João Silva Sequeira

Social Robotics & Human-Robot Interaction

Robotics for Society

Architectural aspects of Robotics, including robot modeling and control, networked and cooperative Robotics, and systems integration

R&D activities in the framework of Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal

• Project PIP 2022, Plataforma Robótica Sensorizada (PRoS), pedagogical project.

• Robot for Inspection of Overhead Power Lines (collaboration with REN, Portugal).

• Automating Diabetic Foot assessment.

• Development of robotic canes for people with mild locomotion disabilities.

R&D activities in the framework of Institute for Systems and Robotics, Lisbon, Portugal

• Project R&D in Co-Promotion Nº 033739, IoKT - Internet of Kinematic Things

• VIENA - Intelligent Electric Vehicle with Autonomous Navigation (Co-Coordinator)

• FP7-ICT-2011-9-601033, MOnarCH - Multi-Robot Cognitive Systems Operating in Hospitals (General Coordinator)

• Project ESA GMVAD MVFLAU/IST 31575/13, Feasibility Study of In-Flight Model Validation and Performance Analysis of Launchers GNC

• Project AIE4T/ADIST GMVSKY 30880/13 - Autonomous Inertia Estimation for Transportation 

• Helianto - Solar Powered Train

• FP6-2005-ICT-6-045062, URUS - Ubiquitous Robots in Urban Systems

• EURON Research Atelier on Networked Robotics, RA-507728 

• POSC/EEA-SRI/60775/2004, RIOL - Robotics Inspection Over Power Lines (Coordinator)

• POSI/SRI/40999/2001, SACOR - Semi-Autonomous Cooperating Robots (Coordinator)

• PRAXIS 2/2.1/TPAR/2087/95 - POSI/EEI/2087/95/2001, COOPERA - Cooperation Among Autonomous Robots

• PO-ROBOT, Multi-Purpose Portuguese Flexible Mobile Robot 

• ESPRIT II #2192 -Advanced Multi-Sensor System for Control of Boilers and Furnaces (AIMBURN) 

Editorial activities

• (Co) Guest Editor of the MDPI Sensors Journal, Special Issue on Sensing for Social Robots (with Rodrigo Ventura) 

• Guest Editor of the MDPI Sustainability Journal, Special Issue on Human-Robot Interaction, Wellbeing, and Stress Management

• Topic Editor of the MDPI Robotics Journal

• Topic Editor of the MDPI Sensors Journal

• Review Editor of the Frontiers in Robotics and AI Journal

Events

General Co-Chair of the International Conference on Robot Ethics (ICRE 2015),  and International Conference on Robot Ethics and Safety Standards (ICRESS 2017)

Current courses at IST Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Robotics (MSc in ECE), Winter P2, 2022-2023

Social Robotics (PhD in ECE), Winter P2, 2022-2023

Supplementary materials

Draft of a book on Robotics (in Portuguese): Introdução à Robótica, Chapters 1 to 6

Portfolio of selected works by former students

Books / Book Chapters

Introdução à Robótica. João S. Sequeira. Draft under evaluation for publishing, 2022 (in Portuguese)

Introdução ao Controlo em Tempo Contínuo: Exercícios Resolvidos. João S. Sequeira. IST Press, 2018 (in Portuguese)

Developing a Social Robot – a Case Study. João S. Sequeira. In Robotics in Healthcare: Field Examples and Challenges, João S. Sequeira (Ed). Springer-Nature Series in Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 1170. ISBN 978-3-030-24229-9. March 2020

Humans and Robots: A New Social Order in Perspective?. João Sequeira. In Robots and Well-Being. M.I. Ferreira, João S. Sequeira, Gurvinder S. Virk, M. Osman Tokhi, Endre E. Kadar (Eds). Springer Series on Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering 95, 2019

Human-Robot Interaction. Hande Ayanoglu, João S. Sequeira. In Emotional Design in Human-Robot Interaction – Theory, Methods and Applications. Handle Ayanoglu, Emília Duarte (Eds). Springer Human-Computer Interaction Series, 2019. ISBN 978-3-319-96722-6

