Josué Junior Guimarães Ramos
( josue.ramos@cenpra.gov.br)
1- Education
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, date: March/2002
Thesis: "Contribution to the Development of Robotic Airships".
M. Sc. in Electrical Engineering , State University of Campinas, Brazil, 1986
Work: "Generation of Continuous Paths for Robots Manipulators: Kinematics and Computational Issues ".
B. Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Santa Catarina Brazil, 1979
2- Research and Development Areas
3- Professional Activities
Current Status in US:
Visiting Faculty at the Robotics Institute - Carnegie Mellon University - USA (since November 2003).
-Main Objective is to study Robotic Software Architectures used in different Robotic Projects at CMU and develop a Robot Control Architecture for a Robotic Application. Currently is developing the Robot Control Architecture for a new Robot Eye that will be use in Trestle project (http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/projects/trestle/)
Current Status in Brazil:
Senior Research Scientist, Renato Archer Research Center -Brazil (since 1983). CenPRA is a Research Institute from the Brazilian Ministry of Science and technology (CenPRA - www.cenpra.gov.br) that has as main mission the development of research in the field of Information technology associated to Automation and Microelectronics.
Current activities:
Past Activities
Visiting Faculty at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh-USA. (From March 2000 to march 2001).
Senior Research Scientist, Technological Center for Informatics Foundation, Campinas, Brazil .
Division Head, SIGLA Electric Equipments, Sumaré, Brazil, (1980-1983)
Secretary, Robotics standardization Committee of the Brazilian Standards Society (1989-1994)
4 - Teaching Activities
- Undergraduate thesis advisor of 30 students about the airship system (hardware, software and control)
- Undergraduate thesis advisor of Pedro Paulo da Silva at the Federal University of Santa Catarina. Thesis: "Implementation of Fuzzy Controller in Transputer", Period: March through to December, 1994.
- M.Sc. of thesis co-advisor of Carla Cavalcante at the Federal University of Santa Catarina. Thesis: "Navigation of Helicopter by Fuzzy Logic", Period: March, 1993 to June, 1994.
- Lecturer at the State University of Campinas graduate course in Industrial Automation. Discipline: "Robotics and Programmable Controllers" May through July, 1994.
- Lecturer at the Methodist University of Piracicaba graduate course in Industrial Automation. Discipline: "Industrial Robotics", October through December, 1992.
- Lecturer at Petrobas’s Laboratory of Submarine Robotics: "An introductory course of Robotics". January, 1990.
5- Publications
Hershberger, David; Simmons, Reid; Singh, Sanjiv; Ramos, Josue J. G.; Smith, Trey. Coordination of Heterogeneous Robots for Large-Scale Assembly. In: BALCH, Tucher; PARKER, L.(Org.). Robot Teams: From Diversity to Polymorphism,. Natick, 2002.
Elfes, A.; Bergerman, M.; Bueno, S. S.; Ramos, J.G.; de Paiva, E.C.; Carvalho, J. R. H.; Maeta, S.M.; Mirisola, L.G.B.; Faria, B.G.; Azinheira, J.R. "Perception and control for an autonomous robotic airship." In G.D. Hager, H.I. Christensen, H. Bunke, R Klein (Eds.); "Sensor-Based Intelligent Robots", Springer-Verlag, New York, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2238 (International Workshop, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, October 15-20, 2000. Selected Revised Papers), 2002, pp. 216-244
R. Simmons, S. Singh, D. Hershberger, J. Ramos, and T. Smith. First Results in the Coordination of Heterogeneous Robots for Large-Scale Assembly. In Experimental Robotics VII Editores Rus, D., Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA; Singh, S., Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA (Eds.) Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, 2001, pp. 323-332
B) Journal Papers
Elfes, A.; Bueno, S. S.; Bergerman, M.; de Paiva, E.C.; Ramos, J.G.; Azinheira, J.R. "Robotic Airships for Exploration of Planetary Bodies with an Atmosphere: Autonomy Challenges." Autonomous Robots, Vol. 14, n. 2-3, March - May 2003, pp 147-164
Ramos, J.J.G.; Maeta, S.M.; Mirisola, L.G.B.; Bueno, S.S.; Bergerman, M.; Faria, B.G.; Pinto, G. and Bruciapaglia, A. "Internet-Based Solutions in the Development and Operation of an Unmanned Robotic Airship"; Proceedings of the IEEE, Special Issue on Networked Intelligent Robots Through the Internet, vol. 91, issue 3, March 2003, pp 463-474.
