Harold MURCIA ☕️
Harold MURCIA

PhDc in Robotics

LAAS - CNRS

About Me

I am currently pursuing a PhD in Robotics at LAAS-CNRS in Toulouse, France, focusing on integrating LiDAR sensors with mobile robots for intelligent agricultural monitoring. Before my PhD, I spent nearly nine years as a faculty member and researcher at the University of Ibagué, leading R&D projects in power electronics, AI, and IoT. My passion lies in advancing smart systems and bridging the gap between research and practical applications in robotics and AI.

Interests
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Robotics
  • Perception Systems
Education

  • PhDc Robotics

    LAAS-CNRS & INSA - Toulouse

  • Master of Science in Automatic Control,

    Universidad de Ibagué

  • Electronic Engineer (Five years program)

    Universidad de Ibagué - Universiteit Gent

My Research

As a research engineer with a passion for both development and innovation, I focus on guiding projects from concept to experimental verification, involving both hardware and software layers. My experience includes designing electronic systems, modeling and control systems, remote measurement and IoT systems, data processing, machine vision, and machine learning. Recently, I’ve been working on 3D processing systems and methods using LiDAR technology.

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I’m always open to new collaborations 🚀, Please feel free to reach out!

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Research outputs
CategoryAmountLabel
International journal articles3[J]
International conference articles7[C]
Colombian conference articles7[C]
Algorithms shared on GitHub1[G]
Software registration1[S]
Open source databases1[D]

Papers

  1. Forero, M. G., Murcia, H. F., Méndez, D., & Betancourt-Lozano, J. (2022). LiDAR platform for acquisition of 3D plant phenotyping database. Plants, 11(17), 2199.

  2. Murcia, H. F., Tilaguy, S., & Ouazaa, S. (2021). Development of a low-cost system for 3D orchard mapping integrating UGV and LiDAR. Plants, 10(12), 2804.

  3. Hernandez, A., Murcia, H., Copot, C., & De Keyser, R. (2015). Towards the development of a smart flying sensor: Illustration in the field of precision agriculture. Sensors, 15(7), 16688-16709.

Conferences

  1. Murcia, H., Cháux, J., & Aldana, Y. (2022, November). A low-cost 3D mapping system for indoor scenes based on a 2D LiDAR on-board an UGV. In 9th Workshop on Engineering Applications (WEA 2022), Bogotá, Colombia (pp. 337-352). Springer Nature Switzerland.

  2. Murcia, H. F., & Tique Rangel, J. C. (2021). Head-mouse: Software for the manipulation of a mouse cursor by eye and head movement for people with disabilities. Dirección Nacional de Derechos de Autor - Colombia.

  3. Murcia, H. F., & Rubio, C. F. (2021). A comparison of LiDAR odometry and mapping techniques. In 5th IEEE Colombian Conference on Automatic Control (CCAC 2021).

  4. Murcia, H., Sanabria, D., Méndez, D., & Forero, M. G. (2021). A comparative study of 3D plant modeling systems based on low-cost 2D LiDAR and Kinect. In Pattern Recognition. MCPR 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vol. 12725). Springer.

  5. Murcia, H. F., Sanabria, D. A., Méndez, D., & Forero, M. G. (2020). Development of a simulation tool for 3D plant modeling based on 2D LiDAR sensor. In 2020 Virtual Symposium in Plant Omics Sciences (OMICAS), pp. 1-6.

  6. Méndez, D., Forero, M. G., & Murcia, H. F. (2020, August). Comparative study of point cloud registration techniques between ICP and others. In Applications of Digital Image Processing XLIII (Vol. 11510, p. 115101H). International Society for Optics and Photonics.

  7. Murcia-Moreno, H., & Triana, J. (2019). A personal activity recognition system based on smart devices. In Workshop Engineering Applications (WEA 2019), Santa Marta, Colombia.

  8. Murcia-Moreno, H., Valenciano-Claros, J., & Tapiero, Y. (2018). Line-follower robot control algorithm. GitHub.

  9. Murcia-Moreno, H., Valenciano-Claros, J., & Tapiero, Y. (2018). Development of a line-follower robot for robotic competition purposes. In Workshop Engineering Applications (WEA 2018), Medellin, Colombia.

  10. Murcia-Moreno, H., & López-Gaona, J. (2018). Towards the connection of agriculture with the Internet of Things in Colombian farms. In Primer Congreso LatinoAmericano de Agricultura de Presición, Santiago de Chile, Chile.

  11. Murcia-Moreno, H., Mora, L., & Monroy, M. F. (2018). 3D scene reconstruction based on a 2D moving LiDAR. In Communications in Computer and Information Science (November 2018). Springer, Cham.

  12. Murcia-Moreno, H., González-Quintero, B., & López-Gaona, J. (2017). An online learning method for embedded decision support in agriculture irrigation. In Advances in Information and Communication Technologies for Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: Proceedings of the International Conference of ICT for Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change (AACC'17), Popayán, Colombia (Vol. 687, p. 234). Springer.

  13. Pena, L. E., Murcia, H., Londono, W., & Botina, H. (2017). A low-cost instrumentation system for levels in surface water currents. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Sensors and Electronic Instrumentation Advances (SEIA 2016), Moscow, Russia, pp. 731-740.

  14. Murcia, H., & González, E. (2016). Performance comparison between PID and LQR control on a 2-wheel inverted pendulum robot. In IEEE Colombian Conference on Robotics and Automation (CCRA 2016), Bogotá, Colombia.

  15. Barrero, O., Murcia, H., & Valenciano, J. (2016). Modeling and control of a 4-wheel mobile robot. In XVII Latin American Congress of Automatic Control (CLCA 2016), Medellin, Colombia.