doc. dr. sc. Fausto Miguel Pascoal Ferreira

Assistant professor, Department of Control and Computer Engineering

Location:
Public phone number:
6129-840
Internal phone number:
340

European Robotics League: Benchmarking through Smart City Robot Competitions

Studley, Matthew ; Carter, Sarah ; Perez-Grau, Francisco J. ; Viguria, Antidio ; Ferri, Gabriele ; Ferreira, Fausto ; Nair, Deebul ; Schneider, Sven ; Plöger, Paul G. ; Lima, Pedro U. ; Basiri, Meysam ; Kraetzschmar, Gerhard K. ; Nardi, Daniele ; Wang, Lun ; Antonioni, Emanuele ; Suriani, Vincenzo ; Iocchi, Luca
2023.

Operating drones at sea - maritime law implications

Ferreira, Fausto ; Miskovic, Nikola
2022.
OCEANS 2022

Editorial: Navigation and Perception for Autonomous Surface Vessels

Ferreira, Fausto ; Quattrini Li, Alberto ; Rødseth, Ørnulf J.
2022.
Frontiers in Robotics and AI

Autonomous Surface Vessels and COLREGs: Considering the Amendments

Mudrić, Mišo ; Ferreira, Fausto
2022.
Poredbeno pomorsko pravo

Towards Robot-Aided Diver Navigation in Mapped Environments (ROADMAP)

Nad, Dula ; Ferreira, Fausto ; Kvasic, Igor ; Mandic, Luka ; Slosic, Vladimir ; Walker, Christopher ; Antillon, Derek Orbaugh ; Anderson, Iain
2022.
OCEANS 2022

Diver‐Robot Communication Using Wearable Sensing: Remote Pool Experiments

Ferreira, Fausto ; Kvasić, Igor ; Nađ, Đula ; Mandić, Luka ; Mišković, Nikola ; Walker, Christopher ; Antillon, Derek Orbaugh ; Anderson, Iain
2022.
Marine technology society journal

LIDAR-based USV close approach to vessels for manipulation purposes

Ferreira, Fausto ; Kraševac, Natko ; Obradović, Juraj ; Milijaš, Robert ; Lončar, Ivan ; Bogdan, Stjepan ; Mišković, Nikola
2022.
OCEANS 2022 Hampton Roads Conference and Exposition

MARUS - A Marine Robotics Simulator

Lončar, Ivan ; Obradović, Juraj ; Kraševac, Natko ; Mandić, Luka ; Kvasić, Igor ; Ferreira, Fausto ; Slošić, Vladimir ; Nađ, Đula ; Mišković, Nikola
2022.
OCEANS 2022 Hampton Roads Conference and Exposition

Landing Platform for Autonomous Inspection Missions in Mariculture Using an ASV and a UAV

Kapetanović, Nadir ; Oreč, Martin ; Mišković, Nikola ; Fausto Ferreira
2022.
14th IFAC Conference on Control Applications in Marine Systems, Robotics and Vehicles (CAMS 2022)

Creating a remote access-ready infrastructure for the future

Ferreira, Fausto ; Kvasic, Igor ; Nad, Eula ; Mandic, Luka ; Obradovic, Juraj ; Miskovic, Nikola
2022.
OCEANS 2022 - Chennai

InnovaMare project - Strengthening the innovation ecosystem in underwater robotics and sensors in the Adriatic

Ferreira, Fausto ; Miskovic, Nikola ; Ivanac, Mateo
2021.
OCEANS 2021

Diver-Robot communication using wearable sensing diver glove

Nad, Dula ; Ferreira, Fausto ; Kvasic, Igor ; Mandic, Luka ; Walker, Christopher ; Antillon, Derek Orbaugh ; Anderson, Iain
2021.
OCEANS 2021

About the Value of Standards for Ocean Technology

Waldmann, Christoph ; O'Reilly, Thomas ; Jiang, Fan ; Ferreira, Fausto ; Xiang, Xianbo ; McCummins, Robert ; Pallayilline, Venugopalan
2021.
OCEANS 2021

From ERL to RAMI: Expanding Marine Robotics Competitions Through Virtual Events

Ferri, Gabriele ; Ferreira, Fausto ; Faggiani, Alessandro ; Fabbri, Tommaso
2021.
OCEANS 2021

