Jorge Peña Queralta
Researcher
jopequ@utu.fi : B6021 |
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).
- 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
- (2021)
- Procedia Computer Science
- (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
- UWB-based System for UAV Localization in GNSS-Denied Environments: Characterization and Dataset (2021)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
- Artificial Intelligence at the Edge in the Blockchain of Things (2020)
- Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications EngineeringRemote Sensing
- (2020)
- CEUR Workshop ProceedingsInformatics in Medicine Unlocked
- Collaborative Multi-Robot Search and Rescue: Planning, Coordination, Perception, and Active Vision (2020)
- IEEE Access
- 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
- Edge Computing to Secure IoT Data Ownership and Trade with the Ethereum Blockchain (2020)
- Sensors
- (2020)
- International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems and WorkshopsProcedia Computer Science
- 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
- Localization in Unstructured Environments: Towards Autonomous Robots in Forests with Delaunay Triangulation (2020)
- MSS U-Net: 3D segmentation of kidneys and tumors from CT images with a multi-scale supervised U-Net (2020)
- Multi-Sensor Fusion for Navigation and Mapping in Autonomous Vehicles: Accurate Localization in Urban Environments (2020)
- Unmanned Systems
- 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.
- 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.
- Ubiquitous Distributed Deep Reinforcement Learning at the Edge: Analyzing Byzantine Agents in Discrete Action Spaces (2020)
- UWB-based localization for multi-UAV systems and collaborative heterogeneous multi-robot systems (2020)
- International Conference on Future Networks and Communications
- 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.
- 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
