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Trajectory Tracking and Path Following for Underactuated Marine Vehicles by Paliotta, Claudio, Lefeber, Erjen, Pettersen, Kristin Ytterstad, Pinto, Jose, Costa, Maria, de Figueiredo Borges de Sousa, Joao Tasso

“…In this paper, we present a control strategy for trajectory tracking and path following of generic paths for underactuated marine vehicles. Our work is…”
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Advancing multi-vehicle deployments in oceanographic field experiments by Ferreira, António Sérgio, Costa, Maria, Py, Frédéric, Pinto, José, Silva, Mónica A., Nimmo-Smith, Alex, Johansen, Tor Arne, de Sousa, João Borges, Rajan, Kanna

“…Our research concerns the coordination and control of robotic vehicles for upper water-column oceanographic observations. In such an environment, operating…”
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Optimal Rendezvous Trajectory for Unmanned Aerial-Ground Vehicles by Rucco, Alessandro, Sujit, P. B., Aguiar, A. Pedro, Borges de Sousa, Joao, Lobo Pereira, F.

“…Fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be an essential tool for low-cost aerial surveillance and mapping applications in remote regions. There is,…”
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Position paper on the challenges posed by modern applications to cyber-physical systems theory by Allgöwer, Frank, Borges de Sousa, João, Kapinski, James, Mosterman, Pieter, Oehlerking, Jens, Panciatici, Patrick, Prandini, Maria, Rajhans, Akshay, Tabuada, Paulo, Wenzelburger, Philipp

“…Cyber-physical systems theory offers a powerful framework for modeling, analyzing, and designing real engineering systems integrating communication, control,…”
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Receding horizon flight control for trajectory tracking of autonomous aerial vehicles by Prodan, Ionela, Olaru, Sorin, Bencatel, Ricardo, Borges de Sousa, João, Stoica, Cristina, Niculescu, Silviu-Iulian

“…This paper addresses the implementation of a predictive control strategy for Unmanned Air Vehicles in the presence of bounded disturbances. The goal is to…”
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Real-time adaptive multi-robot exploration with application to underwater map construction by Kapoutsis, Athanasios Ch, Chatzichristofis, Savvas A., Doitsidis, Lefteris, de Sousa, João Borges, Pinto, Jose, Braga, Jose, Kosmatopoulos, Elias B.

“…This paper deals with the problem of autonomous exploration of unknown areas using teams of Autonomous X Vehicles (AXVs)—with X standing for Aerial, Underwater…”
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Assessing Short-range Shore-to-Shore (S2S) and Shore-to-Vessel (S2V) WiFi Communications by d’Orey, Pedro M., Gaitán, Miguel Gutiérrez, Santos, Pedro M., Ribeiro, Manuel, de Sousa, João Borges, Almeida, Luís

“…Wireless communications increasingly enable ubiquitous connectivity for a large number of nodes, applications and scenarios. One of the less explored scenarios…”
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A verified hierarchical control architecture for co-ordinated multi-vehicle operations by Borges de Sousa, João, Johansson, Karl H., Silva, Jorge, Speranzon, Alberto

“…A layered control architecture for executing multi‐vehicle team co‐ordination algorithms is presented along with the specifications for team behaviour. The…”
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Cooperative Path Following of Robotic Vehicles Using an Event-Based Control and Communication Strategy by Jain, R. Praveen, Aguiar, A. Pedro, Borges de Sousa, Joao

“…In this letter, a novel approach to the cooperative path following (CPF) control problem is proposed that aims to reduce the frequency of communication between…”
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Algal Bloom Front Tracking Using an Unmanned Surface Vehicle: Numerical Experiments Based on Baltic Sea Data by Fonseca, Joana, Aguiar, Miguel, Sousa, Joao Borges de, Johansson, Karl H.

“…We consider the problem of tracking moving algal bloom fronts using an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) equipped with a sensor that measures the concentration of…”
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Robust Moving Path Following Control for Robotic Vehicles: Theory and Experiments by Reis, Matheus F., Jain, R. Praveen, Aguiar, A. Pedro, de Sousa, Joao Borges

“…This letter addresses the moving path following (MPF) motion control problem that consists of steering a robotic vehicle along a specified geometric path…”
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Ripples: A tool for oceanic campaign managing, supervision, and situational awareness by Sa, Afonso, Santos, Ricardo, Mendes, Renato, Dias, Paulo, Pereira, Joao, Choi, Wang D., Sergio Ferreira, Antonio, de Sousa, Joao Borges

“…Several entities are at the forefront of combining ocean exploration and monitoring with robotics; among them is the LSTS (Underwater Systems and Technology…”
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Minimal time delivery of multiple robots by Aguiar, Miguel, da Silva, Jorge Estrela, de Sousa, Joao Borges

“…Consider a set of autonomous vehicles, each one with a preassigned task to start at a given region. Due to energy constraints, and in order to minimize the…”
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Maka Niu: A low-cost, modular imaging and sensor platform to increase observation capabilities of the deep ocean by Novy, Dan, Kawasumi, Lui, Ferguson, Jon, Sullivan, Margaret, Bell, Peter, Chow, Jennifer S., de Sousa, João Borges, Cantner, Kat A., Woodward, Benjamin, Adams, Allan, Bell, Katherine L.C.

“…The deep sea (>200 m) is vast, covering 92.6% of the seafloor and largely unexplored. Imaging and sensor platforms capable of surviving the immense pressures…”
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Low-Cost, Deep-Sea Imaging and Analysis Tools for Deep-Sea Exploration: A Collaborative Design Study by Bell, Katherine L. C., Chow, Jennifer Szlosek, Hope, Alexis, Quinzin, Maud C., Cantner, Kat A., Amon, Diva J., Cramp, Jessica E., Rotjan, Randi D., Kamalu, Lehua, de Vos, Asha, Talma, Sheena, Buglass, Salome, Wade, Veta, Filander, Zoleka, Noyes, Kaitlin, Lynch, Miriam, Knight, Ashley, Lourenço, Nuno, Girguis, Peter R., de Sousa, João Borges, Blake, Chris, Kennedy, Brian R. C., Noyes, Timothy J., McClain, Craig R.

“…A minuscule fraction of the deep sea has been scientifically explored and characterized due to several constraints, including expense, inefficiency, exclusion,…”
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Robust Cooperative Moving Path Following Control for Marine Robotic Vehicles by Reis, Matheus F, Jain, R Praveen, Aguiar, A Pedro, de Sousa, Joao Borges

“…This paper presents results on recent developments pertaining to the coordinated motion control of a fleet of marine robotic vehicles. Specifically, we address…”
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An extensible networking architecture for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles by Martins, Ricardo, Borges de Sousa, Joao

“…In this paper we present a loosely-coupled software architecture, designed to abstract the particularities of the different network interfaces usually found in…”
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BigActors: a model for structure-aware computation by Pereira, Eloi, Kirsch, Christoph M., de Sousa, João Borges, Sengupta, Raja

“…This paper describes a model of computation for structure-aware computing called the BigActor model. The model is a hybrid. It combines the Actor model [1] and…”
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Reachability analysis of dynamic programming based controlled systems by da Silva, Jorge Estrela, Borges de Sousa, Joao, Lobo Pereira, Fernando

“…The design of feedback controllers based on the numerical solution of the dynamic programming equations leads to quasi-optimal system behaviour. The gap to the…”
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Autonomous Surface Vehicles Network Initiative in support to EOOS by Barrera, Carlos, de Sousa Tasso, Joao Borges, Waldmann, Christoph, Burris, James, Cianca, Andres

“…The European Ocean Observing System (EOOS) is a coordinating framework designed to align and integrate Europe's ocean-observing capacity, promote a systematic…”
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