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Juan Pablo Vásconez Hurtado

Profesor investigador - Asistente

Universidad Andrés Bello

Santiago, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning, robotics, human-robot interaction, human-machine interaction, computer vision, driving assistive technologies, cognitive-based systems, and agriculture robotics.

Educación

  •  Robótica e Inteligencia Artificial, UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA. Chile, 2020
  •  Ingeniero en Electrónica y Control, ESCUELA POLITECNICA NACIONAL. Ecuador, 2014
  •  Planificación y Gestión, ECAE Business School. Ecuador, 2015

Experiencia Académica

  •   Profesor Investigador Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD ANDRES BELLO

    Facultad de Ingeniería

    Santiago, Chile

    2022 - At present

  •   Docente Other

    UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA

    Facultad de Ingeniería Electrónica

    Valparaíso, Chile

    2018 - 2018

  •   Técnico Docente Full Time

    ESCUELA POLITECNICA NACIONAL

    Facultad de Ingeniería Eléctrica y Electrónica

    Quito, Ecuador

    2015 - 2016

  •   Asistente de investigación y proyección social Full Time

    ESCUELA POLITECNICA NACIONAL

    Facultad de Ingeniería en Sistemas

    Quito, Ecuador

    2020 - 2022

  •   Investigador visitante Full Time

    CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY

    Engineering

    Pittsburgh, Estados Unidos

    2019 - 2020

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Instrumentation and control project engineer Full Time

    Synergie PYD

    Quito, Ecuador

    2013 - 2015

  •   Process supervisor Other

    E.S.P Completion Technologies

    Quito, Chile

    2011 - 2011

  •   Asistente de investigación y proyección social Full Time

    Escuela Politécnica Nacional

    Quito, Ecuador

    2020 - 2022

  •   Técnico docente Full Time

    Escuela Politécnica Nacional

    Quito, Ecuador

    2015 - 2016

  •   Profesor asistente Full Time

    Universidad Andrés Bello

    Santiago, Chile

    2022 - At present

Formación de Capital Humano


Number of students that attended my undergraduate courses: 140
Number of students that attended my master's degree courses: 50
Number of students that attended my online courses: 3490
Number of undergraduate thesis students graduating from the automation and robotics program at Andres Bello University: 10
Number of thesis students who graduated with master's degrees from Andres Bello University: 12
Number of research assistants currently working on research projects: 5


Difusión y Transferencia


- Invited speaker at the Congreso Internacional en Mecatrónica CIME 2021 and the Jornadas Científicas en Investigación, Ciencia, y Tecnilogía. Universidad Internacional del Ecuador (UIDE). Ecuador, 2021.
- Invited speaker at the Metaverse and 4.0 Technologies talk. Corporación Universitaria Comfacauca. Colombia, 2022.
- Invited speaker at the IEEE Day UNAB. Antonio Varas 810. Providencia, Chile, 2022.
- Invited speaker for a 4-hour Human-robot interaction (HRI) workshop sponsored by UNAB, IEEE, RAS Chile Centro. Antonio Varas 810. Providencia, Chile, 2022.
- Invited speaker for a 2-hour talk related to "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence" for students of the PhD in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology at the Andrés Bello University (UNAB), Chile, 2023.
- Invited speaker for a 2-hour talk related to "Human-robot interaction in agricultural processes using artificial intelligence" for teachers and students at the Energy Transformation Center (CTE) of the Andrés Bello University (UNAB), Chile, 2023.
- Invited to be General Secretary of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Chile Centro Professional Chapter, Chile, 2022-2023.


Premios y Distinciones

  •   COURSERA Grant

    UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA

    Canada, 2021

    Grant for the Fundamentals of Reinforcement Learning

  •   PhD Grant Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (USM)

    UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA

    Chile, 2016

    Scholarship for a doctorate in electronic engineering.

  •   PhD Grant - Conicyt

    ANID

    Chile, 2018

    Beca de Doctorado de Vasconez Hurtado, Juan Pablo. N° de proyecto 21180513

  •   Thesis operative expenses Grant

    ANID

    Chile, 2019

    CONICYT-ANID (The National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research). Thesis operative expenses Grant (2019)

  •   Internship Grant to Carnegie Mellon University

    ANID

    Chile, 2019

    CONICYT (The National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research). Internship Grant to Carnegie Mellon University – USA (October 2019 – December 2019).

  •   DGIIP-PIIC-USM-028/2016

    UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA

    Chile, 2016

    DGIIP-PIIC-USM, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Financial award for the realization of a research project, Project number: 028/2016, June 2016.

