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Antonio Candea Leite

Antonio Candea Leite

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  • Institutt for maskinteknikk og teknologiledelse

Antonio Candea Leite has a Master (2005) and Doctorate degrees (2011) in Electrical Engineering from COPPE/UFRJ, Brazil, with an emphasis on modeling and control of robotic systems. Through his research background, he has developed R&D projects in the areas of industrial, offshore, rehabilitation and agricultural robotics.

From 2012 to 2014, he worked in the Smart Systems Center of Excellence at the General Electric Global Research Center (GE GRC) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he held the position of Industrial Automation Researcher and carried out R&D activities in the Electric Power, Oil & Gas, and Railroad Transportation industries. From 2016 to 2020, he held the position of an Assistant Professor and Researcher in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil, working mainly in the areas of control, automation, and robotics.

From January 2020 to July 2020 and from October 2020 to April 2021, he worked in the Faculty of Science and Technology (REALTEK) at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), acting as a university lecturer and supervising Masters and PhD students. From April 2021 to October 2021, he was a postdoctoral fellow at REALTEK-NMBU working in the DigiFoods Project on Robot and Sensor Integration pillar. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in Agricultural Robotics at REALTEK-NMBU boosting research and teaching in robotics, control engineering and automation. His primary research focuses now are autonomous navigation in agricultural fields, robotics and automation for precision agriculture and digital food quality, and smart farming solutions.

  • Fagfelt
    • Adaptive and Robust Control Systems
    • Interaction Control and Visual Servoing
    • Robot Manipulators: single-arm and multi-arm systems
    • Mobile Robots: ground and aerial vehicles
    • Agricultural Robotics
  • Publikasjoner

    Liste med publikasjoner fra min forskning. (Cristin)

