Senior Scientist


 

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action - Individual Fellowship (MSCA-IF)  - 2018-20

  • Principal Investigador (Individual Award)
  • Horizon2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action - MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EF, € 183K
  • Title: Integrating robotic control and planning with human activity prediction for efficient human robot collaboration

 

Winner of Best PhD Thesis Award in Engineering at the University of Brasilia - 2016

  • Individual Award
  • Biennial Award for Best PhD Thesis at the University of Brasilia
  • Title: Control based on Dual-Quaternion Algebra and its Application to Robot Manipulators


Project Grant: Universal MCTI/CNPq: Call 2016 - 2017-2020

  • Co-Investigator
  • Brazilian Minister of Science Tech. Innov. Comm. & National Research Agency, R$336k
  • Title: Experimental platform for the development and validation of new concepts in advanced robotics: multi-agent, multi-robot cooperation and human-robot interaction

Project Grant: FAP-DF Demanda Espontanea: Call 2016 - 2017-2020

  • Co-Investigator
  • Research Support Foundation of the Federal District, R$263k
  • Title: Development of control, planning and navigation techniques for cooperative humanoid robotics and human-robot interaction

Winner of Rethink Robotics Contest (IROS 2014) - Sept., 2014

  • Authors: Luis F C Figueredo
  • IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
  • Title: Cooperative Manipulation using Cooperative Dual Task Space


Outstanding System Demonstration – Honorable Mention - June, 2014

  • Authors: S Burke, E Fernandez, LFC Figueredo, A Hofmann, C Hofmann, E Karpas, S Levine, P Santana, P Yu, B Williams
  • 24th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS)
  • Title: Best Intent Recognition and Temporal Relaxation in Human Robot Assembly
     

 

Work Experience

  • [10/2020 to date] - Senior Scientist at Munich Institute for Robotics and System Intelligence, TUM
  • [2018 - 2020] - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action - Individual Fellow (MSCA-IF) at School of Computing, University of Leeds
  • [05/2017 - 11/17] - Postdoctoral Fellow at the Mechatronics, Control, and Robotics Group (MACRO), Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG)
  • [08/2016 - 04/17] - Research Fellow at Glonass-UnB Joint Venture

 

Education

  • PhD degree in Control and Robotics at the University of Brasilia, Brazil
    • Best Thesis Award
    • Title: Control based on dual quaternion algebra and its application to robot manipulators
  • Visiting PhD Student at the Model-Based Embedded & Robotic Systems, CSAIL - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • M.Sc. degree in Automatic Control at the University of Brasilia, Brazil
    • Title: Stability and H ∞ Control of Uncertain Networked Control Systems with Time-Varying Delays
  • B.S. degree in Mechatronics / Control and Automation Engineering at the University of Brasilia, Brazil
    • Title: Individual Mobile Measurement of Thermal Comfort in an Ambient Intelligence

 

 

  • Lipeng Chen (PhD Co-Supervision with Dr Mehmet Dogar), now a Postdoc at Edinburgh Center for Robotics
  • João Cavalcanti ((5-year)BA & (2-Year) MS Co-Supervision with Prof JY Ishihara), now a PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

 

Most Recent Peer-Reviewed Journals

1. L. F. C. Figueredo, R. C. Aguiar, L. Chen, S. Chakrabarty, and M. Dogar. Planning to Minimize the Human Muscular Effort during Forceful Human-Robot Collaboration. ACM Trans. Human-Robot Interaction, 2021.

2. L. F. C. Figueredo, B. V. Adorno, and J. Y. Ishihara. Robust H ∞ kinematic control of manipulator robots using dual quaternion algebra. Automatica, 2021.

3. L. F. C. Figueredo, R. C. Aguiar, L. Chen, S. Chakrabarty, M. Dogar, and A. Cohn. Human comfortability: Integrating ergonomics and muscular-informed metrics for manipulability analysis during human-robot collaboration. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2021.

4. L. Chen, , L. F. C. Figueredo, and M. Dogar. Manipulation planning under changing external forces. Autonomous Robots, 2020.

5. Oliveira RWSM, Bauchspiess R, Porto LHS, de Brito CG, Figueredo LFC, Borges GA, Ramos GN. 2020. A Robot Architecture for Outdoor Competitions. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems.  

6. Cavalcanti J, Figueredo LFC, Ishihara JY. 2018. Robust Controller Design for Attitude Dynamics Subjected to Time-Delayed State Measurements. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 2191-2198 63.7  

7. Cavalcanti J, Figueredo LFC, Ishihara JY, Bernardes MC, Santana PHRQA, Vargas AN, Borges GA. 2018. A real-time web-based networked control system education platform. International Journal of Electrical Engineering Education. 130-141 55.2  

8. Kussaba HTM, Figueredo LFC, Ishihara JY, Adorno BV. 2017. Hybrid kinematic control for rigid body pose stabilization using dual quaternions. Journal of the Franklin Institute. 2769-2787 354.7  

9. Figueredo LFC, Ishihara JY, Borges GA, Bauchspiess A. 2014. Robust H ∞ Output Tracking Control for a Class of Nonlinear Systems with Time-Varying Delays. Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing. 1451-1471 33.5 

10. Figueredo LFDC, Ishihara JY, Borges GA, Bauchspiess A. 2013. Delay-Dependent Robust Stability Analysis for Time-Delay T–S Fuzzy Systems with Nonlinear Local Models. Journal of Control, Automation and Electrical Systems. 11-21 24.1-2 

 

Selected Recent Conference Publications

  1. Troebinger M., Costinescu A., Xing H., Elsner J., Hu T., Naceri A., Figueredo LFC, Jensen E., Burschka D., Haddadin S. 2021. A Dual Doctor-Patient Twin Paradigm for Transparent Remote Examination, Diagnosis, and Rehabilitation. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

