Carlos Xavier Pais Viegas

    Name: Carlos Xavier Pais Viegas, Ph.D.
    Position: Senior Researcher
    Office: LSE
    Email: carlosviegas@isr.uc.pt









    Journals

    Jorge Sampaio Silveira Júnior, J. Ruivo Carvalho Paulo, Jérôme Mendes, Daniela Alves, L. Ribeiro, C. Viegas, Automatic Forest Fire Danger Rating Calibration: Exploring Clustering Techniques For Regionally Customizable Fire Danger Classification, Expert Systems With Applications, 193:116380, 2022
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2021.116380

    J. Alvarinhas Pereira, Jérôme Mendes, Jorge Sampaio Silveira Júnior, C. Viegas, J. Ruivo Carvalho Paulo, A Review of Genetic Algorithm Approaches for Wildfire Spread Prediction Calibration, Mathematics, 10(3), 300, 2022
    https://doi.org/10.3390/math10030300

    Conferences

    Luís Miguel Ferreira, C. Viegas, A. Paulo Coimbra, A. de Almeida, Low-cost system for early detection and deployment of countermeasures against wild fires , IEEE 5th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT) 2019- Conference Proceedings, pp. 418-423 , Limerick, Ireland, 2019
    https://doi.org/10.1109/WF-IoT.2019.8767331

    Journals

    M. Tavakoli, C. Viegas, L. Sprigna, A. de Almeida, SCALA: Scalable Modular Rail based Multi-agent Robotic System for Fine Manipulation over Large Workspaces., Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 421-438, 2018

    Journals

    C. Viegas, D. Daney, M. Tavakoli, A. de Almeida, Performance analysis and design of parallel kinematic machines using interval analysis, Mechanism and Machine Theory , 115, 218-236, 2017

    C. Viegas, M. Tavakoli, P. Lopes, R. Dessi, A. de Almeida, SCALA—A Scalable Rail-based Multirobot System for Large Space Automation: Design and Development, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 5, 22, 2208-2217, 2017

    C. Viegas, M. Tavakoli, A. de Almeida, A novel grid-based reconfigurable spatial parallel mechanism with large workspace, Mechanism and Machine Theory , 115, 149-167, 2017

    Conferences

    C. Viegas, M. Tavakoli, A. de Almeida, SCALA-A Scalable Rail-based Multirobot System for Large Space Automation: Design and Development , IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 22(5), pp. 2208-2217 , 2017

    Thesis

    C. Viegas, SCALA: Scalable Modular Rail based Multi-agent Robotic System for Fine Manipulation over Large Workspaces, Ph.D. Thesis, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal, 2017, Supervised by Aníbal Traça de Almeida and Mahmoud Tavakoli

    Journals

    M. Tavakoli, J. Ministro Lourenço, C. Viegas, P. Neto, A. de Almeida, The hybrid OmniClimber robot: Wheel based climbing, arm based plane transition, and switchable magnet adhesion, Mechatronics, 36, Pages 136–146, 2016
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mechatronics.2016.03.007

    Journals

    M. Tavakoli, P. Lopes, L. Sprigna, C. Viegas, Motion control of an omnidirectional climbing robot based on dead reckoning method, Mechatronics, 30, 94-106, 2015
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mechatronics.2015.06.003

    Conferences

    M. Tavakoli, C. Viegas, J. Romão, A. de Almeida, InchwormClimber: A Light-Weight Single DOF Biped Climbing Robot with a Switchable Magnet Adhesion Unit, 2015 IEEE/RSJ IROS International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Hamburg, Germany, 2015

    M. Tavakoli, L. Sprigna, C. Viegas, A. de Almeida, State Estimation and Path Following on Curved and Flat Vertical Surfaces with Omniclimber Robots: Kinematics and Control, 2015 IEEE/RSJ IROS International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Hamburg, Germany, 2015

    M. Tavakoli, C. Viegas, J. Romão, P. Neto, A. de Almeida, Switchable Magnets for Robotics Applications, 2015 IEEE/RSJ IROS International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Hamburg, Germany, 2015

    M. Tavakoli, L. Sprigna, C. Viegas, A. de Almeida, InchwormClimber: A light-weight biped climbing robot with a switchable magnet adhesion unit: Kinematics and control, Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Hamburg, Gemany, 2015

    Journals

    M. Tavakoli, C. Viegas, Analysis and application of dual-row omnidirectional wheels for climbing robots, Mechatronics , 2014
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mechatronics.2014.04.003
    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0957415814000671

    Journals

    M. Tavakoli, C. Viegas, L. Marques, J. Pires, A. de Almeida, OmniClimbers: Omni-directional magnetic wheeled climbing robots for inspection of ferromagnetic structures, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 61 (9), pp. 997-1007, 2013
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2013.05.005
    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921889013001024

    Conferences

    M. Tavakoli, C. Viegas, L. Marques, J. Pires, Magnetic Omnidirectional Wheels for Climbing Robots, in IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2013), Tokyo Big Sight, Japan, 2013
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2013.6696363

    M. Tavakoli, C. Viegas, L. Marques, A. de Almeida, OmniClimber-II: An omnidirectional climbing robot with high maneuverability and flexibility to adapt to non-flat surfaces, 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2013), art. no. 6630746, pp. 1349- 1354, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2013
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2013.6630746