Publications
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The full text of some of my
publications can be found in Academia.edu.
By Year of Publication
2025
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Araújo, A., Pizzino, C. A., Couceiro, M. S.,
& Rocha, R. P. (2025). A
multi-drone system proof of concept for forestry applications. Drones,
9(2), 80. https://doi.org/10.3390/drones9020080
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Portugal, D., Rocha, R. P., & Castilho, J.
P. (2025). Inquiring the Robot
Operating System community on the state of adoption of the ROS 2 robotics middleware.
International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications, 9, 454–479. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41315-024-00393-4
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Frota, L., & Rocha, R. P. (2025, March
10–15). A semantic mapping
framework for service robots. In Proceedings of the 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium
on Applied Computing (SAC‘25), 832–839 (Catania, Italy). Association for
Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3672608.3707779
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Almeida, P. V., & Rocha, R. P. (2025,
February 12–14). AI-powered
social robot for cognitive stimulation in the elderly through personalized
storytelling. In Proceedings of the 2025 11th International Conference on
Automation, Robotics, and Applications (ICARA 2025), 122–126 (Zagreb, Croatia).
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICARA64554.2025.10977621
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2024
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Fakrane, C., Mota, K. O. S., Premebida, C.,
& Rocha, R. P. (2024, December 5–6). Human detection combining RGB and thermal modalities. In Proceedings of
the 2024 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Reality (ICIR)
(Coimbra, Portugal). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIR64558.2024.10976913
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Rocha,
R. P. (2024). Editorial message: special track on intelligent robotics and multi-agent
systems. In Proceedings of the 39th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing
(SAC '24) , 610–611 (Avila, Spain). Association for Computing Machinery.
2023
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Ferreira, J. F., Portugal, D., Andrada, M. E.,
Machado, P., Rocha, R. P., & Peixoto, P. (2023). Sensing and artificial perception for robots in
precision forestry: A survey. Robotics, 12(5), 139. https://doi.org/10.3390/robotics12050139
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Silva, P., & Rocha, R. P. (2023). Low-power footprint inference with a
deep neural network offloaded to a service robot through edge computing. In
Proceedings of the 38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC’23),
800–807 (Tallin, Estonia). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3555776.3577681
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Rocha,
R. P. (2023). Editorial message: special track on intelligent robotics and
multi-agent systems. In Proceedings of the 38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied
Computing (SAC '23) , 771–772 (Tallin, Estonia). Association for Computing
Machinery.
2022
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Rocha,
R. P. (2022). Editorial message: special track on intelligent robotics and
multi-agent systems. In Proceedings of the 37th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied
Computing (SAC '22) , 721–722 (Virtual Event). Association for Computing
Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3535432
2021
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Guevara, L., Rocha, R. P., & Cheein, F. A.
(2021). Improving the manual
harvesting op-eration efficiency by coordinating a fleet of N-trailer vehicles.
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 185, 106103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2021.106103
(view abstract)
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Menezes, P., & Rocha, R. P. (2021). Promotion of active ageing through
interactive artificial agents in a smart environment. SN Applied Sciences,
3(5), 583. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-021-04567-8
(view abstract)
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Couceiro, M. S., Portugal, D., Rocha, R. P.,
& Araújo, A. (2021). Fostering
human–robot cooperative architectures for search and rescue missions in urban
fires. Simulation, 96(12), 177–194. https://doi.org/10.1177/0037549720964548
(view abstract)
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Martins,
G. S., Portugal, D., & Rocha, R. P. (2021). mrgs: A multi-robot SLAM
frame-work for ROS with efficient information sharing. In A. Koubaa (Ed.),
Robot operating system (ROS) (Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 895,
pp. 45–62). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45956-7_3
(view abstract)
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Rocha, R. P., & Wolf, D. F. (2021). Editorial message: IRMAS -
Intelligent robotics and multi-agent systems track. In Proceedings of the 36th
Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC '21), 775–776 (Virtual Event,
Republic of Korea). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3462419
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Araújo, A., Couceiro, M. S., Datsenko, D.,
Ferreira, J. F., & Rocha, R. P. (2021, September 27 – October 1). Constrained formation tracking of an
aquatic multi-robot system with a self-organized map for autonomous robots. In
Late-Breaking Results of the 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2021), Prague, Czech Republic.
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Agostinho, R., Rama, L., Rocha, R. P., &
Menezes, P. (2021, September 8–10). Body-EnergyExpenditure: Automatic measurement of energy expenditure
associated with physical exercise. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual Congress
of the European College of Sport Science (ECSS 2021).
2020
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Araujo, F., Gomes, A., & Rocha, R. P.
(2020). Towards optimal
convergecast in wireless ad hoc networks. Ad Hoc Networks, 107, 102214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adhoc.2020.102214
(view abstract)
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Falcão,
J., Menezes, P., & Rocha, R. P. (2020, August 31–September 2). Automatic
iden-tification of wireless sensor network topology in a IoT domestic setup and
discovery of user routines. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference
on Omni-layer Intelligent Systems (COINS 2020) (Barcelona, Spain). https://doi.org/10.1109/COINS49042.2020.9191423
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Menezes, P., & Rocha, R. P. (2020, April
15–17). Multi-agent approach
to foster regular physical activity in elderly users. In Proceedings of the
20th IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions
(ICARSC 2020), 325–331 (Ponta Delgada, Portugal). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICARSC49921.2020.9096129
(view abstract)
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Prykhodchenko, R., Rocha, R. P., & Couceiro,
M. S. (2020, April 15–17). People
detection by mobile robots doing automatic guard patrols. In Proceedings of the
20th IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions
(ICARSC 2020), 300–305 (Ponta Delgada, Portugal). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICARSC49921.2020.9096147
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Rocha,
R. P., Kudenko, D., & Wolf, D. F. (2020). Editorial message: Special track
on intelligent robotics and multi-agent systems. In Proceedings of the 35th Annual
ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC '20), 773–775 (Brno, Czech Republic).
Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3389658
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Guevara, L., Rocha, R. P., & Auat Cheein, F.
(2020). Route planning for
multiple N-trailers in manual harvesting operations. In Proceedings of the
Workshop on Perception, Planning and Mobility in Forestry Robotics (WPPMFR
2020), IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
(IROS 2020) (Las Vegas, NV, USA)
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2019
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Rocha,
R. P., & Kudenko, D. (2019b). Guest editorial: Special issue on intelligent
robotics and multi-agent systems. Cybernetics and Systems, 50(8), 657. https://doi.org/10.1080/01969722.2019.1677328
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Martins, G. S., Rocha, R. P., Pais, F. J., &
Menezes, P. (2019, May 20–24). ClusterNav:
Learning-based robust navigation operating in cluttered environments. In
Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and
Automation (ICRA 2019), 9624–9630 (Montreal, QC, Canada). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2019.8794262
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Rocha, R. P., & Kudenko, D. (2019a). Special track on intelligent
robotics and multi-agent systems. In Proceedings of the 34th ACM/SIGAPP
Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC '19), 896–897 (Limassol, Cyprus).
Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3329374
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Couceiro, M. S., Portugal, D., Ferreira, J. F.,
& Rocha, R. P. (2019, January 14–16). SEMFIRE: Towards a new generation of forestry maintenance multi-robot
systems. In Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System
Integration, 270–276 (Paris, France). https://doi.org/10.1109/SII.2019.8700403
(view abstract)
2018
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Martins,
G. S., Pais, F., Rocha, R. P., & Menezes, P. (2018, October 5). Synergy of
distributed agents in a smart home to promote physical activity in elderly
users. In Workshop on Robots for Assisted Living, 2018 IEEE/RSJ International
Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2018), Madrid, Spain.
(view abstract)
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Rocha,
R. P., Kudenko, D., & Shen, S. (2018). Special track on intelligent
robotics and multi-agent systems. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM
Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC '18) (Pau, France). https://doi.org/10.1145/3258657
2017
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Portugal, D., & Rocha, R. P. (2017). Performance estimation and
dimensioning of team size for multi-robot patrol. IEEE Intelligent Systems,
32(6), 30–38. https://doi.org/10.1109/MIS.2017.4531222
(view abstract)
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Noori, F. M., Portugal, D., Rocha, R. P., &
Couceiro, M. S. (2017, October 11–13). On 3D simulators for multi-robot systems in ROS: MORSE or Gazebo? In
Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and
Rescue Robotics (SSRR 2017), 19–24 (Shanghai, China). https://doi.org/10.1109/SSRR.2017.8088134
(view abstract)
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Rosa, J., & Rocha, R. P. (2017, April 4–6). Exportation to the cloud of
distributed robotic tasks implemented in ROS. In Proceedings of the 32nd ACM
Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2017), 235–240 (Marrakech, Morocco). https://doi.org/10.1145/3019612.3019703
(view abstract)
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Rocha,
R., Kudenko, D., & Shen, S. (2017). Special track on intelligent robotics
and multi-agent systems track. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Applied
Computing (SAC '17), 233–234 (Marrakech, Morocco). Association for Computing
Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3243947
2016
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Portugal, D., & Rocha, R. P. (2016). Cooperative multi-robot patrol with
Bayesian learning. Autonomous Robots, 40(5), 929–953. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10514-015-9503-7
(view abstract)
