Paulo Pedreiras

Position	Aux. professor
Group
Status	Former member
Country	Portugal
Students
Former PhD students	Ricardo Roberto Duarte Marau, Rui Gabriel Viegas dos Santos
Former masters students	Show list
Courses	Electronics4
Projects	ProdutechSIF
Past projects	HaRTES, ProdutechPSI
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Proposals
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Publications

Articles in international journals listed in the ISI

• Milton Armando Cunguara, Tomás Oliveira e Silva, Paulo Pedreiras. On Oscillation Free Controller Changes. Systems & Control Letters, vol. 62, no. 3, p. 225-302, March 2013 [IF 2013: 1.886 (Q1, 13/79)]
• J. Silvestre-Blanes, Luís Almeida, Ricardo Marau, Paulo Pedreiras. On-line QoS Management for Multimedia Real-Time Transmission in Industrial Networks. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 58, no. 3, p. 1061-1071, March 2011 [IF 2011: 5.160]
• Ricardo Marau, Pedro Leite, Manel Velasco, Pau Marti, Luís Almeida, Paulo Pedreiras, Josep M. Fuertes. Performing flexible control on low-cost microcontrollers using a minimal real-time kernel. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 4, no. 2, p. 125–133, May 2008 [IF 2008: 2.356]
• Joaquim Ferreira, Luís Almeida, J. A. Fonseca, Paulo Pedreiras, Ernesto Martins, Guillermo Rodriguez-Navas, Joan Rigo, Julian Proenza. Combining operational flexibility and dependability in FTT-CAN. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 2, no. 2, p. 95-102, May 2006 [IF 2006: 0.923]
• Paulo Pedreiras, Paolo Gai, Luís Almeida, Giorgio C. Buttazzo. FTT-ethernet: A flexible real-time communication protocol that supports dynamic QoS management on ethernet-based systems. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 1, no. 3, p. 162-172, August 2005
• Luís Almeida, Paulo Pedreiras, J. A. G. Fonseca. The FTT-CAN protocol: why and how. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 49, no. 6, p. 1189-1201, December 2002 [IF 2002: 0.560]
• Paulo Pedreiras, Luís Almeida. EDF message scheduling on controller area network. Computing and Control Engineering Journal, vol. 13, no. 4, p. 163-170, August 2002

Other articles in journals

• Ana Antunes, Paulo Pedreiras, Luís Almeida, Alexandre Mota. Improving operational flexibility in distributed control systems: the Dynamic Rate Adaptation technique. Automazione e Strumentazione, February 2007

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 Almeida, Paulo Pedreiras, Joaquim Ferreira, Mario Calha, José Fonseca, Ricardo Marau, Valter Silva, Ernesto Martins. Online QoS Adaptation with the Flexible Time-Triggered (FTT) Communication Paradigm. Handbook of Real-Time and Embedded Systems, Insup Lee, Joseph Y-T. Leung and Sang H. Son (Ed.), Chapman & Hall / CRC, 2008
• Paulo Pedreiras, F. Teixeira, N. Ferreira, Luís Almeida, Armando J. Pinho, F. Santos. A real-time framework for the vision subsystem in autonomous mobile robots. Vision Systems: Applications, G. Obinata, A. Dutta (Ed.), In-Tech Education and Publishing, p. 83-100, 2007
• Paulo Pedreiras, Luís Almeida. Task Management for Soft Real-Time Applications Based on General Purpose Operating Systems. Robotic Soccer, Pedro Lima, ISBN: 978-3-902613-21-9 (Ed.), I-Tech Education and Publishing, p. 243-252, December 2007

