Nuno Lau

Position	Aux. professor
Group	Embedded Systems, Computing and Control Laboratory
Transverse activity	Transverse Area on Intelligent Robotics
Status	Integrated member
Country	Portugal
Students	Abbas Abdolmaleki, Brígida Mónica Faria, Fernando Almeida, João Cunha, João Silva
Former PhD students
Former masters students	Show list
Courses	Robotica Móvel e Inteligente
Projects	CAMBADA, IntellWheels, LUL, ProdutechPSI, ProdutechPTI, SAICT, Smartphones for Smart Seniors
Past projects	CAMBADA-FCT, HP TeachReconfig
Events	AAL 2012, epia-2009
Proposals
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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 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

• Luís Mota, Luís 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 2010: 0.944)
• 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)
• João Silva, Nuno Lau, António J. R. Neves, João M. O. S. Rodrigues, José Luís Azevedo. World modeling on an MSL robotic soccer team. Mechatronics, vol. 21, no. 2, p. 411-422, March 2011 (IF 2010: 0.944)

Other articles in journals

• Brígida Mónica Faria, Gladys Castillo, Nuno Lau, Luís Paulo Reis. Classification of FC Portugal Robotic Soccer Formations: a Comparative Study of Machine Learning Algorithms. Revista Robótica - Automação Controlo Instrumentação, 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

• João Silva, Nuno Lau, António J. R. Neves. Cooperative detection and identification of obstacles in a robotic soccer team. Discrete Event Robots, Calin Ciufudean (Ed.), iConcept Press, p. In Press, 2012
• 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, Luís 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, Luís 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 proceedings of international conferences

• João Cunha, Eurico Pedrosa, Cristóvão Cruz, António J. R. Neves, Nuno Lau, Artur Pereira, Ciro Martins, Nuno Almeida, Bernardo Cunha, José Luís Azevedo, Pedro Fonseca, António J. S. Teixeira. From an autonomous soccer robot to a robotic platform for eldery care. AAL 2012 - 2nd International Living Usability Lab Workshop on AAL Latest Solutions, Trends and Applications (In conjuction with BIOSTEC 2012), Vilamoura, Portugal, February 2012
• Alina Trifan, António J. R. Neves, Bernardo Cunha, Nuno Lau. A modular real-time vision system for humanoid robots. Proceedings of IS&T Electronic Imaging 2012, San Francisco, USA, January 2012
• Abbas Abdolmaleki, Mostafa Movahedi, Sajjad Salehi, Nuno Lau, Luis Paulo Reis. A Reinforcement Learning Based Method for Optimizing the Process of Decision Making in Fire Brigade Agents. Progress in Artificial Intelligence, 15th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2011, Lisbon, Portugal, October 2011, Proceedings, vol. LNAI 7026, p. 340-351, October 2011
• Alina Trifan, António J. R. Neves, Bernardo Cunha, Nuno Lau. A color-coded real-time vision system for a NAO humanoid robot. Proc. of the 17th Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recognition, RecPad 2011, Porto, Portugal, October 2011
• João Cunha, Eurico Pedrosa, Cristóvão Cruz, António J. R. Neves, Nuno Lau. A mobile service robot for elderly assistance. Proceedings of RecPad2011, Porto, Portugal, October 2011
• 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
• Edgar Domingues, Nuno Lau, Bruno Pimentel, Nima Shafii, Luis Paulo Reis, António J. R. Neves. Humanoid Behaviors: From Simulation to a Real Robot. Progress in Artificial Intelligence, 15th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2011, Lisbon, Portugal, October 2011, Proceedings, vol. LNAI 7026, October 2011
• João Cunha, Eurico Pedrosa, Cristóvão Cruz, António J. R. Neves, Nuno Lau. Indoor Robot Localization and Navigation Using a Depth Camera. 15th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence - IROBOT, Lisbon, Portugal, October 2011
• João Cunha, Nuno Lau, João M. O. S. Rodrigues. Ball Interception Behaviour in Robotic Soccer. RoboCup 2011: Robot Soccer World Cup XV, Istanbul, Turkey, July 2011
• João Cunha, Eurico Pedrosa, Cristóvão Cruz, António J. R. Neves, Nuno Lau. Using a Depth Camera for Indoor Robot Localization and Navigation. Robotics Science and Systems 2011 Workshop on Advanced Reasoning with Depth Cameras, Los Angeles, California, USA, July 2011
• Luis Rei, Luís Paulo Reis, Nuno Lau. Optimizing a Humanoid Robot Skill. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Mobile Robots and Competitions, Lisbon, Portugal, p. 78-83, April 2011
• Nima Shafii, Luis Paulo Reis, Nuno Lau, Lucio Sanchez Passos. Soccer Robot Motion Planning using GraphPlan. Robótica 2011 - 11th International Conference on Mobile Robots and Competitions, Lisbon, Portugal, p. 84-89, April 2011
• Nima Shafii, Luís Paulo Reis, Nuno Lau. Biped Walking using Coronal and Sagittal Movements based on Truncated Fourier Series. RoboCup 2010: Robot Soccer World Cup XIV, vol. LNCS, Springer, p. 324-335, February 2011
• João Cunha, António J. R. Neves, José Luís Azevedo, Bernardo Cunha, Nuno Lau, Artur Pereira, António J. S. Teixeira. A Mobile Robotic Platform for Elderly Care. AAL 2011 - 1st Int. Living Usability Lab Workshop on AAL Latest Solutions, Trends and Applications (In conjuction with BIOSTEC 2011), Rome, p. 36-45, January 2011
• Luís Mota, Nuno Lau, Luís Paulo Reis. Co-ordination in RoboCup's 2D Simulation League: Setplays as flexible, Multi-Robot plans. IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems and IEEE International Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (IEEE CIS & RAM 2010), Singapore, 2010
• Brígida Mónica Faria, Luís Paulo Reis, Nuno Lau, Gladys Castillo. Machine Learning Algorithms applied to the Classification of Robotic Soccer Formations and Opponent Teams. IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems and IEEE International Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (IEEE CIS & RAM 2010), Singapore, 2010
• João Silva, António J. R. Neves, Nuno Lau. Ball identification in the RoboCup Middle Size League. Proceedings of RecPad2010, Vila Real, Portugal, October 2010
• Fernando Almeida, Nuno Lau, Luis Paulo Reis. A Survey on Coordination Methodologies for Simulated Robotic Soccer Teams. MAS&S@Mallow’2010 – 4th Int. Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation (MAS&S), held at MALLOW - Multi-Agent Logics, Languages, and Organisations Federated Workshops, Lyon, France, August 2010
• Rui Lopes, Luís Mota, Nuno Lau, Luís Paulo Reis. Playmaker: graphical definition of formations and setplays. Second Workshop on Intelligent Systems and Applications (WISA), CISTI 2010 - 5ª Conferência Ibérica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, June 2010
• Brígida Mónica Faria, Beatriz Sousa Santos, Nuno Lau, Luís Paulo Reis. Data Visualization for Analyzing Simulated Robotic Soccer Games. IVAPP - International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications, Angers, France, May 2010
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PhD thesis

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