Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
The research focus of this project is on domestic service robots. Even though the problem of service robots in domestic environments is not new, a substantial amount of challenges are still open. This project focuses on some of these challenges, targeting at advances beyond the state-of-the-art, while employing components off-the-shelf (COTS) to implement the others. [...]
One of the major limitations of the current robotics systems is their reduced capabilities of perceiving the surrounding space. This limitation determines the maximum complexity of the tasks they may perform, and reduces the robustness when the current tasks are performed. Therefore, by increasing the perceptual capabilities, these systems could react to environmental changes, and [...]
The general objective of the project is the study of patients with complex partial temporal crisis of difficult medical control. The electroencephalographic signal processing for epiletic crisis prediction, paroxistic activities propagation mechanisms and microchirurgic anatomy studies are aspects under consideration. The first specific objective is the application of stochastic grammars for the crisis prediction by [...]
Sleep pathologies, with a very high incidence over the general populations, have an important social and economic impact. In the proposed project, of interdisciplinary nature, specialists in the area of medicine and of engineering gather efforts and techniques for the establishment of methodologies and functional systems that lead to an effective increase in the quality [...]
The objective of this project is to originate the curiosity on students for the "Secrets of Nature", by observation and analysis, developing his scientific spirit. It also aims to create among the involved students an interchange spirit and share of ideas, contributing for the formation of a "scientific scholar community", communicating between them experiences, results [...]
This projects aims to develop methods for automatic classification of marble tiles. Presently, there are no standard criteria to classify marble tiles. Each tile is manually inspected and compared with other based on subjective evaluation. Furthermore, the subjective inspection rules changes depend on the factory that produces the tiles. The goal of this project is [...]
The objective of the present project is the development of a Remotely Operated Vehicle capable of semi-deep intervention (down to the 1000m range) to be used by the Portuguese scientific community in a variety of ocean research missions. Such a vehicle will allow for the investigation of a group of poorly known environments, including the [...]
Within the scope of this project, an open control architecture for a PUMA 560 is being developed. The current status of the project allows distributed control of the arm, based on a local Ethernet PC network. A central node runs, under Windows 98, a Petri net executor that supervises task execution. Other nodes are now [...]
The objectives of this project are the design and the construction of an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), and the development and integration of advanced systems for navigation, guidance and control, acoustic communications and mission management. These systems will be tested in the lab. Once they are installed in the vehicle, they will be also tested [...]
The objectives of the project are to design, develop, and test the systems that are required for the operation of a long range autonomous oceanographic vessel. This is an innovative concept worldwide. The project addresses a wide range of issues that include: i) vehicle design, ii) propulsion, iii) communications, iv) obstacle detection and avoidance, v) [...]