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).
- Detecting Water Reflection Symmetries in Point Clouds for Camera Position Calibration in Unmanned Surface Vehicles (2019) 2019 19th International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT) L. Qingqing, J. Pena Queralta, T. Nguyen Gia, Z. Zou, H. Tenhunen, T. Westerlund
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Distributed progressive formation control for multi-agent systems: 2D and 3D deployment of UAVs in ROS/Gazebo with RotorS (2019) 2019 European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR) McCord C., Peña Queralta J., Gia T., Westerlund T.
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Distributed Progressive Formation Control with One-Way Communication for Multi-Agent Systems (2019) 2019 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) J. Peña Queralta, T. N. Gia, H. Tenhunen, T. Westerlund, L. Qingqing, Z. Zou
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Edge AI and Blockchain for Privacy-Critical and Data-Sensitive Applications (2019)
- International Conference on Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networking
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Edge-AI in LoRa-based health monitoring: Fall detection system with fog computing and LSTM recurrent neural networks (2019) 2019 42nd International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP) Jorge Peña Queralta, T. N. Gia, H. Tenhunen, T. Westerlund
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - 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 ) - 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 ) - 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 ) - 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 )
