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
- Towards Active Vision with UAVs in Marine Search and Rescue: Analyzing Human Detection at Variable Altitudes (2020) 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR) Qingqing L., Taipalmaa J., Pena Queralta J., Gia T.N., Gabbouj M., Tenhunen H., Raitoharju J., Westerlund T.
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Ubiquitous Distributed Deep Reinforcement Learning at the Edge: Analyzing Byzantine Agents in Discrete Action SpacesComparative study of LPWAN technologies on unlicensed bands for M2M communication in the IoT: Beyond Lora and Lorawan (2020)
- Procedia Computer ScienceProcedia Computer Science
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - UWB-based localization for multi-UAV systems and collaborative heterogeneous multi-robot systemsDetecting Water Reflection Symmetries in Point Clouds for Camera Position Calibration in Unmanned Surface Vehicles (2020)
- International Conference on Future Networks and Communications
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Wearable Health Monitoring System using Flexible Materials Electrodes (2020)
- IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - A qualitative comparison model for application layer IoT protocolsDistributed Progressive Formation Control with One-Way Communication for Multi-Agent Systems (2019) 2019 Fourth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC) Kakakhel S., Westerlund T., Daneshtalab M., Zou Z., Plosila J., Tenhunen H.
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - A survey on LoRa for IoT: Integrating edge computing (2019) Fourth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC) Sarker V., Peña Queralta J., Gia T., Tenhunen H., Westerlund T.
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - A Survey on Odometry for Autonomous Navigation Systems (2019)
- IEEE Access
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Collaborative Mapping with IoE-based Heterogeneous Vehicles for Enhanced Situational Awareness (2019) 2019 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS) Jorge Peña Queralta, Tuan Nguyen Gia, Hannu Tenhunen, Tomi Westerlund
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Communication-free and index-free distributed formation control algorithm for multi-robot systems (2019)
- Procedia Computer Science
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - (2019)
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - (2019) 2019 19th International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT) L. Qingqing, J. Pena Queralta, T. Nguyen Gia, Z. Zou, H. Tenhunen, T. Westerlund
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Distributed progressive formation control for multi-agent systems: 2D and 3D deployment of UAVs in ROS/Gazebo with RotorS (2019) 2019 European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR) McCord C., Peña Queralta J., Gia T., Westerlund T.
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - (2019) 2019 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) J. Peña Queralta, T. N. Gia, H. Tenhunen, T. Westerlund, L. Qingqing, Z. Zou
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Edge AI and Blockchain for Privacy-Critical and Data-Sensitive Applications (2019)
- International Conference on Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networking
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Edge-AI in LoRa-based health monitoring: Fall detection system with fog computing and LSTM recurrent neural networks (2019) 2019 42nd International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP) Jorge Peña Queralta, T. N. Gia, H. Tenhunen, T. Westerlund
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Edge and Fog Computing Enabled AI for IoT-An Overview (2019) 2019 IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS) Zhuo Zou, Yi Jin, Paavo Nevalainen, Yuxiang Huan, Jukka Heikkonen, Tomi Westerlund
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Edge Computing for Mobile Robots: Multi-Robot Feature-Based Lidar Odometry with FPGAs (2019)
- International Conference on Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networking
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Edge Computing with Embedded AI: Thermal Image Analysis for Occupancy Estimation in Intelligent Buildings (2019) INTESA2019: Proceedings of the INTelligent Embedded Systems Architectures and Applications Workshop 2019 Aly Metwaly, Jorge Peña Queralta, Victor Kathan Sarker, Tuan Nguyen Gia, Omar Nasir, Tomi Westerlund
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Energy efficient fog-assisted IoT system for monitoring diabetic patients with cardiovascular disease (2019)
- Future Generation Computer Systems
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Extending IoT connectivity of embedded devices with M2M high-speed acoustic data transmission (2019) Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Communication and Information Processing Henrique Gonçalves Nogueira, Jorge Peña Queralta, Tommi Otsavaara, Tomi Westerlund
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication )