Personal identification

Full name

Pedro Arroz Correia Bonifácio Serra

Citation names

• Serra, Pedro

Author identifiers

Ciência ID

7016-0497-5EBA

ORCID iD

0000-0003-1388-6712

Telephones

Mobile phone

• 916351641 (Personal)

Addresses

• Rua Vitor Hugo Mendes Silva 18, 2500-287, Caldas da Rainha, Leiria, Portugal (Personal)

Knowledge fields

• Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics - Automation and Control Systems

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
English	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)

	Degree	Classification
2016 Concluded	Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Doutoramento) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal "Image-Based Visual Servo Control of Aerial Vehicles" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Pass with Distinction
2007 Concluded	Electrical and Computer Engineering (Mestrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal "Sensor-Based System for Automatic Landing of Helicopters" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	17
2005 Concluded	Electrical and Computer Engeneering (Licenciatura) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal "Untitled" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	16

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2015 - 2015	Researcher (Research)	Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia, Portugal
2007 - 2013	Researcher (Research)	Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2017/09/16 - Current	Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Grupo Lusófona, Portugal
2017 - 2018	Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade Lusófona Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Cognição e Computação Centrado nas Pessoas, Portugal

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2010/04/01 - 2013/09/30	SCARVE - Controlo baseado em informação sensorial para veículos robóticos aéreos PTDC/EEA-CRO/102857/2008 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Publications

Conference paper	Serra, Pedro; LOURENÇO, PEDRO; Branco, João; Briz, José; Mammarella, Marco; Peters, Thomas; Mora, Dario; et al. "Computational Guidance & Navigation for Bearings-Only Rendezvous - methods and outcomes of GUIBEAR". Paper presented in 11th International ESA Conference on Guidance, Navigation & Control Systems, Sopot, 2021. Published Branco, João; Colmenarejo, Pablo; 7016-0497-5EBA; LOURENÇO, PEDRO; Peters, Thomas. "Critical GNC Aspects for ADR missions". Paper presented in 11th International ESA Conference on Guidance, Navigation & Control Systems, Sopot, 2021. Published Thomas, Peters; Briz, José; Serra, Pedro; LOURENÇO, PEDRO; Cometto, Ferdinando; Berga, Marco; Pérez-Gonzalez, José; Cuffolo, Aurélien; Cropp. Alexander. "Design and testing of the GNC for the HERACLES Lunar Ascent Element". Paper presented in 11th International ESA Conference on Guidance, Navigation & Control Systems, Sopot, 2021. Published Pablo Colmenarejo; Nuno Santos; Pedro Serra; Juergen Telaar; Hans Strauch; Marco De Stefano; Alessandro Massimo Giordano; et al. "RESULTS OF THE COMRADE PROJECT: COMBINED CONTROL FOR ROBOTIC SPACECRAFT AND MANIPULATOR IN SERVICING MISSIONS: ACTIVE DEBRIS REMOVAL AND RE-FUELLING". Paper presented in 11th International ESA Conference on Guidance, Navigation & Control Systems, Sopot, 2021. Published Serra, Pedro. "Assessment of a Supervisory Fault-Hiding Scheme in a Classical Guidance, Navigation and Control Setup: the e.Deorbit mission". 2019. 10.1109/systol.2019.8864753 Serra, Pedro. "Model-based fault diagnosis and tolerant control: the ESA's e.Deorbit mission". 2019. 10.23919/ecc.2019.8796282 Serra, Pedro. "The prototype of space manipulator WMS LEMUR dedicated to capture tumbling satellites in on-orbit environment". 2017. 10.1109/romoco.2017.8003887 Serra, Pedro. "Homing on a moving dock for a quadrotor vehicle". 2015. 10.1109/tencon.2015.7373193 Serra, Pedro; Cunha, Rita; Hamel, Tarek; Cabecinhas, David; Silvestre, Carlos. "Landing on a moving target using image-based visual servo control". Paper presented in 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2014. 10.1109/cdc.2014.7039721 Serra, Pedro. "Visual servo aircraft control for tracking parallel curves". 2012. 10.1109/cdc.2012.6426240 Serra, Pedro. "Nonlinear IBVS controller for the flare maneuver of fixed-wing aircraft using optical flow". 2010. 10.1109/cdc.2010.5717829 Serra, Pedro. "On the design of rotorcraft landing controllers". 2008. 10.1109/med.2008.4602276
Journal article	Serra, Pedro. "Capturing and deorbiting Envisat with an Airbus Spacetug. Results from the ESA e.Deorbit consolidation phase study". Journal of Space Safety Engineering (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsse.2020.01.003. 10.1016/j.jsse.2020.01.003 Serra, Pedro. "On ground validation of debris removal technologies". Acta Astronautica (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2018.01.026. 10.1016/j.actaastro.2018.01.026 Serra, Pedro. "GNC architecture for the e.Deorbit mission". Proceedings of the 7th European Conference for Aeronautics and Space Sciences. Milano, Italy, 3-6 july 2017 (2017): https://www.eucass.eu/doi/EUCASS2017-317.pdf. 10.13009/EUCASS2017-317 Serra, Pedro. "On Ground Validation of Debris Removal technologies". Proceedings of the 7th European Conference for Aeronautics and Space Sciences. Milano, Italy, 3-6 july 2017 (2017): https://www.eucass.eu/doi/EUCASS2017-632.pdf. 10.13009/EUCASS2017-632 Serra, Pedro. "Landing of a Quadrotor on a Moving Target Using Dynamic Image-Based Visual Servo Control". IEEE Transactions on Robotics (2016): http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tro.2016.2604495. 10.1109/tro.2016.2604495 Serra, Pedro. "Nonlinear Image-Based Visual Servo Controller for the Flare Maneuver of Fixed-Wing Aircraft Using Optical Flow". IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology (2015): http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tcst.2014.2330996. 10.1109/tcst.2014.2330996
Thesis / Dissertation	Serra, Pedro. "Sistema de Controlo para Aterragem Automática de Helicópteros com Base na Informação dos Sensores". Master, 2007.