Tomi Westerlund
tovewe@utu.fi +358 50 343 7684 Vesilinnantie 5 Turku ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1793-2694 |
Biography
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
Publications 
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- 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 ) - FORESAIL‐1 CubeSat Mission to Measure Radiation Belt Losses and Demonstrate Deorbiting (2019)
- Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
A. Osmane, E. Palmerio, J. Peltonen, Y. Pfau‐Kempf, J. Plosila, J. Polkko, S. Poluianov, J. Pomoell, D. Price, A. Punkkinen, R. Punkkinen, B. Riwanto, L. Salomaa, A. Slavinskis, T. Säntti, J. Tammi, H. Tenhunen, P. Toivanen, J. Tuominen, L. Turc, E. Valtonen, P. Virtanen, T. Westerlund
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - FPGA-based Architecture for a Low-Cost 3D Lidar Design and Implementation from Multiple Rotating 2D Lidars with ROS (2019)
- Proceedings of IEEE Sensors
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Lossless Compression Techniques in Edge Computing for Mission-Critical Applications in the IoT (2019)
- International Conference on Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networking
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Offloading monocular visual odometry with edge computing: Optimizing image quality in multi-robot systems (2019) ICSCC 2019: Proceedings of the 2019 5th International Conference on Systems, Control and Communications Li Qingqing, Jorge Pena Queralta, Tuan Nguyen Gia, Tomi Westerlund
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Offloading SLAM for Indoor Mobile Robots with Edge-Fog-Cloud Computing (2019) 2019 1st International Conference on Advances in Science, Engineering and Robotics Technology (ICASERT) V. K. Sarker, J. Peña Queralta, T. N. Gia, H. Tenhunen, T. Westerlund
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Research in Progress: Holistic Climate Service Prototypes for Farmers in Tambuu, Tanzania (2019)
- IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Towards an interoperable Internet of Things through a web of virtual things at the Fog layer (2019)
- Future Generation Computer Systems
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Towards holistic mobile climate services for farmers in Tambuu, Tanzania (2019)
- IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Visual Odometry Offloading in Internet of Vehicles with Compression at the Edge of the Network (2019)
- International Conference on Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networking
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Community climate services for small-scale farmers in Tanzania (2018)
- IST-Africa
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Energy efficient wearable sensor node for IoT-based fall detection systems (2018)
- Microprocessors and Microsystems
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Fog computing approach for mobility support in internet-of-things systems (2018)
- IEEE Access
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - How to Train a Data Scientist for the Global South? (2018)
- IST-Africa
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - IoT platform for real-time multichannel ECG monitoring and classification with neural networks (2018)
- Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Prospects for Climate Services for Sustainable Agriculture in Tanzania (2018) Advances in Time Series Data Methods in Applied Economic Research: International Conference on Applied Economics (ICOAE) 2018 Moammar Dayoub,Jaakko Helminen,Ville Myllynpää, Nicolas Pope, Mikko Apiola, Tomi Westerlund, Erkki Sutinen
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Rethinking ‘Things’ - Fog layer interplay in IoT: A mobile code approach (2018)
- Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication )
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