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	IST participation in activities of Remote Handling at ITER Alberto Vale, Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, IPFN/IST (>> more)


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Opportunities
	Bolsa de Técnico de Investigação (>> more)

	Scholarships for integration in research (BII) 2009 (>> more)

	Scholarships for integration in research (BII) 2008 Applications open for scholarships for integration in research (BII) (>> more)

	One Research Fellowship in Underwater Acoustic Signal Processing at the SiPLAB (Algarve) part of the Signal Processing laboratory of Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR) (>> more)

	Two Post-Doc Positions in Nonlinear Control and Estimation Theory at the Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR) of the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal (>> more)

	PostDoc Position in Planning under Uncertainty (>> more)

	ICT CALL 3 in CHALLENGE 2 - Cognitive Systems, Interaction and Robotics (>> more)

	PostDoc position in Decentralized Planning under Uncertainty at Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR) of the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal (>> more)

	One Postdoctoral research position in Remote Handling applied to Nuclear Fusion (>> more)

	Senior Researcher Position in the Area of Marine Instrumentation, Navigation, and Signal Processing (>> more)

	Ph.D. Student Position in Cooperative Navigation and Motion Control of Multiple Autonomous Marine Vehicles at the Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR) of the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal (>> more)

	Two Ph.D. Positions in Nonlinear Robust/ Adaptive Control and Estimation Theory and Practice at the Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR) of the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal (>> more)

	Two Ph.D. Positions in Robust and Adaptive Control Theory and Practice at the Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR) of the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal (>> more)

	Post-Doc Grant (>> more)

Seminars
	3D pose estimation of textureless shiny objects using random ferns, for bin-picking José Jerónimo Rodrigues, ISR/IST, Signal and Image Processing Group (>> more)

	An Integrated Bayesian Approach to Multi-Robot Cooperative Perception Aamir Ahmad, ISR/IST, Intelligent Robot and Systems Group (>> more)

	Distributed Algorithms for Separable Optimization João Mota, ISR/IST, Signal and Image Processing Group) (>> more)

	A Graphical Model Approach to Decentralized Coordination for Robotic Agents Alessandro Farinelli, University of Verona, Computer Science Department (>> more)

	Determining nodes for regulatory networks Bernold Fiedler, Free University Berlin (>> more)

	Finding inactive and sub-seafloor massive sulfide deposits in deep ocean floors Fernando J. A. S. Barriga, Creminer/FCUL (>> more)

	Decentralized Decision-Making for Real Robot Teams Based on POMDPs João Messias, ISR/IST, Intelligent Robotic Systems Group (>> more)

	Design Techniques for Nanometer CMOS Analog-to-Digital Converters Prof. Sai-Weng Sin, University of Macau (>> more)

	Fast Distributed Gradient Methods Dusan Jakovetic, ISR/IST, Signal and Image Processing Group (>> more)

	A Bayesian Approach to Uncertainty in Input-Output Analysis João Rodrigues, IN+ (>> more)

	A Nonlinear Attitude Observer based on Inertial Measurements and Range Data Sérgio Brás - ISR/IST, Dynamical Systems and Ocean Robotics Lab (>> more)

	Aldeia Mineira do Lousal: um caso exemplar de reabilitação de património geomineiro Jorge M.R.S. Relvas (CREMINER/LARSyS) (>> more)

	Methods to generate interpolating curves on manifolds Fátima Leite, Univ. de Coimbra (>> more)

	Comparing neurovascular coupling models using EEG-fMRI Maria João Rosa, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL (>> more)

	Unsupervised Learning of Finite Mixture of Gaussian Models using Mean Field Games Speaker: Sérgio Pequito (>> more)

	Neural Mass Models: EEG/MEG and hemodynamic signals F.H. Lopes da Silva, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, NL (>> more)

	Looking patterns in neurotypical children and children with autism Prof. Claes von Hofsten, Uppsala University and Oslo University (>> more)

	Reinforcement Learning as Mixture Learning Nikos Vlassis Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine & OneTree Technologies Luxembourg (>> more)

	Nonlinear Estimation using Mean Field Games Speaker: Sérgio Pequito (>> more)

	Disaster Response Robotics Speaker: Prof. Daniele Nardi Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica (>> more)

	A modeling study of the relation between capacity and precision in visuo-spatial working-memory Speaker: Dr. Rita Almeida Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain (>> more)

	Close to robots: human responses to collaboration with robots Speaker: Prof. Vanessa Evers University of Amsterdam (>> more)

	Feedback control of critical nonlinear systems. Application to nonholonomic and underactuated vehicles Claude Samson, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France (>> more)

	Optimal Control on Non-Compact Lie Groups: A Projection Operator Approach Alessandro Saccon (>> more)

	A Discriminative Constellation Model for Image Matching and Recognition Speaker: Carlo Tomasi, Duke University (>> more)

	Modeling and analysis of packet forwarding techniques for probabilistic relay networks Speaker: Ioannis Chatzigeorgiou (>> more)

	Altitude control of a Seaweed haervester Speaker: Marco Gallieri (>> more)

	On the development of an analysis and design tool for manned submarines Speaker: Diana Ovalle, Dep. de Matemática Aplicada y Estadística, ETSI Industriales, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (>> more)

	Portuguese Tiles and European Engraving Prof. Ana Paula Correia (>> more)

	SAUC-E: Experiences from the Nessie team Speaker: Francesco Maurelli, Ocean Systems Laboratory, Heriot-Watt University (>> more)

	Generalized moment problems and spectrum approximation in the Hellinger distance Speaker: Prof. Augusto Ferrante (>> more)

	Introduction to the Université de Sherbrooke in Quebec, Canada and its Faculty of Engineering Speaker: Prof. Denis Gingras (>> more)

	Factors modulating the efficiency of division of labor in social insect societies Speaker: Danesh Tarapore (>> more)

	Hybrid Approach to Task Planning, Learning and Control Under Uncertainty Based on Discrete Event Systems Supervision and Reinforcement Learning Speaker: Gonçalo Neto (>> more)

	Robot Task Plan Representation Based on Petri Nets: Modelling, Analysis and Execution Speaker: Hugo Costelha (>> more)

	Dual Decomposition for Distributed Control Anders Rantzer, Department of Automatic Control, University of Lund, Sweden (>> more)

	The algebraic method: a new approach to nonlinear estimation? Prof. Jerome Jouffroy, Associate Professor at the Mads Clausen, University of Southern Denmark (>> more)

	Recent advances on aiding techniques for USBL Tightly-Coupled Inertial Navigation Systems Speaker: Marco Morgado (>> more)

	Single Range Navigation in the presence of Constant Unknown Drifts Speaker: Pedro Batista (>> more)

	Collaborating Swarms, Network Topologies and Constrained Coalitional Games Speaker: John S. Baras, University of Maryland College Park (>> more)

	Decentralized Low Communication 6DoF Full State Formation Navigation Speaker: Sónia Marques (>> more)

	Learning Optimal Representations for Human Sensing Fernando De la Torre‚ Research Assistant Professor Robotics Institute‚ Carnegie Mellon University (>> more)

	Introducing fuzzy decision stumps in boosting through the notion of neighborhood Speaker: Plinio Moreno López (>> more)

	What Agents Can Probably Enforce (joint work with Nils Bulling) Speaker: Wojtek Jamroga‚ University of Luxembourg (>> more)

	Inference and Learning for Active Sensing, Experimental Design and Control Speaker: Ruben Martinez-Cantin (>> more)

	Stability of Impulsive Systems driven by Renewal Processes Speaker: Duarte Antunes (>> more)

	Sensor selection for hypothesis testing in wireless sensor networks: a Kullback-Leibler based approach Speaker: Dragana Bajovic (>> more)

	Self-Assembly, Morphology Control and Firefly-Inspired Fault Detection in a Swarm of Autonomous Robots Speaker: Anders Lyhne Christensen (>> more)

	Affordance based word-to-meaning association Speaker: Verica Krunic (>> more)

	Seminar Series on ICTs Policy Research - Technology adoption with forward-looking agents A Retail Benchmarking Approach to Efficient Two-Way Access Pricing: Termination-Based Price Discrimination with Elastic Subscription Demand (>> more)

	Seminar Series on ICTs Policy Research: An empirical analysis of cellular demand in South Africa (>> more)

	Towards a Unified View of Communication and Control & New Results in Nonlinear Estimation (>> more)

	Tutorial on Computer Vision in a Non-Rigid World: Conclusions and Discussion Speaker: Alessio Del Bue (>> more)

	Weights optimization for consensus algorithm in the presence of random link failures Speaker: Dusan Jakovetic (>> more)

	The RobotCub Project: Humanoid Robots as tools for understanding Cognition Speaker: José Santos-Victor‚ ISR/IST (>> more)

	Seminar Series on ICTs Policy Research: How Do Mobile-Voice Operators Compete? IVQR Estimates (>> more)

	Underwater Acoustic Communications at the Intersection of Physical Oceanography, Acoustics, and Signal Processing Speaker: James Preisig‚ Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (>> more)

	A Decision-theoretic Approach to Dynamic Sensor Selection in Camera Networks Speaker: Matthijs Spaan (>> more)

	Current research activities on Cognitive Architectures and Field Robotics at ISLab Speaker: Rodrigo Ventura (>> more)

	Seminar Series on ICTs Policy Research: Competition, Regulation, and Broadband Access to the Internet (>> more)

	Kalman and H Infinity Optimal Filtering for a Class of Kinematic Systems By Pedro Batista‚ IST/ISR Ph.D. Student (>> more)

	Fast Approximate Nearest Neighbors with Automatic Algorithm Configuration By Marius Muja (>> more)

	Character Recognition in Natural Images By Dr. Teofilo De Campos (>> more)

	Seminar Series on ICTs Policy Research: Competition in Mobile Telephony in France and Germany (>> more)

	Seminar Series on ICTs Policy Research: Competitive Pressure and Innovation Complementarities (>> more)

	Algebra, Software, and Signal Processing By Prof. Markus Pueschel Electrical and Computer Engineering‚ CMU (>> more)

	Wellcome seminar to a new senior researcher at ISR: Gustavo Carneiro (>> more)

	Seminar Series on ICTs Policy Research: Measuring the Impact of Entry - The Case of Mobile Telephony (>> more)

	Visual Homing based on Optical-Flow Techniques and Applications to Autonomous Robot Cleaning By Lorenz Gerstmayr Computer Engineering Group‚ Bielefeld University‚ Germany (>> more)

	Seminar Series on ICTs Policy Research: Technology adoption with forward-looking agents (>> more)

	Gradient like observers for invariant systems by Robert Mahony Department of Engineering‚ Australian National University (>> more)

	Advanced flight control for VTOL UAV using Image-based control paradigm by Tarek Hamel‚ I3S UNSA-CNRS6‚ Sophia Antipolis (>> more)

	Towards a Theory of Cascaded Detectors By Prof. Jim Rehg Associate Professor‚ Georgia Institute of Technology‚ USA (>> more)

	Closing the Loop Around Networks of Embedded Devices by Prof. Bruno Sinopoli CMU (>> more)

	Low Order Control Design: The H? Design by Non-smooth, Non-convex Optimization by Dr. Wojciech Kozinski Institute for Control and Industrial Electronics‚ Warsaw University of Technology (>> more)

	A Retail Benchmarking Approach to Efficient Two-Way Access Pricing: No Termination-Based Price Discrimination (>> more)

	Incentives to Invest and give Access to Next Generation Networks (>> more)

	Fault detection and self-assembly in swarms of robots by Anders Christensen (>> more)

	Decoding LDPC Codes with Faulty Iterative Decoders Lav R. Varshney Massachusetts Institute of Technology (>> more)

	Hypergraph-Based Detection of Anomalous Interactions in Very Large Networks Jorge Gomes Silva and Rebecca Willett Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University (>> more)

	Monthly joint seminar with the Mathematics Department (>> more)

	ANSIG - An Analytic Signature for 2D Shape Representation José Jerónimo Rodrigues‚ ISR/IST MSc student (>> more)

	Filter Design with Secrecy Constraints Miguel Rogrigues Faculdade de Ciências da Univ. do Porto (>> more)

	An Overview of Aiding Techniques for USBL/INS Underwater Navigation Systems Marco Morgado‚ ISR/IST PhD student (>> more)

	Monthly joint seminar with the Mathematics Department (>> more)

	A Virtual Rider for Motorcycles: An Approach Based on Optimal Control and Maneuver Regulation Prof. Alessandro Saccon University of Padova, Italy (>> more)

	Seminar Series on ICTs Policy Research: "Capital Structure and Regulation: Does Ownership Matter?" (>> more)

	Towards the Quantification of Functional Brain Imaging Measurements Patrícia Figueiredo Department of Physics, IST (>> more)

	Robust Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Control using RMMAC/FDI architecture and its application to the F-14 Aircraft under Sensor Failures Dr Sajjad Fekri University of Leicester (>> more)

	The Origins of Robust Control in the 1970’s Prof. Michael Safonov Univ. of Southern California (>> more)

	Robust Adaptation and Learning: Unfalsified Control and Cost-Detectability Prof. Michael Safonov Univ. of Southern California (>> more)

	Seminar Series on ICTs Policy Research: "Tariff-Mediated Network Externalities: Is Regulatory Intervention Any Good?" (>> more)

	On the Design of Linear Parameter Varying Multi-Rate Tracking Controllers Duarte Antunes, ISR/IST PhD student (>> more)

	Observer design for a class of kinematic systems Pedro Batista, ISR/IST PhD student (>> more)

	Efficient MIMO soft demodulation: A semidefinite relaxation approach Prof. Tim Davidson Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering McMaster University, Canada (>> more)

	An adaptive sensori-motor representation of peripersonal space Micha Hersh Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory, EPFL (>> more)

	An Introduction to Multiple View Geometry by Dr. Lourdes Agapito Queen Mary Univ. of London (>> more)

	Environmental Based Underwater Communications by António Silva University of Algarve (>> more)

	Learning to Select Team Strategies in Finite-Timed Zero-Sum Games by Dr. Manuela Veloso Computer Science Department - Carnegie Mellon University (>> more)

	Monthly joint seminar with the Mathematics Dept. (>> more)

	Value functions for Dec-POMDPs and locality of interaction by Frans Oliehoek University of Amsterdam (>> more)

	The role of shared representations in automatic imitation, action understanding and joint action ISR meeting room, 7th floor, North Tower Marcel Brass Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University (>> more)

	Critical Network Control and Management by Prof. Hyong Kim Carnegie Mellon University (>> more)

	Efficient SSD-based tracking applied to face tracking by Dr. José Biencinto (ISR/IST) (>> more)

	Stochastic hybrid systems and their applications to networks and biology by João Hespanha University of California Santa Barbara (>> more)

	Estimation of multiple objects at unknown locations with active contours by Margarida Silveira (ISR/IST) (>> more)

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	Cooperative Control of Multiple Unmanned Air Vehicles by Isaac Kaminer Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, California (>> more)

	Underwater Technologies at Florida Institute of Technology - Case Studies: AUVs, ROVs, MOORINGS by Stephen L. Wood Florida Institute of Technology (>> more)

	Co-Cognition, Neural Ensembles and Self-Organization by Vitorino Ramos, collaborator at LaSEEB (ISR/IST) (>> more)

	Monthly joint seminar with the Mathematics Dept. (>> more)

	Two final year projects from the Dept. of Aeronautics of the Imperial College of London (>> more)

	A simplification of Adaboost and its relation to optimal betting strategies Fabrizio Smeraldi Queen Mary, University of London (>> more)

	Optimal shape from motion estimation with missing and degenerate data Manuel Marques, M.Sc Student ISR/IST (>> more)

	Carotid Atherosclerosis Assessment with Compound 3D Ultrasound José Seabra, Ph.D. Student ISR/IST (>> more)

	"Monte Carlo Methods for Sequential Decision Processes, With Application to Machine Learning, Robotics and Computer Vision" Prof. Nando de Freitas University of British Columbia (>> more)

	Non-Rigid Structure From Motion Alessio Del Bue (ISR/IST) (>> more)

	Monthly joint seminar with the Mathematics Dept. (>> more)

	Final projects in the Ph.D. course (>> more)

	Monthly joint seminar with the Mathematics dept. (>> more)

	Coordination in multi-vehicle systems Reza Ghabcheloo, PhD. Student ISR/IST (>> more)

	State Estimation of Continuous-Time Systems with Implicit Outputs from Discrete Noisy Time-Delayed Measurements Prof. Conv. António Pedro Aguiar (>> more)

	A Quaternion Sensor Based Controller for Homing of Underactuated AUVs Pedro Batista, PhD. Student ISR/IST (>> more)

	Uncertainty vs Performance Trade-Offs In Robust Feedback Control: A MIMO Case Study José Vasconcelos, PhD. Student ISR/IST (>> more)

	MMAE Terrain Reference Navigation for Underwater Vehicles using Eigen Analysis Prof. Paulo Oliveira, ISR/IST (>> more)

	Exploration and Visual Mapping Algorithms for Mobile Robots (>> more)

	Monthly joint seminar with the Mathematics Department (>> more)

	The Theory of Fast and Robust Adaptation by Dr. NAIRA HOVAKIMYAN, Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, US (>> more)

	Rational Trigonometry Applied to Robotics by João Pequito Almeida (>> more)

	Marginal-SLAM: A convergent Particle Method for Simultaneous Robot Localization and Mapping By Ruben Martinez-Cantin (>> more)

	Monthly joint seminar with the Mathematics Department (>> more)

	Lagrangean duals and problem decomposition Raquel César (>> more)

	Manifold Learning: Representing High-Dimensional Data in Low-Dimensional Spaces Marko Stösic (>> more)

	Monthly joint seminar with the Mathematics dept. (>> more)

	Monthly joint seminar with the Mathematics dept. (>> more)

	Development of a Landing Controller for an Automated Helicopter Sarabjit Bhooee, Imperial College of London (>> more)

	Monthly joint seminar with the Mathematics dept. (>> more)

	Stability of switched seesaw systems with application to the stabilization of underactuated vehicles A. Pedro Aguiar, (ISR) (>> more)

	INFRANET PROJECT -- TAKING ACCURATE MEASUREMENTS OF HIGH VOLTAGE INSTALLATIONS WITH LASER RANGE SCANNERS AND GPS A. Vale, (ISR) (>> more)

	Terrain Following Controller for Affne Parameter-Dependent Systems: An Application to Model-Scale Helicopters Nuno Paulino (>> more)

	Trajectory Tracking H2 Controller for Autonomous Helicopters: and Application to Industrial Chimney Inspection Bruno Guerreiro‚ ISR PhD Student (>> more)

	Monthly joint seminar with the Mathematics dept. (>> more)

	Ranklets: a complete set of orientation selective rank features Dr. Fabrizio Smeraldi (>> more)

	Robôs Móveis: Aplicações indoor e outdoor Prof. Marcelo Becker (>> more)

	Biologically inspired mechanisms for human action understanding towards Social Robots Dr. Yiannis Demiris, BioART, Intelligent Systems and Networks Group, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London (>> more)

	Pervasive Networks of Robots for Research and Teaching Daniela Rus, CSAIL-MIT (>> more)

	Inverse Reinforcement Learning with Evaluation Valdinei Silva (U. S. Paulo, Brasil) (>> more)

	Nonlinear System Workshop, 10th February, 13:30-18:00 (>> more)

	Fast and Exact Algorithms for Energy Minimization Jerome Darbon (ENST) (>> more)

	Sistemas Autónomos: Investigação em Curso no ISEP Eduardo Silva (LSA/ISEP) (>> more)

	Unmanned Aerial and Ground Vehicle Systems: On Controller Design, and Swarm Formation Control Prof. Kimon Valavanis University of South Florida (>> more)

	The Changing Role of Computer Vision Applications Dr. Petia Radeva Computer Science Department & Computer Vision Center, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (>> more)

	An Introduction to Uncertainty Based Methods Dr. Luis Crespo (>> more)

	Fuzzy Control - An Introduction Prof. Gerd Schulz (>> more)

	A Two-Hour Tutorial Presentation of Sajjad Fekris's Ph.D. Research on Robust Multiple-Model Adaptive Control (RMMAC) Michael Athans, Invited Research Professor, ISR/IST (>> more)

	Hessian of the Riemannian distance function on connected locally symmetric spaces: centroid computation with a Newton method Ricardo Ferreira, Instituto Sistemas e Robótica ISR-IST (>> more)

	Understanding Bio-Complexity with Signal Processing Gail Rosen, PhD student at Georgia Tech, USA (>> more)

	Some remarks on extremal functions for Poincaré-Sobolev-type Pedro Girão (DM/IST) (>> more)

	The Augmented Body: Gesture as Space-time Shapes and Burning the Sound Rudolfo Quintas ISR Resident Artist (>> more)

	Marko Beko Ph.D. Thesis Proposal (>> more)

	Optimization under Uncertainty Dr. Luis Crespo (>> more)

	Entropy penalization methods for Hamilton-Jacobi equations Enrico Valdinoci (>> more)

	Estacionamentos mecânicos ou sistemas que permitem multiplicar o espaço disponível Miguel Louro, Consultor Suporte Parksystems (>> more)

	Positive 1D and 2D systems – realization problem Tadeusz Kaczorek (>> more)

	Graph-Based Control of Heterogeneous Robot Networks by Magnus Egerstedt Georgia Institute of Technology‚ GA‚ USA (>> more)

	Estimation of Attitude and Position from Range-Only Measurements using Geometric Descent Optimization on the Special Euclidean Group Alex Alcocer‚ ISR PhD Student (>> more)

	Efficient planning under uncertainty in the POMDP framework Matthijs Spaan, PhD student at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (>> more)

	Multivehicle Mapping in Large Environments Prof. Jose Neira , Departamento de Informatica e Ingenieria de Sistemas, University of Zaragoza (>> more)

	A Multi-Level Modeling Methodology for Swarm Robotic Systems by Alcherio Martinoli Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne‚ Switzerland (>> more)

	On Singular Values of Partially Prescribed Matrices Marko Stösic‚ IST/ISR Researcher (>> more)

	Know thy self. Modeling the basic cognitive properties of the immune system Dr. Jorge Carneiro, I. Gulbenkian de Ciência (>> more)

	Navigation System Architectures for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles José Vasconcelos‚ ISR PhD Student (>> more)

	R&D at IdMind - Engenharia de Sistemas, Lda João Cristóvão (>> more)

	An Information Theoretic Approach to the Fundamental Limitations of Feedback Nuno Martins, PhD. LIDS MIT (>> more)

	Guidance, Navigation and Control of Formation Flying Spacecraft Part II - Navigation Algorithm Sónia Marques (>> more)

	Guidance, Navigation and Control of Formation Flying Spacecraft Part I - Mission and GC Algorithm Dan Dumitriu and Pedro Lima (>> more)

	Partition-Distance Methods for Image Segmentation Jaime Cardoso Inesc Porto (>> more)

	Unmmaned Aerial Vehicles at Seville University Prof. Anibal Ollero (>> more)

	The Fundamental Matrix for Dipotric Cameras with Radial Distortion. Application on the Calibration of Wide Area Camera Networks João Pedro Barreto Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia - Universidade de Coimbra (>> more)

	Projetos em Desenvolvimento no GATI - Grupo de Automação e Tecnologias da Informação, Universidade Federal de Itajubá, Brasil Luiz Edival de Souza e Leonardo de Mello Honório (>> more)

	COORDINATED PATH FOLLOWING UNDER COMMUNICATION CONSTRAINTS- PART II Reza Ghabcheloo (>> more)

	From Discrete Specifications to Embedded Control Software Prof. Paulo Tabuada (>> more)

	COORDINATED PATH FOLLOWING UNDER COMMUNICATION CONSTRAINTS- PART I Reza Ghabcheloo (>> more)

	AUV Terrain Aided Navigation using Particle Filters Francisco Curado (>> more)

	Monthly joint seminar with the Mathematics dept. (>> more)

	Segmentation of Multiple Objects Profª. Margarida Silveira, IST (>> more)

	Artificial Brains for Artificial Beings – On Developmental Perception and Learning for the Humanoid Robot Cog Artur Arsénio, Ph.D. (>> more)

	Study and Implementation of an EKF GIB-based Underwater Positioning System Alex Alcocer, Ph.D. Stud. (>> more)

News
	New European Project MORPH - the kick off meeting 21st-23rd February (>> more)

	The Minister of Interior signed a cooperation protocol with IST and AIP (>> more)

	Innovation Days 2009 - Experimental Demo of the DELFIMx Marine Robotic Vehicle (>> more)

	Membros do ISR/IST ganham Prémio Criatividade Empreendedora Os (actuais e ex-) alunos do IST João Antunes, João Santos, Marco Barbosa, e Nelson Ramos obtiveram o Prémio “Criatividade Empreendedora”, organizado pela OTIC\|UTL, da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, com o qual partirão agora para a constituição oficial de uma nova PME originada no ISR, a Self Tech. Os 4 trabalham ou trabalharam no ISR, no âmbito dos projectos SocRob e URUS. Ler mais em http://www.otic.reitoria.utl.pt/pt/noticias/#1252. (>> more)

	Marco Barbosa, Nelson Ramos, João Estilita and João Santos, got the 3rd place in the TV contest AUDAX / Negócios à Prova (>> more)

	Marco Barbosa, Nelson Ramos, João Estilita and João Santos, selected as one of the 30 finalists to the TV program AUDAX / Negócios à Prova. Graduates Marco Barbosa and Nelson Ramos, as well as the final year students João Estilita and João Santos, all of them ISR-Lisbon members, got their business proposal, submitted to the TV program AUDAX / Negócios à Prova, selected as one of the 30 finalists, among 260 candidates. The show will go live on RTP2 early next year. More at www.audax.tv. (>> more)

	VENUS Mission in Sesimbra, Portugal October 2007 (>> more)

	Best Philosopy Paper Award: Porfírio Silva The paper "Institutional Robotics", by Porfírio Silva (a PhD student in Philosophy) and ISR researcher Pedro Lima, received the Best Philosopy Paper Award in ECAL 2007 - 9th European Conference on Artificial Life, Lisbon, held in Lisbon last week. (>> more)

	ACA2007: Best Student Paper Award won by Bruno Guerreiro June 2007 (>> more)

	Visit of Delegation from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (>> more)

	Participation of ISR-Lisbon Associate Laboratory on the exhibition held at the Pavilhão do Conhecimento in the scope of the Encontro Ciência 2007 (>> more)

	Alexandre Bernardino and the Eu project RobotCub in the on-line journal Ciência Hoje (>> more)

	Prof. Luis Vidigal award won by a project developed at ISR (>> more)

	Art and Science in ISR (>> more)

	VENUS project meeting in Marseille, France (>> more)

	Participation of ISR-Lisbon in ESA projects is reported in the media (>> more)

	GREX Project meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria (>> more)

	Prof. Athans receives Lifetime Achievement Award (>> more)

	VENUS Project - Alex Alcocer represents ISR/ISR at the Pianosa Mission, Italy (>> more)

	Participation of the ISR/IST team in RoboCup2006 ISR/IST ISocRob-MSL and ISocob-4LL teams will participate in RoboCup2006, which will take place in Bremen, Germany, from 14 to 19 June, in the Middle Size and 4-Legged Leagues, respectively. The MSL team will participate jointly with the U. Aveiro CAMBADA team, in a novel experience of inter-university collaboration, including challenges at the level of sharing communication and coordination protocols. (>> more)

	Michael Athans elected IFAC Fellow Michael Athans, Professor of EE&CS (emeritus), MIT, USA and Invited Research Professor, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal was elected IFAC Fellow in 2006. (>> more)

	Sajjad Fekriasl PhD thesis defense Sajjad Fekriasl successfuly defended his PhD thesis entitled "Robust Adaptative MIMO Control Using Multiple-Model Hypothesis Testing and Mixed-u Synthesis". (>> more)

	Prof. João Sentieiro was nominated as the President of Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia - FCT (Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation) starting 1st.January 2006. Prof. João Sentieiro was nominated as the President of Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia - FCT (Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation) starting 1st.January 2006. (>> more)

	Profª Isabel Ribeiro was elected as the new Director of ISR/IST, starting her duties on January 2006. A Profª Isabel Ribeiro was elected as the new Director of ISR/IST, starting her duties on January 2006. (>> more)

	António Pascoal and Luís Sebastião in Goa, India (>> more)

	The Portuguese President of the Republic - Cavaco Silva - will visit IST tomorrow, March 13 (>> more)

	URUS Project - José Santos Victor and João Sequeira represented IST at the kickoff meeting in Barcelona (>> more)

	CMU-Portugal Collaboration (>> more)

	António Pascoal nas Novas Fronteiras (>> more)

	"Robot's Ethic Code" article by Isabel Ribeiro (>> more)

	French Ministry visits ISR - Lisbon (>> more)

	Jornal de Negócios article about MAYA (>> more)

	FREESUBNET was selected for financement (>> more)

	Project RAPOSA selected as a finalist in the EURON Tech Transfer Award The RAPOSA project was selected as one of the 4 finalists (among 13 applications) of the 2005 EURON Tech Transfer Award. (>> more)

	Prof. Luis Vidigal award won by projects developed at ISR The graduation projects of João Leonardo and Bernardo Pires, both developed at ISR (advisors: Prof. João Xavier and Prof. Pedro Aguiar), were distinguished with the IST Prize for the best graduation project on EECS (Prof. Luis Vidigal prize). (>> more)

	Prof. Cavaco Silva visits IST (>> more)

	Portuguese Researcher's Mobility Portal (>> more)

	Dejan Milutinovic Ph.D. thesis got a 2nd place in the EURON PhD award Dr. Dejan Milutinovic got the 2nd place among 12 candidates to the Georges Giralt PhD Award, for his 2004 PhD thesis “Stochastic Model of Micro-Agent Populations”, developed at ISR/IST and supervised by Prof. Pedro Lima and co-supervised by Prof. Michael Athans. (>> more)

