ISR-Lisbon is located at the North tower of the Lisbon campus of IST (Lisbon Technology Institute)
and is organized in 6 research groups/labs: Dynamical Systems and
Ocean Robotics; Mobile Robotics; Computer and Robot Vision; Signal and
Image Processing; Intelligent Systems, and Evolutionary Systems and
Biomedical Engineering.
ISR-Lisbon gives special attention to international scientific
research cooperation and to training and education initiatives through
master, doctoral and post-doctoral programs. Grants are available for
foreign students and researchers who wish to enroll in these
programs.
Objectives
Ever since its foundation, and in close cooperation with IST,
ISR-Lisbon has been committed to meeting the following main strategic
objectives:
- promote scientific research and technological development in
Robotics, Information Processing and associated areas;
- promote active intellectual collaboration among researchers with
varied backgrounds and perspectives acquired in different kinds of
science (e.g., experimental, computational and theoretical), different
sectors (university, industry, governmental and regional
administration) and different regions;
- provide education and research experience for graduate and
undergraduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and industrial
fellows, providing exposure to leading-edge research and introducing
the students to large-scale collaborative research ventures;
- promote the diffusion of scientific results through publications
and by organizing seminars, conferences, exchange visiting programs
and scientific meetings at a national or international setting;
- increment the scientific exchange among Portuguese Universities
and these and other foreign Universities and similar institutions,
through the exchange of researchers and students, and the
participation in joint ventures;
- promote and support integrated graduate programs leading to Master
and Doctor degrees;
- promote the participation in research projects with national or
international Universities, R&D institutions and industrial
companies;
Research team
ISR-Lisbon has a research team of 124 researchers, 32 of them hold
a Ph.D. degree and are University Professors, Invited Scientists (MIT)
or Post-Doc researchers. They are responsible for the supervision of
65 post-graduate and 27 undergraduate students.
International Collaborative Research
ISR-Lisbon is engaged in several international collaborative
projects. Two types of cooperation are specially noteworthy: firstly,
participation in R&D projects in conjunction with universities and
research centres of excellence, as well as European businesses with
recognized competence, under the auspices of programs funded by the
Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation, European Community and
other agencies; and secondly, training and education initiatives,
primarily through master, doctoral and post-doctoral programs for
Portuguese and foreign researchers.
