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 or my youtube video channel, where you can find some TV reports about it.
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For details concerning my lectures, please visit my lectures page (in portuguese)
- For further information, please contact me!
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What am I working on?
Some
of my past works:
What am I working on?
- I'm Vice director of the Sorocaba Campus of UNESP 2013-2017
- I'm General Chair of RoboCup 2014, that will be held for the first time in Brazil, as an event supported by Brazilian Sports Ministery and Paraiba State Government
- I'm Coordinator of the Mostra Nacional de Robótica (National Robotics Exhibition) project supported by CNPq for science and robotics works dissemination in Brazil
- I'm Coordinator of the I, Hamlet project, the first Brazilian humanoid actor robot. Project winner of the "Rumus Itaú Cutural" award
- I'm Coordinator of the CP01, the first Brazilian humanoid robot
- I'm Coordinator of the Jardim Robótico, a Brazilian pioneer technology artwork
- I'm trustee of the RoboCup Brazil and member of the Organizing committee of Competição Brasileira de Robótica - CBR (Brazilian Robotics Competition) and Olimpíada Brasileira de Robótica - OBR (Brazilian Robotics Olympiad)
- I'm Coordinator of the PET - Programa de Educação Tutorial program of the Control and Automation course of UNESP
- I'm appraiser/consultant of the Brazilian Department of Education (2007-?)
Some
of my past works:
- Coordinator of The Open Robot Project, an open collaborative robotic project
- Coordinator of the Brazilian Robotic Olympiad 2009/2010 (supported by CNPq), which attended over
to 50.000 young in Brazil
- Chair of the robotics area at Campus Party Brazil (2008-2010)
- Member of the Virtual Robots development group of the Brazilian
Robotic Team preparing to RoboCup
2009 World Competition
- President-founder of the RoboCup Brazil (2007-2008; 2009-2010)
- 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), São Bernardo do Campo (2010), São João del Rei (2011)
- General chair of the Brazilian Robotics Contest, Campo Grande (2006) and General Chair of the RoboCup Brazil Open (2007)
- 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)
(2007-2009) (2009-2011)
- Member of the RoboCup Brazil Committee (2009-2012)