Jorge Peña Queralta
Researcher
jopequ@utu.fi Office: B6021 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3091-3217 |
Areas of expertise
Multi-Robot Systems; Embedded AI; Embodied Intelligence; Swarm Robotics; Aerial Robotics; Collaborative Autonomy; Distributed Perception; Edge Computing; LPWAN Technology; Edge AI; Collaborative Learning
Multi-Robot Systems; Embedded AI; Embodied Intelligence; Swarm Robotics; Aerial Robotics; Collaborative Autonomy; Distributed Perception; Edge Computing; LPWAN Technology; Edge AI; Collaborative Learning
Research community or research topic
Robotics and AI
Robotics and AI
Biography
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).
Research
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.
Teaching
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).
Publications 
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- 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
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - UWB-based System for UAV Localization in GNSS-Denied Environments: Characterization and Dataset (2021)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Artificial Intelligence at the Edge in the Blockchain of Things (2020)
- Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Autocalibration of a Mobile UWB Localization System for Ad-Hoc Multi-Robot Deployments in GNSS-Denied Environments (2020)
- CEUR Workshop Proceedings
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Collaborative Multi-Robot Search and Rescue: Planning, Coordination, Perception, and Active Vision (2020)
- IEEE Access
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - 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
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Edge Computing to Secure IoT Data Ownership and Trade with the Ethereum Blockchain (2020)
- Sensors
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - End-to-End Design for Self-Reconfigurable Heterogeneous Robotic Swarms (2020)
- International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems and Workshops
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - 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
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Localization in Unstructured Environments: Towards Autonomous Robots in Forests with Delaunay Triangulation (2020)
- Remote Sensing
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - MSS U-Net: 3D segmentation of kidneys and tumors from CT images with a multi-scale supervised U-Net (2020)
- Informatics in Medicine Unlocked
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Multi-Sensor Fusion for Navigation and Mapping in Autonomous Vehicles: Accurate Localization in Urban Environments (2020)
- Unmanned Systems
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - 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.
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - 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 Spaces (2020)
- Procedia Computer Science
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - UWB-based localization for multi-UAV systems and collaborative heterogeneous multi-robot systems (2020)
- International Conference on Future Networks and Communications
(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 ) - 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 ) - Comparative study of LPWAN technologies on unlicensed bands for M2M communication in the IoT: Beyond Lora and Lorawan (2019)
- Procedia Computer Science
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
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