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Selected Recent Publications - See the complete list of publications in Dr. Pereira's CV.

2025

P. V. G. Simplicio, and G. A. S. Pereira, “Multi-resolution UAV Path Replanning for Inspection of Tailings Dams,” in Proceedings of the International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS’25), North Carolina, USA, May 2025,pp. 256–263.
D. Akhihiero, U. Olawoye, and G. A. S. Pereira, “Optimization-Based Motion Planning for Vector Field Following in Dynamic Environments,” in Proceedings of the International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS’25), North Carolina, USA, May 2025, pp. 602–608
L. Escobar, and G. A. S. Pereira, “Energy-Aware Coverage Path Planner for Multirotor UAVs,” in Proceedings of the International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS’25), North Carolina, USA, May 2025, pp. 777–784
R. Lima and G. A. S. Pereira, , "Tension-Aware Motion Planning for Tethered Robots," Robotics, vol 14, no 2, pp. 11, January 2025.

2024

B. Martinez R. Jr. and G. A. S. Pereira, , " Optimal policies for autonomous navigation in strong currents using fast marching trees ," Autonomous Robots, vol 48, no 27, pp. 1-19, October 2024.
P. V. G. Simplicio and G. A. S. Pereira, " Mission Planning for Photogrammetry-based autonomous 3D Mapping of Dams using a commercial UAV," in Proceedings of the International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS'24) , Chania, Crete, Greece, June 2024, pp. 464-471.
B. Martinez R. Jr., P. V. G. Simplicio, and G. A. S. Pereira, " A Behavior Tree Approach for Battery-Aware Inspection of Large Structures Using Drones," in Proceedings of the International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS'24) , Chania, Crete, Greece, June 2024, pp. 464-471.

2023

R. Lima and G. A. S. Pereira , " A Multi-model Framework for Tether-based Drone Localization," Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems , vol. 108, pp. 20, 2023.
R. Lima, B. Martinez R. Jr., and G. A. S. Pereira, " Continuous Vector Fields for Precise Cable-Guided Landing of Tethered UAVs," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 8, no 7, pp. 4370 - 4377, 2023.
M. Rahman, S. White IV, K. Crockett, Y. Gu, D. A. A. Dutra, and G. A. S. Pereira, “ Imitating Swarm Behaviors by Learning Agent-Level Controllers,” in Proceedings of the American Control Conference (ACC’23), San Diego, CA, USA, May/June 2023, pp. 7–13.
B. Martinez R. Jr., C. Kilic, C. Tatsch, G. A. S. Pereira, and J. N. Gross, " Multi-robot cooperation for lunar In-Situ resource utilization," Frontiers in Robotics and AI, vol. 10, pp. 1-25, 2023.
A. Puigvert i Juan, B. Martinez R. Jr. G.A.S. Pereira , " Wind-Aware Path Optimization for an Aerobot in the Atmosphere of Venus Using Genetic Algorithms, " in Proceedings of the International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS'23) , Warsaw, Poland, June 6-9, 2023, pp. 249-265.
B. Martinez R. Jr., R. Lima, K. Samarakoon, J. Rathjen, J. N. Gross, and G. A. S. Pereira, " Oxpecker: A Tethered UAV for Inspection of Stone-Mine Pillars," Drones, vol. 7, issue 2, pp. 73, 2023.

2022

A. Keipour, G. A. S. Pereira, R. Bonatti, R. Garg, P. Rastogi, G. Dubey, S. Scherer, " Visual Servoing Approach to Autonomous UAV Landing on a Moving Vehicle," Sensors, vol. 22, issue 17, pp. 6549, 2022.
B. Martinez R. Jr., and G. A. S. Pereira, " Parallel Sensor-Space Lattice Planner for Real-Time Obstacle Avoidance," Sensors, vol. 22, issue 13, pp. 4770, 2022.
B. Martinez R. Jr., A. Puigvert i Juan, G.A.S. Pereira, " Towards Finding Energy Efficient Paths for Hybrid Airships in the Atmosphere of Venus," in Proceedings of the International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS'22) , Dubrovnik, Croatia , June 21-24, 2022 , pp. 386-393.

2021

C. Kilic, B. Martinez R. Jr., C. A. Tatsch, J. Beard, J. Strader, S. Das, D. Ross, Y. Gu, G. A. S. Pereira, and J. N. Gross, " NASA Space Robotics Challenge 2 Qualification Round: An Approach to Autonomous Lunar Rover Operations," IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, vol. 36, no 12, pp. 24-41, December 2021.
B. Martinez R. Jr., and G. A. S. Pereira, " Fast Path Computation using Lattices in the Sensor-Space for Forest Navigation," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'21), Xi'an, China, May 31 - June 4, 2021, pp. 1117-1123.
A. Keipour, G. A. S. Pereira, and S. Scherer, " Real-Time Ellipse Detection for Robotics Applications," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 6, no 4, pp. 7009-7016, 2021.
R. M. Gago, M. Y. A. Pereira, and G. A. S. Pereira, " An aerial robotic system for inventory of stockpile warehouses," Engineering Reports, vol. 3, no 9, pp. e12396, 2021.

