Jorge Peña Queralta
Researcher
jopequ@utu.fi Office: B6021 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3091-3217 |
Multi-Robot Systems; Embedded AI; Embodied Intelligence; Swarm Robotics; Aerial Robotics; Collaborative Autonomy; Distributed Perception; Edge Computing; LPWAN Technology; Edge AI; Collaborative Learning
Robotics and AI
Researcher at the Turku Intelligent Embedded and Robotic Systems | TIERS Lab (https://tiers.utu.fi). Background in Mathematics and Engineering Physics.
2016-2018: MSc in Information and Communication Technology, University of Turku, Finland
2016-2018: M. Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Fudan University, China
2011-2016: BSc in Mathematics, Technical University of Calaunya -- UPC BarcelonaTech, Spain
2011-2016: BSc in Engineering Physics, Technical University of Catalunya -- UPC BarcelonaTech, Spain
Previously worked as a Junior Multimedia Developer at Psycle, UK (2016.06 - 2016.09), Enterprise Risk Management Consultant Assistant at Deloitte, Spain (2015.09 - 2016.02) and as a Junior Software Developer at BaseTIS, Spain (2014.06 - 2014.09).
Interested in collaborative autonomy, distributed perception and embedded intelligence. Currently working on projects related to all-weather drone logistics, blockchain technologies for multi-robot systems and reconfigurable heterogeneous swarms of robots.
Part of the teaching team of the Smart Systems track, MSc in ICT. Responsible for planning and lecturing in two courses: "Perception and Navigation in Robotics" (2020, 2021) and "Robotics and Autonomous Systems Projects" (2021, 2022). Co-lecturer in "Hardware Accelerators for Robotics and AI" (2019, 2020, 2021) and "HDL Design" (2020, 2021). Project owner in the Capstone Course at the Faculty of Technology (2019, 2020 and 2022).
Previously been teaching assistant in the courses "FPGA Prototyping and Configurable Computing" (2019) and "HDL Design" (2018).
- Towards Large-Scale Relative Localization in Multi-Robot Systems with Dynamic UWB Role Allocation (2023) 2022 7th International Conference on Robotics and Automation Engineering (ICRAE 2022) Torrico Moron Paola, Peña Queralta Jorge, Westerlund Tomi
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Towards Robust UAV Tracking in GNSS-Denied Environments: A Multi-LiDAR Multi-UAV Dataset (2023) 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO) Catalano Iacopo, Yu Xianjia, Peña Queralta Jorge
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - UAV Tracking with Lidar as a Camera Sensor in GNSS-Denied Environments (2023)
- International Conference on Localization and GNSS
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - UAV Tracking with Solid-State Lidars: Dynamic Multi-Frequency Scan Integration (2023) 2023 21st International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR) Catalano Iacopo, Sier Ha, Yu Xianjia, Westerlund Tomi, Peña Queralta Jorge
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Vision-Based GNSS-Free Localization for UAVs in the Wild (2023) International Conference on Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Research Gurgu Marius-Mihail, Peña Queralta Jorge, Westerlund Tomi
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Vision-based safe autonomous UAV docking with panoramic sensors (2023)
- Frontiers in Robotics and AI
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Collaborative autonomy in heterogeneous multi-robot systems (2022) Peña Queralta Jorge
(G5 Article dissertation ) - 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)
