Ana Cristina Barata Pires Lopes (7017-D415-F90C)

Curriculum Vitae

Ana Cristina Barata Pires Lopes

Ana Lopes received the M.Sc and the Ph.D degrees from the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, in 2003 and 2013. She is Adjunct Professor at the Department of Engineering of the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar. She is also the Director of the Master Course on Informatics Engineering – Internet of Things (IoT). Works in the area(s) of Engineering and Technology with emphasis on Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics with emphasis on Robotics and Automatic Control. She is currently Integrated Researcher at the Institute for Systems and Robotics, University of Coimbra, where she integrates the Human-Centered Robotics area. Her current research interests include assistive navigation for mobile robotics, collaborative control, collaborative navigation, human-robot interaction, and perception for robot navigation, based on machine learning. She is also Collaborator Researcher at the Smart Cities Research Center (Ci2) of Tomar.

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Identificação

Identificação pessoal

Nome completo: Ana Cristina Barata Pires Lopes

Nomes de citação

Lopes, Ana
Lopes, Ana C.

Identificadores de autor

Ciência ID: 7017-D415-F90C
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6695-477X

Endereços de correio eletrónico

anacris@isr.uc.pt (Profissional)

Telefones

Telefone

249328156 (Profissional)
239796210 (Profissional)

Telemóvel

918109837 (Pessoal)

Moradas

Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Quinta do Contador, Estrada da Serra, 2300-313, Tomar, Tomar, Portugal (Profissional)
University of Coimbra, Rua Silvio Lima- Polo II, 3030-290, Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (Profissional)
Urbanização Nova Conímbriga II, lote 18, 3A, 3150-232, Condeixa-a-aNova, Condeixa-a-aNova, Portugal (Pessoal)

Domínios de atuação

Ciências da Engenharia e Tecnologias - Engenharia Eletrotécnica, Eletrónica e Informática - Robótica

Idiomas

Idioma	Conversação	Leitura	Escrita	Compreensão	Peer-review
Português (Idioma materno)
Inglês	Utilizador proficiente (C1)	Utilizador proficiente (C2)	Utilizador proficiente (C2)	Utilizador proficiente (C2)	Utilizador proficiente (C2)

Formação

	Grau	Classificação
2007/01/01 - 2013/03/22 Concluído	Engenharia Eletrotécnica (Doutoramento) Especialização em Instrumentação e Controlo Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores, Portugal "Mobile Assistive Robotics based on Collaborative-Control" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)	Distinção e Louvor por Unanimidade

Percurso profissional

Ciência

	Categoria Profissional Instituição de acolhimento	Empregador
2000/01/01 - Atual	Investigador (Investigação)	Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal

Docência no Ensino Superior

	Categoria Profissional Instituição de acolhimento	Empregador
1999/12/02 - Atual	Professor Adjunto (Docente Ensino Superior Politécnico)	Instituto Politécnico de Tomar Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Tomar, Portugal

Projetos

Projeto

	Designação	Financiadores
2022 - 2024/12/31	Intelligent and Sustainable Aerial-Terrestrial IoT Networks (BATS) PTDC/EEI-TEL/1744/2021 Investigador Instituto Politécnico de Tomar Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Tomar, Portugal Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Em curso
2018 - 2021/06/19	B-RELIABLE: Boosting reliability and interaction on brain-machine interface systems integrating automatic error-detection 030935 Investigador Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal Instituto Politécnico de Tomar Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Tomar, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Ciências Nucleares Aplicadas à Saúde, Portugal
2017 - 2020/01/31	HTPDIR - Human Tracking and Perception in Dynamic Immersive Rooms POCI-01-0247-FEDER-017644 Investigador Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal Instituto Politécnico de Tomar Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Tomar, Portugal
2017 - 2019/09/28	VITASENIOR-MT - Senior healthcare assistance in Medio Tejo (Assistência aos cuidados de saúde de idosos no Médio Tejo) CENTRO-01-0145-FEDER-023659 Investigador Instituto Politécnico de Tomar Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Tomar, Portugal Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra, Portugal
2013 - 2015/12/31	AMS-HMI12 - Assisted Mobility Supported by Shared-Control and Advanced Human-Machine Interfaces RECI/EEI-AUT/0181/2012 Investigador Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal
2010 - 2012/06/30	INTERFACE10 - Emergent Interfaces for Improving Accessibility of Persons with Cerebral Palsy RIPD/ADA/109661/2009 Investigador Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal
2007 - 2010/09/30	PMITS06- Perception Methods for an Intelligent Transportation System using On-Board and Off-Board Sensing PTDC/EEA-ACR/72226/2006 Investigador Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal Instituto Politécnico de Tomar Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Tomar, Portugal
2005 - 2008/05/31	MTDTS04: Multi-target detection and tracking in semi-structured outdoor environment using laserscanner and vision POSC/EEA-SRI/58279/2004 Investigador Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal Instituto Politécnico de Tomar Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Tomar, Portugal
2005 - 2008/05	MTDTS04: Multi-target detection and tracking in semi-structured outdoor environment using laserscanner and vision POSC/EEA-SRI/58279/2004	N/A
1999 - 1999/11/30	Natural GasIntegrated Resource Planning Pilot Action XVII/4.1031/Z/98-055 Bolseiro de Iniciação Científica Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal

Produções

Publicações

Artigo em conferência

Pereira, Ricardo; Garrote, Luis; Barros, Tiago; Lopes, Ana; Nunes, Urbano J.. "A Deep Learning-based Indoor Scene Classification Approach Enhanced with Inter-Object Distance Semantic Features". 2021.
10.1109/iros51168.2021.9636242
Pereira, Ricardo; Barros, Tiago; Garrote, Luis; Lopes, Ana; Nunes, Urbano J.. "An Experimental Study of the Accuracy vs Inference Speed of RGB-D Object Recognition in Mobile Robotics". 2020.
10.1109/ro-man47096.2020.9223562
Pereira, Ricardo; Goncalves, Nuno; Garrote, Luis; Barros, Tiago; Lopes, Ana; Nunes, Urbano J.. "Deep-Learning based Global and Semantic Feature Fusion for Indoor Scene Classification". Ponta Delgada, 2020.
10.1109/icarsc49921.2020.9096068
Almeida, L.; Lopes, E.; Yalcinkaya, B.; Martins, R.; Lopes, A.; Menezes, P.; Pires, G.. "Towards natural interaction in immersive reality with a cyber-glove". Bari, 2019.
Publicado • 10.1109/smc.2019.8914239
Aniana Cruz; Gabriel Pires; Lopes, Ana; Urbano Nunes. "Detection of Stressful Situations using GSR While Driving a BCI-Controlled Wheelchair". Trabalho apresentado em 41st IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC 2019), 2019.
Gabriel Pires; Pedro Correia; Dário Jorge; Diogo Santos; Nelson Gomes; Pedro Dias; Pedro Ferreira; et al. "VITASENIOR MT: a telehealth solution for the elderly focused on the interaction with TV". Trabalho apresentado em 20th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application and Services, 2018.
Ricardo Cruz; Luís Garrote; Lopes, Ana; Urbano Nunes. "Modular software architecture for human-robot interaction applied to the InterBot mobile robot". Trabalho apresentado em 2018 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC), 2018.
Carvalho, A.M.; Asvadi, A.; Carona, C.; Lopes, A.; Nunes, U.. "Mobility, accessibility and safety of people with Cerebral Palsy". 2015.
Lopes, A.C.; Pires, G.; Nunes, U.. "RobChair: Experiments evaluating Brain-Computer Interface to steer a semi-autonomous wheelchair". 2012.
10.1109/IROS.2012.6386276
Lopes, A.C.; Pires, G.; Vaz, L.; Nunes, U.. "Wheelchair navigation assisted by human-machine shared-control and a P300-based brain computer interface". 2011.
10.1109/IROS.2011.6048355
Lopes, A.; Nunes, U.; Matsuura, J.. "A rule-based lens modeling approach for assisted navigation training". 2009.
10.1109/IECON.2009.5415377
Ribeiro, A.; Sirgado, A.; Aperta, J.; Lopes, A.; Guilherme, J.; Correia, P.; Pires, G.; Nunes, U.. "A low-cost eeg stand-alone device for brain computer interface". 2009.
Lopes, A.C.; Moita, F.; Nunes, U.; Solea, R.. "An outdoor guidepath navigation system for AMRs based on robust detection of magnetic markers". 2007.
10.1109/EFTA.2007.4416891
Sousa, P.; Araújo, R.; Nunes, U.; Alves, L.; Lopes, A.C.. "Real-time architecture for mobile assistant robots". 2007.
10.1109/EFTA.2007.4416888
Lopes, A.C.; De Almeida, A.T.. "Promotion of energy-efficiency in the electricity sector in restructuring markets - The Portuguese case". 2004.

