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Carlos M. Costa received his MSc in Informatics and Computing Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto in 2015 and is currently pursuing a PhD at the same university at ProDEI while also researching at the Centre for Robotics in Industry and Intelligent Systems of INESC TEC. His current research areas include spatial augmented reality, 3d perception, computer vision, assembly planning, self-localization of autonomous vehicles, among many others within the industrial and mobile robotics fields.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Carlos Miguel Correia da Costa

Citation names

  • Carlos M. Costa

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
841F-2B55-473A
ORCID iD
0000-0001-8453-4031
Google Scholar ID
gQ7tT_0AAAAJ
Researcher Id
Z-6191-2019
Scopus Author Id
56732403300

Email addresses

  • carlos.m.costa@inesctec.pt (Professional)
  • carloscosta.cmcc@gmail.com (Personal)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics - Robotics and Automatic Control

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Education
Degree Classification
2009/09/01 - 2015/03/26
Concluded
 Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Informática e Computação (Mestrado integrado)
Major in Robótica
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
"Robot Self-Localization in Dynamic Environments" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/01/01 - Current Contracted Researcher (Research) Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência Center for Research in Advanced Computing Systems, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2014/10/14 - 2019/12/31 Researcher (Research) Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência Center for Research in Advanced Computing Systems, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2024/01/01 - 2027/12/29 Renee
101138415
Researcher
European Commission
Ongoing
2020/12/01 - 2024/11/30 Mari4_YARD
101006798
10.3030/101006798
Researcher
European Commission
Ongoing
2020/07/01 - 2023/06/29 PRODUTECH 4 S&C
46102
Researcher
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2020/07/01 - 2023/06/29 PAC - MobInov
46095
Researcher
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2017/11/01 - 2021/04/30 FASTEN
777096
10.3030/777096
Research Fellow
European Commission
Concluded
2017/01/01 - 2020/06/30 ScalABLE4.0
723658
10.3030/723658
Research Fellow
European Commission
Concluded
2019/10/01 - 2020/02/15 PRODUTECH SIF
24541
Research Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2017/09/01 - 2019/12/31 Interreg Manufactur 4.0
POCTEP
Research Fellow
Interreg Europe
Concluded
2019/03/01 - 2019/06/01 Horse FlexCoating
680734
Research Fellow
European Commission
Concluded
2016/02/01 - 2019/01/31 ColRobot
688807
10.3030/688807
Research Fellow
European Commission
Concluded
2016/09/01 - 2017/04/01 CoopWeld
6438
Research Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2015/09/01 - 2016/09/01 SME-Robotics Clarissa
287787
Research Fellow
European Commission
Concluded
2014/02/01 - 2015/09/01 CARLoS
606363
Research Fellow
European Commission
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Carlos M. Costa; Joana Dias; Rui Nascimento; Cláudia Rocha; Germano Veiga; Armando Sousa; Ulrike Thomas; Luís Rocha. "Inspection of Part Placement Within Containers Using Point Cloud Overlap Analysis for an Automotive Production Line". 2024.
    10.1007/978-3-031-38241-3_76
  2. Leão, Gonçalo; Costa, Carlos M.; Sousa, Armando; Veiga, Germano. "Perception of Entangled Tubes for Automated Bin Picking". In Robot 2019: Fourth Iberian Robotics Conference, 619-631. Springer International Publishing, 2019.
    10.1007/978-3-030-35990-4_50
  3. Costa, Carlos M.; Sousa, Armando; Veiga, Germano. "Pose Invariant Object Recognition Using a Bag of Words Approach". In ROBOT 2017: Third Iberian Robotics Conference, 153-164. Springer International Publishing, 2017.
    10.1007/978-3-319-70836-2_13
  4. Costa, Carlos M.; Sobreira, Héber M.; Sousa, Armando J.; Veiga, Germano. "3 DoF/6 DoF Localization System for Low Computing Power Mobile Robot Platforms". In Cutting Edge Research in Technologies. InTech, 2015.
    10.5772/61258
  5. Costa, Carlos M.; Sampaio, Altino M.; Barbosa, Jorge G.. "Distributed Prime Sieve in Heterogeneous Computer Clusters". In Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2014, 592-606. Portugal: Springer International Publishing, 2014.
    10.1007/978-3-319-09147-1_43
Conference paper
  1. Costa, Carlos M.; Veiga, Germano; Sousa, Armando; Rocha, Luis; Sousa, A. Augusto; Rodrigues, Rui; Thomas, Ulrike. "Modeling of video projectors in OpenGL for implementing a spatial augmented reality teaching system for assembly operations". 2019.
