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Juan Pablo Vásconez Hurtado

Profesor investigador - Asistente

Universidad Andrés Bello

Santiago, Chile

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.

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

Profesor Investigador Full Time

UNIVERSIDAD ANDRES BELLO

Facultad de Ingeniería

Santiago, Chile

2022 - A la fecha
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

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 - A la fecha

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

- 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.

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


An Integrated Route and Path Planning Strategy for Skid–Steer Mobile Robots in Assisted Harvesting Tasks with Terrain Traversability Constraints Ricardo Paul Urvina; César Leonardo Guevara; Juan Pablo Vásconez; Alvaro Javier Prado Article SCOPUS Agriculture (2024)
Assessment of Triboelectric Nanogenerators for Electric Field Energy Harvesting Oswaldo Menéndez; Juan Villacrés; Alvaro Prado; Juan P Vásconez; Fernando Auat-Cheein Article WOS, SCOPUS SENSORS (2024)
Crop Detection and Maturity Classification Using a YOLOv5-Based Image Analysis Viviana Moya; Angélica Quito; Andrea Pilco; Juan P Vásconez; Christian Vargas Article SCOPUS Emerging Science Journal (2024)
Deep Learning based flower detection and counting in highly populated images: A peach grove case study Juan Sebastian Estrada; Juan Pablo Vasconez; Longsheng Fu; Fernando Auat Cheein Article WOS, SCOPUS Journal of Agriculture and Food Research (2024)
Smart Delivery Assignment through Machine Learning and the Hungarian Algorithm Juan Pablo Vásconez; Elias Schotborgh; Ingrid Nicole Vásconez; Viviana Moya; Andrea Pilco; Oswaldo Menéndez; Robert Guamán-Rivera; Leonardo Guevara Article SCOPUS Smart Cities (2024)
A comparison of EMG-based hand gesture recognition systems based on supervised and reinforcement learning Juan Pablo Vásconez; Lorena Isabel Barona López; Ángel Leonardo Valdivieso Caraguay Article ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (2023)
A Deep Q-Network based hand gesture recognition system for control of robotic platforms Patricio J. Cruz; Juan Pablo Vásconez; Ricardo Romero; Alex Chico; Marco E Benalcázar; Robin Álvarez; Lorena Isabel Barona López; Ángel Leonardo Valdivieso Caraguay Article SCIENTIFIC REPORTS (2023)
Explainable Machine Learning Techniques to Predict Muscle Injuries in Professional Soccer Players through Biomechanical Analysis Mailyn Calderon-Diaz; Rony Silvestre Aguirre; Juan P Vásconez; Roberto Yáñez; Matías Roby; Marvin Querales; Rodrigo Salas Article WOS, SCOPUS 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AMBIENT SYSTEMS, NETWORKS AND TECHNOLOGIES (ANT) / THE 4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EMERGING DATA AND INDUSTRY 4.0 (EDI40) / AFFILIATED WORKSHOPS (2023)
Recognition of hand gestures based on emg signals with deep and double-deep q-networks Ángel Leonardo Valdivieso Caraguay; Juan Pablo Vásconez; Lorena Isabel Barona López; Marco E. Benalcazar Article SENSORS (2023)
Hand Gesture Recognition using EMG-IMU signals and Deep Q-Networks Vásconez, Juan Pablo; Barona, Lorena; Valdiviezo, Leonardo; Benalcázar, Marco Article WOS Core Collection ISI, SCOPUS SENSORS (2022)
Workload and production assessment in the avocado harvesting process using human-robot collaborative strategies Vásconez, J. P.; Cheein F.A.A. Article WOS Core Collection ISI, SCOPUS 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.; Auat Cheein, F. 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; Viscaino, Michelle; Guevara, Leonardo; 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 Vasconez, J. P.; Delpiano, J.; Vougioukas, S.; Auat Cheein, F. 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 Vasconez J.P.; Carvajal D.; Cheein F.A. Article ISI SCOPUS ADVANCES IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING (2019)


