Overview

Much of Aerostack2's development has been funded by European and Spanish research projects in which CVAR-UPM takes part, and other groups build projects of their own on it. This section covers the projects with public evidence of Aerostack2 in use, with the papers and videos that came out of them.

European projects

Spanish projects

INSERTION and RATEC continue the work of COMCISE, an earlier AEI project (RTI2018-100847) that was built on the first Aerostack.

Used by others

Groups outside CVAR-UPM have built their own funded projects on Aerostack2.

• GLITTER. A Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie doctoral network on satellite Earth observation, grant agreement 101120117. The SnT centre of the University of Luxembourg used Aerostack2 to simulate drone formations in Gazebo that stand in for SmallSat formations, in Emulating SmallSat Missions With UAVs at the AIAA SciTech 2026 Forum.
• CROMU. Climate Resilience by Operating Multi UAS, by WPWEB in Italy and co-financed by the National Center for Sustainable Mobility in 2024 and 2025. Aerostack2 was the foundation of its multi-vehicle management system, a demonstrator that explores simulated territory to prevent and manage climate-related risks.
• Universidad de Zaragoza. The experiments in CHORAL, a planner for safe and efficient routing of heterogeneous robot teams, run on Aerostack2.

If your project uses Aerostack2, tell us in GitHub Discussions and we'll add it here.

Publications

• J. Rutinowski, D. Schuster, S. Kauffmann, P. Arias-Pérez, F. Polachowski, M. Granero, M. Roidl and P. Campoy. Exploring the Re-Identification of Industrial Entities on Autonomous Guided Vehicles. Logistics Journal, 2023(1), 2023.
• R. Perez-Segui, P. Arias-Perez, J. Melero-Deza, M. Fernandez-Cortizas, D. Perez-Saura and P. Campoy. Bridging the Gap between Simulation and Real Autonomous UAV Flights in Industrial Applications. Aerospace, 10(9), 814, 2023.
• L. Mejias, P. Arias-Perez, J. Melero-Deza and P. Campoy. A Virtual Spring-Damper Approach for UAV Swarm Formation and Decentralised Collision Avoidance. ICUAS 2024, pp. 579–585, IEEE, 2024.
• M. Fernandez-Cortizas, D. Perez-Saura, R. Perez-Segui, J. Rodriguez-Vazquez, J. S. Cely and P. Campoy. Local Gaussian Modifiers (LGMs): UAV Dynamic Trajectory Generation for Onboard Computation. ICUAS 2024, pp. 1101–1108, IEEE, 2024.
• P. Arias-Perez, A. Gautam, M. Fernandez-Cortizas, D. Perez-Saura, S. Saripalli and P. Campoy. Exploring Unstructured Environments using Minimal Sensing on Cooperative Nano-Drones. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2024.
• M. A. Luna, M. Molina, R. Da-Silva-Gomez, J. Melero-Deza, P. Arias-Perez and P. Campoy. A Multi-UAV System for Coverage Path Planning Applications with In-Flight Re-Planning Capabilities. Journal of Field Robotics, 41(5), 1480–1497, 2024.
• M. Tradacete-Ágreda, C. Santos-Pérez, P. J. Hueros-Barrios, F. J. Rodríguez-Sánchez, R. Pérez-Seguí, J. Melero-Deza and P. Campoy. Framework for Autonomous Inspection of PV Plants using IoT Electronics on each PV Panel and UAV Collaboration. Energy Conversion and Management: X, 100878, 2025.

Each project page lists the papers that came out of that project. For every paper that cites Aerostack2, see Citations.

Videos

More on the CVAR-UPM channels on Vimeo and YouTube.

Local Gaussian Modifiers

Inspection of photovoltaic plants

Re-planning on multi-UAV inspection missions

Exploring with cooperative nano-drones