Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- António Pedro Rodrigues Aguiar
Citation names
- Aguiar, A. Pedro
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 5A12-D5FE-1632
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-7105-0505
- Google Scholar ID
- lfUIokEAAAAJ&hl
- Researcher Id
- L-4305-2014
- Scopus Author Id
- 57198777432
Email addresses
- pedro.aguiar@fe.up.pt (Professional)
Addresses
- Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto. Dept. Eng. Electrotecnica e de Computadores, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n , 4200-465 , Porto, Porto, Portugal (Professional)
Websites
- https://sigarra.up.pt/feup/pt/func_geral.formview?p_codigo=519521 (Professional)
- https://paginas.fe.up.pt/~apra/ (Personal)
- https://scholar.google.pt/citations?user=lfUIokEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra (Scholar)
Knowledge fields
- Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics - Automation and Control Systems
- Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics - Robotics and Automatic Control
- Exact Sciences - Mathematics - Applied Mathematics
- Engineering and Technology - Mechanical Engineering - Aerospace Engineering
- Engineering and Technology - Environmental Engineering - Marine Engineering, Sea Vessels
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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Portuguese | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | |
English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2017/01/06
Concluded
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Habilitation - Electrical and Computer Engineering (Título de Agregado)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
"Cooperative Navigation and Motion Control of Multiple Autonomous Robotic Vehicles" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2002
Concluded
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PHD Program in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"Nonlinear Motion Control of Nonholonomic and Underactuated Systems" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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1998
Concluded
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MSC Program in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"Modeling, Control, and Guidance of an Autonomous Underwater Shuttle for the Transport of Benthic Laboratories" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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1994/07/30
Concluded
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Licenciatura (5-year university degree) Electrical and Computer Engineering (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2013/01 - Current | Researcher (Research) | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal |
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Sistemas e Tecnologias, Portugal | ||
2005/07/01 - 2012/12 | Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal |
2004/05 - 2005/06 | Contracted Researcher (Research) | University of California Santa Barbara, United States |
2002/05/01 - 2004/04 | Postdoc (Research) | University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, United States |
Teaching in Higher Education
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2021/11 - Current | Full Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal |
2012/09/15 - 2021/11 | Associate Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal |
2006/09/15 - 2012/09/14 | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
Positions / Appointments
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2022/07/08 - Current | Organic Unit Director | Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Sistemas e Tecnologias, Portugal |
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal | ||
2022/07 - Current | Director of ARISE - Advanced Production and Intelligent Systems Associate Laboratory | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal |
2022/06 - Current | Director of ISR Porto - Institute of Systems and Robotics | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal |
2020 - Current | Member of the Scientific Committee of the Master of Data Science and Engineering | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal |
2019/09 - Current | Member of the Scientific Committee of the Doctoral Program in Applied Mathematics | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal |
2015 - Current | Member of the Executive Committee of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal |
2015 - Current | Head of the Cyber-Physical Control Systems and Robotics lab | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal |
2013 - 2019 | Director of the Master Course in Information Engineering | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2024/07 - Current | Effective Uptake of Digital Services to Repower European Consumers and Communities as Active Participants in Energy Transition
and Markets
EU-DREAM
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2024/03 - Current | Sound reconstruction and speech recognition based on a bio-inspired geometric model
2023.09597.CBM
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2023/09 - Current | OPENLABS: Open Pilot Labs Network of industrial laboratories for the digital and sustainable transformation of companies in
the Euroregion
0153_OPENLABS_1_E
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2022/10 - Current | CONNECT5
PRR - 766
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2021/04 - Current | MLDLCOV: Impact of COVID-19 lockdown measures on mobility, air pollution and macroeconomic indicators in Portugal: a Machine
Learning Approach
DSAIPA/CS/0086/2020
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
2021/02/01 - Current | RELIABLE: Advances in Control Design Methodologies for Safety Critical Systems Applied to Robotics
PTDC/EEI-AUT/3522/2020
Principal investigator
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2020/01 - Current | BugWright2: Autonomous Robotic Inspection and Maintenance on Ship Hulls and Storage Tanks
871260
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Horizon 2020
Ongoing
