Rafael Valencia

Rafael Valencia

Rafael Valencia, Postdoctoral Researcher, PhD

Family Name: Valencia
Given Name: Rafael
Role: Postdoctoral Researcher
Title: PhD
Subject: 
Organization: CMU, Robotics Institute
Email: rafael.valencia@hh.se
url: https://sites.google.com/site/rafaelvalenciacarreno
Phone: +46-35-167249
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Subject areas: Mechatronics, Mobile robotics, Robot navigation, Path planning, SLAM, Robot localization, Mapping
Application areas: Intelligent Vehicles
Projects: Cargo ANTs, ANTWaY
Courses:
  Teaching:  Robotic Manipulation (DT8015)

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at ISLAB/CAISR. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Örebro University. I received my PhD in robotics from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), at Barcelona, Spain, in April 2013. My research has focused on different aspects of autonomous mobile robot navigation, from perception (SLAM, Mapping, Localization) to action selection problems (path planning, exploration, planning under uncertainty).

Publications:

• R. Valencia, J.P. Saarinen, H. Andreasson, J. Vallve, J. Andrade-Cetto, and A.J. Lilienthal, Localization in highly dynamic environments using dual-timescale NDT-MCL. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2014, Hong Kong, pp. 3956-3962 <a href="http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1499">[http]</a>.

• M.G. Jadidi, J. Valls-Miro, R. Valencia, and J. Andrade-Cetto, Exploration on continuous Gaussian process frontier maps. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2014, Hong Kong, pp. 6077-6082 <a href="http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1497">[http]</a>.

• R. Valencia, M. Morta, J. Andrade-Cetto, and J. M. Porta, Planning reliable paths with Pose SLAM. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 29:4, 2013, pp. 1050-1059 <a href="http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1419">[http]</a>.

• M.G. Jadidi, J. Valls Miró, R. Valencia, J. Andrade-Cetto, and G. Dissanayake, Exploration in information distribution maps. 2013 RSS Workshop on Robotic Exploration, Monitoring, and Information Collection, 2013, pp. 1 - 8 <a href="http://sertac.scripts.mit.edu/rssworkshop/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Paper4.pdf#%21">[http]</a>.

• M.G. Jadidi, J. Valls Miró, R. Valencia, J. Andrade-Cetto, and G. Dissanayake, Exploration using an information-based reaction-diffusion process. 2013 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2013, Sydney.

• R. Valencia, J. Valls Miro, G. Dissanayake, and J. Andrade-Cetto, Active Pose SLAM. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2012, pp. 1885 - 1891 <a href="http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1341">[http]</a>.

• E.H. Teniente, R. Valencia, and J. Andrade-Cetto, Dense outdoor 3D mapping and navigation with Pose SLAM. 2011 Workshop de Robótica Experimental, 2012, pp. 567 - 572 <a href="http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1274">[http]</a>.

• R. Valencia, J. Andrade-Cetto, and J.M. Porta, Path planning in belief space with Pose SLAM. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2011, pp. 78 - 83 <a href="http://www.iri.upc.edu/research/webprojects/pau/_IMATGES/figspapers/Valencia_icra11.pdf">[http]</a>.

• R. Valencia, J. Andrade-Cetto, and J.M. Porta, Path Planning with Pose SLAM. IRI Technical Report, IRI-TR-10-03, 2010 <a href="http://www.iri.upc.edu/people/rvalencia/Docs/Valencia_IRI_TR_10_03.pdf">[http]</a>.

• R. Valencia, E.H. Teniente, E. Trulls, and J. Andrade-Cetto, 3D mapping for urban service robots. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2009, pp. 3076 - 3081 <a href="http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1037">[http]</a>.

• J. Andrade-Cetto, A.A. Ortega, E.H. Teniente, E. Trulls Fortuny, R. Valencia and A. Sanfeliu, Combination of distributed camera network and laser-based 3D mapping for urban service robots. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ IROS Workshop on Network Robot Systems, 2009, pp. 69-80 <a href="http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1039">[http]</a>.

• V. Ila, J. Andrade-Cetto, R. Valencia, and A. Sanfeliu, Vision-based loop closing for delayed state robot mapping. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2007, pp. 3892-3897 <a href="http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/771">[http]</a>.

PhD thesis:

• Rafael Valencia, Mapping, planning and exploration with Pose SLAM. Ph.D. Thesis, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), 2013 <a href="http://hdl.handle.net/10803/117471">[http]</a>.