Robotics and Computer Vision researcher, currently pursuing a PhD at
Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche (UMH) within the Automation, Robotics and Computer Vision Lab (ARVC).
My work focuses on multi-modal sensor fusion (RGB-Thermal, LiDAR)
and deep learning-based object detection.
I’m also interested in research methodology and have collaborated with
psychology and methodology teams to refine experimental design and data analysis
across different domains.
Previously, I worked as a Robotics Engineer at
GMV Aerospace & Defence, contributing to on-board autonomy systems for
planetary exploration robots within ESA and EU-funded projects.
I’m passionate about robotics as a field of continuous discovery and collaboration,
bridging scientific insight and practical innovation. This website is my personal CV along
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Thesis on multispectral image fusion (thermal and RGB) and its methodological study through deep learning, extended to multisensor integration including LiDAR.
Research stay focused on sensor integration (multispectral camera), calibration and data acquisition within the ROBDEKON2 project. Funded by Banco Santander predoctoral mobility grant.
Robotics engineer internship on ARVC group in UMH:
Basic sensor integration in a Husky (Clearpath) mobile robotic platform (IMU, LiDAR, GPS/RTK).
Integration and testing on navigation tools in a Husky (Clearpath) mobile robotic platform.
Development and integration of autonomy systems: mission planning, mission control and monitoring, path planning (mobile robot base and robotic arm).
Development of on board controller to handle different autonomy levels and components, execution monitoring and mission plan execution.
Integration and extension of different path-planning and trajectory control of both mobile robot base and robotic arms.
Integration of the system with robotic platforms to cover different scenarios.
Innovation and Education department.
3D printing development and testing, plus revision and creation of educational content on robotics, programming and 3D printing.
Medical 3D printing: Liaison between the 3D print workshop at Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón and the company. Acted as an advisor in designing and manufacturing different types of tools and accessories for medical consultation.
Teaching assistant in the Expert Course in Robotics, Programming and 3D Printing: "Experto Universitario en Robótica, Programación e Impresión 3D" at Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR). Involved in 3D printing, programming and robotics subjects.
Development and review of educational resources on programming and 3D printing.
Enrique Heredia-Aguado, Juan Jose Cabrera, Luis Miguel Jimenez, David Valiente, Arturo Gil.
(2025). Static Early Fusion Techniques for Visible and Thermal Images to Enhance Convolutional Neural Network Detection: A Performance Analysis.
Remote Sensing.
Vol. 17(6).
Antonio Santo, Enrique Heredia-Aguado, Carlos Viegas, David Valiente, Arturo Gil.
(2025). Ground Segmentation for LiDAR Point Clouds in Structured and Unstructured Environments Using a Hybrid Neural–Geometric Approach.
Technologies.
Vol. 13(4).
Antonio Santo, Arturo Gil, David Valiente, Alvaro Martinez, Enrique Heredia.
(2026). Sparse Convolutional 3D Neural Networks for the Assessment of Environment Traversability.
In Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics.
Springer Nature Switzerland.
pp. 199–218.
Shashank Govindaraj, Wiebke Brinkmann, Francisco Javier Colmenero, Irene Sanz Nieto, Alexandru But, Matteo De Benedetti, Leon C. Danter, Mercedes Alonso, Enrique Heredia, Simon Lacroix, Dominik Kleszczynski, Joseph Purnell, Kevin Picton, Nabil Aouf, Luis Lopes.
(2024). Building a Lunar Infrastructure with the Help of a Heterogeneous (Semi)Autonomous Multi-robot-Team.
In Space Robotics: The State of the Art and Future Trends.
Springer Nature Switzerland.
pp. 395–431.
Enrique Heredia-Aguado, Maria Flores, Monica Ballesta, David Valiente, Luis Paya, Arturo Gil, Juan Jose Cabrera.
(2026). Fusion temprana de imagenes multiespectrales mediante tecnicas de reproyeccion para tareas de deteccion mediante algoritmos profundos: Un estudio comparativo.
Simposio CEA de Robotica, Bioingenieria, Vision Artificial y Automatica Marina.
Maria Flores, Enrique Heredia-Aguado, Juan Jose Cabrera, Arturo Gil, David Valiente, Luis Paya.
(2026). Localizacion global mediante descriptores basados en un diccionario semantico-visual.
Simposio CEA de Robotica, Bioingenieria, Vision Artificial y Automatica Marina.
Enrique Heredia-Aguado, Marcos Alfaro-Perez, Maria Flores, Luis Paya, David Valiente, Arturo Gil.