A Behavior-Based Fuzzy Control System for Mobile Robot Navigation: Design and Assessment Juan Pablo Vásconez; Mailyn Calderón-Díaz; Inesmar C Briceño; Jenny M Pantoja; Patricio J Cruz ConferencePaper 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AMBIENT SYSTEMS, NETWORKS AND TECHNOLOGIES (ANT) / THE 4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EMERGING DATA AND INDUSTRY 4.0 (EDI40) / AFFILIATED WORKSHOPS (2023)
Characterization and Comparison of Maximum Isometric Strength and Vertical Jump Among Novice Runners, Long Distance Runners, and Ultramarathoners Mailyn Calderón Díaz; Ricardo Ulloa-Jiménez; Nicole Castro Laroze; Juan Pablo Vásconez; Jairo R Coronado-Hernández; Mónica Acuña Rodríguez; Samir F Umaña Ibáñez ConferencePaper 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AMBIENT SYSTEMS, NETWORKS AND TECHNOLOGIES (ANT) / THE 4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EMERGING DATA AND INDUSTRY 4.0 (EDI40) / AFFILIATED WORKSHOPS (2023)
Comparison of path planning methods for robot navigation in simulated agricultural environments Juan P. Vasconez; Fernando Basoalto; Inesmar C. Briceño; Jenny M. Pantoja; Roberto A. Larenas; Jhon H. Rios; Felipe A. Castro ConferencePaper 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AMBIENT SYSTEMS, NETWORKS AND TECHNOLOGIES (ANT) / THE 4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EMERGING DATA AND INDUSTRY 4.0 (EDI40) / AFFILIATED WORKSHOPS (2023)
Ensure the generation and processing of inventory transactions through a web application for ground freight transportation equipment Juan P. Vasconez; Jenny M. Pantoja; Roberto A. Larenas; Jhon H. Rios; Hector G. Puente; Eduardo A. Mendez; Yulineth Gómez-Charris; Inesmar C. Briceño ConferencePaper 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AMBIENT SYSTEMS, NETWORKS AND TECHNOLOGIES (ANT) / THE 4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EMERGING DATA AND INDUSTRY 4.0 (EDI40) / AFFILIATED WORKSHOPS (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; Neira-Rodado Dionicio ConferencePaper 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AMBIENT SYSTEMS, NETWORKS AND TECHNOLOGIES (ANT) / THE 4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EMERGING DATA AND INDUSTRY 4.0 (EDI40) / AFFILIATED WORKSHOPS (2023)
Hand Gesture and Arm Movement Recognition for Multimodal Control of a 3-DOF Helicopter Romero, R; Cruz, P. J.; Vásconez, J. P.; Benalcázar, M.; Álvarez, R.; Barona, L.; Valdivieso, Á. L ConferencePaper (2022)
A Hand Gesture Recognition System Using EMG and Reinforcement Learning: A Q-Learning Approach Vásconez, J. P.; López, L. I. B.; Caraguay, Á. L. V.; Cruz, P. J.; Alvarez R.; 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.; Benalcázar, M.E.; López, L.I.B.; Caraguay, Á.L.V.; Cruz, P.; Vásconez, J. P. ConferencePaper (2021)
Hand Gesture Recognition and Tracking Control for a Virtual UR5 Robot Manipulator Chico, A; Cruz, P.J..; Vásconez J.P.; Benalcázar, M.E.; Alvarez, R.; Barona, L.I.; Valdivieso, A.L. ConferencePaper (2021)
Social robot navigation based on HRI non-verbal communication A case study on avocado harvesting Vasconez J.P.; Guevara L.; Cheein F.A. 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 Vasconez J.P.; Salvo J.; Auat F. ConferencePaper SCOPUS 4th IEEE Colombian Conference on Automatic Control: Automatic Control as Key Support of Industrial Productivity, CCAC 2019 - Proceedings (2019)
Finding a Proper Approach to Obtain Cognitive Parameters from Human Faces under Illumination Variations Vasconez J.P.; Cheein F.A. ConferencePaper SCOPUS 2018 5th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies, CoDIT 2018 (2018)
Sleepiness Detection for Cooperative Vehicle Navigation Strategies Vasconez J.P.; Cheein F.A. ConferencePaper SCOPUS 2018 5th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies, CoDIT 2018 (2018)
An IoT-Based Prototype for Optimizing Agricultural Irrigation: A Case Study in the Biobío Region of Chile Juan I Saez Rojas; Jenny M Pantoja; Mónica Matamala; Inesmar C Briceño; Juan Pablo Vásconez; Alfonso R Romero-Conrado ConferencePaper 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AMBIENT SYSTEMS, NETWORKS AND TECHNOLOGIES (ANT) / THE 4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EMERGING DATA AND INDUSTRY 4.0 (EDI40) / AFFILIATED WORKSHOPS


Improving fruit post-harvest process based on Human-robot interaction and artificial intelligence techniques Juan Pablo Vásconez 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 Juan Pablo Vásconez 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 Marco E. Benalcazar; Barona, L.I.; Valdivieso, A.L.; Vásconez, J.P. 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


Human-robot interaction in agriculture: A survey and current challenges Vasconez, JP; Kantor, GA; Cheein, FAA Review ISI SCOPUS BIOSYSTEMS ENGINEERING (2019)

Juan Vásconez

Profesor investigador - Asistente

Departamento de Automatización y Robótica

Universidad Andrés Bello

Santiago, Chile

Fernando Auat

Associate Professor

DEPARTAMENTO DE ELECTRÓNICA, UNIVERSIDAD TÉCNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARÍA

Valparaiso, Chile

Juan Pablo Vásconez Hurtado

Líneas de Investigación

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

Docente Other

Técnico Docente Full Time

Asistente de investigación y proyección social Full Time

Investigador visitante Full Time

Experiencia Profesional

Instrumentation and control project engineer Full Time

Process supervisor Other

Asistente de investigación y proyección social Full Time

Técnico docente Full Time

Profesor asistente Full Time

Formación de Capital Humano

Difusión y Transferencia

Premios y Distinciones

COURSERA Grant

PhD Grant Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (USM)

PhD Grant - Conicyt

Thesis operative expenses Grant

Internship Grant to Carnegie Mellon University

DGIIP-PIIC-USM-028/2016

DGIIP-PIIC-USM-040/2017

DGIIP-PIIC-USM-002/2018

ISRR 2017

COURSERA Grant

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

Article (16)

ConferencePaper (14)

Proyecto (9)

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

Programa incentivo a la iniciación científica 2017

Programa de Iniciación a la Investigación Científica.

Advanced Center for Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

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

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

Review (1)