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		<title>Rafael Valencia</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Rafval: &lt;/p&gt;
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|Given Name=Rafael&lt;br /&gt;
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|Phone=tel:+46-35-167249&lt;br /&gt;
|Position=Postdoctoral Researcher&lt;br /&gt;
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|Image=RafaelV.png&lt;br /&gt;
|Country=Sweden&lt;br /&gt;
|Office=E527&lt;br /&gt;
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I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at ISLAB/CAISR from Halmstad University, Sweden. Previously,&amp;amp;nbsp; I was a postdoctoral researcher at the [http://aass.oru.se/Research/mro/index.html MR&amp;amp;amp;O Lab] from Örebro University, Sweden. In April 2013 I completed my PhD thesis in&lt;br /&gt;
robotics at [http://www.iri.upc.edu/ IRI] (Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial) from the Technical&lt;br /&gt;
University of Catalonia ([http://www.upc.edu/?set_language=en UPC]), at Barcelona, Spain.&amp;amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
My research has focused on different aspects of &lt;br /&gt;
autonomous mobile robot navigation, from perception (SLAM, Mapping, &lt;br /&gt;
Localization) to action selection problems (path planning, exploration, &lt;br /&gt;
planning under uncertainty).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[https://sites.google.com/site/rafaelvalenciacarreno/ Research page]&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/P&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h4&amp;gt;Resume:&amp;lt;/h4&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[https://se.linkedin.com/in/rafaelvalencia LinkedIn profile]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;p&amp;gt; &amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;Postdoc at [http://islab.hh.se/mediawiki/Main_Page ISLAB/CAISR], Halmstad University - Sweden, since January 2015. &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;Postdoc at [http://aass.oru.se/Research/mro/ MR&amp;amp;amp;O Lab], Örebro University - Sweden, May 2013- December 2014. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;PhD in Automatics, Robotics, and Vision, Technical University of&lt;br /&gt;
Catalonia (UPC) - Spain, 2013. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;Visiting Researcher at  Centre for Intelligent Mechatronic Systems ([http://www.research.uts.edu.au/strengths/imes/overview.html CIMS]) at UTS - Australia, 2011&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; Master of Advanced Studies (DEA) in Control, Vision, and&lt;br /&gt;
Robotics, (UPC) - Spain, 2008. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; MSEE, Monterrey Tech ([http://www.itesm.edu/wps/wcm/connect/ITESM/Tecnologico+de+Monterrey/English ITESM]) - Mexico, 2005. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; BSEE, Metropolitan Autonomous University ([http://www.uam.mx/lang/eng/index.html UAM]) - Mexico,&lt;br /&gt;
2002. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h4&amp;gt;Publications:&amp;lt;/h4&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=raAzOHoAAAAJ&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;oi=ao Link to my Google Scholar Profile] &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div align=&amp;quot;justify&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;R. Valencia, J.P. Saarinen, H.&lt;br /&gt;
Andreasson, J. Vallve, J. Andrade-Cetto, and A.J. Lilienthal, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Localization in highly dynamic environments using&lt;br /&gt;
dual-timescale NDT-MCL&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. Proceedings of&lt;br /&gt;
the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2014, Hong Kong, pp. 3956-3962 &amp;lt;span&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1499 [http]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLQM6g2GeTY [Video]]&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; M.G. Jadidi, J. Valls-Miro, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
and J. Andrade-Cetto, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Exploration on&lt;br /&gt;
continuous Gaussian process frontier maps&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference&lt;br /&gt;
on Robotics and Automation, 2014, Hong Kong, pp. 6077-6082 &amp;lt;span&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1497 [http]]&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, M. Morta, J. Andrade-Cetto,&lt;br /&gt;
and J. M. Porta, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Planning reliable paths&lt;br /&gt;
with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. IEEE Transactions on&lt;br /&gt;
Robotics,29:4, 2013, pp. 1050-1059&lt;br /&gt;
    [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1419 [http]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA63juJ49PI [Video]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; M.G. Jadidi, J. Valls Miró, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
J. Andrade-Cetto, and G. Dissanayake, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Exploration&lt;br /&gt;
in information distribution maps&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. 2013&lt;br /&gt;
RSS Workshop on Robotic Exploration, Monitoring, and Information&lt;br /&gt;
Collection, 2013, pp.&lt;br /&gt;
1 - 8 [http://sertac.scripts.mit.edu/rssworkshop/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Paper4.pdf [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;M.G. Jadidi, J. Valls Miró, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
J. Andrade-Cetto, and G. Dissanayake, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Exploration&lt;br /&gt;
using an information-based reaction-diffusion process&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. 2013 Australasian Conference on Robotics and&lt;br /&gt;
Automation, 2013, Sydney.&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, J. Valls Miro, G.&lt;br /&gt;
Dissanayake, and J. Andrade-Cetto, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt; Active&lt;br /&gt;
Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In Proceedings of the&lt;br /&gt;
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems,&lt;br /&gt;
    2012, pp. 1885 -&lt;br /&gt;
1891 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1341 [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; E.H. Teniente, R. Valencia, and J.&lt;br /&gt;
Andrade-Cetto, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Dense outdoor 3D mapping and&lt;br /&gt;
navigation with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. 2011&lt;br /&gt;
Workshop de Robótica Experimental, 2012,&lt;br /&gt;
    pp. 567 - 572 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1274 [http]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcUZCjpONNY [Video]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, J. Andrade-Cetto, and J.M.&lt;br /&gt;
Porta, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Path planning in belief space with&lt;br /&gt;
Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In Proceedings of the IEEE&lt;br /&gt;
International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2011, pp. 78 - 83 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/research/webprojects/pau/_IMATGES/figspapers/Valencia_icra11.pdf [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, J. Andrade-Cetto, and J.M.&lt;br /&gt;
Porta, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Path Planning with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. IRI Technical Report, IRI-TR-10-03, 2010 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/people/rvalencia/Docs/Valencia_IRI_TR_10_03.pdf [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, E.H. Teniente, E. Trulls,&lt;br /&gt;
and J. Andrade-Cetto, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;3D mapping for urban&lt;br /&gt;
service robots&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In Proceedings of the&lt;br /&gt;
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems,&lt;br /&gt;
    2009, pp. 3076 -&lt;br /&gt;
3081 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1037 [http]] [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ielx5/5342790/5353884/5354277/1145.MM.zip?tp=&amp;amp;arnumber=5354277 [Multimedia]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; J. Andrade-Cetto, A.A. Ortega, E.H.&lt;br /&gt;
Teniente, E. Trulls Fortuny, R. Valencia and A. Sanfeliu, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Combination of distributed camera network and&lt;br /&gt;
laser-based 3D mapping for urban service robots&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ IROS Workshop on&lt;br /&gt;
Network Robot Systems, 2009, pp. 69-80 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1039 [http]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; V. Ila, J. Andrade-Cetto, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
and A. Sanfeliu, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Vision-based loop closing&lt;br /&gt;
for delayed state robot mapping&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In&lt;br /&gt;
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent&lt;br /&gt;
Robots and Systems, 2007, pp. 3892-3897 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/771 [http]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h4&amp;gt;PhD thesis:&amp;lt;/h4&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; Rafael Valencia, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Mapping, planning and exploration with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
    Ph.D. Thesis, Technical&lt;br /&gt;
University of Catalonia (UPC), 2013 [http://hdl.handle.net/10803/117471 [http]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Rafael Valencia</title>
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I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at ISLAB/CAISR from Halmstad University, Sweden. Previously,&amp;amp;nbsp; I was a postdoctoral researcher at the [http://aass.oru.se/Research/mro/index.html MR&amp;amp;amp;O Lab] from Örebro University, Sweden. In April 2013 I completed my PhD thesis in&lt;br /&gt;
robotics at [http://www.iri.upc.edu/ IRI] (Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial) from the Technical&lt;br /&gt;
University of Catalonia ([http://www.upc.edu/?set_language=en UPC]), at Barcelona, Spain.&amp;amp;nbsp; My research has focused on different aspects of &lt;br /&gt;
autonomous mobile robot navigation, from perception (SLAM, Mapping, &lt;br /&gt;
Localization) to action selection problems (path planning, exploration, &lt;br /&gt;
planning under uncertainty).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[https://sites.google.com/site/rafaelvalenciacarreno/ Research page]&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;h4&amp;gt;Resume:&amp;lt;/h4&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[https://se.linkedin.com/in/rafaelvalencia LinkedIn profile]&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;Postdoc at [http://islab.hh.se/mediawiki/Main_Page ISLAB/CAISR], Halmstad University - Sweden, since January 2015. &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;Postdoc at [http://aass.oru.se/Research/mro/ MR&amp;amp;amp;O Lab], Örebro University - Sweden, May 2013- December 2014. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;PhD in Automatics, Robotics, and Vision, Technical University of&lt;br /&gt;
Catalonia (UPC) - Spain, 2013. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;Visiting Researcher at  Centre for Intelligent Mechatronic Systems ([http://www.research.uts.edu.au/strengths/imes/overview.html CIMS]) at UTS - Australia, 2011&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; Master of Advanced Studies (DEA) in Control, Vision, and&lt;br /&gt;
Robotics, (UPC) - Spain, 2008. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; MSEE, Monterrey Tech ([http://www.itesm.edu/wps/wcm/connect/ITESM/Tecnologico+de+Monterrey/English ITESM]) - Mexico, 2005. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; BSEE, Metropolitan Autonomous University ([http://www.uam.mx/lang/eng/index.html UAM]) - Mexico,&lt;br /&gt;
2002. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;h4&amp;gt;Publications:&amp;lt;/h4&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=raAzOHoAAAAJ&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;oi=ao Link to my Google Scholar Profile] &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div align=&amp;quot;justify&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;R. Valencia, J.P. Saarinen, H.&lt;br /&gt;
Andreasson, J. Vallve, J. Andrade-Cetto, and A.J. Lilienthal, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Localization in highly dynamic environments using&lt;br /&gt;
dual-timescale NDT-MCL&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. Proceedings of&lt;br /&gt;
the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2014, Hong Kong, pp. 3956-3962 &amp;lt;span&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1499 [http]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLQM6g2GeTY [Video]]&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; M.G. Jadidi, J. Valls-Miro, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
and J. Andrade-Cetto, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Exploration on&lt;br /&gt;
continuous Gaussian process frontier maps&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference&lt;br /&gt;
on Robotics and Automation, 2014, Hong Kong, pp. 6077-6082 &amp;lt;span&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1497 [http]]&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, M. Morta, J. Andrade-Cetto,&lt;br /&gt;
and J. M. Porta, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Planning reliable paths&lt;br /&gt;
with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. IEEE Transactions on&lt;br /&gt;
Robotics,29:4, 2013, pp. 1050-1059&lt;br /&gt;
    [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1419 [http]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA63juJ49PI [Video]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; M.G. Jadidi, J. Valls Miró, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
J. Andrade-Cetto, and G. Dissanayake, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Exploration&lt;br /&gt;
in information distribution maps&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. 2013&lt;br /&gt;
RSS Workshop on Robotic Exploration, Monitoring, and Information&lt;br /&gt;
Collection, 2013, pp.&lt;br /&gt;
1 - 8 [http://sertac.scripts.mit.edu/rssworkshop/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Paper4.pdf [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;M.G. Jadidi, J. Valls Miró, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
J. Andrade-Cetto, and G. Dissanayake, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Exploration&lt;br /&gt;
using an information-based reaction-diffusion process&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. 2013 Australasian Conference on Robotics and&lt;br /&gt;
Automation, 2013, Sydney.&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, J. Valls Miro, G.&lt;br /&gt;
Dissanayake, and J. Andrade-Cetto, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt; Active&lt;br /&gt;
Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In Proceedings of the&lt;br /&gt;
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems,&lt;br /&gt;
    2012, pp. 1885 -&lt;br /&gt;
1891 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1341 [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; E.H. Teniente, R. Valencia, and J.&lt;br /&gt;
Andrade-Cetto, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Dense outdoor 3D mapping and&lt;br /&gt;
navigation with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. 2011&lt;br /&gt;
Workshop de Robótica Experimental, 2012,&lt;br /&gt;
    pp. 567 - 572 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1274 [http]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcUZCjpONNY [Video]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, J. Andrade-Cetto, and J.M.&lt;br /&gt;
