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Identificação

Identificação pessoal

Nome completo
Manuel Côrte-Real de Matos Fernandes

Nomes de citação

  • Fernandes, Manuel C.R.M.

Identificadores de autor

Ciência ID
3819-3691-B535
ORCID iD
0000-0003-2322-8182

Endereços de correio eletrónico

  • manuel.crm.fernandes@gmail.com (Professional)
  • mcrmf@fe.up.pt (Professional)

Domínios de atuação

  • Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics - Automation and Control Systems
Formação
Grau Classificação
2019/02/11 - 2024/01
Ongoing
 Engenharia Eletrotécnica e de Computadores (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2013/09 - 2018/07
Concluded
 Engenharia Eletrotécnica e de Computadores (Mestrado integrado)
Especialização em Energia
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
"Airborne Wind Energy Systems: Modelling, Simulation and Economic Analysis" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)
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Percurso profissional

Science

Categoria Profissional
Instituição de acolhimento 		Empregador
2019/04/08 - 2021/03/31 Researcher (Research) Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Sistemas e Tecnologias, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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Teaching in Higher Education

Categoria Profissional
Instituição de acolhimento 		Empregador
2021/10/18 - Atual Invited Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Projetos

Contract

Designação Financiadores
2023/03/01 - 2026/02/28 UPWind-ATOL: Sistema Aéreo de Energia Eólica com capacidade de Decolagem e Aterragem Automáticas
2022.02801.PTDC
10.54499/2022.02801.PTDC
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Economia, Portugal

Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2023/03/01 - 2024/08/31 Algoritmos para Optimização e Configuração de Parques Eólicos com Kites.
10.54499/2022.02320.PTDC
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2019 - 2022/04/30 Sistema de Aproveitamento de Energia Eólica a grande altitude através de Conjuntos de Asas Flexíveis (UPWIND)
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-031447 -
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-031447 -
PTDC/EEI-AUT/31447/2017
Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
Produções

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Rui Carvalho da Costa; Luís A. C. Roque; Luís Tiago Paiva; Manuel C. R. M. Fernandes; Dalila B. M. M. Fontes; Fernando A. C. C. Fontes. "Airborne Wind Energy Farms: Layout Optimization Combining NSGA–II and BRKGA". 2025.
    10.1007/978-3-031-81010-7_18
  2. Vinha, Sérgio; Fernandes, Gabriel M.; Fernandes, Manuel C.R.M.; Huu Thien Nguyen ; Fontes, Fernando A. C. C.. Corresponding author: Vinha, Sérgio. "Circular Take-off and Landing Maneuvers in Fixed-Wing Tethered Aircraft". In Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering - ICINCO2024. Springer, 2025.
    In press
  3. Fernandes, Manuel C. R. M.; Paiva, Luís Tiago; Fontes, Fernando A. C. C.. "Optimal Path and Path-Following Control in Airborne Wind Energy Systems". In Advances in Evolutionary and Deterministic Methods for Design, Optimization and Control in Engineering and Sciences, 409-421. Springer International Publishing, 2020.
    10.1007/978-3-030-57422-2_26
Conference abstract
  1. da Costa, Rui Carvalho; Luís A.C. Roque; Luís Tiago de Freixo Ramos Paiva; Fernandes, Manuel C.R.M.; Fontes, Dalila B.M.M.; Fernando A. C. C. Fontes. "A Multi–Objective Metaheuristic Applied to the Airborne Wind Energy Farm Layout Problem". Trabalho apresentado em INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON OPTIMIZATION AND LEARNING (OLA2024), 2024.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Fernandes, Gabriel M.; Vinha, Sérgio; Fernandes, Manuel C.R.M.; Fontes, Fernando A. C. C.. Corresponding author: Fernandes, Gabriel M.. "Control of Circular Take-off in Tethered Aircraft Under Wind". Trabalho apresentado em 11th IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design (ROCOND’25), Porto, 2025.
    Submitted
  2. Vinha, Sérgio; Fernandes, Manuel C.R.M.; Fontes, Fernando A. C. C.. Corresponding author: Vinha, Sérgio. "Motion primitives on a spherical surface with application to tethered aircraft guidance". Trabalho apresentado em 23rd European Control Conference (ECC25), Thessaloniki, 2025.
    Submitted
  3. Vinha, Sérgio; Fernandes, Gabriel M.; Fernandes, Manuel C.R.M.; Huu Thien Nguyen ; Fontes, Fernando A. C. C.. Corresponding author: Vinha, Sérgio. "Control of Fixed-Wing Tethered Aircraft in Circular Take-off and Landing Maneuvers". Trabalho apresentado em 21st International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), Porto, 2024.
    Accepted
  4. da Costa, Rui Carvalho; Fernandes, Manuel C.R.M.; Luís A.C. Roque; Luís Tiago Paiva. "Improving Power Smoothing of Airborne Wind Energy Farms by Sizing an Energy Storage System". Trabalho apresentado em CONTROLO’24 - Proceedings of the 16th APCA International Conference on Automatic Control and Soft Computing, Porto, 2024.
    In press
  5. Huu Thien Nguyen ; Fernandes, Manuel C.R.M.; Prodan, Ionela; Fontes, Fernando A. C. C.. Corresponding author: Huu Thien Nguyen. "Trajectory Optimization for a Four In-wheel Motor Vehicle in Double Lane Change Maneuver". Trabalho apresentado em CONTROLO 2024, Porto, 2024.
    Accepted
  6. Fernandes, Manuel C.R.M.; Fontes, Fernando A.C.C.. "A Path-Following Guidance Method for Nonholonomic Vehicles with a Large Domain of Attraction for Straight and Curved Paths". Trabalho apresentado em 2024 European Control Conference (ECC), 2024.
    10.23919/ecc64448.2024.10590773
  7. Vinha, Sérgio; Fernandes, Gabriel; Huu Thien Nguyen ; Fernandes, Manuel C.R.M.; Fontes, Fernando A. C. C.. Corresponding author: Vinha, Sérgio. "Automatic Circular Take-off and Landing of Tethered Motorized Aircraft". Trabalho apresentado em 22nd European Control Conference (ECC), Stockholm, 2024.
    Submitted
  8. Vinha, Sérgio; Fernandes, Gabriel M.; Huu Thien Nguyen ; Fernandes, Manuel C.R.M.; Fontes, Fernando A. C. C.. Corresponding author: Vinha, Sérgio. "Automatic Circular Take-off and Landing of Motorized Tethered Aircraft". Trabalho apresentado em 22nd European Control Conference (ECC), Stockholm, 2024.
    10.23919/ecc64448.2024.10590893
  9. da Costa, Rui Carvalho; Luís A.C. Roque; Luís Tiago Paiva; Fernandes, Manuel C.R.M.; Fontes, Dalila B.M.M.; Fontes, Fernando A. C. C.; Luís Augusto Correia Roque. "Airborne Wind Energy Farms: Layout Optimization combining NSGA–II and BRKGA (extended version)". Trabalho apresentado em DIS’24 – 7th International Conference on the Dynamics of Information Systems Proceedings, Porto, 2024.