	ISR - Open day (>> more)

Events
	Ph.D. Thesis Defense - Paulo Rosa (>> more)

	Ph.D. Thesis Defense - Bruno Lacerda (>> more)

	Ph.D. Thesis Defense - José Seabra (>> more)

	Ph.D. Thesis Defense - Hugo Costelha (>> more)

	Ph.D. Thesis Defense - José Vasconcelos (>> more)

	Ph.D. Thesis Defense - Alex Alcocer Peñas (>> more)

	IBM Scientific Award 2008 given to a ISR researcher (>> more)

	RLSS09: Robot Learning Summer School (>> more)

	Ph.D. Thesis Defense - António João Freitas Gomes da Silva (>> more)

	Humanoid NAO Presentation and Demos at ISR-Lisbon (>> more)

	Special Lecture on Engineering and Public Policy (>> more)

	M.Sc. Thesis Defence - Manuel Malhado (>> more)

	M.Sc. Thesis Defence - Ana Aleixo (>> more)

	M.Sc. Thesis Defence - João Fayad (>> more)

	M.Sc. Thesis Defence - Dario Figueira (>> more)

	M.Sc. Thesis Defence - Francisco Mendonça (>> more)

	M.Sc. Thesis Defence - José Jerónimo Rodrigues (>> more)

	M.Sc. Thesis Defence - Fausto Ferreira (>> more)

	PhD Thesis Defence - Ricardo Oliveira (>> more)

	Ph.D. Thesis Defense - Plinio Moreno (>> more)

	CMU-Portugal: PhD Program in EPP, kick-off event (>> more)

	Pedro Fazenda’s M.Sc. Thesis Defense (>> more)

	From Human Societies to Artificial Societies ISR-Lisbon Conference Cycle (>> more)

	Marko Beko's Ph.D. Defense (>> more)

	Francisco Teixeira's Ph.D. Defense (>> more)

	Rodrigo Venturas&rsquo Ph.D. Defense (>> more)

	Ricardo Beira's M.Sc. Thesis Defense (>> more)

	3rd Exhibition of Engineering, Science and Technology at IST 19 - 30 November (>> more)

	Francisco Melo's Ph.D. Defense (>> more)

	ISOPE 2007 - The 17th International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, July 1 - 6 (>> more)

	Rita Cunha's Ph.D. Defense (>> more)

	Manuel Marques's M.Sc. Thesis Defense (>> more)

	Reza Ghabcheloo's Ph.D. Defense (>> more)

	Exponáutica 2007 (>> more)

	O ISR-Lisboa Laboratório Associado participa no Encontro Ciência em Portugal - Ciência 2007 (>> more)

	Pedro Jorge Mendes's Ph.D. Defense (>> more)

	Jorge Silva's Ph.D. Defense (>> more)

	Sessão de apresentação sobre o Portal da Mobilidade de Investigadores e a Rede Nacional de Centros de Mobilidade (>> more)

	75th anniversary of Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (>> more)

	95th anniversary of Instituto Superior Técnico (>> more)

	João Alves M.Sc. thesis defense (>> more)

	Manuel Lopes Ph.D. Defense (>> more)

	Cristian Munteanu Ph.D. defense (>> more)

	ISR opens its doors on the National Day for the Scientific Culture (>> more)

	Debate sobre «O Ensino Experimental: Cooperação entre as Escolas Secundárias e as Universidades» (>> more)

	Brief Introduction to Bioinformatics and Computational Biology - short course (>> more)

	1st Workshop of the Associate Laboratory (>> more)

	Defesa da Tese de Mestrado de Miguel Arroz (>> more)

	Defesa da Tese de Mestrado de Ricardo Ferreira (>> more)

	CDC 2006 Workshop on New Developments in Point-Stabilization, Trajectory-Tracking, Path-Following, and Formation Control of Autonomous Vehicles (>> more)

	ISR/IST oferece estágios de Verão no âmbito do programa Ocupação Científica de Jovens nas Férias (>> more)

	I Feira do Conhecimento e da Inovação (>> more)

	Three ISR researchers are the chairs of the 4th International Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artifacts, April 2007 (>> more)

	MCMC 2006 - 7th IFAC Conference on Manoeuvring and Control of Marine Craft (>> more)

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