Porta, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Path planning in belief space with&lt;br /&gt;
Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In Proceedings of the IEEE&lt;br /&gt;
International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2011, pp. 78 - 83 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/research/webprojects/pau/_IMATGES/figspapers/Valencia_icra11.pdf [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, J. Andrade-Cetto, and J.M.&lt;br /&gt;
Porta, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Path Planning with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. IRI Technical Report, IRI-TR-10-03, 2010 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/people/rvalencia/Docs/Valencia_IRI_TR_10_03.pdf [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, E.H. Teniente, E. Trulls,&lt;br /&gt;
and J. Andrade-Cetto, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;3D mapping for urban&lt;br /&gt;
service robots&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In Proceedings of the&lt;br /&gt;
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems,&lt;br /&gt;
    2009, pp. 3076 -&lt;br /&gt;
3081 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1037 [http]] [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ielx5/5342790/5353884/5354277/1145.MM.zip?tp=&amp;amp;arnumber=5354277 [Multimedia]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; J. Andrade-Cetto, A.A. Ortega, E.H.&lt;br /&gt;
Teniente, E. Trulls Fortuny, R. Valencia and A. Sanfeliu, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Combination of distributed camera network and&lt;br /&gt;
laser-based 3D mapping for urban service robots&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ IROS Workshop on&lt;br /&gt;
Network Robot Systems, 2009, pp. 69-80 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1039 [http]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; V. Ila, J. Andrade-Cetto, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
and A. Sanfeliu, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Vision-based loop closing&lt;br /&gt;
for delayed state robot mapping&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In&lt;br /&gt;
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent&lt;br /&gt;
Robots and Systems, 2007, pp. 3892-3897 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/771 [http]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h4&amp;gt;PhD thesis:&amp;lt;/h4&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; Rafael Valencia, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Mapping, planning and exploration with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
    Ph.D. Thesis, Technical&lt;br /&gt;
University of Catalonia (UPC), 2013 [http://hdl.handle.net/10803/117471 [http]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Rafael Valencia</title>
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&amp;lt;P align=&amp;quot;justify&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at ISLAB/CAISR from Halmstad University, Sweden. Previously,&amp;amp;nbsp; I was a postdoctoral researcher at the [http://aass.oru.se/Research/mro/index.html MR&amp;amp;amp;O Lab] from Örebro University, Sweden. In April 2013 I completed my PhD thesis in&lt;br /&gt;
robotics at [http://www.iri.upc.edu/ IRI] (Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial) from the Technical&lt;br /&gt;
University of Catalonia ([http://www.upc.edu/?set_language=en UPC]), at Barcelona, Spain.&amp;amp;nbsp; My research has focused on different aspects of &lt;br /&gt;
autonomous mobile robot navigation, from perception (SLAM, Mapping, &lt;br /&gt;
Localization) to action selection problems (path planning, exploration, &lt;br /&gt;
planning under uncertainty).&amp;lt;/P&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h4&amp;gt;Resume:&amp;lt;/h4&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[https://se.linkedin.com/in/rafaelvalencia LinkedIn profile]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;p&amp;gt; &amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;Postdoc at [http://islab.hh.se/mediawiki/Main_Page ISLAB/CAISR], Halmstad University - Sweden, since January 2015. &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;Postdoc at [http://aass.oru.se/Research/mro/ MR&amp;amp;amp;O Lab], Örebro University - Sweden, May 2013- December 2014. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;PhD in Automatics, Robotics, and Vision, Technical University of&lt;br /&gt;
Catalonia (UPC) - Spain, 2013. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;Visiting Researcher at  Centre for Intelligent Mechatronic Systems ([http://www.research.uts.edu.au/strengths/imes/overview.html CIMS]) at UTS - Australia, 2011&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; Master of Advanced Studies (DEA) in Control, Vision, and&lt;br /&gt;
Robotics, (UPC) - Spain, 2008. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; MSEE, Monterrey Tech ([http://www.itesm.edu/wps/wcm/connect/ITESM/Tecnologico+de+Monterrey/English ITESM]) - Mexico, 2005. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; BSEE, Metropolitan Autonomous University ([http://www.uam.mx/lang/eng/index.html UAM]) - Mexico,&lt;br /&gt;
2002. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h4&amp;gt;Publications:&amp;lt;/h4&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=raAzOHoAAAAJ&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;oi=ao Link to my Google Scholar Profile] &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div align=&amp;quot;justify&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;R. Valencia, J.P. Saarinen, H.&lt;br /&gt;
Andreasson, J. Vallve, J. Andrade-Cetto, and A.J. Lilienthal, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Localization in highly dynamic environments using&lt;br /&gt;
dual-timescale NDT-MCL&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. Proceedings of&lt;br /&gt;
the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2014, Hong Kong, pp. 3956-3962 &amp;lt;span&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1499 [http]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLQM6g2GeTY [Video]]&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; M.G. Jadidi, J. Valls-Miro, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
and J. Andrade-Cetto, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Exploration on&lt;br /&gt;
continuous Gaussian process frontier maps&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference&lt;br /&gt;
on Robotics and Automation, 2014, Hong Kong, pp. 6077-6082 &amp;lt;span&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1497 [http]]&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, M. Morta, J. Andrade-Cetto,&lt;br /&gt;
and J. M. Porta, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Planning reliable paths&lt;br /&gt;
with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. IEEE Transactions on&lt;br /&gt;
Robotics,29:4, 2013, pp. 1050-1059&lt;br /&gt;
    [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1419 [http]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA63juJ49PI [Video]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; M.G. Jadidi, J. Valls Miró, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
J. Andrade-Cetto, and G. Dissanayake, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Exploration&lt;br /&gt;
in information distribution maps&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. 2013&lt;br /&gt;
RSS Workshop on Robotic Exploration, Monitoring, and Information&lt;br /&gt;
Collection, 2013, pp.&lt;br /&gt;
1 - 8 [http://sertac.scripts.mit.edu/rssworkshop/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Paper4.pdf [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;M.G. Jadidi, J. Valls Miró, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
J. Andrade-Cetto, and G. Dissanayake, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Exploration&lt;br /&gt;
using an information-based reaction-diffusion process&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. 2013 Australasian Conference on Robotics and&lt;br /&gt;
Automation, 2013, Sydney.&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, J. Valls Miro, G.&lt;br /&gt;
Dissanayake, and J. Andrade-Cetto, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt; Active&lt;br /&gt;
Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In Proceedings of the&lt;br /&gt;
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems,&lt;br /&gt;
    2012, pp. 1885 -&lt;br /&gt;
1891 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1341 [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; E.H. Teniente, R. Valencia, and J.&lt;br /&gt;
Andrade-Cetto, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Dense outdoor 3D mapping and&lt;br /&gt;
navigation with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. 2011&lt;br /&gt;
Workshop de Robótica Experimental, 2012,&lt;br /&gt;
    pp. 567 - 572 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1274 [http]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcUZCjpONNY [Video]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, J. Andrade-Cetto, and J.M.&lt;br /&gt;
Porta, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Path planning in belief space with&lt;br /&gt;
Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In Proceedings of the IEEE&lt;br /&gt;
International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2011, pp. 78 - 83 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/research/webprojects/pau/_IMATGES/figspapers/Valencia_icra11.pdf [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, J. Andrade-Cetto, and J.M.&lt;br /&gt;
Porta, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Path Planning with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. IRI Technical Report, IRI-TR-10-03, 2010 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/people/rvalencia/Docs/Valencia_IRI_TR_10_03.pdf [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, E.H. Teniente, E. Trulls,&lt;br /&gt;
and J. Andrade-Cetto, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;3D mapping for urban&lt;br /&gt;
service robots&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In Proceedings of the&lt;br /&gt;
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems,&lt;br /&gt;
    2009, pp. 3076 -&lt;br /&gt;
3081 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1037 [http]] [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ielx5/5342790/5353884/5354277/1145.MM.zip?tp=&amp;amp;arnumber=5354277 [Multimedia]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; J. Andrade-Cetto, A.A. Ortega, E.H.&lt;br /&gt;
Teniente, E. Trulls Fortuny, R. Valencia and A. Sanfeliu, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Combination of distributed camera network and&lt;br /&gt;
laser-based 3D mapping for urban service robots&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ IROS Workshop on&lt;br /&gt;
Network Robot Systems, 2009, pp. 69-80 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1039 [http]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; V. Ila, J. Andrade-Cetto, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
and A. Sanfeliu, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Vision-based loop closing&lt;br /&gt;
for delayed state robot mapping&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In&lt;br /&gt;
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent&lt;br /&gt;
Robots and Systems, 2007, pp. 3892-3897 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/771 [http]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h4&amp;gt;PhD thesis:&amp;lt;/h4&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; Rafael Valencia, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Mapping, planning and exploration with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
    Ph.D. Thesis, Technical&lt;br /&gt;
University of Catalonia (UPC), 2013 [http://hdl.handle.net/10803/117471 [http]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Rafval</name></author>
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		<title>Rafael Valencia</title>
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		<updated>2015-09-14T14:16:28Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Rafval: &lt;/p&gt;
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I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at ISLAB/CAISR from Halmstad University, Sweden. Previously,&amp;amp;nbsp; I was a postdoctoral researcher at the [http://aass.oru.se/Research/mro/index.html MR&amp;amp;amp;O Lab] from Örebro University, Sweden. In April 2013 I completed my PhD thesis in&lt;br /&gt;
robotics at [http://www.iri.upc.edu/ IRI] (Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial) from the Technical&lt;br /&gt;
University of Catalonia ([http://www.upc.edu/?set_language=en UPC]), at Barcelona, Spain.&amp;amp;nbsp; My research has focused on different aspects of &lt;br /&gt;
autonomous mobile robot navigation, from perception (SLAM, Mapping, &lt;br /&gt;
Localization) to action selection problems (path planning, exploration, &lt;br /&gt;
planning under uncertainty).&amp;lt;/P&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h4&amp;gt;Resume:&amp;lt;/h4&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[https://se.linkedin.com/in/rafaelvalencia LinkedIn profile]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;p&amp;gt; &amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;Postdoc at [http://islab.hh.se/mediawiki/Main_Page ISLAB/CAISR], Halmstad University - Sweden, since January 2015. &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;Postdoc at [http://aass.oru.se/Research/mro/ MR&amp;amp;amp;O Lab], Örebro University - Sweden, May 2013- December 2014. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;PhD in Automatics, Robotics, and Vision, Technical University of&lt;br /&gt;
Catalonia (UPC) - Spain, 2013. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;Visiting Researcher at  Centre for Intelligent Mechatronic Systems ([http://www.research.uts.edu.au/strengths/imes/overview.html CIMS]) at UTS - Australia, 2011&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; Master of Advanced Studies (DEA) in Control, Vision, and&lt;br /&gt;
Robotics, (UPC) - Spain, 2008. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; MSEE, Monterrey Tech ([http://www.itesm.edu/wps/wcm/connect/ITESM/Tecnologico+de+Monterrey/English ITESM]) - Mexico, 2005. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; BSEE, Metropolitan Autonomous University ([http://www.uam.mx/lang/eng/index.html UAM]) - Mexico,&lt;br /&gt;
2002. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h4&amp;gt;Publications:&amp;lt;/h4&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=raAzOHoAAAAJ&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;oi=ao Link to my Google Scholar Profile] &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div align=&amp;quot;justify&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;R. Valencia, J.P. Saarinen, H.&lt;br /&gt;
Andreasson, J. Vallve, J. Andrade-Cetto, and A.J. Lilienthal, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Localization in highly dynamic environments using&lt;br /&gt;
dual-timescale NDT-MCL&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. Proceedings of&lt;br /&gt;
the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2014, Hong Kong, pp. 3956-3962 &amp;lt;span&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1499 [http]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLQM6g2GeTY [Video]]&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; M.G. Jadidi, J. Valls-Miro, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
and J. Andrade-Cetto, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Exploration on&lt;br /&gt;
continuous Gaussian process frontier maps&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference&lt;br /&gt;
on Robotics and Automation, 2014, Hong Kong, pp. 6077-6082 &amp;lt;span&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1497 [http]]&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, M. Morta, J. Andrade-Cetto,&lt;br /&gt;
