Research Interests

Rui P. Rocha has been mainly interested in the study of cooperative multi-agent systems and, in particular, multi-robot systems (MRS) comprising several or many autonomous mobile robots. These systems have great potential as regards parallelism, efficiency and robustness in tasks which are either distributed in space or too complex to be accomplished by a single mobile robot. However, these potential benefits hinge on suitable internal team organization to achieve coordination and cooperation, which in turn requires efficient sharing of information. Due to robots’ expendability, MRS may be very useful on assisting humans in many distributed activities, especially in hazardous scenarios, by extending human perception and actuation with distributed sensors and actuators. Rui P. Rocha investigated in his Ph.D. how a team of robots can share efficiently information when performing a cooperative task. Using 3-D mapping as testbed, he proposed a distributed control architecture using an entropy-based information utility to efficiently share information. Later on, he studied distributed and scalable algorithms for multi-robot patrolling, cooperative teams supported by unreliable mobile ad hoc communication networks (MANETs), and context-aware cooperation between a human team and a robot team in urban search and rescue scenarios. More recently, he has been interested in cooperative perception, artificial perception, machine learning, and social robots for ambient assisted living.

(Picture created with Wordle from his papers’ keywords)

His main research interests are:

· Multi-Robot Systems

· Cooperative Perception

· Human-Swarm Interaction

· Distributed Control

· Ambient Assisted Living

· Socially Assistive Robots

· Autonomous Mobile Robots

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Activities’ Outline

· Principal investigator (PI) at University of Coimbra of the CHOPIN, EuroAGE, STOP, and EuroAGE+ projects.

· Member of the research team of several R&D Projects.

· Senior researcher of the Institute of Systems and Robotics – University of Coimbra (ISR-UC).

· Supervisor of Ph.D. thesis and M.Sc. dissertations in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

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Active Projects

· EuroAGE+ : International Network for Research, Innovation and Technology Transfer to Promote Active Ageing
Funded by Interreg VI-A España – Portugal (POCTEP 2021-2027), POCTEP-0124_EUROAGE_MAS_4_E
PI at ISR-UC: Rui P. Rocha

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Past Projects

· ActiVas - Ambientes Construídos para uma Vida Ativa, Segura e Saudável
Funded by Agência Nacional de Inovação, contract POCI-01-0247-FEDER-04, 01/07/2020 – 30/06/2023

· SEMFIRE − Safety, Exploration and Maintenance of Forests with the Integration of Ecological Robotics
Funded by Portugal 2020-Centro 2020, contract CENTRO-01-0247-FEDER-032691

· EuroAGE − Iniciativas Inovadoras para a Promoção do Envelhecimento Ativo na Região EuroACE
Funded by Interreg V A Spain – Portugal Program, contract POCTEP-0043_EUROAGE_4_E
PI at ISR-UC: Rui P. Rocha

· STOP − Cooperative Robotic Securities
Funded by Portugal 2020-Centro 2020, contract CENTRO-01-0247-FEDER-017562
PI at ISR-UC: Rui P. Rocha

· CHOPIN − Cooperation between Human and rObotic teams in catastroPhic INcidents
FCT contract PTDC/EEA-CRO/119000/2010
PI: Rui P. Rocha

· GrowMeUp − Advancing active and healthy ageing with ICT: service robotics within assisted living environments
EU-contract H2020-643647

· CASIR − Coordinated Attention for Social Interaction with Robots
FCT contract FCT-PTDC/EEI-AUT/3010/2012

· TICE.Healthy − Systems of Health and Quality of Life
AdI-QREN-COMPETE-13842

· TICE.Mobility − User-Centered Mobility System
AdI-QREN-COMPETE-13843

· HANDLE − Developmental pathway towards autonomy and dextery in robot-hand manipulation
EU-contract FP7-ICT-2008-1-231640

· IRPS − Intelligent Robotic Porter System
EU-contract FP6-IST-045048
(dissemination video, MPEG-4 format, 18.9 MB)
(final event, media, AVI format, 68.2 MB)

· Prometheus − PRediction and interpretatiOn of huMan beHavior based on probabilistic sTructures and HEterogeneoUs Sensors
EU-contract FP7-ICT-2007-1-214901

· BACS − Bayesian Approach to Cognitive Systems
EU-contract FP6-IST-027140

· RAC – Robótica Académica de Coimbra (Coimbra’s robot soccer team)
FCT contract POSI/ROBOT/43890/2002 / Supervision of 2 M.Sc. Dissertations and 2 Graduate Projects
(RACbot-RT poster, PDF format, 17.7 MB | RAClearning poster, PDF format, 1.2 MB | RACmanager, poster, PDF format, 23.4 MB | RACmotion poster, PDF format, 7.7 MB)

· Building Volumetric Maps with Cooperative Mobile Robots and Useful Information Sharing: a Distributed Control Approach based on Entropy
Ph.D. thesis

· CoFleet − Fleet of Intelligent Vehicles for Short-Distance People Transportation in Urban Environments
Supervision of Graduate Project
(poster, PDF format, 542 KB)

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Scientific Events

Rui P. Rocha has participated in the organization of several scientific events and has served in numerous program and scientific committees.

· SAC 2025 – 40th ACM Symposium On Applied Computing – Track on Intelligent Robotics and Multi-Agent Systems, Sicily, Italy, Mar. 31 – Apr. 4, 2025.
Track Chair

· ROBOVIS 2025 – 5th International Conference on Robotics, Computer Vision and Intelligent Systems, Porto, Portugal, Feb. 25-27, 2025.
Program Committee

· IEEE/RSJ IROS 2024 - 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Oct. 13-18, 2024.
Organizing Committee ― Finance Co-chair

· SAC 2024 – 39th ACM Symposium On Applied Computing – Track on Intelligent Robotics and Multi-Agent Systems, Avila, Spain, Apr. 8-12, 2024.
Track Chair

· IBERAMIA 2024 - 18th Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Montevideo, Uruguay, Nov. 13-15, 2024.
Program Committee

· CLAWAR 2024 – 27th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and Support Technologies for Mobile Machines, Kaiserslautern, Germany., Sep. 4-6, 2024.
Program Committee

· EPIA 2024 – 23rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence – Thematic Track on Intelligent Robotics, Viana do Castelo, Portugal, Sep. 3-6, 2024.
Program Committee

· ICARSC 2024 - 24th IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, Paredes de Coura, Portugal, May 2-3, 2024.
Program Committee

· ICAART 2024 - 16th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, Italy, Feb. 24-26, 2024.
Program Committee

· ICAR 2023 – 21st International Conference on Advanced Robotics, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Dec. 5-8, 2023.
Organizing Committee ― Finance Co-chair

· ECMR 2023 – 11th European Conference on Mobile Robots, Coimbra, Portugal, Sep. 4-7, 2023.
Organizing Committee ― Workshops and Tutorials Chair

· ROBOT 2023 – 6th Iberian Robotics Conference, Coimbra, Portugal, Nov. 22-24, 2023.
Organizing Committee

· SAC 2023 – 38th ACM Symposium On Applied Computing – Track on Intelligent Robotics and Multi-Agent Systems, Tallinn, Estonia, Mar. 27 - Apr. 2, 2023.
Track Chair.

