Centro de Investigação em Sistemas e Tecnologias

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Type: University research groups

Acronym: SYSTEC

Coordinator name: Fernando Manuel Ferreira Lobo Pereira

Name of the institution to which it belongs: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Address: Rua Roberto Frias s/n Sala i219A 4200-465, Porto, Portugal

Telephone: +351 22 041 3211

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Web: https://systec.fe.up.pt

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Description:
SYSTEC is a Center of Excellence hosted by Faculty of Engineering of Porto University, and Institute for Systems and Robotics to promote the Co-Evolution of:
- Systems, Optimization, Control, and Estimation Theoretical Developments
- Engineering Methodologies and Tools
- Interdisciplinary Collaborative Frameworks
- Science and Technology State-of-the-Art
- Societal Challenges Awareness
targeting the Rapid Bidirectional Transition from Scientific and Technological Knowledge to Societal Challenges driven System Solutions through R&D&I carried out in the context of its Global Network.

Areas of expertise: Literacy, Clusters, networks, collaborative platforms, Competitiveness and Sustainability, Business Incubation, Intellectual property, Knowledge and technology transfer, Analysis and environmental evaluation, Pollution and environmental impacts, Hydrodynamic modeling of coastal systems and transitional waters, Society and Heritage: History, population and conservation, Security, risk and responsibility, Energy saving, Regulation, Energy policy, Energy efficiency, Tidal energy, Wave energy, Communications, control and signaling at sea, Nonlinear analysis of floating marine systems, Dynamics of floating systems, Machine learning / Artifical Intelligence, Computational Fluid Mechanics, Manufacturing and assembly processes, Underwater robotics and autonomous systems, Coast, hydrography and dynamics of the oceans, Physiscal Oceanography, Equipment and sensors, Observation Networks, Remote sensing, Economy, Legislation and Management of marine resources, Technology applied to resource management

Keywords: Investigação; Optimização; Dinâmica; UAVs; AUVs; Inovação

Number of researchers: 103

Number of doctors: 51

Scopus identifier: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57204767258

Open Access Scientific Repository: https://5cfa51f8b87b1.site123.me/publications

Projects

Distributed Optimal Control for Cyber-Physical Systems Applications

Acronym: HARMONY

Financing program: P2020|COMPETE - Projetos em Todos os Domínios Científicos

Financing entity: FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia

Start year: 2018

Ending year: 2021

Principal investigator: Fernando Manuel Ferreira Lobo Pereira

Project url: https://systec.fe.up.pt/harmony

Smart Cyberphysical, Mathematical, Computational and Power Engineering Research for Disruptive Innovation in Production, Mobility, Health, and Ocean Systems and Technologie

Acronym: STRIDE

Financing program: P2020|Norte2020-Projetos Integrados ICDT

Financing entity: Comissão de Coordenação e Desenvolvimento Regional do Norte

Start year: 2016

Ending year: 2020

Principal investigator: Fernando Manuel Ferreira Lobo Pereira

Project url: https://systec.fe.up.pt/stride

Distributed Optimal Control for Cyber-Physical Systems Applications

Acronym: EMSO.PT

Financing program: Roteiro - Roteiro das Infraestruturas de Investigação

Financing entity: FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia

Start year: 2017

Ending year: 2021

Principal investigator: Fernando Manuel Ferreira Lobo Pereira

Project url: http://emso-pt.pt/

Integrated Platform for Marine Data Acquisition and Analysis

Acronym: MARINFO

Financing program: P2020|Norte2020-Projetos Integrados ICDT

Financing entity: Comissão de Coordenação e Desenvolvimento Regional do Norte

Start year: 2016

Ending year: 2019

Principal investigator: Fernando Manuel Ferreira Lobo Pereira

Project url: https://marinfo.lsts.pt/

Bringing together Research and Industry for the Development of Glider Environmental Services

Acronym: BRIDGES

Financing program: H2020|SC|FAFMW - H2020|Societal Challenges|Food, agric, forestry, marin, water

Financing entity: Comissão Europeia

Start year: 2015

Ending year: 2019

Principal investigator: João Tasso de Figueiredo Borges de Sousa

Project url: http://www.bridges-h2020.eu/

Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Systems for Marine and Coastal Monitoring

Acronym: Marine UAS

Financing program: H2020|ES|MSC - H2020|Excellence Science|Marie Curie

Financing entity: Comissão Europeia

Start year: 2015

Ending year: 2019

Principal investigator: Fernando Manuel Ferreira Lobo Pereira

Project url: http://www.marineuas.eu/

Tecnologias complementares para o Observatório Oceânico da Margem Ibérica

Acronym: RAIA-TEC

Financing program: Programa Operacional de Cooperação Transfronteiriça Espanha-Portugal

Financing entity: Autoridade de Gestão do Programa Operacional de Cooperação Transfronteiriça Espanha-Portugal

Start year: 2013

Ending year: 2015

Principal investigator: Maria Luísa Machado Cerqueira Bastos / Fernando Manuel Ferreira Lobo Pereira