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2020/10 - 2023/11 | ATLANTIDA: Platform for the monitoring of the North Atlantic ocean and tools for the sustainable exploitation of the marine
resources
NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000040
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Comissao de Coordenacao e Desenvolvimento Regional do Norte
Concluded
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2020/10 - 2023/09 | Cooperative Autonomous Multi-Vehicle Mapping System
EEA.BG.CALL1.010.2019
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EEA Grants
Concluded
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2021/04 - 2023/06 | SNAP: Sustainable Management and Control of Agro-Production Systems
NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000085
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Comissao de Coordenacao e Desenvolvimento Regional do Norte
Concluded
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2021/03 - 2023/06 | DynamiCITY: Fostering Dynamic Adaptation of Smart Cities to Cope with Crises and Disruptions
NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000073
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Comissao de Coordenacao e Desenvolvimento Regional do Norte
Concluded
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2020/07 - 2023/06 | Atlantic Sustainability Through Remote and Integrated In-situ Solutions
POCI-01-0247-FEDER-046092
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Concluded
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2018/03 - 2021/11 | EUMR: Marine robotics research infrastructure network | Horizon 2020
Concluded
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2018/08 - 2021/07 | HARMONY: Distributed Optimal Control for Cyber-Physical Systems Applications
NORTE-01-0145- FEDER-031411
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2018/06 - 2021/05 | IMPROVE: Nonlinear control, estimation and fault-detection tools with provably guarantees for mobile robotic systems
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-031823
Principal investigator
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2018/06 - 2021/05 | MAGIC: Multi-Agent Control and Estimation for Multi-Horizon Goals Conciliation
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-032485
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2020/01/01 - 2020/12/31 | Advanced decision making for zero defects manufacturing
20014 Zero Defects 4.0
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European Institute of Innovation & Technology |
2016/07 - 2020/12 | STRIDE: Smart Cyberphysical, Mathematical, Computational and Power Engineering Research for Disruptive Innovation in Production,
Mobility, Health, and Ocean Systems and Technologies
NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000033
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Comissao de Coordenacao e Desenvolvimento Regional do Norte
Concluded
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2016/06 - 2019/10 | TOCCATA: Theory, Applications and Numerics of Optimal Control
P2020-COMPETE - PTDC/EEI- AUT/2933/2014 - POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016858
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2016/01 - 2019/04 | MARINFO: Integrated Platform for Marine Data Acquisition and Analysis
NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000031
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Comissao de Coordenacao e Desenvolvimento Regional do Norte
Concluded
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2015/01 - 2019/03 | MARINE-UAS: Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Systems for Marine and Coastal Monitoring | EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Concluded
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2015/09 - 2017/03 | Networked Ocean: Networked ocean and air vehicles for communications and data collection in remote oceanic areas
PT02-Aviso4-0016
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EEA Grants
Concluded
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2013/09 - 2016/08 | SUNRISE: Sensing, monitoring and actuating on the UNderwater world through a federated Research InfraStructure Extending the Future Internet | European Commission Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development International Cooperation
Concluded
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2012/02 - 2016/01 | Seagull: Sistemas inteligentes de suporte ao conhecimento situacional marítimo baseados em veículos aéreos não tripulados | Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
Concluded
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2012/02 - 2016/01 | MORPH: Marine robotic system of self-organizing, logically linked physical nodes | European Commission Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development International Cooperation
Concluded
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2012/03 - 2015/06 | NETMAR: Networked systems for situational awareness and intervention in maritime incidents
2011-1/176
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European Commission
Concluded
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2011/04 - 2015/06 | NOPTILUS: Autonomous, Self-Learning, Optimal and Complete Underwater Systems
EU-FP7-INFSO- ICT-270180
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European Commission Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development International Cooperation
Concluded
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2011/08 - 2014/08 | Degenerate elliptic and parabolic equations and its applications to front propagation | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
2011/03 - 2014/08 | ATLAS - Advances in Terrain-based Localization of Autonomous Submersibles | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
2011/02 - 2014/07 | CONAV: Cooperative Navigation and Control of Multiple Autonomous Vehicles | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
2010/01 - 2012/12 | HIVCONTROL - Control based on dynamic modeling of HIV-1 infection for therapy design | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
2009/02 - 2012/01 | Co3-AUVs: Cooperative Cognitive Control for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles | European Commission
