Sustainable Energy Systems
In Sustainable Energy Systems, the main global objectives deal with advanced energy-efficient technologies, as well as renewable and energy storage technologies in the scope of industrial andbuilding systems, and electric vehicles. The activities are mainly focused on:
- Energy Efficient Technologies including the development and assessment of energy-efficient technologies, such as advanced motors and drives, optimization of electrical systems and eco-design of energy-related products;
- Renewables and Smart Grids including the design of smart grid architectures and microgrids, monitoring and control systems, as well as prediction and optimization of distributed energy resources.
Projects
Publications
M. Abreu,
L. Artur da Silva Garrote,
U. J. Nunes,
Distilling Apple DepthPro for RGB-LiDAR depth estimation, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Elsevier, 2026
Catarina Leitao, A. Barata Pires Lopes,
Beatriz Ribeiro, U. J. Nunes,
Carlos Carona, Emotional effects of a brief child-robot interaction to teach school-aged children a relaxation exercise: an exploratory pre-post study, Current Psychology, Springer Nature, 2025
U. J. Nunes,
G. Pires,
J. Perdiz,
User-adaptive eye event detection from EOG signals for Human-Machine Interfaces, 1, University of Coimbra, Portugal, 2025, Supervised by
L. Artur da Silva Garrote,
R. Bettencourt,
J. Perdiz,
G. Pires,
U. J. Nunes,
Generalization of Machine and Deep Learning Models for Brain-Computer Interfaces Across Sessions and Paradigms in a Completely Locked-In Patient, 2025 34th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2025
Ana Patricia Pinto, R. Bettencourt,
U. J. Nunes,
G. Pires,
, Eye-Tracking and Bci Integration for Assistive Communication in Locked-in Syndrome: Pilot Study with Healthy Participants, 2025 IEEE 8th Portuguese Meeting on Bioengineering (ENBENG), 2025
Beatriz Ribeiro, A. Barata Pires Lopes,
Carlos Carona, U. J. Nunes,
ISR-FABEL: A Landmark-Based Dataset and Multimodal Emotion Recognition Framework for Child-Robot Interaction, IEEE Access, IEEE, 2025
D. Rocha,
P. Lopes,
P. Peixoto,
A. de Almeida,
M. Tavakoli,
Miniaturized Liquid Metal Composite Circuits with Energy Harvesting Coils for Battery-Free Bioelectronics and Optogenetics, Advanced Functional Materials, Volume 35, Issue 13, 2025
P. Vicente de Almeida,
R. P. Rocha,
AI-powered social robot for cognitive stimulation in the elderly through personalized storytelling, 2025 11th International Conference on Automation, Robotics, and Applications (ICARA 2025), 122-126, IEEE RAS, Zagreb, Croatia, 2025
Lucyanno Frota, R. P. Rocha,
A semantic mapping framework for service robots, Proceedings of the 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 25), 832–839, ACM, Catania, Italy, 2025
Ana Pinto, Leticia Lemos, Carla Carvalho, Joana Santos, P. Menezes,
Tatsuya Nomura, Translation, Adaptation, and Validation in Portuguese of an Acceptance Scale for Human–Robot Interaction in an Industrial Context, Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, Wiley, 2025
André Araújo,
Carlos A. P. Pizzino, M. S. Couceiro,
R. P. Rocha,
A Multi-Drone System Proof of Concept for Forestry Applications, Drones, 9, 80, MDPI, 2025
J. P. Barreto,
A. Ribeiro,
A Parallel Computing Platform for Arthroscopic Video Synchronization in Augmented Reality Surgery Applications, 2, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal, 2024, Supervised by
T. Barros,
L. Artur da Silva Garrote,
M. J. Coombes, , C. Premebida,
U. J. Nunes,
PointNetPGAP-SLC: A 3D LiDAR-Based Place Recognition Approach With Segment-Level Consistency Training for Mobile Robots in Horticulture, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 9, Issue: 11, 2024
Jose Lourenco, Goncalo Arsenio, L. Artur da Silva Garrote,
U. J. Nunes,
, Multimodal 6D Detection of Industrial Pallets, in Real and Virtual Environments, with Applications in Industrial AMRs, In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics , Vol. 2: ICINCO; ISBN 978-989-758-717-7, SciTePress, 2024
E. Borges,
L. Artur da Silva Garrote,
U. J. Nunes,
A Modular Multimodal Multi-Object Tracking-by-Detection Approach, with Applications in Outdoor and Indoor Environments, In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics , Vol. 2: ICINCO; ISBN 978-989-758-717-7, SciTePress, 2024