João Almeida

Former Research Assistant (from June 2015 until January 2016)
Dynamical Systems and Ocean Robotics Group (DSORg)
Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR/IST)

I received a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa in 2015, with a thesis titled "Control over Network and the Event Based Paradigm: Application to Multi-Agent Systems". My advisers were Prof. Carlos Silvestre and Prof. António Pascoal.

Research interests

ResearchGate Profile

Publications

Journal

[ASP17] J. Almeida, C. Silvestre, A. Pascoal, “Synchronization of multi-agent systems using event-triggered and self-triggered broadcasts,” in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 62, no. 9, pp. 4741-4746, September 2017 (First available online: February 2017). preprint

[ASP16] J. Almeida, C. Silvestre, A. Pascoal, “Event-triggered output synchronization of heterogeneous multi-agent systems,” in International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 28, no. 8, pp. 1302-1338, May 2017 (First available online: August 2016). preprint

[ASP15] J. Almeida, C. Silvestre, A. Pascoal, “Self-triggered state feedback control of linear plants under bounded disturbances,” in International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 25, no. 8, pp. 1230-1246, May 2015. preprint

[ASP14] J. Almeida, C. Silvestre, A. Pascoal, “Self-triggered output feedback control of linear plants in the presence of unknown disturbances,” in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 59, no. 11, pp. 3040-3045, November 2014. preprint

[ASP12b] J. Almeida, C. Silvestre, A. Pascoal, “Continuous-time consensus with discrete-time communications,” in Systems & Control Letters, vol. 61, no. 7, pp. 788-796, May 2012. preprint

[ASP12a] J. Almeida, C. Silvestre, A. Pascoal, “Cooperative control of multiple surface vessels with discrete-time periodic communications,” in International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 398-419, March 2012. preprint

[ASP10] J. Almeida, C. Silvestre, A. Pascoal, “Cooperative control of multiple surface vessels in the presence of ocean currents and parametric model uncertainty,” in International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 20, no. 14, pp. 1549-1565, September 2010. preprint

Conferences

[13] J. Almeida, C. Silvestre, A. Pascoal, “Output synchronization of heterogeneous LTI plants with event-triggered communication,” in Proceedings of the 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Los Angeles, CA, USA, December 2014. preprint

[12] J. Almeida, C. Silvestre, A. Pascoal, “Observer based self-triggered control of an acyclic interconnection of linear plants,” in Proceedings of the 51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, Hawaii, USA, December 2012.

[11] J. Almeida, C. Silvestre, A. Pascoal, “Observer based self-triggered control of linear plants with unknown disturbances,” in Proceedings of the 2012 American Control Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 2012.

[10] J. Almeida, C. Silvestre, A. Pascoal, “Self-triggered observer based control of linear plants,” in Proceedings of the 18th IFAC World Congress, Milano, Italy, August 2011.

[9] J. Almeida, C. Silvestre, A. Pascoal, “Self-triggered output feedback control of linear plants,” in Proceedings of the 2011 American Control Conference, San Francisco, CA, USA, June 2011.

[8] J. Almeida, C. Silvestre, A. Pascoal, “Self-triggered state feedback control of linear plants under bounded disturbances,” in Proceedings of the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, GA, USA, December 2010.

[7] A. Aguiar, J. Almeida, M. Bayat, B. Cardeira, R. Cunha, A. Häusler, P. Maurya, A. Oliveira, A. Pascoal, A. Pereira, M. Rufino, L. Sebastião, C. Silvestre, and F. Vanni, “Cooperative Control of Multiple Marine Vehicles: Theoretical Challenges and Practical Issues,” in Proceedings of 8th Conference on Manoeuvring and Control of Marine Craft, Guarujá (SP), Brazil, September 2009.

[6] J. Almeida, C. Silvestre, A. Pascoal, P. Antsaklis, “Continuous-time consensus with discrete-time communication,” in Proceedings of the 10th European Control Conference, Budapeste, Hungary, August 2009.

[5] A. Aguiar, J. Almeida, M. Bayat, B. Cardeira, R. Cunha, A. Häusler, P. Maurya, A. Oliveira, A. Pascoal, A. Pereira, M. Rufino, L. Sebastião, C. Silvestre, and F. Vanni, “Cooperative Autonomous Marine Vehicle motion control in the scope of the EU GREX Project: Theory and Practice,” in Proceedings of OCEANS 2009 IEEE Conference, Bremen, Germany, May 2009.

[4] J. Almeida, C. Silvestre, A. Pascoal, “Compliant coordination and control of multiple vehicles with discrete-time periodic communications,” in Proceedings of 17th IFAC World Congress, Seoul, Republic of Korea, July 2008.

[3] J. Almeida, C. Silvestre, A. Pascoal, “Coordinated control of multiple vehicles with discrete-time periodic communications,” in Proceedings of the 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, New Orleans, LA, USA, December 2007.

[2] J. Almeida, C. Silvestre, A. Pascoal, “Path-following control of fully-actuated surface vessels in the presence of ocean currents,” in Proceedings of the 7th IFAC Conference on Control Applications in Marine Systems, Bol, Croatia, September 2007.

[1] J. Almeida, C. Silvestre, A. Pascoal, “Cooperative path-following of multiples surface vessels with parametric model uncertainty and in the presence of ocean currents,” in Proceedings of the 6th IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles, Toulouse, France, September 2007.

Others

J. Almeida, “Control over networks and the event based paradigm: application to multi-agent systems,” PhD thesis, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal, May 2015.

J. Almeida, “Cooperative control of multiple marine vessels,” Master's thesis, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal, Novembro 2007.

J. Almeida, “Coordinated control of multiple vehicles,” Licenciatura's thesis, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal, Novembro 2006 (in Portuguese).

Awards

APCA Best Doctoral Thesis Award 2016

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 2012 Outstanding Reviewer

Contact information

Email address

jalmeida ( @ ) isr.ist.utl.pt

Last update: 2018-06-11