Artur Arsénio
Innovator | Manager | Engineer | Passionate for new technology business
AHA - Augmented Human Assistance
Projects
Sponsor: Carnegie Mellon University - Portugal program, FCT
Invisible Networks
Sponsor: QREN Mobilizador (Portuguese Government and European Funds)
Member of the Management Board and Scientific Coordination Board.
The “AHA: Augmented Human Assistance” project (click here for project homepage) is a novel, integrative and cross-disciplinar approach combining innovation and fundamental research in the areas of human computer interaction, robotics, serious games and physiological computing. AHA’s goal is to develop a new generation of ICT based solutions that have the potential to transform healthcare by optimizing resource allocation, reducing costs, improving diagnoses and enabling novel therapies, thus increasing quality of life. The project proposes the development and deployment of a novel Robotic Assistance Platform designed to support healthy life-style, sustain active aging, and support those with motor deficits.
Partners: Carnegie Mellon University - CMU, IST, Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, MITI - Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, FCT/UNL.
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May 2012 - June 2015
Aug. 2014 - July 2017
Member of the Management Board and Scientific Coordination Board.Research project on Invisible Networks, i.e. Embedded Systems for Interactive surfaces, in partnership with cork, concrete and wood laminate industries. Proposed innovative technologies for different fields, such as medical, smart homes and spaces, transportation, sports..
Partners: YDreams Robotics, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologias da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Centro de Nanotecnologia e Materiais Técnicos, Funcionais e Inteligentes, Innovnano - Materiais Avançados, S. A., Plux - Engenharia de Biosensores, Lda, Amorim Cork Research Lda., Amorim Revestimentos S.A., Amorim Cork Composites, S.A., Sonae - Indústria de Revestimentos, S.A., SECIL.
Set. 2013 - Jan. 2016
Industry Sponsor: SenseFinity SA and YDreamsRoboticsSA
Smart Irrigation in the Cloud
YDreamsRobotics team principal investigator. Member of the Management Board and Scientific Coordination Board.
The project addressed the usage of humanoid robots in education, using gadgets and environment sensors to enable classroom robots to determine whether students are bored, confused or anxious. The robots can adapt their teaching style accordingly.
Partners: Heriot Watt University, Inesc ID Lisboa, Jacobs University, University of Birmingham, University of Gothenburg, YdreamsRobotics, University of Sunderland.
JAn. 2013 - June 2015
Sponsor: FP7 European Research Project.
EMOTE: Embodied Perceptive Tutors for Emphatic Based Learning
Cloud-based Precision Livestock
Industry Sponsor: SenseFinity SA and YDreamsRoboticsSA
Set. 2013 - Jan. 2016
MONARCH: Multi-Robot Cognitive Systems Operating in Hospitals
Sponsor: FP7 European Research Project.
JAn. 2013 - March 2014
Workpackage leader of WP4. YDreamsRobotics team principal investigator. Member of the Management Board and Scientific Coordination Board.
Development of fleets of social mobile robotics using networked heterogeneous robots and sensors to interact with children, staff, and visitors, engaging in edutainment activities in the pediatric infirmary at the Portuguese Oncology Institute at Lisbon (IPOL), Portugal.
Partners: IST-ID (Associação do IST para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento), ORU (Oerebro Universitet), UC3M (Universidad Carlos III – Madrid), IPOL (Instituto Português de Oncologia de Lisboa, YDreams Robotics S.A., SselfTech Lda, IDMind Lda, EPFL (École Polytechnique de Lausanne), Universiteit van Amsterdam.
WP6 leader for the development of a Radio over Fiber Network Management System. Led Nokia Siemens' team activities in FUTON Workpackage 4, for the development of the solutions’ Middleware and Common Radio Resource Management algorithms. Deputy Manager for FUTON project’s Workpackage 1: project management and coordination.
The FUTON project proposed a flexible architecture for wireless systems based on the joint processing of the radio signals from distinct remote antenna units and supported by a transparent fibre infrastructure. This architecture enabled the high bit rates targeted in the broadband component of future wireless systems and provided a framework for the integration of heterogeneous wireless systems.
Partners: Nokia Siemens Networks Portugal, Alcatel-Thales III-V Labs, Motorola, Portugal Telecom Inovação, VIVO; Hellenic Telecommunications, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Acorde, Sigint; VIVO, University of Kent; University of Aalborg, University of Patras; VTT
JAn. 2008 - Dec 2010
Sponsor: FP7 European Research Project.
FUTON: Fibre-Optic Networks for Distributed Extendible Heterogeneous Radio Architectures and Service Provisioning
Project Management functions.
2008 - 2009
Sponsor: FP6 European Research Project
TRIUMPH: Transparent Ring Interconnection Using Multiwavelength PHotonic switches
POROBOT
Sponsor: NATO
1995 - 1998
Researcher, PO-ROBOT project from NATO Science for Stability Program - Multi-Purpose Portuguese Flexible Mobile Robot. Development of a new methodology for the localization of Mobile Robots using a Laser Range Finder, for implementation in an industrial prototype.
Partners: ISR, NATO and the industry: SIROCO, VULCANO (now Bosch), INDEP, and RENAULT.
Research Assistant at MIT. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Humanoid Robotics and Living, Breathing Machines groups. Work sponsored by DARPA/ITO’s project Natural Tasking of Robots Based on Human Interaction Cues. Ph.D. thesis proposed techniques to build an artificial cognitive system for the humanoid robot Cog, which learns according to children developmental phases. New algorithms were developed to solve a collection of Artificial Intelligence, Visual and Cross-Modal Perception, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, and Signal Processing problems. Participated as well on the MARS project, and contributed to the “Robot KISMET” project with an algorithm for Human Head detection.
2002 - 2004
Sponsor: DARPA/ITO.
Natural Tasking of Robots Based on Human Interaction Cues
Management functions of national NSN projects under Portuguese Innovation Agency (ADI) and Telesal association for telecommunications.
Visually Guided Running and Scrambling Robots for Tactical Urban Environments
Sponsor: TACOM, DARPA
Research Assistant at MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory – Humanoid and Mobile robots groups. Designed, built and programmed the M2-M4 Macaco robotic head, sponsored by TACOM, DARPA’s project Visually Guided Running and Scrambling Robots for tactical Urban Environments. Project in collaboration with MIT Leg Lab. Responsible for managing the M2-M4 Macaco Head project. Innovative concepts – proposed in the paper ‘A robot in a box’ - introduced by this small, cheap, though complex, active vision head gave rise to a new generation of robots built not only at the MIT Humanoid robotics laboratory, but also in other worldwide research laboratories. Decreased drastically the construction costs of the group’s robotic heads.
1998 - 2002
Member of the Management Board and Scientific Coordination Board.Research project on project aiming at the remote monitoring of fetus biosignals from biomedical sensors placed on pregnant women (Contract HMSP-CT/SAU- ICT/0064/2009). As IST principal investigator collaborated on the wireless transmission of biosignals from the sensors to a healthcare provider.
Partners: Margret and H. A. Rey Institute for Nonlinear Dynamics in Medicine of the Harvard Medical School, IST and Porto University Medical School
2010 - 2013
Sponsor: Harvard Medical School - Portugal program, FCT
Fetus Monitoring and Biosignal Classification
Active computer vision integrating multiple visual cues
Sponsor: JNICT-PBIC/TPR/2550/95 project and EC-ESPRIT/LTR Project NARVAL
1995 - 1997
Research Assistant. Computer Vision and Robotics group - Institute of Systems & Robotics. Implementation of an active computer vision system to track people integrating multiple visual cues, aiming at surveillance and security applications.
2008 - 2009
Sponsor: Portuguese Innovation Agency (ADI)
Telesal association for telecommunications.
Telecom data mining system...
Set. 2013 - Jan. 2016
Industry Sponsor: Nokia Networks SA
Telecom Datamining
EUROPEAN RESEARCH GRANTS
The Smart Irrigation in the Cloud project addresses the problem of saving water for plants irrigation.
Partners: Sensefinity, YdreamsRobotics, Fundão "Aldeias do Xisto" Living Lab, Universidade da Beira Interior, Instituto Superior Técnico
The Smart Cloud-Based Precision Livestock project addresses the problem of smart and remote monitoring of animals. Several collars were developed, to be carried on by animals, containing location sensors that transmit data to the cloud. Such data is further processed using machine learning techniques running on the cloud to extract further knowledge important for farmers. This constitutes a Smart Precision Livestock management system.
Partners: Sensefinity, YdreamsRobotics, Fundão "Aldeias do Xisto" Living Lab, Universidade da Beira Interior, Instituto Superior Técnico