I received my Ph.D. degree in Control Science from the Univ. Minnesota, Mpls, USA in 1987. From 1987-88 I was a Research Scientist with Integrated Systems Incorporated, Santa Clara, California. Since 1988 I have been with the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST), Lisbon, PT where I lecture in the areas of Control and Robotics. From 1996-1998 I was a Visiting Associate Professor with the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the US Naval Postgraduate School of Monterey, California.

 

I´m currently an Associate Professor of IST, a senior researcher with the Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR)/Dynamical Systems and Ocean Robotics (DSOR) group, and coordinator of the Thematic Area “Technologies for Ocean Exploration and Exploitation” of the Associate Laboratory of Robotics and Engineering Systems (LARSyS). Since 2012, I have been an Adjunct Scientist with the National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, India. I´m a member of the Editorial Board of the Springer Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation Book Series. I was elected Chair, IFAC Technical Committee Marine Systems, from 2008-2014. I have coordinated and participated in a large number of international projects that have led to the design, development, and field-testing of single and multiple autonomous marine and air vehicles and systems in cooperation with partners in India (National Institute of Oceanography, Goa), USA (Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA), Korea (KAIST, Daejeon), and Europe. My research interests include Dynamical Systems Theory, Marine Robotics, Navigation, Guidance, and Control of Autonomous Vehicles, and Networked Control and Estimation with applications to air and underwater robots. 

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