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Tenured Assistant Research Professor (Investigador Auxiliar) at the Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR), Lisboa, Portugal. He has been involved in multiple national and EU funded projects such as RockEU2, SciRoc, SMAVNET, MBZIRC, DURABLE, AERO.Next and he was the principal investigator for two Eurobench projects MADROB and BEAST to create the first benchmarking framework for robotic systems in Europe and the CO-PI of PRR Aero.Next project. He has received several awards for his research work including the best paper award from IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). He was in the technical and organizing committee of the European Robotic League (ERL) since the beginning and has actively participated in the design and execution of more than 20 international competitions around the world in the domain of service robots. He was the team leader of the ISR team at the MBZIRC 2020 service robot competition winning challenge 3 with 250K USD prize. He holds a dual PhD in Robotics from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland and in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
MEYSAM BASIRI

Citation names

  • BASIRI, MEYSAM

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
A91B-D23C-4524
ORCID iD
0000-0002-8456-6284

Email addresses

  • meysam.basiri@tecnico.ulisboa.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • 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
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2)
French Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Persian (Mother tongue)
Education
Degree Classification
2016/02/01 - 2018/09/01
Concluded
 Mobile Service Robotics and Benchmarking Robot Systems (Pós-doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal
2015/01/15 - 2016/02/29
Concluded
 Aerial Robotics and Multi-robot systems (Pós-doutoramento)
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
2015/03/27
Concluded
 Robotics (Doctor of Philosophy)
Major in Localization and target tracking
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
"Audio-based Positioning and Target Localization for Swarms of Micro Aerial Vehicles" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Graduated with distinction
2015/03/20
Concluded
 Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Doutoramento)
Major in Robotics
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"Audio-based Positioning and Target Localization for Swarms of Micro Aerial Vehicles" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Aprovado com muito bom com distinção
2010
Concluded
 System, Control and Robotics (Mestrado)
KTH Royal Institute of Technology Centre for Autonomous Systems, Sweden
"Distributed Formation Control of Multiple Agents with Angle-Only Constraints" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Top graduate of the program
2007
Concluded
 Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Licenciatura)
Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran
"Multi-robot Localization based on Active Sonar System " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 n/a
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2018/09/01 - Current Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
(...)
2016/01/01 - 2018/02/01 Postdoc (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2015/01/01 - 2016/02/01 Postdoc (Research) École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
2010/06/01 - 2015/01/01 Contracted Researcher (Research) École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
2012 - 2013 Researcher (Research) Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia, Portugal
2008/05/01 - 2010/01/01 Researcher (Research) KTH Royal Institute of Technology Centre for Autonomous Systems, Sweden
2006/01/01 - 2007/06/01 Research Assistant (Research) Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2008/05/01 - 2009/05/01 Cognitive Systems that Self-Understand and Self-Extend
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/215181/EU
Master Student Fellow
KTH Royal Institute of Technology Centre for Autonomous Systems, Sweden
 European Commission
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2022/12/10 - Current Aero.Next Portugal - Enabling swarm technologies for Multi-drone systems
PRR 02/C05-I01/2022
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Governo da República Portuguesa

Commission Européenne Représentation au Luxembourg
Ongoing
2021/01/01 - 2025/12/31 LARSyS - Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia
LA/P/0083/2020
10.54499/LA/P/0083/2020
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal

Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2020/01/01 - 2023/12/31 Laboratory of Robotics and Engineering Systems
UIDP/50009/2020
10.54499/UIDP/50009/2020
Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal

Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação Tecnologia e Inovação, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2019/04/01 - 2022/03/30 DURABLE: Maintenance Drones and Robots to Enhance Renewable Energy Systems in the Atlantic Area
H2020 INTERREG ATLANTIC EAPA_986/2018, 2019-2022
Researcher
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
 European Regional Development Fund
Ongoing
2019/03/01 - 2021/03/01 EUROBENCH: MADROB - Modular Active Door for RObot Benchmarking
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/779963/EU
Principal investigator
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
 European Commission
2019/03/01 - 2021/01/01 EUROBENCH: BEAST - Benchmark-Enabling Active Shopping Trolley
779963
Principal investigator
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
 Horizon 2020
Ongoing
2018/02/01 - 2020/12/01 European Robotics League plus Smart Cities Robot Competitions
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/780086/EU
Researcher
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
 European Commission
Ongoing
2018/03/01 - 2020/03/01 MBZIRC: Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge
Supervisor
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
 Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge (MBZIRC)
Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia
UID/EEA/50009/2019
Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação Tecnologia e Inovação, Portugal

Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Ciência e Tecnologia do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2016/02 - 2018/02 RockEU2 - Robotics Coordination Action for Europe Two
H2020-ICT-2015-688441
Post-doc Fellow
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
 Horizon 2020
Concluded
2015/02/01 - 2016/02/01 Swarming Micro Air Vehicle Network: SMAVNET II
armasuisse
Post-doc Fellow
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
 armasuisse
Concluded
2010/09/01 - 2015/01/01 Audio-based Micro Air Vehicles (ABSMAV)
ABSMAV_ LIS EPFL
PhD Student Fellow
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Concluded
2013 - 2014 Enabling Technologies for Personal Aerial Transportation Systems (Mycopter)
266470
PhD Student Fellow
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
 European Commission Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. BASIRI, MEYSAM. Rulebook of the SCIROC smart city service robot challenge, 2019. Milton Keynes, United Kingdom: EC Sciroc Project Consortium. 2019.
    Published
  2. BASIRI, MEYSAM. Rulebook of the ERL Consumer Service Robots 2018-2019. Eu Robotics. 2018.
    Published
  3. BASIRI, MEYSAM. Rulebook of the European Robotics League Domestic Service Robots 2016-2017. 2017.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Bento, José; BASIRI, MEYSAM; Ventura, Rodrigo. "Information-Oriented and Energy-Aware Path Planning for Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles". In Progress in Artificial Intelligence, 78-89. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024.
    10.1007/978-3-031-73503-5_7
  2. Matthew Studley; Sarah Carter; Pedro lima; BASIRI, MEYSAM; Francisco J. Perez-Grau; Antidio Viguria; Gabriele Ferri; et al. "Perspective chapter: European Robotics League - Benchmarking Through Smart City Robot Competitions". In Human-Robot Interaction - Perspectives and Applications. IntechOpen, 2022.
    In press
  3. Rodrigues, R.T.; Basiri, M.; Aguiar, A.P.; Miraldo, P.. "Feature based potential field for low-level active visual navigation". 791-800. 2018.
    10.1007/978-3-319-70833-1_64
Conference paper
  1. Bento, José; BASIRI, MEYSAM; Ventura, Rodrigo. "Information-Oriented and Energy-Aware Path Planning for Multiple Air-Dropped Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles". Madrid, 2024.
    10.1109/robot61475.2024.10796923
  2. Ribeiro, André; Basiri, Meysam. "Cooperative 3D Exploration and Mapping using Distributed Multi-Robot Teams". 2024.
    10.1109/icarsc61747.2024.10535925
  3. Ferreira, Diogo; Basiri, Meysam. "Leveraging Multi-Object Tracking in Vision-based Target Following for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles". 2024.
    10.1109/icarsc61747.2024.10535936
  4. Conceição, Maria Inês; Grilo, António; Basiri, Meysam. "Lightweight Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) Application for Indoor Environment Mapping using Ultrasonic Sensors". Berlin, 2023.
    10.1109/coins57856.2023.10189202
  5. Dias, Teodoro; Basiri, Meysam. "BogieCopter: A Multi-Modal Aerial-Ground Vehicle for Long-Endurance Inspection Applications". Paper presented in EEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), London, 2023.
