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Assistant Professor at IST

João Silva Sequeira

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Human-Robot Interaction

Cooperative Robotics

Robot Dynamics Modeling and Control

Networked Robotics

Robot Control Architectures

· Human-robot interaction and robot control. J. Sequeira and M.I. Ribeiro. In Robot Motion nd Control: Recent Developments, vol. 335, Springer Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, pp. 375-390, K. Kozlowski (ed.), 2006

· Semiotics and human-robot interaction. J. Sequeira and M.I. Ribeiro. In Human-Robot Interaction. I-Tech Education and Publishing, 2007

In books

In journals

In international conferences

Robotics (MSc in EEC), Spring 2013

Teaching

Research interests

Student supervision

Publications

The HANS system working on a real vehicle

Former students

Parking a model car using image data

A personal assistant robot for indoor operations — Concept and implementation

Localization and mapping of targets from an aerial vehicle (2012) -José Sousa

Architecture for augmented reality interface (2012) - Davide Periquito (co-supervision with Dr. Jacinto Nascimento)

Decision and control system for a solar powered train (2012) - Beatriz Féria

Experimental power supply for robot inspection of overhead power lines (2011) - Diogo Lopes (co-supervision with Prof. Fernando Silva)

Dynamics and Control of a Motorbike (2011) - Marco di Vittori

Contactless Power Supply for Transmission Line Inspection (2010) - João Caxias (co-supervised with Prof. Fernando Silva)

Anthropomorphic Locomotion of a Humanoid Robot (2010) - Carlos Neves (co-supervision with Prof. Rodrigo Ventura)

Automatic parking of a car using only a single low cost camera (2007) - Mário Florêncio / Pedro Agostinho

Automatic car driving in highways (2007) - André Gonçalves / André Godinho

Rational Trigonometry Applied to Robotics (2007) - João Pequito

A Personal Assistant Robot for Indoor Environments (2007) - Luís Tavares

Current students

Detecting Slippage in Race Cars (2011) - Bruno Tibério

A localization system for aircraft instrument landing (2011) -João Marques

Estimation of Physical Parameters of Spacecrafts (2012) - Tiago Milhano (co-supervision with Emanuele di Sotto from GMV)

Comparing real telemetry data (blue) with the model developed (red)

Section of Montmelo racetrack near Barcelona, Spain

Sensor data taken at a racetrack located in Lisbon outskirts

· Robust covariance estimation for data fusion from multiple sensors. J. Sequeira, Antonios Tsourdos, Samuel Lazarus. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 10(12), Dec. 2011

· Decentralized Sensor Fusion for Ubiquitous Networking Robotics in Urban Areas. A. Sanfeliu, J. Andrade-Cetto, M. Barbosa, R. Bowden, J. Capitán, A. Corominas, A. Gilbert, J. Illingworth, L. Merino, J. Mirats, P. Moreno, A. Ollero, J. Sequeira, M. Spaan. In Sensors Journal, 10(3):2274-2314,Open access, http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors, 2010

· Behavior-Based Cooperation Between Two Mobile Manipulators. J. Sequeira and M.I. Ribeiro. In Journal of Computer-Aided Engineering, 7(3):193-215, 2000

· Embedding Learning in Behaviour-Based Architectures: A Conceptual Approach. J. Sequeira, J. Millan, M.I. Ribeiro, J.M.G. Gonçalves. In Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 9(2):201-207, April 1998

· Robot Team Control: A Geometric Approach. J. Sequeira, M.I. Ribeiro. In Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 53:59-71, 2005

· A Semiotic Approach to the Control of Semi-Autonomous Robots. J. Sequeira, M.I. Ribeiro. In International Journal of Systems Science, 37(6):361-376, May 2006.

Contacts

joao.silva.sequeira@ist.utl.pt

tel: +351 218418057

IST, North Tower, ISR, Room 8.14, Av. Rovisco Pais 1, 1049-001, Lisbon, Portugal

Voltage and current at the transformer secondary

Projects |

Draft of a book on Robotics

(in Portuguese)

Introdução à Robótica

Caps 1 a 3, Caps 4 a 6

· Scale Estimators in Target mapping From an Aerial Vehicle. José Sousa, João Sequeira. To be presented at the 2013 IFAC Autonomous Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, June 2013

· A Stability Analysis for a Dynamical Robot Control Architecture. Jorge Silva, João Sequeira, Cristina Santos. To be presented at the 2013 IFAC Autonomous Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, June 2013

· Dynamical Systems in Robot Control Architectures: A Building Block Perspective. João Sequeira, Cristina Santos, Jorge Silva. Procs.12th Int. Conf. on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, ICARCV 2012, Guangzhou, China, 2012.

