Research

Member of the research group Intelligent Systems and Datamining, belonging to Albacete Research Institute of Informatics I3A.

My work is mainly focused in the following research lines:

• Mobile robots

Most of my work is related to the generation of behaviours for general pourpose autonomous mobile robots. I have presented proposals for the RoboCup soccer championship, where I have used two different robotic platforms: Sony AIBO and Aldebaran NAO.

I am currently working on the development of a social robot, able to help handicapped people

• Computer Vision

My research in this field is related to real-time object detection/recognition. In this field I have mainly used colour-based tecniques for the detection of RoboCup goals, beacons and the ball.

I am also working on visual place recognition with application to robotics, where I have used invariant features.

• Localization

Robot localization is a key problem in making fully autonomous mobile robots. This problem consists of answering the question "Where am I?" from a robot's point of view. My research includes the use of well-known localization algorihtms as the Kalman Filter (KF) or the Monte Carlo Localization method (MCL).

I am also working on the challenge of classifying images depending on semantic areas, which is called "visual place classication" or sometimes "place recognition". This classification problem can also be considered a localization task.

• Evolutionary Computation and Intelligent Systems

I have studied and implemented solutions based on evolutionary compuation (genetic and memetic algorithms), fuzzy logic or bayesian networks.

• Machine Learning
  

I am mainly working on the use of SVMs for the generation of visual place classifiers

Current Research Projects

• MD-PGMs-UCLM (Minería de Datos con PGMs: Nuevos algoritmos y aplicaciones). Supporting institution: Spanish CICYT Department (TIN2010-20900-C04-03)
  From January 2010 to December 2013.
  Project Manager: José Antonio Gámez.
  

Past Research Projects

• ALGRA (Adaptative Learning of probabilistic GRAphical models in data mining and automatic personalisation) Coordinated project with the University of Almería (Data Analysis research group) and the University of Granada (UTAI). Supporting institution: Spanish CICYT Department (TIN2004-06204-C03-03)
  From: December 2004 To: December 2007
  Project Manager: José Antonio Gámez.

• LiODist (New approaches to the study of distributed metaheuristics with applications to data mining problems) Regional research project. Supporting institution: Spanish JCCM-Consejería de Ciencia y Tecnología (PBI05-022)
  From: June 2005 to December 2007
  Project Manager: José Miguel Puerta.

• PROGRAMO (Diseño de nuevos algoritmos en MGPs. Implementación en elvira) National research project. Supporting institution: Spanish Secretaría de Estado de Universidades e Investigación (TIN2007-67418-C03-01)
  From: October 2007 to March 2011
  Project Manager: José Antonio Gámez.

• AMSABEL (Acceso multilingüe a sistemas de ayuda y bases de datos en línea) Regional research project. Supporting institution: Spanish JCCM-Consejería de Ciencia y Tecnología (PBI08-0210-7127)
  From: August 2008 to June 2011
  Project Manager: Ismael García.

• Desarrollo de Nuevas técnicas metaheurísticas y aplicaciones a problemas de minería de datos. Regional research project. Supporting institution: Spanish JCCM-Consejería de Ciencia y Tecnología (PCI08-0048-8577)
  From: January 2008 to June 2011
  Project Manager: José Miguel Puerta.