Project url: https://www.inesctec.pt/pt/projetos/raia-tec

Sensing, monitoring and actuating on the UNderwater world through a federated Research InfraStructure Extending the Future Internet

Acronym: SUNRISE

Financing program: eea grants - eea grants

Financing entity: Mecanismo Financeiro do Espaço Económico Europeu

Start year: 2013

Ending year: 2016

Principal investigator: João Tasso de Figueiredo Borges de Sousa

Project url: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/611449

Networked systems for situational awareness and intervention in maritime incidents

Acronym: NETMAR

Financing program: INTERREG B - Espaço Atlântico

Financing entity: Comissão Europeia

Start year: 2012

Ending year: 2015

Principal investigator: Fernando Manuel Ferreira Lobo Pereira

Project url: https://project-netmar.eu/

Sistema baseado em veiculos Autonomos para observação oceanografica de longa duração

Acronym: ENDURANCE

Financing program: P2020|COMPETE - Projetos em Copromoção

Financing entity: Agência Nacional de Inovação S.A.

Start year: 2017

Ending year: 2020

Principal investigator: Fernando Manuel Ferreira Lobo Pereira

Project url: https://endurance.lsts.pt/

Publications

On the complexity of the constrained input selection problem for structural linear systems

Authors: A.P. Aguiar, S. Kar, S. Pequito

Year of publication: 2015

Journal: Automatica, 2015, Vol. 62, pp. 193-199

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2015.06.022, 2015

State Constraints in Impulsive Control Problems: Gamkrelidze-Like Conditions of Optimality

Authors: A.V. Arutyunov, D.Y. Karamzin, F. Lobo Pereira

Year of publication: 2015

Journal: Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 2015, Vol. 166 pp. 440-459, 2015, Vol. 166 pp. 440-459

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1007/s10957-014-0690-8, 2015

On the properness of an impulsive control extension of dynamic optimization problems

Authors: D.Y. Karamzin, V.A. Oliveira, F. Lobo Pereira, G. N. Silva

Year of publication: 2015

Journal: ESAIM - Control, Optimization and Calculus of Variations, 2015, Vol. 21 No. 3, pp. 857-875

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1051/cocv/2014053, 2015

Integrated Monitoring of Mola mola Behaviour in Space and Time

Authors: L. Sousa, F. L.-Castejón, J. Gilabert, P. Relvas, A. Couto, N. Queiroz, R. Caldas, P. Dias, H. Dias, M. Faria, F. Ferreira, A. Ferreira, J. Fortuna, J. Gomes, B. Loureiro, R. Martins, L. Madureira, J. Neiva, M. Oliveira, J. Pereira, J. Pinto, F. Py, H. Queirós, D. Silva, P. Sujit, A. Zolich, T. Johansen, J. Sousa, K. Rajan

Year of publication: 2016

Journal: PloS one, 2016, Vol. 11, p. e0160404

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0160404

On the convergence and performance certification of a continuous-time economic model predictive control scheme with time-varying performance index

Authors: A. Alessandretti, A. Aguiar, C. Jones

Year of publication: 2016

Journal: Automatica, 2016, Vol. 68, pp. 305-313

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2016.01.020

Optimal Rendezvous Trajectory for Unmanned Aerial-Ground Vehicles

Authors: Alessandro Rucco, P.B. Sujit, A. Pedro Aguiar, J. Borges de Sousa, F. Lobo Pereira

Year of publication: 2017

Journal: IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1109/TAES.2017.2767958

Optimal impulsive control: The extension Approach

Authors: A. Arutyunov, D. Karamzin, F.Lobo Pereira

Year of publication: 2017

Journal: Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, Vol 477, Springer

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02260-0

Structurally Observable Distributed Networks of Agents Under Cost and Robustness Constraints

Authors: S. Kruzick , S. Pequito , S. Kar , J.M.F. Moura , A. P. Aguiar

Year of publication: 2018

Journal: IEEE Transactions On Signal And Information Processing Over Networks Vol. 4 p. 236-247

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1109/tsipn.2017.2681208, 2018

Optimal Control Involving Sweeping, Set-Valued and Variational Analysis

Authors: M.R. de Pinho, M.M.A. Ferreira, G.V. Smirnov

Year of publication: 2019

Journal: Set-Valued and Variational Analysis, Vol. 27 (2)

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1007/s11228-018-0501-8

Necessary Conditions of Optimality in the Gamkrelidze’s Form for State Constrained Problems with Differential Inclusion

Authors: N.T. Khalil, F. Lobo Pereira

Year of publication: 2020

Journal: IEEE Control Systems Letters, 4(4), 958–963

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1109/LCSYS.2020.2997672

Patents

Roll Padding in Neural Networks Convolutional Layers

Inventors: Rui Jorge Pereira Gonçalves, Fernando Manuel Ferreira Lobo Pereira

Reference: NPAT374'20

Presentation year: 2020

Titular institutions: Universidade do Porto

Multi Convolutional Attention Mechanism in Multivariable Time Series

Inventors: ui Jorge Pereira Gonçalves, Fernando Manuel Ferreira Lobo Pereira

Reference: NPAT375'20

Presentation year: 2020

Titular institutions: Universidade do Porto

ConvLSTM2D Multi Conv 2D Attention with Roll Padding for MTS with cyclic properties

