Team, Partnerships and Projects

Jundiá Project: Mission Control Integrated with Dynamic Simulation for Autonomous Unmanned Surface Vehicles The project proposes the development of a mission control system (MCS) dedicated to autonomous unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), aimed at automated water sample collection for environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis. The project seeks to overcome limitations of current MCS systems, originally designed for drone use, by offering an open, cross-platform and extensible platform, compatible with specialized nautical sensors and equipment and compliant with Brazil's Navy NORMAM-205 standard. The solution will integrate mission control, dynamic simulation and secure communication protocols (MAVLINKv2 over TCP), enabling the planning, monitoring and validation of autonomous missions in laboratory and field settings. The project is developed with support from Call 01/2025 PROPESQ/PUCRS - Program to Support the Participation of Part-Time Professors in Research Activities.

AIM-FTA: The AIM-FTA project (Assessment, Identification and Mitigation of Transient Faults in Embedded Avionic Applications) is executed through cooperation between PUCRS, UFSC, UFRGS and Loughborough University (England), with funding from CNPq (407477/2022-5), valued at R$ 451,000.00. The project aims to increase the reliability of embedded systems in avionic applications through the development and implementation of fault tolerance techniques. Among the project's prominent contributions are the measurement of solar radiation effects on integrated circuits and the development of instrumentation and testing techniques for embedded systems.

Environment for Measuring Energy Consumption of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) Subsystems for Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV). The project aims to create an environment for measuring energy consumption in unmanned vehicles, with a focus on ground robots with high energy autonomy. Project executed with institutional support through PUCRS-PIBIT.

Integration of a Manycore for Robotic Applications with a Focus on Humanoid Robots: The goal of the project is the development and validation of a virtual hardware for integration between virtual platforms (using its own physical media) and real platforms (using the host's physical media) in the context of robotics projects. Project executed with institutional support through PUCRS-BIC.

Software-Controlled Energy Plans for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) Quadrotors Based on Microcontrollers (PUCRS-BIC)

An Environment for Measuring Energy Consumption of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) Subsystems for Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV)