Tomi Westerlund
tovewe@utu.fi +358 50 343 7684 Vesilinnantie 5 Turku ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1793-2694 |
Tomi Westerlund is a professor in robotics and autonomous systems. He is the research group leader of the Turku Intelligent Embedded and Robotics Systems (TIERS) lab at the University of Turku (UTU), Finland. TIERS’s main research interests are in multi-robot systems, autonomous robots and edge computing. The main application areas for TIERS include collaborative and heterogeneous multi-robot systems, localization and mapping of urban and unstructured environments, hardware accelerators for AI (edge AI) and distributed intelligence. In essence, to better understand how robots operate and can perform a variety of functions in different fields like environmental monitoring, delivery, agriculture, and search and rescue missions. Prof. Westerlund is a senior member of IEEE.
Prof. Westerlund is the Programme Director of three International Master’s degree programmes at UTU. The International Master’s Degree Programme in Robotics and Autonomous Systems, the Double Degree Master’s Programme in Robotics and Autonomous Systems between Fudan University (Shanghai, China) and the University of Turku, and the Double Degree Programme in Embedded Systems at UTU that is part of the EIT Digital Master School. The double degree programmes give an excellent place to develop and carry out research on Engineering Education in a truly international setting.
More up-to-date information on research topics and projects as well as teaching activities can be found here: https://tiers.utu.fi
- Distributed Ledger Technologies for Managing Heterogenous Computing Systems at the Edge (2022) 2022 Ninth International Conference on Internet of Things, Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS) Montero Hernández Daniel, Peña Queralta Jorge, Westerlund Tomi
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Distributed Robotic Systems in the Edge-Cloud Continuum with ROS 2: a Review on Novel Architectures and Technology Readiness (2022) 2022 Seventh International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC) Zhang Jiaqiang, Keramat Farhad, Yu Xianjia, Montero Hernández Daniel, Peña Queralta Jorge, Westerlund Tomi
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Federated Learning for Vision-based Obstacle Avoidance in the Internet of Robotic Things (2022) 2022 Seventh International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC) Yu Xianjia, Peña Queralta Jorge, Westerlund Tomi
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Long-Term Autonomy in Forest Environment Using Self-Corrective SLAM (2022) New Developments and Environmental Applications of Drones: Proceedings of FinDrones 2020 Nevalainen Paavo, Movahedi Parisa, Peña Queralta Jorge, Westerlund Tomi, Heikkonen Jukka
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Multi-Modal Lidar Dataset for Benchmarking General-Purpose Localization and Mapping Algorithms (2022)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Secure Encoded Instruction Graphs for End-to-End Data Validation in Autonomous Robots (2022)
- IEEE Internet of Things Journal
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Self-Calibrating Anomaly and Change Detection for Autonomous Inspection Robots (2022) 2022 Sixth IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing, IRC 2022 Salimpour Sahar, Peña Queralta Jorge, Westerlund Tomi
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Towards Lifelong Federated Learning in Autonomous Mobile Robots with Continuous Sim-to-Real Transfer (2022)
- Procedia Computer Science
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - UWB Role Allocation with Distributed Ledger Technologies for Scalable Relative Localization in Multi-Robot Systems (2022) 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Robotic and Sensors Environments (ROSE) Torrico Morón Paola, Salimi Salma, Peña Queralta Jorge, Westerlund Tomi
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - VIO-UWB-Based Collaborative Localization and Dense Scene Reconstruction within Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Systems (2022) 2022 International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics (ICARM) Peña Queralta Jorge, Li Qingqing, Schiano Fabrizio, Westerlund Tomi
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Adaptive Lidar Scan Frame Integration: Tracking Known MAVs in 3D Point Clouds (2021) 2021 20th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR) Li Qingqing, Yu Xianjia, Peña Queralta Jorge, Westerlund Tomi
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Applications of UWB Networks and Positioning to Autonomous Robots and Industrial Systems (2021) 2021 10th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing (MECO) Yu Xianjia, Li Qingqing, Peña Queralta Jorge, Heikkonen Jukka, Westerlund Tomi
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Blockchain for Mobile Edge Computing: Consensus Mechanisms and Scalability (2021) Mobile Edge Computing Peña Queralta Jorge, Westerlund Tomi
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Cooperative UWB-Based Localization for Outdoors Positioning and Navigation of UAVs aided by Ground Robots (2021) 2021 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Systems (ICAS) Proceedings Yu Xianjia, Li Qingqing, Peña Queralta Jorge, Heikkonen Jukka, Westerlund Tomi
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - EMG-based IoT System using Hand Gestures for Remote Control Applications (2021)
- IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Enhanced Reliability of Mobile Robots with Sensor Data Estimation at Edge (2021) 2020 IEEE Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things (GCAIoT) Kathan Sarker Victor, Mukherjee Prateeti, Westerlund Tomi
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Federated Learning in Robotic and Autonomous Systems (2021)
- Procedia Computer Science
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Non-Wearable IoT-Based Smart Ambient Behavior Observation System (2021)
- IEEE Sensors Journal
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Towards Closing the Sim-to-Real Gap in Collaborative Multi-Robot Deep Reinforcement Learning (2021) 2020 5th International Conference on Robotics and Automation Engineering (ICRAE 2020) November 20-22, 2020 Singapore Wenshuai Zhao, Jorge Peña Queralta, Li Qingqing, Tomi Westerlund
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - UWB-based System for UAV Localization in GNSS-Denied Environments: Characterization and Dataset (2021)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication )