Outcomes
Brochure
OMICRON brochure, English
pdf (2023)
OMICRON brochure, Spanish
pdf (2023)
Rollup Banner
OMICRON rollup banner
pdf (2023)
Factsheets
Factsheet: Digital inspection
Web-friendly pdf (2024 - print-quality version available)
Factsheet: Predictive maintenance
Web-friendly pdf (2024 - print-quality version available)
Factsheet: Road intervention & maintenance
Web-friendly pdf (2024 - print-quality version available)
Factsheet: Smart construction
Web-friendly pdf (2024 - print-quality version available)
Videos
'Inside the High-Tech Future of Road Maintenance'
Final video, 2025 video, in YouTube playlist.
'Setting the Scene for the OMICRON–InfraROB Final Event'
Final Event, Opening, Jan 2025 video, in YouTube playlist.
'Digital Inspection to Advance Data-Driven Decision-Making in Road Network Management'
Final Event, Session 2, Jan 2025 video, in YouTube playlist.
'From Smart Construction to Predictive Maintenance: Evolution and Future Impact for Road Management'
Final Event, Panel 1, Jan 2025 video, in YouTube playlist.
'Safer Road Maintenance Interventions With V2X and Remotely Piloted Solutions'
Final Event, Session 6, Jan 2025 video, in YouTube playlist.
'Impacts and Insights: Closing Remarks From the OMICRON-InfraROB Final Event'
Final Event, Closing Remarks, Jan 2025 video, in YouTube playlist.
'OMICRON’s long-range UAV system reduces costs and risks of road inspections'
6th EAB, Nov 2024 video, in YouTube playlist.
'Robot-laser paint removal makes road maintenance safer '
5th EAB, 2024 video, in YouTube playlist.
'Virtual crisis room enhances emergency response '
5th EAB, 2024 video, in YouTube playlist.
'The future of road asset management'
2022 video, in YouTube playlist.
'Can High-Tech and Robots Save Europe’s Ageing Roads and Protect Lives?'
Video News Release, Dec 2024 video, in YouTube playlist.
'Smart Construction for Reduced Time, Cost, and Impact of Building and Maintaining Roads and Bridges'
Final Event, Session 1, Jan 2025 video, in YouTube playlist.
'Data-Based Prediction and Planning for Future Road Maintenance'
Final Event, Session 3, Jan 2025, Dec 2024 video, in YouTube playlist.
'Robotic Solutions for Smarter and Safer Road Maintenance'
Final Event, Session 5, Jan 2025 video, in YouTube playlist.
'A Vision for the Future of Road Management: High-Level Panel at OMICRON-InfraROB Final Event'
Final Event, Panel 2, Jan 2025 video, in YouTube playlist.
'OMICRON’s multi-UAV system improves road inspection risks and precision'
6th EAB, Nov 2024 video, in YouTube playlist.
'OMICRON’s ‘PointPix’ scanner offers fast and efficient road inspection'
6th EAB, Nov 2024 video, in YouTube playlist.
'OMICRON’s Digital Twin supports predictive maintenance for healthier roads'
6th EAB, Nov 2024 video, in YouTube playlist.
'OMICRON’s Decision Support tool optimises road maintenance planning'
6th EAB, Nov 2024 video, in YouTube playlist.
'Virtually-guided robot tools safely seal up road cracks'
5th EAB, 2024 video, in YouTube playlist.
Interview: Dr. Ander Ansuategi (Tekniker)
2022 video, in YouTube playlist.
Journalistic Articles
'Tecnologías robóticas en el mantenimiento vial: Validación de prototipos y avances tecnológicos'
HispaRob, Jan 2025 (Spanish)
'Smart surveys, smart repairs'
Intertraffic World, Jan 2025 (English)
'In Europe, new highway tech and robots could soon fix roads and protect lives'
Tech Explore (media article incl. video, Dec 2024 (English))
'Roboter und Drohnen sollen Straßen schneller reparieren'
Forschung und Wissen, Dec 2024 (German)
'Schluss mit den Dauerbaustellen: Bald sollen Roboter Autobahnen sanieren'
EFAHRER.com, Dec 2024 (German)
'Smart thinking'
Intertraffic World, Dec 2023 (English)
‘Las carreteras del futuro: Industria 4.0 y sostenibilidad’
Revista de Obras, March-April 2023 (Spanish)
'L'automazione rendera le strade piu sicure'
Automazione Plus, Feb 2023 (Italian)
'Roads in Europe are getting old: Industry 4.0 can fix them'
Illuminem Voices, Nov 2022 (English)
'Tekniker desarrollará una plataforma robótica multipropósito para mantenimiento en carretera'
HispaRob, Sept 2022 (Spanish)
'Platforma Robótica modular para tares de conservación de carreteras: Sellado de grietas'
Cimbra, Dec 2024 (Spanish)
'Project Omicron: drones and robots to repair Europe's roads faster'
Heise Online, (article incl. video) Dec 2024 (English)
'In Europe, new highway tech and robots could soon fix roads and protect lives'
EurekAlert!, (feature incl. video), Dec 2024 (English)
'Projekt Omicron: Drohnen und Roboter sollen Europas Straßen schneller reparieren'
Heise Online, Dec 2024 (German)
'Projekt Omicron: Drohnen und Roboter sollen Europas Straßen schneller reparieren'
MSN.com, Dec 2024 (German)
'Plataforma robótica multipropósito para un mantenimiento en carretera más eficiente y seguro'
HispaRob, April 2024 (Spanish)
'Transforming Road Maintenance: How Automation and VR Are Boosting Sustainability and Efficiency'
Direct Industry, May 2024
'Benefícios da IA na manutenção das rodovias portuguesas'
Revista Técnica, Jul-Aug 2023 (Portuguese)
'Europe’s road maintenance gets automated'
Automation Magazine, Jan 2023 (English)
Public Deliverable Reports
Functional and Technical Requirements of OMICRON Technologies
Deliverable Report 1.1, approved Feb 2023 (pdf download)
