Research

Topics:

• Discrete Event System (namely Petri net) models of robot tasks

• (POMDPs, MDPs, Reinforcement Learning) for real robots

• Cooperative (Active) Perception

• Formation State Estimation and Control

• Applications to Networked Robot Systems and Multi-Robot Systems

• Multidisciplinarity (bio-inspired robot swarms, social science models of coordination for robot collectives)

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Awards:

• member of Iberian Robotics Team: MBZIRC2020 Challenge 3 winner

• Best Application Paper Award, IROS 2012, Vilamoura, Portugal, Oct 2012: “Robust Acoustic Source Localization of Emergency Signals from Micro Air Vehicles”, Meysam Basiri, F. Schill, Pedro Lima, D. Floreano

• Best Philosopy Paper Award da ECAL 2007, Lisboa, Portugal, Sep 2007, “Institutional Robotics”, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima

• RoboCup 2000 Workshop Engineering Challenge Award: “A Localization Method for a Soccer Robot Using a Vision-Based Omni-Directional Sensor", Carlos Marques, Pedro Lima