    10.1109/icra48891.2023.10161038
  6. Gamboa-Montero, Juan Jose; BASIRI, MEYSAM; Castillo, Jose Carlos; Marques Villarroya, Sara; Salichs, Miguel A. "Real-Time Acoustic Touch Localization in Human-Robot Interaction Based on Steered Response Power". Paper presented in International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), London, 2022.
    Published
  7. BASIRI, MEYSAM; Miguel Pimental. "A Bimodal Aerial Robot for Micro Inspection of Flat and Inclined Surfaces". Paper presented in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Philadelphia, 2022.
    Published
  8. Urtasun, Beñat; López de Uralde, Pablo; Velar, Karlos; Gorostegui, Eider; Neelov, Joonas; Wright, Steve; Studley, Matthew; et al. "Pulsed thermography digital motion stabilization for the unmanned vehicle inspection of solar farms and GFRP wind blades through UAVs and UGVs". 2021.
    Published • 10.1117/12.2585902
  9. BASIRI, MEYSAM; Joao Goncalves; Jose Eduardo Rosa; Alberto vale; Pedro urbano lima. "An autonomous mobile manipulator to build outdoor structures consisting of heterogeneous brick patterns". Paper presented in Mohammad Bin Zayed International Robotics Competition (MBZIRC) Symposium, Abu-Dhabi, 2020.
    In press
  10. Rosa, Jose; Basiri, Meysam. "Cooperative Audio-Visual System for Localizing Small Aerial Robots". Paper presented in International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2019.
    10.1109/iros40897.2019.8968075
  11. BASIRI, MEYSAM. "SocRob@ Home: Team Description Paper for RoboCup@ Home 2016". Paper presented in RoboCup 2016, Leipzig, 2016.
    Published
  12. BASIRI, MEYSAM. "A Domestic Assistive Robot Developed Through Robotic Competitions". Paper presented in IJCAI 2016 Workshop on Autonomous Mobile Service Robots, New York, 2016.
    Published
  13. Varga, M.; Basiri, M.; Heitz, G.; Floreano, D.. "Distributed formation control of fixed wing micro aerial vehicles for area coverage". 2015.
    10.1109/IROS.2015.7353444
  14. Basiri, M.; Schill, F.; Floreano, D.; Lima, P.U.. "Audio-based localization for swarms of micro air vehicles". Paper presented in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014.
    10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907551
  15. Basiri, Meysam; Schill, Felix; Floreano, Dario; Lima, Pedro. "Audio-based Relative Positioning System for Multiple Micro Air Vehicle Systems". Paper presented in Robotics: Science and Systems, Berlin, 2013.
    10.15607/rss.2013.ix.002
  16. Basiri, M.; Schill, F.; Lima, P.U.; Floreano, D.. "Robust acoustic source localization of emergency signals from Micro Air Vehicles". 2012.
    10.1109/IROS.2012.6385608
  17. Bishop, A.N.; Basiri, M.. "Bearing-only triangular formation control on the plane and the sphere". 2010.
    10.1109/MED.2010.5547774
  18. Basiri, M.; Bishop, A.N.; Jensfelt, P.. "Distributed control of triangular sensor formations with angle-only constraints". 2009.
    10.1109/ISSNIP.2009.5416849
Conference poster
  1. BASIRI, MEYSAM. "Dynamic Localization of Ambiguous Sounds by Drones". Paper presented in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2017.
Journal article
  1. Maria Inês Lúcio Conceição; Antonio Grilo; BASIRI, MEYSAM. "Communication and Motion Coordination Awareness in Networked Aerial Robot Teams". Ad Hoc Networks (2025):
    Accepted
  2. André Ribeiro; Meysam Basiri. "Efficient 3D Exploration with Distributed Multi-UAV Teams: Integrating Frontier-Based and Next-Best-View Planning". Drones (2024): https://www.mdpi.com/2504-446X/8/11/630.
    10.3390/drones8110630
  3. Diogo Costa Ferreira; Meysam Basiri. "Dynamic Target Tracking and Following with UAVs Using Multi-Target Information: Leveraging YOLOv8 and MOT Algorithms". Drones (2024): https://www.mdpi.com/2504-446X/8/9/488.
    10.3390/drones8090488
  4. Bettencourt, Rui; Lewis, John; Serra, Rodrigo; Basiri, Meysam; Vale, Alberto; Lima, Pedro U.. "GEERS: Georeferenced Enhanced EKF Using Point Cloud Registration and Segmentation". IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2024): 1-8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/lra.2024.3349828.
    Published • 10.1109/lra.2024.3349828
  5. Maria Inês Lúcio Conceição; Conceicão EZE; António M R C Grilo; Meysam Basiri; Hazim Awbi. "The Application of UAVs in the Evaluation of Thermal Comfort Levels in Buildings Equipped with Internal Greenhouses". Clean Technologies (2023): https://www.mdpi.com/2571-8797/5/3/55.
    10.3390/cleantechnol5030055
  6. Jesús Morales; Isabel Castelo; Rodrigo Serra; Pedro U. Lima; Meysam Basiri. "Vision-Based Autonomous Following of a Moving Platform and Landing for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle". Sensors (2023): https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/2/829.