and J. M. Porta, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Planning reliable paths&lt;br /&gt;
with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. IEEE Transactions on&lt;br /&gt;
Robotics,29:4, 2013, pp. 1050-1059&lt;br /&gt;
    [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1419 [http]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA63juJ49PI [Video]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; M.G. Jadidi, J. Valls Miró, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
J. Andrade-Cetto, and G. Dissanayake, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Exploration&lt;br /&gt;
in information distribution maps&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. 2013&lt;br /&gt;
RSS Workshop on Robotic Exploration, Monitoring, and Information&lt;br /&gt;
Collection, 2013, pp.&lt;br /&gt;
1 - 8 [http://sertac.scripts.mit.edu/rssworkshop/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Paper4.pdf [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;M.G. Jadidi, J. Valls Miró, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
J. Andrade-Cetto, and G. Dissanayake, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Exploration&lt;br /&gt;
using an information-based reaction-diffusion process&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. 2013 Australasian Conference on Robotics and&lt;br /&gt;
Automation, 2013, Sydney.&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, J. Valls Miro, G.&lt;br /&gt;
Dissanayake, and J. Andrade-Cetto, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt; Active&lt;br /&gt;
Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In Proceedings of the&lt;br /&gt;
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems,&lt;br /&gt;
    2012, pp. 1885 -&lt;br /&gt;
1891 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1341 [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; E.H. Teniente, R. Valencia, and J.&lt;br /&gt;
Andrade-Cetto, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Dense outdoor 3D mapping and&lt;br /&gt;
navigation with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. 2011&lt;br /&gt;
Workshop de Robótica Experimental, 2012,&lt;br /&gt;
    pp. 567 - 572 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1274 [http]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcUZCjpONNY [Video]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, J. Andrade-Cetto, and J.M.&lt;br /&gt;
Porta, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Path planning in belief space with&lt;br /&gt;
Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In Proceedings of the IEEE&lt;br /&gt;
International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2011, pp. 78 - 83 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/research/webprojects/pau/_IMATGES/figspapers/Valencia_icra11.pdf [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, J. Andrade-Cetto, and J.M.&lt;br /&gt;
Porta, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Path Planning with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. IRI Technical Report, IRI-TR-10-03, 2010 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/people/rvalencia/Docs/Valencia_IRI_TR_10_03.pdf [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, E.H. Teniente, E. Trulls,&lt;br /&gt;
and J. Andrade-Cetto, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;3D mapping for urban&lt;br /&gt;
service robots&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In Proceedings of the&lt;br /&gt;
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems,&lt;br /&gt;
    2009, pp. 3076 -&lt;br /&gt;
3081 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1037 [http]] [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ielx5/5342790/5353884/5354277/1145.MM.zip?tp=&amp;amp;arnumber=5354277 [Multimedia]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; J. Andrade-Cetto, A.A. Ortega, E.H.&lt;br /&gt;
Teniente, E. Trulls Fortuny, R. Valencia and A. Sanfeliu, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Combination of distributed camera network and&lt;br /&gt;
laser-based 3D mapping for urban service robots&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ IROS Workshop on&lt;br /&gt;
Network Robot Systems, 2009, pp. 69-80 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1039 [http]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; V. Ila, J. Andrade-Cetto, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
and A. Sanfeliu, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Vision-based loop closing&lt;br /&gt;
for delayed state robot mapping&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In&lt;br /&gt;
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent&lt;br /&gt;
Robots and Systems, 2007, pp. 3892-3897 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/771 [http]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h4&amp;gt;PhD thesis:&amp;lt;/h4&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; Rafael Valencia, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Mapping, planning and exploration with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
    Ph.D. Thesis, Technical&lt;br /&gt;
University of Catalonia (UPC), 2013 [http://hdl.handle.net/10803/117471 [http]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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		<title>Rafael Valencia</title>
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		<updated>2015-09-14T14:15:56Z</updated>

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|Email=mailto:rafael.valencia@hh.se&lt;br /&gt;
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I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at ISLAB/CAISR from Halmstad University, Sweden. Previously,&amp;amp;nbsp; I was a postdoctoral researcher at the [http://aass.oru.se/Research/mro/index.html MR&amp;amp;amp;O Lab] from Örebro University, Sweden. In April 2013 I completed my PhD thesis in&lt;br /&gt;
robotics at [http://www.iri.upc.edu/ IRI] (Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial) from the Technical&lt;br /&gt;
University of Catalonia ([http://www.upc.edu/?set_language=en UPC]), at Barcelona, Spain.&amp;amp;nbsp; My research has focused on different aspects of &lt;br /&gt;
autonomous mobile robot navigation, from perception (SLAM, Mapping, &lt;br /&gt;
Localization) to action selection problems (path planning, exploration, &lt;br /&gt;
planning under uncertainty).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;https://se.linkedin.com/pub/rafael-valencia/17/796/6aa&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
      &lt;br /&gt;
          &amp;lt;img alt=&amp;quot;View Rafael Valencia&amp;#039;s profile on LinkedIn&amp;quot; src=&amp;quot;https://static.licdn.com/scds/common/u/img/webpromo/btn_myprofile_160x33.png&amp;quot; height=&amp;quot;33&amp;quot; width=&amp;quot;160&amp;quot; border=&amp;quot;0&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
        &lt;br /&gt;
    &amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/P&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h4&amp;gt;Resume:&amp;lt;/h4&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[https://se.linkedin.com/in/rafaelvalencia LinkedIn profile]&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;p&amp;gt; &amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;Postdoc at [http://islab.hh.se/mediawiki/Main_Page ISLAB/CAISR], Halmstad University - Sweden, since January 2015. &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;Postdoc at [http://aass.oru.se/Research/mro/ MR&amp;amp;amp;O Lab], Örebro University - Sweden, May 2013- December 2014. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;PhD in Automatics, Robotics, and Vision, Technical University of&lt;br /&gt;
Catalonia (UPC) - Spain, 2013. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;Visiting Researcher at  Centre for Intelligent Mechatronic Systems ([http://www.research.uts.edu.au/strengths/imes/overview.html CIMS]) at UTS - Australia, 2011&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; Master of Advanced Studies (DEA) in Control, Vision, and&lt;br /&gt;
Robotics, (UPC) - Spain, 2008. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; MSEE, Monterrey Tech ([http://www.itesm.edu/wps/wcm/connect/ITESM/Tecnologico+de+Monterrey/English ITESM]) - Mexico, 2005. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; BSEE, Metropolitan Autonomous University ([http://www.uam.mx/lang/eng/index.html UAM]) - Mexico,&lt;br /&gt;
2002. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h4&amp;gt;Publications:&amp;lt;/h4&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=raAzOHoAAAAJ&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;oi=ao Link to my Google Scholar Profile] &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div align=&amp;quot;justify&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;R. Valencia, J.P. Saarinen, H.&lt;br /&gt;
Andreasson, J. Vallve, J. Andrade-Cetto, and A.J. Lilienthal, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Localization in highly dynamic environments using&lt;br /&gt;
dual-timescale NDT-MCL&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. Proceedings of&lt;br /&gt;
the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2014, Hong Kong, pp. 3956-3962 &amp;lt;span&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1499 [http]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLQM6g2GeTY [Video]]&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; M.G. Jadidi, J. Valls-Miro, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
and J. Andrade-Cetto, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Exploration on&lt;br /&gt;
continuous Gaussian process frontier maps&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference&lt;br /&gt;
on Robotics and Automation, 2014, Hong Kong, pp. 6077-6082 &amp;lt;span&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1497 [http]]&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, M. Morta, J. Andrade-Cetto,&lt;br /&gt;
and J. M. Porta, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Planning reliable paths&lt;br /&gt;
with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. IEEE Transactions on&lt;br /&gt;
Robotics,29:4, 2013, pp. 1050-1059&lt;br /&gt;
    [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1419 [http]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA63juJ49PI [Video]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; M.G. Jadidi, J. Valls Miró, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
J. Andrade-Cetto, and G. Dissanayake, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Exploration&lt;br /&gt;
in information distribution maps&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. 2013&lt;br /&gt;
RSS Workshop on Robotic Exploration, Monitoring, and Information&lt;br /&gt;
Collection, 2013, pp.&lt;br /&gt;
1 - 8 [http://sertac.scripts.mit.edu/rssworkshop/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Paper4.pdf [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;M.G. Jadidi, J. Valls Miró, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
J. Andrade-Cetto, and G. Dissanayake, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Exploration&lt;br /&gt;
using an information-based reaction-diffusion process&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. 2013 Australasian Conference on Robotics and&lt;br /&gt;
Automation, 2013, Sydney.&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, J. Valls Miro, G.&lt;br /&gt;
Dissanayake, and J. Andrade-Cetto, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt; Active&lt;br /&gt;
Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In Proceedings of the&lt;br /&gt;
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems,&lt;br /&gt;
    2012, pp. 1885 -&lt;br /&gt;
1891 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1341 [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; E.H. Teniente, R. Valencia, and J.&lt;br /&gt;
Andrade-Cetto, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Dense outdoor 3D mapping and&lt;br /&gt;
navigation with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. 2011&lt;br /&gt;
Workshop de Robótica Experimental, 2012,&lt;br /&gt;
    pp. 567 - 572 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1274 [http]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcUZCjpONNY [Video]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, J. Andrade-Cetto, and J.M.&lt;br /&gt;
Porta, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Path planning in belief space with&lt;br /&gt;
Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In Proceedings of the IEEE&lt;br /&gt;
International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2011, pp. 78 - 83 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/research/webprojects/pau/_IMATGES/figspapers/Valencia_icra11.pdf [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, J. Andrade-Cetto, and J.M.&lt;br /&gt;
Porta, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Path Planning with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. IRI Technical Report, IRI-TR-10-03, 2010 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/people/rvalencia/Docs/Valencia_IRI_TR_10_03.pdf [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, E.H. Teniente, E. Trulls,&lt;br /&gt;
and J. Andrade-Cetto, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;3D mapping for urban&lt;br /&gt;
service robots&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In Proceedings of the&lt;br /&gt;
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems,&lt;br /&gt;
    2009, pp. 3076 -&lt;br /&gt;
3081 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1037 [http]] [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ielx5/5342790/5353884/5354277/1145.MM.zip?tp=&amp;amp;arnumber=5354277 [Multimedia]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; J. Andrade-Cetto, A.A. Ortega, E.H.&lt;br /&gt;
Teniente, E. Trulls Fortuny, R. Valencia and A. Sanfeliu, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Combination of distributed camera network and&lt;br /&gt;
laser-based 3D mapping for urban service robots&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ IROS Workshop on&lt;br /&gt;
Network Robot Systems, 2009, pp. 69-80 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1039 [http]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; V. Ila, J. Andrade-Cetto, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
and A. Sanfeliu, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Vision-based loop closing&lt;br /&gt;
for delayed state robot mapping&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In&lt;br /&gt;
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent&lt;br /&gt;
Robots and Systems, 2007, pp. 3892-3897 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/771 [http]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h4&amp;gt;PhD thesis:&amp;lt;/h4&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; Rafael Valencia, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Mapping, planning and exploration with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
    Ph.D. Thesis, Technical&lt;br /&gt;
University of Catalonia (UPC), 2013 [http://hdl.handle.net/10803/117471 [http]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Rafval</name></author>
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		<title>Rafael Valencia</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Rafval: &lt;/p&gt;
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&amp;lt;P align=&amp;quot;justify&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at ISLAB/CAISR from Halmstad University, Sweden. Previously,&amp;amp;nbsp; I was a postdoctoral researcher at the [http://aass.oru.se/Research/mro/index.html MR&amp;amp;amp;O Lab] from Örebro University, Sweden. In April 2013 I completed my PhD thesis in&lt;br /&gt;
robotics at [http://www.iri.upc.edu/ IRI] (Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial) from the Technical&lt;br /&gt;
University of Catalonia ([http://www.upc.edu/?set_language=en UPC]), at Barcelona, Spain.&amp;amp;nbsp; My research has focused on different aspects of &lt;br /&gt;
autonomous mobile robot navigation, from perception (SLAM, Mapping, &lt;br /&gt;
Localization) to action selection problems (path planning, exploration, &lt;br /&gt;
planning under uncertainty).&amp;lt;/P&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h4&amp;gt;Resume:&amp;lt;/h4&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[https://se.linkedin.com/in/rafaelvalencia LinkedIn profile]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;p&amp;gt; &amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;Postdoc at [http://islab.hh.se/mediawiki/Main_Page ISLAB/CAISR], Halmstad University - Sweden, since January 2015. &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;Postdoc at [http://aass.oru.se/Research/mro/ MR&amp;amp;amp;O Lab], Örebro University - Sweden, May 2013- December 2014. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;PhD in Automatics, Robotics, and Vision, Technical University of&lt;br /&gt;
Catalonia (UPC) - Spain, 2013. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;Visiting Researcher at  Centre for Intelligent Mechatronic Systems ([http://www.research.uts.edu.au/strengths/imes/overview.html CIMS]) at UTS - Australia, 2011&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; Master of Advanced Studies (DEA) in Control, Vision, and&lt;br /&gt;
Robotics, (UPC) - Spain, 2008. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; MSEE, Monterrey Tech ([http://www.itesm.edu/wps/wcm/connect/ITESM/Tecnologico+de+Monterrey/English ITESM]) - Mexico, 2005. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; BSEE, Metropolitan Autonomous University ([http://www.uam.mx/lang/eng/index.html UAM]) - Mexico,&lt;br /&gt;
2002. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h4&amp;gt;Publications:&amp;lt;/h4&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=raAzOHoAAAAJ&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;oi=ao Link to my Google Scholar Profile] &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div align=&amp;quot;justify&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;R. Valencia, J.P. Saarinen, H.&lt;br /&gt;
Andreasson, J. Vallve, J. Andrade-Cetto, and A.J. Lilienthal, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Localization in highly dynamic environments using&lt;br /&gt;
dual-timescale NDT-MCL&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. Proceedings of&lt;br /&gt;
the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2014, Hong Kong, pp. 3956-3962 &amp;lt;span&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1499 [http]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLQM6g2GeTY [Video]]&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; M.G. Jadidi, J. Valls-Miro, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
and J. Andrade-Cetto, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Exploration on&lt;br /&gt;
continuous Gaussian process frontier maps&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference&lt;br /&gt;
on Robotics and Automation, 2014, Hong Kong, pp. 6077-6082 &amp;lt;span&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1497 [http]]&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, M. Morta, J. Andrade-Cetto,&lt;br /&gt;
and J. M. Porta, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Planning reliable paths&lt;br /&gt;
with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. IEEE Transactions on&lt;br /&gt;
Robotics,29:4, 2013, pp. 1050-1059&lt;br /&gt;
    [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1419 [http]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA63juJ49PI [Video]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; M.G. Jadidi, J. Valls Miró, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
J. Andrade-Cetto, and G. Dissanayake, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Exploration&lt;br /&gt;
in information distribution maps&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. 2013&lt;br /&gt;
RSS Workshop on Robotic Exploration, Monitoring, and Information&lt;br /&gt;
Collection, 2013, pp.&lt;br /&gt;
1 - 8 [http://sertac.scripts.mit.edu/rssworkshop/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Paper4.pdf [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;M.G. Jadidi, J. Valls Miró, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
J. Andrade-Cetto, and G. Dissanayake, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Exploration&lt;br /&gt;
using an information-based reaction-diffusion process&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. 2013 Australasian Conference on Robotics and&lt;br /&gt;
Automation, 2013, Sydney.&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, J. Valls Miro, G.&lt;br /&gt;
Dissanayake, and J. Andrade-Cetto, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt; Active&lt;br /&gt;
Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In Proceedings of the&lt;br /&gt;
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems,&lt;br /&gt;
    2012, pp. 1885 -&lt;br /&gt;
1891 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1341 [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; E.H. Teniente, R. Valencia, and J.&lt;br /&gt;
Andrade-Cetto, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Dense outdoor 3D mapping and&lt;br /&gt;
navigation with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. 2011&lt;br /&gt;
Workshop de Robótica Experimental, 2012,&lt;br /&gt;
    pp. 567 - 572 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1274 [http]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcUZCjpONNY [Video]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, J. Andrade-Cetto, and J.M.&lt;br /&gt;
Porta, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Path planning in belief space with&lt;br /&gt;
Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In Proceedings of the IEEE&lt;br /&gt;
International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2011, pp. 78 - 83 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/research/webprojects/pau/_IMATGES/figspapers/Valencia_icra11.pdf [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, J. Andrade-Cetto, and J.M.&lt;br /&gt;
Porta, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Path Planning with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. IRI Technical Report, IRI-TR-10-03, 2010 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/people/rvalencia/Docs/Valencia_IRI_TR_10_03.pdf [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, E.H. Teniente, E. Trulls,&lt;br /&gt;
and J. Andrade-Cetto, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;3D mapping for urban&lt;br /&gt;
service robots&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In Proceedings of the&lt;br /&gt;
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems,&lt;br /&gt;
    2009, pp. 3076 -&lt;br /&gt;
3081 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1037 [http]] [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ielx5/5342790/5353884/5354277/1145.MM.zip?tp=&amp;amp;arnumber=5354277 [Multimedia]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; J. Andrade-Cetto, A.A. Ortega, E.H.&lt;br /&gt;
Teniente, E. Trulls Fortuny, R. Valencia and A. Sanfeliu, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Combination of distributed camera network and&lt;br /&gt;
laser-based 3D mapping for urban service robots&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ IROS Workshop on&lt;br /&gt;
Network Robot Systems, 2009, pp. 69-80 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1039 [http]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; V. Ila, J. Andrade-Cetto, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
and A. Sanfeliu, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Vision-based loop closing&lt;br /&gt;
for delayed state robot mapping&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In&lt;br /&gt;
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent&lt;br /&gt;
Robots and Systems, 2007, pp. 3892-3897 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/771 [http]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h4&amp;gt;PhD thesis:&amp;lt;/h4&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; Rafael Valencia, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Mapping, planning and exploration with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
    Ph.D. Thesis, Technical&lt;br /&gt;
University of Catalonia (UPC), 2013 [http://hdl.handle.net/10803/117471 [http]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Rafval</name></author>
	</entry>
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		<id>https://mw.hh.se/caisr/index.php?title=Rafael_Valencia&amp;diff=2261</id>
		<title>Rafael Valencia</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://mw.hh.se/caisr/index.php?title=Rafael_Valencia&amp;diff=2261"/>
		<updated>2015-09-14T14:13:00Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Rafval: &lt;/p&gt;
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|Phone=tel:+46-35-167249&lt;br /&gt;
|Position=Postdoctoral Researcher&lt;br /&gt;
|Email=mailto:rafael.valencia@hh.se&lt;br /&gt;
|Image=RafaelV.png&lt;br /&gt;
|Country=Sweden&lt;br /&gt;
|Office=E527&lt;br /&gt;
|Affiliation=ISLAB, CAISR&lt;br /&gt;
|url=https://se.linkedin.com/in/rafaelvalencia&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;P align=&amp;quot;justify&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at ISLAB/CAISR from Halmstad University, Sweden. Previously,&amp;amp;nbsp; I was a postdoctoral researcher at the [http://aass.oru.se/Research/mro/index.html MR&amp;amp;amp;O Lab] from Örebro University, Sweden. In April 2013 I completed my PhD thesis in&lt;br /&gt;
robotics at [http://www.iri.upc.edu/ IRI] (Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial) from the Technical&lt;br /&gt;
University of Catalonia ([http://www.upc.edu/?set_language=en UPC]), at Barcelona, Spain.&amp;amp;nbsp; My research has focused on different aspects of &lt;br /&gt;
autonomous mobile robot navigation, from perception (SLAM, Mapping, &lt;br /&gt;
Localization) to action selection problems (path planning, exploration, &lt;br /&gt;
planning under uncertainty).&amp;lt;/P&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h4&amp;gt;Resume:&amp;lt;/h4&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[https://se.linkedin.com/in/rafaelvalencia LinkedIn profile]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;p&amp;gt; &amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;Postdoc at [http://islab.hh.se/mediawiki/Main_Page ISLAB/CAISR], Halmstad University - Sweden, since January 2015. &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;Postdoc at [http://aass.oru.se/Research/mro/ MR&amp;amp;amp;O Lab], Örebro University - Sweden, May 2013- December 2014. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;PhD in Automatics, Robotics, and Vision, Technical University of&lt;br /&gt;
Catalonia (UPC) - Spain, 2013. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;Visiting Researcher at  Centre for Intelligent Mechatronic Systems ([http://www.research.uts.edu.au/strengths/imes/overview.html CIMS]) at UTS - Australia, 2011&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; Master of Advanced Studies (DEA) in Control, Vision, and&lt;br /&gt;
Robotics, (UPC) - Spain, 2008. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; MSEE, Monterrey Tech ([http://www.itesm.edu/wps/wcm/connect/ITESM/Tecnologico+de+Monterrey/English ITESM]) - Mexico, 2005. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; BSEE, Metropolitan Autonomous University ([http://www.uam.mx/lang/eng/index.html UAM]) - Mexico,&lt;br /&gt;
2002. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h4&amp;gt;Publications:&amp;lt;/h4&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=raAzOHoAAAAJ&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;oi=ao Link to my Google Scholar Profile] &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div align=&amp;quot;justify&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;R. Valencia, J.P. Saarinen, H.&lt;br /&gt;
Andreasson, J. Vallve, J. Andrade-Cetto, and A.J. Lilienthal, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Localization in highly dynamic environments using&lt;br /&gt;
dual-timescale NDT-MCL&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. Proceedings of&lt;br /&gt;
the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2014, Hong Kong, pp. 3956-3962 &amp;lt;span&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1499 [http]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLQM6g2GeTY [Video]]&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; M.G. Jadidi, J. Valls-Miro, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
and J. Andrade-Cetto, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Exploration on&lt;br /&gt;
continuous Gaussian process frontier maps&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference&lt;br /&gt;
on Robotics and Automation, 2014, Hong Kong, pp. 6077-6082 &amp;lt;span&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1497 [http]]&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, M. Morta, J. Andrade-Cetto,&lt;br /&gt;
and J. M. Porta, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Planning reliable paths&lt;br /&gt;
with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. IEEE Transactions on&lt;br /&gt;
Robotics,29:4, 2013, pp. 1050-1059&lt;br /&gt;
    [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1419 [http]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA63juJ49PI [Video]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; M.G. Jadidi, J. Valls Miró, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
J. Andrade-Cetto, and G. Dissanayake, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Exploration&lt;br /&gt;
in information distribution maps&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. 2013&lt;br /&gt;
RSS Workshop on Robotic Exploration, Monitoring, and Information&lt;br /&gt;
Collection, 2013, pp.&lt;br /&gt;
1 - 8 [http://sertac.scripts.mit.edu/rssworkshop/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Paper4.pdf [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;M.G. Jadidi, J. Valls Miró, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
J. Andrade-Cetto, and G. Dissanayake, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Exploration&lt;br /&gt;
using an information-based reaction-diffusion process&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. 2013 Australasian Conference on Robotics and&lt;br /&gt;
Automation, 2013, Sydney.&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, J. Valls Miro, G.&lt;br /&gt;
Dissanayake, and J. Andrade-Cetto, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt; Active&lt;br /&gt;
Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In Proceedings of the&lt;br /&gt;
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems,&lt;br /&gt;
    2012, pp. 1885 -&lt;br /&gt;
1891 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1341 [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; E.H. Teniente, R. Valencia, and J.&lt;br /&gt;
Andrade-Cetto, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Dense outdoor 3D mapping and&lt;br /&gt;
navigation with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. 2011&lt;br /&gt;
Workshop de Robótica Experimental, 2012,&lt;br /&gt;
    pp. 567 - 572 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1274 [http]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcUZCjpONNY [Video]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, J. Andrade-Cetto, and J.M.&lt;br /&gt;
Porta, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Path planning in belief space with&lt;br /&gt;
Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In Proceedings of the IEEE&lt;br /&gt;
International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2011, pp. 78 - 83 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/research/webprojects/pau/_IMATGES/figspapers/Valencia_icra11.pdf [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, J. Andrade-Cetto, and J.M.&lt;br /&gt;
