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Nascido na cidade do Porto a 6 de Abril  de 1973, licenciado em Engenharia electrotécnica e de computadores ramo de Informática e Sistemas pela Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP) em 1996, obteve o Mestrado em Engenharia electrotécnica e de computadores pela FEUP em 1999 no ramo Sistemas, tendo realizado uma tese de dissertação intitulada: "Controlo de uma equipa de robots móveis". Obteve o Doutoramento na FEUP na área de Controlo e Robótica, tendo realizado uma tese de dissertação intitulada “Planeamento Cooperativo de tarefas e trajetórias em Múltiplos Robôs”. É professor na FEUP  nas áreas de robótica e programação. É investigador sénior no INESC-TEC (Portugal), no Centro de Robótica Industrial e Sistemas Inteligentes, sendo as suas principais linhas de investigação na área dos robôs moveis especificamente no  controlo, planeamento de trajetórias e manipuladores. 

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Detalhes

Detalhes

  • Nome

    Pedro Gomes Costa
  • Cargo

    Investigador Sénior
  • Desde

    01 junho 2009
012
Publicações

2025

Collaborative fault tolerance for cyber-physical systems: The detection stage

Autores
Piardi, L; de Oliveira, AS; Costa, P; Leitao, P;

Publicação
COMPUTERS IN INDUSTRY

Abstract
In the era of Industry 4.0, fault tolerance is essential for maintaining the robustness and resilience of industrial systems facing unforeseen or undesirable disturbances. Current methodologies for fault tolerance stages namely, detection, diagnosis, and recovery, do not correspond with the accelerated technological evolution pace over the past two decades. Driven by the advent of digital technologies such as Internet of Things, cloud and edge computing, and artificial intelligence, associated with enhanced computational processing and communication capabilities, local or monolithic centralized fault tolerance methodologies are out of sync with contemporary and future systems. Consequently, these methodologies are limited in achieving the maximum benefits enabled by the integration of these technologies, such as accuracy and performance improvements. Accordingly, in this paper, a collaborative fault tolerance methodology for cyber-physical systems, named Collaborative Fault * (CF*), is proposed. The proposed methodology takes advantage of the inherent data analysis and communication capabilities of cyber-physical components. The proposed methodology is based on multi-agent system principles, where key components are self-fault tolerant, and adopts collaborative and distributed intelligence behavior when necessary to improve its fault tolerance capabilities. Experiments were conducted focusing on the fault detection stage for temperature and humidity sensors in warehouse racks. The experimental results confirmed the accuracy and performance improvements under CF* compared with the local methodology and competitiveness when compared with a centralized approach.

2025

Collaborative Fault Tolerance for Cyber-Physical Systems: The Diagnosis Stage

Autores
Piardi, L; Costa, P; De Oliveira, AS; Leitao, P;

Publicação
IEEE Access

Abstract
The reliability and robustness of cyber-physical systems (CPS) are critical aspects of the current industrial landscape. The high level of autonomous and distributed components associated with a large number of devices makes CPS prone to faults. Despite their importance and benefits, traditional fault tolerance methodologies, namely local and/or centralized, often overlook the potential benefits of collaboration between cyber-physical components. This paper introduces a collaborative fault diagnosis methodology for CPS, integrating self-fault diagnosis capabilities in agents and leveraging collaborative behavior to enhance fault diagnosis. The contribution of this paper relay in propose a methodology for fault diagnosis for CPS, based on multi-agent system (MAS) technology as a backbone of infra-structure, highlighting the components, agent behavior, functionalities, and interaction protocols, to explore the benefits of communication and collaboration between agents. The proposed methodology enhance the accuracy of fault diagnosis when compared with local approach. A case study was conducted in a laboratory-scale warehouse, focusing on diagnosing drift, bias, and precision faults in temperature and humidity sensors. Experimental results reveal that the collaborative methodology significantly outperforms the local approach in fault diagnosis, as evidenced by performance improvements in diagnosis classification. The statistical significance of these results was validated using the Wilcoxon signed-ranks test for paired samples. © 2013 IEEE.