· S-estimators in mapping applications. J. Sequeira, Antonios Tsourdos, Hyo-Sang Shin. Procs. of the 15th Int. Conf. On Information Fusion, FUSION 2012, Singapore, 2012

· Timed Trajectory Generation Combined with an Extended Kalman Filter for a Vision-Based Autonomous Mobile Robot. J. Silva, C. Santos, J. Sequeira. Procs. of the 12th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, IAS-12, Jeju Island, Korea, 2012

· Designing Transformers for the Power Supply of a Transmission Line Inspection Robot. Fernando Silva, Diogo Lopes, João Sequeira. Procs. of the 7th Annual CIGRÉ Canada Conference on Power Systems, Montreal, Canada, 2012

· Motorbike Modeling and Control. J. Sequeira, M. de Vittori. Procs. of the ICINCO 2012 - 9th Int. Conf. on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, ICINCO 2012, Rome, Italy, 2012

· Transmission Line Inspection Robots: Design of the Power Supply System. J. Caxias, F.A. Silva, J. Sequeira. In 2010 1st International Conference on Applied Robotics for the Power Industry, Montreal, Canada, October 5-7, 2010.

· Multiagent Coordination by Auctioning POMDPs. M.T.J. Spaan, N. Gonçalves, J. Sequeira.In 2010 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2010), Anchorage, Alaska, May 3-8, 2010

· Task Assignment in Active Surveillance. N. Gonçalves, J. Sequeira. In 14th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2009, Aveiro, Portugal, October 12-15, 2009

· Multiagent Coordination by Auctioning POMDP Tasks. M.T.J. Spaan, N. Gonçalves, J. Sequeira. In Multi-Agent Sequential Decision Making in Uncertain Systems Workshop at the 8th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, MSDM/AAMAS 2009, Budapest, Hungary, May 10-15,

· Robust covariance estimation in sensor data fusion. J. Sequeira, A. Tsourdos, S.B. Lazarus. In 2009 IEEE Int Workshop on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics, Univ. of Denver, Colorado, USA, November 2009.

· ISRobotNet: A Testbed for Sensor and Robot Network Systems. M. Barbosa, A. Bernardino, D. Figueira, J. Gaspar, N. Gonçalves, P. Lima, P. Moreno, A. Paliani, J. Santos-Vitor, M. Spaan, J. Sequeira. In 2009 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. On Intelligent Robots and Systems, St Louis, USA, October 2009.

· Measuring motion expressiveness in wheeled mobile robots. J. Sequeira. In European Robotics Symposium 2008, Czech Republic, March 2008.

· Kinematic modeling of Stewart-Gough platforms. P. Cruz, R. Ferreira, J. Sequeira. In 2nd International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, ICINCO 2005, Barcelona, Spain September 2006.

· Automatic parallel parking of car-like robots. M. Florêncio, P. Agostinho, J. Sequeira. In 37th International Symposium on Robotics, ISR 2006, Munich, Germany, May 2006

· Modeling and Control of a Biped Robot. N. Gonçalves, P. Silva, J. Sequeira, M.I. Ribeiro. In 5th IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles, IAV 2004, Lisbon, July 2004

· A geometric approach to single and multiple robot control. J. Sequeira, M.I. Ribeiro. In 7th IFAC Symposium on Robot Control, Syroco 2003, Wroclaw, Poland, September 2003

· A layered approach to multiple robot control. J. Sequeira, M.I. Ribeiro. In 9th IEEE International Conference on Methods in Automation and Robotics, MMAR 2003, Miedzyzdroje, Poland, August 2003.

· Hybrid control of semi-autonomous robots. J. Sequeira, M.I. Ribeiro. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2004, Sendai, Japan, September 2004

· Low Cost Sensing for Autonomous Car Driving in Highways. A. Gonçalves, A. Godinho, J. Sequeira. In 4th Int. Conf. on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, ICINCO 2007, Robotics and Automation - Vol. 1, Angers, France, May, 2007.

· RIOL - Robotic Inspection Over Power Lines. L. Tavares, J. Sequeira. In 6th IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles, IAV 2007, Toulouse, France, September, 2007