    • Jonathan Fried, Antonio C. Leite and Fernando Lizarralde, ''Uncalibrated Image-based Visual Servoing Approach for Translational Trajectory Tracking with an Uncertain Robot Manipulator'', Control Engineering Practice (CEP), Vol. 130 (105363), 2022, pp. 1-16, doi: 10.1016/j.conengprac.2022.105363 
    • Adalberto I. S. Oliveira, Antonio C. Leite and Wouter Caarls, "Intelligent Robust Control for Second-Order Non-Linear Systems with Smart Gain Tuning based on Reinforcement Learning", Proceedings of the 2022 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Padova, Italy, July 18-23, 2022. doi: 10.1109/IJCNN55064.2022.9892099
    • Jonathan Fried, Fernando Lizarralde and Antonio C. Leite, "Adaptive Image-Based Visual Servoing with Time-Varying Learning Rates for Uncertain Robot Manipulators", Proceedings of the 2022 American Control Conference (ACC), Atlanta, USA, June 8-10, 2022, pp. 3838-3843, doi: 10.23919/ACC53348.2022.9867387
    • Abhishesh Pal, Gautham Das, Marc Hanheide, Antonio C. Leite and Pål J. From, "An Agricultural Event Prediction Framework towards Anticipatory Scheduling of Robot Fleets: General Concepts and Case Studies", Agronomy, Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, vol. 12(6), 2022, pp. 1-18, doi: 10.3390/agronomy12061299
    • Marcus O. Couto,  Arthur G. Rodrigues, Fernando Coutinho, Ramon R. Costa, Antonio C. Leite, Fernando Lizarralde and João C. Payão Filho, "Mapping of Bead Geometry in Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing Systems Using Passive Vision", Journal of Control, Automation and Electrical Systems (JCAE), January 2022, pp. 1-12, doi: 10.1007/s40313-021-00880-0
    • Gustavo B. P. Barbosa, Eduardo C. Silva and Antonio C. Leite, "Vision-based Autonomous Crop Row Navigation for Wheeled Mobile Robots using Super-twisting Sliding Mode Control", Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE 10th European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR), Bonn, Germany, August 31-September 3, 2021, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ECMR50962.2021.9568819
    • Gustavo B. P. Barbosa, Eduardo C. Silva and Antonio C. Leite, "Robust Image-based Visual Servoing for Autonomous Row Crop Following with Wheeled Mobile Robots", Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE 17th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), Lyon, France, August 23-27, 2021, pp. 1047-1053,  doi: 10.1109/CASE49439.2021.9551667
    • Guilherme N. Souza, Tiago R. Oliveira and Antonio C. Leite, "Robust Control Design for a Hopping Robot in Flight Phase using the Sliding Mode Approach", Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE 17th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), Lyon, France, August 23-27, 2021, pp. 1060-1066, doi: 10.1109/CASE49439.2021.9551560
    • Juan D. Gamba-Camacho, Antonio C. Leite and Roy Featherstone, "Robust Balancing Control of a Spring-Legged Robot Based on a High-Order Sliding Mode Observer", Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE-RAS 20th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Munich, Germany, July 19-21, 2021, pp. 384-391, doi: 10.1109/HUMANOIDS47582.2021.9555776
    • Abhishesh Pal, Antonio C. Leite, Jon G. O. Gjevestad and Pål J. From, "A Video-Based Human Activity and Motion Direction Classification Framework for Agricultural Fields", Proceedings of the 2021 6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Robot Systems (ACIRS), Tokyo, Japan, Virtual Conference, July 15-18, 2021, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/ACIRS52449.2021.9519337
    • Abhishesh Pal, Antonio C. Leite, Jon G. O. Gjevestad and Pål J. From, "A Video-Based Activity Classification of Human Pickers in Agriculture", Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE Workshop on Advance Robotics and its Social Impact (ARSO), Nagoya, Japan, Virtual Conference, July 8-10, 2021.
    • Antonio C. Leite, Francisco L. Cruz and Fernando Lizarralde, "Adaptive Passivity-based Hybrid Pose/Force Control for Uncertain Robots", Proceedings of the 21st IFAC World Congress (IFAC), Munich, Germany, July 11-17, 2020, pp. 3854-3860, doi: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2020.12.2077
    • Jonathan Fried, Fernando Lizarralde and Antonio C. Leite, "An Indirect Adaptive Control Approach to Image Based Visual Servoing for Translational Trajectory Tracking", Proceedings of the 21st IFAC World Congress (IFAC), Munich, Germany, July 11-17, 2020, pp. 3815-3820. doi: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2020.12.2073
    • Gabriel L. Tenório, Felipe F. Martins, Thiago M. Carvalho, Antonio C. Leite, Karla T. Figueiredo, Marley M. B. R. Vellasco and Wouter Caarls, "Comparative Study of Computer Vision Models for Insect Pest Identification in Complex Backgrounds", Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering (DeSE), Kazan, Russia, October 7-10, 2019, pp. 551-556, doi: 10.1109/DeSE.2019.00106
    • William S. Barbosa, Adalberto I. S. Oliveira, Gustavo B. P. Barbosa, Antonio C. Leite, Karla T. Figueiredo, Marley M. B. R. Vellasco and Wouter Caarls, "Design and Development of an Autonomous Mobile Robot for Inspection of Soy and Cotton Crops", Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering (DeSE), Kazan, Russia, October 7-10, 2019, pp. 557-562, doi: 10.1109/DeSE.2019.00107
    • Adalberto I. S. Oliveira, Thiago M. Carvalho, Felipe F. Martins, Antonio C. Leite, Karla T. Figueiredo, Marley M. B. R. Vellasco and Wouter Caarls, "On the Intelligent Control Design of an Agricultural Mobile Robot for Cotton Crop Monitoring", Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering (DeSE), Kazan, Russia, October 7-10, 2019, pp. 563-568, doi: 10.1109/DeSE.2019.00108
    • Marco F. S. Xaud, Antonio C. Leite and Pål J. From, "Thermal Image Based Navigation System for Skid-Steering Mobile Robot in Sugarcane Crops", Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Montreal, QC, Canada, May 20-24, 2019, pp. 1808-1814, doi: 10.1109/ICRA.2019.8794354 
    • Matheus F. Reis, João C. Monteiro, Ramon R. Costa and Antonio C. Leite, "Super-Twisting Control with Quaternion Feedback for a 3-DoF Inertial Stabilization Platform", 2018 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Miami, FL, USA, December 17-19, 2018, pp. 2193-2198, doi: 10.1109/CDC.2018.8619292.
    • Juan D. Gamba-Camacho, Pål J. From and Antonio C. Leite, "A Visual Servoing Approach for Robotic Fruit Harvesting in the Presence of Parametric Uncertainties", Proceedings of the XXII Brazilian Conference on Automation (CBA), João Pessoa, PB, Brazil, September 9-12, 2018, doi: 10.20906/CPS/CBA2018-0541.
    • Marco F. S. Xaud, Antonio C. Leite, Evelyn S. Barbosa, Henrique D. Faria, Gabriel S. M. Loureiro and Pål J. From, "Robotic Tankette for Intelligent Bioenergy Agriculture: Design, Development and Field Tests", Proceedings of the XXII Brazilian Conference on Automation (CBA), João Pessoa, PB, Brazil, September 9-12, 2018, doi: 10.20906/CPS/CBA2018-1357.
    • Lars Grimstad, Marco F. S. Xaud, Antonio C. Leite and Pål J. From, "Kinematic Modeling and Control Design of a Novel Single-Rail Parallel Arm", