Projects
Principal Investigator
Research Infrastructure Project "FUTURLAND-IA: the Laboratory of Digital Technologies of the Future". Principal Investigators: Marin Lujak and Daniel Palacios Alonso, URJC. Funded 200 k Euros by the University Rey Juan Carlos (2022)
R&D Project “COSASS: Coordinated Intelligent Services for Adaptive Smart Areas”, Ref.: PID2021-123673OB-C32 funded 155,8 k Euros by Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation within the framework "Projects for Generating Knowledge 2021: Oriented Research, Coordinated Type", 2022-2025. Principal Investigators: Alberto Fernandez and Marin Lujak, URJC. Research team: URJC, Polytechnic University of Valencia, and University of Salamanca, Spain.
Principal Investigator in the Research Project AGROBOTS: "Scalable, efficient and decentralized coordination of automated agricultural vehicle fleets” funded (123,3k Euros) by University Rey Juan Carlos and the Community of Madrid within the Beatriz Galindo excellence initiative of the Spanish Ministry of Universities. Partners with their own funds: Centrale Lille (France), University of Lincoln (UK), University of Rome “Tor Vergata” (Italy).
Principal Investigator in the Research Project AGRIFLEETS (ANR-20-CE10-0001): Distributed Route Guidance System for Autonomous Coordination of Agriculture Robot Fleets. Accepted for funding 306k Euros by the French National Research Agency (ANR) within the Young Researchers (JCJC) initiative. Partners with their own funds: Centrale Lille (France), IRSTEA/INRAE (France), Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain), SAMSYS SA (France), University of Lincoln (UK), University of Rome “Tor Vergata” (Italy), University Rey Juan Carlos (Spain). Total project cost: 531.8 k Euros. Accepted for funding by ANR 306 k Euros in October 2020.
R&D Project “Multi-Agent System Coordination and Cooperation applied to Smart Buildings”. Principal Investigators: Alberto Fernandez (University Rey Juan Carlos (Spain)), Marin Lujak (IMT Lille Douai), and Arnaud Doniec (IMT Lille Douai). Duration: 2017-2020. Funding: University Rey Juan Carlos and IMT Lille Douai.
R&D IMT Project COMRADES: Coordinated Multi-Robot Assistance Deployment in Smart Spaces. Principal Investigators: Panagiotis Papadakis (IMT Atlantique) and Marin Lujak (IMT Lille Douai). Duration: 2017. Partners: IMT Atlantique, IMT Lille Douai. Funding IMT.
Research Team Member
Researcher in the Industrial Research Project (Art. 60-LOSU) CITIZENLAB – Environment for experimentation and development of a comprehensive predictive model of individual and organizational citizen behavior
Researcher in the R&D Project "VAE": Value Awareness Engineering. Reference: TED2021-131295B-C33. Partners: IIIA-CSIC, VRAIN-UPV, CETINIA-URJC. Funding: URJC: 646 300€ (total 1.967.650€). Duration: 1/12/2022-30/11/2024. Funding body: Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. PIs at the URJC: Sascha Ossowski and Holger Billhardt.
Researcher in the R&D Project "IntelliEDGE": Smart and sustainable mobility: infrastructure and collaborative transport (ES: Movilidad inteligente y sostenible: infraestructura y transporte colaborativo). Reference: RTI2018-095390-B-C33. Partners: Polytechnic University of Valencia, University Rey Juan Carlos, University of Salamanca. Lead: University Rey Juan Carlos. Funding: 93.170,00 Euros. Duration: 1/1/2019-31/12/2021. Funding body: Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities. R&D&I projects «RETOS INVESTIGACIÓN» of the R&D State Program oriented towards societal challenges.
Researcher in the R&D Project "InEDGEMobility": Towards Sustainable Intelligent Mobility Supported by Multi-Agent Systems and Edge Computing (ES: Movilidad inteligente y sostenible soportada por sistemas multi-agentes y edge computing). Reference: RTI2018-095390-B-C32. Partners: Polytechnic University of Valencia, University Rey Juan Carlos, University of Salamanca. Lead: University of Salamanca. Funding: 169.037,00 Euros. Duration: 2019-2021. Funding body: Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities. R&D&I projects «RETOS INVESTIGACIÓN» of the R&D State Program oriented towards societal challenges.
Researcher in E-Logistics R&D Project. Lead: Deliver SA (Enterprise, France). Partners: Deliver, Webnet SA (Enterprise, France), IMT (France). Duration: 2017-2020. Funding: The French Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME).
Researcher in the European Concerted Research COST Action TD1409: Mathematics for industry network (MI-NET). Action Chair Prof. Dietmar HOEMBERG (Weierstrass Institute (Germany)). Partners: COST countries. Duration: 2015-2019. Funding: European Union, ESF COST.
Researcher in the European Concerted Research COST Action IC1406: High-Performance Modelling and Simulation for Big Data Applications (cHiPSet). Action Chair Prof. Joanna Kolodziej (NASK and Cracow University of Technology (Poland)). Duration: 2014-2018. Funding: European Union, ESF COST. Partners: COST countries.
Researcher in the European Concerted Research COST Action IC1303: Algorithms, Architectures and Platforms for Enhanced Living Environments (AAPELE). Lead: Prof. Nuno Garcia (University of Beira Interior (Portugal)). Duration: 2013-2017. Funding: European Union, ESF COST. Partners: COST countries.