Concluded
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2007/10 - 2010/12 | NAV-Control: Development and Application of Advanced Nonlinear Control Techniques for the Coordination and Motion Control of a Network of Autonomous Vehicles | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
2007/09 - 2010/12 | DENO: DEvelopment of Nonlinear Observers | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
2006/11 - 2010/10 | FREESUBNET - Marie Curie Research Training Networks (RTN) - A European research network on key technologies for intervention
autonomous underwater vehicles
036186
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EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Concluded
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2006/06 - 2009/11 | GREX: Coordination and Control of Cooperating Heterogeneous Unmanned Systems in Uncertain Environments
EU-FP6-IST-035223
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European Commission
Concluded
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2006/07 - 2009/06 | VENUS: Virtual ExploratioN of Underwater Sites
EU-FP6-IST-034924
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European Commission
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
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Conference paper |
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Conference poster |
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Journal article |
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Other
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Activities
Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2021 - Current | Learning based reconfiguration and replanning for dynamic changing environment in heterogeneous multi-agent systems
Supervisor
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PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2021 - Current | Reinforcement Learning with Formal Guarantees by Design for Variable Impedance Control of Mobile Manipulators in unknow environments
Supervisor
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PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2021 - Current | Control and optimization results and methods for quantum systems
Supervisor
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PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2019/10 - Current | Autonomous Navigation, Learning and Control for Multirobot Systems
Supervisor of Matheus Ferreira dos Reis
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PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2019/11 - 2024/01 | Novel Methods for State Estimation and Control in Applications in Power Systems
Supervisor
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PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2023 - 2023 | Optimization and analysis of UAV fuselage for medical deliveries
Co-supervisor
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Master in Mechanical Engineering
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2023 - 2023 | Implementation of a Shared Control Strategy for Myoeletrically Controlled Transradial Prostheses
Supervisor
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Master in Bioengineering
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2023 - 2023 | Ultrasound-Based Instrument Tracking: Application to Fetoscopic Endoluminal Tracheal Occlusion
Supervisor
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Master in Bioengineering (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2023 - 2023 | Case management and process automation for digital public services
Supervisor
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Master in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2023 - 2023 | Deep Reinforcement Learning Methods for Cooperative Robotic Navigation
Supervisor
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Master in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2023 - 2023 | Drone Flock: Formation Control of micro aerial vehicles
Supervisor
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Master in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2018 - 2023 | Distributed Optimization Algorithms over Large-Scale Networks with Applications to Microgrids
Supervisor of Diyako Ghaderyan
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PhD in Applied Mathematics (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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2018 - 2023 | Weighted coupled cell networks and invariant synchrony patterns
Supervisor of Pedro Manuel Nunes Sequeira
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PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2022 - 2022 | Sensor fusion and mapping of a wheeled mobile robot using vision and Lidar
Supervisor of Carolina Inês Pilar Pereira Marques
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Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2022 - 2022 | RViz Based Simulation For Motion Control Of Swarm Robotics
Supervisor
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Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2022 - 2022 | Controlled Descent of an Overloaded Quadcopter Using Vision
Supervisor of João Pedro Vieira Pinhal
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Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2022 - 2022 | Computer Vision and explainable Reinforcement Learning applied to a self- driving following car
Supervisor
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Mestrado em Engenharia e Ciência de Dados (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2022 - 2022 | Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Navigation in Obstacle Scattered Environments
Co-supervisor of Francisco Soares Pinto da Silva Neves
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Master in Mechanical Engineering (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2020 - 2022 | Theoretical frameworks for analysis and resilient design of large-scale safety critical networked dynamical systems; Detection
and/or isolation of faulty and attacked sensor and actuator signals; Observability of large-scale systems; Consensus resilience.