Porta, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Path Planning with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. IRI Technical Report, IRI-TR-10-03, 2010 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/people/rvalencia/Docs/Valencia_IRI_TR_10_03.pdf [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, E.H. Teniente, E. Trulls,&lt;br /&gt;
and J. Andrade-Cetto, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;3D mapping for urban&lt;br /&gt;
service robots&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In Proceedings of the&lt;br /&gt;
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems,&lt;br /&gt;
    2009, pp. 3076 -&lt;br /&gt;
3081 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1037 [http]] [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ielx5/5342790/5353884/5354277/1145.MM.zip?tp=&amp;amp;arnumber=5354277 [Multimedia]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; J. Andrade-Cetto, A.A. Ortega, E.H.&lt;br /&gt;
Teniente, E. Trulls Fortuny, R. Valencia and A. Sanfeliu, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Combination of distributed camera network and&lt;br /&gt;
laser-based 3D mapping for urban service robots&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ IROS Workshop on&lt;br /&gt;
Network Robot Systems, 2009, pp. 69-80 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1039 [http]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; V. Ila, J. Andrade-Cetto, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
and A. Sanfeliu, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Vision-based loop closing&lt;br /&gt;
for delayed state robot mapping&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In&lt;br /&gt;
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent&lt;br /&gt;
Robots and Systems, 2007, pp. 3892-3897 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/771 [http]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h4&amp;gt;PhD thesis:&amp;lt;/h4&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; Rafael Valencia, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Mapping, planning and exploration with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
    Ph.D. Thesis, Technical&lt;br /&gt;
University of Catalonia (UPC), 2013 [http://hdl.handle.net/10803/117471 [http]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<id>https://mw.hh.se/caisr/index.php?title=Rafael_Valencia&amp;diff=2074</id>
		<title>Rafael Valencia</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://mw.hh.se/caisr/index.php?title=Rafael_Valencia&amp;diff=2074"/>
		<updated>2015-02-23T21:28:01Z</updated>

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|Position=Postdoctoral Researcher&lt;br /&gt;
|Email=mailto:rafael.valencia@hh.se&lt;br /&gt;
|Image=RafaelV.png&lt;br /&gt;
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I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at ISLAB/CAISR from Halmstad University, Sweden. Previously,&amp;amp;nbsp; I was a postdoctoral researcher at the [http://aass.oru.se/Research/mro/index.html MR&amp;amp;amp;O Lab] from Örebro University, Sweden. In April 2013 I completed my PhD thesis in&lt;br /&gt;
robotics at [http://www.iri.upc.edu/ IRI] (Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial) from the Technical&lt;br /&gt;
University of Catalonia ([http://www.upc.edu/?set_language=en UPC]), at Barcelona, Spain.&amp;amp;nbsp; My research has focused on different aspects of &lt;br /&gt;
autonomous mobile robot navigation, from perception (SLAM, Mapping, &lt;br /&gt;
Localization) to action selection problems (path planning, exploration, &lt;br /&gt;
planning under uncertainty).&amp;lt;/P&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h4&amp;gt;Resume:&amp;lt;/h4&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[https://se.linkedin.com/in/rafaelvalencia LinkedIn profile]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;p&amp;gt; &amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;Postdoc at [http://islab.hh.se/mediawiki/Main_Page ISLAB/CAISR], Halmstad University - Sweden, since January 2015. &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;Postdoc at [http://aass.oru.se/Research/mro/ MR&amp;amp;amp;O Lab], Örebro University - Sweden, May 2013- December 2014. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;PhD in Automatics, Robotics, and Vision, Technical University of&lt;br /&gt;
Catalonia (UPC) - Spain, 2013. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;Visiting Researcher at  Centre for Intelligent Mechatronic Systems ([http://www.research.uts.edu.au/strengths/imes/overview.html CIMS]) at UTS - Australia, 2011&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; Master of Advanced Studies (DEA) in Control, Vision, and&lt;br /&gt;
Robotics, (UPC) - Spain, 2008. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; MSEE, Monterrey Tech ([http://www.itesm.edu/wps/wcm/connect/ITESM/Tecnologico+de+Monterrey/English ITESM]) - Mexico, 2005. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; BSEE, Metropolitan Autonomous University ([http://www.uam.mx/lang/eng/index.html UAM]) - Mexico,&lt;br /&gt;
2002. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h4&amp;gt;Publications:&amp;lt;/h4&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=raAzOHoAAAAJ&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;oi=ao Link to my Google Scholar Profile] &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div align=&amp;quot;justify&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;R. Valencia, J.P. Saarinen, H.&lt;br /&gt;
Andreasson, J. Vallve, J. Andrade-Cetto, and A.J. Lilienthal, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Localization in highly dynamic environments using&lt;br /&gt;
dual-timescale NDT-MCL&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. Proceedings of&lt;br /&gt;
the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2014, Hong Kong, pp. 3956-3962 &amp;lt;span&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1499 [http]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLQM6g2GeTY [Video]]&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; M.G. Jadidi, J. Valls-Miro, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
and J. Andrade-Cetto, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Exploration on&lt;br /&gt;
continuous Gaussian process frontier maps&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference&lt;br /&gt;
on Robotics and Automation, 2014, Hong Kong, pp. 6077-6082 &amp;lt;span&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1497 [http]]&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, M. Morta, J. Andrade-Cetto,&lt;br /&gt;
and J. M. Porta, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Planning reliable paths&lt;br /&gt;
with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. IEEE Transactions on&lt;br /&gt;
Robotics,29:4, 2013, pp. 1050-1059&lt;br /&gt;
    [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1419 [http]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA63juJ49PI [Video]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; M.G. Jadidi, J. Valls Miró, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
J. Andrade-Cetto, and G. Dissanayake, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Exploration&lt;br /&gt;
in information distribution maps&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. 2013&lt;br /&gt;
RSS Workshop on Robotic Exploration, Monitoring, and Information&lt;br /&gt;
Collection, 2013, pp.&lt;br /&gt;
1 - 8 [http://sertac.scripts.mit.edu/rssworkshop/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Paper4.pdf [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;M.G. Jadidi, J. Valls Miró, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
J. Andrade-Cetto, and G. Dissanayake, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Exploration&lt;br /&gt;
using an information-based reaction-diffusion process&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. 2013 Australasian Conference on Robotics and&lt;br /&gt;
Automation, 2013, Sydney.&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, J. Valls Miro, G.&lt;br /&gt;
Dissanayake, and J. Andrade-Cetto, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt; Active&lt;br /&gt;
Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In Proceedings of the&lt;br /&gt;
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems,&lt;br /&gt;
    2012, pp. 1885 -&lt;br /&gt;
1891 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1341 [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; E.H. Teniente, R. Valencia, and J.&lt;br /&gt;
Andrade-Cetto, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Dense outdoor 3D mapping and&lt;br /&gt;
navigation with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. 2011&lt;br /&gt;
Workshop de Robótica Experimental, 2012,&lt;br /&gt;
    pp. 567 - 572 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1274 [http]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcUZCjpONNY [Video]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, J. Andrade-Cetto, and J.M.&lt;br /&gt;
Porta, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Path planning in belief space with&lt;br /&gt;
Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In Proceedings of the IEEE&lt;br /&gt;
International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2011, pp. 78 - 83 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/research/webprojects/pau/_IMATGES/figspapers/Valencia_icra11.pdf [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, J. Andrade-Cetto, and J.M.&lt;br /&gt;
Porta, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Path Planning with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. IRI Technical Report, IRI-TR-10-03, 2010 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/people/rvalencia/Docs/Valencia_IRI_TR_10_03.pdf [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, E.H. Teniente, E. Trulls,&lt;br /&gt;
and J. Andrade-Cetto, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;3D mapping for urban&lt;br /&gt;
service robots&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In Proceedings of the&lt;br /&gt;
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems,&lt;br /&gt;
    2009, pp. 3076 -&lt;br /&gt;
3081 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1037 [http]] [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ielx5/5342790/5353884/5354277/1145.MM.zip?tp=&amp;amp;arnumber=5354277 [Multimedia]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; J. Andrade-Cetto, A.A. Ortega, E.H.&lt;br /&gt;
Teniente, E. Trulls Fortuny, R. Valencia and A. Sanfeliu, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Combination of distributed camera network and&lt;br /&gt;
laser-based 3D mapping for urban service robots&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ IROS Workshop on&lt;br /&gt;
Network Robot Systems, 2009, pp. 69-80 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1039 [http]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; V. Ila, J. Andrade-Cetto, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
and A. Sanfeliu, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Vision-based loop closing&lt;br /&gt;
for delayed state robot mapping&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In&lt;br /&gt;
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent&lt;br /&gt;
Robots and Systems, 2007, pp. 3892-3897 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/771 [http]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h4&amp;gt;PhD thesis:&amp;lt;/h4&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; Rafael Valencia, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Mapping, planning and exploration with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
    Ph.D. Thesis, Technical&lt;br /&gt;
University of Catalonia (UPC), 2013 [http://hdl.handle.net/10803/117471 [http]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Rafval</name></author>
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		<title>Rafael Valencia</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Rafval: &lt;/p&gt;
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I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at ISLAB/CAISR from Halmstad University, Sweden. Previously,&amp;amp;nbsp; I was a postdoctoral researcher at the [http://aass.oru.se/Research/mro/index.html MR&amp;amp;amp;O Lab] from Örebro University, Sweden. In April 2013 I completed my PhD thesis in&lt;br /&gt;
robotics at [http://www.iri.upc.edu/ IRI] (Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial) from the Technical&lt;br /&gt;
University of Catalonia ([http://www.upc.edu/?set_language=en UPC]), at Barcelona, Spain.&amp;amp;nbsp; My research has focused on different aspects of &lt;br /&gt;
autonomous mobile robot navigation, from perception (SLAM, Mapping, &lt;br /&gt;
Localization) to action selection problems (path planning, exploration, &lt;br /&gt;
planning under uncertainty).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h4&amp;gt;Resume:&amp;lt;/h4&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[https://se.linkedin.com/in/rafaelvalencia LinkedIn profile]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;p&amp;gt; &amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;Postdoc at [http://islab.hh.se/mediawiki/Main_Page ISLAB/CAISR], Halmstad University - Sweden, since January 2015. &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;Postdoc at [http://aass.oru.se/Research/mro/ MR&amp;amp;amp;O Lab], Örebro University - Sweden, May 2013- December 2014. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;PhD in Automatics, Robotics, and Vision, Technical University of&lt;br /&gt;
Catalonia (UPC) - Spain, 2013. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;Visiting Researcher at  Centre for Intelligent Mechatronic Systems ([http://www.research.uts.edu.au/strengths/imes/overview.html CIMS]) at UTS - Australia, 2011&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; Master of Advanced Studies (DEA) in Control, Vision, and&lt;br /&gt;
Robotics, (UPC) - Spain, 2008. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; MSEE, Monterrey Tech ([http://www.itesm.edu/wps/wcm/connect/ITESM/Tecnologico+de+Monterrey/English ITESM]) - Mexico, 2005. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; BSEE, Metropolitan Autonomous University ([http://www.uam.mx/lang/eng/index.html UAM]) - Mexico,&lt;br /&gt;
2002. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h4&amp;gt;Publications:&amp;lt;/h4&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=raAzOHoAAAAJ&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;oi=ao Link to my Google Scholar Profile] &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;R. Valencia, J.P. Saarinen, H.&lt;br /&gt;
Andreasson, J. Vallve, J. Andrade-Cetto, and A.J. Lilienthal, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Localization in highly dynamic environments using&lt;br /&gt;
dual-timescale NDT-MCL&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. Proceedings of&lt;br /&gt;
the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2014, Hong Kong, pp. 3956-3962 &amp;lt;span&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1499 [http]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLQM6g2GeTY [Video]]&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; M.G. Jadidi, J. Valls-Miro, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
and J. Andrade-Cetto, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Exploration on&lt;br /&gt;
continuous Gaussian process frontier maps&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference&lt;br /&gt;
on Robotics and Automation, 2014, Hong Kong, pp. 6077-6082 &amp;lt;span&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1497 [http]]&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, M. Morta, J. Andrade-Cetto,&lt;br /&gt;
and J. M. Porta, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Planning reliable paths&lt;br /&gt;
with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. IEEE Transactions on&lt;br /&gt;
Robotics,29:4, 2013, pp. 1050-1059&lt;br /&gt;