Breaking the Surface - lessons learned from over a decade of interdisciplinary workshops

Ferreira, Fausto ; Vukic, Zoran ; Miskovic, Nikola ; Kvasic, Igor
2021.
OCEANS 2021

Advancing the EU Marine Robotics Research Infrastructure Network: the EU Marine Robots project

Antonelli, Gianluca ; Indiveri, Giovanni ; Barrera, Carlos ; Caccia, Massimo ; Dooly, Gerard ; Flavin, Niamh ; Ferreira, Fausto ; Miskovic, Nikola ; Furlong, Maaten ; Kopf, Achim ; Bachmayer, Ralf ; Ludvigsen, Martin ; Opderbecke, Jan ; Pascoal, Antonio ; Petroccia, Roberto ; Alves, Joao ; Ridao, Pere ; Vallicrosa, Guillem ; De Sousa, Joao Borges ; Costa, Maria ; Wang, Sen
2021.
OCEANS 2021

Addressing the sustainability of the Adriatic sea using marine robotics

Ferreira, Fausto ; Miskovic, Nikola
2021.
IEEE IROS 2021 Workshop on the Role Robot. Achieving UN's Sustainable Development.

The 2019 JANUS Interoperability Fest: A Field Report

Petroccia, Roberto ; Ferreira, Fausto ; Alves, João ; Cardeira, Bruno ; Zappa, Giovanni ; Manzari, Vincenzo ; Cario, Gianni ; DellaMorte, James ; Ehmcke, Knuth ; Kebkal, Oleksiy ; Schulz, Florian ; Scussel, Ken ; Spaccini, Daniele
2021.
Marine Technology Society Journal

Marine Robotics Competitions: a Survey

Ferreira, Fausto ; Ferri, Gabriele
2020.
Current Robotics Reports

Real-Time Mosaicing and Object Detection for Marine Robots

Ferreira, Fausto
2020.
International Workshop on Advanced Cooperative Systems

Marine Robotics at CMRE: from competitions to regulation

Ferreira, Fausto
2020.
12th International Interdisciplinary Field Training of Marine Robotics and Applications - Breaking the Surface

Adaptation of COLREGs for Fully Autonomous Surface Vessels

Ferreira, Fausto
2020.
Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik “Legal Aspects Of Digitalisation And Other Recent Developments In Maritime And Transport Law” course

Marine and multi-domain robotics competitions: the CMRE experience

Ferreira, Fausto ; Ferri, Gabriele
2020.
Jacobs Robotics Summer Academy

Underwater Robots: From Remotely Operated Vehicles to Intervention-Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

Petillot, Yvan R. ; Antonelli, Gianluca ; Casalino, Giuseppe ; Ferreira, Fausto
2019.
IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine

Underwater/surface collision avoidance using underwater acoustic communications - a preliminary analysis

Ferreira, Fausto ; Petroccia, Roberto ; Alves, Joao
2019.
MTS/IEEE OCEANS ’19 Marseille Conference and Exhibit

The first JANUS Interoperability Fest - a field report

Alves, Joao ; Ferreira, Fausto ; Petroccia, Roberto ; Cardeira, Bruno ; Zappa, Giovanni ; Manzari, Vincenzo ; Buselli, Davide ; Gjanci, Petrika ; Kebkal, Oleksiy ; Passerieux, Jean-Michel ; Schreiber, Sabrina ; Scussel, Ken ; Vassale, Carlo ; Green, Dale ;
2019.
OCEANS 2019

Scoring robotic competitions: Balancing judging promptness and meaningful performance evaluation

Ferreira, Fausto ; Ferri, Gabriele ; Petillot, Yvan ; Liu, Xingkun ; Franco, Marta Palau ; Matteucci, Matteo ; Grau, Francisco Javier Perez ; Winfield, Alan Ft
2018.
IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC 2018)

Increasing the operational safety of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles using the JANUS communication standard

Ferreira, Fausto ; Petroccia, Roberto ; Alves, Joao
2018.
2018 IEEE/OES Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Workshop (AUV)

Regulatory and Liability Issues of Autonomous Surface Vehicles

Ferreira, F.
2018.