    10.3390/s23020829
  7. John Lewis D; Pedro U. Lima; Meysam Basiri. "Collaborative 3D Scene Reconstruction in Large Outdoor Environments Using a Fleet of Mobile Ground Robots". Sensors (2022): https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/1/375.
    10.3390/s23010375
  8. Meysam Basiri; João Pereira; Rui Bettencourt; Enrico Piazza; Emanuel Fernandes; Carlos Miguel Mendes de Azevedo; Pedro U. Lima. "Functionalities, Benchmarking System and Performance Evaluation for a Domestic Service Robot: People Perception, People Following, and Pick and Placing". Applied Sciences (2022): https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/10/4819.
    10.3390/app12104819
  9. Pimentel, Miguel; BASIRI, MEYSAM. "A Bimodal Rolling-Flying Robot for Micro Level Inspection of Flat and Inclined Surfaces". IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 7 2 (2022): 5135-5142. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/lra.2022.3154027.
    Published • 10.1109/lra.2022.3154027
  10. BASIRI, MEYSAM; Gonçalves, João; Rosa, José; Bettencourt, Rui; Vale, Alberto; Lima, Pedro. Corresponding author: BASIRI, MEYSAM. "A multipurpose mobile manipulator for autonomous firefighting and construction of outdoor structures". Field Robotics 1 1 (2021): 102-126. http://dx.doi.org/10.55417/fr.2021004.
    Published • 10.55417/fr.2021004
  11. BASIRI, MEYSAM; Joao Goncalves; jose rosa; Alberto vale; Professor Pedro Lima. "An autonomous mobile manipulator to build outdoor structures consisting of heterogeneous brick patterns". Springer Nature Applied Sciences 3 (2021): 558. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-021-04506-7.
    Open access • Published
  12. Basiri, Meysam; Piazza, Enrico; Matteucci, Matteo; Lima, Pedro. "Benchmarking Functionalities of Domestic Service Robots Through Scientific Competitions". KI - Künstliche Intelligenz 33 4 (2019): 357-367. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13218-019-00619-9.
    10.1007/s13218-019-00619-9
  13. Basiri, M.; Schill, F.; U.Lima, P.; Floreano, D.. "Localization of emergency acoustic sources by micro aerial vehicles". Journal of Field Robotics 35 2 (2018): 187-201. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85021374373&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1002/rob.21733
  14. Rodrigues, R.T.; Basiri, M.; Aguiar, A.P.; Miraldo, P.. "Low-Level Active Visual Navigation: Increasing Robustness of Vision-Based Localization Using Potential Fields". IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 3 3 (2018): 2079-2086. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85047825645&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1109/LRA.2018.2809628
  15. Basiri, M.; Schill, F.; Lima, P.; Floreano, D.. "On-Board Relative Bearing Estimation for Teams of Drones Using Sound". IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 1 2 (2016): 820-827. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85058585201&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1109/LRA.2016.2527833
  16. Basiri, M.; Bishop, A.N.; Jensfelt, P.. "Distributed control of triangular formations with angle-only constraints". Systems and Control Letters 59 2 (2010): 147-154. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-75249102771&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.sysconle.2009.12.010
Preprint
  1. Yu Tang Liu; Afonso Vale; Aamir Ahmad; Rodrigo ventura; BASIRI, MEYSAM. "Multitask Reinforcement Learning for Quadcopter Attitude Stabilization and Tracking using Graph Policy". 2025. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2503.08259.
  2. John Lewis D; BASIRI, MEYSAM; Pedro urbano lima. "Frontier Shepherding: A Bio-Mimetic Multi-robot Framework for Large-Scale Exploration". 2024.
  3. Ricardo Martins; BASIRI, MEYSAM. "Tension Estimation and Localization for a Tethered Micro Aerial Robot". 2020. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2302.03551.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. BASIRI, MEYSAM. "Audio-based Positioning and Target Localization for Swarms of Micro Aerial Vehicles". PhD, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 2015. https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/206769.
    https://doi.org/10.5075/epfl-thesis-6508
  2. BASIRI, MEYSAM. "Distributed Formation Control of Multiple Agents with Angle-Only Constraints". Master, Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap, 2009. http://kiosk.nada.kth.se/utbildning/grukth/exjobb/rapportlistor/2009/rapporter09/basiri_meysam_09100.pdf.

