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.