Azinheira, J.R., de Paiva, E.C., Carvalho, J.R.H., Ramos, J.J.G., Bueno, S.S., Bergerman, M., Ferreira, P.A.V. "Lateral/Directional Control for an Autonomous Unmanned Airship". Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology. Vol 73, no 35, 2001, pp 453-458
Elfes, A.; Bueno, S.S.; Bergerman, M.; Ramos, J.J.G.; Gomes, S.B.V. "Project AURORA: Development of an autonomous unmanned remote monitoring robotic airship". Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society, 3, 4, 70-78, Abril 1998.
C) Conference Papers
Ramos, J.G
., de Paiva E.C., Azinheira, J.R.; Bueno, S.S.; Maeta, S.M.; Mirisola, L.G.B.; Bergerman, M. Autonomous Flight Experiment with a Robotic Unmanned Airship. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation - ICRA 2001; Seoul, Korea, May 2001; pp. 4152-4157.Ramos, J.G.; de Paiva, E.C.; Carvalho, J.R.H.; Ferreira, P.A.V.; Azinheira, J.R.; Bueno, S.S; Maeta, S.M.; Mirisola, L.G.B.; Faria, B.G.; Bergerman, M.; Elfes, A. Path Tracking Flight Test of an Autonomous Unmanned Robotic Airship. 3rd International Conference on Field and Service Robotics - FSR2001, Otaniemi, Espoo, Finland, June 2001.
Ramos, J.J.G.; Maeta, S.M.; Mirisola, L.G.B.; Bergerman, M.; Bueno, S.S.; Pavani, G.S.; Bruciapaglia, A. A software environment for an unmanned autonomous airship. IEEE/ASM International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, Atlanta, GA, EUA, September, 1999, pp. 1008-1013.
Maeta, S.M.; Ramos, J.G.; Mirisola, L.G.B.; Bueno, S.S.; Bergerman, M. "Arquitetura de Hardware do Projeto AURORA" XIII Brazilian Conference on Automatics, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil, September 2000.
Mirisola, L.G.B.; Ramos, J.G.; Maeta, S.M.; Bergerman, M.; Bueno, S.S. "Um Sistema de Comunicação para um Dirigível Robótico Não Tripulado". XIII Brazilian Conference on Automatics, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil, September 2000.
Azinheira, J.R.; Paiva, E.C.; Ramos, J.G.; Bueno, S.S. "Guidance Control Strategies for an Autonomous Unmanned Airship" 6th International IFAC Symposium on Robot Control, Vienna, Austria, September 2000.
Azinheira, J.R., de Paiva, E.C., Ramos, J.J.G., Bueno, S.S.B. "Guidance of An Autonomous Unmanned Airship." 15th Bristol International UAV Systems Conference, Bristol, UK, 2000.
Azinheira, J.R., de Paiva, E.C., Ramos, J.J.G., Bueno, S.S.B. "Mission Path Following for an Autonomous Unmanned Airship."IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, San Francisco, CA, USA, April 2000.
Ramos, J.J.G.; Maeta, S.M.; Bergerman, M.; Bueno, S.S.; Mirisola, L.G.B.; Bruciapaglia, A. "Development of a VRML/Java unmanned airship simulating environment." IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Kyongju, Korea, Oct. 1999, pp. 1354-1359.
