Jorge Pena Queralta
Researcher
jopequ@utu.fi Joukahaisenkatu 3-5 Turku 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
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).
- Long-Term Autonomy in Forest Environment Using Self-Corrective SLAM (2022) New Developments and Environmental Applications of Drones Nevalainen Paavo, Movahedi Parisa, Peña Queralta Jorge, Westerlund Tomi, Heikkonen Jukka
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Secure Encoded Instruction Graphs for End-to-End Data Validation in Autonomous Robots (2022)
- IEEE Internet of Things Journal
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - 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
(Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4)) - 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
(Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4)) - Blockchain for Mobile Edge Computing: Consensus Mechanisms and Scalability (2021) Mobile Edge Computing Peña Queralta Jorge, Westerlund Tomi
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - 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
(Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4)) - Federated Learning in Robotic and Autonomous Systems (2021)
- Procedia Computer Science
(Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4)) - 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
(Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4)) - UWB-based System for UAV Localization in GNSS-Denied Environments: Characterization and Dataset (2021)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
(Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4)) - Artificial Intelligence at the Edge in the Blockchain of Things (2020)
- Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
(Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4)) - Autocalibration of a Mobile UWB Localization System for Ad-Hoc Multi-Robot Deployments in GNSS-Denied Environments (2020)
- CEUR Workshop Proceedings
(Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4)) - Collaborative Multi-Robot Search and Rescue: Planning, Coordination, Perception, and Active Vision (2020)
- IEEE Access
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Edge AI in Smart Farming IoT: CNNs at the Edge and Fog Computing with LoRa (2020) 2019 IEEE AFRICON Tuan Gia Nguyen, Qingqing Li, Jorge Peña Queralta, Zhuo Zou, Hannu Tenhunen, Tomi Westerlund
(Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4)) - Edge Computing to Secure IoT Data Ownership and Trade with the Ethereum Blockchain (2020)
- Sensors
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - End-to-End Design for Self-Reconfigurable Heterogeneous Robotic Swarms (2020)
- International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems and Workshops
(Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4)) - Enhancing Autonomy with Blockchain and Multi-Access Edge Computing in Distributed Robotic Systems (2020) 2020 Fifth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC) Jorge Peña Queralta, Li Qingqing, Zhuo Zou, Tomi Westerlund
(Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4)) - Localization in Unstructured Environments: Towards Autonomous Robots in Forests with Delaunay Triangulation (2020)
- Remote Sensing
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - MSS U-Net: 3D segmentation of kidneys and tumors from CT images with a multi-scale supervised U-Net (2020)
- Informatics in Medicine Unlocked
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Multi-Sensor Fusion for Navigation and Mapping in Autonomous Vehicles: Accurate Localization in Urban Environments (2020)
- Unmanned Systems
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Sim-to-Real Transfer in Deep Reinforcement Learning for Robotics: A Survey (2020) 2020 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) Zhao W., Queralta J.P., Westerlund T.
(Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4))
