This document contains the resume of Jesús Romero Sánchez, an aeronautical engineer. It lists his education including a master's degree in aerospace science and technology and bachelor's degrees in aeronautical engineering. It also outlines his work experience as an aerospace researcher and lists relevant projects he has worked on, which involve GNSS technologies. Publications and languages/skills are also included.

1. Jesús Romero Sánchez
Aeronautical Engineer
romerosanchezjesus@gmail.com
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Last update: 17/03/2016
Education
Sep/13 – Mar/16 Master’s degree in Aerospace Science and Technology (MAST), Escuela de Ingeniería
de Telecomunicaciones y Aeroespacial de Castelldefels – Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya,
Castelldefels.
Sep/09 – Nov/13 Five-year bachelor’s degree in Aeronautical Engineering, Escuela Técnica Superior de
Ingeniería Industrial y Aeronáutica de Terrassa – Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Terrassa.
Sep/05 – Jan/09 Three-year bachelor’s degree in Aeronautical Engineering, Escuela de Ingeniería de
Telecomunicaciones y Aeroespacial de Castelldefels – Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya,
Castelldefels.
Sep/01 – Jun/04 Technical Maintenance of Self-propelled Vehicles, specializing in Aeronautical
Maintenance, IES Illa dels Banyols, El Prat.
Work experience
Apr/15 – Present Aerospace Researcher, gAGE (Research group of Astronomy and Geomatics) at Department
of Mathematics in Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona.
Jan/12 – Apr/15 Aerospace Researcher, ASCAMM Foundation (Technology Centre), Barcelona.
May/09 – Jan/12 Aerospace Researcher, CTAE (Aerospace Research and Technology Centre), Barcelona.
Work projects
gEGNOS
Sep/15 – Apr/18
(ESA)
Technical responsible of renewing the cycle slip detectors for single- and dual-frequency of the
GNSS software tool gLAB. The new designs include several new features and have supposed
an important improvement with respect the previous version. The second task is regarding the
implementation of the capability to do positioning through differential GNSS technique (DGNSS).
BELS
Jan/15 – Dec/17
(H2020)
The scope of the BELS project is to implement a set of coordinated actions to promote European
Global Navigation Satellite System EGNSS technology in South East Asia (SEA), meanwhile
supporting the competitiveness of EU enterprises facilitating their contacts with relevant GNSS
stakeholders in SEA, a fast growing market of more than 600 million people.
e-KnoT
Jan/15 – Dec/17
(H2020)
The scope of the e-KnoT project is to strengthen the interaction between the areas of
education-research-industry in Europe, leveraging on past activities already undertaken in this
field, in order to consolidate a strong EGNSS knowledge triangle, a solid network for the creation
of a critical mass involving the relevant actors in the three areas with the final objective of
supporting the European economy development.
VISITT
Dec/14 – Mar/15
(National)
Technical head in charge of implementing a software for global navigation satellite systems (GNSS)
precise positioning, the type precise point positioning (PPP). My implementation downloads
ultra-rapid ephemeris and clock corrections from Internet and applies them in real time. The
code is written in C++ under ROS architecture.
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2. ICARUS
Jan/14 – Mar/15
(FP7)
My activities in this project, as technical developer, are focused on several tasks, the most
important are listed below:
Adapting and mounting the necessary systems (communications, sensors, control and computer)
for the operation of an aerial unmanned system (UAS).
Development of a driver for a thermal camera.
Development of a software (C++) for victim detection, which uses support vector machines
(SVM) classifiers and it is based on the thermal images grabbed by the camera.
Development of a software (C++) for map stitching, where my implementation includes among
others: conversion from 2D image plane to 2D World plane to 3D body plane conversions
with aim to georeference the orthomaps and a Laplacian-Gaussian-Pyramid filter to blend the
images taken by the UAS.
Development of a software (C++) for classify the orthomaps into forest, road, water, etc. My
implementation is based on SVM.
Analysis and mitigation of electromagnetic interferences introduced in the GNSS receiver, and
generated by the electric engines of the UAS.
