Doctoral researcher at the Space Robotics Lab of the University of Malaga. Previously, I worked as a robotics engineer for ESA's Automation & Robotics Section and managed its Planetary Robotics Lab.
Selected Publications
A multi-modal planetary robotics dataset collected in Mars-analog terrain. It features RGB, depth, and thermal vision, IMU and force-torque telemetry, alongside laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS), local weather data, and high-resolution aerial mapping. You can find a short behind-the-scenes story of the field campaign in the Springer Nature Community.
Wheel-mounted force-torque sensors outperform the chassis IMU for terrain classification on a Mars-analog rover (about 90% vs. 82% test accuracy with SVMs and neural networks), using the open BASEPROD dataset. Also covers signal reliability and practical pitfalls of these sensors.
Hazard detection and avoidance built on top of the ExoMars path-following approach, using only the Localization Cameras stereo bench.