Current Regulatory Issues in the Usage of Autonomous Surface Vehicles

Ferreira, Fausto ; Alves, Joao ; Leporati, Carolina ; Bertolini, Andrea ; Bargelli, Elena
2018.
OCEANS - MTS/IEEE Kobe Techno-Oceans (OTO 2018))

Fostering marine robotics through competitions: from SAUC-E to ERL Emergency 2018

Ferri, Gabriele ; Ferreira, Fausto ; Djapic, Vladimir
2018.
OCEANS 2018 MTS/IEEE Charleston

Liability issues of Unmanned Surface Vehicles

Ferreira, Fausto ; Alves, Joao ; Bertolini, Andrea ; Bargelli, Elena
2018.
OCEANS 2018 MTS/IEEE Charleston

Aerial and underwater robots in competition

Ferri, Gabriele ; Ferreira, Fausto ; Viguria, Antidio ; Perez-Grau, Francisco
2018.
IEEE robotics & automation magazine

Multi-domain robotics competitions: The CMRE experience from SAUC-E to the European Robotics League Emergency Robots

Ferri, Gabriele ; Ferreira, Fausto ; Djapic, Vladimir
2017.
OCEANS 2017 - Aberdeen

euRathlon and ERL Emergency: A Multi-domain Multi- robot Grand Challenge for Search and Rescue Robots

Winfield, Alan F. T. ; Palau Franco, Marta ; Brueggemann, Bernd ; Castro, Ayoze ; Ferri, Gabriele ; Ferreira, Fausto ; Liu, Xingcun ; Petillot, Yvan ; Roning, Juha ; Schneider, Frank ; Stengler, Erik ; Sosa, Dario ; Viguria, Antidio
2017.
ROBOT 2017: Third Iberian Robotics Conference.

The Challenge of Preparing Teams for the European Robotics League: Emergency

Röning, J. ; Kauppinen, M. ; Pitkänen, V. ; Kemppainen, A. ; Tikanmäki, A. ; Tikanmäki, A. ; Furci, M. ; Palau Franco, M. ; Winfield, A. ; Stengler, E. ; Brueggemann, B. ; Schneider, F. ; Castro, A. ; Cordero Limon, M. ; Viguria, A. ; Ferri, G. ; Ferreira, F. ; Liu, X. ; Petillot, Y. ; Sosa, D.
2017.
IS&T International Symposium on Electronic Imaging 2017. Intelligent Robotics and Industrial Applications using Computer Vision 2017.

Marine and multi-domain robotics competitions: the CMRE experience

Ferreira, Fausto ; Ferri, Gabriele
2017.
RAS Seminar at Queensland University of Technology

Marine and multi-domain robotics competitions: the CMRE experience

Ferreira, Fausto ; Ferri, Gabriele
2017.
Marine Technology Seminar

Robotics competitions – real world and social awareness

Ferreira, Fausto
2017.
2nd International Summer School on The Regulation of Robotics in Europe: Legal, Ethical and Economic Implications

euRathlon 2015: A Multi-domain Multi-robot Grand Challenge for Search and Rescue Robots

Winfield, Alan F. T. ; Franco, Marta Palau ; Brueggemann, Bernd ; Castro, Ayoze ; Limon, Miguel Cordero ; Ferri, Gabriele ; Ferreira, Fausto ; Liu, Xingkun ; Petillot, Yvan ; Roning, Juha ; Schneider, Frank ; Stengler, Erik ; Sosa, Dario ; Viguria, Antidio
2016.
Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems. TAROS 2016.

Underwater optical and acoustic imaging: A time for fusion? a brief overview of the state-of-the-art

Ferreira, Fausto ; Machado, Diogo ; Ferri, Gabriele ; Dugelay, Samantha ; Potter, John
2016.
OCEANS 2016 MTS/IEEE Monterey

The euRathlon 2015 Grand challenge: the first outdoor multi-domain search and rescue robotics competition: a marine perspective

Ferri, Gabriele ; Ferreira, Fausto ; Đapić, Vladimir ; Petillot, Yvan ; Franco, Marta Palau ; Winfield, Alan
2016.
Marine technology society journal

ROBOCADEMY — A European Initial Training Network for underwater robotics

Vogele, Thomas ; Wehbe, Bilal ; Nascimento, Samy ; Kirchner, Frank ; Ferreira, Fausto ; Ferri, Gabriele ; Machado, Diogo ; Phillips, Alexander B. ; Salavasidis, Georgios ; De Lucas Alvarez, Mariela
2016.
OCEANS 2016 - Shanghai

The Open Roboethics initiative and the elevator- riding robot

Moon, AJung ; Calisgan, Ergun ; Bassani, Camilla ; Ferreira, Fausto ; Operto, Fiorella ; Veruggio, Gianmarco
2016.