2024

A Performance Comparison between Different Industrial Real-Time Indoor Localization Systems for Mobile Platforms

Autores
Rebelo, PM; Lima, J; Soares, SP; Oliveira, PM; Sobreira, H; Costa, P;

Publicação
SENSORS

Abstract
The flexibility and versatility associated with autonomous mobile robots (AMR) have facilitated their integration into different types of industries and tasks. However, as the main objective of their implementation on the factory floor is to optimize processes and, consequently, the time associated with them, it is necessary to take into account the environment and congestion to which they are subjected. Localization, on the shop floor and in real time, is an important requirement to optimize the AMRs' trajectory management, thus avoiding livelocks and deadlocks during their movements in partnership with manual forklift operators and logistic trains. Threeof the most commonly used localization techniques in indoor environments (time of flight, angle of arrival, and time difference of arrival), as well as two of the most commonly used indoor localization methods in the industry (ultra-wideband, and ultrasound), are presented and compared in this paper. Furthermore, it identifies and compares three industrial indoor localization solutions: Qorvo, Eliko Kio, and Marvelmind, implemented in an industrial mobile platform, which is the main contribution of this paper. These solutions can be applied to both AMRs and other mobile platforms, such as forklifts and logistic trains. In terms of results, the Marvelmind system, which uses an ultrasound method, was the best solution.

2024

Comparison of Pallet Detection and Location Using COTS Sensors and AI Based Applications

Autores
Caldana, D; Carvalho, R; Rebelo, PM; Silva, MF; Costa, P; Sobreira, H; Cruz, N;

Publicação
ROBOT 2023: SIXTH IBERIAN ROBOTICS CONFERENCE ADVANCES IN ROBOTICS, VOL 1

Abstract
Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR) are seeing an increased introduction in distinct areas of daily life. Recently, their use has expanded to intralogistics, where forklift type AMR are applied in many situations handling pallets and loading/unloading them into trucks. One of the these vehicles requirements, is that they are able to correctly identify the location and status of pallets, so that the forklifts AMR can insert the forks in the right place. Recently, some commercial sensors have appeared in the market for this purpose. Given these considerations, this paper presents a comparison of the performance of two different approaches for pallet detection: using a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) sensor and a custom developed application based on Artificial Intelligence algorithms applied to an RGB-D camera, where both the RGB and depth data are used to estimate the position of the pallet pockets.

2024

Hybrid Localization Solution for Autonomous Mobile Robots in Complex Environments

Autores
Rebelo, PM; Valente, A; Oliveira, PM; Sobreira, H; Costa, P;

Publicação
ROBOT 2023: SIXTH IBERIAN ROBOTICS CONFERENCE ADVANCES IN ROBOTICS, VOL 1

Abstract
Mobile robot platforms capable of operating safely and accurately in dynamic environments can have a multitude of applications, ranging from simple delivery tasks to advanced assembly operations. These abilities rely heavily on a robust navigation stack, which requires stable and accurate pose estimations within the environment. The wide range of AMR's applications and the characteristics of multiple industrial environments (indoor and outdoor) have led to the development of a flexible and robust robot software architecture that allows the fusion of different data sensors in real time. In this way, and in terms of localization, AMRs have greater precision when it comes to uncontrolled and unstructured environments. These complex environments feature a variety of dynamic and unpredictable elements, such as variable layouts, limited visibility, unstructured spaces, and uncertain terrain. This paper presents a multi-localization system for industrial mobile robots in complex and dynamic industrial scenarios, based on different localization technologies and methods that can interact together and simultaneously.

Teses
supervisionadas

2023

Web-based user interface development for multiple robots interaction

Autor
João Francisco Nogueira Cerqueira

Instituição
UP-FEUP

2023

Gestão e Controlo de um Robô Móvel através do Protocolo VDA5050

Autor
Marina Rodrigues Brilhante

Instituição
UP-FEUP

2023

OMRON Mobile Robot ROS-based Control and Management

Autor
Miguel Cardoso Félix

Instituição
UP-FEUP

2023

Path Planning for Different Types of Robots in Docking and Obstacle Avoidance

Autor
Miguel Pinheiro Tavares

Instituição
UP-FEUP

2023

An intelligent approach to fault tolerance in cyber physical systems

Autor
Luis Fernando Piardi

Instituição
UP-FEUP