· CLAWAR 2023 – 26th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and Support Technologies for Mobile Machines, Florianópolis, Brazil, Oct. 2-4, 2023.
Program Committee

· ICARSC 2023 - 23rd IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, Tomar, Portugal, Apr. 26-27, 2023.
Program Committee

· ICAART 2023 - 15th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, Lisbon, Portugal, Feb. 22-24, 2023.
Program Committee

· SentiRobots 2023 - 2nd International Workshop on Sentiment Analysis and Emotion Recognition for Social Robots, Island of Mauritius, Mauritius, Jun. 27-30, 2023.
Program Committee

· ROBOT 2022 – 5th Iberian Robotics Conference, Zaragoza, Spain, Nov. 23-25, 2022.
Program Committee

· CLAWAR 2022 – 25th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and Support Technologies for Mobile Machines, Ponta Delgada, Portugal, Sep. 12-14, 2022.
Program Committee

· SAC 2022 – 37th ACM Symposium On Applied Computing – Track on Intelligent Robotics and Multi-Agent Systems, Brno, , Czech Republic, Apr. 25-29, 2022.
Track Chair

· ICARSC 2022 - 22nd IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, Apr. 29-30, 2022.
Program Committee

· ICRA 2021 – IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Xi’An, China, May 30 – Jun. 5, 2021.
Associate Editor

· SAC 2021 – 36th ACM Symposium On Applied Computing – Track on Intelligent Robotics and Multi-Agent Systems, Gwangju, South Korea, Mar. 22-26, 2021.
Track Co-Chair

· CLAWAR 2021 – 24th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and Support Technologies for Mobile Machines, Takarazuka, Japan, Aug. 30 – Sep.-1, 2021.
Program Committee

· ICARSC 2021 - 21st IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, Apr. 28 – May 4, 2021.
Program Committee

· SSRR 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Nov. 4-6, 2020.
Program Committee

· ICRA 2020 – IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Paris, France, May 31 – Jun. 4, 2020.
Associate Editor

· SAC 2020 – 35th ACM Symposium On Applied Computing – Track on Intelligent Robotics and Multi-Agent Systems, Brno, Czech Republic, Mar. 30 - Apr. 3, 2020.
Track Co-Chair

· CLAWAR 2020 – 23rd International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and Support Technologies for Mobile Machines, Moscow, Russia, Aug. 24-26, 2020.
Program Committee

· ICARSC 2020 - 20th IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, Ponta Delgada, Portugal, Apr. 15-17, 2020.
Program Committee

· ICAR 2019 – 19th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Dec. 2-6, 2019.
Associate Editor

· SSRR 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Germany, Sep. 2-4, 2019.
Program Committee

· ROBOT 2019 – 4th Iberian Robotics Conference, Porto, Portugal, Nov. 20-22, 2019.
Program Committee

· CLAWAR 2019 – 22nd International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and Support Technologies for Mobile Machines, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Aug. 26-28, 2019.
Program Committee

· MRS 2019 - 2nd IEEE RAS International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems, Rutgers, State Univ. of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, Aug. 22-23, 2019
Program Committee

· ICARSC 2019 - 19th IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, Gondomar - Porto, Portugal, April 24-26, 2019.
Program Committee

· SAC 2019 – 34th ACM Symposium On Applied Computing – Track on Intelligent Robotics and Multi-Agent Systems, Limassol, Cyprus, Apr. 8-12, 2019.
Track Co-Chair

· CLAWAR 2018 – 21st International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and Support Technologies for Mobile Machines, Panama City, Panama, Sep. 10-12, 2018.
Program Committee

· ICARSC 2018 - 18th IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, Torres Vedras, Portugal, April 25-29, 2018.
Program Committee

· SAC 2018 – 33rd ACM Symposium On Applied Computing – Track on Intelligent Robotics and Multi-Agent Systems, Pau, France, Apr. 9-13, 2018.
Track Co-Chair

· ROBOT 2017 – 3rd Iberian Robotics Conference, Sevilla, Spain, Nov. 22-24, 2017.
Program Committee

· CLAWAR 2017 – 20th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and Support Technologies for Mobile Machines, Porto, Portugal, Sep. 11-13, 2017.
Organizing Committee ― Publicity Chair

· AAMAS 2017 - 16th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, São Paulo, Brazil, May 8-12, 2017.
Program Committee

· ICARSC 2017 - 17th IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, Coimbra, Portugal, April 26-28, 2017.
Program Committee