Pushing the state of the art through competitions and high level educational programmes

Ferreira, Fausto ; Ferri, Gabriele
2016.
EMRA'16 - Workshop on EU-funded Marine Robotics and Applications

Boosting the talent of new generations of marine engineers through robotics competitions in realistic environments: The SAUC-E and euRathlon experience

Ferri, Gabriele ; Ferreira, Fausto ; Djapic, Vladimir
2015.
OCEANS 2015 - Genova

Forward looking sonar mosaicing for Mine Countermeasures

Ferreira, Fausto ; Djapic, Vladimir ; Micheli, Michele ; Caccia, Massimo
2015.
Annual Reviews in Control

Performance measures to improve evaluation of teams in the euRathlon 2014 sea robotics competition★

Petillot, Yvan ; Ferreira, Fausto ; Ferri, Gabriele
2015.
4th IFAC Workshop on Navigation, Guidance and Control of Underwater Vehicles NGCUV 2015

Real-time Mosaicing of Large Scale Areas with Forward Looking Sonar

Ferreira, Fausto ; Djapic, Vladimir ; Caccia, Massimo
2015.
4th IFAC Workshop on Navigation, Guidance and Control of Underwater Vehicles NGCUV 2015

Real-time Mosaicing for Marine Vehicles

Ferreira, Fausto
2015.

A survey on real-time motion estimation techniques for underwater robots

Ferreira, Fausto ; Veruggio, Gianmarco ; Caccia, Massimo ; Bruzzone, Gabriele
2014.
Journal of Real-Time Image Processing

Improving Automatic Target Recognition with Forward Looking Sonar Mosaics

Ferreira, F. ; Djapic, V. ; Micheli, M. ; Caccia, M.
2014.
19th IFAC World Congress

Large-scale image mosaicking using multimodal hyperedge constraints from multiple registration methods within the Generalized Graph SLAM framework

Pfingsthorn, Max ; Birk, Andreas ; Ferreira, Fausto ; Veruggio, Gianmarco ; Caccia, Massimo ; Bruzzone, Gabriele
2014.
2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

A real-time mosaicking algorithm using binary features for ROVs

Ferreira, F. ; Veruggio, G. ; Caccia, M. ; Zereik, E. ; Bruzzone, G.
2013.
2013 21st Mediterranean Conference on Control & Automation (MED)

Large-scale mosaicking with spectral registration based simultaneous localization and mapping (iFMI- SLAM) in the Ligurian Sea

Pfingsthorn, Max ; Bulow, Heiko ; Birk, Andreas ; Ferreira, F. ; Veruggio, G. ; Caccia, M. ; Bruzzone, G.
2013.
2013 MTS/IEEE OCEANS - Bergen

Binary visual features for ROV motion estimation

Ferreira, F. ; Veruggio, G. ; Caccia, M. ; Bruzzone, G.
2013.
2013 MTS/IEEE OCEANS - Bergen

Open Roboethics Pilot: Accelerating Policy Design, Implementation and Demonstration of Socially Acceptable Robot Behaviours

Calisgan, Ergun ; Moon, AJung ; Bassani, Camilla ; Ferreira, Fausto ; Operto, Fiorella ; Veruggio, Gianmarco ; Croft, Elizabeth ; Van der Loos, HF Machiel
2013.
We Robot: Getting Down to Business

Enhancing autonomous capabilities and human-robot interaction for Unmanned Surface Vehicles

Ferreira, Fausto ; Bibuli, Marco ; Caccia, Massimo ; Bruzzone, Giorgio ; Bruzzone, Gabriele
2012.
2012 20th Mediterranean Conference on Control & Automation (MED)

A comparison between different feature-based methods for ROV vision-based speed estimation

Ferreira, F. ; Veruggio, G. ; Caccia, M. ; Bruzzone, G.
2012.
3rd IFAC Workshop on Navigation, Guidance and Control of Underwater Vehicles

Comparing region-based and feature-based methods for ROV vision-based motion estimation