OMICRON Modular Robotic Platform Prototype
Deliverable Report 3.2, approved Mar 2024 (pdf download)
OMICRON Communication, Dissemination and Engagement Master Plan
Deliverable Report 7.1, approved Feb 2023 (pdf download)
OMICRON Demonstrators Definition
Deliverable Report 1.2, approved Feb 2023 (pdf download)
OMICRON Modular Solutions for Bridges
Deliverable Report 4.1, approved Feb 2023 (pdf download)
OMICRON Project Website
Deliverable Report 7.2, approved Feb 2023 (pdf download)
Academic Articles
A bi-criteria approach to the truck-multidrone routing problem
Expert Systems with Applications, Volume 243, 2024,
(pdf download or via Elsevier Science Direct)
Virtual reality-based dynamic scene recreation and robot teleoperation for hazardous environments
Computer-aided civil and infrastructure engineering, 2024
(pdf download or via WILEY online library)
From Reality Capture to Decision-Making
Chapter 10 in book 'Robotics and Automation Solutions for Inspection and Maintenance in Critical Infrastructures', ISBN: 978-1-63828-282-2, 2024
(pdf download or via Now publishers website)
Omicron. Intelligent road management platform
Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Apshalt 4.0, 2023
(pdf download)
Analysing the conditions of road assets with a network thinking
Proceedings of the 2023 European Conference on Computing in Construction and the 40th International CIB W78 Conference
(pdf download or via EC3 website)
Threat Management for Missions with Multiple Unmanned Aerial Systems operating in the U-space
Dissertation, 2023
(pdf download or via Zenodo)
Towards a digital twin-based intelligent decision support for road maintenance
paper at AIIT 3rd International Conference on Transport Infrastructure and Systems (TIS ROMA 2022), 15-16 September 2022, Rome, Italy
(pdf download or via Science Direct)
Open-Source Web-Based Ground Control Station for Long-Range Inspection with Multiple UAV s
International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), June 2024
(Zenodo)
Review of multimodal data and their applications for road maintenance
Smart Construction, 2024
(pdf download or via University of Cambridge repository or ELS Publishing)
Road pavement inspection with UAVs beyond visual line of sight in long-range operations
European Robotics Forum 2024
(pdf download or via Zenodo)
Augmented reality-based method for road maintenance operators in human–robot collaborative interventions
Computer-aided civil and infrastructure engineering, 2024
(pdf download or via WILEY online library.)
Enriching and maintaining road digital twins with condition information
Proceedings of the 30th EG-ICE: International Conference on Intelligent Computing in Engineering, 2023
(pdf download or via University of Cambridge website)
NHA12D: A New Pavement Crack Dataset and a Comparison Study Of Crack Detection Algorithms
Proceedings of the 2023 European Conference on Computing in Construction, Rhodes, Greece
(pdf download or via Zenodo)
Benchmark on Real-Time Long-Range Aircraft Detection for Safe RPAS Operations
Proceedings of ROBOT2022: Fifth Iberian Robotics Conference, 2022
(pdf download or via Springer Nature website)
Presentations
State of play of EU–funded infrastructure research projects
Final Event 2025: Old Roads, New Technologies, Madrid
Opening Session
(pdf download)
Intelligent Road Asset Management Platform
Final Event 2025: Old Roads, New Technologies, Madrid
Opening Session
(pdf download)
UAV road survey: Multi-UAV inspections
Final Event 2025: Old Roads, New Technologies, Madrid
Session 2: Digital inspection & monitoring
(pdf download)
PointPix pavement inspection system
Final Event 2025: Old Roads, New Technologies, Madrid
Session 2: Digital inspection & monitoring
(pdf download)
CEMBOX Digital Twin & Decision Support Tool: bridges & pavements
Final Event 2025: Old Roads, New Technologies, Madrid
Session 3: Predictive maintenance
(pdf download)
VR & AR-supported robotic platform actions
Final Event 2025: Old Roads, New Technologies, Madrid
Session 5: Smart intervention
(pdf download)
V2X communications and road safety
Final Event 2025: Old Roads, New Technologies, Madrid
Session 6: Safe intervention
(pdf download)
Transport Research Arena Conference 2022
Lisbon
OMICRON invited session
(pdf download)
Road management and innovation—the Spanish perspective
Final Event 2025: Old Roads, New Technologies, Madrid
Opening Session
(pdf download)
Enhanced modular solutions for pre-manufactured bridges
Final Event 2025: Old Roads, New Technologies, Madrid
Session 1: Smart construction
(pdf download)
UAV road survey: Long-range inspection
Final Event 2025: Old Roads, New Technologies, Madrid
Session 2: Digital inspection & monitoring
(pdf download)
Road Digital Twin
Final Event 2025: Old Roads, New Technologies, Madrid
Session 3: Predictive maintenance
(pdf download)
Decision Support System for highway maintenance planning
Final Event 2025: Old Roads, New Technologies, Madrid
Session 3: Predictive maintenance
(pdf download)
Pavement rehabilitation & maintenance Decision Support Tool
Final Event 2025: Old Roads, New Technologies, Madrid
Session 5: Smart intervention
(pdf download)
Results from Road Transport Research Conference 2023
Brussels
OMICRON Intelligent Road Asset Management Platform
(pdf download)