Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- PEDRO ANTÓNIO DUARTE MARQUES LOURENÇO
Citation names
- LOURENÇO, PEDRO
- Pedro Lourenço
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 3219-B242-4A5B
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-7647-5094
- Google Scholar ID
- wkQMwicAAAAJ
- Researcher Id
- AAI-2630-2020
- Scopus Author Id
- 24758955200
Websites
- plourenco.eu (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Engineering and Technology - Mechanical Engineering - Aerospace Engineering
- Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics - Robotics and Automatic Control
- Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics - Automation and Control Systems
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
Spanish; Castilian | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | |
German | Beginner (A1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Beginner (A1) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2013/01 - 2019/01/15
Concluded
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Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Doutoramento)
Major in Sem especialidade
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"Globally Convergent Simultaneous Localization and Mapping: Design Techniques, Analysis, and Implementation" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Passed with distinction and honour |
2010/09 - 2012/11/15
Concluded
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Engenharia Aeroespacial (Mestrado integrado)
Major in Avionics
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"Analysis, Design and Implementation of an Integrated Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Algorithm" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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18 |
2007/09 - 2010
Concluded
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Ciências de Engenharia - Engenharia Aeroespacial (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"-" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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17 |
Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2011/10 - 2018/06 | Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal |
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal | ||
2012/11 - 2012/12 | Visiting Researcher (Research) | University of Macau, Macau SAR China |
University of Macau Faculty of Science and Technology, Macau SAR China |
Others
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2022/08 - Current | Head of Guidance & Control Section | GMVIS Skysoft, S.A., Portugal |
GMVIS Skysoft, S.A., Portugal | ||
2019/01 - 2022/07 | GNC Engineer | GMVIS Skysoft, S.A., Portugal |
GMVIS Skysoft, S.A., Portugal |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2013 - 2017 | PhD Grant SFRH / BD / 89337 / 2012
SFRH / BD / 89337 / 2012
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2022/10 - Current | Guidance, Navigation and Control of In-Orbit Assembly of Large Antennas
4000138572/22/NL/AF
Technical development
GMVIS Skysoft, S.A., Portugal
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European Space Agency
Ongoing
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2022/02/11 - Current | Fast Reconfiguration Technologies for Recurrent Space Transportation Flight
4000136974/21/NL/CRS
Technical development
GMVIS Skysoft, S.A., Portugal
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European Space Agency
Ongoing
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2022/02/01 - Current | Verification and Validation of Real-Time Optimised Safety-Critical GNC SW Systems
4000136721/21/NL/CRSRS
Principal investigator
GMVIS Skysoft, S.A., Portugal
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European Space Agency
Ongoing
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2021/11/01 - Current | Fault tolerant control of clustered rocket engines
4000136228/21/NL/CRS
Technical development
GMVIS Skysoft, S.A., Portugal
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European Space Agency
Ongoing
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2019/11 - 2021/06 | Prototyping of Bearings-Only Guidance for Rendezvous in NRO Orbits
AO/1-9839/19/NL/CRS
Principal investigator
GMVIS Skysoft, S.A., Portugal
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European Space Agency
Ongoing
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2019/01 - 2020/06 | GNC preliminary design for rendezvous and docking in NRO orbits around the moon
1-9296/18/NL/CRS
Technical development
GMVIS Skysoft, S.A., Portugal
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European Space Agency
Concluded
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2019/09 - 2019/12 | SPACE RIDER Phase B/C
C116002
Technical development
GMVIS Skysoft, S.A., Portugal
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European Space Agency
Concluded
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2019/03 - 2019/09 | Lagrange Missions Phase A/B1 System Studies
AO/1-9006/17/DE/MRP
Technical development
GMVIS Skysoft, S.A., Portugal
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European Space Agency |
Outputs
Publications
Book chapter |
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Conference paper |
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Journal article |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2023/03 | Tackling Space Debris: Control and SSTM in the aerospace industry | Semana Aeroespacial 2023
Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2022/12 | V&V of Optimization-based Control Systems – Developments and Objectives of the ESA VV4RTOS Project | FEANICSES 2022 Workshop
Ecole Nationale de l’Aviation Civile (Toulouse, France)
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2022/10/10 | Attitude Determination & Control Systems | NewSpace Academy 9: Small Satellite Mission Engineering
SPACEWAY
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2022/07 | Nonlinear MPC for Attitude Guidance & Control of Autonomous Spacecraft | 15th APCA International Conference on Automatic Control and Soft Computing
Portuguese Association for Automatic Control (Caparica, Portugal)
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2022/03 | Designing Control Systems for Space Applications | Semana Aeroespacial 2022
Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisboa, Portugal)
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2021/09 | GNC and Autonomy Perspectives on Orbit Servicing, Assembly and Active Debris Removal | ESA 2021 Clean Space Industrial Days
European Space Agency