Elfes, A.; Bergerman, M.; Carvalho, J.R.H.; Paiva, E.C.; Ramos, J.J.G.; Bueno, S.S. "Air-ground robotic ensembles for cooperative applications: concepts and preliminary results." International Conference on Field and Service Robotics, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Aug. 1999, pp. 75-80
- Elfes, A; Bueno, S. S.; Bergerman, M.; Ramos, J. J. G.; Paiva, E. C.; Asanuma, K.; Beiral, J. A.; "Projeto AURORA", Congress of the Brazilian Automation Society, Uberlândia, Brazil, September 1998.
- Ramos, J. J. G.; Bueno, S. S.; Maeta, S.; Bergerman, M.; Paiva, E. C.; Asanuma, K.; Nascimento, L. G..; Elfes, A.; Beiral, J. A.; "Project AURORA: Autonomous Unmanned Remote Monitoring Robotic Airship", International Airship Convention and Exhibition, Bedford, England, June 1998.
- Elfes, A; Bueno, S. S.; Bergerman, M.; Ramos, J. J. G.; "A Semi-Autonomous Robotic Airship for Environmental Monitoring Missions", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Leuven, Belgium, May 1998.
- Gomes, S. B. V.; Ramos, J. J. G.; "Airship Dynamic Modeling for Autonomous Operation", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Leuven, Belgium, May 1998.
- Elfes, A.; Bueno, S. S.; Bergerman, M.; Ramos, J. J. G.; Gomes, S. B. V.; "Project AURORA: Development of an Autonomous Unmanned Remote Monitoring Robotic Airship", Journal of the Brazilian Society on Computer, special Issue on Robotics, April 1998.
- Moroni, A.; Ramos, J. J. G.; Rentes, A.; "Interactive Multimedia Robotic Installations", Simposyum of the Brazilian Graphical Computation and Image Processing Society, Caxambú, Brazil, September 1996.
- Moroni, A; Ramos, J. J. G.; Manis; J.; Cohn; P. C.;. "Interactive Multimedia Robotic Installations". 6th International Conference of Computer Graphics and Visualisation in Russia, sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and Eurographics, St. Petersburg, Russia, July 1996.
- Aguilera, L. M., Binder, Z.; Hanada, F., Ramos, J. J. G,; "Non-Identical Parallel Machines with Sequence-Dependent Changeover Costs in an Industrial Application", Multiconference on Computational Engineering in Systems Applications (CESA’96), Lille, France, July 1996.
- Ramos, J. J. G.; Neves, O.; "Environment for Unmanned Helicopter Control System Development: Application Examples", 4th IEEE Conference On Control Applications, Albany, USA, September 1995.
- Ramos, J. J. G.; Neves, O.; "Environment for Unmanned Helicopter Control System Development" 11th ISPE/IEE/IFAC International Conference on CAD/CAM, Robotics and Factories of the Future, Pereira, Colombia, August 1995.
- Aguilera, L. M.; Binder, Z.; Ramos, J. J. G.; Takara, S. H.; "Parallel Machines Schedulinhg with sequence-dependent changeover-costs in an industrial application", 11th ISPE/IEE/IFAC International Conference on CAD/CAM, Robotics and Factories of the Future, Pereira, Colombia, August 1995.
- Ramos, J. J. G.; Silva, P. P.; Seibel, C.; Bittencourt, G.; "A Transputer Forth-Based Fuzzy Inference Machine for Helicopter Guidance"; 6th World Congress of the International Fuzzy Systems Association, Sao Paulo, Brasil, July 1995.
- Moroni, A; Ramos, J. J. G.; Rentes, A.; "Robot Drawings". 5th International Conference of Computer Graphics and Visualisation in Russia, sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and Eurographics, St. Petersburg, Russia, July, 1995.
- Cavalcante, C.; Cardoso, J.; Ramos, J. J. G.; Neves, O.; "Design and Tunning of a Helicopter Fuzzy Controller", International Joint Conference of the 4th IEEE Conference on Fuzzy Systems and The 2nd International Fuzzy Engineering Symposium, Yokohama, Japan, March 1995.
