A. Pedro Aguiar, I. Kaminer, R. Ghabcheloo, A. M. Pascoal, E. Xargay, N. Hovakimyan, C. Cao, V. Dobrokhodov. “Time-Coordinated Path Following for Multiple UAVs using Dynamic Networking and L1 Adaptation”. In Procs of GN&C'08 - AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conf, Honolulu, HI, Aug. 2008.

 

A. Pedro Aguiar, I. Kaminer, R. Ghabcheloo, A. M. Pascoal, E. Xargay, N. Hovakimyan, C. Cao, V. Dobrokhodov. “Coordinated Path Following of Multiple UAVs for Time-Critical Missions in the Presence of Time-Varying Communication Topologies”. In Procs 17th IFAC World Congress, Seoul, Korea, Jul. 2008.

 

A. Pedro Aguiar, Vahid Hassani, António M. Pascoal, and Michael Athans. “Identification and Convergence Analysis of a Class of Continuous-Time Multiple-Model Adaptive Estimators”. In Procs 17th IFAC World Congress, Seoul, Korea, Jul. 2008.

 

Arutyunov, A. Karamzin, D.Yu; Lobo Pereira, F; “Second-order Necessary Conditions of Optimality for Abnormal Solutions of Nonlinear Problems with Equality and Inequality Constraints”, 8th Portuguese Conf on Automatic Control – CONTROLO 2008, Vila Real, Portugal, Jul 21-23, 2008.

 

Arutyunov, A.; Karamzin, D. Yu. Lobo Pereira, F; “Optimal control problem in the presence of the impulse action”, XVII Russian Conf ''Theoretical basis and construction of numerical algorithms and solving problems of mathematical physics with application to multiprocessor systems'' in commemoration of K.I. Babenko, Russia, Novorossijsk, Sept 15-21, 2008.

 

Arutyunov, A; Karamzin, D.Yu; “Necessary conditions of extremum in abnormal problems”, International Conf "Tikhonov and Contemporary Mathematics". Abstracts of session "Functional Analysis and Differential equations", Moscow, Jun 19-25, 2008, pp. 21.

 

Arutyunov, A; Karamzin, D.Yu; Lobo Pereira, F; “Pontryagin's Maximum Principle for an Impulse Control Problem”, International Conf ''Differential Equations and Topology'' dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of the birthday of L.S. Pontryagin, Moscow, Russia, Jun 17-22, 2008.

 

Azenha, A. Peneda, L; Carvalho, A.“Radio Frequency Propagation Parameters Analysis for AGV Localization Using Trilateration” 2008 IEEE Multi-Conf on Systems and Control, San Antonio, Texas, USA, Sept 3-5, 2008.

 

Azenha, A; Carvalho, A; “Integration of Communications Sub-System Into Localization and Control of AGVs” 15th Saint Petersburg International Conf on Integrated Navigation Systems, São Petersburgo, Federação da Rússia, May 26-28, pp. 294-301, 2008.

 

Bencatel, R; Correia, J; Borges de Sousa, J; Gonçalves, G; Pereira, Elói; “Video Tracking Control Algorithms for UAV”, Procs 1st Annual Dynamic Systems and Control Conf, Ann Harbour, USA, Oct 20-22, 2008.

 

Borges de Sousa, J. Gonçalves, G; Lobo Pereira, F; “Operations with Autonomous Vehicles in the Response to Maritime Incidents”, Procs Maritime Systems and Technology Conf 2008, Cadiz, Spain, Nov 12-14, 2008.

 

Borges de Sousa, J. Silva, Estrela, J.; “Optimal path coordination problems”, Procs CDC 08 Conf, Cancun, Dec 09-11, 2008.

 

Borges de Sousa, J.; “Dynamic optimization for path coordination problems”, Procs IFAC 08 Conf, Seul, Jul 6-11, 2008.

 

Borges de Sousa, J; Gonçalves, G; Lobo Pereira, F; “Autonomous Vehicles in the Response to Maritime Incidents”, Procs NGCUV08, – Navigation, Guidance & Control of Underwater Vehicles 2008 Conf, Limerick, Irlanda, Apr 08-10, 2008.

 

Braga, A.M.R., Oliveira, P., Sousa, J., Moreira, A., Costa, J., "Dynamical Models for Omni-Directional Robots with 3 and 4 Wheels “, ICINCO 2008 -International Conf on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics. ISBN: 978-989-8111-31-9.Vol I. pp.189-196. Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. May 11–15, 2008.

 

Braga, A.M.R., Petry, M.R., Moreira, A.P., Reis, L.P., "Intellwheels: A Development PlatForm for intelligent wheelchairs for disabled people". ICINCO 2008 -International Conf on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics. ISBN: 978-989-8111-31-9.Vol I. pp.115-121. Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. May 11–15, 2008.

 

Braga, R., Petry, M., Reis, L., Moreira, A; "Plataform for Intelligent Whellchairs Using Multi-level Control and Probabilistic Motion Model”, 8th Portuguese Conf on Automatic Control, Controlo 2008, pp.833-838, Jul 21–23, 2008, Vila Real, Portugal.

 

Bressan, N., Castro, A., Braga, C., Lages, J., Silva, N., Portela, P; Miranda, P., Oliveira, S., Mendes, J., Amorim, P., Nunes. C., “Automation in Anesthesia: Computer Controlled Propofol Infusion and Data Acquisition”, pp 5543-5547. Procs 30th Annual International Conf of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Aug 20-24, 2008, IEEE, NY.

 

Carvalho, A; Costa, P; Martins, A; “Increasing Power Wind Generation through Optimization of the Dynamics of Control System Based on Accurate Forecasting of the Very Short-Term Wind”, DEWEK 2008, Nov 23-25, Bremen, Germany.

 

Carvalho, M., Moreira, A., Costa, J., "Small and Low-cost AGV for Distributed Production Lines and Warehouses", 8th Portuguese Conf on Automatic Control, Controlo 2008, pp.827-832, Jul 21–23, 2008, Vila Real, Portugal.

 

Coutinho, D; Sousa, A; Reis, P; “Creating a Local Human-Machine Interface for a Cleaning Robot Using the Nintendo Wii’s Remote Controller”, Procs 3rd International Workshop on Intelligent Robotics ­ IRobot 2008 ­ Oct 14th, 2008, Lisbon University Institute ­ ISCTE, Portugal, pp. 61-70.

 

Cruz, N., Matos, A., "The MARES AUV, a Modular Autonomous Robot for Environment Sampling", Procs MTS-IEEE Oceans'2008, Quebec, Canada, Sept 15-18, 2008.

 

de Pinho, M.d.R.; Silva, G.N.; “Optimal Control Problems with Nonsmooth Mixed Constraints”, In Procs of IEEE CDC2008, Cancun, Mexico, Dec 9-11, 2008.De Pinho, M.d.R. “On Regularity Assumptions and Necessary Conditions for Mixed Constrained Optimal Control Problems’’, In Procs of Controlo 2008, 6 pages, Vila Real, Jul 21–23, 2008.

 

de Pinho, M.d.R. Ferreira, M.M.A; Fontes, A. C. C.; “On Possibly Nonregular Mixed Constrained Problems'', In Procs of Controlo 2008, 4 pages, Vila Real, Jul, pp. 21–23, 2008.

 

Dias, P; Borges de Sousa, J. Gonçalves, G.; “Low cost Autonomous Underwater Vehicles for oceanographic and harbour surveillance missions”, Procs Maritime Systems and Technology Conf 2008, Cadiz, Spain, Nov 12-14, 2008.

 

Duro, N; Cadete, R; Sousa, A; “Immersive Remote Control Devices” Applied in Space Abstracts Book of the 3rd International Workshop on System & Concurrent Engineering for Space Applications ­ SECESA 2008, Oct 15-17, Poster Paper 98-99.

 

Fontes, B.M.M.; Fontes, A.C.C.: “Optimal Formation Switching”, In Procs 4th WSEAS Int. Conf. on Dynamical Systems and Control, Corfu Island, Greece, Oct 26-28, 7 pages, 2008.

 

Francesco Vanni, A. Pedro Aguiar, and Antonio M. Pascoal. “Cooperative Path-Following of Underactuated Autonomous Marine Vehicles with Logic-based Communication”. In Procs of NGCUV’08 - IFAC Workshop on Navigation, Guidance and Control of Underwater Vehicles, Killaloe, Ireland, Apr. 2008.

 

Gonçalves, G; Borges de Sousa, J; Lobo Pereira, F; “Cooperative control of unmanned aerial vehicles”, Procs 48th Israel Annual Conf on Aerospace Sciences, Tel-Aviv & Haifa, Israel, Feb 27-28, 2008.

 

Gonçalves, J., Lima, J., Costa, P., “Real-time localization of an omnidirectional mobile robot resorting to odometry and global vision data fusion: an EKF approach”, IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, Cambridge, Jun 30 – Jul 2, 2008.

 

Gonçalves, J., Lima, J., Costa, P., “Real-time tracking of an omnidirectional robot - An Extended Kalman Filter approach”, ICINCO 2008 -International Conf on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, Funchal, May 11-15, 2008.

 

Gonçalves, J; Lima, J; Oliveira, H; Costa, P; “Sensor and actuator modeling of a realistic wheeled mobile robot simulator”, 13th IEEE International Conf on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, Hamburg, Sept 15-18, 2008.

 

Krishnendu Chatterjee, Thomas A. Henzinger, Vinayak S. Prabhu, "Timed parity games: Complexity and robustness," CoRR abs/0807.1165: (2008). 22 pages.

 

Krishnendu Chatterjee, Thomas A. Henzinger, Vinayak S. Prabhu, “Trading infinite memory for uniform randomness in timed games,” UC Berkeley Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2008-4 (2008). 23 pages.

 

Krishnendu Chatterjee, Thomas A.Henzinger, and Vinayak S.Prabhu, “Timed parity games: Complexity and robustness,” Procs Sixth International Conf on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems (FORMATS), LNCS 5215 Springer-Verlag, 2008, pp. 124--140. 17 pages.

 

Krishnendu Chatterjee, Thomas A.Henzinger, and Vinayak S.Prabhu, “Trading infinite memory for uniform randomness in timed games,” Procs 11th International Conf on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC), LNCS 4981, Springer-Verlag, 2008, pp. 87 100. 14 pages.

 

Lima, J., Gonçalves, C., Costa, J; Moreira, A., “Realistic Humanoid Robot Simulation with an Optimized Controller: A Power Consumption Minimization Approach”, CLAWAR 2008, 11th International Conf on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines, pp 1242-1248, Coimbra, Sept 8-10, 2008.

 

Lima, J; Gonçalves, J; Costa, Paulo, J.; Moreira, A; “Humanoid robot simulation with a joint trajectory optimized controller”, ETFA 2008. IEEE International Conf on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, Sept 15-18, 2008, pp.986 – 993, Hamburg, Germany.

 

Lima, L., Gonçalves, C., Costa, G., Moreira, “Realistic Behaviour Simulation of a Humanoid Robot”, 8th Conf on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, pag. 111-116, Aveiro, Portugal, Apr 2-6, 2008.

 

Lima, L., Gonçalves, C., Costa, G., Moreira, A., "Humanoid Robot Simulator: a Realistic Dynamics Approach” 8th Portuguese Conf on Automatic Control, Controlo 2008, pp.485-490, Jul 21–23, 2008, Vila Real, Portugal.

 

Lima, L., Gonçalves, C., Costa, G., Moreira, A.,"Ball and Beam Virtual Laboratory: a Teaching Aid in Automatic Control", 8th Portuguese Conf on Automatic Control, Controlo 2008, pp.414-419, Jul 21–23, 2008, Vila Real, Portugal.

 

Lobo Pereira, F, Silva. G.N; “Optimality Conditions for Asymptotically Stable Impulsive Control Systems”, 8th Portuguese Conf on Automatic Control – CONTROLO 2008, Vila Real, Portugal, Jul 21-23, 2008, pp. 929.

 

Lobo Pereira, F. Fraga, S.L; “On the Feedback Control of Impulsive Dynamic Systems”, Procs CDC 08 Conf, Cancun, Dec 09-11, 2008.Lopes dos Santos, P.; Ramos, Carvalho, A. Martins, L.; “Identification of a Liquid Saturated Steam Heat Exchanger by an Affine Bilinear Model'', In Procs of Controlo 2008, 6 pages, Vila Real, Jul, pp. 21–23, 2008.

 

Lopes dos Santos, P; Ramos, A. Martins de Carvalho, J.L.; “Identification of LPV Systems Using Successive Approximations'', In Procs of IEEE CDC2008, Cancun, Mexico, Dec 9-11, 2008.

 

Lopes, S, Fontes, F. A. C. C. ; “An Overview of Nondegenerate Necessary Conditions of Optimality for Optimal Control Problems with Higher Index State Constraints'', In Procs of Controlo 2008, 6 pages, Vila Real, Jul 21–23, 2008.

 

Martins, J; Sousa, A; “Comparing Self Localization using Kalman Filter and Particle Filter”, Procs 3rd International Workshop on Intelligent Robotics ­ IRobot 2008 ­ Oct 14th, 2008, Lisbon University Institute ­ ISCTE, Portugal, pp. 119-130.

 

Matos, A; Cruz, N; "Positioning Control of an Underactuated Surface Vessel", Procs MTS-IEEE Oceans'2008, Quebec, Canada, Sept 15-18, 2008.Melo, J; Matos, A; "Guidance and Control of an ASV in AUV Tracking Operations", Procs MTS-IEEE Oceans'2008, Quebec, Canada, Sept 15-18, 2008.

 

Mohammadreza Bayat, Vahid Hassani, and A. Pedro Aguiar. “Nonlinear Kalman Based Filtering for Pose Estimation of a Robotic Vehicle from Discrete Asynchronous Range Measurements”. In Procs of CONTROLO’08 - 8th Portuguese Conf on Automatic Control, Vila Real, Portugal, Jul. 2008.

 

Moraes, R, Portugal, P, Vasques, F, Fonseca, J, “Limitations of the IEEE 802.11e EDCA Protocol when Supporting Real-Time Communication, in Procs” of 7th IEEE International Workshop on Factory Communication Systems, WFCS’08, Dresden, Germany, May 20-23, 2008.

 

Moraes, R, Vasques, F, Portugal, J, “TDMA-Based Mechanism to Enforce Real-Time Behavior in WiFi Networks, in Procs” of 7th IEEE International Workshop on Factory Communication Systems, WFCS’08, Dresden, Germany, May 20-23, 2008.

 

Moraes, R; Vasques, F; Portugal, P; “A 2-tier Architecture to Support Real-Time Communication in CSMA-Based Networks”, in Procs IEEE/IFIP Networking Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS-08), Apr 7-11, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, 2008.

 

Moraes, R; Vasques, F; Portugal, P; “A TDMA-Based Mechanism that Ensures Fairness for the Real-Time Access in Heterogeneous IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs”, in Procs 8th Portuguese Conf on Automatic Control, CONTROLO'08, Jul 21-23, 2008.

 

Moraes, R; Vasques, F; Vasques, Portugal, P; “A 2-tier Architecture to Support Real-Time Communication in CSMA-Based Networks”, in Procs IEEE/IFIP Networking Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS-08), Apr 7-11, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, 2008.

 

Oliveira, P., Sousa, J., Moreira, A., Costa, J., “Precise Modeling of a Four Wheeled Omni-directional Robot”, 8th Conf on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, pag. 57-62, Aveiro, Portugal, Apr 2-6, 2008.

 

Outeiro, M. T; Cardoso, A. J. L; Chibante, R; Carvalho, A. S; “Electrical and Thermal Time Constants Fuel Cell System Identification – A Linear Versus Neural Network Approach”, Procs of 6th International Fuel Cell Science, Engineering & Technology Conf, Jun 16-18, Denver, Colorado, 2008.

 

P. del Monego, M., Ramos, P., Neves, M.V., “Geostatistical Mapping of Outfall Plume Dispersion Data Gathered with an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle”, Procs 7GeoEnv2008 - 7th International Conf on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications, Southampton, UK, Sept 8-10, 2008.

 

P. del Monego, M., Ramos, P., Neves, M.V., “Geostatistical Assessment of Sewage Outfall Discharges”, Procs MTS/IEEE International Conf Oceans 2008, Quebec, Canada, Sept 15-18, 2008.

 

P. Rocha, C. Sousa and T. Mendonça. “Total mass control in uncertain compartmental systems”, Procs 8th Portuguese Conf on Automatic Control, Controlo 2008, Jul 21-23 2008, Vila Real, Portugal.

 

P. Rocha, J.C. Aleixo “Comparison of the property of state-reconstructibility with behavioral reconstructibility for periodic systems”, Procs 8th Portuguese Conf on Automatic Control, Controlo 2008, Jul 21-23 2008, Vila Real, Portugal.

 

P. Rocha, J. Sá Esteves “Relative stability of linear systems”, Procs 8th Portuguese Conf on Automatic Control, Controlo 2008, Jul 21-23 2008, Vila Real, Portugal.

 

P. Rocha, Portugal I. Brás, A.C. Carapito “Stability of reset switched systems”, Procs 8th Portuguese Conf on Automatic Control, Controlo 2008, Jul 21-23 2008, Vila Real.Paula Rocha, “Point reachability properties for nD behaviors” in Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, pp.-, 2008.

 

Pinto, F., Gomes, F., Veloso, S., Rosa, P., Soares, C., Fonseca, N., Alfredo, J., Moreira, A., Costa, P., Dias, E, Brógueira., “Analysis of the Behaviour of Moored Tankers”, OMAE2008 - ASME 27th International Conf on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Estoril, Portugal, Jun 15-20, 2008.

 

Prabhu, Vianayak - Trading infinite memory for uniform randomness in timed games - 11th International Conf on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, St. Louis, USA, 2008.

 

Ramos, P., Carvalho, S., “Foz do Arelho Outfall Plume Predictive Study”, Procs MTS/IEEE International Conf Oceans 2008, Quebec, Canada, Sept 15-18, 2008.

 

Ramos, P., del Monego, Maurici; Carvalho, S., “Spatial Distribution of a Sewage Outfall Plume Observed with an AUV”, Procs MTS/IEEE International Conf Oceans 2008, Quebec, Canada, Sept 15-18, 2008.

 

Rocha, V; Gonçalves, G; "Sensing the World - Challenges on WSNs", IEEE-TTTC International Conf on Automation, Quality & Testing, Robotics AQTR 2008 (THETA 16), 22-25 of May of 2008 Cluj-Napoca, Romania,, to be included in the IEEE Xplore database and published in ISI Procs (Invited Paper) May 22-25, 2008.

 

Rocha, V; Seromenho, R; Correia, J; Mascioletti, A; Picano A; Gonçalves, G; “Wearable computing for patients with coronary diseases”, IEEE-TTTC International Conf on Automation, Quality & Testing, Robotics AQTR 2008 (THETA 16), Romania, May 22-25, 2008.

 

Santos, N., Matos, A; Cruz, N., "Navigation of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle in a Mobile Network", Procs MTS-IEEE Oceans'2008, Quebec, Canada, Sept 15-18, 2008.

 

Santos, P., Gomes, F.,Veloso, F., Taveira, C., Guedes, N., Santos, J., Moreira, A., Moreira, P., Costa, P., Dias, E, Brógueira., “Physical Model Study of the Behaviour of an Oil Tanker Moored at a Jetty”, CoastLab '08 - Second International Conf on the Application of Physical Modelling to Port and Coastal Protection, Italy, Jul 2-5, 2008.

 

Silva, S., Cunha, S., Matos, A., Cruz, N., "Shallow Water Height Mapping With Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Sonar", Procs MTS-IEEE Oceans'2008, Quebec, Canada, Sept 15-18, 2008.

 

Silva, S., Cunha, S; Matos, A. Cruz, N., "An Algebraic Approach to Synthetic Aperture Sonar Image Reconstruction", Procs MTS-IEEE Oceans'2008, Quebec, Canada, Sept 15-18, 2008.

 

Silva, S; Cunha, S; Matos, A; Cruz, N; "Sub-Band Processing of Synthetic Aperture Sonar Data", Procs MTS-IEEE Oceans'2008, Quebec, Canada, Sept 15-18, 2008.Sousa, A; Moreira, Pedro; C, “Multi hypotheses Navigation for Indoor Cleaning Robots”, Procs 3rd International Workshop on Intelligent Robotics ­ IRobot 2008, Lisbon University Institute ­ ISCTE, Portugal Oct 14, 2008, pp. 119-130.

 

Sousa, M, “Restricting IEC 61131-3 Programming Languages for use on High Integrity Applications”, Sousa, Procs 13th International Conf on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2008), Sept 15-18, Hamburg, Germany, 2008.

 

Sousa, M; Adriano, A, “Framework for Management of Replicated IEC 61499 Applications”, Procs 13th International Conf on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2008), Sept 15-18,Hamburg, Germany, 2008.

 

Zheng, Z; Silva, Estrela, J; Borges de Sousa, J; Anouck, G; “Underwater Vehicle Autopilots with Adaptive Dynamic Surface Control”, Procs 1st ASME Annual Dynamic Systems and Control Conf, Ann Harbour, USA, Oct 20-22, 2008.