<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span lang="PT">Caros colegas e casos estudantes,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span lang="PT">Gostaria de vos convidar para uma palestra pelo Prof. Rodrigo Ventura, Professor do Departamento de Engenharia Eletrotécnica e de Computadores do Instituto Superior Técnico, no âmbito do nosso ciclo DEEC Tech Brew - Science Talks. Como poderão ver pela descrição abaixo, esta palestra aborda temas muito interessantes para a comunidade do DEEC.</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Local: <span style="font-size: 11pt;">Anfiteatro do ISR</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Hora: </span><span style="font-size: 14.666667px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14.666667px;">14:30</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Data: 22 de abril de 2024</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="PT" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14.666667px;"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><div style="margin: 0cm;">Título: Towards intelligent space robots for orbital and planetary environments</div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0cm;">Resumo: Space robotics plays a crucial role in space exploration, as the harshness of space hinders the human presence outside Earth This talk will showcase recent research by the author on challenges in space robotics in two space domains: orbital environments, focusing on autonomous robots performing tasks in orbiting space stations, and planetary environments, with focus on multimodal teleoperation interfaces of exploration rovers. Experiments on the International Space Station (ISS) using the NASA Astrobee free-flyer robots allowed validating methods for formation control, and simultaneous inertial parameter estimation and transportation of unknown loads. Analog space exploration mission AMADEE-20 allowed validating novel haptic interfaces for the teleoperation of rovers, with focus on human factors.</div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0cm;">Resumo biográfico: Rodrigo Ventura (PhD) is a tenured Associate Professor of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon, and a senior researcher of the Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR-Lisbon), part of the Laboratory of Robotics and Engineering Systems (LARSyS). He is the coordinator of the Minor in Space Sciences and Technologies at IST. Broadly, his research is focused on the intersection between Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, with particular interest in human-robot interaction, mobile manipulation, biologically inspired cognitive architectures, and machine learning. This research is driven by applications in space robotics, aerial robots, and service robots. His research in space robotics led to robotic experiments on the International Space Station (ISS) and in various analog space exploration missions.</div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0cm;">Cordialmente,</div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0cm;">Paulo Menezes</div></font></span></div></body></html>