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 )