Artigo em revista

Pires, Gabriel; Lopes, Ana; Correia, Pedro; Almeida, Luis; Oliveira, Luis; Panda, Renato; Jorge, Dario; et al. "Usability of a telehealth solution based on TV interaction for the elderly: the VITASENIOR-MT case study". Universal Access in the Information Society (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10209-021-00859-3.
10.1007/s10209-021-00859-3
Cruz, Aniana; Pires, Gabriel; Lopes, Ana; Carona, Carlos; Nunes, Urbano J.. "A Self-Paced BCI With a Collaborative Controller for Highly Reliable Wheelchair Driving: Experimental Tests With Physically Disabled Individuals". IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems (2021): 1-11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/thms.2020.3047597.
Publicado • 10.1109/thms.2020.3047597
Lopes, Ana; Rodrigues, Joao; Perdigao, Jorge; Pires, Gabriel; Nunes, Urbano. "A New Hybrid Motion Planner: Applied in a Brain-Actuated Robotic Wheelchair". IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine 23 4 (2016): 82-93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mra.2016.2605403.
10.1109/mra.2016.2605403
Lopes, A.C.; Pires, G.; Nunes, U.. "Assisted navigation for a brain-actuated intelligent wheelchair". Robotics and Autonomous Systems 61 3 (2013): 245-258. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84873278782&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
10.1016/j.robot.2012.11.002
Lopes, A.C.; Nunes, U.; Vaz, L.. "Assisted navigation based on shared-control, using discrete and sparse human-machine interfaces.". Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference 2010 (2010): 471-474. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84903857998&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5626221
Lopes, A.C.; Nunes, U.. "An assisted navigation training framework based on judgment theory using sparse and discrete human-machine interfaces.". Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference 2009 (2009): 4603-4606. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77950486144&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
Moita, F.; Lopes, A.C.; Nunes, U.. "A fast firing binaural system for ultrasonic pattern recognition". Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems: Theory and Applications 50 2 (2007): 141-162. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-34548527557&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
10.1007/s10846-007-9158-5
De Almeida, A.T.; Lopes, A.; Carvalho, A.; Mariano, J.; Nunes, C.. "Evaluation of fuel-switching opportunities in the residential sector". Energy and Buildings 36 2 (2004): 195-203. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0347600725&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
10.1016/j.enbuild.2003.11.003
de Almeida, A.T.; Lopes, A.C.; Carvalho, A.; Mariano, J.; Jahn, A.; Broege, M.. "Examining the potential of natural gas demand-side measures to benefit customers, the distribution utility, and the environment: Two case studies from Europe". Energy 29 7 (2004): 979-1000. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-1542346997&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
10.1016/j.energy.2003.12.001