  •   DGIIP-PIIC-USM-040/2017

    UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA

    Chile, 2017

    ?DGIIP-PIIC-USM, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Financial award for the realization of a research project, Project number: 040/2017, April 2017.

  •   DGIIP-PIIC-USM-002/2018

    UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA

    Chile, 2018

    DGIIP-PIIC-USM, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Financial award for the realization of a research project, Project number: 002/2018, October 2018.

  •   ISRR 2017

    ISRR 2017 congress

    Estados Unidos, 2017

    ISRR 2017 (The 18th International Symposium on Robotics Research). Grant to be a congress attendant. Puerto Varas, December 2017, Chile.

  •   COURSERA Grant

    STANFORD UNIVERSITY

    Chile, 2017

    Coursera, Stanford University, Grant for the Deep Learning specialization (5 courses), September 2017.

  •   Reconocimiento por destacada contribución al Objetivo de Desarrollo Sostenible 9 - Industria, innovación e infraestructura - 2024

    UNIVERSIDAD ANDRES BELLO

    Chile, 2024

    Diploma de distinción - La Universidad Andrés Bello, a través de su Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Doctorado y la Dirección General de Vinculación con el Medio y Sostenibilidad, confiere el presente diplima al Dr. Juan Pablo Vásconez por su destacada contribución a la investigación asociada al Objetivo de Desarrollo Sostenible 9 - Industria, innovación e infraestructura


 

Article (19)

An Integrated Route and Path Planning Strategy for Skid-Steer Mobile Robots in Assisted Harvesting Tasks with Terrain Traversability Constraints

Urvina, Ricardo Paul; Guevara, Cesar Leonardo

Article ISI
AGRICULTURE-BASEL  (2024)

Assessment of Triboelectric Nanogenerators for Electric Field Energy Harvesting

Prado, Álvaro

Article ISI
SENSORS  (2024)

Comparison of Faster R-CNN, YOLO, and SSD for Third Molar Angle Detection in Dental Panoramic X-rays

Vilcapoma, Piero; Parra Melendez, Diana; Hillmann, Nicolas Corona

Article ISI
SENSORS  (2024)

Crop Detection and Maturity Classification Using a YOLOv5-Based Image Analysis

Quito, Angélica; Vargas, Christian

Article SCOPUS
Emerging Science Journal  (2024)

Deep Learning based flower detection and counting in highly populated images: A peach grove case study

Fu, Longsheng; Cheein, Fernando Auat

Article ISI
JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH  (2024)

Deep learning-based classification of visual symptoms of bacterial wilt disease caused by Ralstonia solanacearum in tomato plants

Moya, V; Calderon-Diaz, M. J.

Article ISI
COMPUTERS AND ELECTRONICS IN AGRICULTURE  (2024)

Explainable Machine Learning Techniques to Predict Muscle Injuries in Professional Soccer Players through Biomechanical Analysis

Silvestre Aguirre, Rony; Lockhart, Thurmon; Tran, Yvonne

Article ISI
SENSORS  (2024)

Image Processing-Based System for Apple Sorting

Andrea Pilco; Viviana Moya; Matías Limaico

Article
Journal of Image and Graphics  (2024)

Smart Delivery Assignment through Machine Learning and the Hungarian Algorithm

Schotborgh, Elias; Moya, Viviana; Pilco, Andrea

Article ISI
SMART CITIES  (2024)

A comparison of EMG-based hand gesture recognition systems based on supervised and reinforcement learning

Lopez, Lorena Isabel Barona; Caraguay, Angel Leonardo Valdivieso

Article ISI
ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE  (2023)

A Deep Q-Network based hand gesture recognition system for control of robotic platforms

Cruz, Patricio J.; Chico, Alex; Valdivieso Caraguay, Angel Leonardo

Article ISI
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS  (2023)

Recognition of Hand Gestures Based on EMG Signals with Deep and Double-Deep Q-Networks



Article ISI
SENSORS  (2023)

Hand Gesture Recognition Using EMG-IMU Signals and Deep Q-Networks

Barona Lopez, Lorena Isabel

Article ISI
SENSORS  (2022)

Workload and production assessment in the avocado harvesting process using human-robot collaborative strategies

Asconez, Juan P.; Cheein, Fernando A. Auat

Article ISI
BIOSYSTEMS ENGINEERING  (2022)

A methodology for semantic action recognition based on pose and human-object interaction in avocado harvesting processes

Vasconez, J. P.; Admoni, H.

