David Rodríguez-Martínez Research Website

Selected Publications

Fast Vision in the Dark: A Case for Single-Photon Imaging in Planetary Navigation

D. Rodríguez-Martínez, C.J. Pérez del Pulgar

18th Symposium on Advanced Space Technologies in Robotics and Automation (ASTRA), 2025, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Enabling Faster Locomotion of Planetary Rovers with a Mechanically-Hybrid Suspension

D. Rodríguez-Martínez*, K. Uno*, K. Sawa, M. Uda, G. Kudo, G. Hernan Diaz, A. Umemura, S. Santra, K.Yoshida

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 9(1), 619-626, Jan 2024. *indicates equal contribution and shared authorship. [Video]

A lunar reconnaissance drone for cooperative exploration and high-resolution mapping of extreme locations

R. Tonasso, D. Tataru, H. Rauch, V. Pozsgay, T. Pfeiffer, E. Uythoven, D. Rodríguez-Martínez

Acta Astronautica, 218, 1-17, May 2024

High-speed mobility in planetary surfaces: a technical review

D. Rodríguez-Martínez, M. Van Winnendael, K. Yoshida

Journal of Field Robotics, 36(8), 1436-1455, 2019

The effects of increasing velocity on the tractive performance of planetary rovers

D. Rodríguez-Martínez, F. Buse, M. Van Winnendael, K. Yoshida

15th ISTVS Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 2019. (best paper of the conference award) [Video]

Full Publication List

Code & Datasets

Explorer 1 (EX1) rover source code and design files

MASTER & USER MANUAL

SPICE-HL3: Single-Photon, Inertial, and Stereo Camera dataset for Exploration of High-Latitude Lunar Landscapes

Workshops, Tutorials, and Demos

These are the workshops, tutorials, and demos I helped organize, run, or conduct.

Contact

Address University of Malaga, Escuela de Ingenierías Industriales, Office 2.119.D, 29071 Malaga, Spain
Email david (dot) rm (at) uma (dot) es
Office hours Office hours: Thursdays, 11:00-13:00 / 14:00-16:00

For UMA students

If you are undegraduate or graduate student at UMA interested in conducting your TFG or TFM in our lab, check the list of available projects here. For a list of available projects under my supervision check here (UMA email access only).

PhD and Postdoc applications

Check all our open positions here.

If you are a PhD or Postdoc interested in conducting a research stay in our lab, send me an email using "Research Stay" as the email subject, including the following information: 1) your CV, 2) preferred duration for your stay and desired starting date, 3) whether you have secured funding to support your stay with us or need financial support, and a 4) brief description of your current research and how an stay with us could support/complement/enhance it.

Scholarship applications

In the event that no open positions are available in our lab, I often assist national and international students interested in conducting an internship, master's, or PhD in our group with their applications to a number of scholarship programs.

Note that our lab does not offer any scholarships.

If interested, send me an email using "Scholarship Application" as the email subject, including the following information: 1) your CV, 2) targeted scholarship program with due dates for submission of your application and earliest starting date if successful, 3) a short description (250-500 words) of the project you would like to conduct, and 4) comments on your experience/prior work related to the project.

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