Teacher
Francisco F. C. Rego

Resume

Francisco Fernandes Castro Rego received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2018 from Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). His doctoral research focused on distributed state estimation and cooperative control for autonomous vehicles under communication constraints. He previously obtained the M.Sc. degree in Flight Dynamics & Control and Avionics in 2011 through a double-degree program between Instituto Superior Técnico and Delft University of Technology, and the B.Sc. degree in Aerospace Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico in 2008. During his academic studies, he received merit-based distinctions for academic excellence. Between 2018 and 2023, he was a researcher at the Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR), contributing to European and national research projects in distributed control, cooperative navigation, multi-agent observers, and trajectory planning in marine environments. His work addressed applications involving autonomous underwater and aerial vehicles, with emphasis on coordination and communication under severe constraints. In 2025, he was a researcher at the Centre for Technology and Systems (CTS). Since 2026, he has been a researcher at INESC INOV. His scientific contributions include publications in leading international journals and conferences on distributed estimation, nonlinear control, coprime factorization-based observers, cooperative path-following, and mission planning for autonomous robotic systems. He has also authored a book chapter on cooperative control and has served as guest editor for special issues in scientific journals. He regularly collaborates with international research groups and serves as reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals and conferences. In addition to research, he has extensive teaching experience in higher education, lecturing courses in Automation, Robotics, and Computer Science. He supervises M.Sc. theses and is actively involved in pedagogical innovation, including the development of teaching materials and the organization of technical workshops. His main research interests include Autonomous Vehicles, Marine Robotics, Multi-Agent Systems, Cooperative Navigation, Path-Following, Distributed Estimation, Networked Control, and Sensor Fusion.

Graus

• Bacharelato
  1st cycle of studies of the Integrated Master Degree in Aerospace Engineering
• Mestrado
  Double Degree Master Program Flight Dynamics & Control and Avionics
• Doutoramento
  Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores
• Pós-Graduação
  Pedagogia no Ensino Superior

Publicações

Artigo em revista

• 2025-10-03, Experimental Evaluation of UAV Energy Management Using Solar Panels and Battery Systems, Applied Sciences
• 2025-07-18, Comparison of Innovative Strategies for the Coverage Problem: Path Planning, Search Optimization, and Applications in Underwater Robotics, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
• 2025-01, Cooperative navigation using constrained convex generators, European Journal of Control
• 2025, A Novel and Efficient Order Reduction for Both Constrained Convex Generators and Constrained Zonotopes, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
• 2024-06-22, Conceptual Design of an Unmanned Electrical Amphibious Vehicle for Ocean and Land Surveillance, World Electric Vehicle Journal
• 2023-09, Distributed observers for LTV systems, Automatica
• 2023-05, A review of path following control strategies for autonomous robotic vehicles, Journal of Field Robotics
• 2023-02, Strategies towards a more sustainable aviation: A systematic review, Progress in Aerospace Sciences
• 2022-07, Cooperative Distributed Estimation and Control of Multiple Autonomous Vehicles for Range-Based Underwater Target Localization and Pursuit, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
• 2021-09, A Distributed Luenberger Observer for Linear State Feedback Systems With Quantized and Rate-Limited Communications, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
• 2019, Texture analysis is a useful tool to characterize the cutaneous biomechanical profile, Biomedical and biopharmaceutical research : jornal de investigação biomédica e biofarmacêutica
• 2019, Distributed state estimation for discrete-time linear time invariant systems: A survey, Annual Reviews in Control
• 2016-12, Novel 3D active representations of skin biomechanics, Journal Biomedical and Biopharmaceutical Research
• 2014-08-10, Determination of Inner and Outer Bounds of Reachable Sets Through Subpavings, Mathematics in Computer Science

Tese / Dissertação

• 2018-05-28, Doutoramento, Distributed State Estimation and Cooperative Path-Following Under Communication Constraints

Capítulo de livro

• 2025, Advances in remote estimation and control with quantised communications for networked systems subject to severe bandwidth constraints, Institution of Engineering and Technology
• 2019, Cooperative path-following control with logic-based communications: theory and practice, Navigation and Control of Autonomous Marine Vehicles, Institution of Engineering and Technology

Artigo em conferência

• Input-Constrained Path Following for Autonomous Marine Vehicles with a Global Region of Attraction, 11th IFAC Conference on Control Applications in Marine Systems, Robotics, and Vehicles CAMS 2018: Opatija, Croatia, 10–12 September 2018
• Event-Triggered Communications for the Synchronization of Nonlinear Multi Agent Systems on Weight-Balanced Digraphs, 2019 18th European Control Conference (ECC)
• Cooperative single-beacon multiple AUV navigation under stringent communication bandwidth constraints, 13th IFAC Conference on Control Applications in Marine Systems, Robotics, and Vehicles CAMS 2021
• Cooperative path-following of autonomous marine vehicles: theory and experiments, 2018 IEEE/OES Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Workshop (AUV)
• A design method for distributed luenberger observers, 2017 IEEE 56th Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)
• 2024, Explicit computation of guaranteed state estimates using constrained convex generators
• 2016, Design of a distributed quantized luenberger filter for bounded noise, 2016 American Control Conference (ACC)
• 2015, A consensus algorithm for networks with process noise and quantization error, 2015 53rd Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton)
• 2014, Optimal design of observable multi-agent networks: A structural system approach
• 2014, Flexible triangular formation keeping of marine robotic vehicles using range measurements, 19th IFAC World Congress
• 2013, A packet loss compliant logic-based communication algorithm for cooperative path-following control, 9th IFAC Conference on Control Applications in Marine Systems

Outra produção

• 2024, Editorial, Unmanned marine vehicles for ocean observation