A Motivational Case-Study in Robotics. João S. Sequeira, Ana Nunes Barata, Maria Filomena Pereira. In Emotional Design in Human-Robot Interaction – Theory, Methods and Applications. Handle Ayanoglu, Emília Duarte (Eds). Springer Human-Computer Interaction Series, 2019. ISBN 978-3-319-96722-6

Ethics. João S. Sequeira. In Emotional Design in Human-Robot Interaction – Theory, Methods and Applications. Handle Ayanoglu, Emília Duarte (Eds). Springer Human-Computer Interaction Series, 2019. ISBN 978-3-319-96722-6

Robótica. João S. Sequeira, José Santos-Víctor. In Ética Aplicada: Novas Tecnologias. Maria do Céu Patrão Neves, Maria da Graça Carvalho (Eds.). Colecção Ética Aplicada. Edições 70 e Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento, 2018 (in Portuguese)

Robots in Ageing Societies. M.I. Ferreira, João Sequeira. In A World with Robots. M.I. Ferreira, João Sequeira, M. Osman Tokhi, Endre Kadar, Gurvinder Virk (Eds). International Conference on Robot Ethics: ICRE2015. Springer Series on Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering 84, 2017

Semiotics and human-robot interaction. J. Sequeira and M.I. Ribeiro. In Human-Robot Interaction. I-Tech Education and Publishing, 2007

Human-robot interaction and robot control. J. Sequeira and M.I. Ribeiro. In Robot Motion and Control: Recent Developments, vol. 335, Springer Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, pp. 375-390, K. Kozlowski (Ed.), 2006

ROS in the MOnarCH Project: A Case Study in Networked Robot Systems. J. Messias, R. Ventura, P. Lima, J. Sequeira. Springer ROS book 2015

Book Editor

Robotics in Healthcare: Field Examples and Challenges. João S. Sequeira (Ed). Springer-Nature Series in Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 1170. ISBN 978-3-030-24229-9. Springer-Nature, March 2020

Robotics and Well-Being. M.I. Ferreira, João S. Sequeira, Gurvinder S. Virk, M. Osman Tokhi, Endre E. Kadar (Eds). Springer Series on Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering 95, 2019

Cognitive Architectures. M.I. Ferreira, João S. Sequeira, Rodrigo Ventura (Eds), Springer Series on Intelligent Systems, Springer Series on Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering 94, 2018

A World with Robots. M.I. Ferreira, João Sequeira, M. Osman Tokhi, Endre Kadar, Gurvinder Virk (Eds). International Conference on Robot Ethics: ICRE2015. Springer Series on Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering 84, 2017

European Projects: In Knowledge Applications and Intelligent Systems. Joaquim Filipe, João Sequeira, Hugo Silva, Ricardo Machado (Eds), Lisbon and Porto, July-November 2016. ScitePress Publishing, 2018

Robotics in Healthcare: Field examples and Challenges. João S. Sequeira (Ed.), Springer Series in Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 1170, 2020

Journals

Lightweight and compact smart walking cane. Gonçalo M. Neves, João Silva Sequeira, Cristina P. Santos. PeerJ on Computer Science.  November 2023.

Tuning path tracking controllers for autonomous cars using reinforcement learning. Ana Vilaça Carrasco, João Silva Sequeira. PeerJ on Computer Science.  September 2023.

IMU Networks for Trajectory  Reconstruction in Logistics Applications. João Silva Sequeira.  Sensors 23(18), 7838. Special Issue on Sensors for Navigation and Control Systems: 2nd  Edition. Open Access Journal by MDPI. Available online at https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/18/7838/pdf, 2023.

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and OSH. João Silva Sequeira, Kate Palmer, Annick Starren. Review Article OSHA/2022/VLVP/0019, European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, 2022.

