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Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura
Lab: ISLab - Intelligent Systems Lab
Position: Assistant Professor (IST)
Degree: PhD
Email: yoda ( @ ) isr.ist.utl.pt
Phone: +351-218418195
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Emotion-based Agents, Robotics
Observations: Office: 6.09

Personal page: http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda

Closed projects

AcronymNameFundingDates
RESCUE Cooperative Navigation for Rescue Robots FCT 2000-2004

Publications
Journal papers

[1] Responding efficiently to relevant stimuli using an emotion-based agent architecture, Rodrigo Ventura, Carlos Pinto-Ferreira, Neurocomputing 72(13-15), 2009

[2] A Search and Rescue Robot with Tele-Operated Tether Docking System, C. Marques, J. Cristovão, P. Alvito, Pedro Lima, João Frazão, M. Isabel Ribeiro, Rodrigo Ventura, Industrial Robot, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Vol. 34, No.4, pp. 332-338, 2007 – PDF

Book chapters

[1] A Functional Architecture for a Team of Fully Autonomous Cooperative Robots, Pedro Lima, Rodrigo Ventura, Pedro Aparício, Luís Custódio, in Manuela Veloso and Hiroaki Kitano, editors, RoboCup-99: Robot Soccer World Cup III, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, (12 pags), 2000 – PDF

[2] ISocRob - Intelligent Society of Robots, Rodrigo Ventura, Pedro Aparício, Carlos Marques, Pedro Lima, Luís Custódio, in Manuela Veloso and Hiroaki Kitano, editors, RoboCup-99: Robot Soccer World Cup III, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2000 – PDF

[3] RoboCup-99: Robot Soccer World Cup III, chapter A Functional Architecture for a Team of Fully Autonomous Cooperative Robots, Pedro Lima, Rodrigo Ventura, Pedro Aparício, Luís Custódio, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2000 – PDF

[4] RoboCup-99: Robot Soccer World Cup III, chapter ISocRob - Intelligent Society of Robots, Rodrigo Ventura, Pedro Aparício, Carlos Marques, Pedro Lima, Luís Custódio, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2000 – PDF

[5] RoboCup-98: Robot Soccer World Cup II, Pedro Aparício, Rodrigo Ventura, Pedro Lima, Carlos Pinto-Ferreira, chapter ISocRob --- Team Description, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1999

[6] ISocRob - Team Description, Pedro Aparício, Rodrigo Ventura, Pedro Lima, Carlos Pinto-Ferreira, In Minoru Asada and Hiroaki Kitano, editors, RoboCup-98: Robot Soccer World Cup II, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1604, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1999

Conference papers

[1] From Pixels to Objects: Enabling a spatial model for humanoid social robots, Dario Figueira, Manuel Lopes, Rodrigo Ventura, Jonas Ruesch, Proc. of ICRA 2009 - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA-09), Kobe, Japan, 2009 – PDF

[2] Autonomous docking of a tracked wheels robot to its tether cable using a vision-based algorithm, Fausto Ferreira, Rodrigo Ventura, Workshop on Robotics for Disaster Response, ICRA 2009 - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Kobe, Japan, 2009 – PDF

[3] Immersive 3-D Teleoperation of a Search and Rescue Robot Using a Head-Mounted Display, Henrique Martins, Rodrigo Ventura, Proc. of EFTA 2009 - 14th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Techonologies and Factory Automation, Mallorca, Spain, 2009 – PDF

[4] Robust Autonomous Stair Climbing by a Tracked Robot Using Accelerometer Sensors, Jorge Ferraz, Rodrigo Ventura, Proc. of CLAWAR 2009 - 12th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots, Istanbul, Turkey, 2009 – PDF

[5] Automatic Pairing of Metaphase Chromosomes with Mutual Information for Karyotyping Purposes, Artem Khmelinskii, Rodrigo Ventura, M. Carmo-Fonseca, João Sanches, Proc. of FPBC 2008 - 1st Portuguese Forum on Computational Biology, Gulbenkian Institute of Science, Oeiras, Portugal, 2008

[6] Institutional Environments, Porfírio Silva, Rodrigo Ventura, Pedro Lima, Proc. of Workshop AT2AI: From agent theory to agent implementation, AAMAS 2008 - 7th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Estoril, Portugal, 2008

[7] Chromosome Pairing for Karyotyping Purposes using Mutual Information, Artem Khmelinskii, Rodrigo Ventura, João Sanches, Proc. of ISBI 2008 - 5th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, Paris, France, 2008

[8] Automatic Chromosome Pairing Using Mutual Information, Artem Khmelinskii, Rodrigo Ventura, João Sanches, Proc. of EMBC 2008 - 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2008 – PDF

