David Rodríguez-Martínez

Welcome to my personal research site. I am a Beatriz Galindo Junior Professor at the University of Malaga's Department of Systems Engineering and Automation, where I've been serving since Dec'24. I work at the Space Robotics Lab alongside Prof. Carlos Pérez del Pulgar, where we conduct research at the intersection of robotics, advanced mechanical design, computer vision, and space exploration. My research focuses on the study of innovative robotic mobility systems and autonomous navigation pipelines. I have pioneered advancements in faster lunar locomotion and single-photon vision, with the goal of ultimately enabling planetary robots to autonomously explore some of the most extreme environments, from lunar permanently shadowed regions to underground martian caves.
In July 2022, I founded HERMES, an international working group formed by researchers and scientists working on heterogeneous multirobot cooperation for exploration and science in extreme environments. We have hosted several workshops at ICRA'23 and ICRA'24.
I did my postdoc at EPFL's Advanced Quantum Architecture Lab with Prof. Edoardo Charbon and my PhD at Tohoku University under the supervision of Prof. Kazuya Yoshida. I have also held research and technical positions at the European Space Agency and the German Aerospace Center.

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Address University of Malaga, Escuela de Ingenierías Industriales, Office 2.119.D, 29071 Malaga, Spain
Email david (dot) rm (at) uma (dot) es
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