Guillermo Urcera Martín

M.Sc.Eng in industrial engineering, specialised in robotics. I completed both my bachelor’s and master’s degree at the School of Engineering of Barcelona, ETSEIB, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, UPC.

I’m very interested in machine learning and strongly believe in the potential it holds for robotics as a whole. My master’s project is dedicated to this very subject.

I'm also looking for opportunities to further my professional development in mechanical and control engineering

I'm passionate about R&D and have 3 years of experience working in both the private and public sectors:

• As a collaborator and research assistant at the robotics division research group of the Institute of Industrial and Control Engineering, where I developed software for robots using the ROS framework.
• As a robotics engineer in the development of a new robotics project involving autonomous navigation and SLAM and ROS at a supplier for Nissan.
• As a system integration quality lead for new products at HP.

I’ve also expanded my knowledge independently via various additional courses and pet projects, which include the construction of a small mobile robot powered and the webpage you’re currently viewing, self-hosted on a Raspberry Pi computer.

I enjoy good cinema, astronomy, reading science fiction and fantasy, Terry Pratchett being my favourite author, and taking light hikes around the Collserola mountain range. Creative endeavours, however, are what satisfy me the most, which is why I often embark myself on personal projects; I’ve animated short films, using both stop-motion and 3D animation, with LightWave3D, as well as designed simple computer games.

I hope this page has helped you to know me a little better. Please feel free to check out my profile on Linkedin, contact me and download any files you might be interested in, including my graduate thesis on Dish Stirling technology and my master’s thesis on deep reinforcement learning and robotics.