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João Pereira

Hardware & Electronics / Project Manager
Short Bio

João Pereira is a senior research Engineer at the Underwater Systems and Technology Laboratory (LSTS) at the University of Porto and he’s head of the LSTS’s hardware division. He earned a Masters degree (2009) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Porto and soon joined the LSTS with the purpose of working with challenging robotic technology. His focus and expertise are the development of electronics, prototyping and maintenance of underwater and water unmanned vehicles. He is also an experienced operator of LAUVs having led several campaigns and field exercises organized by LSTS and Portuguese Navy.

João also has interest in unmanned aerial vehicles, RC models and do it yourself projects.

Publications

2022

José Pinto, Maria Costa, Renato Mendes, Keila Lima, Paulo Dias, João Pereira, Manuel Ribeiro, Renato Campos, Maria Paola Tomasino, Catarina Magalhães, Fransciso López Castejón, Javier Gilabert, Adriana M. Santos Ferreira, José C. B. da Silva, Paulo Relvas, Trent Lukaczyk, Kay Arne Skarpnes, Emlyn Davies, Alexander Chekalyuk, Bruno Loureiro, Ian G. Brosnan, Jing Li, João Borges de Sousa, Kanna Rajan. 2022 , "Coordinated Robotic Exploration of Dynamic Open Ocean Phenomena", Field Robotics. 2. 843-871. 10.55417/fr.2022028.

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2021

José Pinto, Maria Costa, Keila Lima, Paulo Dias, João Pereira, Manuel Ribeiro, Renato Campos, Zara Mirmalek, Renato Mendes, Francisco López-Castejón, Javier Gilabert, Maria Tomasino, Catarina Magalhães, Jorge Estrela da Silva, Paulo Relvas, Trent Lukaczyk, Kay Skarpnes, Martin Ludvigsen, Alex Chekalyuk, Kanna Rajan. 2021 , "To boldly dive where no one has gone before:Experiments in coordinated robotic ocean exploration", In ISER2020 - International Symposium in Experimental Robotics, La Valletta, Malta, March 2021.

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2018

Maria Costa, José Pinto, Paulo Dias, João Pereira, Keila Lima, Manuel Ribeiro, João Borges de Sousa, Trent Lukaczyk, Renato Mendes, Maria Tomasino, Catarina Magalhães, Igor Belkin, Francisco López-Castejón, Javier Gilabert, Kay Skarpnes, Martin Ludvigsen, Kanna Rajan, Zara Mirmalek, Alex Chekalyuk. 2018 , "Field Report: Exploring Fronts with Multiple Robots", 2018 IEEE/OES Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Workshop (AUV), Porto, Portugal, pp. 1-7

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2017

António Sérgio Ferreira, João Pereira, José Pinto, Paulo Dias, João Borges de Sousa, Paulo Claro Lourenço. 2017 , "Rapid Environmental Picture Atlantic exercise 2016: Field report", OCEANS 2017 - Aberdeen, Aberdeen, 2017, pp. 1-7

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António Sérgio Ferreira, João Pereira, Paulo Dias, João Borges de Sousa, Tor Arne Johansen, Paulo Claro Lourenço, Vegard Hovstein. 2017 , "Managing communication challenges in vehicle networks for remote maritime operations", OCEANS 2017 - Aberdeen, Aberdeen, 2017, pp. 1-7

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Yonca Bayrakdar, José Pinto, João Pereira, João Teixeira. 2017 , "Routing protocol for AUV communications: Report from field tests", OCEANS 2017 - Aberdeen, Aberdeen, pp. 1-5

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2016

João Borges de Sousa, João Pereira, José Pinto, Paulo Claro Lourenço, João Madaleno Galocha, Jorge Fontes, Mónica Silva, Kanna Rajan, Tor Arne Johansen, João Alves, Andrea Munafò, Konstantinos Pelekanakis, Roberto Petroccia, Marina Carreiro Silva, Michael Incze. 2016 , "Rapid Environmental Picture Atlantic exercise 2015 : a field report", OCEANS 2016 MTS/IEEE Monterey, Monterey, CA, 2016, pp. 1-6

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Lara Sousa, Francisco López-Castejón, Javier Gilabert, Paulo Relvas, Ana Couto, Nuno Queiroz, Renato Caldas, Paulo Dias, Hugo Dias, Margarida Faria, Filipe Ferreira, António Sérgio Ferreira, João Fortuna, Ricardo Gomes, Bruno Loureiro, Ricardo Martins, Luis Madureira, Jorge Neiva, Marina Oliveira, João Pereira, José Pinto, Frédéric Py, Hugo Queirós, Daniel Silva, P.B. Sujit, Artur Zolich, Tor Arne Johansen, João Borges de Sousa, Kanna Rajan. 2016 , "Integrated Monitoring of Mola mola Behaviour in Space and Time", Integrated Monitoring of Mola mola Behaviour in Space and Time. PLOS ONE 11(8): e0160404.

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2015

João Borges de Sousa, João Pereira, João Alves, João Madaleno Galocha, Baptista Pereira, Paulo Claro Lourenço, Marinha Portuguesa. 2015 , "Experiments in multi-vehicle operations: The Rapid Environmental Picture Atlantic exercise 2014", OCEANS 2015 - Genova, Genoa, 2015, pp. 1-7,

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José Pinto, Paulo Dias, João Pereira, Renato Caldas, Tiago Rodrigues, João Borges de Sousa, Frédéric Py, Kanna Rajan. 2015 , "Mixed-Initiative Interaction for Tracking of Ocean Sunfish", IFAC-PapersOnLine, Volume 48, Issue 2,Pages 94-99

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2012

Alexandre Sousa, Luis Madureira, Jorge Coelho, José Pinto, João Pereira, João Borges de Sousa, Paulo Dias. 2012 , "LAUV: The Man-Portable Autonomous Underwater Vehicle",

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2006

Paulo Dias, Gil Gonçalves, Ricardo Gomes, João Borges de Sousa, José Pinto, João Pereira, Fernando Lobo Pereira. 2006 , "Mission planning and specification in the Neptus framework", Proceedings 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2006. ICRA 2006., Orlando, FL, 2006, pp. 3220-3225

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