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Who am I?
Welcome to my website! I am professor of the Control and Automation Engineering course at the Sorocaba campus of São Paulo State University (UNESP) and PhD researcher at the Automation and Integrated Systems Group (GASI). My research focus are: Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.
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For a detailed description of my academic background and publications (including download links to some of them), please visit my Lattes page (in portuguese or english).
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To see what press has shown about my work, please visit my press room page.
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For details concearning my lectures, please visit my lectures page (in portuguese)
- For further information, please contact me!
What am I working on?
- I'm Coordinator of the "Jardim Robótico", a Brazilian pioneer technology artwork showing our view of a robotic garden
- I'm Coordinator of The Open Robot Project, the first fully open collaborative robotic project around the world
- I'm
Coordinator of the CP01,
the first Brazilian humanoid robot
- I'm
Coordinator of the Brazilian
Robotic Olympiad 2009 (supported
by CNPq), which aims to attend over
to 50.000 young in Brazil
- I'm Chair of the robotics area at Campus Party Brazil (2008-?)
- I'm appraiser/consultant of the Brazilian Department of Education (2007-?)
- I'm
member of the Virtual
Robots development group of
the Brazilian
Robotic Team preparing to RoboCup
2009 World Competition
Some
of my past works:
- President-founder of the RoboCup Brazil (2007-2008)
- Founder member of the Brazilian Robotics Olympiad
- Member of the Organizing Committee of the Brazilian and Latin-American Robotics Contests in: São Luis (2005), Campo Grande (2006), Santiago of Chile (2006), Florianópolis (2007), Salvador (2008), Brasília (2009)
- General chair of the Brazilian Robotics Contest, Campo Grande (2006) and General Chair of the RoboCup Brazil Open (2007)
Work with scientific societies:
I am also working with the following societies:
- Member of the Artificial Intelligence Special Committee (Comissão Especial de Inteligência Artificial - CEIA) of the Brazilian Computer Society (Sociedade Brasileira de Computação - SBC) (2009-2010)
- Member
of the Robotics
Special Committee (Comissão
Especial de
Robótica - CER) of
the Brazilian
Computer Society (Sociedade
Brasileira de
Computação - SBC)
(2007-2008) (2009-2010)
- Member of the Robotics Competitions Committee (Comitê de Competições Robóticas - CCR) SBA/SBC (2007-2009)
- Member of the RoboCup Brazil Committee (2009-2010)
- Member
of the Brazilian Automation Society
(Sociedade
Brasileira de
Automática
- SBA)
- Member of the Brazilian Computer Society (Sociedade Brasileira de Computação - SBC)