Asynchronous Federated Learning System for Human-Robot Touch Interaction. Fernando Alonso Alonso Martín, Juan José Gamboa Montero, Sara Marqués Villaroya, Joao Sequeira, Miguel Ángel Salichs Sánchez-Caballero. Journal of Expert Systems With Applications. 2022.

Do we really need to understand social robots? A reflection on the semiosis for the near future. João S. Sequeira. Open Semiotics 2023, Amir Biglari (Ed.). L’Harmattan, Paris.

Can Social Robots Make Societies More Human? João S. Sequeira. Information, special issue on Roboethics (ISSN 2078-2489). S. Tzafestas (Ed.). MDPI  Open Access publishing, Basel, Switzerland, December 2018.

A Probabilistic Approach to RFID-Based Localization for Human-Robot Interaction in Social Robotics. João Sequeira, Duarte Gameiro. Electronics 6(2), 32, Special Issue on RFID Systems and Applications, doi:10.3390/electronics6020032, April 2017.

A robot control architecture supported on contraction theory. Jorge Silva, João Sequeira, Cristina Santos. International Journal of Systems Science, June 2016.

Field Results of a Navigation Architecture with Timing Constraints. Jorge Silva, João Sequeira, Cristina Santos. Journal of Robotics, volume 2015, 2015.

The Concept of [Robot] in Children and Teens: Some Guidelines to the Design of Social Robots. Isabel Ferreira, João Silva Sequeira. International Journal of Signs and Semiotics Systems, 3(2):35-47, July-December 2014.

A Multimodal Emotion Detection System during Human-Robot Interaction. Fernando Alonso-Martín, María Malfaz, João Sequeira, Javier F. Gorostiza, Miguel A. Salichs. Sensors Journal, vol 13, 2013.

Distributed Active Traction Control System Applied to the RoboCup Middle Size League. José Almeida, André Dias, Alfredo Martins, João Sequeira, Eduardo Silva. Int. Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2013, Vol. 10, 363.

Robust covariance estimation for data fusion from multiple sensors. J. Sequeira, Antonios Tsourdos, Samuel Lazarus. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 10(12), Dec. 2011.

Decentralized Sensor Fusion for Ubiquitous Networking Robotics in Urban Areas. A. Sanfeliu, J. Andrade-Cetto, M. Barbosa, R. Bowden, J. Capitán, A. Corominas, A. Gilbert, J. Illingworth, L. Merino, J. Mirats, P. Moreno, A. Ollero, J. Sequeira, M. Spaan. In Sensors Journal, 10(3):2274-2314,Open access, http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors, 2010.

Behavior-Based Cooperation Between Two Mobile Manipulators. J. Sequeira and M.I. Ribeiro. In Journal of Computer-Aided Engineering, 7(3):193-215, 2000.

Embedding Learning in Behaviour-Based Architectures: A Conceptual Approach. J. Sequeira, J. Millan, M.I. Ribeiro, J.M.G. Gonçalves. In Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 9(2):201-207, April 1998.

Robot Team Control: A Geometric Approach. J. Sequeira, M.I. Ribeiro. In Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 53:59-71, 2005.

A Semiotic Approach to the Control of Semi-Autonomous Robots. J. Sequeira, M.I. Ribeiro. In International Journal of Systems Science, 37(6):361-376, May 2006.

International Conferences

Perception of Social Behaviours in Robots. Joana Sá, João Silva Sequeira. To be presented at the 11th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RiTA), Taicang, China, December 6-8, 2023.

Exploring Behaviours for Social Robots. Joana Sá, João Silva Sequeira. Procs. 26th International Conference Series on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines. Florianópolis, Brazil, October 2-4, 2023 (companion media content here).

Tuning Path Tracking Controllers for Autonomous Cars Using Reinforcement Learning. Ana Vilaça Carrasco, João Silva Sequeira. Procs. 10th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RiTA 2022), December 7 - 9, 2022, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, Australia. (Best Intelligence Paper Award).

Control of a robot cane for locomotion assistance. 15th APCA Int. Conf. on Automatic Control and Soft Computing (Controlo 2022). Pedro Bollinger, Gonçalo M. Neves, João S. Sequeira. Caparica, Lisbon, Portugal, 6-8 July 2022.

Development of a robotic cane for mild locomotion assistance. Gonçalo Neves, João Silva Sequeira, Cristina Santos. Procs. 9th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RiTA 2021),  Dec 16-17, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea, 2021. (Best System Paper Award).

A Review of Nonsmooth Systems for Social Robotics. João Silva Sequeira. Procs. 9th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RiTA 2021),  Dec 16-17, KAIST, Daejeon, 2021.

Lightweight locomotion assistant for people with mild disabilities. Gonçalo Neves, João Silva Sequeira, Cristina Santos. Proc. 24th Int. Conf. on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines (CLAWAR) 2021. Takarazuka, Japan 20 August - 1 September. (Best Student Paper Award).

Profiling ECE Students Through Horizontal Skills. 4th Int. Conf. of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education, 21-23 June, Lisbon, Portugal, 2021.

A Review of Supercoiled Polymer Artificial Muscles. Gabriel Silva, João Silva Sequeira. Proc. 8th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RiTA 2020). 11-13 December 2020.

Designing and Validating a Blockchain-based Architecture to Enforce Privacy in Human Robot Interaction. Viktor Vasylkovskyi, Sérgio Guerreiro, João Silva Sequeira. Procs. Hawai’i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-54), January 5-8, 2021.

Blockchain-based Architecture to Enforce Privacy in Human Robot Interaction. Viktor Vasylkovskyi, Sérgio Guerreiro, João Silva Sequeira. Procs. 2nd International Workshop on Blockchain Technologies for Robotic Systems (BCT4ROS’2020), 15 September 2020.

BlockRobot: Increasing Privacy in Human Robot Interaction by Using Blockchain. Viktor Vasylkovskyi, Sérgio Guerreiro, João Silva Sequeira. Procs. 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain. 4 January 2021.

Kernel Modeling for Synthetic Personality. João S. Sequeira. Procs. 2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (IEEE Robio 2019), Dali Yunnan, China, 6-8 December 2019 

Approximating Viability Kernels High-Dimensional Linear Systems. André Carvalho, João Sequeira. Procs. European Control Conference (ECC’19), Naples, Italy, June 25-28, 2019 

Social Robot Intelligence and Network Consensus. João Sequeira. Procs. The 6th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications 2018 (RiTA 2018). Kuala Lumpur, 16-18 December 2018 

Approximating Viability Kernels of Non-Linear Systems. André Carvalho, João Sequeira. Procs. Int. Conf. Informatics in Control, Automation, and Robotics (ICINCO 2018), Porto, 29-31 July 2018

Humans and Robots: A New Social order in Perspective ? João Sequeira. Procs. Int. Conf. on Robot Ethics and Safety Standards (ICRESS 2017), Lisbon, 20-21 October, 2017

Dependability in Robotics as a Consensus Problem. João S. Sequeira. Procs. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2017, December 5-8, Macau SAR, China, 2017

Social Environments Modeling from Kinect Data in Robotics Applications. Catarina Lima, João Sequeira. Procs. Int. Conf. on Computer Human Interaction Research and Applications, CHIRA 2017, Funchal, Madeira, October 31—November, 2017

Evaluation of Experiments in Social Robotics: Insights from the MOnarCH Project. João Sequeira. Procs. 26th IEEE Int. Symp. on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2017, Lisbon, Portugal, August 28– September 1, 2017

Making Believe or Just Pretending: The Problem of Deception in Children/Robots Interaction. Isabel Ferreira, João Sequeira. Procs. 19th Int. Conf. on Climbing and Walking Robots and Support Technologies for Mobile Machines (CLAWAR 2016), London, 12-14 September 2016