Other

Dataset
  1. BASIRI, MEYSAM. ERL Service Robot Competition Dataset FBM1 and FBM2 (Lisbon 2017 Tournament). https://zenodo.org/record/2547688#.ZFJ2dXbMKUk.
Software
  1. João Pereira; Enrico Piazza; BASIRI, MEYSAM. "EUROBENCH Benchmark Software". 2022.
  2. Enrico Piazza; BASIRI, MEYSAM; João M. Pereira. "The ISR/IRSg Referee scoring and benchmarking box (RSBB)". Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento. 2018.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/05/28 BogieCopter: A Multi-Modal Aerial-Ground Vehicle for Long-Endurance Inspection Applications IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
IEEE (London, United Kingdom)
2022/05/24 A Bimodal Aerial Robot for Micro Inspection of Flat and Inclined Surfaces IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
(Philadelphia, United States)
2021/07/19 A Multipurpose Mobile Manipulator for field robot applications LARSYS annual Meeting: INTERACTION session Cognitive Robots and Human Experience session
Laboratory for Robotics and Engineering Systems (Lisbon, Portugal)
2020/02/27 An autonomous mobile manipulator to build outdoor structures consisting of heterogeneous brick patterns MBZIRC 2020 Symposium
Khalifa University (Abudhabi, United Arab Emirates)
2018 Low-level Active Visual Navigation using Potential Fields LARSYS Annual Meeting 2018, Lisbon, Portugal
Laboratory for Robotics and Engineering Systems (Lisbon, Portugal)
2017 Dynamic Localization of Ambiguous Sounds by Drones IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
(Vancouver, Canada)
2015 1) Localization of Emergency Acoustic Sources with Micro Aerial vehicles 2) using teams of Micro Aerial vehicles for surveillance applications Navigare 2015 : Cooperative & Swarm Navigation
(Thun, Switzerland)
2009 Distributed Formation control with Angle-Only Constraints Swedish Workshop on Autonomous Robots 2009
(Sweden)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2024/10/01 - Current Human-Swarm Interaction for Controlling a Team of Micro Aerial Robots
Supervisor
 Engenharia Aeroespacial
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2024/02/01 - Current Aerial-Ground Robotic System for Warehouse Inventory
Supervisor
 Engenharia Aeroespacial (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2023/10/01 - Current Developing Coordination Algorithms for a Swarm of Micro Aerial Robot
Supervisor
 Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2023/09/10 - Current In-Flight Launch and Control of Small Aerial Robots from a Large Carrier Aircraft
Supervisor
 Engenharia Aeroespacial (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022/01/10 - Current Distributed and Collaborative Aerial Swarms for Complex Indoor Environments Under Communication Constraints
Co-supervisor of Maria Inês Lúcio Conceição
 Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2021/12 - Current Active Cooperative Perception for Aerial-Ground Robot Systems
Supervisor of John Lewis
 Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2023/09/15 - 2024/12/05 Information-Oriented and Energy-Aware Path Planning for Multiple Air-Dropped Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Supervisor
 Engenharia Aeroespacial (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2023/09/15 - 2024/11/30 Cooperative LiDAR-Based Target Tracking for a Multi-UAV System
Supervisor
 Engenharia Aeroespacial
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2023/09/15 - 2024/11/22 Kinodynamic Trajectory Planning for Exploration and Reconstruction of Unknown Large-Scale Environments Using a Multi-UAV System
Supervisor
 Engenharia Aeroespacial (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2023/02/15 - 2024/09/30 Cooperative 3D Exploration using Distributed Multi-UAV Teams
Supervisor of André Morgado Ribeiro
Ciências de Engenharia - Engenharia Aeroespacial (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2023/01 - 2024/09/30 Design, Control, and Testing of a Trimodal Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Supervisor of Afonso Diniz Correia e Vale
 Engenharia Aeroespacial (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2023/02/01 - 2024/07/31 Active Vision-based Target Tracking for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Supervisor of Diogo Costa Ferreira
 Engenharia Aeroespacial (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2021 - 2022 Autonomous Landing of an Aerial Robot on a Moving Platform