(2025). A Robust Comparative Study of Adaptative Reprojection Fusion Methods for Deep Learning Based Detection Tasks with RGB-Thermal Images.
Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO).
SciTePress.
pp. 313–320.
Marcos Alfaro, Juan Cabrera, Enrique Heredia-Aguado, Oscar Reinoso, Arturo Gil, Luis Paya.
(2025). Place Recognition with Omnidirectional Imaging and Confidence-Based Late Fusion.
Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO).
SciTePress.
pp. 117–125.
Miriam Maximo, Monica Ballesta, Enrique Heredia-Aguado, David Valiente, Oscar Reinoso.
(2024). Localizacion topologica Monte Carlo basada en descripcion de nubes de puntos LiDAR 3D.
Actas del Simposio de Robotica, Bioingenieria y Vision por Computador.
pp. 55–60.
Enrique Heredia-Aguado, David Valiente, Arturo Gil, Miriam Maximo, Luis Paya.
(2024). Fusion estatica de imagenes del espectro visible y termico para una mejor deteccion de personas mediante Redes Neuronales Convolucionales: un analisis del rendimiento.
Actas del Simposio de Robotica, Bioingenieria y Vision por Computador.
pp. 263–268.
Wiebke Brinkmann, Leon Danter, Tobias Stark, Enrique Heredia-Aguado, Francisco Javier Colmenero, Mercedes Alonso.
(2022). Mantis Within a Multi Robot Team for Lunar Exploration and Construction Tasks.
2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference (AERO).
IEEE.
Shashank Govindaraj, Wiebke Brinkmann, Francisco Javier Colmenero, Enrique Heredia-Aguado, Mercedes Alonso, Alexandru But, Leon Danter, Luis Lopes.
(2021). Building a Lunar Infrastructure with the Help of a Heterogeneous (Semi)Autonomous Multi-Robot-Team.
International Astronautical Congress (IAC).
Shashank Govindaraj, Irene Nieto, Alexandru But, Wiebke Brinkmann, Alexander Dettmann, Leon Danter, Nabil Aouf, Masoud Sotoodeh Bahraini, Abdelhafid Zenati, Heitor Savino, Jakub Stelmachowski, Francisco Colmenero, Enrique Heredia-Aguado, Mercedes Alonso, Joe Purnell, Kevin Picton, Luis Lopes.
(2020). Multi-Robot Cooperation for Lunar Base Assembly And Construction.
International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (i-SAIRAS).
Jorge Ocon, Francisco Colmenero, Iulia Dragomir, Enrique Heredia-Aguado, Mercedes Alonso, Joaquin Estremera, Robert Marc, Piotr Weclewski, Thomas Keller, Mark Woods, Spyridon Karachalios.
(2019). Testing Autonomous Robots: A Discussion on Performances Obtained During the ERGO Field Tests.
Symposium on Advanced Space Technologies in Robotics and Automation (ASTRA 2019).
Jorge Ocon, Francisco Colmenero, Joaquin Estremera, Karl Buckley, Mercedes Alonso, Enrique Heredia-Aguado, J. Garcia, Andrew Coles, Amanda Coles, M. Martinez, E. Savaş, Florian Pommerening, Thomas Keller, Spyridon Karachalios, Mark Woods, Iulia Dragomir, Saddek Bensalem, Pierre Dissaux, A. Schach, Piotr Weclewski.
(2018). The ERGO framework and its use in planetary/orbital scenarios.
Proceedings of the 69th International Astronautical Congress (IAC).
Enrique Heredia-Aguado, Alejandro Rujano, Mónica Galdeano, David Valiente, Arturo Gil.
(2026). The Impact of Performance Variability on Neural Network Evaluation and its Implications for Model Design.
Preprint.
Laura Cepero Amores, Enrique Heredia-Aguado, Alejandro Rujano, M. Pilar Aivar, Victoria Plaza.
(2026). Búsqueda visual repetida en contexto natural, ¿eficiencia o aprendizaje?.
VI Congreso Anual de Estudiantes de Doctorado (UMH).
Enrique Heredia-Aguado, Alejandro Rujano, David Valiente, Arturo Gil.
(2026). Tecnicas de fusion de imagenes multiespectrales para una mejor deteccion mediante algoritmos de aprendizaje profundo.
VI Congreso Anual de Estudiantes de Doctorado (UMH).
Enrique Heredia-Aguado, Laura Cepero Amores, Luis Miguel Jimenez, M. Pilar Aivar.
