Juan Pablo Fuentes Brea, PhD

Juan Pablo Fuentes received the PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) in 2014 and the MSc in Artificial Intelligence at the same university in 2011. He received the BSc in Software Engineering from UPM in 2010 and BSc in Computer Science at the same university in 1999.
He is currently working as Senior Researcher in Robotics at the Computational Cognitive Robotics Group (UPM). Since 1999 has worked as Software Engineer, and has more than 15 years of professional experience in IT. He is certified in CISM and CISSP.
His research interests are primarily in the areas of Robotics: Cognitive Robotics, Developmental Robotics, Internal Models, Teachable Robots, Machine Consciousness and UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle).

Publications

Juan Pablo Fuentes Brea, Hybrid Cognitive Architecture for the Autonomous Navigation of an UAV using Visual Topological Maps. PhD Thesis. Faculty of Computer Science, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. 2014. [PDF]

Juan Pablo Fuentes Brea, Darío Maravall, Javier de Lope: Entropy-Based Search Combined with a Dual Feedforward-Feedback Controller for Landmark Search and Detection for the Navigation of a UAV Using Visual Topological Maps. ROBOT2013: First Iberian Robotics Conference, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Volume 253, 2014, pp 65-76  [DOI]

Darío Maravall, Javier de Lope Asiaín, Juan Pablo Fuentes Brea: A Vision-Based Dual Anticipatory/Reactive Control Architecture for Indoor Navigation of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Using Visual Topological Maps. Natural and Artificial Computation in Engineering and Medical Applications, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 7931, 2013, pp 66-72  [DOI]

Darío Maravall, Javier de Lope, Juan Pablo Fuentes Brea: Fusion of probabilistic knowledge-based classification rules and learning automata for automatic recognition of digital images. Pattern Recognition Letters Volume 34, Issue 14, 15 October 2013, Pages 1719–1724 [DOI]

Juan Pablo Fuentes Brea, Architecture-based behaviors through biomimetic control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). MSc Thesis. Faculty of Computer Science, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. 2011.

Research lines

  • Cognitive Robotics
  • Internal Models
  • Machine Consciousness
  • UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), including communication and cooperation in multi-UAVs systems, and heterogeneous UAVs and UGVs (Unmanned Ground Vehicles) systems, which is one of the major current research lines of the Computational Cognitive Robotics Group.

Awards

  • Best Paper Award - "A Vision-Based Dual Anticipatory/Reactive Control Architecture for Indoor Navigation of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Using Visual Topological Maps" - IWINAC 2013 - 5th. International Work-Conference on the Interplay Between Natural and Artificial Computation, Mallorca, Balearic Islands (Spain), June 10-14, 2013

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