Co-supervisor of Isabel Maria Pereira Castelo
 Ciências de Engenharia - Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2021/01 - 2021/12 Design and development of a multi-modal aerial-ground vehicle for long-endurance inspection applications
Supervisor
 Ciências de Engenharia - Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2020/02 - 2021/10/01 A bimodal micro aerial robot for inspection of outdoor infrastructures (Robot design and control)
Supervisor of Miguel Vicente Pimentel
Ciências de Engenharia - Engenharia Aeroespacial (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2019 - 2020 Automatic benchmarking system for evaluation of mobile service robot functionalities. Project: Eurobench
Supervisor of João Manuel Pereira
 Research fellowship for master graduates (Scientific initiation)
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
2018 - 2019 Audio visual system for cooperative localization of small aerial robots
Supervisor of José Eduardo Fernandes Rosa
 Aerospace Engineering (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal
2018 - 2019 Speech Recognition for a Small Aerial Robot
Supervisor of Ana Catarina Monteiro Ribeiro de Sá
 Ciências de Engenharia - Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2018 - 2019 Flight control and position estimation for a tethered micro aerial robot
Supervisor of Ricardo Miguel Parreiral Pinheiro de Matos Martins
Ciências de Engenharia - Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2017/08 - 2018/02 Integration of microphones in an indoor aerial robot
Supervisor of David Miguel Elias Dias
 Research fellowship for master students BIL (Scientific initiation)
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Suspension load transportation using multiple aerial robots
Supervisor of Murali Karnam
 Research fellowship for master graduates BIM (Scientific initiation)
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
2017 - 2018 Low-level Active Visual flight for an Indoor Micro Aerial Robot
Co-supervisor of Rômulo Teixeira Rodrigues
 Research fellowship for master graduates
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2016/03 - 2016/10 Automatic landing system for a micro quadrotor using acoustic servoing
Supervisor of Stina Gerard
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
2016/06 - 2016/09 Formation Control of Multiple Micro-sized Aerial Robots
Supervisor of Emily Zhang
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2015/09 - 2016 Audio-based wind speed measurement for aerial robots
Supervisor of Charly Blanc
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
2015 - 2016 Bearing-only collision-avoidance for teams of aerial robots
Supervisor of Bruno Oscar Rico Caldas
 Robotics (Master)
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
2014 - 2016 Fixed-wing drones for communication networks
Co-supervisor of Maja Varga
 robotics (PhD)
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
2014/03/01 - 2015/01/15 Portable Localization System for indoor flying robots
Supervisor of Xaver Bandi
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
2014 - 2014 Audio-based Control of Micro Air Vehicles
Supervisor of Walid Amanhoud
 Master project (Degree)
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
2014 - 2014 Audio-based 3D Position Estimation of an Aerial Robot
Supervisor of Vasco Foletti
2012 - 2013 Signal to noise ratio enhancement for an audio based relative positioning system
Supervisor of Christophe Barraud
2012 - 2013 Real time sound source localization system
Supervisor of Michael Springi
2012 - 2012 Active acoustic signaling motor driver
Supervisor of Maxime Brülhart
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
2011 - 2012 Development and Evaluation of a small RADAR system for detecting unmanned aircraft
Co-supervisor of David Morisod
2011 - 2012 Antenna modification for a sub-miniature doppler RADAR
Co-supervisor of Alexander von Mach
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2022/06/20 - 2022/06/24 European Robotics League Consumer Service Robots Local Tournament, Lisbon, Portugal. https://sites.google.com/view/erlconsumerlx2022 (2022/06/20 - 2022/06/24)
Other (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal
2022/05/09 - 2022/05/13 ERL Consumer Local Tournament, Leon, Spain (2022/05/09 - 2022/05/13)
Other (Member of the Scientific Committee)
 Universidad de León Departamento Ingeniería Eléctrica y de Sistemas y Automática, Spain
2022/05/02 - 2022/05/06 ERL Consumer Local Tournament, Oldenburg, Germany (2022/05/02 - 2022/05/06)
Other (Member of the Scientific Committee)
 Oldenburger Forschungs- und Entwicklungsinstitut für Informatik eV, Germany
2022/03/14 - 2022/03/18 ERL Consumer Local Tournament, Bristol, UK (2022/03/14 - 2022/03/18)
Other (Member of the Scientific Committee)
 Bristol Robotics Laboratory, United Kingdom
2021/09/08 - 2021/09/10 The 2nd Smart City Robotics Challenge 2021 (SciRoc), Palazzo Re Enzo, Bologna, Italy. Major robot competition that offered teams the chance to get together to compete on robotics challenges focused around the theme of Smart Inclusion. (2021/09/08 - 2021/09/08)
Other (Member of the Organising Committee)
2016/02/01 - 2021/01/01 Organized more than 20 Robot competitions around Europe under the European Robotics League - Consumer Robots (ERL consumer) competition. For the full list of competitions organized visit https://www.eu-robotics.net/robotics_league/ (2016 - 2021)
Other (Member of the Organising Committee)
2020/11/16 - 2020/11/20 European Robotics League (ERL) Consumer Service Robot Live Demo, Lisbon, Portugal. (Due to the pandemic situation, the ERL Consumer Tournament was replaced with a live Demo event where the newly introduced functionality benchmarks were executed by the local team and was presented to the international community.) https://sites.google.com/view/erl-consumer-lisbon2020 (2020/11/16 - 2020/11/20)
Other (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal
2019/09/16 - 2019/09/22 1st ERL Smart CIties RObotics Challenge, Milton Keynes, UK, 2019 (Technical and organizing committee of the ERL SCIROC 2019 competition). (2019 - 2019)
Other (Member of the Scientific Committee)
2019/03/25 - 2019/03/29 ERL Consumer Local Tournament, Bristol, UK, 2019 (2019/03/25 - 2019/03/29) Bristol Robotics Laboratory, United Kingdom
2019/02/04 - 2019/02/08 European Robotics League (ERL) Consumer Local Tournament, Lisbon, PT, 2019 (2019/02/04 - 2019/02/08)
Other (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal
2019/01/14 - 2019/01/18 ERL Consumer Local Tournament, Oldenburg, DE, 2019 (2019/01/14 - 2019/01/18) Oldenburger Forschungs- und Entwicklungsinstitut für Informatik eV, Germany
2018/10/01 - 2018/10/04 European Robotics League Major tournament - IEEE IROS 2018, Madrid, Spain (organization of a major robotic tournament on mobile service robots during the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems IROS 2018) (2018/10/01 - 2018/10/04)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, United States
2018/01/22 - 2018/01/26 ERL Service Robot Competitions, Edinburgh, UK (2018/01/22 - 2018/01/26)
Other (Member of the Scientific Committee)
 Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom
2017/11/20 - 2017/11/24 The European Robotics League – Service Robots, Barcelona, Spain (2017/11/20 - 2017/11/24)
Other (Co-organisor)
2017/09/04 - 2017/09/08 Organizing the 4th Lucia School on AI and Robotics at Instituto Superior Técnico (2017 - 2017)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
2017/08/28 - 2017/08/30 European Robotics League Service Robot Major Tournament at RO-MAN 2017 Conference. (2017/08/28 - 2017/08/30)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal
2017/03/13 - 2017/03/17 ERL Consumer Local Tournament, Leon 2017 (2017/03/13 - 2017/03/17)
Other (Co-organisor)
 Universidad de León Departamento Ingeniería Eléctrica y de Sistemas y Automática, Spain
2017/01/30 - 2017/02/05 European Robotic League Service Robots, Peccioli, Italy (2017/01/30 - 2017/02/05)
Other (Co-organisor)
 Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
2016/11/21 - 2016/11/25 European Robotics League - Service Robots challenge, Lisbon, Portugal (2016/11/21 - 2016/11/25)
Other (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal
2016/06/30 - 2016/07/06 RoboCup@Home, Robocup international robotics competition, Leipzig, Germany. (2016/06/30 - 2016/07/06)
2016/05/31 - 2016/06/04 ERL service robot Local Tournament, Lisbon, Portugal (2016/05/31 - 2016/06/04)
Other (Co-organisor)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2016 - 2020 Participation at Service Robot Competitions (RoboCup, ERL, MBZIRC) as team supervisor or competition referee
2017/03/13 - 2017/03/17 European Robotics League Service Robots challenge

