Rute Isabel Soares da Luz (C212-7719-361D)

Curriculum Vitae

Rute Isabel Soares da Luz

Rute Luz is currently a robotics Engineer at the Human Robot Interaction Lab, at ESA-ESTEC, in the Netherlands, and a Phd student of Electrical and Computer Engineering with focus on "Human-Robot Collaboration for Planetary Exploration" at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon. She holds a MsC Degree in Aerospace Engineering also from IST and developed her master thesis on haptic human-robot interaction at the Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR) in collaboration with the University of Lille. Since 2018 she has been working as a researcher on her main research topic, human-robot interaction and multimodal interfaces, at ISR and ITI, which included a series of collaborations with European Space Agency, Austrian Space Forum and the Sapadores Firefighters of Lisbon and the Portuguese Air Force. She has participated in Mars Analog Missions, AMADEE-20 and AMADEE-24, as project Co-Investigator and Principal Investigator, respectively, and ISS experimental sessions that have been validating state of the art teleoperation systems.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Rute Isabel Soares da Luz

Citation names

Luz, Rute

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: C212-7719-361D

Email addresses

rute.luz@esa.int (Professional)
rute.luz@tecnico.ulisboa.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics - Robotics and Automatic Control

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Intermediate (B1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2019/09 - 2023 Ongoing	Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Doutoramento) Major in Human-Robot Interaction Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2012 - 2018 Concluded	Engenharia Aeroespacial (Mestrado integrado) Major in Major em Aviónica e Minor em Sistemas e Controlo Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal "Traction Awareness Through Haptic Feedback for the Teleoperation of UGVs" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	16 valores

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022/10 - 2023/03	Invited Principal Investigator (Research)	ESA-ESTEC (European Space Agency), Netherlands
	HRI-Lab, Netherlands
2021/10/04 - 2021/10/31	Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal
	Austrian Space Forum (OeWF), Austria
2019/01 - 2019/08	Researcher (Research)	Universidade da Madeira Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal (...)
2018/08 - 2018/12	Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal (...)

Other Careers

	Category Host institution	Employer
2018/09 - 2020	Professor do ensino básico e secundário (Professor do ensino básico e secundário)	Colégio Mira Rio, Portugal
	Colégio Mira Rio, Portugal (...)

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2024/01 - Current	Carreira Profissional	ATG-Europe, Netherlands
	ESA-ESTEC (European Space Agency), Netherlands

Outputs

Publications

Conference paper	Luz, Rute; Coelho, Gonçalo; Campos, Mariana; Abrantes, Rui; Querido, Ricardo; Pereira, Margarida; Sousa, Inês; et al. "Remote Operations and Streamlining Communication in Mars Analog Missions: Robot-Agnostic Augmented Interface for Live Annotations During Teleoperated Exploration Tasks". Paper presented in International Conference on Space Robotics (iSpaRo), Cidade do Luxemburgo, 2023. Published • 10.1109/isparo60631.2024.10688246 Luz, Rute; Pereira, Aaron; Corujeira, Jéssica; Krueger, Thomas; Beck, Jacob; Den Exter, Emiel; Chupin, Thibaud; Silva, José Luís; Ventura, Rodrigo. "Feeling the Slope? Teleoperation of a mobile robot using a 7DOF haptic device with attitude feedback". Paper presented in IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Busan, 2023. Published • 10.1109/ro-man57019.2023.10309330 Luz, Rute; Thomas Krueger; Aaron Pereira; Emiel Den Exter; Jacob Beck; Thibaud Chupin; Da Silva, José Luís; Ventura, Rodrigo. "Multimodal Operations For Rover Teleoperation: Haptic Driving And Manipulation With a 7-DOF Device". Paper presented in Symposium on Advanced Space Technologies in Robotics and Automation, Leiden, 2023. Published Luz, Rute; Aaron Pereira; Edmundo Ferreira; Jéssica Corujeira; Thomas Krueger; Ventura, Rodrigo; Silva, José Luís. "ENHANCED HAPTIC INTERFACE FOR ROVER TELEOPERATION". Paper presented in ASTRA 2022 16th Symposium on Advanced Space Technologies in Robotics and Automation, Noordwijk, 2022. Published Luz, Rute; Corujeira, Jose; Silva, Jose Luis; Ventura, Rodrigo. "Traction Awareness Through Haptic Feedback for the Teleoperation of UGVs". Paper presented in 2018 27th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Nanjing*, 2018. Published • 10.1109/roman.2018.8525740
Conference poster	Luz, Rute; Silva, José Luís; Ventura, Rodrigo. "Enhanced lunar exploration through Earth-based teleoperation of rovers: augmented interfaces to minimize latency impact". Paper presented in IPPW 2021 18th International Planetary Probe Workshop, 2021.
Journal article	Luz, Rute; Silva, Jose Luis; Ventura, Rodrigo. "Enhanced Teleoperation Interfaces for Multi-Second Latency Conditions: System Design and Evaluation". IEEE Access 11 (2023): 10935-10953. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2023.3240307. Published • 10.1109/access.2023.3240307
Newspaper article	Pedro U. Lima; Emilia Brzozowska; João Cartucho; Tiago J. Dias; João Gonçalves; Mithun Kinarullathil; Guilherme Lawless; et al. "SocRob@Home:IntegratingAIComponentsinaDomesticRobotSystem", Künstl Intell, 2019, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13218-019-00618-w. Luz, Rute; Corujeira, Jose; Grisoni, Laurent; Giraud, Frédéric; Silva, José Luís; Ventura, Rodrigo. "On the Use of Haptic Tablets for UGV Teleoperation in Unstructured Environments: System Design and Evaluation", IEEE Access, 2019, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8763953.

Activities

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2017/10/20 - 2017/10/21	Volunteering at an international conference. (2017/10/20 - 2017/10/21) Conference (Other)
2017/06/26 - 2017/06/29	Volunteering at an international conference. (2017/06/26 - 2017/06/29) Conference (Other)

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2024/01 - Current	Surface Avatar: Axiom 3 experimental session. ESA project astronaut and Axiom Mission 3 Mission Specialist Marcus Wandt performs a technology demonstration called Surface Avatar from the International Space Station. https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2024/02/ESA_project_astronaut_and_Axiom_Mission_3_Mission_Specialist_Marcus_Wandt_performs_a_technology_demonstration_called_Surface_Avatar	Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt DLR Standort Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany ESA-ESTEC (European Space Agency), Netherlands
2024/07 - 2024/07	Surface Avatar Prime session 2: NASA astronauts Tracy Dyson and Jeanette Epps operated from space a team of robots on Earth in the third session of the Surface Avatar experiment. Experimental validation of the state-of-the-art teleoperation systems. https://blogs.esa.int/exploration/controlling-a-robot-team-from-space/	Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt DLR Standort Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany ESA-ESTEC (European Space Agency), Netherlands
2024/03 - 2024/04	AMADEE-24: Integrated Mars analog field mission in the Armenia. A field crew of trained analog astronauts will conduct experiments preparing for future human and robotic Mars exploration missions. This was the second mission of the deployed MEROP teleoperation system. https://oewf.org/en/amadee-24/ Other	AMADEE-24 MIssion Austrian Space Forum (OeWF), Austria
2021/10/04 - 2021/10/31	AMADEE-20: Integrated Mars analog field mission in the Negev Desert in Israel. A field crew of trained analog astronauts will conduct experiments preparing for future human and robotic Mars exploration missions. Other	AMADEE-20 Austrian Space Forum (OeWF), Austria
2019/11/04 - 2019/11/07	WebSummit 19: demo the capabilities of an autonomous domestic robot in the congress area. Representing the Institute for Systems and Robotics in the both of Instituto Superior Técnico Congress	Web Summit 2019 WebSummit, Ireland
2017/05 - 2019/05	Robotics Team - SocRob@Home: participating in several scientific competions of robotics (RoboCup@Home and European Robotics League). Here, she was responsible to ensure a safe autonomous navigation of a service robot in a domestic environment.	RoboCup@Home e European Robotics League Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal