Vitor Santos

Position	Associate professor
Affiliation	DEM / University of Aveiro
Group	Intelligent Robotics and Systems
Status	Researcher with PhD
Country	Portugal
Students	Luis Miguel Martins de Almeida
Former PhD students	Jorge Almeida, Caetano Filipe Ferreira, Luis Rocha, Miguel Riem Oliveira, José Rosado, Procopio Stein
Former masters students	Show list
Courses	Industrial Robotics, Industrial Vision and Perception Systems
Projects
Past projects	A2HR, Identity Verification, ProdutechSIF, SeaAi, TICs4CI
Events	Robotica2008sm
Proposals
ORCID	0000-0003-1283-7388
Personal page	http://lars.mec.ua.pt/~vsantos/

Publications

Articles in international journals listed in the ISI

• Miguel Riem Oliveira, Gi Hyun Lim, Tiago Madeira, Paulo Dias, Vitor Santos. Robust Texture Mapping Using RGB-D Cameras. Sensors, vol. 21, no. 9, p. 3248, May 2021 [IF 2018: 3.031 (Q1, 15/61)]
• Eurico Pedrosa, Miguel Riem Oliveira, Nuno Lau, Vitor Santos. A General Approach to Hand–Eye Calibration Through the Optimization of Atomic Transformations. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, p. 1-15, March 2021
• Vitor Santos, Daniela Rato, Paulo Dias, Miguel Riem Oliveira. Multi-Sensor Extrinsic Calibration Using an Extended Set of Pairwise Geometric Transformations. Sensors, vol. 20, no. 23, p. 6717, November 2020 [IF 2018: 3.031 (Q1, 15/61)]
• Miguel Riem Oliveira, Afonso Castro, Tiago Madeira, Eurico Pedrosa, Paulo Dias, Vitor Santos. A ROS Framework for the Extrinsic Calibration of Intelligent Vehicles: a Multi-Sensor, Multi-Modal Approach. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 131, September 2020 [IF 2018: 2.928 (Q2, 45/134)]
• Bernardo Lourenço, Tiago Madeira, Paulo Dias, Vitor Santos, Miguel Riem Oliveira. 2D lidar to kinematic chain calibration using planar features of indoor scenes. Industrial Robots, vol. 47, no. 5, p. 647-655, June 2020
• Vitor Santos, Angel Sappa, Miguel Riem Oliveira, Arturo de La Escalera. Editorial: Special issue on autonomous driving and driver assistance systems. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 121, p. 103266, November 2019 [IF 2018: 2.928 (Q2, 45/134)]
• Vitor Santos, Angel Sappa, Miguel Riem Oliveira. Special Issue on Autonomous Driving and Driver Assistance Systems. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 91, p. 208-209, May 2017 [IF 2018: 2.928 (Q2, 45/134)]
• Miguel Riem Oliveira, Vitor Santos, Angel Sappa, Paulo Dias, António Moreira. Incremental Texture Mapping for Autonomous Driving. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 84, p. 113-128, October 2016 [IF 2016: 1.950 (Q2, 60/133)] [IF 2018: 2.928 (Q2, 45/134)]
• José Rosado, Filipe Silva, Vitor Santos, António Amaro. Adaptive Robot Biped Locomotion with Dynamic Motion Primitives and Coupled Phase Oscillators. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, vol. 83, no. 3, p. 375–391, September 2016 [IF 2016: 1.512 (Q3, 17/26)] [IF 2018: 2.020 (Q3, 17/26)]
• Miguel Riem Oliveira, Vitor Santos, Angel Sappa, Paulo Dias, António Moreira. Incremental Scenario Representations for Autonomous Driving using Geometric Polygonal Primitives. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 83, p. 312-325, September 2016 [IF 2016: 1.950 (Q2, 60/133)] [IF 2018: 2.928 (Q2, 45/134)]
• Marcelo Pereira, David Silva, Vitor Santos, Paulo Dias. Self calibration of multiple LIDARs and cameras on autonomous vehicles. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 83, p. 326-337, September 2016 [IF 2016: 1.950 (Q2, 60/133)] [IF 2018: 2.928 (Q2, 45/134)]
• Procópio Stein, Anne Spalanzani, Vitor Santos, Christian Laugier. Leader following: A study on classification and selection. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 75, Part A, p. 79-95, January 2016 [IF 2016: 1.950 (Q2, 60/133)] [IF 2018: 2.928 (Q2, 45/134)]
• Miguel Riem Oliveira, Vitor Santos, Angel D. Sappa. Multimodal inverse perspective mapping. Information Fusion, vol. 24, p. 108-121, July 2015 [IF 2015: 4.353 (Q1, 4/105)]
• Miguel Riem Oliveira, Angel D. Sappa, Vitor Santos. A probabilistic approach for color correction in image mosaicking applications. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 24, no. 2, p. 508-523, February 2015 [IF 2015: 3.735 (Q1, 14/257)]
• Ricardo Pascoal, Vitor Santos, Cristiano Premebida, Urbano Nunes. Simultaneous Segmentation and Superquadrics Fitting in Laser-Range Data. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 64, no. 2, p. 11, February 2015 [IF 2015: 2.243 (Q1, 14/82)]
• Luis Rocha, M. Ferreira, Vitor Santos, A. P. Moreira. Object recognition and pose estimation for industrial applications: A cascade system. Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, vol. 30, no. 6, p. 605-621, December 2014 [IF 2014: 2.305 (Q1, 6/40)]
• Jorge Almeida, Vitor Santos. Real time egomotion of a nonholonomic vehicle using LIDAR measurements. Journal of Field Robotics, vol. 30, no. 1, p. 129–141, January 2013
• Vitor Santos, Rui Moreira, Filipe Silva. Mechatronic Design of a New Humanoid Robot with Hybrid Parallel Actuation. International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, vol. 9, October 2012 [IF 2012: 0.821, 0.821]
• Vitor Santos, Filipe Silva. Design and low-level control of a humanoid robot using a distributed architecture approach. Journal of Vibration and Control, vol. 12, no. 12, p. 1431-1456, December 2006
• Paulo Dias, Miguel Matos, Vitor Santos. 3D reconstruction of real world scenes using a low-cost 3D range scanner. Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, vol. 21, no. 7, p. 486-497, October 2006 [IF 2006: 1.822]

Other articles in journals

• Miguel Riem Oliveira, Rui Cancela, Miguel Neta, Vitor Santos. Atlas: Robô com visão orientado para provas de condução autónoma. Robótica, no. 62, p. 1-3, January 2006

Chapters in books

• Vitor Santos. ATLASCAR: A Sample of the Quests and Concerns for Autonomous Cars. Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics- Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Oleg Gusikhin, Kurosh Madani (Ed.), Springer, vol. 495, p. 355-375, January 2020
• L. Rocha, M. Ferreira, G. Veiga, A. P. Moreira, Vitor Santos. Recognizing industrial manipulated parts using the perfect match algorithm. Robotics in Smart Manufacturing, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, vol. 371, p. 146-157, June 2013
• Miguel Riem Oliveira, Angel Sappa, Vitor Santos. Color Correction Using 3D Gaussian Mixture Models. Image Analysis and Recognition, Campilho, Aurélio and Kamel, Mohamed (Ed.), Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, vol. 7324, p. 97-106, 2012

Articles in conference proceedings

• Miguel Riem Oliveira, Afonso Castro, Tiago Madeira, Paulo Dias, Vitor Santos. A General Approach to the Extrinsic Calibration of Intelligent Vehicles Using ROS. Robot 2019: Fourth Iberian Robotics Conference, vol. 1092, p. 203-215, 2020
• Daniela Rato, Vitor Santos. Detection of Road Limits Using Gradients of the Accumulated Point Cloud Density. Robot 2019: Fourth Iberian Robotics Conference, vol. 1092, p. 267--279, 2020
• Tiago Almeida, Vitor Santos, Bernardo Lourenço. Scalable ROS-Based Architecture to Merge Multi-source Lane Detection Algorithms. Robot 2019: Fourth Iberian Robotics Conference, vol. 1092, p. 242-254, 2020
• Luis Miguel Martins de Almeida, Vitor Santos, João P. Ferreira. Improved Humanoid Gait Using Learning-Based Analysis of a New Wearable 3D Force System: Work Programme. 14th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), Coimbra, June 2019
• Alberto Franco, Vitor Santos. Short-term Path Planning with Multiple Moving Obstacle Avoidance based on Adaptive MPC. 2019 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC), Porto, Portugal, April 2019
• Luis Miguel Martins de Almeida, Vitor Santos, Filipe Silva. A novel wireless instrumented shoe for ground reaction forces analysis in humanoids. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC2018), p. 36-41, April 2018
• João Peixoto, Vitor Santos, Filipe Silva. Proprioceptive Visual Tracking of a Humanoid Robot Head Motion. Image Analysis and Recognition, vol. 9730, p. 503-511, July 2016
• José Rosado, Filipe Silva, Vitor Santos. Motion Primitives for Human-to-Humanoid Skill Transfer under Balance Constraint. 2016 International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC), Bragança, Portugal, p. 72-79, May 2016
• Marcelo Pereira, Vitor Santos, Paulo Dias. Automatic calibration of multiple LIDAR sensors using a moving sphere as target. ROBOT 2015-The second Iberian Robotics Conference, p. 503-515, November 2015
• Miguel Riem Oliveira, Vitor Santos, Angel Sappa, Paulo Dias. Scene Representations for Autonomous Driving: an approach based on polygonal primitives. ROBOT 2015-The second Iberian Robotics Conference, p. 477-489, November 2015
• Pedro Pinto, Ana Maria Tomé, Vitor Santos. Visual Detection of Vehicles Using a Bag-of-Features Approach. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Mobile Robots and Competitions, Lisbon, p. 124-127, April 2013
• Miguel Riem Oliveira, Vitor Santos, Angel D. Sappa. Short term path planning using a multiple hypothesis evaluation approach for an autonomous driving competition. IROS Workshop on Planning, Perception and Navigation for Intelligent Vehicles, Algarve, October 2012
• Miguel Almeida, Paulo Dias, Miguel Riem Oliveira, Vitor Santos. 3D-2D Laser Range Finder Using a Conic Based Geometry Shape. Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, ICIAR 2012, Aveiro, vol. 7324, p. 312-319, June 2012
• Vitor Santos, Rui Moreira, Miguel Ribeiro, Filipe Silva. Development of a Hybrid Humanoid Platform and Incorporation of the Passive Actuators. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO2010, p. 679-684, December 2010
• Ricardo Pascoal, Vitor Santos. Compensation of Azimuthal Distortions on a Free Spinning 2D Laser Range Finder for 3D Data Set Generation. Proc. of Encontro Científico Festival Nacional de Robótica, March 2010
• Paulo Afonso, José Luís Azevedo, Carlos Cardeira, Bernardo Cunha, Pedro Lima, Vitor Santos. Challenges and Solutions in an Autonomous Mobile Robot Competition. Proc. Controlo´2006: Seventh Portuguese Conference on Automatic Control, Lisboa, 2006