· SAC 2017 – 32nd ACM Symposium On Applied Computing – Track on Intelligent Robotics and Multi-Agent Systems, Marrakech, Morocco, Apr. 3-7, 2017.
Track Co-Chair

· IBERAMIA 2016 - 15th Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence, San José, Costa Rica, Nov. 23-25, 2016.
Program Committee

· SSRR 2016 - 14th IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, Oct. 23-27, 2016.
Program Committee

· ICARSC 2016 - 16th IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, Bragança, Portugal, May 4-6, 2016.
Program Committee

· SAC 2016 – 31st ACM Symposium On Applied Computing – Track on Intelligent Robotics and Multi-Agent Systems, Pisa, Italy, Apr. 4 - 8, 2016.
Track Co-Chair

· WiSARN 2016 - 9th International Workshop on Wireless Sensor, Actuator and Robot Networks, Kauai, Hawaii, USA, Feb. 15-18, 2016.
Program Committee

· ROBOT 2015 – 2nd Iberian Robotics Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, Nov. 19-21, 2015.
Program Committee

· SSRR 2015 - 13th IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA, Oct. 18-20, 2015.
Program Committee

· MuSRobS 2015 – IROS 2015 Workshop on Multimodal Semantics for Robotic Systems, Hamburg, Germany, Sep. 28, 2015.
Program Committee

· EPIA 2015 – 17th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence – Thematic Track on Intelligent Robotics, Coimbra, Portugal, Sep. 8-11, 2015.
Track Co-Chai

· AAMAS 2015 - 14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Instanbul, Turkey, May 4-8, 2015.
Program Committee

· SAC 2015 - 30th ACM Symposium On Applied Computing – Track on Intelligent Robotics and Multi-Agent Systems, Salamanca, Spain, Apr. 13 - 17, 2015.
Track Co-Chair

· ICARSC 2015 - 15th IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, Vila Real, Portugal, Apr. 8-10, 2015.
Program Committee

· IBERAMIA 2014 - 14th Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Santiago, Chile, Nov. 24-27, 2014.
Program Committee

· RSS 2014 - 2014 Robotics: Science and Systems Conference, University of California, Berkeley, USA, Jul. 12-16, 2014.
Program Committee

· ICARSC 2014 - 14th IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, Espinho, Portugal, May 14-15, 2014.
Program Committee

· ROBOT 2013 – First Iberian Robotics Conference, Madrid, Spain, Nov. 28-29, 2013.
Program Committee

· SSRR 2013 - 11th IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics, Linköping, Sweden, Oct. 21-26, 2013.
Program Committee

· ICARSC 2013 – IEEE 13th International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, Lisbon, Portugal, Apr. 24, 2013.
Organizing Committee ― Co-Chair

· SAC 2013 - 28th ACM Symposium On Applied Computing, Coimbra, Portugal, Mar. 18 - 22, 2013.
Organizing Committee ― Vice-Chair

· SAC 2013 - 28th ACM Symposium On Applied Computing – Track on Cooperative Multi-Agent Systems and Applications, Coimbra, Portugal, Mar. 18 - 22, 2013.
Track Co-Chair

· SAC 2013 - 28th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing – Special track on Intelligent Robotic Systems, Coimbra, Portugal, Mar. 18-22, 2013.
Program Committee.

· SSRR 2012 - 10th IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA, Nov. 5-8, 2012.
Program Committee

· IEEE/RSJ IROS 2012 - IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2012, Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, Oct. 7-12, 2012.
Organizing Committee ― Registration Chair

· Robotica 2012 - 12th International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, Guimarães, Portugal, Apr. 11, 2012.
Program Committee

· SAC 2012 - 27th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing – Special track on Intelligent Robotic Systems, Riva del Garda (Trento), Italy, Mar. 26-30, 2012.
Program Committee

· WIAMIS 2011 - 12th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services, Delft, The Netherlands, Apr 13-15, 2011.
Program Committee

· SAC 2011 - 26th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing – Special track on Intelligent Robotic Systems, TaiChung, Taiwan, Mar. 21-25, 2011.
Program Committee

· InterTIC 2010 - Tecnologias de la Información y Communicación, IASK Conferencia Ibero-Americana, Oviedo, Espanha, Nov. 8-10, 2010.
Scientific Committee

· MME 2010 - Mathematical Methods in Engineering International Symposium, Coimbra, Portugal, Oct. 21-24, 2010.
Scientific Committee

· SAC 2010 - 25th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing – Special track on Intelligent Robotic Systems, Sierre, Switzerland, Mar. 22-26, 2010.
Program Committee

· InterTIC 2009 - Tecnologias de la Información y Communicación, IASK Conferencia Ibero-Americana, Sevilha, Espanha, Jun. 22-24, 2009.
Scientific Committee

· SAC 2009 - 24th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing – Special track on Intelligent Robotic Systems, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, Mar. 8-12, 2009.
Program Committee

· SAC 2008 - 23rd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing – Special track on Robotics: Hardware, Software and Embedded Systems track (RHSES), Fortaleza, Brazil, Mar. 16-20, 2008.
Program Committee

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Alumni
(Alumni Album)

Name	Type	Subject(s)		Status
*Current Students and Affiliates*
Chaymaa Fakrane	Ph.D. student (co-advised)		Cooperative Multimodal Perception in Outdoor Mobile Robot Teams: a Deep Learning Approach	Ph.D. student at DEEC-FCTUC since Dec. 2023
André Araújo	Ph.D. student (co-advised) Former Research Assistant Former M.Sc. student		Multi-Constrained, Decentralized Multi-Robot Motion Coordination Programming and integration of mobile robotic platforms and sensors in ROS (Robot Operating System)	Ph.D. student at DEEC-FCTUC since Dec. 2018 CFO-CTO of Ingeniarius Research Assistant in project CHOPIN, at ISR-UC, Oct. 2012 - Sep. 2013. M.Sc. concluded on Jul. 2012
Pedro Almeida	Research Engineer Former M.Sc. student (co-advised)		TalkingRobot – Human-Robot Interaction of a Social Robot through Dialogue	Research Assistant in project EuroAGE+ since Sep.2024 M.Sc concluded on Jul. 2024 Research Engineer in project EuroAGE+, Feb. - Jul. 2024
Pedro Pascoal	M.Sc. student		AssistiveRobot – Socially Assistive Robot Able to Recognise Users and Interact through Natural Language	Final graduate student at DEEC-FCTUC
Tiago Pimentel	M.Sc. student		AwareOfSwarm – Raising Awareness About the State of Robot Swarms in Aquatic and Marine Ecosystem Monitoring Missions	Final graduate student at DEEC-FCTUC
Rodrigo Pato	M.Sc. student		Meet2Map – Cooperative Multi-Robot SLAM with Efficient information Sharing based on Rendezvous	Final graduate student at DEEC-FCTUC
Tomás Costa	M.Sc. student		SwarmBot – Small ROS-Compliant Robotic Platform for Robot Swarms Experimentation	Final graduate student at DEEC-FCTUC
*Former Research Assistants, Research Engineers and Students*
Laura Gaspar	M.Sc. student (co-advised)		Graph3DSLAM – 3D SLAM based on Graph Optimization	M.Sc concluded on Sep. 2024
Daniel Santos	M.Sc. student		Maximisation of Information Gain in Coordinated Multi-Robot Exploration	M.Sc concluded on Jul. 2024
Lucyanno Fernandes	M.Sc. student		SMAP – a Semantic MAPping Framework for mobile robots	M.Sc concluded on Nov. 2023
João Castilho	M.Sc. student (co-advised)		ROS 2.0 – Study and Evaluation of ROS 2 in comparison with ROS 1	M.Sc concluded on Sep. 2022 Engineer at Bosch, Braga, Portugal
Pedro Silva	M.Sc. student		Edge computing to enable onboard computation of deep learning algorithms in service robots	M.Sc. concluded on Feb. 2022 R&D Engineer at IPN-LAS
João Sousa	M.Sc. student		Cognitive stimulation and rehabilitation of hand-eye coordination in the elderly through serious games	M.Sc. concluded on Feb. 2022
Ali Ahmadi	Research Assistant (co-advised)		Collision avoidance and formation control in UAV teams operating in forestry scenarios	Research Assistant in project SEMFIRE, Jan.-Sep. 2021 Engineer at Vision-Box, Lisbon
Tiago Novo	M.Sc. student (co-advised)		EXAMINER – 3D multi-robot exploration on irregular terrains	M.Sc. concluded on Mar. 2021 Engineer at Critical Software, Coimbra
Leonardo Guevara	Visiting Ph.D. student		Coordination of multiple N-trailer vehicles for automated transportation in crop-harvesting	Affiliated with Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile. Stay in Jan.-May 2020 Assistant Professor at Lincoln University, UK
Roman Prykhodchenko	Research Assistant (co-advised)		People detection by mobile robots doing automatic guard patrols Detection of relevant objects, situations and events in forestry management and clearing missions	Research Assistant in project STOP, Nov. 2018 – Sep. 2019 Research Assistant in project SEMFIRE, Oct. 2019 – Mar. 2020 Engineer at WIDMO, Kraków, Poland
Ricardo Agostinho	M.Sc. student (co-advised)		BodyEnergyExpenditure - Automatic measurement of body energy expenditure associated with physical exercise	M.Sc. concluded on Nov. 2020 Engineer at Onecare, Coimbra
Gustavo Assunção	Research Assistant (co-advised)		Emotion recognition in elderly users through voice in social assistive robots	Research Assistant in project EuroAGE, Sep. – Dec. 2019 Ph.D. student at ISR-UC
João Falcão	Research Assistant (co-advised)		Activity recognition and learning of daily routines of elderly users based on Internet of Things (IoT)	Research Assistant in project EuroAGE, Sep. – Dec. 2019
Filipe Pinto	Research Engineer M.Sc. student		Object Detection and Registration of Complete Pose in a Semantic Map Built by a Mobile Robot	Research Engineer in project STOP, Feb. - Aug. 2019 M.Sc. concluded on Sep. 2019 Engineer at Globallogic, Kraków, Poland
João Sanches	M.Sc. student		Indoor semantic mapping with a mobile robot	M.Sc. concluded on Feb. 2019 Engineer at Synopsys, Porto
Vishnu Muthu	Research Assistant		Artificial perception of abnormal situations and security issues in multi-robot patrolling	Research Assistant in project STOP, Dec. 2017 - Oct. 2018 Freelancer on Industrial Robotics and AI, Virudhunagar, India
Daniela Nobre	M.Sc. student		RoboCops II – Patrolling buildings with multiple mobile robots	M.Sc. concluded on Sep. 2016
Gonçalo Martins	Research Assistant M.Sc. student		Multi-robot SLAM framework Synergy between social robots and smart environments to promote active & healthy aging	M.Sc. concluded on Jul. 2014 Research Assistant in project EuroAGE, Feb. - Sep. 2018 Researcher at Dyson, UK
Frederico Vaz	M.Sc. student		Localization of an unmanned underwater vehicle using multiple water surface robots, trilateration, and sensor data fusion	M.Sc. concluded on Sep. 2018 Engineer at Critical Software, Coimbra
Farzan Majeed Noori	Research Assistant	Artificial perception of abnormal situations and security issues in multi-robot patrolling		Research Assistant in project STOP, Apr. 2017 and Feb. 2018 Ph.D. student at University of Oslo, Norway, 2018 – 2022 Postdoc at University of Oslo, Norway
Rui Pires Carvalho	M.Sc. student	Cooperative multi-robot exploration		M.Sc. concluded on Sep. 2016
Diogo Amorim	M.Sc. student	Person following behavior by a companion robot		M.Sc. concluded on Jul. 2016 Engineer at Diferencial, Oliveira do Bairro, Portugal
João Rosa	M.Sc. student	Distributed robotics using cloud computing		M.Sc. concluded on Jul. 2016 Engineer at Link Consutling, Lisbon
Rohit Chandra	Research Assistant	Collaborative context awareness and cooperation between human and robotic teams		Research Assistant in CHOPIN project, May 2014 and Jul. 2015 Ph.D. student at Institut Pascal, Université Blaise Pascal Clermont-Ferrand II, France Researcher in Medical Robotics, Montpellier, France
André Gomes	M.Sc. student (co-advised)	Mobile Ad Hoc Communication Network for Search and Rescue Robotics		M.Sc. concluded on Jul. 2015
Francisco Sales	M.Sc. student	3D navigation, exploration and detection with a mobile robot		M.Sc. concluded on Jul. 2014 Co-founder and CTO at Mosano, Matosinhos, Portugal
Eduardo Martins	M.Sc. student (co-advised)	Command center for search and rescue operations with robotic and human teams		M.Sc. concluded on Jun. 2014 Engineer at Fulgur It, Faro
Micael S. Couceiro	Ph.D. student	Swarm cooperation; multi-robot patrolling; wearables for mixed reality serious games; sports engineering		Ph.D. concluded on Apr. 2014 FCT scholarship: SFRH/BD/73382/2010 CEO of Ingeniarius and Research Associate at ISR-UC
David Portugal	Ph.D. student M.Sc. student	Effective cooperation and scalability in multi-robot teams for automatic patrolling of infrastructures		M.Sc. concluded on Sep. 2009 Ph.D. concluded on Mar. 2014 FCT scholarship: SFRH/BD/64426/2009 Assistant Researcher at ISR-UC
João Machado Santos	Research Assistant M.Sc. student	Fusing Sonars and LRF data to Perform SLAM in Reduced Visibility Scenarios		M.Sc. concluded on Sep. 2013 Research Assistant in project CHOPIN, Oct. 2013-- Mar. 2014 Ph.D. student at L-CAS, Lincoln University, UK, 2014-2017 Researcher at Rohde & Schwarz, Germany
Gonçalo Augusto	M.Sc. student	Gazebo 3-D viewer for teams of cooperative mobile robots		M.Sc. concluded on Sep. 2013 Engineer at Axiros, Lisbon
João Martins	M.Sc. student	Multi-robot SLAM		M.Sc. concluded on Sep. 2013
Nuno L. Ferreira	M.Sc. student	Environmental monitoring and context recognition with cooperative robots in catastrophic incidents		M.Sc. concluded on Sep. 2013 Engineer at Faurecia, Paris, France
José Santos Pereira	Research Technician (co-advised)	Dynamic routing protocols for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs)		Research Technician of project CHOPIN, Feb.-Aug. 2013
Nuno Cândido	Research Technician	Fleet management for an intelligent transportation system with multiple unmanned vehicles		Research Technician of project TICE.Mobility, Sep. 2012 - Feb. 2013 Software Developer at OneSource, Lda, Coimbra
Amadeu Fernandes	M.Sc. student	Wireless ad hoc communication in teams of mobile robots		M.Sc. concluded on Sep. 2012 Entrepeneur at LFonTech, Brockton, Massachusetts, USA
Walter Miani	M.Sc. student (Erasmus)	Arduino Programming using Block Diagrams in Matlab / Simulink		M.Sc. concluded in Italy on Sep. 2012 Erasmus student from Univ. of Udine, Italy Software developer at PLUS srl, Trieste, Italy
Mónica Asperilla Moreno	M.Sc. student (Erasmus)	Novelty detection in robotic maps with GPGPU		Erasmus student from Univ. of Extremadura, Spain
André Pedro Neves	M.Sc. student	Study of GridSLAM using Player/Stage		M.Sc. concluded on Sep. 2010 Engineer at Projedomus, Coimbra
Luis Carlos Santos	M.Sc. student	Human-machine interaction device based on a touch screen		M.Sc. concluded on Jul. 2010 Engineer at Lumitio, Lisbon
Márcio Henriques	Research Assistant M.Sc. student	Trajectory planning and execution in hybrid maps		M.Sc. concluded on Jul. 2009 Researcher of project IRPS at ISR-UC Engineer at Critical Software, Coimbra
Luis Mendes Duarte	M.Sc. student	Reinforcement learning		M.Sc. concluded on Sep. 2008 Senior Product Manager at Talkdesk
Audrey Sabarthès	M.Sc. student (Erasmus, co-advised)	GridSLAM		M.Sc. concluded on Jul. 2008 Erasmus student from Univ. Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
João Monteiro	Research Assistant M.Sc. student	Digital control of differential soccer robots		M.Sc. concluded on Jul. 2008 Researcher of project IRPS at ISR-UC SW Technical Leader at Nokia, Lisbon
Claúdio Gomes	Graduate student (co-advised)	Embedded controller for an intelligent electrical vehicle		Graduation proj. concluded on Sep. 2007 Sales Engineer at Weidmuller Portugal, Lisbon
Pedro Lucas	Graduate student (co-advised)	Embedded controller for an intelligent electrical vehicle		Graduation proj. concluded on Sep. 2007 Field Service Engineer at Tetra Pak, Coimbra
André Ferraz Ribeiro	Graduate student	Distributed control of a robotic team for the RoboCup small-size-league		Graduation proj. concluded on Jul. 2007 CEO of Endiprev, Porto
José Cecílio	Graduate student	Intelligent vehicles for short distance transportation		Graduation proj. concluded on Jul. 2006 Assistant Professor at University of Lisbon
Pedro Martins	Graduate student	Intelligent vehicles for short distance transportation		Graduation proj. concluded on Jul. 2006 CTO at VOLTENERGY - Engenharia e Serviços Lda., Coimbra
Pedro Serra	Graduate student	Intelligent vehicles for short distance transportation		Graduation proj. concluded on Jul. 2006 Technical Manager at Critical Software, Lisbon R&D Engineer at IPN-LAS
João Paulo Rodrigues	Graduate student	Trajectory control of a holonomic mobile robot for the RoboCup small-size-league		Graduation proj. concluded on Jul. 2005 Engineer at Nokia Solutions and Networks, Aveiro
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Ph.D.

Rui P. Rocha carried out research activities on Multi-Robot Cooperation towards his Ph.D., between Sep. 1998 and Oct. 2005. Before getting his position at the University of Coimbra, i.e. between Sep. 1998 and Feb. 2000, these activities were carried out at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. After that, his Ph.D. research was conducted in the Artificial Perception for Intelligent Systems and Robotics (AP4ISR) team of the Institute of Systems and Robotics – University of Coimbra (ISR-UC), where he is currently a senior researcher.

The Ph.D. thesis was submitted to the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) on Oct. 13, 2005:

· Theme: Building Volumetric Maps with Cooperative Mobile Robots and Useful Information Sharing: a Distributed Control Approach based on Entropy

· Supervisors: Doctor Adriano da Silva Carvalho (Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of FEUP) and Doctor Jorge Manuel Miranda Dias (Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of University of Coimbra)

The Ph.D. defense was in May 8, 2006 at FEUP, with the following committee:

· Doctor Jorge Leite Martins de Carvalho, FEUP (Chairman)

· Doctor Wolfram Burgard, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany

· Doctor Maria Isabel Lobato de Faria Ribeiro, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa

· Doctor José Manuel Araújo Baptista Mendonça, FEUP

· Doctor Paulo José Cerqueira Gomes da Costa, FEUP

· Doctor Jorge Manuel Miranda Dias, University of Coimbra (Supervisor)

· Doctor Adriano da Silva Carvalho, FEUP (Supervisor)

The thesis was approved by unanimity.