Inventors: Rui Jorge Pereira Gonçalves; Fernando Manuel Ferreira Lobo Pereira; Vítor Miguel de Sousa Ribeiro

Reference: NPAT376'20

Presentation year: 2020

Titular institutions: Universidade do Porto

Infraestructure

SYSTEC
Hosted and supported by FEUP in through infrastructures, human resources, and its vast collaborative research network, and by ISR what concerns the networks of stakeholders, and of institutions addressing the societal challenges.
Advances its R&D and Innovation agenda to promote: academic excellence, worldwide networking with institutions and researchers with opportune scientific affinities to ensure the critical mass, interaction with end-users and stakeholders to promote the tuning with challenge-driven innovation dynamics, emergence of actors relevant to the evolution of paradigms for the societal impact of science and technology, integration with advanced formation activities.
Is organized in order to stimulate the dialog with stakeholders and end-users by considering the evolving societal challenges in four Intervention Vectors:
CONTROL: Systems, control, optimization, estimation and “data science”
NET: Networked Robotic Vehicles and Systems Technologies
ENERGY: Smart Energy Systems and Technologies
MANUFACTURING: Cyber-Physical Systems for Manufacturing
This structure is designed to promote the progress towards a unifying long term vision in which theoretical developments will evolve in such a way as to match the complex requirements of the emerging challenges inherent to the complexity of the real-world systems, notably, the various classes of complex, large scale and structured networked systems.

Services

Geomorphological and bathymetric survey

Service description:
Acquisition of data, through new technologies developed by SYSTEC, with the objective of obtaining a detailed cartography of the bathymetry, type of substrate and hydrodynamics of the funds of the Marine Park of the North Coast. (OMARE)

Type of service: Technology/Technology Platforms

Service URL: http://www.omare.pt/

Advanced Training

Service description:
Advanced Training in Estimation, Control, Optimization and Data Science Applications to Cyber-Physical Systems in Robotics, Energy, Mobility, production Systems and Health

Type of service: Training/Education

Service URL: https://systec.fe.up.pt/summercourse2020

Doctoral Programme

Service description:
PhD Program in Applied Mathematics

Type of service: Training/Education

Service URL: https://map-pdma.up.pt/

Doctoral Programme

Service description:
PDEEC - Doctoral Program in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Type of service: Training/Education

Service URL: https://sigarra.up.pt/feup/pt/cur_geral.cur_view?pv_curso_id=682

Masters in Mathematics

Service description:
Definition and implementation of a Masters in Mathematics at a higher education institution in Mozambique.

Type of service: Training/Education

Service URL:

EMSO - European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water column Observatory

Service description:
The European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water column Observatory (EMSO) aims to explore the oceans, to gain a better understanding of phenomena happening within and below them, and to explain the critical role that these phenomena play in the broader Earth systems.

Type of service: Dynamic Cluster/Networking

Service URL: http://emso.eu

RAIA - Oceanographic Observatory of the Iberian Margin and the Nearshore

Service description:
Establish services and products of operational oceanography, available to the coastal communities and economic agents of the region.

Type of service: Dynamic Cluster/Networking

Service URL: http://www.observatorioraia.org

AIRCENTER - Atlantic International Research Centre

Service description:
Based in the Azores, the AIR Centre will be a platform for the development of research activities on climate, land, space and ocean. It will create scientific jobs for highly qualified human resources, while enabling integrated research on the Atlantic. The governments of Portugal, Brazil, Spain, Angola, Cape Verde, Nigeria, Uruguay and São Tomé and Príncipe are involved in this project, together with the regional government of the Azores. The United Kingdom and South Africa are involved as Observers at this stage.

Type of service: Dynamic Cluster/Networking

Service URL: https://www.aircentre.org

EUROCEAN - Atlantic International Research Centre

Service description:
EurOcean – The European Centre for information on Marine Science and Technology, established in 2002, is an independent scientific non-governmental organisation whose membership comprises leading European marine research, funding and outreach organisations. Its aim is to facilitate information exchange and generate value-added products in the field of marine sciences and technologies between a wide range of governmental and non-governmental bodies.

Type of service: Dynamic Cluster/Networking

Service URL: https://www.eurocean.org

VG CoLAB - Vasco da Gama CoLAB - Energy Storage

Service description:
VG-CoLAB - Energy Storage is focused on providing high technology services and value-added products, as well as innovative solutions for its partners and the market in the area of electrochemical energy storage. Thus, it aims to contribute to the implementation of the European energy transition agendas, providing for the development of world-leading technologies and solutions in the area of energy transition. The VG CoLAB was designed to support research, development and innovation and the creation of scientific jobs, addressing the main R&D topics that will drive the Portuguese economy.

Type of service: Dynamic Cluster/Networking

Service URL: https://deq.fe.up.pt/vg-colab