Resume 

Armando Jorge Miranda de Sousa received his PhD in 2004, in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at University of Porto - Faculty of Engineering (FEUP). His thesis work was in the subarea of Robotics and Automation. He is currently an Auxiliary Professor in the ECE department of FEUP and an integrated researcher at the Centre for Intelligent and Industrial Systems (CRIIS) at the INESC TEC interface institute. He earned in 2014 the international pedagogical certification "ING.PAED.IGIP" from the International Society for Engineering Pedagogy. His main research areas include Automation, Robotics and Higher Education. As a frequent participant in robotic contests, he has earned several national and international merits -- examples: vice champion of RoboCup Robotic Soccer in 2006, two times "European" champion of RoboCup Robotic Soccer, winner of Autonomous Driving of Portuguese Robotics Open for several years. He has also earned educational awards such as the University of Porto (UP) excellence award in 2015 and 10 best at ECEL 2015 excellence e-learning awards. He has published over 80 indexed peer reviewed articles both in pedagogical issues and more technical areas. Furthermore, he also has an active patent entitled "Device and method for identifying a cork stopper and respective kit". He is also involved in educational and technical funded projects such as "IntelWheels 2" and "EIT CPPS 101". He is the local responsible for FEUP for the "Replant" mobilizer project. 

Work Areas

I am passionate about Education, and it is also a target of my research, including games for learning.
Additionally, I have become interested in sustainability and ethics.

Regarding more technical areas, I do research in the fields of Automation and Robotics, including agricultural/forestry robotics.
I have recentred my research to intelligent systems and data fusion, mainly using AI and ML, resulting in Intelligent Robotics and Intelligent Automation.

Work areas arranged by topics:

1. Automation & Robotics

   1. • "Intelligent" Automation - data fusion, intelligent control, time series, ...

      • "Intelligent" Robotics and Robot Learning - reinforcement learning, ...

      • Vision as a sensor - Point Clouds, Stereo, RGBD, extended spectrum vision systems, object detection...

      • Real Time "edge devices" / IoT...

2. (Higher) Education

   1. • Ethics and sustainability for engineers

      • Massification and technologies at the service of education

      • Games for learning

Regarding my patent, checkout Projects page, we called it "CorkID" project: 

• Title: Device and method for identifying a cork stopper and respective kit

• Link: https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2018078600 

Automated Curriculum ViTAE

Teach & Research

Teaching

List of classes taught at FEUP, by school year (jumps to FEUP's information system):

• https://sigarra.up.pt/feup/pt/DS_FUNC_RELATORIOS.LISTA_ANOS?pv_doc_codigo=236882&pv_outras_inst=S

Research Projects

List of projects (jumps to FEUP's information system):

• https://sigarra.up.pt/feup/pt/projectos_geral.lista_projectos?pi_cod_pessoa=236882

Supervisions

List of supervised M.Sc. dissertations and Ph.D. thesis  - ongoing and finished (jumps to FEUP's information system):

• https://sigarra.up.pt/feup/en/teses.teses_orientador?p_docente=236882&p_tipo_lista=T

Full texts available from this search in the open repository of U.Porto (jumps to UP's open repository of dissertations and thesis):

• https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/152/simple-search?location=10216%2F152&query=Armando+Jorge+Miranda+de+Sousa&filtername=type&filtertype=equals&filterquery=Disserta%C3%A7%C3%A3o&rpp=10&sort_by=score&order=desc

Source Code

• Several C++ VSCode examples: https://gitlab.com/feup_psw  

• Other Git repo's:

  • https://github.com/asousa-feup?tab=repositories 

  • https://gitlab.com/users/asousa-feup/contributed    

  • https://gitlab.com/users/asousa-feup/projects 

My MSc and PhD

Full text of my M.Sc. and Ph.D. (jumps to UP's open repository of dissertations and thesis):

• My MSc --- Title "Desenvolvimento de controlador avançado para sistema embebido" - https://hdl.handle.net/10216/10977

• My PhD --- Title "Arquitecturas de sistemas robóticos e licalização em tempo real através de visão : Aplicações no domínio do futebol robótico" - https://hdl.handle.net/10216/12014 

PhD graduates

By chronological order:

1. 2015-11-04 -  Vision and knowledge representation methodologies for game analysis - Catarina Maria Brito de Noronha Santiago - ProDEI - FEUP - https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/82000 

2. 2019-04-10 - Vision Methods to Find Uniqueness Within a Class of Objects - Valter Joaquim Ramos Costa - ProDEI - FEUP - https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/119624 

3. 27-01-2023 - Localization and Mapping based on Semantic and Multi-Layer Maps Concepts - André Silva Pinto de Aguiar - PDEEC - UTAD

Current PhD supervisions

• ForestMP: Multimodal Perception system for robotics in forestry applications - Daniel Queirós da Silva - PDEEC - UTAD 

• 'PlanterRobot4.0' - Soil Perception System Leading to Robotized Tree Plantation and Maintenance in the context of Agriculture 4.0 - Rui Manuel Pereira Coutinho - PDEEC - FEUP

• Robotic Bin Picking of Flexible Entangled Tubes - Gonçalo da Mota Laranjeira Torres Leão - ProDEI - FEUP

• Formação Ética em Engenharia com Recurso a Metodologias Ativas: Caso de Estudo em Engenharia Eletrotécnica - Maria de Fátima Coelho Monteiro - PDEEC FEUP

• Carlos Miguel Correia da Costa - ProDEI - FEUP

• José Carlos Lobinho Gomes - ProDEI - FEUP

Checkout other project in the projects page

asousa  ~at~  fe.up.pt