{"id":933,"date":"2014-09-19T09:43:39","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T07:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.frogrobot.eu\/wordpress\/?p=933"},"modified":"2015-10-13T13:57:58","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T11:57:58","slug":"upo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frogrobot.eu\/wordpress\/upo\/","title":{"rendered":"The UPO team"},"content":{"rendered":"

You will find some of UPO’s output for FROG and other research projects here:\u00a0<\/span>Luis<\/a>, <\/span>datasets<\/a>\u00a0and <\/span>publications<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Luis<\/a>
Luis Merino<\/a> hosting the consortium during an integration meeting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Luis<\/a>
Luis<\/a> with a film crew in February 2014<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Fernando<\/a>
Fernando Caballero<\/a>\u00a0and FROG<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Luis<\/a> and Fernando<\/a> lead and supervise\u00a0UPO’s\u00a0<\/span>team of <\/span>\u00a0young researchers\u2026\u2026\u2026..<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Ignacio<\/a>
Ignacio P\u00e9rez Hurtado de Mendoza \u2026 without beard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ignacio P\u00e9rez Hurtado de Mendoza is a computer science postdoc interested in the application of machine learning techniques to social robotics. In the FROG project supports the development of software modules related to the navigation of the robot and assists with the deployment of experiments.
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\"No\u00e9<\/a>
No\u00e9 P\u00e9rez Higueras<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

No\u00e9 P\u00e9rez Higueras is\u00a0in charge of the safe and robust navigation of the FROG robot in (indoor and outdoor) environments with people. No\u00e9 is trying to add social capabilities to navigation algorithms so that the robot respects human social conventions and guarantees the comfort of surrounding persons.<\/p>\n

His PhD Thesis is on: “Robot autonomous navigation and interaction in pedestrian environments<\/em>“.<\/div>\n
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No\u00e9’s PhD is directly related to his work in the FROG project. Mainly, he is studying the different robot navigation algorithms and trying to extend them by adding social skills. To do that he employs machine learning techniques in order to learn from real people how they navigate between each other in crowded scenarios.<\/p>\n

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\"No\u00e9<\/a>
No\u00e9 and the UPO person detection tool<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/dt>\n
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In 2014 No\u00e9 spent 3 weeks in the Netherlands, mapping the Gallery at the University of Twente for the opening ceremony<\/a> with the Dutch king.<\/p>\n

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No\u00e9 preparing to map the Gallery at the UT in February 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

No\u00e9 fitted in well with the UT PhDs and will continue to work with some of them in the TERESA<\/a> project. When he makes a website we will link to it here<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"No\u00e9<\/a>
No\u00e9 and some UT PhDs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Javier<\/a>
Javier P\u00e9rez-Lara<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the FROG project,\u00a0<\/a>Javier P\u00e9rez-Lara is\u00a0working on improving localisation algorithms, based not only in laser readings but also on appearance matching, to recover from erroneous convergences to wrong localisation or even recovering from complete lost situations.<\/p>\n

Javier’s thesis topic is related to robust\u00a0localisation for mobile robot navigation and mobile robot interaction in crowded environments. Where we try to take into account the variability of crowded environments when localising and relocalising mobile robots.<\/div>\n
Javier’s website can be found here:\u00a0http:\/\/grvc.us.es\/staff<\/a>(http:\/\/grvc.us.es\/staff\/jperezlara\/<\/a>) but as he himself says: \u00a0“it’s not updated!”<\/div>\n

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\"Javier<\/a><\/dt>\n
Javier in Lisbon, November 2013<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

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\"Javier<\/a>
Javier, Carlos (IDM) and FROG in Seville, 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Rafael<\/a>
Rafael and FROG – both in white – Seville February 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rafael Ram\u00f3n Vigo’s knowledge of transversal competences like electronics, software and hardware are all put to good use in the FROG project. Rafael provides help with the general set up of the robotic platform and assists with the deployment of experiments.<\/p>\n

Rafael’s PhD thesis work is on how to infer from data and its statistics the insights of human motion navigation, with the idea of transferring it to the robot’s navigation stack. The basis of this approach is to use machine learning algorithms.<\/p>\n

\"Rafael<\/a>
Rafael and FROG, Seville 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rafael also grows delicious mangoes. Recently his family planted nearly 2000 young trees that will come into production in 4 or 5 years time.<\/p>\n

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Beautiful fruit…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u2026from sun drenched fields<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u2026 in a stunning landscape.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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In 2013, No\u00e9, Javier and Rafael had to spend weeks at a time in Lisbon. Though often cold or very tired, they did discover some good places to eat and were given Wi-Fi access at most of them.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
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No\u00e9, Javier and Rafael nearly took up residence in Lisbon and it wasn’t always this sunny!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/dd>\n
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You will find some of UPO’s output for FROG and other research projects here:\u00a0Luis, datasets\u00a0and publications.     Luis and Fernando lead and supervise\u00a0UPO’s\u00a0team of \u00a0young researchers\u2026\u2026\u2026..   Ignacio P\u00e9rez Hurtado de Mendoza is a computer science postdoc interested in the application of machine learning techniques to social robotics. In the FROG project supports the … Continue reading The UPO team<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,20,5,2,35],"tags":[34,44,13],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dissemination","category-experiments","category-integration","category-project","category-tv","tag-frog-on-tv","tag-meet-the-team","tag-upo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frogrobot.eu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frogrobot.eu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frogrobot.eu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frogrobot.eu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frogrobot.eu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.frogrobot.eu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1632,"href":"https:\/\/www.frogrobot.eu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/1632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frogrobot.eu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frogrobot.eu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frogrobot.eu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}