António M. PASCOAL: SHORT VITAE

António M. PASCOAL
Department of Electrical Engineering / Instituto Superior Técnico (IST)
and Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR)
Lisbon, Portugal.

António M. Pascoal received the Ph.D. degree in Control Science from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA in 1987. From 1987-88 he was a Research Scientist with Integrated Systems Incorporated, Santa Clara, California. He is currently an Associate Professor of Control and Robotics at IST. He has held visiting positions with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA and with the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, USA. He is the coordinator of the Dynamical Systems and Ocean Robotics Laboratory of ISR. Over the past years, he has participated actively in the design and development of prototype marine robots, including autonomous surface craft and underwater vehicles.

His research interests include linear and nonlinear control theory, integrated design of navigation, guidance and control systems, and mission control of complex autonomous systems with applications to the control of air, land and underwater robots.