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This performs research and development activities in autonomous robotic systems, mobile robotics and multi-robot mobile systems for inspection, monitoring and mapping, with applications in security, energy, environment, aquaculture, oceanography, marine biology, resource extraction, among other sectors. These activities are supported by research in perception, navigation, control, localization, coordination, and automatic data acquisition and processing.

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    Active Learning Strategies for Sustainable Engineering
    ( 2022) Duarte,AJ ; Benedita Malheiro ; Manuel Santos Silva ; Ferreira,PD ; Pedro Guedes ; 5855 ; 8029 ; 5655
    Engineering aims to improve the quality of daily life on a planet with limited resources. This chapter describes how the European Project Semester offered by the School of Engineering of the Porto Polytechnic contributes to make engineering undergraduates conscious of their environmental and societal impact. The program is a project-based active learning framework where problem-solving is supported by intercultural communication and creativity, ethical and sustainable reasoning, and global contextual analysis. This analysis shows that it fosters scientific, technical, and interpersonal competencies, emphasizing ethical and sustainable design as recommended by several reference institutions through the testimonials left on the project reports and the evolution perceived by the participants during the semester. These findings are supported by a sample of 45 projects conducted by 228 students from 23 countries and 65 degrees. All projects aimed to have a lasting impact on the future engineering practice of participants and, somehow, transform the world positively.
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    Collaborative Learning with Sustainability-driven Projects: A Summary of the EPS@ISEP Programme
    ( 2018) Manuel Santos Silva ; Benedita Malheiro ; Guedes,P ; Duarte,AJ ; Ferreira,P ; 5655 ; 5855
    This paper describes the collaborative learning environment, aligned with the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, provided by the European Project Semester (EPS). EPS is a one semester capstone project programme offered by eighteen European engineering schools as part of their student ex-change programme portfolio. In this international programme, students are organized in teams, grouping individuals from diverse academic backgrounds and nationalities. The teams, after choosing a project proposal, become fully responsible for the conduction of their projects. By default, project proposals refer to open multidisciplinary real problems. The purpose of the project is to expose students to problems of a greater dimension and complexity than those faced throughout the degree programme as well as to put them in con-tact with the so-called real world, in opposition to the academic world. EPS provides an integrated framework for undertaking capstone projects, which is focused on multicultural and multidisciplinary teamwork, communication, problem-solving, creativity, leadership, entrepreneurship, ethical reasoning and global contextual analysis. Specifically, the design and development of sustainable systems for growing food allow students not only to reach the described objectives, but to foster sustainable development practices. As a re-sult, we recommend the adoption of this category of projects within EPS for the benefit of engineering students and of the society as a whole.
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    Crowd Orchestration - An EPS@ISEP 2021 Project
    ( 2021) Fohanno,B ; Pires,B ; Ionescu,C ; Ladka,E ; Perek,M ; Benedita Malheiro ; Ribeiro,C ; Justo,J ; Manuel Santos Silva ; Ferreira,P ; Pedro Guedes ; 5855 ; 8029 ; 5655
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    Design, Modeling, and Simulation of a Wing Sail Land Yacht
    ( 2021) Vítor Tinoco ; Benedita Malheiro ; Manuel Santos Silva ; 5855 ; 5655 ; 8387
    Autonomous land yachts can play a major role in the context of environmental monitoring, namely, in open, flat, windy regions, such as iced planes or sandy shorelines. This work addresses the design, modeling, and simulation of a land yacht probe equipped with a rigid free-rotating wing sail and tail flap. The wing was designed with a symmetrical airfoil and dimensions to provide the necessary thrust to displace the vehicle. Specifically, it proposes a novel design and simulation method for free rotating wing sail autonomous land yachts. The simulation relies on the Gazebo simulator together with the Robotic Operating System (ROS) middleware. It uses a modified Gazebo aerodynamics plugin to generate the lift and drag forces and the yawing moment, two newly created plugins, one to act as a wind sensor and the other to set the wing flap angular position, and the 3D model of the land yacht created with Fusion 360. The wing sail aligns automatically to the wind direction and can be set to any given angle of attack, stabilizing after a few seconds. Finally, the obtained polar diagram characterizes the expected sailing performance of the land yacht. The described method can be adopted to evaluate different wing sail configurations, as well as control techniques, for autonomous land yachts.
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    DEVELOPING SKILLS IN ENGINEERING CAPSTONE PROJECTS WITH LOW-COST MICROCONTROLLER SOLUTIONS: THE EPS@ISEP EXPERIENCE
    ( 2019) Ferreira,P ; Benedita Malheiro ; Manuel Santos Silva ; Justo,J ; Guedes,P ; Duarte,A ; Ribeiro,C ; 5855 ; 5655
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    Engineering Education for Sustainable Development: The European Project Semester Approach
    ( 2020) Benedita Malheiro ; Guedes,P ; Fuentes Dura,P ; Manuel Santos Silva ; Perat,I ; Duarte,AJ ; Arno,E ; Ferreira,P ; 5655 ; 5855
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    THE EPS@ISEP PROGRAMME: A GLOBALISATION AND INTERNATIONALISATION EXPERIENCE
    ( 2022) Ferreira,P ; Benedita Malheiro ; Manuel Santos Silva ; Pedro Guedes ; Justo,J ; Ribeiro,C ; Duarte,A ; 5855 ; 8029 ; 5655
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    Floating Trash Collector - An EPS@ISEP 2020 Project
    ( 2022) Serafia,AB ; Santos,A ; Caddia,D ; Zeeman,E ; Castaner,L ; Benedita Malheiro ; Ribeiro,C ; Justo,J ; Manuel Santos Silva ; Ferreira,P ; Pedro Guedes ; 5855 ; 8029 ; 5655
    Each year millions of tons of plastic end up in the oceans, lakes and rivers. In the spring of 2020, an European Project Semester team, composed of multicultural and multidisciplinary undergraduate students, decided to tackle this problem. This was achieved by designing, modelling and simulating a floating trash collector named Soaksy. The collector is expected to operate continuously and automatically on lakes at the view of everybody, becoming an educational and an environmental tool. This paper reports the team’s journey from the initial studies, through the design, till the final simulation and tests.
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    Foldable Disaster Shelter - An EPS@ISEP 2020 Project
    ( 2022) Popescu,DA ; Pereira,E ; Givanovitch,G ; Bakker,J ; Pauwels,L ; Dukoski,V ; Benedita Malheiro ; Ribeiro,C ; Justo,J ; Manuel Santos Silva ; Ferreira,P ; Pedro Guedes ; 5855 ; 8029 ; 5655
    This paper reports the research and design of a foldable disaster shelter for people left homeless due to natural disasters, by a multinational team composed of six students, from six different countries. The team was enrolled in the European Project Semester (EPS), a project-based capstone programme offered by Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP), to students who have completed at least two years of undergraduate studies. The main objective of the project was to design, simulate and test an ethics and sustainability driven foldable shelter. This goal was pursued by conducting a series of studies to derive the solution requirements, involving a survey on shelter concepts and solutions, a review on worldwide natural disasters, as well as an analysis of the shelter market. The latter led to the definition of a business plan, a marketing strategy, a logo and a brand name. The solution comes with a Web application to help rescue organisations to follow the scheduled maintenance plan and keep track of the deployed units.
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    Fostering Professional Competencies in Engineering Undergraduates with EPS@ISEP
    ( 2019) Guedes,P ; Benedita Malheiro ; Manuel Santos Silva ; Ferreira,P ; 5855 ; 5655
    Engineering education addresses the development of professional competencies inundergraduates. In this context, the core set of professional competencies includes critical thinkingand problem solving, effective communication, collaboration and team building, and creativityand innovation—also known as the four Cs—as well as socio-professional ethics and sustainabledevelopment—referred in this paper as the two Ss. While the four Cs were identified by theassociates of the American Management Association based on the needs of the society, professionalassociations, and businesses; this paper proposes the two S extension to ensure that future engineerscontribute to the well-being of individuals and the preservation of life on Earth. It proposes atangible framework—the 4C2S—and an application method to analyse the contributions madeby engineering capstone programmes to the development of these core competencies in futureengineering professionals. The method is applied to an engineering capstone programme—theEuropean Project Semester (EPS) offered by the Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP)—anda specific project case—EPS@ISEP Pet Tracker project developed in 2013, constituting, in addition,a road map for the application of the 4C2S framework to engineering capstone programmes. Theresults show that EPS@ISEP complies with the 4C2S framework.
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    Learning Engineering with EPS@ISEP: Developing Projects for Smart Sustainable Cities
    ( 2019) Ferreira,P ; Guedes,P ; Benedita Malheiro ; Manuel Santos Silva ; 5655 ; 5855
    This paper presents an overview on how the European Project Semester capstone programme offered by the Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (EPS@ISEP) fosters learning by challenging engineering, business and product development undergraduates to address sustainability issues afflicting cities and communities nowadays. This will be done by analysing the reports and the learning journey of three multicultural and multidisciplinary EPS@ISEP teams during the design, development and test of a smart billboard, a self-oriented solar mirror and a level monitoring system for waste oil bins. These three projects were conducted within EPS@ISEP, a project-based learning framework dedicated to the development of key engineering skills, namely multidisciplinary teamwork, inter-cultural communication, ethical and sustainability-oriented problem-solving. The involved students contributed, not only, to make cities more inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable, one of UNESCO’s sustainable development goals, but learnt and practiced together sustainability-driven design, while searching for an innovative solution for a smart city problem. This conclusion is supported by the analysis of the content the three project reports.
