Profile
Lucio R. Salinas
Robotics, teleoperation, and automatic control for uncrewed systems
Independent 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, swarm robotics, digital twinning, modelling and simulation, and software development.
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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Independent Researcher
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) — Instituto de Automática (INAUT), Universidad Nacional de San Juan
2026–present
- Workplace: Instituto de Automática (INAUT) - National University of San Juan (UNSJ).
- Main research topic: teleoperation and control of uncrewed vehicles.
- Research areas: development and implementation of control, teleoperation and autonomous navigation algorithms; design of human-robot interfaces; development of digital environments.
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Assistant Professor (Lecturer)
Universidad Nacional de San Juan — Facultad de Ingeniería
2026–present
- Instituto de Automática - Department of Electronics and Automation, National University of San Juan.
- Teaching modules: Computer Science I and Computer Science II.
Argentina
Instructor – Practical and Laboratory Teaching
Universidad Nacional de San Juan — Facultad de Ingeniería
2024–present
- Instituto de Automática - Department of Electronics and Automation, National University of San Juan.
- Module: 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.
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 Argentine Teleoperated Robot
Instituto de Automática (CONICET-UNSJ) / Ministerio de Defensa
2020
Development of a prototype teleoperation system for a mobile dual-arm 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), 2025, San Juan, Argentina
Contact
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