  2. Laha R., Vorndamme J., Figueredo LFC, Jaehne C., Swikir A., Qu Z., Haddadin S. 2021. Coordinated motion generation and object placement: a reactive planning and landing approach. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

  3. Laha R., Rao A., Figueredo LFC, Chang Q., Haddadin S., Chakraborty N. 2021. Point-to-point Path Planning based on User Guidance and Screw Linear Interpolation. ASME 2021 Int Design Eng Techn Conf. & Computers and Inform in Eng Conf. (IDETC/CIE)

  4. Laha R., Figueredo LFC, Vrabel J, Swikir A., Haddadin S. 2021. Reactive Cooperative Manipulation based on Set Primitives and Circular Fields. 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

  5. Chen L, Figueredo LFC, Dogar M. 2020. Manipulation Planning Using Environmental Contacts to Keep Objects Stable under External Forces. 2019 IEEE-RAS 19th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids)  

  6. Farias CM, Figueredo LFC, Ishihara JY, IEEE. 2019. Performance Study on dqRNEA - A Novel Dual Quaternion based Recursive Newton-Euler Inverse Dynamics Algorithms. Third IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC) 

  7. Chen L, Figueredo LFC, Dogar MR. 2019. Planning for Muscular and Peripersonal-Space Comfort during Human-Robot Forceful Collaboration. 2018 IEEE-RAS (Humanoids 2018)  

  8. Chen L, Figueredo LFC, Dogar M. 2018. Manipulation Planning Under Changing External Forces. IROS 2018: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

  9. Farias CM, Rocha YG, Figueredo LF, Bernardes MC, IEEE. 2017. Design of singularity-robust and task-priority primitive controllers for cooperative manipulation using dual quaternion representation. 2017 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA) 

  10. Magro PPM, Kussaba HTM, Figueredo LFC, Ishihara JY. 2017. Dual quaternion-based bimodal global control for robust rigid body pose kinematic stabilization. American Control Conference (ACC 2017)  

  11. Cavalcanti J, Figueredo LFC, Ishihara JY. 2016. Quaternion-based H∞ attitude tracking control of rigid bodies with time-varying delay in attitude measurements. 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) 

  12. Vilela JVC, Figueredo LFC, Ishihara JY, Borges GA. 2015. Quaternion-based H∞ kinematic attitude control subjected to input time-varying delays. 2015 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) 

  13. Marinho MM, Figueredo LFC, Adorno BV. 2015. A dual quaternion linear-quadratic optimal controller for trajectory tracking. 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 

  14. Vilela JVC, Figueredo LFC, Ishihara JY, Borges GA. 2014. An improved stability criterion of networked control systems with dynamic controllers in the feedback loop. 2014 IEEE 53rd Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) 

  15. Figueredo LFC, Adorno BV, Ishihara JY, Borges GA. 2014. Switching strategy for flexible task execution using the cooperative dual task-space framework. 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2014) 

  16. Figueredo LFC, Adorno BV, Ishihara JY, Borges GA. 2013. Robust kinematic control of manipulator robots using dual quaternion representation. 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 

  17. Figueredo LFC, Cavalcanti FB, Ishihara JY, Borges GA, Bauchspiess A, IEEE. 2013. Novel stabilization technique for the H-infinity control of systems with time-varying input delay. 2013 AMERICAN CONTROL CONFERENCE (ACC)

  18. Figueredo LFDC, Ishihara JY, Borges GA, Borges GA, Bauchspiess A. 2011. A delay-fractioning approach to stability analysis of networked control systems with time-varying delay. 2011 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference (CDC-ECC 2011) 

  19. Figueredo LF, Ishihara JY, Borges GA, Bauchspiess A, IEEE. 2011. Robust stability criteria for uncertain systems with delay and its derivative varying within intervals. 2011 AMERICAN CONTROL CONFERENCE (ACC)

  20. Figueredo LFC, Ishihara JY, Borges GA, Bauchspiess A. 2011. Delay-Dependent Robust H∞ Output Tracking Control for Uncertain Networked Control Systems. IFAC WS 

  21. Figueredo LFDC, Ishihara JY, Borges GA, Bauchspiess A. 2010. New delay-and-delay-derivative-dependent stability criteria for systems with time-varying delay. 2010 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) 

 

Coordinator and Scientific Lead

 

 

In addition to support the robotics and control community through reviewing process (see roles below), I have also organized few workshops in conferences and 3rd UK Robot Manipulation Workshop togetehr with Dr Mehmet Dogar (www.robot-manipulation.uk/) bringing together over 100 delegates from 32 UK universities, research instittues, and industrial partners. I am also in close contact with the Brazilian research community and Marie-Curie Alumni Association in Latin America (I was also one of the speakers in MSCA-IF Fellows: Practical Guide Workshop during the II Latin America MCAA Conference). 

 

Associate Editor

Journal of Control, Automation and Electrical Systems (JCAE) 

Reviewer

  • International Journal of Robotics Research
  • IEEE Transactions on Robotics
  • IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
  • IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
  • IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics
  • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • IET Control Theory & Applications
  • IEEE Control Systems Letters
  • Journal of the Franklin Institute
  • International Journal of Humanoid Robotics
  • Journal of Control, Automation and Electrical Systems
  • International Journal of Electrical Engineering Education Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing
  • International Journal of Systems Science
  • IEEE Access
  • Proceedings of the IFAC World Congress (IFAC-WS)
  • IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
  • IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
  • IEEE Conference on Decision and Control American Control Conference (CDC)
  • American Control Conference (ACC)
  • IEEE International Conference on Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR)
  • Simpósio Brasileiro de Automação Inteligente
  • Congresso Brasileiro de Automática