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    The MopBot Cleaning Robot – An EPS@ISEP 2020 Project
    ( 2021) Tuluc,C ; Verberne,F ; Lasota,S ; de Almeida,T ; Benedita Malheiro ; Justo,J ; Ribeiro,C ; Manuel Santos Silva ; Ferreira,P ; Pedro Guedes ; 5855 ; 8029 ; 5655
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    Multipurpose Urban Sensing Equipment—An EPS@ISEP 2018 Project
    ( 2019) Farrag,M ; Guedes,P ; Ferreira,P ; Manuel Santos Silva ; Justo,J ; Ribeiro,C ; Benedita Malheiro ; Smit,W ; van der Most,M ; Bagiami,M ; Marques,D ; 5655 ; 5855
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    Preface
    ( 2018) Manuel Santos Silva ; Virk,GS ; Tokhi,MO ; Benedita Malheiro ; Ferreira,P ; Guedes,P ; 5855 ; 5655
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    Preface
    ( 2018) Manuel Santos Silva ; Virk,GS ; Tokhi,MO ; Benedita Malheiro ; Ferreira,P ; Guedes,P ; 5855 ; 5655
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    Reconfigurable and Ergonomic Smart Desk - An EPS@ISEP 2021 Project
    ( 2021) Vandoorne-Feys,A ; Nicoara,GG ; Carasel,IS ; Karpiak,M ; Kocheski,N ; Benedita Malheiro ; Ribeiro,C ; Justo,J ; Manuel Santos Silva ; Ferreira,P ; Pedro Guedes ; 5855 ; 8029 ; 5655
    The European Project Semester (EPS) offered by the Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP) provides engineering, business and product design undergraduates with a project-based learning experience in a multicultural and multidisciplinary teamwork environment. This paper reports the research and development of a reconfigurable and ergonomic three-level desk, for people who live in small spaces, by a multicultural and multidisciplinary team of five students. The main objective of the project was to integrate ethics- and sustainability-driven practices in the design, simulation and test an ergonomic, transformable desk. The FREE desk proposal aims to create a comfortable and dynamic working environment for people while providing a transformable space for different daily activities. This goal was pursued by designing a reconfigurable product, a smart desk that offers the user three levels of adjustability: bench level, sitting desk level, and standing desk level. The desk includes a folding light-sensor lamp into the table top and an integrated battery, in order to create a proper working space. The selected materials have a low environmental impact. The solution comes with different options regarding the table top lifting mechanism. This paper describes the state-of-the-art research, the ethics, sustainability, and marketing analyses, the design and simulation of the FREE desk as well as the obtained results.
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    Rigid wing sailboats: A state of the art survey
    ( 2019) Friebe,A ; Ferreira,P ; Guedes,P ; Benedita Malheiro ; Manuel Santos Silva ; Waller,M ; 5655 ; 5855
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    Robotics and the European Project Semester
    ( 2022) Manuel Santos Silva ; Duarte,AJ ; Ferreira,PD ; Pedro Guedes ; 8029 ; 5655
    Robotics is a multidisciplinary subject that typically involves mechanics, electronics, and computer science concepts. For this reason, robotic projects are particularly well suited to the European Project Semester framework since they allow students with different backgrounds to contribute to the overall team objective in their specific knowledge areas. This chapter briefly presents illustrative examples of robotic projects that have been developed by teams of students participating in the European Project Semester at the School of Engineering of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto. It concludes by presenting and discussing student feedback, namely on the program and the projects developed.
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    Sail Car—An EPS©ISEP 2019 Project
    ( 2020) Zhu,A ; Beer,C ; Juhandi,K ; Orlov,M ; Bacau,NL ; Kadar,L ; Duarte,AJ ; Benedita Malheiro ; Justo,J ; Manuel Santos Silva ; Ribeiro,MC ; Ferreira,PD ; Pedro Guedes ; 5855 ; 8029 ; 5655
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    Smart Companion Pillow – An EPS@ISEP 2019 Project
    ( 2020) dos Reis,AS ; Gielen,E ; Wopereis,K ; Pasternak,M ; Sooaar,V ; Schneider,T ; Duarte,AJ ; Benedita Malheiro ; Justo,J ; Ribeiro,C ; Manuel Santos Silva ; Ferreira,P ; Pedro Guedes ; 5855 ; 8029 ; 5655