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Rocha,
R. P. (2016). Foreword. In M. Couceiro & P. Ghamisi (Eds.), Fractional
order Darwinian particle swarm optimization: Applications and evaluation of an
evolutionary algorithm (pp. v–vi). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19635-0
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Chandra,
R., & Rocha, R. P. (2016, May 4–6). Knowledge-based framework for
human-robots collaborative context awareness in USAR missions. In Proceedings
of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and
Competitions (ICARSC 2016) (Bragança, Portugal). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICARSC.2016.50
(view abstract)
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Rocha,
R. P., Kiekintveld, C. D., & Hsieh, M. A. (2016). Special track on
intelligent robotics and multi-agent systems. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual
ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC '16), 246–247 (Pisa, Italy). Association
for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3252764
2015
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Santos, J. M., Couceiro, M. S., Portugal, D.,
& Rocha, R. P. (2015). A
sensor fusion layer to cope with reduced visibility in SLAM. Journal of
Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 80(3–4), 401–422. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-015-0180-8
(view abstract)
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Fernandes, A., Couceiro, M. S., Portugal, D.,
Santos, J. M., & Rocha, R. P. (2015). Ad hoc communication in teams of mobile robots using ZigBee technology. Computer
Applications in Engineering Education, 23(5), 733–745. https://doi.org/10.1002/cae.21646
(view abstract)
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Araújo, A., Portugal, D., Couceiro, M. S., &
Rocha, R. P. (2015). Integrating
Arduino-based educational mobile robots in ROS. Journal of Intelligent &
Robotic Systems, 77(2), 281–298. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-013-0007-4
(view abstract)
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Reis, L. P., Ferreira Calado, J. M., &
Rocha, R. P. (2015). Special
issue on autonomous robot systems – Guest editorial. Journal of Intelligent and
Robotic Systems, 77(2), 247. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-014-0130-x
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Couceiro, M. S., Fernandes, A., Rocha, R. P.,
& Ferreira, N. M. F. (2015a). Understanding the communication complexity of the robotic Darwinian PSO.
Robotica, 33(1), 157–180. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263574714000058
(view abstract)
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Martins, G. S., Portugal, D., & Rocha, R. P.
(2015). On the usage of general-purpose
compression techniques for the optimization of inter-robot communication. In J.
Filipe, O. Gusikhin, K. Madani, & J. Sasiadek (Eds.), Informatics in
control, automation and robotics (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Vol.
370, pp. 223–240). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26453-0_13
(view abstract)
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Couceiro, M. S., Rocha, R. P., & Martins, F.
M. L. (2015b, May 25–28). Towards
a predictive model of an evolutionary swarm robotics algorithm. In Proceedings
of the 2015 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2015), 2090–2096
(Sendai, Japan). https://doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2015.7257142
(view abstract)
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Kiekintveld,
C., Rocha, R. P., & Wolf, D. (2015). Technical track on intelligent
robotics and multi-agent systems. In Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM
Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC '15), 275–276 (Salamanca, Spain).
Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3251665
2014
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Couceiro, M. S., Martins, F. M., Rocha, R. P.,
& Ferreira, N. M. F. (2014c). Mechanism and convergence analysis of a multi-robot swarm approach based
on natural selection. Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, 76(2),
353–381. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-014-0030-0
(view abstract)
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Couceiro, M. S., Vargas, P. A., & Rocha, R.
P. (2014e). Bridging the
reality gap between the Webots simulator and E-puck robots. Robotics and
Autonomous Systems, 62(10), 1549–1567. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2014.05.007
(view abstract)
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Couceiro, M. S., Portugal, D., Rocha, R. P.,
& Ferreira, N. M. F. (2014a). Marsupial teams of robots: Deployment of miniature robots for swarm
exploration under communication constraints. Robotica, 32(7), 1017–1038. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263574713001185
(view abstract)
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Araújo, A., Portugal, D., Couceiro, M. S.,
Sales, J., & Rocha, R. P. (2014). Desarrollo de un robot móvil compacto integrado en el middleware ROS.
Revista Iberoamericana de Automática e Informática Industrial, 11(3), 315–326. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.riai.2014.02.009
(view abstract)
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Couceiro, M. S., Figueiredo, C. M., Rocha, R.
P., & Ferreira, N. M. F. (2014d). Darwinian swarm exploration under communication constraints: Initial
deployment and fault-tolerance assessment. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 62(4),
528–544. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2013.12.009
(view abstract)
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Couceiro, M. S., Vargas, P. A., Rocha, R. P.,
& Ferreira, N. M. F. (2014b). Benchmark of swarm robotics distributed techniques in a search task.
Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 62(2), 200–213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2013.10.004
(view abstract)
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Portugal, D., & Rocha, R. P. (2014a). Cooperative multi-robot patrol in an
indoor infra-structure. In P. Spagnolo, P. Mazzeo, & C. Distante (Eds.),
Human behavior understand-ing in networked sensing (pp. 339–358). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10807-0_16
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Couceiro, M. S., Lopes, A. R., Ferreira, N. M.,
Ferreira, A. G., & Rocha, R. P. (2014f). Toward the concept of robot society: A multi-robot SLAM case study. In
N. M. F. Ferreira & J. A. Tenreiro Machado (Eds.), Mathematical methods in
engineering (pp. 57–66). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7183-3_6
(view abstract)
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Araujo, F., Santos, J., & Rocha, R. P.
(2014, November 12–14). Implementation
of a routing protocol for ad hoc networks in search and rescue robotics. In
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Wireless Days (WD 14) (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). https://doi.org/10.1109/WD.2014.7020821
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Portugal,
D., Pippin, C., Rocha, R. P., & Christensen, H. (2014b, September 14–18).
Find-ing optimal routes for multi-robot patrolling in generic graphs. In Proceedings
of the 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
(IROS 2014), 363–369 (Chicago, IL, USA). https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2014.6942585
(view abstract)
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Sales,
F. F., Portugal, D., & Rocha, R. P. (2014, September 1–3). Real-time people
detection and mapping system for a mobile robot using a RGB-D sensor. In
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Informatics in Control,
Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2014), 467–474 (Vienna, Austria). https://doi.org/10.5220/0005060604670474
(view abstract)
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Martins,
G. S., Portugal, D., & Rocha, R. P. (2014, September 1–3). A comparison of
general-purpose FOSS compression techniques for efficient communication in
cooperative multi-robot tasks. In Proceedings of the 11th International
Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2014),
136–147 (Vienna, Austria). https://doi.org/10.5220/0005058601360147
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Couceiro, M. S., & Rocha, R. P. (2014g,
August 25). Understanding
firefighters behavior for human-robot cooperation in urban fires. In Workshop
on Developmental and Bio-Inspired Approaches for Memory and Emotion Modelling
in Cognitive Robotics, 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human
Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2014), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
(view abstract)
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Santos, J. M., Couceiro, M. S., Portugal, D.,
& Rocha, R. P. (2014, May 14–15). Fusing sonars and LRF data to perform SLAM in reduced visibility
scenarios. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Autonomous
Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC 2014), 116–121 (Espinho, Portugal). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICARSC.2014.6849772
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2013
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Portugal, D., & Rocha, R. P. (2013b). Distributed multi-robot patrol: A
scalable and fault-tolerant framework. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 61(12),
1572–1587. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2013.06.011
(view abstract)
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Drews Jr., P., Núñez, P., Rocha, R. P., Campos,
M., & Dias, J. (2013). Novelty
detection and segmentation based on Gaussian mixture models: A case study in 3D
robotic laser mapping. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 61(12), 1696–1709. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2013.06.004
(view abstract)
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Couceiro, M. S., Rocha, R. P., & Ferreira,
N. M. F. (2013a). A PSO
multi-robot exploration approach over unreliable MANETs. Advanced Robotics,
27(16), 1221–1234. https://doi.org/10.1080/01691864.2013.819605
(view abstract)
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Portugal, D., & Rocha, R. P. (2013a). Multi-robot patrolling algorithms:
Examining performance and scalability. Advanced Robotics, 27(5), 325–336. https://doi.org/10.1080/01691864.2013.763722
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Couceiro, M. S., Portugal, D., Gonçalves, N.,
Rocha, R., Luz, J. M., Figueiredo, C., & Di-as, G. (2013b). A methodology for detection and
estimation in the analysis of the golf putting. Pattern Analysis and
Applications, 16(3), 459–474. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10044-012-0276-8
(view abstract)
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Portugal, D., & Rocha, R. P. (2013c). Retrieving topological information
for mobile robots provided with grid maps. In J. Filipe & A. Fred (Eds.),
Agents and artificial intelligence (Communications in Computer and Information
Science, Vol. 358, pp. 204–217). Spring-er. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36907-0_14
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Luz, J. M., Couceiro, M. S., Portugal, D., Rocha,
R. P., Araújo, H., & Dias, G. (2013). Comparison of classification methods for golf putting performance
making. In A. M. Madureira, C. Reis, & V. M. Marques (Eds.), Computational
intelligence and decision making (Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation:
Science and Engineering, Vol. 61, pp. 35–45). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4722-7_4
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Couceiro, M. S., Martins, F. M., Clemente, F.,
Rocha, R. P., & Ferreira, N. M. (2013c). Towards a further understanding of the robotic Darwinian PSO. In A. M.
Madureira, C. Reis, & V. M. Marques (Eds.), Computational intelligence and
decision making (Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and
Engineering, Vol. 61, pp. 13–22). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4722-7_2
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Portugal, D., & Rocha, R. P. (2013e,
November 3–8). Scalable,
fault-tolerant and distributed multi-robot patrol in real world environments.
In Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent
Robots and Systems (IROS 2013), 4759–4764 (Tokyo, Japan). https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2013.6697042
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Rocha, R. P., Portugal, D., Couceiro, M. S.,
Araújo, F., Menezes, P., & Lobo, J. (2013, October 21–26). The CHOPIN project: Cooperation
between human and robotic teams in catastrophic incidents. In Proceedings of
the 11th IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics
(SSRR 2013) (Linköping, Sweden). https://doi.org/10.1109/SSRR.2013.6719322
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Portugal, D., Couceiro, M. S., & Rocha, R.
P. (2013d, October 21–26). Applying
Bayesian learning to multi-robot patrol. In Proceedings of the 11th IEEE
International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR 2013)
(Linköping, Sweden). https://doi.org/10.1109/SSRR.2013.6719325
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Ferreira, N. L., Couceiro, M. S., Araújo, A.,
& Rocha, R. P. (2013, October 21–26). Mul-ti-sensor fusion and classification with mobile robots for situation
awareness in urban search and rescue using ROS. In Proceedings of the 11th IEEE
International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR 2013)
(Linköping, Sweden). https://doi.org/10.1109/SSRR.2013.6719361
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Santos, J. M., Portugal, D., & Rocha, R. P.
(2013, October 21–26). An
evaluation of 2D SLAM techniques available in Robot Operating System. In
Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and
Rescue Robotics (SSRR 2013) (Linköping, Sweden). https://doi.org/10.1109/SSRR.2013.6719348
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Couceiro, M. S., Rocha, R. P., Ferreira, N. M.,
& Vargas, P. A. (2013f, June 20–23). Darwinian robotic swarms for exploration with minimal communication. In
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2013),
127–134 (Cancun, Mexico). https://doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2013.6557562
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Couceiro, M. S., Rocha, R. P., & Ferreira,
N. M. (2013e, May 6–10). Fault-tolerance
assessment of a Darwinian swarm exploration algorithm under communication
constraints. In Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on
Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2013), 2008–2013 (Karlsruhe, Germany). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2013.6630845
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Araújo, A., Portugal, D., Couceiro, M. S., &
Rocha, R. P. (2013, April 24). Integrating
Arduino-based educational mobile robots in ROS. In Proceedings of the IEEE 13th
International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems (Robotica 2013), 8–13
(Lisbon, Portugal). https://doi.org/10.1109/Robotica.2013.6623520
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Couceiro, M. S., Portugal, D., & Rocha, R.
P. (2013d, March 18–22). A
collective robotic architecture in search and rescue scenarios. In Proceedings
of the 28th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC’13), 64–69 (Coimbra,
Portugal). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2480362.2480377
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Rocha, R. P., & Taylor, M. E. (2013). Special track on cooperative
multi-agent systems and applications. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM
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2012
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Portugal, D., & Rocha, R. P. (2012a). Measuring variables effect to
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Couceiro, M. S., Figueiredo, C., Portugal, D.,
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Couceiro, M. S., Rocha, R. P., Figueiredo, C.,
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Couceiro, M. S., Martins, F. M., Rocha, R. P.,
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Araújo, A., Portugal, D., Couceiro, M. S.,
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Portugal, D., & Rocha, R. P. (2012, February
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Couceiro, M. S., Martins, F. M., Rocha, R. P.,
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Couceiro, M. S., Figueiredo, C. M., Luz, J. M.,
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Araújo, A., Portugal, D., Couceiro, M. S.,
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2011
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Couceiro, M. S., Rocha, R. P., & Ferreira,
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Couceiro, M. S., Rocha, R. P., & Ferreira,
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Couceiro, M. S., Ferreira, N. M., Martins, F.
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Couceiro, M. S., Ferreira, N. M., & Rocha,
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Portugal, D., & Rocha, R. P. (2011c, June
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2010
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Núñez, P., Drews Jr, P., Bandera, A., Rocha, R.,
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Drews Jr, P., Núñez, P., Rocha, R., Campos, M.,
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2007
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2006
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