Alejandro Sánchez Roncero

I am a PhD student in Computer Science at the Department of Robotics, Perception and Learning, KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, supervised by Petter Ögren.

My research explores how drones can learn to fly autonomously, respond to their surroundings and work together. I combine reinforcement learning, control and multi-agent systems, with a particular interest in agile flight, vision-based pursuit and cooperative drone capture. My work connects simulation with experiments on real drones, aiming to develop reliable systems for countering unauthorized drone activity.

Before joining KTH, I completed a master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Groningen (2024), a master’s degree in Aeronautical Engineering (2022) and a bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering (2020) at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. I also worked as a software and control engineer at Zeleros Hyperloop, developing embedded software and simulation tools for magnetic levitation systems, and served as technical director of the Hyperloop UPV student team.

I welcome students interested in master’s theses and project work in aerial robotics, reinforcement learning, visual perception, control and multi-robot cooperation. Please get in touch to discuss opportunities related to our ongoing research.

For publications, please see my Google Scholar

Past supervision:

1. Francesco Olivieri (2026), Safe Reinforcement Learning for Aggressive Quadrotor Pursuit in Cluttered Environment
2. Magdalena Björk (2025), Simulation and Evaluation of Swarm Bug Algorithms
3. Mattijs van Kempen (2025), Visiting Master Student from TU Eindhoven, Exploring Pursuit-Evasion Algorithms in Environments with Obstacles