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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Francisco Fernandes Castro Rego

Citation names

  • Rego, Francisco

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
0411-4718-C4A8
ORCID iD
0000-0001-9128-6435

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1)
Galician Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2018/05/28
Concluded
 Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Faculté des Sciences et Techniques de l'Ingénieur, Switzerland
"Distributed State Estimation and Cooperative Path-Following Under Communication Constraints" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Aprovado com distinção
2011/05/31
Concluded
 Double Degree Master Program Flight Dynamics & Control and Avionics (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Technische Universiteit Delft Faculteit Luchtvaart- en Ruimtevaarttechniek, Netherlands
"Determination of Inner and Outer Bounds of Reachable Sets" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2008
Concluded
 1st cycle of studies of the Integrated Master Degree in Aerospace Engineering (Bacharelato)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/01/30 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Tecnologias e Sistemas, Portugal
2018/06/01 - Current Postdoc (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2011/12/01 - 2012/09/30 Bolseiro com a função de investigar técnicas de controlo de formações de veículos. Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia, Portugal
2011/06/06 - 2011/08/26 Estagiário com a função de desenvolver um plugin para o programa COOLFluiD 2.0 para simular fluidos em regime hipersónico. Von Karman Institute For Fluid Dynamics, Belgium
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2022/07/01 - 2025/06/30 RAIECO - Hybrid Underwater Robotic Systems and Artificial Intelligence-Based Seabed Imaging Tools for Marine Ecosystem Studies
DRI/India/0699/2020
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal

Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Rego, Francisco C.; Hung, Nguyen T.; Jones, Colin N.; Pascoal, Anto´nio M.; Aguiar, Anto´nio Pedro. "Cooperative path-following control with logic-based communications: theory and practice". In Navigation and Control of Autonomous Marine Vehicles, 187-224. Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2019.
    10.1049/pbtr011e_ch8
Conference paper
  1. Rego, Francisco; Antonio M. Pascoal. Corresponding author: Rego, Francisco. "Cooperative single-beacon multiple AUV navigation under stringent communication bandwidth constraints". Paper presented in 13th IFAC Conference on Control Applications in Marine Systems, Robotics, and Vehicles CAMS 2021, 2021.
    10.1016/j.ifacol.2021.10.096
  2. Hung, Nguyen T.; Rego, Francisco C.; Pascoal, Antonio M.. "Event-Triggered Communications for the Synchronization of Nonlinear Multi Agent Systems on Weight-Balanced Digraphs". Paper presented in 2019 18th European Control Conference (ECC), Napoles, 2019.
    10.23919/ecc.2019.8796277
  3. Rego, F.; Hung, N. T.; Pascoal, A. M.. "Cooperative path-following of autonomous marine vehicles: theory and experiments". Paper presented in 2018 IEEE/OES Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Workshop (AUV), Porto, 2018.
    10.1109/auv.2018.8729809
  4. Hung, Nguyen T.; Rego, F.; Crasta, N.; Pascoal, A.M.. "Input-Constrained Path Following for Autonomous Marine Vehicles with a Global Region of Attraction". Paper presented in 11th IFAC Conference on Control Applications in Marine Systems, Robotics, and Vehicles CAMS 2018: Opatija, Croatia, 10–12 September 2018, 2018.
    10.1016/j.ifacol.2018.09.499
  5. Rego, Francisco F. C.; Aguiar, A. Pedro; Pascoal, Antonio M.; Jones, Colin N.. "A design method for distributed luenberger observers". Paper presented in 2017 IEEE 56th Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Melbourne, 2017.
    10.1109/cdc.2017.8264153
  6. Rego, Francisco F. C.; Pu, Ye; Alessandretti, Andrea; Aguiar, A. Pedro; Pascoal, Antonio M.; Jones, Colin N.. "Design of a distributed quantized luenberger filter for bounded noise". Paper presented in 2016 American Control Conference (ACC), 2016.
    10.1109/acc.2016.7526675
  7. Rego, Francisco F. C.; Pu, Ye; Alessandretti, Andrea; Aguiar, A. Pedro; Jones, Colin N.. "A consensus algorithm for networks with process noise and quantization error". Paper presented in 2015 53rd Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton), 2015.
    10.1109/allerton.2015.7447044
  8. Pequito, Sergio; Rego, Francisco; Kar, Soummya; Aguiar, A. Pedro; Pascoal, Antonio; Jones, Colin. "Optimal design of observable multi-agent networks: A structural system approach". 2014.
    10.1109/ecc.2014.6862577
  9. Rego, Francisco; Soares, Jorge M.; Pascoal, António; Aguiar, A. Pedro; Jones, Colin. Corresponding author: Rego, Francisco. "Flexible triangular formation keeping of marine robotic vehicles using range measurements". Paper presented in 19th IFAC World Congress, 2014.
    10.3182/20140824-6-za-1003.02435
  10. Rego, F.C.; Aguiar, A.P.; Pascoal, A.M.. "A packet loss compliant logic-based communication algorithm for cooperative path-following control". Paper presented in 9th IFAC Conference on Control Applications in Marine Systems, 2013.
    10.3182/20130918-4-JP-3022.00055
Journal article
  1. Frederico Afonso; Martin Sohst; Carlos M.A. Diogo; Simão S. Rodrigues; Ana Ferreira; Inês Ribeiro; Ricardo Marques; et al. "Strategies towards a more sustainable aviation: A systematic review". Progress in Aerospace Sciences (2023): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paerosci.2022.100878.
    10.1016/j.paerosci.2022.100878
  2. Hung, Nguyen T.; Rego, Francisco F. C.; Pascoal, Antonio M.. "Cooperative Distributed Estimation and Control of Multiple Autonomous Vehicles for Range-Based Underwater Target Localization and Pursuit". IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology 30 4 (2022): 1433-1447. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tcst.2021.3107346.
    10.1109/tcst.2021.3107346
  3. Francisco Castro Rego; Ye Pu; Andrea Alessandretti; A. Pedro Aguiar; Antonio M. Pascoal; Colin N. Jones. "A Distributed Luenberger Observer for Linear State Feedback Systems With Quantized and Rate-Limited Communications". IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 66 9 (2021): 3922-3937. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.2020.3027658.
    10.1109/TAC.2020.3027658
  4. Rego, Francisco F.C.; Pascoal, António M.; Aguiar, A. Pedro; Jones, Colin N.. "Distributed state estimation for discrete-time linear time invariant systems: A survey". Annual Reviews in Control 48 (2019): 36-56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.arcontrol.2019.08.003.
    10.1016/j.arcontrol.2019.08.003
  5. Silva, Henrique; FC Rego, Francisco; Rosado, Catarina; Monteiro Rodrigues, Luis. "Novel 3D active representations of skin biomechanics". Journal Biomedical and Biopharmaceutical Research 13 2 (2016): 219-227. http://dx.doi.org/10.19277/bbr.13.2.140.
    10.19277/bbr.13.2.140
  6. Rego, Francisco; de Weerdt, Elwin; van Oort, Eddy; van Kampen, Erik-Jan; Chu, Qiping; Pascoal, António M.. "Determination of Inner and Outer Bounds of Reachable Sets Through Subpavings". Mathematics in Computer Science 8 3-4 (2014): 425-442. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11786-014-0199-4.
    10.1007/s11786-014-0199-4
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Rego, Francisco. "Distributed State Estimation and Cooperative Path-Following Under Communication Constraints". PhD, Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, 2018. https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/257129.
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2015 - Current Outdoor Navigation and Nonlinear Lyapunov Based Trajectory Tracking
Supervisor
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2019 Evaluation of Non-Cooperative Sensors for Sense and Avoid in UAV Systems Pablo Arroyo Izquierdo (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2013 - 2020 IFAC World Congress
2013 - 2020 American Control Conference
2013 - 2020 Conference on Decision and Control
2013 - 2020 IFAC CAMS

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2019 - 2019 Controlo (Mestrado integrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2014 - 2015 Control Systems (Bachelor) École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
2014 - 2015 Model Predictive Control (Master) École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
2014 - 2014 Probabilités et statistique (Bachelor)

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2020 - Current IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems (2325-5870) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
2017/01/01 - 2020/12/31 Automatica (0005-1098) Elsevier
2017/01/01 - 2020/12/31 IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (1558-2523) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
2017/01/01 - 2020/12/31 Systems & Control Letters (0167-6911) Elsevier
2017/01/01 - 2020/12/31 IEEE Control Systems Letters (2475-1456) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
2020 - 2020 Mathematics (2227-7390) MDPI
2017 - 2020 Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (2077-1312) MDPI AG
Distinctions

Other distinction

2009 Diploma de Mérito
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2007 Diploma de Mérito
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal