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José Maria Fernandes Vasconcelos
Researcher, PhD
Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR)
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST)
Lisbon, Portugal
On July 2009, I moved to Deimos Engineering.
To contact me, please use the e-mail address jfvasconcelosgmail.com.
Previous contact address and e-mail (striked out below) will remain valid for the time being.
Thank you.
Address: Av. Rovisco Pais, Nº 1
Torre Norte, 8º andar, sala 8.11
1049-001 Lisboa
PortugalWeb: jfvasconcelos
Nonlinear Navigation System Design with Application to Autonomous Vehicles,
PhD thesis, IST, January 2010.
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PUBLICATIONS
2013
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
|2013|
- "Embedded Vehicle Dynamics Aiding for USBL/INS Underwater Navigation System"
M. Morgado, P. Oliveira, C. Silvestre, and J. F. Vasconcelos
IEEE Transactions on Control and Systems Technology, 2013.
|2011|
- "Combination of Lyapunov and Density Functions for Stability of Rotational Motion"
J. F. Vasconcelos, A. Rantzer, C. Silvestre, and P. Oliveira
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Volume 56, Issue 11, p. 2599-2607, November 2011.
- "A Nonlinear Attitude Observer Based on Active Vision and Inertial Measurements"
S. Brás, R. Cunha, J. F. Vasconcelos, C. Silvestre, and P. Oliveira
IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Volume 27, Issue 4, p. 664-677, August 2011.
- "INS/GPS Aided by Frequency Contents of Vector Observations With Application to Autonomous Surface Crafts"
J. F. Vasconcelos, C. Silvestre, and P. Oliveira
IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, Volume 36, Issue 2, p. 347-363, May 2011.
- "Geometric Approach to Strapdown Magnetometer Calibration in Sensor Frame"
J. F. Vasconcelos, G. Elkaim, C. Silvestre, P. Oliveira, and B. Cardeira
IEEE Transactions in Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Volume 47, Issue 2, p. 1293-1306, April 2011.
- "Discrete-Time Complementary Filters for Attitude and Position Estimation: Design, Analysis and Experimental Validation"
J. F. Vasconcelos, B. Cardeira, C. Silvestre, P. Oliveira, and P. T. M. Batista
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Volume 19, Issue 1, p. 181-198, January 2011.
- "An Experimentally Validated Attitude Observer Based on Range and Inertial Measurements"
S. Brás, C. Silvestre, and P. Oliveira, J. F. Vasconcelos, R. Cunha
18th IFAC World Congress, Milano, Italy, August 2011.
|2010|
- "A nonlinear position and attitude observer on SE(3) using landmark measurements"
J. F. Vasconcelos, R. Cunha, C. Silvestre, and P. Oliveira
Systems & Control Letters, Volume 59, Issues 3-4, p. 155-166, March-April 2010.
- "Embedded UAV model and LASER aiding techniques for inertial navigation systems"
J. F. Vasconcelos, C. Silvestre, P. Oliveira, and B. Guerreiro
Control Engineering Practice, Volume 18, Issue 3, p. 262-278, March 2010.
- "Experimental Evaluation of a Nonlinear Attitude Observer Based on Image and Inertial Measurements"
S. Brás, R. Cunha, J. F. Vasconcelos, C. Silvestre, and P. Oliveira
2010 American Control Conference (ACC), Baltimore, Maryland, USA, June 2010.
|2009|
- "Stability- and performance-robustness tradeoffs: MIMO mixed-µ vs complex-µ design"
J. F. Vasconcelos, M. Athans, S. Fekri, C. Silvestre, and P. Oliveira
International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, Volume 19, Issue 3, p. 259-294, February 2009.
- "Combination of Lyapunov Functions and Density Functions for Stability of Rotational Motion"
J. F. Vasconcelos, A. Rantzer, C. Silvestre, and P. Oliveira
48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Shangai, China, December 2009.
- "Nonlinear Attitude Estimation Using Active Vision and Inertial Measurements"
S. Brás, R. Cunha, J. F. Vasconcelos, C. Silvestre, and P. Oliveira
48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Shangai, China, December 2009.
- "Stability of a Nonlinear Attitude Observer on SO(3) with Nonideal Angular Velocity Measurements"
J. F. Vasconcelos, R. Cunha, C. Silvestre, and P. Oliveira
2009 European Control Conference (ECC), Budapest, Hungary, August 2009.
- "Pose Observers for Unmanned Air Vehicles"
S. Brás, J. F. Vasconcelos, C. Silvestre, and P. Oliveira
2009 European Control Conference (ECC), Budapest, Hungary, August 2009.
- "Discrete Time-Varying Attitude Complementary Filter"
J. F. Vasconcelos, C. Silvestre, P. Oliveira, P. T. M. Batista, and B. Cardeira
2009 American Control Conference (ACC), St. Louis, Missouri, USA, June 2009.
|2008|
- "A Nonlinear GPS/IMU Based Observer for Rigid Body Attitude and Position Estimation"
J. F. Vasconcelos, C. Silvestre, and P. Oliveira
47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Cancun, Mexico, December 2008.
- "A Landmark Based Nonlinear Observer for Attitude and Position Estimation with Bias Compensation"
J. F. Vasconcelos, R. Cunha, C. Silvestre, and P. Oliveira
17th IFAC World Congress, Seoul, Korea, July 2008.
- "Nonlinear Observer For Rigid Body Attitude Estimation using Vector Observations"
J. F. Vasconcelos, C. Silvestre, and P. Oliveira
17th IFAC World Congress, Seoul, Korea, July 2008.
- "Improving Aiding techniques for USBL Tightly-Coupled Inertial Navigation System"
M. Morgado, C. Silvestre, P. Oliveira, and J. F. Vasconcelos
17th IFAC World Congress, Seoul, Korea, July 2008.
- "Nonlinear and Geometric Optimization Methods for LADAR Calibration"
B. Guerreiro, C. Silvestre, P. Oliveira, and J. F. Vasconcelos
2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Pasadena, California, May 2008.
- "A Geometric Approach to Strapdown Magnetometer Calibration in Sensor Frame"
J. F. Vasconcelos, G. Elkaim, C. Silvestre, P. Oliveira, and B. Cardeira
IFAC Workshop on Navigation, Guidance, and Control of Underwater Vehicles (NGCUV), Killaloe, Ireland, April 2008.
|2007|
- "Landmark Based Nonlinear Observer for Rigid Body Attitude and Position Estimation"
J. F. Vasconcelos, R. Cunha, C. Silvestre, and P. Oliveira
46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), New Orleans, LA, USA, December 2007. [Abstract] [BibTeX]
- "Vehicle Dynamics Aiding Technique for USBL/INS Underwater Navigation System"
M. Morgado, P. Oliveira, C. Silvestre, and J. F. Vasconcelos
IFAC Conference on Control Applications in Marine Systems (CAMS), Bol, Croatia, September 2007. [Abstract] [BibTeX]
|2006|
- "Uncertainty vs Performance Tradeoffs in Robust Feedback Control: a MIMO case study"
J. F. Vasconcelos, M. Athans, S. Fekri, C. Silvestre, and P. Oliveira
45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), San Diego, CA, USA, December 2006. [PDF] [BibTeX]
- "USBL/INS Integration Technique For Underwater Vehicles"
M. Morgado, P. Oliveira, C. Silvestre , and J. F. Vasconcelos
7th IFAC Conference on Manoeuvring and Control of Marine Vehicles (MCMC), Lisbon, Portugal, September 2006. [PDF] [BibTeX]
- "Embedded Vehicle Dynamics and LASER Aiding Techniques for Inertial Navigation Systems"
J. F. Vasconcelos, C. Silvestre , and P. Oliveira
AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit (GNC), Keystone, CO, USA, August 2006. [PDF] [BibTeX]
- "USBL/INS Tightly-Coupled Integration Technique for Underwater Vehicles"
M. Morgado, P. Oliveira, C. Silvestre , and J. F. Vasconcelos
9th International Conference on Information Fusion, Florence (FUSION), Italy, July 2006. [PDF] [BibTeX]
|2005|
- "Inertial Navigation System Aided by GPS and Selective Frequency Contents of Vector Measurements"
J. F. Vasconcelos, P. Oliveira , and C. Silvestre
AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit (GNC), San Francisco, USA, August 2005. [PDF] [BibTeX]
|2004|
- "GPS Aided IMU for Unmanned Air Vehicles"
J. F. Vasconcelos, J. Calvário, P. Oliveira, and C. Silvestre
5th IFAC/EURON Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles (IAV), Lisbon, Portugal, July 2004. [PDF] [BibTeX]