Nuno Lau

Position	Associate professor
Affiliation	DETI / University of Aveiro
Group	Intelligent Robotics and Systems
Status	Researcher with PhD
Country	Portugal
Students	Fernando Duarte, Miguel Abreu, Mohammadreza Kasaei, Simão Reis
Former PhD students	Abbas Abdolmaleki, Olga Contente, João Cunha, Brígida Mónica Faria, Luís Henrique R. Mota, Eurico Pedrosa, Nima Shafii, João Silva, David Simões
Former masters students	Show list
Courses	Robotica Móvel e Inteligente, Sistemas Operativos
Projects
Past projects	ACORD, CAMBADA, CAMBADA-FCT, Cloud Thinking, EUROC, FCP Rescue, FCPortugal, FCPortugal FCT, HP TeachReconfig, IntellWheels, LUL, ProdutechPSI, ProdutechPTI, ProdutechSIF, RETIOT, SAICT, Smartphones for Smart Seniors, XtremeCork
Events	AAL 2012, EPIA'2017, Robot'2017, epia-2009
Proposals
ORCID	0000-0003-0513-158X
Personal page

Publications

Books

• Anibal Ollero, Alberto Sanfeliu, Luis Montano, Nuno Lau, Carlos Cardeira. ROBOT 2017: Third Iberian Robotics Conference, Volume 1. Springer, November 2017
• Anibal Ollero, Alberto Sanfeliu, Luis Montano, Nuno Lau, Carlos Cardeira. ROBOT 2017: Third Iberian Robotics Conference, Volume 2. Springer, November 2017
• Nuno Lau, António Paulo Moreira, Rodrigo Ventura, Brígida Mónica Faria. Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC'2014). IEEE, May 2014
• 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
• Luis Paulo Reis, Luís Correia, Nuno Lau, Reinaldo Bianchi. IROBOT 2008 - 3rd International Workshop on Intelligent Robotics. Lisbon University Institute – ISCTE, October 2008

