Enrique Heredia Aguado

Research Projects

Projects I have been involved in during my career

TED2021 (Oct 2025 – present): "Desarrollo de tecnologías móviles inteligentes para tareas de seguridad y vigilancia de entornos de interior y exterior".

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 achieving a better integration of mobile and intelligent robots into the current society. The project is aimed at three research lines: navigation, recognition and manipulation; with the idea of integrating the robotic solutions both in the natural environment and with the people involved on it.

Publications and Conferences (5)

  • Journal Articles 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). DOI [link]
  • Journal Articles 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). DOI [link]
  • Book Chapters Antonio Santo, Arturo Gil, David Valiente, Alvaro Martinez, Enrique Heredia. (2026). Sparse Convolutional 3D Neural Networks for the Assessment of Environment Traversability. Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics. DOI
  • Conference Papers 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). DOI
  • Conference Papers 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.

ACTVIS (Dec 2024 – present): "Visión Activa: qué nos enseñan los movimientos oculares sobre las estrategias de búsqueda visual".

Interdisciplinary collaboration with the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), combining computer vision techniques with psychology research to study visual search strategies. The project investigates how eye movements reveal search strategies in both screen-based and real-world contexts, bridging robotics perception and human visual cognition.

Publications and Conferences (3)

  • Presentations Enrique Heredia-Aguado, Laura Cepero Amores, Luis Miguel Jimenez, David Valiente, Arturo Gil, 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).
  • Presentations 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).
  • Posters 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).

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MOSAR (Mar 2019 – Oct 2021): "MOdular Spacecraft Assembly and Reconfiguration".

Focused on orbital operations, this project focussed on the capabilities of in-orbit reconfiguration and servicing. A set of spacecraft modules and a walking manipulator was deployed to autonomously reconfigure capabilities, shape, power and data transfer between these spacecraft modules. H2020 SRC PERASPERA OG9.

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PROACT (Feb 2019 – Oct 2021): "Planetary RObots Deployed for Assembly and Construction Tasks".

Focussed on collaboration in planetary robots, this project focussed on extending the autonomy capabilities of OG2 to a multi-agent system. Using this, a fleet of robots would autonomously make representative a set of operations to build an ISRU plant. H2020 SRC PERASPERA OG11.

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Publications and Conferences (4)

  • Book Chapters 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. Space Robotics: The State of the Art and Future Trends. DOI [link]
  • Conference Papers 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). DOI
  • Conference Papers 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). [link]
  • Conference Papers 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). DOI

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.

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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.

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Publications and Conferences (2)

  • Conference Papers 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. International Astronautical Congress (IAC). [link]
  • Conference Papers 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. International Astronautical Congress (IAC). [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.

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