Luís Seabra Lopes

Position	Aux. professor
Group
Transverse activity	Transverse Activity on Intelligent Robotics
Status	Integrated member
Country	Portugal
Students	António J. M. Meireles, Frederico Santos, Marcelo Quinderé
Former PhD students
Former masters students	Show list
Courses	Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Programação em Java
Projects	CAMBADA, ProdutechPSI, ProdutechPTI, RACE, SAICT
Past projects	CAMBADA-FCT, CARL, LANGG
Events	LangRo-2007, Robotica2008sm, SRVC2009, epia-2009
Proposals
Personal page	http://www.ieeta.pt/~lsl

My research interests are in the broad area of intelligent systems, particularly in which concerns applications of artificial intelligence in robotics. My Ph.D. thesis (1997) focused on robot learning at the task level and it's application in the robotized assembly domain. In more recent projects, I have addressed other topics in human-robot interaction and multi-robot systems. Current research takes place within the Transverse Activity on Intelligent Robotics, of which I was the coordinator between 1999 and 2009. My main project at the moment is FP7 RACE - Robustness by Autonomous Competence Enhancement.

Publications

Books

• Luís Seabra Lopes, Nuno Lau, Pedro Mariano, L. M. Rocha. New Trends in Artificial Intelligence, 14th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2009. Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal, October 2009
• Luís Seabra Lopes, Nuno Lau, Pedro Mariano, L. M. Rocha. Progress in Artificial Intelligence: 14th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2009. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, October 2009
• Luís Seabra Lopes, Filipe Silva, Vítor Santos. Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions: Proceedings of the Eigth Conference. Universidade de Aveiro, April 2008
• Luís Seabra Lopes, Tony Belpaeme, Stephen J. Cowley. Language and Robots: Proceedings of the Symposium. 10-12 December 2007, Aveiro, Portugal. Universidade de Aveiro, December 2007

Articles in international journals listed in the ISI

• Aneesh Chauhan, Luís Seabra Lopes. Using spoken words to guide open-ended category formation. Cognitive Processing, vol. 12, no. 4, p. 341-354, November 2011 (IF 2010: 1.030)
• Nuno Lau, Luís Seabra Lopes, Gustavo Corrente, Nelson Filipe, Ricardo Sequeira. Robot team coordination using dynamic role and positioning assignment and role based setplays. Mechatronics, vol. 21, no. 2, p. 445-454, March 2011 (IF 2010: 0.944)
• Luís Seabra Lopes, Tony Belpaeme. Beyond the individual: new insights on language, cognition and robots. Connection Science, vol. 20, no. 4, p. 231–237, 2008 (IF 2008: 0.884) (IF 2010: 1.057)
• Luís Seabra Lopes, Aneesh Chauhan. Open-ended category learning for language acquisition. Connection Science, vol. 20, no. 4, p. 277–297, 2008 (IF 2008: 0.884) (IF 2010: 1.057)
• Luís Seabra Lopes, Aneesh Chauhan. How many words can my robot learn? An approach and experiments with one-class learning. Interaction Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, p. 53–81, 2007 (IF 2010: 0.733)
• Luís Seabra Lopes, Jonathan H. Connell. Semisentient Robots: Routes to Integrated Intelligence, Semisentient Robots. IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 16, no. 5, p. 10-14, October 2001
• Luís Seabra Lopes, Jonathan H. Connell. Sentience in Robots: Applications and Challenges. IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 16, no. 5, p. 66-69, October 2001

Other articles in journals

• Luís Seabra Lopes, António J. S. Teixeira, Marcelo Quinderé, Mário Rodrigues. Integrated Capabilities for Knowledge Acquisition Through Spoken Language Interaction in a Mobile Robot. Robótica, vol. 3, no. 74, 2009
• Nuno Lau, Luís Seabra Lopes, Gustavo A. Corrente. CAMBADA: Information Sharing and Team Coordination. Robótica - Automação Controlo Instrumentação, no. 74, p. 10-14, March 2009

Chapters in books

• António J. R. Neves, José Luís Azevedo, Bernardo Cunha, Nuno Lau, João Silva, Frederico Santos, Gustavo Corrente, Daniel A. Martins, Nuno Figueiredo, Artur Pereira, Luís Almeida, Luís Seabra Lopes, Armando J. Pinho, João M. O. S. Rodrigues, Paulo Pedreiras. CAMBADA soccer team: from robot architecture to multiagent coordination. Robot Soccer, Vladan Papic (Ed.), INTECH, p. 19-45, January 2010
• Luís Seabra Lopes, Aneesh Chauhan. How many Words can my Robot learn? An Approach and Experiments with One-Class Learning. Symbol Grounding, T. Belpaeme, S.J. Cowley and K. MacDorman (Ed.), John Benjamins, p. 55-82, January 2009

