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David Morilla Cabello

Roboticist | PhD Candidate, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain

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About Me

I hold a Bachelor's degree in Electronics, Robotics, and Mechatronics Engineering from the University of Malaga (2020), and a Master's degree in Robotics, Graphics, and Computer Vision from the University of Zaragoza (2022). Currently, I am pursuing a Ph.D. in the Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering at the University of Zaragoza, supported by a national FPU grant. My research focuses on active perception, semantic scene understanding, drone control, and multi-robot collaboration.

Research Interests

Semantic scene understanding
Active Perception
Multi-robot teams

Publications

Towards Map-Agnostic Policies for Adaptive Informative Path Planning Julius Rückin; David Morilla-Cabello; Cyrill Stachniss; Eduardo Montijano; Marija Popović IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
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BibTeX

@ARTICLE{ruckin-mapagnostic, author={Rückin, Julius and Morilla-Cabello, David and Stachniss, Cyrill and Montijano, Eduardo and Popović, Marija}, journal={IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters}, title={Towards Map-Agnostic Policies for Adaptive Informative Path Planning}, year={2025}, volume={10}, number={5}, pages={5114-5121}, keywords={Monitoring;Planning;Robots;Robot sensing systems;Space missions;Path planning;Training;Search problems;Gaussian processes;Semantics;Motion and path planning;aerial systems: perception and autonomy;reinforcement learning}, doi={10.1109/LRA.2025.3557233}}
Dynamics-Aware Fast Multi-Drone Exploration of Unknown Environments Juan Zacarías Bardají; David Morilla-Cabello; Eduardo Montijano 7th Iberian Robotics Conference (ROBOT)
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BibTeX

@INPROCEEDINGS{zacarias-dynamicsaware, author={Bardají, Juan Zacarías and Morilla-Cabello, David and Montijano, Eduardo}, booktitle={2024 7th Iberian Robotics Conference (ROBOT)}, title={Dynamics-Aware Fast Multi-Drone Exploration of Unknown Environments}, year={2024}, volume={}, number={}, pages={1-6}, doi={10.1109/ROBOT61475.2024.10797345}}
Perceptual Factors for Environmental Modeling in Robotic Active Perception David Morilla-Cabello; Jonas Westheider; Marija Popović; Eduardo Montijano IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
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BibTeX

@INPROCEEDINGS{morilla-cabello-perceptual, author={Morilla-Cabello, David and Westheider, Jonas and Popović, Marija and Montijano, Eduardo}, booktitle={2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)}, title={Perceptual Factors for Environmental Modeling in Robotic Active Perception}, year={2024}, volume={}, number={}, pages={4605-4611}, keywords={Weight measurement;Uncertainty;Redundancy;Active perception;Robot sensing systems;Cognition;Planning}, doi={10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10611380}}
Robust Fusion for Bayesian Semantic Mapping David Morilla-Cabello; Lorenzo Mur-Labadia; Ruben Martinez-Cantin; Eduardo Montijano IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
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@INPROCEEDINGS{morilla-cabello-robustsemantic, author={Morilla-Cabello, David and Mur-Labadia, Lorenzo and Martinez-Cantin, Ruben and Montijano, Eduardo}, booktitle={2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)}, title={Robust Fusion for Bayesian Semantic Mapping}, year={2023}, volume={}, number={}, pages={76-81}, doi={10.1109/IROS55552.2023.10342253}}
Sweep-Your-Map: Efficient Coverage Planning for Aerial Teams in Large-Scale Environments David Morilla-Cabello; Luca Bartolomei; Lucas Teixeira; Eduardo Montijano; Margarita Chli IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
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BibTeX

@ARTICLE{morilla-cabello-sweepmap, author={Morilla-Cabello, David and Bartolomei, Luca and Teixeira, Lucas and Montijano, Eduardo and Chli, Margarita}, journal={IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters}, title={Sweep-Your-Map: Efficient Coverage Planning for Aerial Teams in Large-Scale Environments}, year={2022}, volume={7}, number={4}, pages={10810-10817}, doi={10.1109/LRA.2022.3194686}}

Experience Timeline

9/2023 - 12/2023

Research Stay

University of Bonn, DMAR Phenorob

Bonn, Germany

2021 - Present

PhD Candidate in Robotics

Universidad de Zaragoza, Robotics, Perception and Real-Time group (RoPeRT)

Zaragoza, Spain

7/2021 - 3/2022

Robotics Student Fellowship & Invited Student

ETH Zürich, Vision for Robotics Lab (V4RL), D-MAVT

Zürich, Switzerland

3/2021 - 6/2021

Research Internship

Universidad de Zaragoza, Robotics, Perception and Real-Time group (RoPeRT)

Zaragoza, Spain

2020 - 2022

Master of Robotics, Graphics and Computer Vision

Universidad de Zaragoza

Zaragoza, Spain

10/2019 - 8/2020

Research Collaboration Scholarship

Universidad de Malaga, Systems Engineering and Automation department, ISA

Malaga, Spain

6/2019 - 3/2020

Programmer and automation engineer

Simumatik AB

Skövde, Sweden

2018 - 2019

Bachelor of Industrial Engineering

University of Skövde

Skövde, Sweden

Erasmus program

2015 - 2020

Bachelor of Electronics, Robotics and Mechatronics

Universidad de Malaga

Malaga, Spain

GPA - 8.67/10