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2021/06 | Computational Guidance & Navigation for Bearings-Only Rendezvous – methods and outcomes of GUIBEAR | 11th International ESA Conference on Guidance, Navigation & Control Systems
European Space Agency
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2021/06 | Critical GNC Aspects for ADR missions | 11th International ESA Conference on Guidance, Navigation & Control Systems
European Space Agency
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2021/06 | Model Predictive Control for On-Board-Optimized Attitude Guidance for Cometary Fly-By - Problem Statement, Solutions and V&V Process | 8th International Conference on Astrodynamics Tools and Techniques
European Space Agency
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2020/03 | Rendezvous with the future Lunar space station when taking off from the Moon | Semana Aeroespacial 2020
Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisboa, Portugal)
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2018/06 | SLAM in the quest for autonomy: from theory to practice | LARSyS Annual Meeting
Associate Laboratory of Robotics and Engineering Systems (Lisboa, Portugal)
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2017/06 | New Design Techniques for Globally Convergent Simultaneous Localization and Mapping: Analysis and Implementation | Workshop on Sensing and Control for Autonomous Vehicles: Applications to Land, Water and Air Vehicles
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Alesund, Norway)
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2015/07 | A Globally Exponentially Stable filter for Bearing-Only Simultaneous Localization and Mapping in 3-D | 2015 European Control Conference
European Control Association (Linz, Austria)
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2015/07 | Simultaneous Localization and Mapping in Sensor Networks: a GES sensor-based filter with moving object tracking | 2015 European Control Conference
European Control Association (Linz, Austria)
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2013/07 | A Received Signal Strength Indication-Based Localization System | 21st Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation
Mediterranean Control Association (Creta, Greece)
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Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2022/09 - Current | The interplay of Control Barrier and Control Lyapunov Functions and Model Predictive Control for in-orbit proximity operations
Co-supervisor
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Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2022/09 - Current | Model Predictive Control and Allocation with Nonconvex Constraints for Space Rendezvous
Co-supervisor
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Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2022/02 - Current | Hybrid and Distributed Allocation, Guidance, and Control for Cooperative On-Orbit Servicing
Co-supervisor of Gil Silvestre Serrano
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Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
GMVIS Skysoft, S.A., Portugal |
2022/03/03 - 2022/11/25 | A Convex Allocation Framework for Singularity Avoidance in Control Moment Gyro Clusters
Co-supervisor
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Engenharia Aeroespacial (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2021/09 - 2022/11/25 | On-Orbit Pose and Inertia Estimation of Uncooperative Targets
Co-supervisor
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Engenharia Aeroespacial (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
GMVIS Skysoft, S.A., Portugal |
2020/09 - 2022/02/08 | Model Predictive Control Applications for Satellite Cooperative Rendezvous
Co-supervisor
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Engenharia Electrotécnica, Sistemas e Computadores (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal |
2021/09 - 2022/02 | Planning and Control of Autonomous Free-flying Robots For In-orbit Assembly
Co-supervisor
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Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Carnegie Mellon University, United States GMVIS Skysoft, S.A., Portugal |
2021/02 - 2021/10 | Computational Attitude Guidance & Control for Autonomous Spacecraft
Co-supervisor
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Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2021/02 - 2021/10 | COSMIC: fast closed-form identification from large-scale data for LTV systems leading to optimal spacecraft attitude
control
Co-supervisor
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Engenharia Aeroespacial (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
GMVIS Skysoft, S.A., Portugal |
Ad Hoc journal article review
Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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2022/01/05 - Current | Automatica | IFAC |
2016 - Current | Applied Soft Computing | |
2015 - Current | IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems | |
2013 - Current | Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems |
Association member
Society Organization name | Role | |
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2022/01 - Current | Associação Portuguesa de Controlo Automático | Membro 209 |
Conference scientific committee
Conference name | Conference host | |
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2022/02 - Current | CONTROLO’2022, the 15th International Conference on Automatic Control and Soft Computing | Portuguese Association on Automatic Control |
2018 - Current | Mediterranean Conference on Control & Automation | |
2017 - Current | IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications | |
2017 - Current | IEEE Conference on Decision and Control | |
2017 - Current | IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems | |
2017 - Current | International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS) | |
2015 - Current | American Control Conference | |
2014 - Current | European Control Conference | |
2013/02 - Current | IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles |
Interview (newspaper / magazine)
Activity description | Newspaper / Forum | |
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2022/09 | Edição n.º 19 | MEAer na 1.ª Pessoa: Entrevista a Pedro Lourenço | Revista Aeroespacial |
Distinctions
Award
2020 | Best National PhD Thesis on Robotics Award by the SPR
Sociedade Portuguesa de Robótica, Portugal
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Other distinction
2013 | IST Merit Award
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2012 | PhD Grant
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
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