    [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1419 [http]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA63juJ49PI [Video]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; M.G. Jadidi, J. Valls Miró, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
J. Andrade-Cetto, and G. Dissanayake, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Exploration&lt;br /&gt;
in information distribution maps&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. 2013&lt;br /&gt;
RSS Workshop on Robotic Exploration, Monitoring, and Information&lt;br /&gt;
Collection, 2013, pp.&lt;br /&gt;
1 - 8 [http://sertac.scripts.mit.edu/rssworkshop/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Paper4.pdf [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;M.G. Jadidi, J. Valls Miró, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
J. Andrade-Cetto, and G. Dissanayake, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Exploration&lt;br /&gt;
using an information-based reaction-diffusion process&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. 2013 Australasian Conference on Robotics and&lt;br /&gt;
Automation, 2013, Sydney.&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, J. Valls Miro, G.&lt;br /&gt;
Dissanayake, and J. Andrade-Cetto, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt; Active&lt;br /&gt;
Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In Proceedings of the&lt;br /&gt;
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems,&lt;br /&gt;
    2012, pp. 1885 -&lt;br /&gt;
1891 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1341 [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; E.H. Teniente, R. Valencia, and J.&lt;br /&gt;
Andrade-Cetto, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Dense outdoor 3D mapping and&lt;br /&gt;
navigation with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. 2011&lt;br /&gt;
Workshop de Robótica Experimental, 2012,&lt;br /&gt;
    pp. 567 - 572 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1274 [http]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcUZCjpONNY [Video]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, J. Andrade-Cetto, and J.M.&lt;br /&gt;
Porta, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Path planning in belief space with&lt;br /&gt;
Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In Proceedings of the IEEE&lt;br /&gt;
International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2011, pp. 78 - 83 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/research/webprojects/pau/_IMATGES/figspapers/Valencia_icra11.pdf [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, J. Andrade-Cetto, and J.M.&lt;br /&gt;
Porta, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Path Planning with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. IRI Technical Report, IRI-TR-10-03, 2010 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/people/rvalencia/Docs/Valencia_IRI_TR_10_03.pdf [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; R. Valencia, E.H. Teniente, E. Trulls,&lt;br /&gt;
and J. Andrade-Cetto, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;3D mapping for urban&lt;br /&gt;
service robots&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In Proceedings of the&lt;br /&gt;
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems,&lt;br /&gt;
    2009, pp. 3076 -&lt;br /&gt;
3081 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1037 [http]] [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ielx5/5342790/5353884/5354277/1145.MM.zip?tp=&amp;amp;arnumber=5354277 [Multimedia]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; J. Andrade-Cetto, A.A. Ortega, E.H.&lt;br /&gt;
Teniente, E. Trulls Fortuny, R. Valencia and A. Sanfeliu, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Combination of distributed camera network and&lt;br /&gt;
laser-based 3D mapping for urban service robots&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ IROS Workshop on&lt;br /&gt;
Network Robot Systems, 2009, pp. 69-80 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1039 [http]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; V. Ila, J. Andrade-Cetto, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
and A. Sanfeliu, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Vision-based loop closing&lt;br /&gt;
for delayed state robot mapping&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. In&lt;br /&gt;
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent&lt;br /&gt;
Robots and Systems, 2007, pp. 3892-3897 [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/771 [http]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h4&amp;gt;PhD thesis:&amp;lt;/h4&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; Rafael Valencia, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Mapping, planning and exploration with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
    Ph.D. Thesis, Technical&lt;br /&gt;
University of Catalonia (UPC), 2013 [http://hdl.handle.net/10803/117471 [http]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Rafval</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://mw.hh.se/caisr/index.php?title=Rafael_Valencia&amp;diff=2072</id>
		<title>Rafael Valencia</title>
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		<updated>2015-02-19T02:01:50Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Rafval: &lt;/p&gt;
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|Family Name=Rafael&lt;br /&gt;
|Given Name=Valencia&lt;br /&gt;
|Title=PhD&lt;br /&gt;
|Phone=tel:+46-35-167249&lt;br /&gt;
|Position=Postdoctoral Researcher&lt;br /&gt;
|Email=mailto:rafael.valencia@hh.se&lt;br /&gt;
|Image=RafaelV.png&lt;br /&gt;
|Country=Sweden&lt;br /&gt;
|Office=E527&lt;br /&gt;
|Affiliation=ISLAB, CAISR&lt;br /&gt;
|url=https://se.linkedin.com/in/rafaelvalencia&lt;br /&gt;
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I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at ISLAB/CAISR from Halmstad University, Sweden. Previously,&amp;amp;nbsp; I was a postdoctoral researcher at the [http://aass.oru.se/Research/mro/index.html MR&amp;amp;amp;O Lab] from Örebro University, Sweden. In April 2013 I completed my PhD thesis in&lt;br /&gt;
robotics at [http://www.iri.upc.edu/ IRI] (Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial) from the Technical&lt;br /&gt;
University of Catalonia ([http://www.upc.edu/?set_language=en UPC]), at Barcelona, Spain.&amp;amp;nbsp; My research has focused on different aspects of &lt;br /&gt;
autonomous mobile robot navigation, from perception (SLAM, Mapping, &lt;br /&gt;
Localization) to action selection problems (path planning, exploration, &lt;br /&gt;
planning under uncertainty).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h4&amp;gt;Resume:&amp;lt;/h4&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[https://se.linkedin.com/in/rafaelvalencia LinkedIn profile]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;p&amp;gt; &amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;Postdoc at [http://islab.hh.se/mediawiki/Main_Page ISLAB/CAISR], Halmstad University - Sweden, since January 2015. &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;Postdoc at [http://aass.oru.se/Research/mro/ MR&amp;amp;amp;O Lab], Örebro University - Sweden, May 2013- December 2014. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;PhD in Automatics, Robotics, and Vision, Technical University of&lt;br /&gt;
Catalonia (UPC) - Spain, 2013. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;Visiting Researcher at  Centre for Intelligent Mechatronic Systems ([http://www.research.uts.edu.au/strengths/imes/overview.html CIMS]) at UTS - Australia, 2011&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; Master of Advanced Studies (DEA) in Control, Vision, and&lt;br /&gt;
Robotics, (UPC) - Spain, 2008. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; MSEE, Monterrey Tech ([http://www.itesm.edu/wps/wcm/connect/ITESM/Tecnologico+de+Monterrey/English ITESM]) - Mexico, 2005. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; BSEE, Metropolitan Autonomous University ([http://www.uam.mx/lang/eng/index.html UAM]) - Mexico,&lt;br /&gt;
2002. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h4&amp;gt;Publications:&amp;lt;/h4&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=raAzOHoAAAAJ&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;oi=ao Link to my Google Scholar Profile] &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;R. Valencia, J.P. Saarinen, H.&lt;br /&gt;
Andreasson, J. Vallve, J. Andrade-Cetto, and A.J. Lilienthal&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Localization in highly dynamic environments using&lt;br /&gt;
dual-timescale NDT-MCL&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Proceedings of&lt;br /&gt;
the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2014&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Hong Kong, pp. 3956-3962 &amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1499 [http]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLQM6g2GeTY [Video]]&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;M.G. Jadidi, J. Valls-Miro, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
and J. Andrade-Cetto&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Exploration on&lt;br /&gt;
continuous Gaussian process frontier maps&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference&lt;br /&gt;
on Robotics and Automation&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2014&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Hong Kong, pp. 6077-6082 &amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1497 [http]]&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;R. Valencia, M. Morta, J. Andrade-Cetto,&lt;br /&gt;
and J. M. Porta&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Planning reliable paths&lt;br /&gt;
with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;IEEE Transactions on&lt;br /&gt;
Robotics&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;29&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;:&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;4&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;,&lt;br /&gt;
    &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2013&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;pp. 1050-1059&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
    [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1419 [http]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA63juJ49PI [Video]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;M.G. Jadidi, J. Valls Miró, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
J. Andrade-Cetto, and G. Dissanayake&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Exploration&lt;br /&gt;
in information distribution maps&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2013&lt;br /&gt;
RSS Workshop on Robotic Exploration, Monitoring, and Information&lt;br /&gt;
Collection&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2013&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;pp.&lt;br /&gt;
1 - 8&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; [http://sertac.scripts.mit.edu/rssworkshop/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Paper4.pdf [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;M.G. Jadidi, J. Valls Miró, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
J. Andrade-Cetto, and G. Dissanayake&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Exploration&lt;br /&gt;
using an information-based reaction-diffusion process&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2013 Australasian Conference on Robotics and&lt;br /&gt;
Automation&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2013&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Sydney&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;R. Valencia, J. Valls Miro, G.&lt;br /&gt;
Dissanayake, and J. Andrade-Cetto&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt; Active&lt;br /&gt;
Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;In Proceedings of the&lt;br /&gt;
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;,&lt;br /&gt;
    &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2012&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;pp. 1885 -&lt;br /&gt;
1891&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1341 [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;E.H. Teniente, R. Valencia, and J.&lt;br /&gt;
Andrade-Cetto&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Dense outdoor 3D mapping and&lt;br /&gt;
navigation with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2011&lt;br /&gt;
Workshop de Robótica Experimental&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2012&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;,&lt;br /&gt;
    &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;pp. 567 - 572&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1274 [http]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcUZCjpONNY [Video]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;R. Valencia, J. Andrade-Cetto, and J.M.&lt;br /&gt;
Porta&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Path planning in belief space with&lt;br /&gt;
Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;In Proceedings of the IEEE&lt;br /&gt;
International Conference on Robotics and Automation&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2011&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;pp. 78 - 83&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/research/webprojects/pau/_IMATGES/figspapers/Valencia_icra11.pdf [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;R. Valencia, J. Andrade-Cetto, and J.M.&lt;br /&gt;
Porta&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Path Planning with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;IRI Technical Report, IRI-TR-10-03&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2010&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/people/rvalencia/Docs/Valencia_IRI_TR_10_03.pdf [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;R. Valencia, E.H. Teniente, E. Trulls,&lt;br /&gt;
and J. Andrade-Cetto&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;3D mapping for urban&lt;br /&gt;
service robots&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;In Proceedings of the&lt;br /&gt;
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;,&lt;br /&gt;
    &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2009&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;pp. 3076 -&lt;br /&gt;
3081&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1037 [http]] [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ielx5/5342790/5353884/5354277/1145.MM.zip?tp=&amp;amp;arnumber=5354277 [Multimedia]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;J. Andrade-Cetto, A.A. Ortega, E.H.&lt;br /&gt;
Teniente, E. Trulls Fortuny, R. Valencia and A. Sanfeliu&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Combination of distributed camera network and&lt;br /&gt;
laser-based 3D mapping for urban service robots&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ IROS Workshop on&lt;br /&gt;
Network Robot Systems&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2009&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;pp. 69-80&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1039 [http]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;V. Ila, J. Andrade-Cetto, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
and A. Sanfeliu&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Vision-based loop closing&lt;br /&gt;
for delayed state robot mapping&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;In&lt;br /&gt;
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent&lt;br /&gt;
Robots and Systems&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2007&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;pp. 3892-3897&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/771 [http]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h4&amp;gt;PhD thesis:&amp;lt;/h4&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Rafael Valencia&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Mapping, planning and exploration with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