Articles in conference proceedings

• Pedro Fonseca, Paulo Pedreiras, Pedro Cabral, Bernardo Cunha, Filipe Silva, João Nuno Matos. Motivating First Year Students for an Engineering Degree. CISPEE 2016 -- 2.ª Conferência Internacional na Sociedade Portuguesa para a Educação em Engenharia, Vila Real, Portugal, October 2016
• Pedro Fonseca, Paulo Pedreiras, José Luís Azevedo, Ilídio Oliveira. Cooperação Universidade-Empresa pela realização de Dissertações em ambiente empresarial. CNaPPES.16 - 3.º Congresso Nacional de Práticas Pedagógicas no Ensino superior, Lisboa, Portugal, July 2016
• Milton Armando Cunguara, Tomás Oliveira e Silva, Paulo Pedreiras. A novel dynamical approach to (m, k)-fırm scheduling. 10th IEEE Workshop on Factory Communication Systems (WFCS), Toulouse, France, May 2014
• Milton Armando Cunguara, Tomás Oliveira e Silva, Paulo Pedreiras. On the application of block transmissions for improving control over lossy networks. IEEE 18th Conference on Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (ETFA), Cagliari, Italy, September 2013
• Milton Armando Cunguara, Tomás Oliveira e Silva, Paulo Pedreiras. On the control of lossy networks with hold strategy. 8th IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems (SIES), Porto, Portugal, June 2013
• Jorge Azevedo, Alexandre Mota, Paulo Pedreiras. Xenomai Lab -- A Platform for Digital Real-Time Control. INForum - Simpósio de Informática 2012, Campus da Caparica, Lisboa, September 2012
• Rui Santos, Paulo Pedreiras, Moris Behnam, Thomas Nolte, Luís Almeida. Hierarchical Server-based Traffic Scheduling in Ethernet Switches. 3rd Workshop on Compositional Theory and Technology for Real-Time Embedded Systems, November 2010
• Ricardo Marau, Luís Almeida, Mario Sousa, Paulo Pedreiras. A middleware to support dynamic reconfiguration of real-time networks. Proc. of the 15th IEEE Int. Conf. on Emerging Techonologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2010), September 2010
• Rui Santos, Paulo Pedreiras, Farahnaz Yekeh, Thomas Nolte, Luís Almeida. On Hierarchical Server-based Communication with Switched Ethernet. Work-In-Progress Session of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, September 2010
• Ricardo Marau, Luís Almeida, Paulo Pedreiras, K. Lakshmanan, R. Rajkumar. Utilization-based Schedulability Analysis for Switched Ethernet aiming Dynamic QoS Management. Proc. of the 15th IEEE Int. Conf. on Emerging Techonologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2010), September 2010
• Rui Santos, Paulo Pedreiras, Moris Behnam, Thomas Nolte, Luís Almeida. Schedulability Analysis for Multi-level Hierarchical Server Composition in Ethernet Switches. Proc. of the 9th Int. Workshop on Real-Time Networks (RTN'2010), in conjunction with the 22th Euromicro Int. Conf. on Real-Time Systems, July 2010
• Rui Santos, Alexandre Vieira, Paulo Pedreiras, Arnaldo Oliveira, Luís Almeida, Ricardo Marau, Thomas Nolte. Flexible, Efficient and Robust Real-Time Communication with Server-based Ethernet Switching. Proc. of the 8th IEEE Int. Workshop on Factory Communication Systems (WFCS 2010), May 2010
• Rui Santos, Alexandre Vieira, Ricardo Marau, Paulo Pedreiras, Arnaldo Oliveira, Luís Almeida. Improving the efficiency of Ethernet switches for real-time communication. Workshop on Adaptive Resource Management (WARM 2010), within CPSWeek 2010, April 2010
• Rui Santos, Alexandre Vieira, Ricardo Marau, Paulo Pedreiras, Arnaldo Oliveira, Luís Almeida. Architectural Solutions for Server Scheduling Communication within Ethernet Switches. Proc. of the VI Jornadas sobre Sistemas Reconfiguráveis (REC'2010), February 2010
• 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
• Ana Antunes, Paulo Pedreiras, Luís Almeida, Alexandre Mota. Dynamic rate and control adaptation in networked control systems. 5th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics, Viena, Áustria, July 2007
• Ana Antunes, Paulo Pedreiras, Luís Almeida, Alexandre Mota. Dynamic rate adaptation: a method do improve operational flexibility in distributed control systems. 2nd IEEE Int. Workshop on Feedback Control Implementation and Design in Computing Systems and Networks, Munique, Alemanha, May 2007
• Ana Antunes, Paulo Pedreiras, Luís Almeida, Alexandre Mota. Dynamic rate adaptation in distributed computer control systems. ANIPLA 2006 – Methodologies for Emerging Technologies in Automation, Roma, Itália, November 2006
• Ana Antunes, Paulo Pedreiras, Alexandre Mota. Adapting the sampling period of a real-time adaptive distributed controller to the bus load. 10th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, Catania, Itália, September 2005
• Luís Almeida, José A. Fonseca, Alexandre Mota, Pedro Fonseca, Ernesto Martins, Paulo Pedreiras, J. Ferreira. Flexibility, Timeliness and Efficiency in Fieldbus Systems: The DISCO Project Approach. ETFA2001, 8th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, Antibes Juan-les-pins, France, October 2001

PhD thesis

• Paulo Pedreiras. Suporte de comunicações tempo-real flexíveis em sistemas distribuidos. PhD Thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, June 2003