Pedro Lima

Pedro Lima - Universidad Técnica de Lisboa (Portugal)

Pedro Lima graduated in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Lisbon Technical University, Portugal, where he also took his MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY.

Dr. Lima is an Associate Professor at the Lisbon Higher Technical Institute (IST) at Lisbon Technical University (UTL). He is also the Portuguese National Delegate to the European Space Agency’s Programme Board for Human Spaceflight Microgravity and Exploration (PB-HME) and President and founding member of the Portuguese Robotics Society, among other important areas of service in the field of Robotics.

His research interests are in intelligent control systems, applications of discrete event dynamic systems theory and planning under uncertainty to the real-time control and operation of large-scale complex systems (mainly Robotics, especially multi-robot systems), among others. He has published numerous articles and co-authored two books with Dejan Milutinovic and George Saridis.

Dr. Lima is a member of the Institute for Systems and Robotics at Lisbon (ISR/IST), where he coordinates the Intelligent Systems group, and is an elected member of the new IST Scientific Council

RESEARCH STAY AT UC3M: SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND AUTOMATION DEPARTMENT

PROJECT: To bring a decision-theoretic and discrete event systems approaches to humanrobot interaction research, namely when robot collectives are involved.

STAY PERIOD: FEB 10 - JUL 10

Publications

1. "Robot Formations Control Using Fast Marching", Santiago Garrido, Luis Moreno, Pedro U. Lima, submitted to Elsevier's Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems.
2. "Controlling a Social Robot Using LTL Specifications", Bruno Lacerda, Pedro U. Lima, Miguel A. Salichs, Javi Gorostiza, in preparation to be submitted to IEEE lCRA 2011