Article ISI
COMPUTERS AND ELECTRONICS IN AGRICULTURE  (2021)

A fuzzy-based driver assistance system using human cognitive parameters and driving style information

Pablo Vasconez, Juan; Auat Cheein, Fernando

Article ISI
COGNITIVE SYSTEMS RESEARCH  (2020)

An Energy-Based Method for Orientation Correction of EMG Bracelet Sensors in Hand Gesture Recognition Systems

Barona, Lorena; Valdivieso, Leonardo; Vimos, Victor; Zea, Jhonathan; Vásconez Juan P; Alvarez, Robin; Benalcázar, Marco E.

Article WOS Core Collection ISI, SCOPUS
SENSORS  (2020)

Comparison of convolutional neural networks in fruit detection and counting: A comprehensive evaluation

Vougioukas, S.

Article ISI
COMPUTERS AND ELECTRONICS IN AGRICULTURE  (2020)

On the design of a human-robot interaction strategy for commercial vehicle driving based on human cognitive parameters



Article ISI SCOPUS
ADVANCES IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING  (2019)

ConferencePaper (18)

Color Sorting System Using YOLOv5 for Robotic Mobile Applications

Samuel Peña; Andrea Pilco; Viviana Moya; William Chamorro; José Andres Zuniga

ConferencePaper
 (2024)

Deep Learning Techniques for Oral Cancer Detection: Enhancing Clinical Diagnosis by ResNet and DenseNet Performance

Eduardo Navarro; Carla Taramasco

ConferencePaper
 (2024)

Model-free Neural Network-based Current Control for Voltage Source Inverter

Felipe Ruiz

ConferencePaper
 (2024)

Robot-assisted fruit harvesting: a real-world usability study

Leonardo Guevara; Prabuddhi Wariyapperuma; Hariharan Arunachalam; Marc Hanheide; Elizabeth Sklar

ConferencePaper
 (2024)

A Behavior-Based Fuzzy Control System for Mobile Robot Navigation: Design and Assessment



ConferencePaper
5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INDUSTRY 4.0 AND SMART MANUFACTURING, ISM 2023  (2023)

Characterization and Comparison of Maximum Isometric Strength and Vertical Jump Among Novice Runners, Long Distance Runners, and Ultramarathoners

Ricardo Ulloa-Jiménez; Nicole Castro Laroze; Jairo R Coronado-Hernández; Mónica Acuña Rodríguez; Samir F Umaña Ibáñez

ConferencePaper
5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INDUSTRY 4.0 AND SMART MANUFACTURING, ISM 2023  (2023)

Comparison of path planning methods for robot navigation in simulated agricultural environments

Fernando Basoalto

ConferencePaper
5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INDUSTRY 4.0 AND SMART MANUFACTURING, ISM 2023  (2023)

Ensure the generation and processing of inventory transactions through a web application for ground freight transportation equipment



ConferencePaper
5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INDUSTRY 4.0 AND SMART MANUFACTURING, ISM 2023  (2023)

Proposal For the Recovery of Waste Cold Energy in Liquefied Natural Gas Satellite Regasification Plants

J. Simonetti Harlan; M. Pantoja Jenny; Matamala Monica; P. Vasconez Juan; C. Briceño Inesmar; A. Larenas Roberto

ConferencePaper
5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INDUSTRY 4.0 AND SMART MANUFACTURING, ISM 2023  (2023)

Hand Gesture and Arm Movement Recognition for Multimodal Control of a 3-DOF Helicopter

Benalcázar, M.; Barona, L.; Valdivieso, Á. L

ConferencePaper
 (2022)

A Hand Gesture Recognition System Using EMG and Reinforcement Learning: A Q-Learning Approach

López, L. I. B.; Caraguay, Á. L. V.; Cruz, P. J.; Benalcázar, M. E.

ConferencePaper
 (2021)

A New Methodology For Pattern Recognition Applied To Hand Gestures Recognition Using EMG. Analysis Of Intrapersonal And Interpersonal Variability

Flores, J.A.O.; Rueda, R.G.A.; López, L.I.B.; Caraguay, Á.L.V.

ConferencePaper
 (2021)

Hand Gesture Recognition and Tracking Control for a Virtual UR5 Robot Manipulator

Chico, A; Benalcázar, M.E.; Barona, L.I.; Valdivieso, A.L.

