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).
- Building Better Models: Benchmarking Feature Extraction and Matching for Structure from Motion at Construction Sites (2024)
- Remote Sensing
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Comparison of Middlewares in Edge-to-Edge and Edge-to-Cloud Communication for Distributed ROS 2 Systems (2024)
- Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Evaluating the Performance of Multi-scan Integration for UAV LiDAR-Based Tracking (2024) New Developments and Environmental Applications of Drones: Proceedings of FinDrones 2023 Catalano Iacopo, Peña Queralta Jorge, Westerlund Tomi
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Is Alice Really in Wonderland? UWB-Based Proof of Location for UAVs with Hyperledger Fabric Blockchain (2024) New Developments and Environmental Applications of Drones: Proceedings of FinDrones 2023 Fu Lei, Torrico Morón Paola, Peña Queralta Jorge, Hästbacka David, Edelman Harry, Westerlund Tomi
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - New Developments and Environmental Applications of Drones: Proceedings of FinDrones 2023 (2024) Westerlund Tomi, Peña Queralta Jorge
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific compilation book) - On automatic person-in-water detection for marine search and rescue operations (2024)
- IEEE Access
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Simulation Analysis of Exploration Strategies and UAV Planning for Search and Rescue (2024) New Developments and Environmental Applications of Drones: Proceedings of FinDrones 2023 Nguyen Thuan Phuoc, Peña Queralta Jorge, Westerlund Tomi
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - A Benchmark for Multi-Modal LiDAR SLAM with Ground Truth in GNSS-Denied Environments (2023)
- Remote Sensing
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Analysis of airport design for introducing infrastructure for autonomous drones (2023)
- Facilities
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Benchmarking UWB-Based Infrastructure-Free Positioning and Multi-Robot Relative Localization: Dataset and Characterization (2023) 2023 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS) Torrico Morón Paola, Salimpour Sahar, Fu Lei, Yu Xianjia, Peña Queralta Jorge, Westerlund Tomi
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Blockchain and Emerging Distributed Ledger Technologies for Decentralized Multi-robot Systems (2023)
- Current Robotics Reports
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Decentralized Vision-Based Byzantine Agent Detection in Multi-robot Systems with IOTA Smart Contracts (2023)
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Event-Driven Fabric Blockchain - ROS 2 Interface: Towards Secure and Auditable Teleoperation of Mobile Robots (2023) 2023 20th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR) Fu Lei, Salimi Salma, Peña Queralta Jorge, Westerlund Tomi
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Exploiting redundancy for UWB anomaly detection in infrastructure-free multi-robot relative localization (2023)
- Frontiers in Robotics and AI
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - General-Purpose Deep Learning Detection and Segmentation Models for Images from a Lidar-Based Camera Sensor (2023)
- Sensors
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Hyperledger Fabric Blockchain and ROS 2 Integration for Autonomous Mobile Robots (2023)
- IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Partition-Tolerant and Byzantine-Tolerant Decision-Making for Distributed Robotic Systems with IOTA and ROS 2 (2023)
- IEEE Internet of Things Journal
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Secure Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Collaboration and Docking with Hyperledger Fabric Blockchain (2023)
- IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - 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 )