2020

D. Shapovalov and G. A. S. Pereira, " Tangle-Free Exploration with a Tethered Mobile Robot," Remote Sensing, vol. 12, no 23, pp. 3858, 2020.
G. A. S. Pereira and E. J. R. Freitas, " Navigation of Semi-autonomous Service Robots Using Local Information and Anytime Motion Planners," Robotica, vol. 38, no 11, pp. 2080-2098, 2020.
V. M. Gonçalves, R. McLaughlin, and G. A. S. Pereira, " Precise Landing of Autonomous Aerial Vehicles using Vector Fields," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no 3, pp. 4337-4344, July 2020.
D. Shapovalov and G. A. S. Pereira, " Exploration of unknown environments with a tethered mobile robot," in Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'20), Las Vegas, NV, USA, October 25-29, 2020, pp. 6826-6831.

2019

A. C. B Chiella, H. N. Machado, B. O. Teixeira, and G. A. S. Pereira, " GNSS/LiDAR-Based Navigation of an Aerial Robot in Sparse Forests," Sensors, vol. 19, issue 19, pp. 4061, 2019.
A. C. B Chiella, B. O. Teixeira, and G. A. S. Pereira, " Quaternion-Based Robust Attitude Estimation Using an Adaptive Unscented Kalman Filter ,” Sensors, vol. 19, issue 10, pp. 2372, 2019.
A. C. B Chiella, B. O. Teixeira, and G. A. S. Pereira, " Robust attitude estimation using an adaptive unscented Kalman filter," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'19) , Montreal, Canada, May 20-24, 2019 , pp. 7748-7754.

2018

R. F. Santos, G. A. S. Pereira and L. A. Aguirre, " Learning Robot Reaching Motions by Demonstration Using Nonlinear Autoregressive Models ," Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 107, pp 182–195, 2018.

2017

R. J. Alitappeh, G. A. S. Pereira, A. R. Araújo and L. C. A. Pimenta, " Multi-robot Deployment Using Topological Maps," Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, vol. 86, pp. 641-661 2017.

2016

G. A. S. Pereira, S. Choudhury and S. Scherer, " A Framework for Optimal Repairing of Vector Field-based Motion Plans," Proceedings of the International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS'16), Arlington, Virginia, pp 261-266, 2016.

2015

G. S. C Avelar, G. A. S. Pereira, L. C. A. Pimenta and P. Iscold, " Multi-UAV Routing for Area Coverage and Remote Sensing with Minimum Time," Sensors, vol. 15, pp. 27783-27803, 2015.
N. C. Batista and G. A. S. Pereira, " A probabilistic approach for fusing people detectors," Journal of Control, Automation and Electrical Systems, vol. 26, pp. 616-629, 2015.
J. E. A. Dias, G. A. S. Pereira and R. M. Palhares, " Longitudinal Model Identification and Velocity Control of an Autonomous Car," IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 776 - 786, April 2015.

2014

D. N. Brito, F. L. C. Pádua and G. A. S. Pereira, " Temporal Synchronization in Mobile Sensor Networks Using Image Sequence Analysis," Machine Vision and Applications, vol.25, no.4, pp. 1067-1076, May 2014.

2013

L. C. A. Pimenta, G. A. S. Pereira, M. M. Gonçalves, N. Michael, M. Turpin and V. Kumar, " Decentralized Controllers for Perimeter Surveillance with Teams of Aerial Robots ," Advanced Robotics, vol. 27, no. 9, pp. 697-709, 2013 (The Advanced Robotics Best Paper Award).
L. C. A. Pimenta, G. A. S. Pereira, N. Michael, R. C. Mesquita, M. M. Bosque, L. Chaimowicz and V. Kumar, " Swarm Coordination Based on Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Ttechnique," IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 383-399, April 2013.
D. A. Lima and G. A. S. Pereira, " Navigation of an Autonomous Car Using Vector Fields and the Dynamic Window Approach ," Journal of Control, Automation and Electrical Systems, vol. 24, no. 1-2, pp. 106-116, April 2013.

2011

M. M. Gonçalves, L. C. A. Pimenta and G. A. S. Pereira, " Coverage of Curves in 3D with Swarms of Nonholonomic Aerial Robots," in Proceedings of the 18th IFAC World Congress, 2011, pp. 10367-10372.
M. A. G. Moreira, G. A. S. Pereira, L. A. B. Torres and P. Iscold, " Localização, Modelagem e Controle de um Mini-helicóptero em Ambientes Internos," Controle & Automação, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 238-255, 2011.
D. N. Brito, F. L. C. Pádua, G. A. S. Pereira and R. L. Carceroni, " Temporal Synchronization of Non-overlapping Videos Using Known Object Motion," Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 38-46, 2011.

2010

V. M. Gonçalves, L. C. A. Pimenta, C. A. Maia, B. Dutra and G. A. S. Pereira, " Vector Fields for Robot Navigation Along Time-Varying Curves in n-dimensions," IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 647-659, 2010.
V. M. Gonçalves, L. C. A. Pimenta, C. A. Maia, G. A. S. Pereira, B. Dutra, N. Michael, J. Fink and V. Kumar, " Circulation of Curves Using Vector Fields: Actual Robot Wxperiments in 2D and 3D Workspaces," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2010, pp. 1136-1141.
V. M. Gonçalves, C. A. Maia, G. A. S. Pereira and L. C. A. Pimenta," Navegação de Robôs Móveis utilizando Curvas Implícitas," Controle & Automação, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 43-57, 2010.
P. Iscold, L. A. B. Torres and G. A. S. Pereira," The Development of a Hand-Launched Small UAV for Ground Reconnaissance," IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 335-348, 2010.