Publications

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

2025

• 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.