    In press
  10. Rui Carvalho da Costa; Luís Augusto Correia Roque; Luís Tiago Paiva; Fernandes, Manuel C.R.M.; Fontes, Dalila B.M.M.; Fontes, Fernando A. C. C.. "Airborne Wind Energy Farms: Layout Optimization combining NSGA-II and BRKGA". Trabalho apresentado em Conference on the Dynamics of Information Systems, Kalamata, 2024.
    Submitted
  11. Fernandes, Gabriel M.; Vinha, Sérgio; Fernandes, Manuel C.R.M.; Fontes, Fernando A. C. C.. Corresponding author: Fernandes, Gabriel M.. "Automatic Circular Take-off and Landing of Self-Propelled Kite". Trabalho apresentado em 10th international Airborne Wind Energy Conference (AWEC 2024), Madrid, 2024.
    Published
  12. Fernandes, Manuel C.R.M.; Paiva, Luís Tiago; Fontes, Fernando A.C.C.. "A Model Predictive Control Scheme to Improve Performance of a Path-Following Controller for Airborne Wind Energy Systems". Trabalho apresentado em 21st IFAC World Congress, Berlim, 2020.
    Published
  13. Fernandes, Manuel C.R.M.; Luís Tiago Paiva; Fontes, Fernando A.C.C.. "Numerical Computation of Optimal Path and Path-Following Control in Airborne Wind Energy Systems". Trabalho apresentado em EUROGEN, Guimarães, 2019.
    Published
  14. Fernandes, Manuel C. R. M.; Silva, Gonçalo B.; Paiva, Luís Tiago; Fontes, Fernando A. C. C.. "A Trajectory Controller for Kite Power Systems with Wind Gust Handling Capabilities". Trabalho apresentado em 15th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, Porto, 2018.
    Published • 10.5220/0006914205330540
Conference poster
  1. Rui Carvalho da Costa; Luís A.C. Roque; Luís Tiago Paiva; Fernandes, Manuel C.R.M.; Fontes, Dalila B.M.M.; Fontes, Fernando A. C. C.. Corresponding author: Rui Carvalho da Costa. "Energy Storage System Sizing within a Power Smoothing Strategy for Airborne Wind Energy Farms". Trabalho apresentado em Airborne Wind Energy Conference 2024, 2024.
  2. Huu Thien Nguyen ; Vinha, Sérgio; Fernandes, Manuel C.R.M.; Luís Tiago Paiva; Fontes, Fernando A.C.C.. Corresponding author: Huu Thien Nguyen. "An Optimal Control and Reinforcement Learning Approach with Multi-Fidelity Simulation Models for Motion Control of Four in-Wheel Motor Vehicles". Trabalho apresentado em 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2023.
  3. Fernandes, Manuel C.R.M.; Paiva, Luís Tiago; Fontes, Fernando A.C.C.. "Heading Angle Control for Path-following Guidance in a Pumping Kite Generator". Trabalho apresentado em Airborne Wind Energy Conference 2019, 2019.
    10.2514/6.2002-4451
  4. Fernandes, Manuel C.R.M.; Paiva, Luís Tiago; Fontes, Fernando A.C.C.. "Optimal Path and Path–Following Control of Airborne Wind Energy Systems". Trabalho apresentado em Portuguese Meeting on Optimal Control - EPCO 2019, 2019.
Journal article
  1. da Costa, Rui Carvalho; Fernandes, Manuel C.R.M.; Luís A.C. Roque; Luís Tiago Paiva; Fontes, Dalila B.M.M.; Fontes, Fernando A. C. C.. "Airborne Wind Energy Farms Layout: Synchronization Strategies for Power Smoothing". Optimization Letters (2025):
    Submitted
  2. Fernandes, Manuel C. R. M.; Vinha, Sérgio; Paiva, Luís Tiago; Fontes, Fernando A. C. C.. "L0 and L1 Guidance and Path-Following Control for Airborne Wind Energy Systems". Energies 15 4 (2022): 1390. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en15041390.
    10.3390/en15041390
  3. Uppal, Ali Arshad; Fernandes, Manuel C. R. M.; Vinha, Sérgio; Fontes, Fernando A. C. C.. "Cascade Control of the Ground Station Module of an Airborne Wind Energy System". Energies 14 24 (2021): 8337. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en14248337.
    10.3390/en14248337
  4. Roque, Luís A.C.; Paiva, Luís Tiago; Fernandes, Manuel C.R.M.; Fontes, Dalila B.M.M.; Fontes, Fernando A.C.C.. "Layout optimization of an airborne wind energy farm for maximum power generation". Energy Reports 6 (2020): 165-171. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.egyr.2019.08.037.
    Published • 10.1016/j.egyr.2019.08.037
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Fernandes, Manuel. "Airborne Wind Energy Systems: Modelling, Simulation and Economic Analysis". Master, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, 2018.
Atividades

