Angel García-Olaya
Associate Professor
About Me
I am an Associate Professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain. I work at the Computer Science and Engineering Department, in the Planning & Learning Group (PLG). I am also Director of the Master in Technologies in the Financial Sector: FinTech. My main research interest is classical planning and robotics.
Short bio
My research career began in 1999 when I started my PhD on Telemedicine at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). During that stage I participated in a total of 6 research projects, three of them funded by the European Union Framework Program and the remaining three ones by the Spanish Government, with more than one million of Euros of total funding. In my PhD I developed a Telemedicine system for the shared care of diabetic patients, which received in 2004 the Innovation in Telemedicine Prize awarded by the Telemedicine Chair of Universidad de Santiago de Compostela and Telefónica. The system proved to improve the metabolic state of patients in a clinical trial at Sant Pau Hospital in Barcelona (2002-2003) and was used in clinical routine for almost a decade. During my PhD I performed three short research stays at the University of Athens.
In fall 2004 I joined Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, first as Visiting Professor and from April 2022 as Associate Professor (Profesor Titular). Here I started working on a totally different research field: Artificial Intelligence, and specifically Automated Planning. During this second part of my academic career I have been Principal Investigator of 6 research projects: two national projects, one funded by the eContentPlus EU program, another one funded by the European Space Agency and two Comunidad de Madrid regional projects. Total funding obtained by these projects has been about 250.000 €. I have also participated in 7 research projects: 4 national ones, one belonging to the 7th Framework Program, and 2 regional ones, funded in total with more than 900.000 €. In this second research stage I received the best paper award of the Conferencia de la Asociación Española para la Inteligencia Artificial, in 2011.
I have supervised three PhD theses (2010, 2014 and 2020). I am a member of the program committee of some of the most important conferences in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Automated Planning, like AAAI, ICAPS and IJCAI. I have also organized the International Planning Competition (2011), a workshop in ICAPS 2012, a special session in Robot 2017 and the International Workshop on Physical Agents 2018.
I have performed research stays at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, USA (2009 and 2010), Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Ecuador (2013 and 2014), University of Macedonia, Greece (2022), and University of Auckland, New Zealand (2023 and 2024)
Publications
2025
Alba Gragera, Raquel Fuentetaja, Angel García-Olaya and Fernando Fernández.
On the Gains from Using Action Observations in Domain Repair.
In Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2025), pp. 343 – 347. 2025.
citationMichael Barley, Natasha de Kriek, Santiago Franco, Angel García-Olaya, Tim Hartill, Christopher Triggs, Henry Zwart, Vidal Alcázar and Patricia Riddle.
A Problem with the Current Methodology for Comparing Search Algorithms and a Proposed Solution.
In The International Symposium on Combinatorial Search, pp. 29 – 37. 2025.
citationAngel García-Olaya, Patricia Riddle and Michael Barley.
Strategies to Improve Goal Selection in Satisficing Oversubscription Planning.
In Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2025), pp. 223 – 227. 2025.
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2023
Alba Gragera, Raquel Fuentetaja, Angel García-Olaya and Fernando Fernández.
A Planning Approach to Repair Domains with Incomplete Action Effects.
In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2023), pp. 153 – 161. 2023.
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2021
Ana Iglesias, Javier García, Angel García-Olaya, Raquel Fuentetaja, Fernando Fernández, Adrian Romero-Garces, Rebeca Marfil, Antonio Bandera, Karine Lan Hing Ting, Dimitri Voilmy, Alvaro Duenas and Cristina Suarez-Mejias.
Extending the Evaluation of Social Assistive Robots with Accessibility Indicators: The AUSUS Evaluation Framework.
IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems 51, pp. 601 – 612. 2021.
citationAngel García-Olaya, Tomás de la Rosa and Daniel Borrajo.
Selecting goals in oversubscription planning using relaxed plans.
Artificial Intelligence 291. 2021.
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2020
Raquel Fuentetaja, Angel García-Olaya, Javier García, Jose Carlos González and Fernando Fernández.
An automated planning model for hri: Use cases on social assistive robotics.
Sensors 20, pp. 1 – 19. 2020.
citationAlejandro Martín, José C. Pulido, José C. González, Angel García-Olaya and Cristina Suárez.