[9] Automatic Transcription of Musical-Whistling: Comparing Pitch Detection Methods, B. Dias, Rodrigo Ventura, José Gaspar, Proc. of JETC 20078 - IV Jornadas de Engenharia Electrónica e Telecomunicações e de Computadores, Lisbon, Portugal, 2008 – PDF

[10] Action and Adaptation: Lessons from Neurobiology and Challenges for Robot Cognitive Architectures, Rodrigo Ventura, Proc. of AAAI Fall Symposium: Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, AAAI, Washington DC, 2008

[11] People Detection and Tracking in a Receptionist Robot, A. Aleixo, M. Malhado, Rodrigo Ventura, Pedro Lima, Proc. of RecPad 2007 - 13ª Conferência Portuguesa de Reconhecimento de Padrões, Lisbon, Portugal , 2007 – PDF

[12] Metric Adaptation and Representation Upgrade in an Emotion-based Agent Model, Rodrigo Ventura, Carlos Pinto-Ferreira, Proc. of ACII 2007 - 2nd International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Lisbon, Portugal, 2007 – PDF

[13] Chromosome Pairing for Karyotyping Purposes, Artem Khmelinskii, Rodrigo Ventura, João Sanches, Proc. of RecPad 2007 - 13ª Conferência Portuguesa de Reconhecimento de Padrões, Lisbon, Portugal , 2007

[14] Indexing by Metric Adaptation and Representation Upgrade in an Emotion-based Agent Model, Rodrigo Ventura, Carlos Pinto-Ferreira, Proc. of ICNC2007-FSKD2007 - The 3rd International Conference on Natural Computation and the 4th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, Hainan University, Haikou, China, 2007 – PDF

[15] A Multidimensional Scaling Approach to Indexing by Metric Adaptation and Representation Upgrade, Rodrigo Ventura, Carlos Pinto-Ferreira, Proc. of FLAIRS2007 - 20th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, Key West, Florida, USA, 2007 – PDF

[16] RAPOSA: Semi-Autonomous Robot for Rescue Operations , C. Marques, J. Cristovão, Pedro Lima, João Frazão, M. Isabel Ribeiro, Rodrigo Ventura, Proc. of IROS2006 - IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Beijing, China, 2006 – PDF

[17] Generating and Refining Causal Models for an Emotion-based Agent, Rodrigo Ventura, Carlos Pinto-Ferreira, Architectures for Modeling Emotion: Cross-Disciplinary Foundations, AAAI Spring Symposium, 2004 – PDF

[18] A Formal Indexing Mechanism for an Emotion-based Agent, Rodrigo Ventura, Carlos Pinto-Ferreira, Proc. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications 2002 (IASTED), special session on Automated Reasoning: Perception and Emotions, Malaga, Spain, 2002 – PDF

[19] From Reactive to Emotion-based Agents: a prescriptive model, Rodrigo Ventura, Carlos Pinto-Ferreira, In ACE2002, EMCSR'2002, pg. 757-761, Vienna, Austria, 2002 – PDF

[20] DARE: an Emotion-based Agent Architecture, M. Maçãs, Rodrigo Ventura, Luís Custódio, Proceedings of the FLAIRS’2001 Conference, Key West, Florida, 2002

[21] Experiments with an Emotion-based Agent using the DARE architecture, M. Maçãs, Rodrigo Ventura, Luís Custódio, Carlos Pinto-Ferreira, Symposium on Emotion, Cognition and Affective Computing (AISB´01 Convention), UK, 2001 – PDF

[22] An Emotion-based Agent Architecture Application with Real Robots, Rui Sadio, Gonçalo Tavares, Rodrigo Ventura, Luís Custódio, Emotional and Intelligent II: Tangled Knot of Social Cognition, AAAI Fall Symposium, 2001 – PDF

[23] Learning Courses of Action using the «movie-in-the-brain» Paradigm, Rodrigo Ventura, Luís Custódio, Carlos Pinto-Ferreira, Emotional and Intelligent II: Tangled Knot of Social Cognition, AAAI Fall Symposium, 2001 – PDF

[24] Artificial Emotions and Emotion-based Control Systems, Luís Custódio, Rodrigo Ventura, Carlos Pinto-Ferreira, In Proceedings of 7th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA'99), volume 2, pages 1415-1420, Barcelona, 1999

[25] A functional architecture for a team of fully autonomous cooperative robots, Pedro Lima, Rodrigo Ventura, Pedro Aparício, Luís Custódio, In Proceedings of RoboCup Workshop of IJCAI-99. IJCAI, 1999 – PDF

[26] Emotion-based agents: Three approaches to implementation (preliminary report), Rodrigo Ventura, Carlos Pinto-Ferreira, Workshop on Emotion-Based Agent Architectures (EBAA'99), pages 121-129, 1999 – PDF

[27] Emotion-based control systems (preliminary report), Rodrigo Ventura, Carlos Pinto-Ferreira, In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, pages 64-66, Cambridge, MA, 1999 – PDF

[28] Artificial emotions - goodbye mr spock!, Rodrigo Ventura, Luís Custódio, Carlos Pinto-Ferreira, In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cognitive Science, pages 938-941, Tokyo, Japan, 1999 – PDF

[29] A Functional Architecture for a Team of Fully Autonomous Cooperative Robots, Pedro Lima, Rodrigo Ventura, Pedro Aparício, Luís Custódio, Proc. of RoboCup Workshop of IJCAI 99, Stockholm, 1999 – PDF

[30] ISocRob - A Society of Intelligent Robots , Rodrigo Ventura, Pedro Aparício, Pedro Lima, Luís Custódio, Team Description Paper for RoboCup'99, 1999

[31] ISocRob - Team Description, Pedro Aparício, Rodrigo Ventura, Pedro Lima, Carlos Pinto-Ferreira, Proc. of RoboCup Workshop 98, Paris, France, 1998

[32] Emotion-based agents, Rodrigo Ventura, Carlos Pinto-Ferreira, In Proceedings of AAAI-98, page 1204, AAAI Press and The MIT Press, Madison, WI, USA, 1998 – PDF

[33] Meaning engines - revisiting the chinese room, Rodrigo Ventura, Carlos Pinto-Ferreira, In Dolores Cañamero, Chisato Numaoka, Paolo Petta, editors, Workshop: Grounding Emotions in Adaptive Systems, pages 68-70. SAB'98: From Animals to Animats, 1998 – PDF

[34] Problem solving without search, Rodrigo Ventura, Carlos Pinto-Ferreira, In Robert Trappl, editor, Cybernetics and Systems '98, pages 743-748, Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies. Proceedings of EMCSR-98, Vienna, 1998 – PDF

[35] Socrob - a society of cooperative mobile robots, Rodrigo Ventura, Pedro Aparício, Carlos Pinto-Ferreira, Pedro Lima, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1998 – PDF

[36] Artificial emotions - goodbye mr. spock!, Rodrigo Ventura, Luís Custódio, Carlos Pinto-Ferreira, In Progress in Artificial Inteligence, Proceedings of IBERAMIA'98, Lisbon, Portugal, pages 395-402. Colibri, 1998 – PDF

[37] Emotions - the missing link?, Rodrigo Ventura, Luís Custódio, Carlos Pinto-Ferreira, In Dolores Cañamero, editor, Emotional and Intelligent: The Tangled Knot of Cognition, pages 170-175, AAAI Fall Symposia 98, Orlando, USA, 1998

PhD theses

[1] Emotion-based Mechanisms for Decision Making in Autonomous Agents, Rodrigo Ventura, Ph.D. Thesis, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, 2008

MSc theses

[1] Emotion-based Agents, Rodrigo Ventura, MSc. Thesis, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, 2000 – PDF

Technical reports

[1] ISocRob-2000: technical report, Rodrigo Ventura, Filipe Toscano, Carlos Marques, Luís Custódio, Pedro Lima, ISR Technical Report RT-701-00, RT-402-00, 2000 – PDF

[2] Aplicação de Emoções Artificiais num Robot Móvel, Rui Sadio, Gonçalo Tavares, Rodrigo Ventura, Luís Custódio, ISR Technical Report 704-00, 2000

[3] Desenvolvimento de mecanismos de comunicação, cooperação e negociação em sociedades de agentes, Henrique Ribeiro, José Lopes, Rodrigo Ventura, Luís Custódio, Technical Report Internal Report RT-702-00, 2000

[4] Agent-Based Programming Language for Multi-Agent Teams, Rodrigo Ventura, Pedro Aparício, Pedro Lima, Technical Report RT-701-99, ISR, 1999 – PDF

[5] Interface Gráfica para Operação de Robots Cooperantes, Bruno Correia, Sérgio Saraiva, Rodrigo Ventura, Pedro Lima, Technical Report RT-703-99, ISR, 1999 – PDF

[6] Sociedades de Agentes e Implementação de Inteligência Sensória-Motriz, Márcia Maçãs, Paulo Couto, Rodrigo Ventura, Luís Custódio, Carlos Pinto-Ferreira, Technical Report Internal Report RT-704-99, ISR, 1999

[7] RoboCup98 ISocRob Team Technical Reference, Rodrigo Ventura, Pedro Aparício, Pedro Lima, Technical Report RT-702-99, ISR, 1999 – PDF

[8] Experiments on emotional systems, Rodrigo Ventura, Carlos Pinto-Ferreira, Technical report, Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Instituto Superor Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal, 1997

[9] A programação por agentes, Rodrigo Ventura, Nuno Gonçalves, Miguel Garção, Technical report, Instituto Superior Técnico, 1996 – PDF

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