Professional Experience

I am a Research Scientist at CTI Renato Archer, Brazil, in the Division of Robotics and Computer Vision.

• My undergraduation was in Electrical Engineer 1979 in UFSC- Brazil
• MSc: In 1986 I received a MSC in UNICAMP - Brazil, that was about robot manipulators. . The work Trajectory Generation for robot manipulators: Kinematics and computation aspects, involves geometric modeling for manipulators, trajectory control and software infrastructure The work is available in Portuguese here
• PhD: Very late in 2002, I finished my PhD in UFSC-Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. My PhD work was about a Robotic Airship. The work contributed to one the first flight of a robotic airship. It was partially developed in CMU-USA (2000) with the advisory of Reid Simmons - the work at CMU was about the integration of a Robotic Software Architecture into an airship control system.The PhD work as "Contribution to the Development of Robotics Airships" (in Brazilian Portuguesese)
• Post Doc:-1 My Post-Doc work was developed in 2004 at CMU-USA under the advisory of Sanjiv Singh and Reid Simmons and it was about the integration of a low cost robot, the Evolution Robotics ER1, into a robot team to perform assembly tasks in the Trestle project.
• Post Doc:-2 In 2013 (Jan 2013 - Dez 2013) it was with Reid Simmons about Human Robot Interaction.

I have been working in a lot of robot projects since I started my career, including

• Automatic testing and assembly machines (1980-1983) (link)
• Robot Manipulators (1983-1991) ( link )
• Unmanned Helicopter (1992-1995), ( link )
• AURORA, an Unmanned Airship - 1997 to Today; ( link )
• Multi Robot Systems (CMU´s DIRA (Distributed Robot Architecture) project in 2000), (link) and Movie (link)
• Multi Robot Systems in CMU´s Trestle Project ( Autonomous Assembly by Teams of Coordinated Robots)(2004) (link) and movies (link)
• Pedagogical Robotics 2006 to today; ( link )
• Mobile Robots 2005 to today and in an Unmanned Ground Vehicle - Vero Project 2009. ( link )
• Human Robot Interaction Since 2013 (link)

My research interests are hardware and software for robots systems, from hardware software definition to systems deployment. Lately my main interest is Human Robot Interaction