(2025). Colaboracion interdisciplinar en estudios de doctorado: Estudiando el proceso de busqueda visual en personas a traves de la vision por computador.
V Congreso Anual de Estudiantes de Doctorado (UMH).
Laura Cepero Amores, Enrique Heredia-Aguado, Victoria Plaza, M. Pilar Aivar.
(2025). Visual Search Strategies: Comparing Screen-Based and Real-World Contexts.
Reunion Cientifica sobre Atencion (RECA14).
Laura Cepero Amores, Enrique Heredia-Aguado, Lucía Bernardino, Alejandro Rujano, Jose David Moreno, Pilar Aivar, Victoria Plaza.
(2026). From Screens to the Real World: How context shapes Visual Search.
11th Iberian Congress of Perception (CIP 2026).
M. Pilar Aivar, Laura Cepero Amores, Enrique Heredia-Aguado, Alejandro Rujano, Rocio Asperilla, Victoria Plaza.
(2026). Visual search for real objects: how spatial consistency facilitates performance.
Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting (VSS 2026).
Laura Cepero Amores, Enrique Heredia-Aguado, Lidia Sobrino, M. Pilar Aivar.
(2024). Bringing Visual Search to Life: how we find colored objects when performing a natural task.
XIV Congress of the Spanish Society for Experimental Psychology (SEPEX24).
Enrique Heredia-Aguado, Alejandro Rujano.
(2026). Psychometric Tools: An Interactive Web Applications for Measurement and Assessment Research.
Zenodo.
Enrique Heredia-Aguado, Alejandro Rujano, David Valiente, Arturo Gil.
(2026). MLV Tools: Interactive Web Applications for Machine Learning Variance Analysis.
Zenodo.
Some relevant projects I have been involved during the last years:
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At UMH (2022–present)
TED2021 (Oct 2025 – present): "Desarrollo de tecnologías móviles inteligentes para tareas de seguridad y vigilancia de entornos de interior y exterior".
ROBDEKON2: DFKI Bremen (Dec. 2025).
AViRobots (Jan 2025 – Oct 2025): "Development of an intelligent surveillance and security infrastructure system based on mobile robots".
PROMETEO (Nov 2022 – Dec 2024): "Towards Further Integration of Intelligent Robots in Society: Navigate, Recognize and Manipulate". Focused on improving the integration of mobile and intelligent robots into society. The project targeted three research lines: navigation, recognition and manipulation, aiming to integrate robotic solutions both in natural environments and in close interaction with people.
ACTVIS (collaboration): Visión Activa: qué nos enseñan los movimientos oculares sobre las estrategias de búsqueda visual. Collaboration with Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Dec 2024 – present).
At GMV (2017–2021)
MOSAR (Mar 2019 – Oct 2021): "MOdular Spacecraft Assembly and Reconfiguration". Focused on orbital operations, this project focused on in-orbit reconfiguration and servicing capabilities. A set of spacecraft modules and a walking manipulator was deployed to autonomously reconfigure functionality, geometry, power and data transfer among spacecraft modules. H2020 SRC PERASPERA OG9. [link]
PROACT (Feb 2019 – Oct 2021): "Planetary RObots Deployed for Assembly and Construction Tasks". Focused on collaboration in planetary robotics, this project focused on extending OG2 autonomy capabilities to a multi-agent system. Using this approach, a fleet of robots could autonomously execute a representative set of operations to build an ISRU plant. H2020 SRC PERASPERA OG11. [link]
ADE (Feb 2019 – Oct 2021): "Autonomous DEcision making in very long traverses". Focused on planetary exploration robots, this project focused on enhancing the Autonomy framework with space hardware specifically targeting the accomplishments of long traverses in full autonomy. H2020 SRC PERASPERA OG10. [link]
ERGO (Jan 2018 – Jan 2019): "European Robotic goal-oriented autonomous COntroller". Focused on delivering an advanced and flexible space autonomous framework with adaptable levels of autonomy. The framework includes mission planning, execution and monitoring along with path planning and trajectory control for both mobile robot base and robotic arms among other functionalities. H2020 SRC PERASPERA OG2. [link]
GOTCHA (Feb 2017 – May 2018): "GOAC TRL-increase Convenience-enhancements, Hardening and Application-extension". Aiming to develop a robotic autonomous controller for the space domain integrating an action-based planner. Its purpose is to enhance the autonomy capabilities on board space systems offering goal-based commanding and telemetry monitoring. ESA/GSTP. [ESA post]
01/2025 – 06/2025: Diploma de Formación Inicial para la Docencia Universitaria — UMH (100 h)