Researcher in SURF Research project (Dynamic Coordination of Open Fleets in Urban Environments). Leads: Holger Billhardt and Alberto Fernández (University Rey Juan Carlos (Spain)). Duration: 2016-2018. Funding: Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO). Partners: Polytechnic University of Valencia, University Rey Juan Carlos, University of Salamanca (Spain)
Researcher in GES2ME Excellence Research Group (Grupo en Service Science, Management and Engineering). Lead: Prof. Esperanza Marcos Martínez (University Rey Juan Carlos (Spain)). Duration: 2013-2016. Funding: Banco Santander and University Rey Juan Carlos
Researcher in MOSI-AGIL Research project (Social Modelling of Ambient Intelligence Applied to Large Installations). Lead: Sascha Ossowski (University Rey Juan Carlos (Spain)). Partners: University Rey Juan Carlos, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Complutense University of Madrid (Spain). Duration: 2014-2018. Funding: Autonomous Community of Madrid.
Researcher in iHAS Research Project (Intelligent Social Computing for Human-Agent Societies: iHAS). Lead: Vicente Javier Julián Inglada (Polytechnic University of Valencia). Partners: Polytechnic University of Valencia, CETINIA-University Rey Juan Carlos, BISITE-University of Salamanca (Spain). Duration: 2013-2015. Funding: Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness.
Researcher in the Spanish Consolider Research Project on Agreement Technologies, a part of INGENIO 2010 initiative. Lead: Sascha Ossowski (University Rey Juan Carlos). Duration: 2007-2014. Funding: Spanish Ministry of Education and Science. Consolider Programme. Partners IIIA-CSIC (Spain), Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain), University Rey Juan Carlos (Spain). [video]
Researcher in the European Concerted Research COST Action IC0801: Agreement Technologies. Lead: Sascha Ossowski. Partners: COST countries. Duration: 2008-2012. Funding: European Union, ESF COST.
Researcher in OVAMAH Research Project (Organizaciones Virtuales Adaptativas: Técnicas y Mecanismos de Descripción y Adaptación). Lead: Alberto Fernández. Partners: Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain), University Rey Juan Carlos (Spain), University of Salamanca (Spain) Duration: 2010-2013. Funding: Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness.
Researcher in the International Robotics Research Project ‘IGRAMO’ (Improving GRAsping Movements by predictions based on Observation). Lead: Danica Kragic, KTH (Sweden). Partners: University of Zagreb (Croatia), KTH (Sweden), University of Rome “Tor Vergata” (Italy). Duration: 02/2009-02/2011. Funding: Croatian Ministry of Science and Technology.
Researcher in the research project “Decentralized control of mobile units in industrial environment. Lead: Prof. Osvaldo Maria Grasselli (University of Rome “Tor Vergata” (Italy)). Duration: 2009. Funding: University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy
Researcher in the project “Localization, movement and scheduling of robots in industrial and service environment”, Lead: Prof. Francesco Martinelli (University of Rome “Tor Vergata” (Italy)). Duration: 2008. Funding: University of Rome “Tor Vergata” (Italy)
Awards and Grants
Award of the Campus of International Excellence “Intelligent Energy" by the URJC and UAH for the best patent at the URJC in the amount of 2000 euros: Lujak, M., Billhardt, H., and Ossowski, S.: Method for coordinating fleets for event assistance in dynamic environments. Publication No. ES2445465 (B1), WO/2014/020186.
Distinguished Researcher, Beatriz Galindo Junior Grant funding in the amount of 200k Euros by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and the University Rey Juan Carlos. Duration: 15/04/2021-14/04/2025.
Grant AGROBOTIX: Scalable, efficient, and decentralized route control of automated agricultural vehicle fleets. 2022-REGING-95993. IMPULSO, own program of the URJC to promote research development for young doctors of the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos 2022, Funding 2397,13 euros
Erasmus+ Mobility Grant for teaching at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" in Italy. Operations Research course. Undergraduate degree in Management Engineering, L2. Integratory Seminar on the Assignment Problem. 3 ECTS credits: 10 teaching hours in the period from 3/11/2021 to 11/11/2021..
Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) Grant funded by the European ICT COST Action IC1406, “cHiPSet” for the project “High-Performance Computing for Collaborative Planning Applied to the Constrained Lot Sizing Problem: A Distributed Heuristic Approach Based on the Spillover Effect” in collaboration with Prof. Eva Onaindia at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain. Duration: 07/12/2018-21/12/2018
Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) Grant funded by the European COST Action TD1409, “MI-NET” for the project “A Distributed Algorithm for Dynamic Break Scheduling in Emergency Service Fleets” in collaboration with Prof. Holger Billhardt at the University Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain. Duration: 01/03/2018 - 05/04/2018.
Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) Grant funded by the European COST Action IC1303,mi- “AAPELE” for the project “Ambient Intelligence for Coordinating People Flows” in collaboration with Prof. Stefano Giordani at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy. Duration: 07/05/2016-15/07/2016.
Research Grant from the International Robotics Research Project ‘IGRAMO’ (Improving GRAsping Movements by predictions based on Observation) for the research visit to The Centre for Autonomous Systems headed by Prof. Danica Kragic at the Royal Institute of Technology KTH, Sweden. June 2009. Funding: Croatian Ministry of Science and Technology.