Supervisor
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Post Doctoral (Other)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2018 - 2022 | Online range-based SLAM and active vision for robotic systems
Supervisor of Rômulo Teixeira Rodrigues
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PhD in Applied Mathematics (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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2021 - 2021 | Simultaneous Localization and Mapping for Mobile Wheeled Robotic Vehicles
Supervisor of Daniel Rodrigues de Morais
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Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2021 - 2021 | Process digitalization methodology: A case study at EFACEC Service Business Unit
Supervisor of Vasco Gradim Alves Amorim
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Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2021 - 2021 | Artificial Intelligence for Vineyard Trap Segmentation and Perspective Correction
Supervisor of João Filipe Alves Costa
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Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2021 - 2021 | Desenvolvimento de um sistema de monitorização e análise em tempo real de actividade neuronal utilizando um DSP
Supervisor of Afonso Maria da Cunha Reis dos Santos e Silva
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Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2021 - 2021 | Improving Lidar Odometry and Mapping in Real-time using Inertial Measurements
Supervisor of Elias Maia Azevedo Dias Ferreira
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Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2021 - 2021 | Development and implementation of a B-Spline motion planning framework for autonomous mobile robots
Supervisor of Paulo Alexandre Sousa Silva
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Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2019/05 - 2021 | Electrical Power and Control Systems
Supervisor of Hamed Moayyed
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Post Doctoral (Other)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2018/04 - 2021 | Inertial Navigation System, Adaptive Filtering, Estimation, Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
Supervisor of Narjes Davari
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Post Doctoral (Other)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2016 - 2020/02 | Autonomous aerial imagery analysis in maritime surveillance scenarios
Co-supervisor of Gonçalo Charters Santos Cruz
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PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2020 - 2020 | Simultaneous Localization and Mapping for Autonomous Mobile Robots
Supervisor of Ricardo Mário Ferreira de Freitas
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Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2020 - 2020 | Smartwatch-based drone navigation for inventory management assistance
Supervisor of João Pedro Domingues de Matos Gomes
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Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2018/04 - 2019/09 | Motion planning and control; autonomous mobile robots; GNC
Supervisor of Saurabh Upadhyay
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Post Doctoral (Other)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2019 - 2019/07 | Modelling and Control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Supervisor of Anuj Regmi
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Master of Science in Mechatronic Engineering (Master)
Politecnico di Torino, Italy
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2017/01 - 2019/07 | Decentralized Cooperative Control Methods for Multiple Mobile Robotic Vehicles
Supervisor of Ravinder Praveen Kumar Jain
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PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2019 - 2019 | Dynamics and Attitute Estimation and Control of a Spacecraft System
Supervisor of Diana Sofia Gaspar Almeida
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Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2019 - 2019 | Drone flock: formation control of multi-drones
Supervisor of João Pedro Marques Costa
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Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2019 - 2019 | Indústria 4.0: Colaboradores robóticos em cenários de logística
Supervisor of Lucas Santos Damas
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Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2014 - 2018/05 | Distributed State Estimation and Cooperative Path-Following Under Communication Constraints
Co-supervisor of Francisco Fernandes Castro Rego
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PhD Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD)
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
2016/05 - 2018/01 | Model Predictive Control; Economic Optimization
Supervisor of Andrea Alessandretti
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Post Doctoral (Other)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2017 - 2017 | Eyes in the sky: multi-drones surveillance technology
Supervisor of Francisco David Pereira da Silva
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Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2017 - 2017 | Coordinated control for unmanned aerial systems in maritime operations
Supervisor
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Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2014/08 - 2016/09 | Nonlinear optimal control; Trajectory optimization; Unmanned aerial vehicles
Supervisor of Alessandro Rucco