Lessons from the MOnarCH Project. João Sequeira, Isabel Ferreira. Procs. 13th Int. Conf. on Informatics in Control, Automation, and Robotics (ICINCO 2016), Lisbon, 29-31 July 2016

Designing a Robotic Interface for Children: The Monarch Robot Example. Isabel Ferreira, João Sequeira. Procs. 19th Int. Conf. on Climbing and Walking Robots and Support Technologies for Mobile Machines (CLAWAR 2016), London, 12-14 September 2016

Reaction Sphere Actuator. António Craveiro, João Sequeira. Procs. 20th IFAC Symposium in Aerospace, ACA 2016, August 2016, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada (Best Paper Award—2nd prize)

Assessing Human-Robot Interaction: The Role of Long-Run Experiments. João Sequeira, Isabel Ferreira. Procs of CLAWAR 2015, 18th Int. Conf. on Climbing and Walking Robots, 6-9 September, Hangzhou, China (Best paper award)

RFID-Based People Detection for Human-Robot Interaction. Duarte Gameiro, João Sequeira. Procs. Robot2015, 19-20 November Lisbon, Portugal, 2015.

Human-aware navigation using external omnidirectional cameras. André Mateus, Pedro Miraldo, Pedro U Lima, João Sequeira. Procs. Robot 2015: Second Iberian Robotics Conference. Springer, 2015

A cooperative heterogeneous Unmanned Autonomous Systems solution for monitoring and inspecting power distribution system. Saeed Pirbodaghi, Dinesh Thangarajan, Teo Hung Liang, Madhavan Shanmugavel, Veera Ragavan, Joao Silva Sequeira. Procs. 2015 International Conference on Control, Instrumentation, Communication and Computational Technologies (ICCICCT), p:495-502, 2019 

Spacecraft Parameter Estimation Using S-Estimator. T. Milhano, J. Sequeira, E. Di Sotto. Procs. of GNC 2014: 9th International ESA Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control Systems, 2-6 June 2014, Oporto, Portugal

A robotic platform for edutainment activities in a pediatric hospital. J Messias, R Ventura, P Lima, J Sequeira, P Alvito, C Marques, P Carriço. Procs. 2014 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC), p:193-198, 2014

MOnarCH: Multi-robot cognitive systems operating in hospitals. Joao Sequeira, Pedro Lima, Alessandro Saffiotti, Victor Gonzalez-Pacheco, Miguel Angel Salichs. ICRA 3012 Workshop on Many Robot Systems, 2013 

Using S-Estimators in Parameter Identification. Tiago Milhano, João Sequeira, Emanuele Di Sotto. Procs. FUSION 2013, Istambul, Turkey, July 2013

Viability Study on Supervisory Control for a Solar Powered Train. Beatriz Féria, João Sequeira. Procs. SIMULTECH 2013, Iceland, July 2013

Navigation Architecture for Mobile Robots with Temporal Stabilization of Movements. Jorge Silva, Cristina Santos, João Sequeira. Procs. ROMOCO 2013

Scale Estimators in Target mapping From an Aerial Vehicle. José Sousa, João Sequeira. Procs. 2013 IFAC Autonomous Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Gold Coast, Australia, June 2013

A Stability Analysis for a Dynamical Robot Control Architecture. Jorge Silva, João Sequeira, Cristina Santos. Procs. 2013 IFAC Autonomous Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Gold Coast, Australia, June 2013

Vision-based Hand Pose Estimation-A Mixed Bottom-up and Top-down Approach. Davide Periquito, Jacinto C. Nascimento, Alexandre Bernardino, João Sequeira. Procs. VISAPP, p:566-573, 2013

Developing a timed navigation architecture for hospital delivery robots. J.B. Silva, Cristina Santos, João Sequeira. Procs. 2013 IEEE 3rd Portuguese Meeting in Bioengineering (ENBENG), 2013 

Dynamical Systems in Robot Control Architectures: A Building Block Perspective. João Sequeira, Cristina Santos, Jorge Silva. Procs.12th Int. Conf. on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, ICARCV 2012, Guangzhou, China, 2012.