FASTOP
Oct/13 – Jan/14
(CLEAN SKY)
Technical responsible of translating from Matlab to C++ a complete software that consist on
a fast optimiser for continuous descent approach (CDA) minimizing the use of aircraft engine
thrust and speed brakes. Moreover, I extended its capabilities by adding the numerical method
called Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg.
Sigma
Feb/13 – Nov/13
(EC)
Technical responsible of testing and validating the Galileo minimum operational performance
standards (MOPS).
DockingAssist
Nov/12 – Nov/13
(FP7)
Technical head in charge of selecting, mounting, configuring, testing and validating the hardware
necessary to provide precise position, velocity, time and heading of a vessels, using the type real
time kinematics (RTK). The novelty of the project came by the fact of sending the RTK corrections
through the data transmission technology called worldwide interoperability for microwave access
(WiMAX).
SiS Monitoring
Jul/10 – May/12
(National)
Technical responsible of designing and implementing a signal in space (SiS) monitoring system.
The system offers GPS, GLONASS and Galileo signal monitoring in real time, via Internet, with
high resolution sampled signal in space to better understand the events. I implemented the
website in HTML and CSS.
GNSSmeter
Sep/10 – Dec/10
(FP7)
Technical responsible of testing and validating an on board unit (OBU) for an integrity application
tolling. GNSSmeter enhances the existing road tolling with the metering calculation technology
based on GNSS.
HereNow
Apr/10 – Sep/10
(FP7)
Technical responsible of carrying out a GPS plus WiFi and GSM data collection campaign to
create a database of GPS, WiFi and GSM coverage in Barcelona. Moreover, I analyzed and
evaluated the data collected in terms of hybridization, to enhance the positioning accuracy by
developing new algorithms.
MultiNAV
Oct/09 – Apr/10
(Internal)
Technical responsible of developing a multiple GNSS positioning with graphic user interface (GUI)
in Matlab language. The position can be calculated from single or multiple constellation. The
software computes the user position, velocity and time (PVT) from RINEX files of any version in
range between 2.1 and 3.02 (current).
AVANT
May/09 – Oct/09
(National)
Technical responsible of designing and implementing a GNSS software simulator. The software is
an upgrade of the Matlab SatNav toolbox 3.0 from GPSoft to enhance its performance within an
aeronautical scenario. The software generates several RINEX files scenario from user specified
requirements.
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3. Publications
Sep/15 A. Rovira-Garcia, J.M. Juan, J. Sanz, G. González-Casado, D. Ibáñez, J. Romero-Sánchez.,
"Assessment of Ionospheric Models for GNSS During a Year of Solar Maximum," Proceedings of
the 28th International Technical Meeting of The Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation
(ION GNSS+ 2015), Tampa, Florida, September 14–18, 2015.
Mar/13 Lei Jiang; Perello, J.; Prokkola, J.; Pinola, J.; Piri, E.; Romero, J.; Gutierrez, E.; Blanco-Delgado,
N., "DockingAssist: A novel vessel navigation system design based on WiMAX and DGNSS,"
Positioning Navigation and Communication (WPNC), 2013 10th Workshop on, vol., no., pp.1, 6,
March 20–21, 2013.
Languages
Spanish Mother tongue.
Catalan Mother tongue.
English C1.
Italian B2.
Computer skills
OS Gnu/Linux (Ubuntu), MS-DOS and
Windows (98, XP, 7 and 8).
Web Design HTML, XML, CSS and PHP.
Applications Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and
Visio) and OpenOffice.
Structured
Programming
C/C++, Fortran, LabVIEW,
Python and Visual Basic.
Utilities Autocad, Doxygen, GIMP, Kile, Kate,
Sublime and Subversion.
Scientific
Programming
Matlab and Octave.
Layout LATEX. Scripting Bash Scripting and C-Shell.
Qualities
Personal skills Good software engineering skills, strong analytical, problem-solving and communication skills,
ability to quickly enrol new situations and environments, eager to learn and develop new skills.
Experience with High level programming languages, GNSS, RINEX, NMEA, SBAS, GNSS, Septentrio PolaRx3G,
Spirent GSS7800, Leica GPS1200, Trimble BX982, Precise Point Positioning, NovAtel OEM 615,
NovAtel OemStar, DGNSS, RTK, Support Vector Machine and ROS.
Driving licenses A and B.
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