Curriculum Vitae

Experience

INESC TEC - Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (Porto, Portugal)

• Graduate Research Scholarship (July 2023 - Present)
• Research Topics:
  • Control Systems (robot positioning control)
  • Multi-robot Coordination
  • Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM)
• Skills:
  • C/C++ (implementation and online execution)
  • LaTeX (writing)
  • Python, MATLAB, Octave (data processing and analysis, prototyping)
  • Robot Operating System (ROS)
  • Team Work
• Supervisors:
  • Prof. Dr. António Paulo Moreira (amoreira@fe.up.pt)
  • Héber Miguel Sobreira, PhD (heber.m.sobreira@inesctec.pt)

Education

PhD Student in ECE @ Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto (FEUP) (Porto, Portugal)

• September 2024 - Present

MSc in ECE @ Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto (FEUP) (Porto, Portugal)

• September 2022 - July 2024
• GPA: 17.95/20 - (3^rd out of 148 students)
• MSc Thesis in Trajectory Control and Collision Avoidance for a Mobile Robot (DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.18652.09609)
• Supervisors:
  • Prof. Dr. António Paulo Moreira (amoreira@fe.up.pt)
  • Héber Miguel Sobreira, PhD (heber.m.sobreira@inesctec.pt)

BSc in ECE @ Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto (FEUP) (Porto, Portugal)

• September 2019 - July 2022
• GPA: 18.16/20 - (1^st out of 216 students)

Sciences and Technologies Course @ Escola Secundária de Paços de Ferreira (Paços de Ferreira, Porto, Portugal)

• September 2016 - July 2018
• GPA: 17.6/20.0

Projects

• GreenAuto: Green innovation for the Automotive Industry (October 2024 - Present)
  • ID: 02/C05-i01.02/2022.PC644867037-00000013
  • Research Topics: Automatic Pallet Detection, Long-Term Localization and Mapping with Mobile Robots, 3D LiDAR-based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping, Multi-Robot Coordination
• HfPT: Health from Portugal (September 2024 - Present)
  • ID: 01/C05-i11/2024.PC644937233-00000047
  • Research Topics: Multi-Robot Coordination, Task Scheduling, Artificial Intelegence
• PRODUTECH R3 (Recovery-Resilience-Reindustrialisation): Production Technologies Cluster Mobilising Agenda for Reindustrialisation (February 2024 - July 2024)
  • ID: 01/C05-i11/2024.PC645808870-00000067
  • Research Topics: Automatic Pallet Detection, Remote Control of Autonomous Forklift Robots

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Publications

Ribeiro, J.D., Brilhante, M., Matos, D.M., Silva, C.A, Sobreira, H.M., & Costa, P.G. (2025). Parallel Path Planning for Multi-Robot Coordination. In: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC), pp. 78-85. DOI: 10.1109/ICARSC65809.2025.10970166.

Lopes, M.S., Ribeiro, J.D., Moreira, A.P., Rocha, C.D., Martins, J.G., Sarmento, J.M., Carvalho, J.P., Costa, P.G., & Sousa, R.B. (2025). From Competition to Classroom: A Hands-on Approach to Robotics Learning. In: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC), pp. 170-176. DOI: 10.1109/ICARSC65809.2025.10970153.

Ribeiro, J.D., Sobreira, H.M., & Moreira, A.P. (2024). A Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Strategy for Trajectory Tracking of Omnidirectional Robots. In: 16^th APCA International Conference on Automatic Control and Soft Computing (CONTROLO 2024), pp. 268-279. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-81724-3_25.

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Awards

Best CTM Summer Internship 2022 at INESC-TEC, Porto, Portugal, July 2022

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