Professor Ollero is co-chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Systems, Coordinator of the Aerial Robotics Topic Group of euRobotics/SPARC, Member of the Scientific Council of CNRS (France), and president of the Spanish Society for Research and Development in Robotics (SEIDROB). He has been member of the European Robotics Network Board (2008-2010), Vice-Chair (2005-2008) of the Technical Board of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), Chair of the Coordinating Committee of "Mechatronics, Robotics and Components" (2002-2005), Chair of the Coordinating Committee on "Manufacturing and Instrumentation" (1999-2002), Chair of the Technical Committee on "Components and Instruments" (1993-1999), and Chair of the Working Group on "Intelligent Components and Instruments" (1991-1993). He is currently the President of the Spanish Society for Research and Development in Robotics (SEIDROB).

He is associated editor of the Journal of Field Robotics (Wiley), editor at large (Europe) of the Journal of Intelligent and Robotics Systems (Springer) and editor of the "Revista Iberoamericana de Automática e Informática". He has been editor of Control Engineering Practice (1993-2005) and IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics (1995-2008).

He has delivered by invitation more than 120 plenary lectures in conferences, courses and other events.

He is the recipient of 14 awards including the 2010 EUROP-EURON Robotics Technology Transfer second award to the Project AWARE, the IV "Javier Benjumea Puigcervert Award" by the scientific excellence and the scientific-technical and social interest of the work on "Autonomous distributed systems for applications in vehicles and natural environments" (2007), the Mundo Electrónico Award to the best Spanish work in Electronics and Informatics, the award of the Spanish inventors society, several awards to the best paper in international and national conferences and the PhD award

He is currently co-chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Coordinator of the Aerial Robotics Topic Group of euRobotics/SPARC, member of the Conseil Scientifique of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) (France). He has been member of the Board of the European Robotics Network EURON (2008-2010), Vice-Chair (1993-1998) of the Technical Board of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) where he has also been Chair of the Coordinating Committee Mechatronics, Robotics and Components (2002-2005), Chair of the Coordinating Committee on Manufacturing and Instrumentation (1999-2002), Chair of the Technical Committee on Components and Instruments (1993-1999), and Chair of the Working Group on Intelligent Components and Instruments (1991-1993).

He is associate editor of the Journal of Field Robotics, "editor at large" of the Journal of Intelligent and Robotics Systems and "Revista Iberoamericana de Automática e Informática". He was associate editor of Control Engineering Practice (1993-2005) and IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics (1995-2008).

He is currently teaching courses in robotics and Unmanned Aerial Systems in Curricula of Aerospace Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Telecommunication Engineering, and Master/PhD Programs.