S-estimators in mapping applications. J. Sequeira, Antonios Tsourdos, Hyo-Sang Shin. Procs. of the 15th Int. Conf. On Information Fusion, FUSION 2012, Singapore, 2012

Timed Trajectory Generation Combined with an Extended Kalman Filter for a Vision-Based Autonomous Mobile Robot. J. Silva, C. Santos, J. Sequeira. Procs. of the 12th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, IAS-12, Jeju Island, Korea, 2012

Designing Transformers for the Power Supply of a Transmission Line Inspection Robot. Fernando Silva, Diogo Lopes, João Sequeira. Procs. of the 7th Annual CIGRÉ Canada Conference on Power Systems, Montreal, Canada, 2012

Motorbike Modeling and Control. J. Sequeira, M. de Vittori. Procs. of the ICINCO 2012 - 9th Int. Conf. on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, ICINCO 2012, Rome, Italy, 2012

Transmission Line Inspection Robots: Design of the Power Supply System. J. Caxias, F.A. Silva, J. Sequeira. In 2010 1st International Conference on Applied Robotics for the Power Industry, Montreal, Canada, October 5-7, 2010.

Multiagent Coordination by Auctioning POMDPs. M.T.J. Spaan, N. Gonçalves, J. Sequeira.In 2010 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2010), Anchorage, Alaska, May 3-8, 2010

Task Assignment in Active Surveillance. N. Gonçalves, J. Sequeira. In 14th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2009, Aveiro, Portugal, October 12-15, 2009

Multiagent Coordination by Auctioning POMDP Tasks. M.T.J. Spaan, N. Gonçalves, J. Sequeira. In Multi-Agent Sequential Decision Making in Uncertain Systems Workshop at the 8th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, MSDM/AAMAS 2009, Budapest, Hungary, May 10-15,

Longitudinal dynamics modeling of the RIOL robot. João Sequeira. Procs. 2010 1st International Conference on Applied Robotics for the Power Industry, Montreal, Canada, 2010 

Reachability analysis of the RIOL robot. João Sequeira. Procs. 2010 1st International Conference on Applied Robotics for the Power Industry, Montreal, Canada, 2010 

Robust covariance estimation in sensor data fusion. J. Sequeira, A. Tsourdos, S.B. Lazarus. In 2009 IEEE Int Workshop on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics, Univ. of Denver, Colorado, USA, November 2009.

ISRobotNet: A Testbed for Sensor and Robot Network Systems. M. Barbosa, A. Bernardino, D. Figueira, J. Gaspar, N. Gonçalves, P. Lima, P. Moreno, A. Paliani, J. Santos-Victor, M. Spaan, J. Sequeira. In 2009 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. On Intelligent Robots and Systems, St Louis, USA, October 2009.

Measuring motion expressiveness in wheeled mobile robots. J. Sequeira. In European Robotics Symposium 2008, Czech Republic, March 2008.

Kinematic modeling of Stewart-Gough platforms. P. Cruz, R. Ferreira, J. Sequeira. In 2nd International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, ICINCO 2005, Barcelona, Spain September  2006.

Automatic parallel parking of car-like robots. M. Florêncio, P. Agostinho, J. Sequeira. In 37th International Symposium on Robotics, ISR 2006, Munich, Germany, May 2006

Modeling and Control of a Biped Robot. N. Gonçalves, P. Silva, J. Sequeira, M.I. Ribeiro. In 5th IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles, IAV 2004, Lisbon, July 2004

A geometric approach to single and multiple robot control. J. Sequeira, M.I. Ribeiro. In 7th IFAC Symposium on Robot Control, Syroco 2003, Wroclaw, Poland, September 2003

A layered approach to multiple robot control. J. Sequeira, M.I. Ribeiro. In 9th IEEE International Conference on Methods in Automation and Robotics, MMAR 2003, Miedzyzdroje, Poland, August 2003.

