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IFAC'11 Workshop Multiple Vehicle Motion Planning, Navigation, and Control: Theory and Practice, Aug. 2011, Milano, Italy.
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IFAC'08 Workshop Cooperative Control of Multiple Autonomous Vehicles, Jul. 2008, Seoul, Korea.
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CDC'06 Workshop New Developments in Point-Stabilization, Trajectory-Tracking, Path-Following, and Formation Control of Autonomous Vehicles, Dec. 2006, San Diego, CA, USA.
CDC-ECC’05 Workshop New Developments in Control Performance Limitation Research: A Tale in the Network Age, Dec. 11, 2005, Seville, Spain.

António Pedro Aguiar

Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR)
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Torre Norte – 8.13
Av. Rovisco Pais, 1
1049-001 Lisbon, PORTUGAL
E-mail:
Tel: +351 21 841 8056
Fax: +351 21 841 8291
URL: http://omni.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pedro

Brief Biography

A. Pedro Aguiar received the Licenciatura, M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal in 1994, 1998 and 2002, respectively. From 2002 to 2005, he was a post-doctoral researcher at the Center for Control, Dynamical-Systems, and Computation at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Currently, Dr. Aguiar holds an Assistant Professor position with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, and a Senior Researcher position with the Institute for Systems and Robotics, Instituto Superior Técnico (ISR/IST).

His research interests include modeling, control, navigation, and guidance of autonomous robotic vehicles, nonlinear control, switched and hybrid systems, tracking, path-following, performance limitations, nonlinear observers, the integration of machine vision with feedback control, networked control, and coordinated/cooperative control of multiple autonomous robotic vehicles.

Postdoctoral Researcher, May 2002 – Jun 2005

Center for Control, Dynamical-systems, and Computation (CCDC)
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), CA 93106-9560 USA.
Supervisors: Prof. João P. Hespanha and Prof. Petar Kokotović

Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2002

Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR)
Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon (IST/UTL), Portugal.
Ph.D. Advisor: Prof. António M. Pascoal
Dissertation Title: Nonlinear Motion Control of Nonholonomic and Underactuated Systems

M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1998

Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon (IST/UTL), Portugal.
Ph.D. Advisor: Prof. António M. Pascoal
Dissertation Title: Modeling, Control, and Guidance of Autonomous Underwater Shuttle for the Transport of Benthic Laboratories