Francisco Martín Rico

Francisco Martín is a Full Professor at Rey Juan Carlos University, where he leads the Intelligent Robotics Lab. He teaches courses such as Software Architectures for Robots and Planning and Cognitive Systems. He is the author of the book A Concise Introduction to Robot Programming with ROS 2 and has served as a member of the ROS 2 Technical Steering Committee. He is the main author of PlanSys2, the reference symbolic planning framework for ROS 2, and contributes to other core packages such as rclcpp, Behavior Trees, and Nav2. He is currently involved in several European and national research projects, and his group is an international reference in ROS 2, mobile robot navigation, and planning. He is the President of the Asociación ROS España. He was awarded the ROS Developer of the Year Award in 2022 at the ROS Developer Day.