Oral presentation

Título da apresentação Nome do evento
Anfitrião (Local do evento)
2025/07/01 Oral presentation in Doctoral Congress in Engineering 25 - DCE25 in the context of Venture Scientists symposium with the title "UPWIND - Wind Generator Providing Clean, Portable, and Affordable Electricity Anywhere" DCE25 - Doctoral Congress in Engineering
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2024/04/26 Simplified Optimal Path–Planning for Airborne Wind Energy Systems AWEC24 - Airborne Wind Energy Conference 2024
Universidad Carlos iii Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
2023/05/24 A Combined Path-Following and Model Predictive Control Scheme for kite trajectory control in Airborne Wind Energy Systems Wind Energy Science Conference 2023
University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, United Kingdom)
2021/06/28 Path-Following Model Predictive Control Scheme for Airborne Wind Energy Systems DCE21 - Doctoral Congress in Engineering
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2021/06/28 Model Predictive Control Scheme to Improve Performance of a Guidance Logic Controller for Trajectory Tracking EPCO 2021 - Portuguese Meeting on Optimal Control
FCT NOVA (Lisbon, Portugal)
2020/12/14 Airborne Wind Energy: UPWIND Project EAWE PhD Seminar 2020
European Academy of Wind Energy (Porto, Portugal)
2020/07/11 A ModelPredictive Control Scheme to Improve Performance of a Path-FollowingController for Airborne Wind Energy Systems IFAC World Congress 2020
International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) (Berlim, Germany)
2019/09/12 Numerical Computation of Optimal Path and Path-Following Control in Airborne Wind Energy Systems EUROGEN 2019
European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS) (Guimarães, Portugal)
2019 Layout Optimization of an Airborne Wind Energy Farm for Maximum Power Generation 6th International Conference on Energy and Environment Research (ICEER 2019)
Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)

Event participation

Descrição da atividade
Tipo de evento 		Nome do evento
Instituição / Organização
2025/07/02 - 2025/07/04 Participation in joint LPVS25 - Linear Parameter Varying Systems Workshop and ROCOND25 - 11th Symposium on Robust Control Design and oral presentations entitled "Control of Circular Take-off in Tethered Aircraft Under Wind" and "Varying L0 Path-Following Guidance for Airborne Wind Energy Systems"
Conference
 11th IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design (ROCOND’25)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2025/05/12 - 2025/05/16 Intensive week long course on Scenario Optimization entitled "Dissipativity in Optimal Control - Turnpikes, Predictive Control, and Uncertainty" within EECI 2025 International Graduate School on Control. The course was taught by Prof. Lars Grune (University of Bayreuth) and Prof. Timm Faulwasser (TU Hamburg).
Workshop
European Embedded Control Institute (EECI), France