ConferencePaper
 (2021)

Social robot navigation based on HRI non-verbal communication A case study on avocado harvesting



ConferencePaper ISI SCOPUS
SAC '19: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 34TH ACM/SIGAPP SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED COMPUTING  (2019)

Toward semantic action recognition for avocado harvesting process based on single shot multibox detector



ConferencePaper SCOPUS
Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Sciences and Humanities International Research Conference, SHIRCON 2018  (2019)

Finding a Proper Approach to Obtain Cognitive Parameters from Human Faces under Illumination Variations

Vásconez, JP

ConferencePaper SCOPUS
Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Sciences and Humanities International Research Conference, SHIRCON 2018  (2018)

Sleepiness Detection for Cooperative Vehicle Navigation Strategies



ConferencePaper SCOPUS
Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Sciences and Humanities International Research Conference, SHIRCON 2018  (2018)

An IoT-Based Prototype for Optimizing Agricultural Irrigation: A Case Study in the Biobío Region of Chile

Juan I. Saez Rojas; Monica, Matamala; Alfonso R. Romero-Conrado

ConferencePaper
5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INDUSTRY 4.0 AND SMART MANUFACTURING, ISM 2023  

Proyecto (9)

Improving fruit post-harvest process based on Human-robot interaction and artificial intelligence techniques



Proyecto Monto total general probado (incluyendo overhead) es de CLP101.736.000 por tres años.
 (2024)

Concurso Prueba de Concepto para Propuestas de Innovación basadas en Ciencia – 2022



Proyecto Por medio del presente, se deja constancia que el proyecto N° PdC(16)-22, titulado: “Diseño e implementación de prototipo electrónico detector de frutos basado en visión e inteligencia artificial” con un monto total adjudicado fue de $ 6.089.244.
 (2022)

Reconocimiento de gestos de la mano usando señales electromiográficas e inteligencia artificial y su aplicación para la implementación de interfaces humano—máquina y humano—humano



Proyecto El proyecto propone el desarrollo de un sistema de reconocimiento de 11 gestos estáticos y dinámicos de la mano. El sistema propuesto tendrá como entrada tanto a señales electromiográficas (EMG) producidas por los músculos del antebrazo, así como a señales de orientación de un punto de referencia.
 (2020)

ENHANCING MOTION PERFORMANCE OF AUTOMATED MACHINERY IN AGRICULTURAL ENVIRONMENTS BASED ON BAYESIAN ESTIMATION APPROACHES

FONDECYT (1171431)

Proyecto
2017-2020
Tesista

Programa incentivo a la iniciación científica 2017

Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María - Direccion General de investigación, Innovación y Postgrado (No. 002/2017)

Proyecto
2017-2018
Inv. Principal

Programa de Iniciación a la Investigación Científica.

Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María - Direccion General de investigación, Innovación y Postgrado (No. 028/2016)

Proyecto
2016-2017
Tesista

Advanced Center for Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

FONDAP (FB0008)

Proyecto
2014-2019
Tesista

Efficient maneuvering of automated agricultural vehicles with ground and environment restrictions.

FONDECYT (1140575)

Proyecto
2014-2017
Tesista

Rehabilitación del Sistema de Clarificación de la Refinería Estatal de Esmeraldas (Ecuador).

EP PETROECUADOR (R-2011020)

Proyecto
2010-2015
Personal técnico y/o de apoyo

Review (1)

Human-robot interaction in agriculture: A survey and current challenges

Kantor, GA; Cheein, FAA

Review ISI SCOPUS
BIOSYSTEMS ENGINEERING  (2019)

1
Rodrigo Salas

Profesor Titular Jornada Completa

UNIVERSIDAD DE VALPARAÍSO

Valparaíso, Chile

1
Ximena Besoain

PROFESORA TITULAR

FACULTAD DE LAS CIENCIAS AGRONÓMICAS Y DE LOS ALIMENTOS

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE VALPARAÍSO

QUILLOTA, Chile

8
Fernando Auat

Associate Professor

DEPARTAMENTO DE ELECTRÓNICA, UNIVERSIDAD TÉCNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARÍA

Valparaiso, Chile

1
Miryam Valenzuela

Investigadora Principal

Fitosanidad

Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Fruticultura

Rengo, Chile

41
Juan Vásconez

Profesor investigador - Asistente

Departamento de Automatización y Robótica

Universidad Andrés Bello

Santiago, Chile

2
Oswaldo Menéndez

Profesor investigador

Facultad de Ingeniería

Universidad Andrés Bello

Santiago, Chile