    10.1109/icarsc.2019.8733617
  2. Costa, Carlos M.; Veiga, Germano; Sousa, Armando; Rocha, Luis; Oliveira, Eugenio; Lopes Cardoso, Henrique; Thomas, Ulrike. "Automatic generation of disassembly sequences and exploded views from solidworks symbolic geometric relationships". 2018.
    10.1109/icarsc.2018.8374185
  3. Rocha, Luis; Tavares, Pedro; Malaca, Pedro; Costa, Carlos; Silva, João; Veiga, Germano. "BIM for the Steel Fabrication Industry Robotic Systems". 2017.
    10.22260/isarc2017/0089
  4. Costa, Carlos M.; Veiga, Germano; Sousa, Armando; Nunes, Sergio. "Evaluation of Stanford NER for extraction of assembly information from instruction manuals". 2017.
    10.1109/icarsc.2017.7964092
  5. Carlos M. Costa. "2D Cloud Template Matching - A Comparison between Iterative Closest Point and Perfect Match". 2016.
    10.1109/icarsc.2016.13
  6. Carlos M. Costa. "Recognition of Banknotes in Multiple Perspectives Using Selective Feature Matching and Shape Analysis". 2016.
    10.1109/icarsc.2016.59
  7. Costa, Carlos M.; Sobreira, Heber M.; Sousa, Armando J.; Veiga, Germano M.. "Robust and accurate localization system for mobile manipulators in cluttered environments". 2015.
    10.1109/icit.2015.7125588
Journal article
  1. Joana Dias; Pedro Simões; Nuno Soares; Carlos M. Costa; Marcelo R. Petry; Germano Veiga; Luís F. Rocha. "Comparison of 3D Sensors for Automating Bolt-Tightening Operations in the Automotive Industry". Sensors (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/s23094310.
    10.3390/s23094310
  2. Artur Cordeiro; João Pedro Souza; Carlos M. Costa; Vítor Filipe; Luís F. Rocha; Manuel F. Silva. "Bin Picking for Ship-Building Logistics Using Perception and Grasping Systems". Robotics (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/robotics12010015.
    10.3390/robotics12010015
  3. Gonçalo Leão; Carlos M. Costa; Armando Sousa; Luís Paulo Reis; Germano Veiga. "Using Simulation to Evaluate a Tube Perception Algorithm for Bin Picking". Robotics 11 2 (2022): 46-46. https://doi.org/10.3390/robotics11020046.
    10.3390/robotics11020046
  4. João Pedro Carvalho de Souza; Carlos M. Costa; Luís F. Rocha; Rafael Arrais; A. Paulo Moreira; E.J. Solteiro Pires; José Boaventura-Cunha. "Reconfigurable Grasp Planning Pipeline with Grasp Synthesis and Selection Applied to Picking Operations in Aerospace Factories". Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (2021): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rcim.2020.102032.
    10.1016/j.rcim.2020.102032
  5. Rafael Arrais; Carlos M. Costa; Paulo Ribeiro; Luís F. Rocha; Manuel Silva; Germano Veiga. "On the development of a collaborative robotic system for industrial coating cells". The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00170-020-06167-z.
    10.1007/s00170-020-06167-z
  6. Leão, Gonçalo; Costa, Carlos M.; Sousa, Armando; Veiga, Germano. "Detecting and Solving Tube Entanglement in Bin Picking Operations". Applied Sciences 10 7 (2020): 2264. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app10072264.
    10.3390/app10072264
  7. Pedro Tavares; Carlos M. Costa; Luís Rocha; Pedro Malaca; Pedro Costa; António P. Moreira; Armando Sousa; Germano Veiga. "Collaborative Welding System using BIM for Robotic Reprogramming and Spatial Augmented Reality". Automation in Construction 106 (2019): 102825-102825. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2019.04.020.
    10.1016/j.autcon.2019.04.020
  8. Sobreira, Héber; Costa, Carlos M.; Sousa, Ivo; Rocha, Luis; Lima, José; Farias, P. C. M. A.; Costa, Paulo; Moreira, A. Paulo. "Map-Matching Algorithms for Robot Self-Localization: A Comparison Between Perfect Match, Iterative Closest Point and Normal Distributions Transform". Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems 93 3-4 (2018): 533-546. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10846-017-0765-5.
    10.1007/s10846-017-0765-5
  9. Carlos M. Costa; Héber M. Sobreira; Armando J. Sousa; Germano M. Veiga. "Robust 3/6 DoF self-localization system with selective map update for mobile robot platforms". Robotics and Autonomous Systems 76 (2016): 113-140. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2015.09.030.
    10.1016/j.robot.2015.09.030
Report
  1. Costa, Carlos. 2013. Secure programming. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259654714_Secure_programming.
    10.13140/RG.2.1.3214.2249
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Costa, Carlos. "Robot Self-Localization in Dynamic Environments". Master, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/78472.
Distinctions

Award

2016 Best Portuguese robotics dissertation of 2015