Pedro RoqueCurriculum Vitae

Education2015–2017 MSc. Systems, Control and Robotics, Dual Degree between IST - Instituto

Superior Técnico and KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Lisbon,Portugal and Stockholm, Sweden.Merit board (Top 20% of the class) at IST. ECTS GPA: B

2012–2015 BSc. Electrical and Computers Engineering, IST, Lisbon, Portugal.Merit board (Top 20% of the class) during the entire BSc. Degree. ECTS GPA: A

Publications2018IJFR

Submitted

Pedro Roque, Antervedi Prasad, Rodrigo Ventura, “Design and prototyping ofan intra-vehicular robotic assistant for space stations”.The article covers the design and prototyping of the Space Cobot, a collaborative aerial robot forindoor microgravity environments. To simulate microgravity, a passive gimbal was built to allowattitude control validation.

2018IAC2018

Rodrigo Ventura, Monica Ekal, Pedro Roque, “Towards an autonomous free-flying robot fleet for intra-vehicular transportation of loads inunmanned space stations”.As free-flyers will soon become the hosts of uncrewed space stations such as the Lunar OrbitalPlatform - Gateway, the capability to transport unmodeled loads is of extreme value. This articleexplores load inertial parameters estimation by comparing a predicted and accomplished set oftrajectories with the load attached.

2017ICRA18

Pedro Pereira, Pedro Roque, Dimos V. Dimarogonas, “Asymmetric CollaborativeBar Stabilization Tethered to Two Heterogeneous Aerial Vehicles”.A scenario with heterogeneous vehicles and tethers for object transportation (in our case, a bar)is considered. A set of PID gains is generated per vehicle to counter-act the system asymmetries(such as different cable lengths and UAVs weight). A successful stabilization around differentsetpoints is demonstrated experimentally.

2016IJCAI-WS

Pedro Roque, Rodrigo Ventura, “A Space CoBot for personal assistance inspace stations”.This article extends the previous work on the Space CoBot project, focusing on two case studies:debris scavenging and astronaut stabilization.

2016IROS16

Pedro Roque, Rodrigo Ventura, “Space CoBot: a collaborative aerial robotfor indoor microgravity environments”.Development of a collaborative aerial robot for indoor microgravity environments, such as a spacestation, in which the robot shall provide aid for astronauts while doing other autonomous tasks.Project webpage: https://space-cobot.isr.tecnico.ulisboa.pt

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Research InterestsSpace

roboticsMulti-agent systems, load transportation, human-robot interface

Controltheory

Model predictive control (MPC) based approaches for low-level optimal control

Computervision

Pose estimation, visual-servoing

Experience2016

OngoingResearch Engineer, Smart Mobility Lab (SML), KTH - Royal Institute ofTechnology , Stockholm, Sweden.Research Engineer for Aeroworks (www.aeroworks2020.eu), Co4Robots (www.co4robots.eu)and SSF COIN (www.coinssf.se). Responsible for the integration of several systems at theSmart Mobility Lab.

20173 MonthsOngoing

Research Internship, Space System Lab (SSL), Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA.Internship on the ReSWARM project, consisting on implementing a nonlinear model predictiveformation control (NMPFC) on the MIT SPHERES. The first test session consisted on validatingthe implementation of the algorithms, while the second will consist on comparing it with acommon Proportional-Differential control approach.

2014–2017 Avionic Systems Designer, Stingray Avionics, Lisbon, Portugal.Development of Avionic Systems, such as altitude sensor, speed sensor, attitude estimation, aswell as an electronic flight instrument system (EFIS). Focus on low-level design (printed circuitboards development and production) and integration.

2015–2016 Research Assistant, ISR (Institute for Systems and Robotics), InstitutoSuperior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.Grant in QuadMission project (ISR internal project), working with cooperation between groundand aerial robots. Started the Space Cobot project with Professor Rodrigo Ventura.

Computer SkillsPython, C, C++, Matlab, Simulink, ROS, Microsoft Office, LaTeX, Kicad, AltiumDesigner, V-REP Simulator, Gazebo, Linux, Windows, networks administration.

Interests{ Amateur guitar builder and player { Practice football and swimming{ Electronics and robotics enthusiast { Bridging agriculture and technology{ Aviation and flights systems

LanguagesPortuguese Mothertongue

English Advanced Fluent at reading, writing and speaking.Spanish Intermediate Fluent at reading and speaking.

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