    &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Ph.D. Thesis, &amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Technical&lt;br /&gt;
University of Catalonia (UPC)&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2013&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; [http://hdl.handle.net/10803/117471 [http]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Rafval</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://mw.hh.se/caisr/index.php?title=Rafael_Valencia&amp;diff=2070</id>
		<title>Rafael Valencia</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://mw.hh.se/caisr/index.php?title=Rafael_Valencia&amp;diff=2070"/>
		<updated>2015-02-19T01:37:53Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Rafval: &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;{{Person&lt;br /&gt;
|Family Name=Rafael&lt;br /&gt;
|Given Name=Valencia&lt;br /&gt;
|Title=PhD&lt;br /&gt;
|Phone=tel:+46-35-167249&lt;br /&gt;
|Position=Postdoctoral Researcher&lt;br /&gt;
|Email=mailto:rafael.valencia@hh.se&lt;br /&gt;
|Image=RafaelV.png&lt;br /&gt;
|Country=Sweden&lt;br /&gt;
|Office=E527&lt;br /&gt;
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I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at ISLAB/CAISR from Halmstad University, Sweden. Previously,&amp;amp;nbsp; I was a postdoctoral researcher at the [http://aass.oru.se/Research/mro/index.html MR&amp;amp;amp;O Lab] from Örebro University, Sweden. In April 2013 I completed my PhD thesis in&lt;br /&gt;
robotics at [http://www.iri.upc.edu/ IRI] (Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial) from the Technical&lt;br /&gt;
University of Catalonia ([http://www.upc.edu/?set_language=en UPC]), at Barcelona, Spain.&amp;amp;nbsp; My research has focused on different aspects of &lt;br /&gt;
autonomous mobile robot navigation, from perception (SLAM, Mapping, &lt;br /&gt;
Localization) to action selection problems (path planning, exploration, &lt;br /&gt;
planning under uncertainty).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h4&amp;gt;Resume:&amp;lt;/h4&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[https://se.linkedin.com/in/rafaelvalencia LinkedIn profile]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;p&amp;gt; &amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;Postdoc at [http://islab.hh.se/mediawiki/Main_Page ISLAB/CAISR], Halmstad University - Sweden, since January 2015. &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;Postdoc at [http://aass.oru.se/Research/mro/ MR&amp;amp;amp;O Lab], Örebro University - Sweden, May 2013- December 2014. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;PhD in Automatics, Robotics, and Vision, Technical University of&lt;br /&gt;
Catalonia (UPC) - Spain, 2013. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;Visiting Researcher at  Centre for Intelligent Mechatronic Systems ([http://www.research.uts.edu.au/strengths/imes/overview.html CIMS]) at UTS - Australia, 2011&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; Master of Advanced Studies (DEA) in Control, Vision, and&lt;br /&gt;
Robotics, (UPC) - Spain, 2008. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; MSEE, Monterrey Tech ([http://www.itesm.edu/wps/wcm/connect/ITESM/Tecnologico+de+Monterrey/English ITESM]) - Mexico, 2005. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; BSEE, Metropolitan Autonomous University ([http://www.uam.mx/lang/eng/index.html UAM]) - Mexico,&lt;br /&gt;
2002. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h4&amp;gt;Publications:&amp;lt;/h4&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=raAzOHoAAAAJ&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;oi=ao Link to my Google Scholar Profile] &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;R. Valencia, J.P. Saarinen, H.&lt;br /&gt;
Andreasson, J. Vallve, J. Andrade-Cetto, and A.J. Lilienthal&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Localization in highly dynamic environments using&lt;br /&gt;
dual-timescale NDT-MCL&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Proceedings of&lt;br /&gt;
the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2014&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Hong Kong, pp. 3956-3962 &amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1499 [http]]&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;M.G. Jadidi, J. Valls-Miro, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
and J. Andrade-Cetto&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Exploration on&lt;br /&gt;
continuous Gaussian process frontier maps&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference&lt;br /&gt;
on Robotics and Automation&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2014&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Hong Kong, pp. 6077-6082 &amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1497 [http]]&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;R. Valencia, M. Morta, J. Andrade-Cetto,&lt;br /&gt;
and J. M. Porta&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Planning reliable paths&lt;br /&gt;
with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;IEEE Transactions on&lt;br /&gt;
Robotics&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;29&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;:&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;4&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;,&lt;br /&gt;
    &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2013&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;pp. 1050-1059&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
    [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1419 [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;M.G. Jadidi, J. Valls Miró, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
J. Andrade-Cetto, and G. Dissanayake&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Exploration&lt;br /&gt;
in information distribution maps&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2013&lt;br /&gt;
RSS Workshop on Robotic Exploration, Monitoring, and Information&lt;br /&gt;
Collection&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2013&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;pp.&lt;br /&gt;
1 - 8&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; [http://sertac.scripts.mit.edu/rssworkshop/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Paper4.pdf [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;M.G. Jadidi, J. Valls Miró, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
J. Andrade-Cetto, and G. Dissanayake&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Exploration&lt;br /&gt;
using an information-based reaction-diffusion process&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2013 Australasian Conference on Robotics and&lt;br /&gt;
Automation&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2013&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Sydney&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;R. Valencia, J. Valls Miro, G.&lt;br /&gt;
Dissanayake, and J. Andrade-Cetto&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt; Active&lt;br /&gt;
Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;In Proceedings of the&lt;br /&gt;
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;,&lt;br /&gt;
    &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2012&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;pp. 1885 -&lt;br /&gt;
1891&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1341 [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;E.H. Teniente, R. Valencia, and J.&lt;br /&gt;
Andrade-Cetto&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Dense outdoor 3D mapping and&lt;br /&gt;
navigation with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2011&lt;br /&gt;
Workshop de Robótica Experimental&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2012&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;,&lt;br /&gt;
    &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;pp. 567 - 572&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1274 [http]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;R. Valencia, J. Andrade-Cetto, and J.M.&lt;br /&gt;
Porta&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Path planning in belief space with&lt;br /&gt;
Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;In Proceedings of the IEEE&lt;br /&gt;
International Conference on Robotics and Automation&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2011&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;pp. 78 - 83&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/research/webprojects/pau/_IMATGES/figspapers/Valencia_icra11.pdf [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;R. Valencia, J. Andrade-Cetto, and J.M.&lt;br /&gt;
Porta&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Path Planning with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;IRI Technical Report, IRI-TR-10-03&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2010&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/people/rvalencia/Docs/Valencia_IRI_TR_10_03.pdf [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;R. Valencia, E.H. Teniente, E. Trulls,&lt;br /&gt;
and J. Andrade-Cetto&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;3D mapping for urban&lt;br /&gt;
service robots&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;In Proceedings of the&lt;br /&gt;
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;,&lt;br /&gt;
    &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2009&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;pp. 3076 -&lt;br /&gt;
3081&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1037 [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;J. Andrade-Cetto, A.A. Ortega, E.H.&lt;br /&gt;
Teniente, E. Trulls Fortuny, R. Valencia and A. Sanfeliu&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Combination of distributed camera network and&lt;br /&gt;
laser-based 3D mapping for urban service robots&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ IROS Workshop on&lt;br /&gt;
Network Robot Systems&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2009&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;pp. 69-80&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1039 [http]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;V. Ila, J. Andrade-Cetto, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
and A. Sanfeliu&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Vision-based loop closing&lt;br /&gt;
for delayed state robot mapping&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;In&lt;br /&gt;
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent&lt;br /&gt;
Robots and Systems&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2007&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;pp. 3892-3897&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/771 [http]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h4&amp;gt;PhD thesis:&amp;lt;/h4&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Rafael Valencia&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Mapping, planning and exploration with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
    &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Ph.D. Thesis, &amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Technical&lt;br /&gt;
University of Catalonia (UPC)&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2013&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; [http://hdl.handle.net/10803/117471 [http]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at ISLAB/CAISR from Halmstad University, Sweden. Previously,&amp;amp;nbsp; I was a postdoctoral researcher at the [http://aass.oru.se/Research/mro/index.html MR&amp;amp;amp;O Lab] from Örebro University, Sweden. In April 2013 I completed my PhD thesis in&lt;br /&gt;
robotics at [http://www.iri.upc.edu/ IRI] (Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial) from the Technical&lt;br /&gt;
University of Catalonia ([http://www.upc.edu/?set_language=en UPC]), at Barcelona, Spain.&amp;amp;nbsp; My research has focused on different aspects of &lt;br /&gt;
autonomous mobile robot navigation, from perception (SLAM, Mapping, &lt;br /&gt;
Localization) to action selection problems (path planning, exploration, &lt;br /&gt;
planning under uncertainty).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h4&amp;gt;Resume:&amp;lt;/h4&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;p&amp;gt; &amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;Postdoc at [http://islab.hh.se/mediawiki/Main_Page ISLAB/CAISR], Halmstad University - Sweden, since January 2015. &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;Postdoc at [http://aass.oru.se/Research/mro/ MR&amp;amp;amp;O Lab], Örebro University - Sweden, May 2013- December 2014. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;PhD in Automatics, Robotics, and Vision, Technical University of&lt;br /&gt;
Catalonia (UPC) - Spain, 2013. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;Visiting Researcher at  Centre for Intelligent Mechatronic Systems ([http://www.research.uts.edu.au/strengths/imes/overview.html CIMS]) at UTS - Australia, 2011&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; Master of Advanced Studies (DEA) in Control, Vision, and&lt;br /&gt;
Robotics, (UPC) - Spain, 2008. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; MSEE, Monterrey Tech ([http://www.itesm.edu/wps/wcm/connect/ITESM/Tecnologico+de+Monterrey/English ITESM]) - Mexico, 2005. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; BSEE, Metropolitan Autonomous University ([http://www.uam.mx/lang/eng/index.html UAM]) - Mexico,&lt;br /&gt;
2002. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h4&amp;gt;Publications:&amp;lt;/h4&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=raAzOHoAAAAJ&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;oi=ao Link to my Google Scholar Profile] &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;R. Valencia, J.P. Saarinen, H.&lt;br /&gt;
Andreasson, J. Vallve, J. Andrade-Cetto, and A.J. Lilienthal&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Localization in highly dynamic environments using&lt;br /&gt;
dual-timescale NDT-MCL&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Proceedings of&lt;br /&gt;
the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2014&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Hong Kong, pp. 3956-3962 &amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1499 [http]]&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;M.G. Jadidi, J. Valls-Miro, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
and J. Andrade-Cetto&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Exploration on&lt;br /&gt;
continuous Gaussian process frontier maps&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference&lt;br /&gt;
on Robotics and Automation&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2014&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Hong Kong, pp. 6077-6082 &amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1497 [http]]&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;R. Valencia, M. Morta, J. Andrade-Cetto,&lt;br /&gt;
and J. M. Porta&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Planning reliable paths&lt;br /&gt;
with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;IEEE Transactions on&lt;br /&gt;
Robotics&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;29&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;:&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;4&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;,&lt;br /&gt;
    &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2013&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;pp. 1050-1059&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
    [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1419 [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;M.G. Jadidi, J. Valls Miró, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