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2020 - Current Robotics and Autonomous Systems (0921-8890) Elsevier
2017 - Current Journal of Field Robotics (1556-4967) Wiley Periodicals, LLC.
2017 - Current IEEE robotics & automation letters (2377-3766) IEEE
2016 - Current Robotics: Science and Systems (2330765X)

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2024 - Current program committee member of the Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems Conference held at October 28-30th 2024 Cornell Tech on Roosevelt Island, United States
2016 - 2016 Program Committee of the 13th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS 2016)
Member

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2014 - 2016 Bio Inspired Artificial Intelligence Course Bio Inspired Artificial Intelligence (Master Universitario) École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
2015 - 2015 Quadrotor dynamics and control, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Robotics (Master) École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
2013 - 2015 Mobile Robotics Course Mobile robotics (Master) École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2012 - 2020 Reviewer of different Journal and Conferences • Journal of Field Robotics (JFR) • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Journal • IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) • IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation • Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) • International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) • International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence • Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Evaluator

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2021 Research in Lisbon: Experiences of living and researching in Lisbon https://researchinlisbon.pt/en/research/ Câmara Municipal de Lisboa
2020/04/16 Multipurpose Autonomous Robot for Disinfection, Transportation and Tele-interaction in Hospitals Observador

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2016 - 2023 Main jury member for evaluating many master thesis projects at Instituto Superior Técnico, for Aerospace Engineering and Electrical and Electronics engineering Master programs. Since 2016 to today Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2020 1st place at the MBZIRC 2020 competition: Challenge three
Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge 2020, United Arab Emirates
2012 Best Student paper Award Finalist
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, United States
2012 Best Application Paper Award
Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems (ICROS), South Korea
2010 4 year Doctoral Studentship
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal

Title

2016 PhD Thesis with Distinction
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland