Olga Maria de Sousa Contente (641C-3078-FFC7)

Curriculum Vitae

Olga Maria de Sousa Contente

Olga Contente is an Adjunct Professor at Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, Portugal. She got her Mechanical Engineering degree from Higher Technical Institute of Lisbon, Lisbon University, in 1991, a MSc degree in Systems and Automation from Coimbra University, in 2003 and the PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro University in 2017. Her research interests include Path planning, Mapping and Skeletonization in vineyard agricultural fields, Automation and Control, Pneumatic systems and Simulation. Olga is the author of some publications in international conferences and journals.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Olga Maria de Sousa Contente
Date of birth: 1966/06/01
Gender: Female

Citation names

Contente, Olga

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 641C-3078-FFC7
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1551-9791

Email addresses

olgacontente@gmail.com (Personal)

Telephones

Telephone

232480500 Ext.: 46 (Professional)

Addresses

Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão de Viseu. Campus Politecnico de Repezes, 3504-510, VISEU, VISEU, Portugal (Professional)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2017 Concluded	Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Doutoramento) Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal "Navegação Autónoma em Terreno vinhateiro ( Autonomous navigation on vineyard land)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Muito bom por unanimidade
2003 Concluded	Mestrado em Sistemas de Automação (Mestrado) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal "Controlo Difuso de um Manipulador pneumático (Fuzzy Control of a Pneumatic Manipulator)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Muito bom
1991 Concluded	Engenharia Mecânica (Licenciatura) Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal "Controlo do deslocamento de um robot" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Treze Valores

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2018/01/01 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Instituto Politécnico de Viseu Centro de Investigação em Serviços Digitais, Portugal
	Instituto Politécnico de Viseu Centro de Investigação em Serviços Digitais, Portugal
2012 - 2021/12/31	Researcher (Research)	IEETA - Instituto de Engenharia Electrónica e Telemática de Aveiro, Portugal
	IEETA - Instituto de Engenharia Electrónica e Telemática de Aveiro, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2008/03/01 - Current	Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher)	Instituto Politécnico de Viseu Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão de Viseu, Portugal
	Instituto Politécnico de Viseu Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão de Viseu, Portugal
1993/02/01 - 2008/03/30	Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher)	Instituto Politécnico de Viseu Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão de Viseu, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
1991/03/01 - 1993/02/28	Estagiários (de Integração) na Direcção de Investigação e Desenvolvimento	SOREFAME- Sociedades reunidas de Fabricações Metálicas, Portugal
	SOREFAME- Sociedades reunidas de Fabricações Metálicas, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
1992/01/01 - 1993/02/28	ESPRIT III Project - ROPROG, contract nº 6661 6661 Research Fellow Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Tecnologia Industrial, Portugal	Concluded
1991/03/01 - 1991/12	BRITE/EURAM - TRAINCOL Advanced Design of Crash Fail-Safe Structures Under Service and Impact Conditions BERU-CT-90 (SMA) Research Fellow SOREFAME- Sociedades reunidas de Fabricações Metálicas, Portugal	Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2021/04/01 - 2023/06/30	PP21 - Pilot project for the economic-valorisation of Pinus pinea cones and pine-nut in the Central Region of Portugal PP21 Researcher Instituto Politécnico de Viseu Escola Superior Agrária de Viseu, Portugal	Concluded
2021/03/01 - 2023/06/30	AgroSafeBox - Intelligent Alert System for AgroVehicles Rollover and Driver Safety CENTRO-01-0247-FEDER-047199 Principal investigator Instituto Politécnico de Viseu, Portugal	Concluded

Other

	Designation	Funders
2023/01/05 - 2023/06/30	Inovc+- ecossistema da inovação inteligente da região centro (PineaTech - Technological assembly for peeling Pinus pinea pine nuts) PineaTech Principal investigator Instituto Politécnico de Viseu Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão de Viseu, Portugal	Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book	Contente, O.; Lau, N.; Morgado, F.; Morais, R.. A path planning application for a mountain vineyard autonomous robot. 2016. 10.1007/978-3-319-27146-0_27 Reis, M.J.C.S.; Morais, R.; Pereira, C.; Contente, O.; Bacelar, M.; Soares, S.; Valente, A.; et al. A low-cost system to detect bunches of grapes in natural environment from color images. 2011. 10.1007/978-3-642-23687-7_9
Book chapter	Contente, O.; Aranha, J.; Martinho, J.; Morgado, J.F.M.; Reis, M.; Ferreira, P.J.; Morais, R.; Lau, N.. "3D map and DGPS validation for a vineyard autonomous navigation system". 2015. 10.1007/978-3-319-10380-8_59 Contente, Olga; Aranha, José; Martinho, José; Morgado, José Francisco; Reis, Manuel; Fereira, Paulo; Morais, Raul; Lau, Nuno. "3D Map and DGPS Validation for a Vineyard Autonomous Navigation System". Springer International Publishing, 2015. 10.1007/978-3-319-10380-8_59
Conference paper	Contente, Olga; José Nuno Panelas Nunes Lau; Albuquerque, Daniel; Soares, Beatriz. Corresponding author: Contente, Olga. "Real-Time Drowsiness Detection and Healt Status System in Agricultural Vehicles Using Artificial Intelligence". Paper presented in Sixth Iberian Robotics Conference (ROBOT 2023), Coimbra, 2023. Published Francisco José Matias Marques (0115-B0E0-9048); Adelino Trindade (CC17-83AF-FDF3); Daniel Filipe Albuquerque (2C16-91D6-5F09; Henrique Silva (4B16-1261-9AA4); Contente, Olga. Corresponding author: Francisco José Matias Marques (0115-B0E0-9048). "Análise de dados provenientes de uma unidade inercial instalada num trator (Analysis of data from an inertial unit installed on a tractor)". Paper presented in IV CNESA - Congresso Nacional das Escolas Superiores Agrárias, Santarem, 2022. Published Adelino Trindade (CC17-83AF-FDF3); Daniel Filipe Albuquerque (2C16-91D6-5F09; Francisco José Matias Marques (0115-B0E0-9048); Silva, Henrique Pereira da; Contente, Olga. Corresponding author: Adelino Trindade (CC17-83AF-FDF3). "Estabilidade estática e dinâmica de um trator (Static and dynamic stability of a tractor)". Paper presented in VI Congresso de Engenharia de Moçambique, Maputo, Maputo, 2022. Published Contente, O.; Lau, N.; Morgado, F.; Morais, R.. "Vineyard skeletonization for autonomous robot navigation". 2015. 10.1109/ICARSC.2015.16 Filipe Neves Santos; Héber Miguel Sobreira; Campos,D; Raul Morais; António Paulo Moreira; Contente,O. "Towards a Reliable Monitoring Robot for Mountain Vineyards". 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icarsc.2015.21 Contente, Olga. "3D Digital Maps for Vineyard Autonomous Robot Navigation". 2013.
Journal article	Contente, Olga. "Towards a Reliable Monitoring Robot for Mountain Vineyards". JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT & ROBOTIC SYSTEMS 83 3-4 (2016): 429-444. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10846-016-0340-5. Open access • Published • 10.1109/ICARSC.2015.21 Reis, M.J.C.S.; Morais, R.; Peres, E.; Pereira, C.; Contente, O.; Soares, S.; Valente, A.; et al. "Automatic detection of bunches of grapes in natural environment from color images". Journal of Applied Logic 10 4 (2012): 285-290. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84869501800&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.jal.2012.07.004
Thesis / Dissertation	Contente, Olga Maria de Sousa. "Navegação autónoma em terreno vinhateiro (Autonomous navigation in vineyard land)". PhD, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10348/7653. Contente, Olga Maria de Sousa. "Controlo difuso de um manipulador pneumático (Fuzzy control of a pneumatic manipulator)". Master, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/13986.

Other

Other output

Towards a Reliable Robot for Steep Slope Vineyards Monitoring. Develop ground robots for crop monitoring and harvesting in steep slope vineyards is a complex challenge. Because of two main reasons: harsh condition of the terrain and unstable localization accuracy got from Global Positioning Systems (GPS). This paper presents a hybrid SLAM (VineSLAM) considering low cost landmarks to increase the robot localization accuracy, robustness and redundancy on these. 2016. Filipe Neves Santos; Héber Miguel Sobreira; Campos,D; Raul Morais; António Paulo Moreira; Contente,O. http://repositorio.inesctec.pt/handle/123456789/5052.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10846-016-0340-5
Automatic detection of bunches of grapes in natural environment from color images. 2012. José Batista; António Valente; Salviano Soares; Olga Contente; Raul Morais; Emanuel Peres Correia; M.J.C.S. Reis; et al. http://repositorio.inesctec.pt/handle/123456789/5994.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2015/11/20	A Path Planning Application for a Mountain Vineyard Autonomous Robot	Second Iberian Robotics Conference: Advances in Robotics (Lisboa, Portugal)
2015/04/09	Vineyard Skeletonization for Autonomous Robot Navigation	2015 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC) (Vila Real, Portugal)
2014/04/21	3D Map and DGPS Validation for a Vineyard Autonomous Navigation System	11th Portuguese Conference on Automatic Control (Porto, Portugal)
2013/09/11	3D Digital Maps for Vineyard Autonomous Robot Navigation	EPIA 2013 - XVI Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (Angra-do-Heroísmo, Portugal)
2010/06/28	Educational Project for an Electro-Pneumatic Gantry (X.Y,Z)	15th Annual Conference of the European Learning Styles Information Network (Aveiro, Portugal)