J. Andrade-Cetto, and G. Dissanayake&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Exploration&lt;br /&gt;
in information distribution maps&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2013&lt;br /&gt;
RSS Workshop on Robotic Exploration, Monitoring, and Information&lt;br /&gt;
Collection&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2013&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;pp.&lt;br /&gt;
1 - 8&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; [http://sertac.scripts.mit.edu/rssworkshop/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Paper4.pdf [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;M.G. Jadidi, J. Valls Miró, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
J. Andrade-Cetto, and G. Dissanayake&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Exploration&lt;br /&gt;
using an information-based reaction-diffusion process&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2013 Australasian Conference on Robotics and&lt;br /&gt;
Automation&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2013&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Sydney&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;R. Valencia, J. Valls Miro, G.&lt;br /&gt;
Dissanayake, and J. Andrade-Cetto&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt; Active&lt;br /&gt;
Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;In Proceedings of the&lt;br /&gt;
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;,&lt;br /&gt;
    &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2012&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;pp. 1885 -&lt;br /&gt;
1891&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1341 [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;E.H. Teniente, R. Valencia, and J.&lt;br /&gt;
Andrade-Cetto&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Dense outdoor 3D mapping and&lt;br /&gt;
navigation with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2011&lt;br /&gt;
Workshop de Robótica Experimental&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2012&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;,&lt;br /&gt;
    &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;pp. 567 - 572&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1274 [http]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;R. Valencia, J. Andrade-Cetto, and J.M.&lt;br /&gt;
Porta&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Path planning in belief space with&lt;br /&gt;
Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;In Proceedings of the IEEE&lt;br /&gt;
International Conference on Robotics and Automation&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2011&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;pp. 78 - 83&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/research/webprojects/pau/_IMATGES/figspapers/Valencia_icra11.pdf [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;R. Valencia, J. Andrade-Cetto, and J.M.&lt;br /&gt;
Porta&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Path Planning with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;IRI Technical Report, IRI-TR-10-03&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2010&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/people/rvalencia/Docs/Valencia_IRI_TR_10_03.pdf [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;R. Valencia, E.H. Teniente, E. Trulls,&lt;br /&gt;
and J. Andrade-Cetto&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;3D mapping for urban&lt;br /&gt;
service robots&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;In Proceedings of the&lt;br /&gt;
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;,&lt;br /&gt;
    &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2009&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;pp. 3076 -&lt;br /&gt;
3081&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1037 [http]].&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;J. Andrade-Cetto, A.A. Ortega, E.H.&lt;br /&gt;
Teniente, E. Trulls Fortuny, R. Valencia and A. Sanfeliu&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Combination of distributed camera network and&lt;br /&gt;
laser-based 3D mapping for urban service robots&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ IROS Workshop on&lt;br /&gt;
Network Robot Systems&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2009&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;pp. 69-80&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1039 [http]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;V. Ila, J. Andrade-Cetto, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
and A. Sanfeliu&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Vision-based loop closing&lt;br /&gt;
for delayed state robot mapping&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;In&lt;br /&gt;
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent&lt;br /&gt;
Robots and Systems&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2007&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;pp. 3892-3897&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; [http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/771 [http]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h4&amp;gt;PhD thesis:&amp;lt;/h4&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Rafael Valencia&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Mapping, planning and exploration with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
    &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Ph.D. Thesis, &amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Technical&lt;br /&gt;
University of Catalonia (UPC)&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2013&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; [http://hdl.handle.net/10803/117471 [http]]. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Rafael Valencia</title>
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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).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h4&amp;gt;Publications:&amp;lt;/h4&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;R. Valencia, J.P. Saarinen, H.&lt;br /&gt;
Andreasson, J. Vallve, J. Andrade-Cetto, and A.J. Lilienthal&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Localization in highly dynamic environments using&lt;br /&gt;
dual-timescale NDT-MCL&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Proceedings of&lt;br /&gt;
the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2014&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Hong Kong, pp. 3956-3962 &amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1499&amp;quot;&amp;gt;[http]&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;M.G. Jadidi, J. Valls-Miro, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
and J. Andrade-Cetto&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Exploration on&lt;br /&gt;
continuous Gaussian process frontier maps&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference&lt;br /&gt;
on Robotics and Automation&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2014&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Hong Kong, pp. 6077-6082 &amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1497&amp;quot;&amp;gt;[http]&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;R. Valencia, M. Morta, J. Andrade-Cetto,&lt;br /&gt;
and J. M. Porta&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Planning reliable paths&lt;br /&gt;
with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;IEEE Transactions on&lt;br /&gt;
Robotics&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;29&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;:&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;4&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;,&lt;br /&gt;
    &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2013&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;pp. 1050-1059&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
    &amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1419&amp;quot;&amp;gt;[http]&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;M.G. Jadidi, J. Valls Miró, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
J. Andrade-Cetto, and G. Dissanayake&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Exploration&lt;br /&gt;
in information distribution maps&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2013&lt;br /&gt;
RSS Workshop on Robotic Exploration, Monitoring, and Information&lt;br /&gt;
Collection&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2013&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;pp.&lt;br /&gt;
1 - 8&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; &amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;http://sertac.scripts.mit.edu/rssworkshop/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Paper4.pdf#%21&amp;quot;&amp;gt;[http]&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;M.G. Jadidi, J. Valls Miró, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
J. Andrade-Cetto, and G. Dissanayake&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Exploration&lt;br /&gt;
using an information-based reaction-diffusion process&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2013 Australasian Conference on Robotics and&lt;br /&gt;
Automation&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2013&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Sydney&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;R. Valencia, J. Valls Miro, G.&lt;br /&gt;
Dissanayake, and J. Andrade-Cetto&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt; Active&lt;br /&gt;
Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;In Proceedings of the&lt;br /&gt;
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;,&lt;br /&gt;
    &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2012&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;pp. 1885 -&lt;br /&gt;
1891&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; &amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1341&amp;quot;&amp;gt;[http]&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;E.H. Teniente, R. Valencia, and J.&lt;br /&gt;
Andrade-Cetto&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Dense outdoor 3D mapping and&lt;br /&gt;
navigation with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2011&lt;br /&gt;
Workshop de Robótica Experimental&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2012&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;,&lt;br /&gt;
    &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;pp. 567 - 572&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; &amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1274&amp;quot;&amp;gt;[http]&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;R. Valencia, J. Andrade-Cetto, and J.M.&lt;br /&gt;
Porta&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Path planning in belief space with&lt;br /&gt;
Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;In Proceedings of the IEEE&lt;br /&gt;
International Conference on Robotics and Automation&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2011&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;pp. 78 - 83&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; &amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;http://www.iri.upc.edu/research/webprojects/pau/_IMATGES/figspapers/Valencia_icra11.pdf&amp;quot;&amp;gt;[http]&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;R. Valencia, J. Andrade-Cetto, and J.M.&lt;br /&gt;
Porta&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Path Planning with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;IRI Technical Report, IRI-TR-10-03&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2010&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; &amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;http://www.iri.upc.edu/people/rvalencia/Docs/Valencia_IRI_TR_10_03.pdf&amp;quot;&amp;gt;[http]&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;R. Valencia, E.H. Teniente, E. Trulls,&lt;br /&gt;
and J. Andrade-Cetto&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;3D mapping for urban&lt;br /&gt;
service robots&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;In Proceedings of the&lt;br /&gt;
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;,&lt;br /&gt;
    &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2009&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;pp. 3076 -&lt;br /&gt;
3081&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; &amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1037&amp;quot;&amp;gt;[http]&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;J. Andrade-Cetto, A.A. Ortega, E.H.&lt;br /&gt;
Teniente, E. Trulls Fortuny, R. Valencia and A. Sanfeliu&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Combination of distributed camera network and&lt;br /&gt;
laser-based 3D mapping for urban service robots&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ IROS Workshop on&lt;br /&gt;
Network Robot Systems&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2009&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;pp. 69-80&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; &amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/1039&amp;quot;&amp;gt;[http]&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;V. Ila, J. Andrade-Cetto, R. Valencia,&lt;br /&gt;
and A. Sanfeliu&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Vision-based loop closing&lt;br /&gt;
for delayed state robot mapping&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;In&lt;br /&gt;
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent&lt;br /&gt;
Robots and Systems&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2007&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;pp. 3892-3897&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; &amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;http://www.iri.upc.edu/download/scidoc/771&amp;quot;&amp;gt;[http]&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h4&amp;gt;PhD thesis:&amp;lt;/h4&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Rafael Valencia&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Mapping, planning and exploration with Pose SLAM&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
    &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Ph.D. Thesis, &amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Technical&lt;br /&gt;
University of Catalonia (UPC)&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;2013&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; &amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;http://hdl.handle.net/10803/117471&amp;quot;&amp;gt;[http]&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Rafval</name></author>
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		<title>Rafael Valencia</title>
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		<title>Rafael Valencia</title>
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		<title>Rafael Valencia</title>
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		<updated>2015-02-15T21:00:03Z</updated>

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		<updated>2015-02-15T20:48:17Z</updated>

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		<updated>2015-02-15T20:39:50Z</updated>

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		<updated>2015-02-15T20:36:00Z</updated>

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		<updated>2015-02-15T20:25:18Z</updated>

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		<title>Rafael Valencia</title>
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		<updated>2015-02-15T20:23:57Z</updated>

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		<updated>2015-02-15T20:16:03Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Rafval: Rafval uploaded a new version of &amp;amp;quot;File:RafaelValencia.jpg&amp;amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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		<updated>2015-02-15T20:05:03Z</updated>

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