PhD student Afonso Elói Carvalho has received the “Best Paper Award” at the 26th IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC 2026) for the paper “Self-Supervised Learning for Energy-Efficient Traversability Prediction in Natural Terrain Using Proprioception”. Developed at ISR-UC and co-authored by Prof. David Portugal and Prof. Paulo Peixoto, the work was recognized for its innovative contribution to the area.