Articles in international journals listed in the ISI

• Simão Reis, Luis Paulo Reis, Nuno Lau. Game Adaptation by Using Reinforcement Learning Over Meta Games. Group Decision and Negotiation, January 2020 [IF 2018: 2.010 (Q1, 21/104), 2.010 (Q1, 21/104)]
• David Simões, Nuno Lau, Luis Paulo Reis. Multi-agent actor centralized-critic with communication. Neurocomputing, January 2020 [IF 2018: 4.072 (Q1, 28/134)]
• Abbas Abdolmaleki, David Simões, Nuno Lau, Luis Paulo Reis, Gerhard Neumann. Contextual Direct Policy Search: With Regularized Covariance Matrix Estimation. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, vol. 96, no. 2, p. 141-157, November 2019 [IF 2018: 2.020 (Q3, 17/26)]
• Gi Hyun Lim, Eurico Pedrosa, Filipe Amaral, Artur Pereira, Nuno Lau, José Luís Azevedo, Bernardo Cunha, Simone Badini. Skill-based anytime agent architecture for European Robotics Challenges in realistic environments: EuRoC Challenge 2, Stage II — realistic labs. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 120, October 2019 [IF 2018: 2.928 (Q2, 45/134)]
• Gi Hyun Lim, Nuno Lau, Eurico Pedrosa, Filipe Amaral, Artur Pereira, José Luís Azevedo, Bernardo Cunha. Precise and efficient pose estimation of stacked objects for mobile manipulation in industrial robotics challenges. Advanced Robotics, vol. 33, no. 13, p. 636-646, July 2019 [IF 2018: 1.104 (Q4, 25/26)]
• Eurico Pedrosa, Artur Pereira, Nuno Lau. A Non-Linear Least Squares Approach to SLAM using a Dynamic Likelihood Field. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, vol. 93, no. 3-4, p. 519-532, March 2019 [IF 2018: 2.020 (Q3, 17/26)]
• Abbas Abdolmaleki, Nuno Lau, Luis Paulo Reis, Jan Peters, Gerhard Neumann. Contextual policy search for linear and nonlinear generalization of a humanoid walking controller. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, vol. 83, no. 3, p. 393-408, September 2016 [IF 2016: 1.512 (Q3, 17/26)] [IF 2018: 2.020 (Q3, 17/26)]
• Brígida Mónica Faria, Luis Paulo Reis, Nuno Lau. A Methodology for Creating an Adapted Command Language for Driving an Intelligent Wheelchair. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, vol. 80, no. 3, p. 609-623, December 2015 [IF 2015: 0.932 (Q3, 16/25)] [IF 2018: 2.020 (Q3, 17/26)]
• João Cunha, Rui Serra, Nuno Lau, Luís Seabra Lopes, António J. R. Neves. Batch Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Soccer Using the Q-Batch Update-Rule. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, vol. 80, no. 3, p. 385-399, December 2015 [IF 2015: 0.932 (Q3, 16/25)] [IF 2018: 2.020 (Q3, 17/26)]
• Nima Shafii, Abbas Abdolmaleki, Nuno Lau, Luis Paulo Reis. Development of an Omnidirectional Walk Engine for Soccer Humanoid Robots. International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, vol. 12, no. 193, December 2015 [IF 2015: 0.615 (Q4, 19/25)]
• Nima Shafii, Nuno Lau, Luis Paulo Reis. Learning to Walk Fast: Optimized Hip Height Movement for Simulated and Real Humanoid Robots. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, vol. 80, no. 3, p. 555-571, December 2015 [IF 2015: 0.932 (Q3, 16/25)] [IF 2018: 2.020 (Q3, 17/26)]
• Nuno Lau, António Paulo Moreira, Rodrigo Ventura, Brígida Mónica Faria. Special Issue Robótica 2014. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, vol. 80, no. 3, p. 363-364, December 2015 [IF 2015: 0.932 (Q3, 16/25)] [IF 2018: 2.020 (Q3, 17/26)]
• João Cunha, Rui Ferreira, Nuno Lau. Computer vision and robotic manipulation for automated feeding of cork drillers. Materials & Design, vol. 82, p. 290-296, October 2015 [IF 2015: 3.997 (Q1, 45/271)]
• Brígida Mónica Faria, Luis Paulo Reis, Nuno Lau. Adapted Control Methods for Cerebral Palsy Users of an Intelligent Wheelchair. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, vol. 77, no. 2, p. 299-312, February 2015 [IF 2015: 0.932 (Q3, 16/25)] [IF 2018: 2.020 (Q3, 17/26)]
• João Cravo, Fernando Almeida, Pedro Henriques Abreu, Luis Paulo Reis, Nuno Lau, Luís Mota. Strategy planner: Graphical definition of soccer set-plays. Data & Knowledge Engineering, vol. 94, Part A, p. 110-131, November 2014 [IF 2014: 1.115 (Q2, 61/139)]
• Rui L. Aguiar, Diogo Gomes, João Paulo Barraca, Nuno Lau. CloudThinking as an Intelligent Infrastructure for Mobile Robotics. Wireless Personal Communications, vol. 76, no. 2, p. 231-244, May 2014 [IF 2014: 0.653 (Q4, 60/77)] [IF 2018: 0.929 (Q4, 78/88)]
• Fernando Almeida, Pedro Henriques Abreu, Nuno Lau, Luis Paulo Reis. An automatic approach to extract goal plans from soccer simulated matches. Soft Computing, vol. 17, no. 5, p. 835-848, May 2013 [IF 2013: 1.304 (Q2, 59/121)] [IF 2018: 2.784 (Q2, 53/134)]
• Brígida Mónica Faria, Sérgio Vasconcelos, Luis Paulo Reis, Nuno Lau. Evaluation of Distinct Input Methods of an Intelligent Wheelchair in Simulated and Real Environments: A Performance and Usability Study. Assistive Technology, vol. 25, no. 2, p. 88-98, May 2013 [IF 2013: 1.300 (Q2, 26/69)]
• Luís Mota, Luis Paulo Reis, Nuno Lau. Multi-robot coordination using setplays in the middle-size and simulation leagues. Mechatronics, vol. 21, no. 2, p. 434-444, March 2011 [IF 2011: 1.255 (Q1, 28/122)]
• 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 2011: 1.255 (Q1, 28/122)]
• ...further results

Other articles in journals

• Brígida Mónica Faria, Luis Paulo Reis, Nuno Lau. Knowledge Discovery and Multimodal Inputs for Driving an Intelligent Wheelchair. International Journal of Knowledge Discovery in Bioinformatics (IJKDB), vol. 2, no. 4, October 2012
• Luis Rei, Luis Paulo Reis, Nuno Lau. Optimizing a Humanoid Robot Skill. Robotica - Automação Controlo Instrumentação, no. 86, p. 10-15, January 2012
• Brígida Mónica Faria, Gladys Castillo, Nuno Lau, Luis Paulo Reis. Classification of FC Portugal Robotic Soccer Formations: a Comparative Study of Machine Learning Algorithms. Robótica, no. 92, p. 4-9, October 2011
• Nuno Figueiredo, António J. R. Neves, Nuno Lau, José Luís Azevedo, Artur Pereira, Gustavo Corrente. The base station application of the CAMBADA robotic soccer team. Electrónica e Telecomunicações, vol. 5, no. 1, p. 69-74, June 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
• José Luís Azevedo, Bernardo Cunha, António J. R. Neves, Nuno Lau. Futebol Robótico na Universidade de Aveiro - o projecto CAMBADA. Revista Robótica - Automação Controlo Instrumentação, no. 73, p. 10-13, October 2008
• Nuno Lau, Luis Paulo Reis, João Certo. FC Portugal Rescue: High Level Coordination in the RoboCup Rescue Simulation. Electrónica e Telecomunicações, September 2008

Chapters in books

• Olga Contente, J. Aranha, J. Martinho, J. F. Morgado, Manuel J. C. S. Reis, Paulo J S G Ferreira, Raul Morais, Nuno Lau. 3D Map and DGPS Validation for a Vineyard Autonomous Navigation System. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 321, 11th Portuguese Conference on Automatic Control, António Paulo Moreira, Aníbal Matos, Germano Veiga (Ed.), Springer, p. 617-625, July 2014
• Luis Paulo Reis, Fernando Almeida, Luis Mota, Nuno Lau. Coordination in Multi-robot systems: Applications in robotic soccer. Agents and Artificial Intelligence, Joaquim Filipe, Ana Fred (Ed.), Springer Berlin Heidelberg, vol. Communications in Computer and Information Science 358, p. 3-21, 2013
• João Cunha, Eurico Pedrosa, Cristovão Cruz, Nuno Lau, António J. R. Neves, Bernardo Cunha, José Luís Azevedo, Artur Pereira, Ciro Martins, António J. S. Teixeira. Robô de Assistência no Domicílio. Laboratório Vivo de Usabilidade (Living Usability Lab), ARC Publishing, p. 183-199, October 2013
• João Silva, Nuno Lau, António J. R. Neves. Cooperative detection and identification of obstacles in a robotic soccer team. Advances in Robotics: Modeling, Control and Applications, Calin Ciufudean, Lino García (Ed.), iConcept Press, p. 219-235, February 2013
• Bernardo Cunha, José Luís Azevedo, Nuno Lau. Calibration of Non-SVP Hyperbolic Catadioptric Robotic Vision Systems. Robot Vision, Ales Ude (Ed.), INTECH, p. 307-324, March 2010
• 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
• Nuno Lau, Luis Paulo Reis. FC Portugal - High-level Coordination Methodologies in Soccer Robotics. Robotic Soccer, Pedro Lima, ISBN 978-3-902613-21-9 (Ed.), I-Tech Education and Publishing, p. 167 - 192, December 2007
• Nuno Lau, Luis Paulo Reis, João Certo. Understanding Dynamic Agent’s Reasoning. Progress in Artificial Intelligence, 13th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2007, Guimarães, Portugal, December 3-6, 2007, José Maia Neves, Manuel Filipe Santos, José Manuel Machado (Ed.), Springer, vol. LNCS 4874, p. 542-551, December 2007
• João Certo, Nuno Lau, Luis Paulo Reis. A Generic Strategic Layer for Collaborative Networks. Establishing the Foundations for Collaborative Networks, L. Camarinha-Matos, H. Afsarmanesh, P. Novais, C. Analide (Ed.), Springer, Boston, p. 273-282, September 2007