- News article in the program Globe Science of the Network Globe of Television detaching the interaction Gyron CTI Technology in project Helix, January 1994.
- Cavalcante, C.; Cardoso, J.; Ramos, J. J. G.; Neves, O.; "Application of Fuzzy Control to Helicopter Navigation", Brazil-Japan Joint Symposium on Fuzzy Systems, Campinas, Brazil, July 94.
- SESC POMPÉIA (may / Jun 92) Presentation of the work " the Beings of Dawn " in the event: "Genesis - The Engines of the Man ", together with the group "*.*" The beings of Dawn " is a system that allowed the children to match primitive of sounds and movements and to generate a choreography of a robot to the sound of synthesized music, São Paulo, Brazil, 1992.
- Presentation of the work "Foreseen Variations" together with the group "Asterisk Point Asterisk". "Foreseen Variations", is a choreography of an industrial robot to the sound of music synthesized by computer. 21st International Biennial of Art of São Paulo - Brazil (Sept to Dec 91), São Paulo, Brazil, 1991.
- Ramos, J. J. G. et all; "ETRI: Workstation for Industrial Robots"; Magazine Mundo Mecânico (Mechanical World), December 1989.
- Neves, M.; VAL, J. B.; Ramos, J. J. G.; "Evaluation of the Effect of the Coupling and Simplified Dynamic Models for the Robot PUMA 560 ", 1st Regional Meeting of Automation and Instrumentation, Vitoria, Brazil, August 1989.
- Ramos, J. J. G.; "Generation of Continuos Paths for Robots Manipulator: Kinematic and Computational aspects"; Master Degree Thesis in the Automatic and Computation Department of the FEE of the UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil, July 1986.
- Ramos, J. J. G.; Tozzi, C.; "Implementation of a Robot Controller"; 2nd National Congress of Industrial Automation, São Paulo, Brazil, November 1985.
- Ramos, J. J. G.; Tozzi, C.; "Generation of Robot trajectories, Alternatives"; 2nd National Congress of Industrial Automation, São Paulo, Brazil, November 1985.
6 - Books
Translation to Portuguese of "Robotics- Introduction" by Michael Salant. McGraw Hill, 1989
Technical Revision of the Portuguese version of "Robotic Technology and Programming" by Mikel P. Groover. McGraw Hill, 1988
7 Results of team Works in Research and Development
1999 – 2003
1998
1997 - An Internet Based Airship Simulator.
1994 - Fuzzy Inference Machine Based on Transputer.
1994 -Environment for development of control systems for unmanned helicopter. It allows the training of pilots, assay of control strategies and assay of the control software. Used by Gyron technology in the development of the control system for an unmanned helicopter.
1993 - The electronic hardware for unmanned Helicopter: joint development of the researchers of the CTI and the Gyron Technology. A multiprocessor environment using microcontrollers and transputers constituting the on board computer of the Gyron Technology’s helicopter.
1990 - Prototype of a numerical control based on IBM/PC.
1989 - Replacement of the original controller of a PUMA Robot, by other based on a multiprocessor system, using the microcomputers of the family 68000. In this structure, it was developed an interpolation schema in joint space (interpolation in 6 axes).
1988 - Workstation for Industrial Robots. synthesis of the works of the division of Robotics of the CTI, containing tools for symbolic dynamic and kinematics modeling, dynamic simulation and development of controllers of Industrial Robots
1986 - Replacement of the Volkswagen’s Robot K15 control system, with the implantation of continuous movements in the operational space, as straight lines and circles (interpolation in 5 axes)
1986-1986- Participation in the team that, defined requirements, made specification and developed an automatic station of test for boards of telephonic trunks, in Cooperation with the companies Ericsson and Alfatest.
1984-1985 - Prototype of a Control System for an arm with two degrees of freedom.