EnriqueFernández

Perdomo
PhD on Computer Engineer — Senior Robotics Engineer
Autonomy Developer at Clearpath Robotics
Research Associate at University Institute SIANI

Professional Experience
2015– Job, Senior Autonomy Developer at Clearpath Robotics, Kitchener, Clearpath Robotics.

2013–2015 Job, Senior Robotics Engineer at PAL Robotics, Barcelona, PAL Robotics.

2011–2012 Venia Docendi — Assistant Lecturer Labs, Subject Embedded and Real Time
Systems, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain).
Computer Engineer Degreee (4th Year).
Departament of Informatics and Systems. University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
2009–2013 Aportaciones de la Visión Activa a la Construcción de Mapas en Robótica Móvil.
Aplicaciones, PhD student, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain).
Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Robotic Systems. SLAM algorithms.

Contributions
2015– Maintainer, ROS Control, Kitchener, ON (Canada), Github user efernandez.
ROS Controllers, diff_drive_controller

Education
Academic
2013 PhD on Computer Engineer, ULPGC (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria),
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 30-Oct-2013.
Cum Laude.
2009–2013 PhD Research fellowship of the ULPGC, ULPGC (University of Las Palmas de Gran
Canaria), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Started in March 2009. Published in BOULPGC of Febraury 5, 2009 (p. 16).

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 2012 Predoctoral Research Internship at CIRS, UdG, Centre d’Investigació en Robòtica
Submarina (CIRS), Visió per Computador i Robòtica (ViCOROB), Universitat de Girona
(UdG), Girona (Spain)).
Internship of 6 months from 01-Feb-2012 to 31-Jul-2012
2009–2010 Doctorate Program in Intelligent Systems and Numeric Applications in Engi-
neering, University Institute SIANI ( Sistemas Inteligentes y Aplicaciones Numéricas en
Ingeniería), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Obtaiened on 7-Sep-2010 (Accreditation Exam of the Research Period).
Average mark of 9.8.
2008–2009 Official Master in Intelligent Systems and Numeric Applications in Engineering,
University Institute SIANI ( Sistemas Inteligentes y Aplicaciones Numéricas en Inge-
niería), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
ANECA Quality Mention with reference MCD2005-00180.
Obtained on 23-Dic-2009. Average mark of 9.389.
2001–2008 Computer Engineer, ULPGC, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Obtained on 31-Oct-2008. Average mark of 8.686.

Additional
2012 2nd Field Training School in Autonomous Underwater Robotics Intervention (I-
AUV), TRIDENT FP7 Project, Port de Soller, Mallorca (Spain), Fall School organized
by the Centre d’Investigació en Robòtica Submarina (CIRS).
Taken between 30-Sep-2012 and 05-Oct-2012
2012 Student Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Challenge - Europe 2012, AVORA
Team (ULPGC, SIANI, PLOCAN), La Spezia (Italia), Challenge organized by the Center
of Marine Research and Experimentation (CMRE), NATO.
Challenge celebrated from 06-Jul-2012 to 13-Jul-2012
2011 2nd Co3-AUVs Summer School, Cooperative Cognitive Control for Autonomous Un-
derwater Vehicles (CO3 -AUVs), Jacobs University, Bremen (Germany), Summer School
is chaired by Andreas Birk and Max Pfingsthorn.
Taken between 11-Jul-2011 and 17-Jul-2011
2010 1st Co3-AUVs Summer School, Cooperative Cognitive Control for Autonomous Un-
derwater Vehicles (CO3 -AUVs), Jacobs University, Bremen (Germany), Summer School
is chaired by Kaustubh Pathak and Andreas Birk.
Taken between 22-Jul-2010 and 26-Jul-2010

Merits
title PhD Thesis Contributions to Underwater Glider Path Planning
tutors Antonio Carlos Domínguez Brito, Daniel Hernández Sosa, Josep Isern González

access

title Premio Fin de Título — End of Career Award

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 title Msc. Thesis Test and Evaluation of the FastSLAM Algorithm in a Mobile Robot
tutors Antonio Carlos Domínguez Brito, Daniel Hernández Sosa
access Published in Acceda network

Books
2015 Learning ROS for Robotics Programming — 2nd Edition, Enrique Fernández, Luis
Sánchez Crespo, Anil Mahtani and Aaron Martinez, Packt Publishing, Aug-2015.

Conferences
2011 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2011),
Paper Adaptive Bearing Sampling for a Constant-Time Surfacing A* path planning
algorithm for gliders, Shanghai (China).
2011 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2011),
Paper Path planning for underwater gliders using iterative optimization, Shanghai
(China).

Skills
Programming C/C++, Python Tools git, GDB
ROS Gazebo, ROS control, PCL, OpenCV, AI SLAM, Machine Learning, Perception
Tensorflow

Publications
[DSS+ 11] A. C. Domínguez-Brito, F. J. Santana-Jorge, S. Santana-de-la-Fe, J. M. Martínez-García,
J. Cabrera-Gámez, J. D. Hernández-Sosa, J. Isern-González, and E. Fernández-Perdomo. Cool-
BOT: An Open Source Distributed Component Based Programming Framework for Robotics. In
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence
(DCAI’2011), Salamanca, Spain, April 2011.
[FCH+ 11] Enrique Fernández-Perdomo, Jorge Cabrera-Gámez, Daniel Hernández-Sosa, Josep Isern-
González, Antonio Carlos Domínguez-Brito, Víctor Prieto-Marañón, and Antonio G. Ramos.
Adaptive Bearing Sampling for a Constant-Time Surfacing A* path planning algorithm for glid-
ers. In Proceedings of the IEEE 2011 International Conference on Robotics and Automation
(ICRA 2011), Shanghai, China, May 2011.
[IHF+ 11] Josep Isern-González, Daniel Hernández-Sosa, Enrique Fernández-Perdomo, Jorge Cabrera-
Gámez, Antonio C. Domínguez-Brito, and Víctor Prieto-Marañón. Path planning for underwater
gliders using iterative optimization. In Proceedings of the IEEE 2011 International Conference
on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2011), Shanghai, China, May 2011.
[MSM+ 12] Anil Mahtani, Luis Sánchez, Aaron Martínez, Daniel García, David Morales, Enrique Fernández,
Federico Maniscalco, and Jorge Cabrera. AVORA I: The SAUC-E’12 Challenge. In Proceedings
of the Student Autonomous Underwater vehicle Challenge - Europe (SAUC-E 2012), La Spezia,
Italy, July 2012.
[PMCGDB+ 11] Víctor Prieto-Marañón, Jorge Cabrera-Gámez, Antonio Carlos Domínguez-Brito, Daniel
Hernández-Sosa, José Isern-González, and Enrique Fernández-Perdomo. Efficient Plane De-
tection in Multilevel Surface Maps. Journal of Physical Agents, 5(1), 2011.

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