A framework for user adaptation and profiling for social robotics in rehabilitation.
Sensors 20, pp. 1 – 23. 2020.
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2019
Angel García-Olaya, Raquel Fuentetaja, Javier García, Jose Carlos González and Fernando Fernández.
Challenges on the Application of Automated Planning for Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment Using an Autonomous Social Robot.
Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 855, pp. 179 – 194. 2019.
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2018
Antonio Bandera, Juan P. Bandera, Pablo Bustos, Fernando Férnandez, Angel García-Olaya, Javier García, Ismael García-Varea, Luis J. Manso, Rebeca Marfil, Jesús Martínez-Gómez, Pedro Núñez, Jose M. Perez-Lorenzo, Pedro Reche-Lopez, Cristina Romero-González and Raquel Viciana-Abad.
LifeBots I: Building the software infrastructure for supporting lifelong technologies.
Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 693, pp. 391 – 402. 2018.
citationDimitri Voilmy, Cristina Suárez, Adrian Romero-Garcés, Cristian Reuther, Jose Carlos Pulido, Rebeca Marfil, Luis J. Manso, Karine Lan Hing Ting, Ana Iglesias, Jose Carlos González, Javier García, Angel García-Olaya, Raquel Fuentetaja, Fernando Fernández, Alvaro Dueñas, Luis Vicente Calderita, Pablo Bustos, T. Barile, Juan Pedro Bandera and Antonio Bandera.
CLARC: A cognitive robot for helping geriatric doctors in real scenarios.
Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 693, pp. 403 – 414. 2018.
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2015
Alejandro Martín, José C. González, José C. Pulido, Angel García-Olaya, Fernando Fernández and Cristina Suárez.
Therapy Monitoring and Patient Evaluation with Social Robots.
In ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, pp. 152 – 155. 2015.
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2013
Antonio Jesus Palomino, Angel García-Olaya, Fernando Fernández and Juan Pedro Bandera.
From perception to action and vice versa: A new architecture showing how perception and action can modulate each other simultaneously.
In 2013 European Conference on Mobile Robots, ECMR 2013 - Conference Proceedings, pp. 268 – 273. 2013.
citationJavier García, José E. Florez, Álvaro Torralba, Daniel Borrajo, Carlos Linares López, Angel García-Olaya and Juan Sáenz.
Combining linear programming and automated planning to solve intermodal transportation problems.
European Journal of Operational Research 227, pp. 216 – 226. 2013.
citationJavier Ortiz, Angel García-Olaya and Daniel Borrajo.
Using activity recognition for building planning action models.
International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks 2013. 2013.
citationTomás De La Rosa, Angel García-Olaya and Daniel Borrajo.
A case-based approach to heuristic planning.
Applied Intelligence 39, pp. 184 – 201. 2013.
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2011
Ezequiel Quintero, Vidal Alcázar, Daniel Borrajo, Juan Fdez-Olivares, Fernando Fernández, Angel García-Olaya, César Guzmán, Eva Onaindía and David Prior.
Autonomous mobile robot control and learning with the PELEA architecture.
In Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2011), pp. 51 – 56. 2011.
citationEzequiel Quintero, Angel García-Olaya, Daniel Borrajo and Fernando Fernández.
Control of autonomous mobile robots with automated planning.
Journal of Physical Agents 5, pp. 3 – 13. 2011.
citationJosé E. Flórez, Álvaro Torralba Arias De Reyna, Javier García, Carlos Linares López, Angel García-Olaya and Daniel Borrajo.
Planning multi-modal transportation problems.
In Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2011), pp. 66 – 73. 2011.
citationJavier Ortiz Laguna, Angel García-Olaya and Daniel Borrajo.
A dynamic sliding window approach for activity recognition.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6787 LNCS, pp. 219 – 230. 2011.
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2007
Tomás De La Rosa, Angel García-Olaya and Daniel Borrajo.
Case-based recommendation of node ordering in planning.
In Proceedings of the Twentieth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, FLAIRS 2007, pp. 393 – 398. 2007.
citationTomás De La Rosa, Angel García-Olaya and Daniel Borrajo.
Using cases utility for heuristic planning improvement.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4626 LNAI, pp. 137 – 148. 2007.
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