Université Paris-Saclay, France
2023/05/23 - 2023/05/25 Participation in the 2023 Wind Energy Science Conference held in the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.
Conference
 Wind Energy Science Conference 2023
University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
2023/03/06 - 2023/03/10 Intensive week long course on Model Predictive Control entitled "Nonlinear and data-driven model predictive control" within EECI 2023 Internationa Graduate School on Control. The course was taught by Prof. Frank Allgower (University of Stuttgart) and Prof. Matthias Muller (Leibniz University Hannover).
Workshop
 EECI - International Graduate School on Control
European Embedded Control Institute (EECI), France
2021/06/28 - 2021/06/29 Portuguese Meeting on Optimal Control (EPCO 2021), a conference organized by FCT NOVA tackling Optimal Control.
Conference
 EPCO 2021 - Portuguese Meeting on Optimal Control
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2021/06/28 - 2021/06/29 A Congress held by FEUP in order for PhD students and young researchers in engineering to present their work.
Congress
 DCE21 - Doctoral Congress in Engineering
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2021/02/08 - 2021/02/12 Intensive week long course on Scenario Optimization entitled "From Data to Decisions: the Scenario Approach (with Applications to Systems, Control and Machine Learning" within EECI 2021 Internationa Graduate School on Control. The course was taught by Prof. Marco Campi (University of Brescia) and Prof. Simone Garatti (Politecnico di Milano).
Seminar
 INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE SCHOOL ON CONTROL (IGSC)
European Embedded Control Institute (EECI), France
2021/02/01 - 2021/02/05 Intensive course on Learning-Based Predictive Control taught by Prof. Melanie Zeilinger (ETH Zurich), Prof. Lorenzo Fagiano (Politecnico di Milano) and Prof. Lukas Hewing (ETH Zurich) within the EECI - International Graduate School on Control (IGSC)
Seminar
 INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE SCHOOL ON CONTROL (IGSC)
European Embedded Control Institute (EECI), France
2020/07/11 - 2020/07/17 Participation in IFAC World Congress 2020.
Conference
 IFAC World Congress 2020
International Federation of Automatic Control, Austria
2019/11/18 - 2019/11/20 Workshop on CasADi which is an open-source tool for nonlinear optimization and algorithmic differentiation. The workshop took place in Hasselt, Belgium, from the 18th to the 20th of November of 2019, and covered Newton-type methods for constrained nonlinear programming, direct transcription optimal control problems and model predictive control using CasADi. The tutor was Joris Gillis from Yacoda.
Workshop
 Hands-on CasADi course on optimal control
Yacoda, Belgium
2019/10/15 - 2019/10/16 Participation in Airborne Wind Energy Conference 2019 hosted by the University of Strathclyde. Poster presentation.
Conference
 Airborne Wind Energy Conference 2019
University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
2019/09/12 - 2019/09/14 Paricipation in the EUROGEN 2019 conference hosted by Universidade do Minho.
Conference
 EUROGEN 2019 - 13th International Conference on Evolutionary and Deterministic Computing for Industrial Applications
Universidade do Minho - Campus de Azurém, Portugal
2019/07/22 - 2019/07/24 Participation in the 6th International Conference on Energy and Environment Recearch (ICEER 2019) hosted by the University of Aveiro.
Conference
 6th International Conference on Energy and Environment Research (ICEER 2019)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2019/06/25 - 2019/06/25 Participation in Portuguese Meeting on Optimal Control (EPCO 2019) hosted by the University of Porto. Poster presentation.
Conference
 Portuguese Meeting on Optimal Control (EPCO 2019)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Disciplina Curso (Tipo) Instituição / Organização
2025/02/10 - 2025/07/11 Mathematical Analysis 2 course in Electrical and Computers Engineering Bachelor degree in FEUP. Mathematical Analysis 2 (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2024/09/01 - 2025/02/07 Algebra course in Electrical and Computers Engineering Bachelor degree in FEUP. Algebra (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2024/02/05 - 2024/07/03 Mathematical Analysis 2 course in Electrical and Computers Engineering Bachelor degree in FEUP. Mathematical Analysis 2 (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023/09/01 - 2024/02/01 Algebra course in Electrical and Computers Engineering Bachelor degree in FEUP. Algebra (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023/02/01 - 2023/07/01 Probability and Statistics course in Electrical and Computer Engineering Bachelor degree in FEUP. Probability and Statistics (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2022/09/01 - 2023/02/01 Algebra course in Electrical and Computer Engineering Bachelor Degree in FEUP. Algebra (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2021/10/18 - 2022/07/16 Probability and Statistics course in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Bachelor Degree in FEUP Probability and Statistics Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal