{"id":13,"date":"2017-05-20T13:12:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T13:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/users2.isr.tecnico.ulisboa.pt\/~yoda\/newhome\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2020-06-19T23:39:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T23:39:43","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.isr.tecnico.ulisboa.pt\/rventura\/index.php\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Broadly speaking, my research is\u00a0focused on the intersection of <strong>Artificial Intelligence<\/strong> with <strong>Robotics<\/strong>. Here goes a brief description of my current research interests, presented as the cross product between <b>research areas<\/b>\u00a0and <strong>application domains<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<h4>Research areas<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Decision making under uncertainty<\/strong> \u2014 \u00a0Decision theoretic methods provide powerful tools to model, in a rigorous way, the problem of optimal decision making when the effects of an agent actions is uncertain, \u00a0as well as when the knowledge of the world state is partial and\/or uncertain.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mobile manipulation<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Robot manipulators mounted on mobile platforms, being them aerial or terrestrial, poses interesting research challenges, in particular when the objects to be manipulated lie in environments inhabited by humans.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Human-aware mobile robot navigation<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Humans and mobile robots sharing the same physical space demands novel methods for navigation, \u00a0which take into account the human presence.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Human-robot interaction<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 As robots are required to interact with humans, such as in collaborative tasks involving mixed human and robot teams, the problem of designing effective and efficient interfaces between them has to be addressed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Biologically inspired cognitive architectures<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 These methods address the problem of designing agent cognitive architectures taking biology as an inspiration.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Application domains<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Space robotics<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The human presence in space, either on orbiting space stations or on future deep space exploration missions is inherently risky and costly. The use of robots in these environments opens the possibility of offloading work from human astronauts to robots, either in collaboration or in a fully autonomous fashion.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Social service robots<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Robots that perform tasks requested by humans in environments such as offices and domestic spaces, addressing the challenges of human-awareness, as well as the inherent dynamism and \u00a0unpredictability of these environments.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Urban search and rescue<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 After a catastrophic event in an urban area, the search and rescue of victims in buildings close to collapse is often hindered by the lack of safety conditions for first responders. Tele-operated robots allow the remote inspection of such buildings, thus providing first responders with critical information concerning the presence of potential victims.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Collaborations<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table>\n<colgroup>\n<col align=\"center\" \/>\n<col \/><\/colgroup>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-120 alignright\" src=\"\/rventura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/logo_nasa.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"100\" \/><\/td>\n<td>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/ti.arc.nasa.gov\/tech\/asr\/groups\/intelligent-robotics\/\">NASA Ames Intelligent Robotics Group (IRG)<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><strong>topics<\/strong>: Free-flyer robots for the International Space Station (ISS) &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/spheres\/home\">SPHERES<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/astrobee\">Astrobee<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-119 size-full alignright\" src=\"\/rventura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/logo_mit.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"179\" height=\"40\" \/><\/td>\n<td>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/ssl.mit.edu\/newsite\/\">MIT Space Systems Laboratory (SSL)<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><strong>topics<\/strong>: Space robotics, orbital segment<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-118 size-full alignright\" src=\"\/rventura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/logo_cmu.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"157\" height=\"100\" \/><\/td>\n<td>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.cmu.edu\/~coral\/\">CORAL group<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><strong>topics<\/strong>: Mobile service robots, symbiotic autonomy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-130 alignright\" src=\"\/rventura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/logo_deimos.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"100\" \/><\/td>\n<td>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elecnor-deimos.com\/delegacion\/deimos-engenharia\/\">Deimos Engenharia<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><strong>topics<\/strong>: GNSS orbit and clock\u00a0correction for real-time PPP<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-122 size-full alignright\" src=\"\/rventura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/logo_nomadtech.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"70\" \/><\/td>\n<td>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/nomadtech.pt\/\">Nomad Tech<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><strong>topics<\/strong>:\u00a0Data science\u00a0for Condition Based Monitoring (CBM)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<h5><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-121 size-full alignright\" src=\"\/rventura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/logo_nav.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"134\" height=\"60\" \/><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nav.pt\/\">NAV Portugal<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><strong>topics<\/strong>: Air Traffic Management (ATM)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<h5><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-151 size-full\" src=\"\/rventura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DLR_Logo.svg-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"107\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-148 size-full\" src=\"\/rventura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/DLR_Logo.svg_.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"167\" \/><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dlr.de\/dlr\/en\">German Aerospace Center (DLR)<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><strong>topics<\/strong>: UAV guidance and control<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<h5><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-158 size-full\" src=\"\/rventura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/logo_spinworks.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"158\" height=\"60\" \/><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spinworks.pt\/\">Spin.Works<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><strong>topics<\/strong>: UAV obstacle avoidance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broadly speaking, my research is\u00a0focused on the intersection of Artificial Intelligence with Robotics. 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