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Post Doctoral (Other)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2016 - 2016/07 | Automatic Landing Control Design for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Supervisor of José Joaquim Vergueiro de Sousa Pereira Osório
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Engenharia da Informação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2016 - 2016/07 | Distributed joint estimation and localization of heterogeneous agents
Supervisor of Ngoc Ha Tran
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Engenharia da Informação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2013 - 2016/04 | Moving Path Following Control System for Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Supervisor of Tiago Miguel Monteiro de Oliveira
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PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2012 - 2016/04 | Formation-Based Odour Source Localisation Using Distributed Terrestrial and Marine Robotic Systems
Supervisor of Jorge Miguel Dias Almeida Rodrigues Soares
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PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD)
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
2011 - 2016/03 | Continuous-time Model Predictive Control for Economic Optimization Theory, Design, and Applications to Motion Control of Underactuated
Vehicles
Supervisor of Andrea Alessandretti
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PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD)
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
2015 - 2015/09 | Illustrative 3D visualization of networked vehicles systems
Supervisor of Yekaterina Kirilyuk
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Engenharia da Informação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2015 - 2015/07 | Real-time unsupervised motion learning for autonomous underwater vehicles using gaussian mixture models
Supervisor of Abdolrahman Khoshrou
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Engenharia da Informação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2014/11 - 2015/05 | Distributed estimation; Minimum-energy filtering
Supervisor of Mohammad Zamani
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Post Doctoral (Other)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2009 - 2015/04 | Nonlinear Robust Adaptive State Estimation
Supervisor of Mohammadreza Bayat
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PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2011 - 2015/03 | Mission Planning for Multiple Cooperative Robotic Vehicles
Co-supervisor of Andreas Johannes Hausler
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PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2013 - 2014/11 |
Modeling and Simulation of Intermittent Acoustic Communication between Autonomous Marine Vehicles
Co-supervisor of Filipa Andreia Mesquita
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Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2014 - 2014/07 | Output selection for large scale structural systems: a matroid theory approach
Supervisor of Pedro Manuel Sabino Rocha
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Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2014 - 2014/07 | Cooperative motion control of a formation of UAVs
Supervisor of Rômulo Teixeira Rodrigues
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Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2009 - 2014/07 | A Structural Approach to Design, Analysis and Optimization of Large-Scale Dynamical Systems
Supervisor of Sérgio Daniel Gonçalves Melo Pequito
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PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2013 - 2013/07 | Cooperative navigation of multiple Marine Robotic Vehicles
Supervisor of Nuno Alberto Moreira Maia
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Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2013 - 2013/07 | Structural Hybrid Systems
Supervisor of Guilherme Henrique Caçador Ramos
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Matemática e Aplicações (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2011 - 2011/12 | Study of a Human-Robot Interactive System for Operations at Sea
Supervisor of Celina Isabel Bacalhau Gaião
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Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2011 - 2011/12 | Estimation of HIV-1 infection using multiple models
Supervisor of Nuno Henrique Casinha Cachão
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Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2011 - 2011/11 | Motion Control of Single and Multiple Autonomous Marine Vehicles
Supervisor of Jorge Miguel Dos Santos Pais Ribeiro
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Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2011 - 2011/10 | Robust and adaptive nonlinear attitude control of a spacecraft
Supervisor of Guilherme Fragoso Trigo
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Engenharia Aeroespacial (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2011 - 2011/07 | Development of a Computer-Diver Interface for Underwater Missions
Supervisor of Dino Enmanuel de Sousa Alves
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Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2011 - 2011/07 | Cooperative Navigation of Multiple Autonomous Underwater Vehicles with Logic Based Communication
Supervisor of André Filipe Santos Meira
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Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2011 - 2011/07 | Development of a test platform for multiple autonomous robotic vehicles
Supervisor of Pedro Miguel Ribeiro Góis
