{"id":2293,"date":"2015-06-16T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T10:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mapir.isa.uma.es\/mapirwebsite_wordpress\/?p=2293"},"modified":"2023-10-06T10:08:12","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T10:08:12","slug":"francisco-melendez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mapir.isa.uma.es\/mapirwebsite\/?p=2293","title":{"rendered":"Francisco Melendez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PhD student<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>PhD. student in Human Robot Interaction&nbsp;and Mobile Robotics<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am Francisco Mel\u00e9ndez Fern\u00e1ndez, a PhD student in the Machine Perception and Intelligent Robotics group (MAPIR) at the University of M\u00e1laga, Spain. My research interests include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Mobile robot navigation in human environments<\/li><li>Task Planning, Task Execution<\/li><li>Human-Robot Interaction<\/li><li>Service Robotics: Robotic Telepresence, Personal Robotics, Socially Assistive Robotics<\/li><li>System Integration: Internet of Things, Sensor Networks, Ambient Assisted Living environments<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"toc_container\" class=\"no_bullets\"><p class=\"toc_title\">Contents<\/p><ul class=\"toc_list\"><li><a href=\"#Brief_CV\">Brief CV<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Ongoing_Work\">Ongoing Work<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Technical_Skills\">Technical Skills<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Publications\">Publications<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Contact\">Contact<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n<h2><span id=\"Brief_CV\"><strong>Brief CV<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I was born in M\u00e1laga (Spain) in 1982. I received a B.Sc-M.Sc in Electrical Engineering&nbsp;from the University of M\u00e1laga in 2011. In March 2012 I joined the MAPIR group as a Researcher in Ambient Assisted Living applications of Robotic Telepresence. I received the M.Sc in Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence in 2013. Since I joined the MAPIR group,&nbsp; I have been involved in two research&nbsp;projects funded by European Union Programmes,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aal-europe.eu\/projects\/excite\/\" target=\"_blank\">ExCITE<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/giraffplus.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\">GiraffPlus&nbsp;<\/a>(2012-2015). In February 2015 I started a PhD in mobile robotics, which is focused&nbsp;on new developments for&nbsp;personal robots aimed at helping people in daily life activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><span id=\"Ongoing_Work\"><strong>Ongoing Work<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The first part of the PhD was focused on improvements for a semi-autonomous robotic telepresence system aimed at operating in Ambient Assisted Living contexts, it is now completed and has led to the publication of two conference papers and submission of a journal paper (currently under review). Now, the focus of my work is placed on the development of effective and efficient autonomous behaviors valid for mobile robots in daily life environments (e.g., homes). I am working on plan-based navigation and control strategies for a socially-aware service robot and,&nbsp;In particular, the ongoing work addresses problems arising from finding adequate navigation paths and adapting robot behaviors to maximize the robot acceptability in social contexts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><span id=\"Technical_Skills\"><strong>Technical Skills<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;During my previous experience as a research assistant engineer and now as a PhD student, I have trained my skills in different areas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Programming Stuff: C++, Visual Studio, QT Creator, Java, Eclipse, Javascript, HTML5<\/li><li>Robotic Frameworks: ROS, MOOS, OpenMORA, MRPT<\/li><li>Robotics Applications: reactive planning, sensor-based mapping and localization, supervised autonomous navigation, assisted driving, robot teleoperation, robotic telepresence in AAL contexts<\/li><li>Internet of Things: MQTT, AAL sensors, distributed network configuration<\/li><li>Web Development: NodeJS, AngularJS<\/li><li>Multimedia Streaming: WebRTC<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2><span id=\"Publications\"><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\" src=\"https:\/\/mapir.uma.es\/mapirpubsite\/index.php\/export\/byauthor\/100\/1\/aigaion_pubs_for_joomlawrapper.css\/none\/mapir_formatted_list\/type\/none\" width=\"100%\" height=\"1000\" frameborder=\"0\"><p>The list is loaded from another server. If you see this, there has been a problem.<\/p><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<h2><span id=\"Contact\"><strong>Contact<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Francisco Mel\u00e9ndez Fern\u00e1ndez<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dpto. Ingenieria de Sistemas y Automatica<br>E.T.S.I. Informatica &#8211; Telecomunicacion. Laboratorio 2.3.6<br>Universidad de Malaga<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Campus Universitario de Teatinos<br>29071 Malaga, Spain<br>Phone: +34 952 13 3362<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Skype: fco.melendez8<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>e-mail: fco.melendez.f@gmail.com; fco.melendez@uma.es<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PhD student<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false},"categories":[3,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapir.isa.uma.es\/mapirwebsite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapir.isa.uma.es\/mapirwebsite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapir.isa.uma.es\/mapirwebsite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapir.isa.uma.es\/mapirwebsite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapir.isa.uma.es\/mapirwebsite\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mapir.isa.uma.es\/mapirwebsite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2315,"href":"https:\/\/mapir.isa.uma.es\/mapirwebsite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293\/revisions\/2315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapir.isa.uma.es\/mapirwebsite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapir.isa.uma.es\/mapirwebsite\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapir.isa.uma.es\/mapirwebsite\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapir.isa.uma.es\/mapirwebsite\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}