Hybrid control of semi-autonomous robots. J. Sequeira, M.I. Ribeiro. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2004, Sendai, Japan, September 2004

Low Cost Sensing for Autonomous Car Driving in Highways. A. Gonçalves, A. Godinho, J. Sequeira. In 4th Int. Conf. on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, ICINCO 2007, Robotics and Automation - Vol. 1, Angers, France, May, 2007.

RIOL - Robotic Inspection Over Power Lines. L. Tavares, J. Sequeira. In 6th IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles, IAV 2007, Toulouse, France, September, 2007

On the design of the Po-Robot systems. F. Lobo Pereira, J. Sousa, E. Silva, M.I. Ribeiro, J. Sequeira. In Procs. of Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IVS’94), Paris, France, October 1994

Learning with inference cells. J. Sequeira, J. Tomé. In Procs. of the First IEE International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, pages 399–403, The IEE, Savoy Place, London, UK, October 16-18, 1989

Preprints

Automating Diabetic Foot Monitoring. Gonçalo Neves, João S. Sequeira. [0nline available here], 2023.

Tuning Path Tracking Controllers for Autonomous Cars Using Reinforcement Learning. Ana Vilaça Carrasco, João Silva Sequeira. Procs. 10th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RiTA 2022), December 7 - 9, 2022, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, Australia. (Best Intelligence Paper Award).

Development of a robotic cane for mild locomotion assistance. Gonçalo Neves, João Silva Sequeira, Cristina Santos. Procs. 9th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RiTA 2021),  Dec 16-17, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea, 2021. (Best System Paper Award).

Lightweight locomotion assistant for people with mild disabilities. Gonçalo Neves, João Silva Sequeira, Cristina Santos. Proc. 24th Int. Conf. on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines (CLAWAR) 2021. Takarazuka, Japan 20 August - 1 September. (Best Student Paper Award).

Menção Honrosa Sustentabilidade/Responsabilidade Social – Gasparzinho. Prémios Exame Informática, 2017.

This prize follows from the evaluation of civil society (after the Portuguese magazine Exame Informática) work developed during European project “FP7-ICT-2011-9-601033 MOnarCH - Multi-Robot Cognitive Systems Operating in Hospitals”.

Reaction Sphere Actuator. António Craveiro, João Sequeira. Procs. 20th IFAC Symposium in Aerospace, ACA 2016, August 2016, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada (Best Paper Award—2nd prize)

ICT 2015 'Young Minds Awards' - Grand Prix Best Transform Exhibitor Innovate, Connect, Transform (ICT 2015), Lisbon, Portugal.

This prize follows from the work developed during European project “FP7-ICT-2011-9-601033 MOnarCH - Multi-Robot Cognitive Systems Operating in Hospitals”. The prize was awarded during the “Innovate, Connect, Transform, ICT 2015” event, organized by the European Commission in Lisbon, Portugal. The MOnarCH project participated with a joint stand with the RoCKin project.

Assessing Human-Robot Interaction: The Role of Long-Run Experiments. João Sequeira, Isabel Ferreira. Procs of CLAWAR 2015, 18th Int. Conf. on Climbing and Walking Robots, 6-9 September, Hangzhou, China (Best paper award)

“Esferóide de Reacção“, Antóno Craveiro, João Sequeira, National Patent PT108847, granted July 2018.

This patent details the use of a reaction spheroid as actuators for satellites to correct the attitude, substituting aggregates of reaction wheels.

"Robot capable of moving hanging in suspended lines", João Sequeira, Luís Tavares. National Patent PT103873, granted May 2008.

This patent follows from the work developed in project “POSC/EEA-SRI/60775/2004, RIOL - Robotic Inspection Over Power Lines”, on the design and implementation of a kinematic structure for a stable locomotion on electric power lines for monitoring tasks.

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