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Engenharia Electrónica (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico Campus Taguspark, Portugal
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2010 - 2010/12 | SailBot - Autonomous Marine Robot Of Eolic Propulsion
Supervisor of Carlos Manuel Moreira Alves
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Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2010 - 2010/11 | Cooperative Control of Multiple Marine Robots for Assisted Human Diving Operations
Supervisor of Tiago Filipe Baião Mestre
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Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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Association member
Society Organization name | Role | |
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1998/02/20 - Current | Ordem dos Engenheiros | |
1996/03/01 - Current | Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
Committee member
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
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2020/01 - Current | Member of the Scientific Committee of the Master of Data Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto
Member
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Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal |
2018 - Current | Member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Marine Systems; IFAC Technical Committee on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles; IFAC
Technical Committee on Aerospace; IFAC Technical Committee on Non-Linear Control Systems; IFAC Technical Committee on Discrete
Event and Hybrid Systems;
Member
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International Federation of Automatic Control, Austria |
2015/02 - Current | Member of the Executive Committee of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (DEEC), Faculty of Engineering,
University of Porto
Member
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Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal |
2013/01 - 2019/12 | Director of the Master Course in Information Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto
Director
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Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal |
Evaluation committee
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | Funding entity | |
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2017 - Current | Expert adviser for the euRobotics Georges Giralt PhD Award
Evaluator
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2015 - Current | Evaluator of more than 30 projects from Agencia Nacional de Inovacao (ANI)
Evaluator
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Agência Nacional de Inovação SA, Portugal | Agência Nacional de Inovação SA |
2010 - Current | Evaluator and Expert Reviewer of more than 50 projects from the European Commission (EC) (H2020, MSCA, ERC, FP7).
Evaluator
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European Commission, Belgium | European Commission |
2020 - 2020 | Member of the Evaluation Panel of the ETH Grant funding programme, ETH Zurich Research Commission
Evaluator
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2020 - 2020 | Expert adviser (Evaluator and Rapporteur) for the Research Council of Norway
Evaluator
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2019 - 2019 | Member of the Evaluation Panel of the FCT 2019 Call for PhD Scholarships, Scientific Field of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
2019 - 2019 | Expert adviser (Evaluator and Rapporteur) for the Research Council of Norway
Evaluator
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2019 - 2019 | Member of the Evaluation Panel for the Czech Science Foundation
Evaluator
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2017 - 2017 | Member of the Evaluation Panel of the FCT 2017 Call for PhD Scholarships and Post-doctoral fellowships, Scientific Field of
Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering
Evaluator
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
2017 - 2017 | Expert adviser (Evaluator and Rapporteur) for the Research Council of Norway (RCN)
Evaluator
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2017 - 2017 | Member of the Evaluation Panel for the Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research (MIUR), programme PRIN
Evaluator
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2016 - 2016 | Member of the Evaluation Panel of the FCT 2016 Call for PhD Scholarships and Post-doctoral fellowships, Scientific Field of
Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering
Evaluator
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
Journal scientific committee
Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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2020 - Current | IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (1939-9359) | IEEE |
2017 - Current | IEEE Control Systems Letters (2475-1456) | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
2011 - Current | Automatica (0005-1098) | Elsevier |
Distinctions
Other distinction
2024 | Scientific recognition award |
2023 | Scientific recognition award
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2022 | Scientific recognition award
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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2018 | Scientific recognition award |
2016 | Scientific recognition award |
2004 | Finalist of the Georges Giralt EURON PhD Thesis Award |
2002 | Postdoctoral Fellowship |
1996 | Doctoral Fellowship |
1994 | Master’s Fellowship |
1994 | Young Researcher Fellowship |
1993 | Young Researcher Fellowship |
1993 | Jobshop Siemens/Emptel Award |