Ferreira, F. ; Veruggio, G. ; Caccia, M. ; Bruzzone, G.
2012.
9th IFAC Conference on Manoeuvring and Control of Marine Craft

ROV vision-based motion estimation: a comparison study

Ferreira, F. ; Veruggio, G. ; Caccia, M. ; Bruzzone, G.
2012.
10th IFAC Symposium on Robot Control

Twitter, robotics and kindergarten

Ferreira, F ; Dominguez, A ; Micheli, E.
2012.
f 3rd International Workshop Teaching Robotics, Teaching with Robotics Integrating Robotics in School Curriculum

Underwater robots: from small to giants of the seas

Ferreira, Fausto
2012.
Discovery on Film 2012

Marine Robotics: State of the art and Human-Robot Interaction

Ferreira, Fausto
2012.
Codebits 2012

Real-time optical SLAM-based mosaicking for unmanned underwater vehicles

Ferreira, Fausto ; Veruggio, Gianmarco ; Caccia, Massimo ; Bruzzone, Gabriele
2011.
Intelligent Service Robotics

An online SLAM-based mosaicking using local maps for ROVs

Ferreira, F. ; Veruggio, G. ; Caccia, M. ; Bruzzone, G.
2011.
2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Pinocchio 2.0: A recording methodology for vertical educational robotics experiences

Giannini, Linda ; Micheli, Emanuele ; Nati, Carlo ; Operto, Fiorella ; Ferreira, Fausto
2011.
DIDAMATICA 2011 - Informatica per la Didattica

Comparison between feature-based and phase correlation methods for ROV vision-based speed estimation

Ferreira, F. ; Orsenigo, F. ; Veruggio, G. ; Pavlakis, P. ; Caccia, M. ; Bruzzone, G.
2010.
7th IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles

The Proliferation of Educational Robotics

Ferreira, Fausto ; Veruggio, Gianmarco ; Micheli, Emanuele ; Operto, Fiorella
2010.
1st International Conference on ICT and Education (ticEDUCA2010)

Azores FREEsubNET workshop: Habitat mapping of Espalamaca vents and Monte da Guia

Munaro, M ; Boccolato, G ; Ferreira, F ; Gracias, N ; Sebastião, L ; Sotiropoulos, P ; Tempera, F ; Wordley, S
2010.

A numerical comparison between Feature Correlation and Phase Correlation for motion estimation relative to sea bottom

Ferreira, F. ; Orsenigo, F. ; Veruggio, G. ; Pavlakis, P. ; Caccia, M. ; Bruzzone, G.
2010.
8th IFAC Conference on Control Applications in Marine Systems (CAMS)

System of autonomous docking to a cable for a tracked-wheeled robot

Ferreira, Fausto ; Ventura, Rodrigo
2009.

Online video mosaicing through SLAM for ROVs

Caccia, M. ; Bruzzone, G. ; Ferreira, F. ; Veruggio, G.
2009.
OCEANS 2009-EUROPE

Speeded Up Robust Features for vision-based underwater motion estimation and SLAM: comparison with correlation-based techniques

Ferreira, F. ; Veruggio, G. ; Caccia, M. ; Bruzzone, G.
2009.
8th IFAC Conference on Manoeuvring and Control of Marine Craft

Autonomous docking of a tracked wheels robot to its tether cable using a vision-based algorithm

Fausto, Ferreira ; Ventura, Rodrigo
2009.
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'09)

RAPOSA - Autonomous Robot for Rescue Operations

Ferreira, Fausto
2008.

Teaching

University undergraduate

University graduate

Competences

  • Robotics and automation
    Unmanned autonomous vehicles Multi-robot systems Aquatic robots Computer vision Educational robots Rescue robots Simultaneous localization and mapping
  • Intelligent transportation systems
    Unmanned underwater vehicles
  • Robotics and automation
    Unmanned autonomous vehicles Multi-robot systems Aquatic robots Computer vision Educational robots Rescue robots Simultaneous localization and mapping

Professional memberships

IEEE Senior Member

IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society (OES)

IEEE OES Vice President Workshops & Symposia (2021-)

 

Personal data

mr.sc. graduation year:
2008.
PhD graduation year:
2015.
Employed in this institution since:
2020.

List of select projects

Horizon Europe MONUSEN

Interreg Italy-Croatia INNOVAMARE

Horizon 2020 EUMarineRobots