international R&D projects
22+ undergraduate capstone projects supervised or co-supervised

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.

Robotics Teleoperation Automatic control Human-robot interaction Unmanned aerial vehicles Multi-agent systems Digital twins Modeling and simulation Software development

Current roles

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Argentina

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.

Argentina

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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Researcher

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.

Researcher

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.

Researcher / Developer

UAV swarm digital twin system II

University of Bristol / Windracers

2024

Digital twin of a multi-UAV system based on the ULTRA platform.

Researcher / Developer

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.

Researcher / Developer

RAT20 Robot Argentino Teleoperado

Instituto de Automática (CONICET-UNSJ) / Ministerio de Defensa

2020

Prototype teleoperation system for a mobile dual-manipulator robot.

Contact

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