Notes:

• The provided information is only a resume of the most important recent teaching activities;

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COURSES (2020 - PRESENT)

• 2023 - Present:

Fall Semester:

• Signals and Systems - Portuguese Military Academy (Academia Militar)

  1. Course Presentation

  2. Basic Concepts of Signals - Slides (PT)

  3. Basic Concepts of Systems - Slides (PT)

  4. Linear Time-Invariant Systems - Slides (PT)

  5. Fourier Series - Slides (PT)

  6. Fourier Transform of Continuous-Time Signals - Slides (PT)

  7. Fourier Transform of Discrete-Time Signals - Slides (PT)

  8. Systems Time and Frequency Response - Slides (PT)

  9. Sampling - Slides (PT)

  10. Laplace Transform - Slides (PT)

  11. Z-Transform - Slides (PT)

Spring Semester:

• Control - Portuguese Military Academy (Academia Militar)

  1. Course Presentation

  2. Introduction to control - Slides (PT)

  3. Physical systems modeling - Slides (PT)

  4. Time domain response - Slides (PT)

  5. Time domain stability analysis - Slides (PT)

  6. Feedback effects and steady-state tracking errors - Slides (PT)

  7. Root Locus diagram - Slides (PT)

  8. Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) Controller - Slides (PT)

  9. Digital control system - Slides (PT)

  10. Frequency domain response - Slides (PT)

  11. Frequency domain stability analysis - Slides (PT)

  12. Additional resources:

      • Final Project - Sequential Circuits and Controllers - Slides (PT)

      • Final Project - PIC16F328A - Slides (PT)

      • Final Project - Arduino - Slides (PT)

      • Final Project - Arduino: Introduction and Advanced Resources - Tutorial (ENG)

• Telecommunication Fundamentals - Portuguese Military Academy (Academia Militar)

  1. Course Presentation

  2. Introduction to the basic model of a communication system - Slides (PT)

  3. Signals and systems representation methods review - Slides (PT)

  4. Analogic transmission - Slides (PT)

  5. Probability theory and stochastic processes - Slides (PT)

  6. Analogic to digital transition - Slides (PT)

  7. Digital transmission - Part 1 Slides (PT) | Part 2 Slides (PT)

  8. Information Theory and Coding Concepts - Slides (PT)

  9. Additional resources:

     • Security - Slides (PT)

     • Multimedia Networks - Slides (PT)

2022 - 2023:

Spring Semester (Not finished):

• Computer Architecture and Embedded Systems - Portuguese Naval Academy (Escola Naval)

  1. Course Presentation - Slides (PT)

  2. Sequential Circuits and Controllers - Slides (PT)

  3. Structure of a Digital Computer

  4. Microprocessor 8085 and its Programming - Slides (PT)

  5. Input/Output Operations and Communication using Microcontrollers

  6. Integrated Circuits of support for Microprocessors

  7. Microcontrollers and Embedded Systems - PIC16F328A Slides(PT) & Arduino Slides (PT)

  8. Additional resources:

     • American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) - Table (ENG)

     • Intel 8085 - Datasheet (ENG)

     • Intel 8085 - Instructions - Presentation (ENG)

     • Intel 8085 - Instructions (ENG)

     • Intel 8085 - Online simulator (ENG)

     • Intel 8085 - Free simulation software (ENG)

     • PIC16F628A - Datasheet (ENG)

     • Microchip PIC - Instructions (ENG)

     • Arduino - Tutorial (PT)

     • Arduino - Tutorial (ENG)

     • Arduino - Slides (PT)

     • Introduction to Arduino - Article (PT)

     • Arduino and Data Acquisition - The Sampling Rate Problem - Article (PT)

     • Arduino and Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) - Article (PT) & Report (PT)

     • Arduino - Ethernet Library - Tutorial (ENG)

     • Arduino Application Example I - Telemetry system applied to a Naval Platform - M.Sc. (PT) & Slides(PT)

     • Arduino Application Example II - Integration of the FFGH Vasco da Gama anemometer with the ship's network - Report (PT) & Slides(PT)

     • Arduino Application Example III - Telemetry during a Missile d'Infanterie Léger Antichar (MILAN) missile firing exercise - Report (PT) & Slides (PT)

     • ATmega328P - Datasheet (ENG)

     • Atmega2560 - Datasheet (ENG)

2020 - 2022:

Spring Semester (Twice):

• Ship Theory IV - Weapon Systems - Portuguese Naval Academy (Escola Naval)

  1. Introduction - Slides (PT)

  2. Description and Identification - Slides (PT)

  3. Physics and Operating Principles - Slides (PT)

  4. Operation, Maintenance and Hazards - Slides (PT)

  5. Additional resources:

     • Principles of Naval Weapon Systems, edited by Joseph Hall - Book (ENG)

     • Ship's preparations for sea - Weapons and Electronics Department - Slides (PT)

     • RAdiation HAzard (RADHAZ) - Weapons and Electronics Department - Slides (PT)

     • Safety Rules, Hazards, and RAdiation HAzard (RADHAZ) Conditions - Weapons and Electronics Department - Slides (PT)

     • Roles and responsibilities sailing and berthed - Weapons and Electronics Department - Slides (PT)

     • Management Processes, Activities, Maintenance, and Requisitions - Weapons and Electronics Department - Slides (PT)

     • Weapons, Sensors, Ammunition and RAdiation Hazard - Weapons and Electronics Department - Slides (PT)

     • Telemetry during a Missile d'Infanterie Léger Antichar (MILAN) missile firing exercise - Report (PT) & Slides (PT)

2020 - 2021:

Spring Semester:

• Radar systems - Portuguese Naval Academy (Escola Naval)

  1. Course Presentation - Slides (PT)

  2. Introduction - Slides (PT)

  3. Pulse wave radar - Slides (PT)

  4. Continuous wave radar - Slides (PT)

  5. Moving Target Indicator (MTI) processing - Slides (PT)

  6. Tracking radar - Slides (PT)

  7. Special techniques and other radar topics - Slides (PT)

  8. Additional resources:

     • Radar tutorial by Christian Wolff - Website (ENG)

     • Radar tutorial by Christian Wolff - Books (ENG)

     • Introduction to Radar Systems by Merrill Skolnik - Book (ENG)

Fall Semester:

• Telecommunication systems - Portuguese Naval Academy (Escola Naval)

  1. Security - Slides (PT)

  2. Multimedia Networks - Slides (PT)

  3. Additional resources:

     • Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach by Jim Kurose & Keith Ross - Slides (ENG)

• Weapon Systems - Portuguese Naval Academy (Escola Naval)

  2. • Confidential content that cannot be made available online

     • For some information about this subject, please check the Ship Theory IV - Weapon Systems course contents

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