A. Fernando Ribeiro

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Fernando Ribeiro and his RoboCup team of Middle Size League football Robots, at Osaka, Japan, in 2005.

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Fernando Ribeiro was born in Guimarães, Portugal. He took his degree on Computer Science and Information Technology in 1988, lectured at University Portucalense for three years and moved to Cranfield (England) where he took in Master's Degree on Industrial Robotics in 1992 and his PhD on Advanced Manufacturing Technology in 1995. Returned to Portugal to University of Minho in 1995 where he holds a position of Associate Professor since 2003 at the Industrial Electronics Department.

He started in 1997 a Robotics Laboratory and he has since then many students working on Mobile Autonomous Robotics and participates actively on RoboCup with a football team of robots, amongst others. He developed the first Portuguese robotic football team that participated in a competition. He also organizes many robotics events (Local, National and International) like RoboParty, with different scientific challenges, and promotes science and technology. He also organized the first Festival Nacional de Robótica—ROBÓTICA’2001 in Guimarães. He is founding member of the Portuguese Robotics Society, which was created during Robotica’2006, also in Guimarães.

In 2006 he started a spin-off company called SAR - Soluções de Automação e Robótica, which creates and develops robotics and automation projects.

His main areas of research are Mobile and Autonomous Robotics, Automation, Rapid Prototyping. Computer Vision and Image Processing.

 

Committees / Memberships

RoboCup Middle Size League Executive Committee

RoboCup Middle Size League Technical Committee

IET Member

IEEE Member

Founding member of the IEEE Portuguese Robotics Chapter

Founding member (member number 2) of the SPR (Portuguese Robotics Society)

Elected vice-president of the Portuguese Robotics Society for the biennium 2007-2008

President of the Specialized Technical Committee on Medical Robotics of the Portuguese Robotics Society since 2006.

Member of the Association for Education in Science and Technology, and member of the supervisory board since 2006.

Deputy Director of the Algoritmi Research Centre

Member of the Francisco de Holanda Secondary School Main Board

Member of the Parents Association of Escola Santa Luzia

Sociedade Martins Sarmento Board member

 

Past Committees / Memberships

BARA — British Robotics Association

TWI — The Welding Institute

AWS — American Welding Institute

 

 

Dep. Industrial Electronics — Robotics Group

Universidade do Minho

Campus de Azurém

4800-058 Guimarães

Portugal

 

Contact:

Tel: +351 253 510195/0 (Office)

Tel: +351 253 510394 (Laboratory)

Fax: +351 253 510189

Email: fernando@dei.uminho.pt

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

http://www.robotica.dei.uminho.pt