{"id":942,"date":"2014-09-19T11:43:27","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T09:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.frogrobot.eu\/wordpress\/?p=942"},"modified":"2014-09-20T16:09:39","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T14:09:39","slug":"fernando-cab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frogrobot.eu\/wordpress\/fernando-cab\/","title":{"rendered":"Fernando Caballero Benitez"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fernando in Lisbon, November 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fernando Caballero Benitez<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Luis Merino<\/a>\u00a0have been working together since 2003. They work on robot localisation and navigation, respectively. A robot first needs to know where it is (localisation) in order to carry out its mission (navigation). Fernando\u2019s expertise is a bit more towards aerial robots, Luis\u2019 towards ground robots.<\/p>\n

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PhD students who are fortunate enough to have these two as their supervisors are very lucky. It may be hard work but that goes with some solid training in the science that is the fundament of what they do, and sincere appreciation for what the PhD\u2019s achieve. It\u2019s a pleasure to see this close supervision in action \u2013 even if you don\u2019t understand Spanish.<\/p>\n

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One or both of these supervisors is on hand nearly all of the time<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/dd>\n
Apart from lots of lecturing and work in projects, Fernando is taking part in one of the\u00a0<\/span>European Robotics Challenge<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0<\/span>GRVC\u2013CATEC<\/a>\u00a0 team taking on\u00a0<\/span>Challenge 3<\/a>.\u00a0These Challenges are set up in\u00a0<\/span>stages<\/a>, something like the levels in a game. Each stage has to be overcome in order to pass on to the next phase and to acquire more funding. The first stage is to sift out the serious participants. The GRVC \u2013 CATEC\u00a0 team hopes to go on to the second phase after October 2014.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

Fernando likes a good barbecue and he designed our polos<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A really good barbecue<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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An excellent barbecue<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One day Fernando will get around to making a serious, English language website and you will then find the link here. Till then we\u2019ll have to make do with his publications<\/a> page.<\/p>\n

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How are we going to tackle those curbs?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/dt>\n
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  Fernando Caballero Benitez\u00a0and\u00a0Luis Merino\u00a0have been working together since 2003. They work on robot localisation and navigation, respectively. A robot first needs to know where it is (localisation) in order to carry out its mission (navigation). Fernando\u2019s expertise is a bit more towards aerial robots, Luis\u2019 towards ground robots. PhD students who are fortunate enough … Continue reading Fernando Caballero Benitez<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[44,13],"class_list":["post-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project","tag-meet-the-team","tag-upo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frogrobot.eu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frogrobot.eu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frogrobot.eu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frogrobot.eu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frogrobot.eu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.frogrobot.eu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011,"href":"https:\/\/www.frogrobot.eu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions\/1011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frogrobot.eu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frogrobot.eu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frogrobot.eu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}