António Fernando Macedo Ribeiro

Algoritmi | User | António Fernando Macedo Ribeiro

At Algoritmi

Senior Researcher with Dr habil

Member of the IE R&D Group

Member of the CAR R&D Lab

Academic Degree

Dr habil

Current Position

Associate Professor with Habilitation at Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho

Personal Webpage

http://www.dei.uminho.pt/~fernando

Personal Email

fernando@dei.uminho.pt

Orcid

0000-0002-6438-1223

Researcher ID

K-8833-2013

Ciência ID

6,81E+15

Google Scholar

h-index

Publications

Editorial

Citations

627

Q1 / Q2

About Me

Fernando Ribeiro is Associate Professor with Aggregation at the University of Minho (Industrial Electronics Department). Prof. A. Fernando Ribeiro graduated in Computer Science in 1988, received his MSc Degree in Industrial Robotics in 1992 from Cranfield University (United Kingdom), and his PhD in Industrial Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing Technology in 1995, having developed two robotic cells for Rolls Royce Aerospace Group, for rapid prototyping using welding. He returned to Portugal in 1995, where he became a professor at the University of Minho, in the Industrial Electronics Department. He was co-director of the Algoritmi Research Center between January 2006 and November 2010. He did his aggregation in September 2012. Became Industrial Electronics Department director between January 2013 and December 2016. He teaches several subjects related to robotics, computer vision, automation, and orientates Masters and PhD students. In 1997, he created the Robotics Laboratory (LAR) at University of Minho, where over the years, he has developed several Mobile and Autonomous Robotics projects. He published over 150 papers in both journals and conferences and has been invited to give over 200 invited speeches about Robotics all over the world, organized more robotics events, and participated in robotics competitions with his students. He has founded a University of Minho spin-off company (SAR – Solutions for Automation and Robotics) that develops solutions for industry and also educational robotics known as botnroll.com. He has been involved in over 50 robotics projects to promote science, and below are listed the most relevant ones: • Teaching Robotics to youngsters, with a new concept called RoboParty. This event is organized annually since 2007 with a huge success https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gdCw-vlY2U • A team of 5 autonomous robots that play football and he has participated actively in RoboCup since 1999 https://youtu.be/MSJxeR1SDc8 • The CHARMIE robot for domestic/medical environment tasks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNx9OYljlcw • Development of several mobile robots built from scratch with the students, to participate in robotics competitions. Each competition has a different challenge and requires different hardware and software solutions. This promotes and fosters science, motivating students for engineering https://youtu.be/94Om8oK944s • A 200 kg mobile autonomous robot for picking up golf balls in driving ranges: https://youtu.be/FQQVQPmZPQg • Development of an omnidirectional wheelchair for disabled people: https://youtu.be/SpmSKb1Vpac He has participated actively on RoboCup since 1999 in Middle Size League and @home, since 2002 he has been on the RoboCup Technical Committee, Executive Committee and became Trustee in 2013 (MSL and Junior). He became RoboCup Vice-President in 2018. He has been a member of the Organizing Committee and Chair on some RoboCup leagues, RoboCup Symposium Chair on RoboCup 2007, a member of the International Advisory Committee for RoboCup 2015, Chair of the RoboParty@RoboCup. Since 2018 he has belonged to the International Advisory Committee of RCAP (RoboCup Asian-Pacific) Tianjin Invitational Tournament. Between 2013 and 2016 he was the RoboCup Portuguese Committee Chair. He organized the 1st RoboCup Portuguese Open in 2001, and also Chair the 2006 and 2012 editions. He is the Organizing Chair of the Educational Robotics event RoboParty for 12 consecutive years from 2007 until 2018. He is the director of the Portuguese robotics journal and participates in many social initiatives, solidarity associations, etc. He is also concerned with promoting robotics, especially among younger people through visits to schools, promoting robotics clubs and organizing events. For the last 30 years, he and his students have developed robots and participate in over 60 international robotics events all over the world such as RoboCup, Eurobot, MicroMouse, Robótica, FICT, among others. He also organized over 30 robotics events (RoboParty, RoboCup, European RoboCup, Robotics National Open, Verão no Campus, etc.), each of them with the participation of hundreds of students from all over the world. He actively promotes robotics among youngsters through visits to schools, fostering robotics clubs, organizing special training and robotics events, and preparing challenges to test the robots built. He was invited to do a talk on robotics for youngsters for TEDx, and his speech is available at the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeo_09DP98s His main research fields are mobile and autonomous robotics, computer vision and image processing, industrial robotics and automation, control software, rapid prototyping, etc.

Publications (120)

Development of the Anthropomorphic Arm for Collaborative and Home Service Robot CHARMIE

Actuators

2024 | journal-article

Init	End	Change	Value
		Laboratory	CAR
			17/01/2023 20:10

Start	End	Term	Value

		Laboratory	CAR
			17/01/2023 20:10

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