Articles in proceedings of international conferences

• Aneesh Chauhan, Zhenli Lu, Luís Seabra Lopes. Language grounding in robots for natural human-robot interaction: a mixed reality scenario. 5th international conference on Cognitive Systems (CogSys 2012), Vienna, Austria, February 2012
• João Silva, Mário Antunes, Nuno Lau, António J. R. Neves, Luís Seabra Lopes. Aerial ball detection in RoboCup Middle Size League using polar histograms. Proceedings of RecPad2011, Porto, Portugal, October 2011
• Zhenli Lu, Aneesh Chauhan, Filipe Silva, Luís Seabra Lopes. A Brief Survey of Commercial Robotic Arms for Research on Manipulation. 2011 3rd International Conference on Computer and Network Technology (ICCNT2011), Taiyuan, China, vol. 1, p. V1-207- V1-212, February 2011
• Aneesh Chauhan, Luís Seabra Lopes. Acquiring vocabulary through human robot interaction: a learning architecture for grounding words with multiple meanings. AAAI Fall Symposium on Dialogue with Robots (DwR 2010), Arlington, VA, USA, 2010
• Aneesh Chauhan, Luís Seabra Lopes. Aiding categorization by grounding spoken words - an infant inspired approach to concept formation and language acquisition. 4th international conference on Brain-Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS 2010), Madrid, Spain, 2010
• Aneesh Chauhan, Luís Seabra Lopes. Experiments with single-class support vector data descriptions as a tool for vocabulary grounding. 7th international workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science (NLPCS 2010), Madeira, Portugal, 2010
• João Ribeiro, Pedro Mariano, Luís Seabra Lopes. DarkBlade: A Program That Plays Diplomacy. Progress in Artificial Intelligence, 14th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Aveiro, Portugal, vol. 5816, p. 485-496, October 2009
• Aneesh Chauhan, Amanda Nascimento, Bruno Werneck, Luís Seabra Lopes. Embodied Language Acquisition: A Proof of Concept. 14th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Aveiro, Portugal, vol. 5816, p. 263-274, October 2009
• Rui Pereira, Luís Seabra Lopes. Learning Visual Object Categories with Global Descriptors and Local Features. 14th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Aveiro, Portugal, vol. 5816, p. 225-236, October 2009
• Nuno Lau, Luís Seabra Lopes, Nelson Filipe, Gustavo Corrente. Roles, Positionings and Set Plays to Coordinate a RoboCup MSL Team. Progress in Artificial Intelligence, 14th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Aveiro, Portugal, vol. 5816, p. 323-337, October 2009
• Rui Pereira, Luís Seabra Lopes, Augusto Silva. Semantic Image Search and Subset Selection for Classifier Training in Object Recognition. Progress in Artificial Intelligence, 14th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Aveiro, Portugal, vol. 5816, p. 338-349, October 2009
• Frederico Santos, Luís Almeida, Paulo Pedreiras, Luís Seabra Lopes. A real-time distributed software infrastructure for cooperating mobile autonomous robots. 14th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR 2009), Munich, Germany, p. 923-928, June 2009
• Frederico Santos, Luís Almeida, Luís Seabra Lopes. Adaptive wireless communication for teams of mobile robots: a position paper. Proceedings of 7th International Workshop on RealTime Networks (RTN’08), p. 21-26, 2008
• Frederico Santos, Luís Almeida, Luís Seabra Lopes. Self-configuration of an Adaptive TDMA wireless communication protocol for teams of mobile robots. Proc. 13th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies in Factory Automation (ETFA’2008), p. 1197-1204, 2008
• Nuno Lau, Luís Seabra Lopes, Gustavo Corrente. CAMBADA: Information Sharing and Team Coordination. Proc. of the 8th Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, Portuguese Robotics Open - ROBÓTICA'2008, Aveiro, Portugal, p. 27-32, April 2008
• Marcelo Quinderé, Luís Seabra Lopes, António J. S. Teixeira. A Dialog Manager for an Intelligent Mobile Robot. Proc. Workshop on natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science (NLPCS-2007), p. 191-200, 2007
• Marcelo Quinderé, Luís Seabra Lopes, António J. S. Teixeira. An Information State Dialogue Manager for a Mobile Robot. Proc. Interspeech’2007, p. 162-165, 2007
• Luís Seabra Lopes. Failure Recovery Planning for Robotized Assembly based on Learned Semantic Structures. Preprints of IFAC Workshop on Intelligent Assembly and Disasembly (IAD’07), p. 65-70, 2007
• Luís Seabra Lopes. Failure Recovery in Robotics based on Acquired Semantic Information. ICRA2007 Workshop on Semantic Information in Robotics (SIR), p. 63, 2007
• Luís Seabra Lopes, Aneesh Chauhan. Scaling Up Category Learning for Language Acquisition in Human-Robot Interaction. Language and Robots: Proceedings of the Symposium. 10-12 December 2007, Aveiro, Portugal, p. 83-92, 2007