DEEC congratulates the winners of the Portuguese Society of Robotics (SPR) awards for works completed in 2019.

The prize to the Best National Doctoral Thesis in Robotics was awarded to the work:

Title: Globally Convergent Simultaneous Localization and Mapping: Design Techniques, Analysis, and Implementation

Author: Pedro António Duarte Marques Lourenço (Universidade de Lisboa - IST)

Supervisors: Prof. Paulo Jorge Coelho Ramalho Oliveira, Prof. Pedro Tiago Martins Batista, Prof. Carlos Jorge Ferreira Silvestre

The Prize for the Best National Master's Dissertation in Robotics, was unanimous awarded to the work:

Title: Distributed Formation Control of Double-Integrator Vehicles in the Presence of Unknown Constant Disturbances

Author: Pedro Miguel Dias Trindade (IST)

Supervisors: Prof. Rita Maria Mendes de Almeida Correia da Cunha, Prof. Pedro Tiago Martins Batista.