Adelardo A. Dantas de Medeiros

Academic history

• PhD (speciality: Robotics) by the UPS - Paul Sabatier University, in Toulouse, France (02/1997). Thesis made in the LAAS/CNRS (Laboratory of Analysis and Architecture of Systems, in the RIA (Robotics and Artificial Intelligence) group.
  • Title: Contrôle d'Exécution pour Robots Mobiles Autonomes: Architecture, Spécification et Validation (Execution Control for Autonomous Mobile Robots: Architecture, Specification and Validation).
  • Supervisor: Raja Chatila
• MSc (speciality: Systems and Control) by the ITA - Technological Institute of Aeronautics, in São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil (02/1991).
  • Title: Controle Adaptativo com Identificação Estrutural (Adaptive Control with Structural Identification)
  • Supervisor: Elder Moreira Hemerly
• Electrical engineer (speciality: electronics) by the UFRN - Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, in Natal, RN, Brazil (08/1988).

Current activities

• Professor of the DCA - Department of Computing Engineering and Automation of the UFRN - Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte.

Lines of research

• Robotics
  • Autonomous mobile robots (control, navigation and control architectures)
  • Control of manipulator arms
  • Computer vision and sensor fusion
• Related areas
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Real-time and embedded systems

Taught courses (1998-Today)

• Graduate
  • DCA1501 - Inteligência Artificial (Artificial Intelligence)
  • DCA1506 - Fundamentos de Robótica (Essential Principles of Robotics)
  • DCA1507 - Sistemas Robóticos Autônomos (Autonomous Robotic Systems)
  • DCA1601 - Algoritmos e Estruturas de Dados (Algorithms and Data Structures)
• Undergraduate
  • DCA0409 - Programação em Tempo Real (Real-Time Programming)
  • DCA0414 - Introdução à Robotica (Introduction to Robotics)
  • DCA0430 - Contexto Social e Profissional da Engenharia (Social and Professional Context of Engineering)
  • DCA0432 - Inteligência Artificial Aplicada (Applied Artificial Intelligence)
  • DCA0433 - Modelagem e Análise de Sistemas Dinâmicos (Modeling and Analysis of Dynamical Systems)
  • DCA0436 - Sistemas de Controle (Control Systems)
  • DCA0444 - Projeto de Sistemas Microcontrolados (Project of Micro-Controlled Systems)