Articles in conference proceedings

• Fernando Duarte, Nuno Lau, Artur Pereira, Luis Paulo Reis. Benchmarking Deep and Non-deep Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for Discrete Environments. Robot 2019: Fourth Iberian Robotics Conference, vol. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1093, p. 263-275, 2020
• David Simões, Pedro Amaro, Tiago Silva, Nuno Lau, Luis Paulo Reis. Learning Low-Level Behaviors and High-Level Strategies in Humanoid Soccer. Robot 2019: Fourth Iberian Robotics Conference, vol. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1093, p. 537-548, 2020
• Mohammadreza Kasaei, Nuno Lau, Artur Pereira. A Fast and Stable Omnidirectional Walking Engine for the Nao Humanoid Robot. RoboCup 2019: Robot World Cup XXIII, Sydney, vol. LNCS 11531, Springer, p. 99-111, 2019
• Mohammadreza Kasaei, Nuno Lau, Artur Pereira. A Robust Biped Locomotion Based on Linear-Quadratic-Gaussian Controller and Divergent Component of Motion. 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Macau, China, p. 1429-1434, 2019
• David Simões, Nuno Lau, Luis Paulo Reis. Adjusted Bounded Weighted Policy Learner. RoboCup 2018: Robot World Cup XXII, Montreal, vol. LNCS 11374, Springer, p. 324-336, 2019
• Miguel Abreu, Luis Paulo Reis, Nuno Lau. Learning to Run Faster in a Humanoid Robot Soccer Environment Through Reinforcement Learning. RoboCup 2019: Robot World Cup XXIII, Sydney, vol. LNCS 11531, Springer, p. 3-15, 2019
• Gil Silva, Paulo Lopes, Francisco Curado, Nuno Lau. Laser and Vision-Based Obstacle Avoidance for A Semi-Autonomous ROV. Advanced Materials Proceedings, vol. 4(2), p. 57-61, September 2019
• David Simões, Nuno Lau, Luis Paulo Reis. Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning with Emergent Communication. IJCNN 2019 - International Joint Conference on Neural NetworksProceedings, Budapest, Hungary, July 2019
• Mohammadreza Kasaei, Nuno Lau, Artur Pereira. A Model-Based Biped Walking Controller Based on Divergent Component of Motion. ICARSC 2019: 19TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUTONOMOUS ROBOT SYSTEMS AND COMPETITIONS, Gondomar, Portugal, vol. IEEE, April 2019
• Simão Reis, Luis Paulo Reis, Nuno Lau. Automatic Generation of a Sub-optimal Agent Population with Learning. WorldCIST'19 - New Knowledge in Information Systems and Technologies, La Toja, Spain, vol. Springer AISC 931, p. 65-74, April 2019
• Miguel Abreu, Nuno Lau, Armando Sousa, Luis Paulo Reis. Learning low level skills from scratch for humanoid robot soccer using deep reinforcement learning. ICARSC 2019: 19TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUTONOMOUS ROBOT SYSTEMS AND COMPETITIONS, Gondomar, Portugal, vol. IEEE, April 2019
• David Simões, Nuno Lau, Luis Paulo Reis. Multi-agent Neural Reinforcement-Learning System with Communication. WorldCIST'19 - New Knowledge in Information Systems and Technologies, La Toja, Spain, vol. Springer AISC 931, p. 3-12, April 2019
• Simão Reis, Luis Paulo Reis, Nuno Lau. Player Engagement Enhancement with Video Games. WorldCIST'19 - New Knowledge in Information Systems and Technologies, La Toja, Spain, vol. Springer AISC 931, p. 263-272, April 2019
• David Simões, Nuno Lau, Luis Paulo Reis. Guided Deep Reinforcement Learning in the GeoFriends2 Environment. IJCNN 2018 : International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2018
• Ricardo Dias, Bernardo Cunha, José Luís Azevedo, Artur Pereira, Nuno Lau. Multi-Robot Fast-Paced Coordination With Leader Election. RoboCup 2018: Robot World Cup XXII, vol. Springer, LNCS, July 2018
• Eurico Pedrosa, Artur Pereira, Nuno Lau. A Sparse-Dense Approach for Efficient Grid Mapping. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC), Torres Vedras, April 2018
• Mohammadreza Kasaei, Nuno Lau, Artur Pereira. An Optimal Closed-Loop Framework to Develop Stable Walking for Humanoid Robot. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC), Torres Vedras, April 2018
• Gi Hyun Lim, Eurico Pedrosa, Filipe Amaral, Nuno Lau, Artur Pereira, José Luís Azevedo, Bernardo Cunha, Simone Badini. Mobile Manipulation for Autonomous Packaging in Realistic Environments: EuRoC Challenge 2, Stage II, Showcase. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC), Torres Vedras, April 2018
• Abbas Abdolmaleki, David Simões, Nuno Lau, Luis Paulo Reis, Bob Price, Gerhard Neumann. Stochastic Search In Changing Situations. The AAAI-17 Workshop on Human-Machine Collaborative Learning, p. 636-642, 2017
• Mohammadreza Kasaei, David Simões, Nuno Lau, Artur Pereira. A Hybrid ZMP-CPG BasedWalk Engine for Biped Robots. Robot2017: Third Iberian Robotics Conference, p. 1560-1571, November 2017
• ...further results

PhD thesis

• Nuno Lau. Ferramentas de síntese de sistemas digitais baseados em componentes lógicos dinamicamente reconfiguráveis. PhD Thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, December 2003