Monica Ekal (631E-2530-3FDB)

Curriculum Vitae

Monica Ekal

Identification

Affiliation

	Category Host institution	Employer
2018/08 - 2019/01	Visiting Researcher (Research)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

2016/10 - 2017/03	Research Trainee (Research)	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

	Category Host institution	Employer
2020/02/01 - Current	PhD student	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Outputs

Conference paper

Ekal, Monica. "Towards an autonomous free-flying robot fleet for intra-vehicular transportation of loads in unmanned space stations". Paper presented in 69th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), 2018.
Ekal, Monica; Ventura, Rodrigo. "On Inertial Parameter Estimation of a Free-Flying Robot Grasping an Unknown Object". 2018.
10.1109/codit.2018.8394883
Ekal, Monica; Ventura, Rodrigo. "An energy balance based method for parameter identification of a free-flying robot grasping an unknown object". 2018.
10.1109/icarsc.2018.8374169

Activities

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2019/05	Combining Excitation Trajectories and Trajectory Optimization: Real-time Planning for Information Gain	15th Symposium on Advanced Space Technologies in Robotics and Automation (ASTRA 2019)

Distinctions

2018	Fully funded by an MIT Portugal Program seed project to spend a semester at MIT as a visting scholar
2016	Stood second in a class of 21 graduate students, including exchange students at Ecole Centrale de Nantes
2014	Received the Alliance Francaise scholarship for studies in France
2014	Received the Centrale Nantes Scholarship of excellence