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Luís Paulo Reis

Luís Paulo Gonçalves dos Reis was born in Porto, Portugal on October the 15 of 1970. He graduated in 1993 at the Faculty of Engineering of Porto University in Electronics and Computers Engineering (a five-year degree). He got his Master of Science (two years) degree in Electronic and Computers Engineering (Industrial Informatics) in 1995 developing work in the Image Processing Area. His MSc thesis was entitled ("An Integrated Contour Detection and Tracking System"). He is now finishing his PhD at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (NIAD&R – Distributed Artificial Intelligence & Robotics Group). His work is concerned with Coordination and Scheduling in Multi-Agent Systems.

Luis Paulo is a researcher at LIACC (Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Lab.) of the University of Porto). He is also an invited lecturer at University Fernando Pessoa in Porto and at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto.

In the past years he won several awards, including the Eng. António Almeida Prize (1994), Portuguese National Prize of Engineering (1994), APRP award (1994), Century Prize from the Faculty of Engineering of Porto University (1996), Innovation award in a Micro-Mouse robotic competition (1999), a Micro-Mouse simulation competition (2001) and several RoboCup competitions (2000 and 2001).

Luis Paulo Reis is one of the team leaders of FC Portugal that won RoboCup European and World championship (simulation league) in 2000 and a member of 5dpo team (small-size and middle-size). He is also a member of RoboCup simulation league technical committee.

Present research interests include Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Multi Agent Systems, Negotiation, Coordination and Cooperation, Intelligent Robotics, Constraint Satisfaction, Timetabling and Scheduling. 

Pedro Lima

Pedro Lima got his Licenciatura (5 years), and his M.Sc. degrees in 1984 and 1989, respectively, both in Electrical and Computers Engineering, at the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon Technical University, Portugal, and his Ph.D. (1994) in Electrical Engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA. He was a lecturer at IST from 1982 to 1994. Since 1994, he is an Assistant Professor at the same faculty. He is also a member of the Institute for Systems and Robotics, a Portuguese private research institution, where he is the coordinator of the Intelligent Control group and a member of the Scientific Council.

Pedro Lima is member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Intelligent Control and Systems, published by World Scientific Publishing Co, and of the Portuguese magazine Robótica. He is the co-editor of two special issues of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine (one on Robotics projects funded by the European Union, another on RoboCup 2001) and is the co-author of a book. 

Since September 2000, Pedro Lima is member of the Executive Committee of the RoboCup Federation, was the chair of the middle-size league of RoboCup 2001, held in Seattle, USA, and will be co-chair of the RoboCup 2002 Conference, to be held in Fukuoka, Japan. He is also a member of the IEEE.

His scientific interests are in the areas of hybrid systems, discrete event systems and reinforcement learning, mainly in their applications to complex large-scale systems, such as multi-robot systems.

Nuno Lau

Nuno Lau is a lecturer and researcher at Aveiro University, Portugal, where he is currently finishing is PhD in electrical engineering. He got is engineering degree from Oporto University in 1993, and a DEA degree in Biomedical engineering from Claude Bernard University, Lyon, France in 1994. Nuno Lau is the author of more than forty publications in international conferences and journals.

Nuno Lau is one of the team leaders of FC Portugal team that became European and World champion of RoboCup (simulation league) in 2000.

His research interests include Reconfigurable Systems, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Operating Systems and Computational Systems.

Paulo Costa

Paulo José Costa graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Oporto, in 1991. Then, he pursued graduate studies at the Oporto University, obtaining a MSc degree in Electrical Engineering - Systems in 1995, and a PhD. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2000.

From 1992 to 2000 he also worked as an assistant lecturer in the Electrical Engineering Department of the Oporto University. Presently he is a Lecturer in Electrical Engineering, developing his research within the Control Systems and Technology Group of ISR (Institute for Systems and Robotics) - Porto.

Since 1998 he is team leader of 5dpo small size league team and a member of 5dpo middle-size team. 5dpo was third in the small-size league of RoboCup 98 championship, held in Paris, and won the German Open 2001 (European championship) held in Paderborn, Germany. Since August 2001, he is also a member of the RoboCup small-size league technical committee.

His main research interests are: Real Time Vision, Control and Estimation, usually applied in Mobile Robotics.

António Paulo Moreira

António Paulo Moreira graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Oporto, in 1986. Then, he pursued graduate studies at the Oporto University, obtaining a MSc degree in Electrical Engineering - Systems in 1991, and a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering in 1998. From 1986 to 1998 he also worked as an assistant lecturer in the Electrical Engineering Department of the Oporto University. Presently he is a Lecturer in Electrical Engineering, developing his research within the Control Systems and Technology Group of ISR (Institute for Systems and Robotics) - Porto.

He is a member of 5dpo team and the team leader of 5dpo middle-size league team that was third in RoboCup 2001 German Open (European championship) held in Paderborn Germany.

His main research interests are Process Control and Mobile Robotics.

Fernando Ribeiro

Fernando Ribeiro (born in 1966 in Guimaraes, Portugal) studied Computer Science/Applied Mathematics at the University Portucalense in Porto, Portugal, where he stayed lecturing for three years (1988-1991). He then went to Cranfield Institute of Technology, Cranfield, UK, where he received his MSc degree on Industrial Robotics in 1992 with a thesis based on developing image processing tools for measuring steel beam straightness. This work is now being commercialized by Integral Vision and is being used at British Steel. During his MSc a group project was carried out for British AeroSpace entitled "Fully Automated Factory for Manufacturing Composite Materials Aeroplanes". 

He obtained his PhD on 1995 at Cranfield University, Cranfield, UK, on Rapid Prototyping using robots. This project was sponsored by Rolls-Royce. Since then, he is a researcher and Auxiliary Professor at the Department of Industrial Electronics at the University of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal.

Fernando Ribeiro is the team leader of Minho Team, one of the portuguese RoboCup middle-size league teams. In the past years he participated in over 12 scientific mobile robotics competitions. 

His main research areas are on Mobile and Autonomous Robotics, Image Processing, Simulation and Multimedia. 

 

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Last updated: Dezembro 10, 2001.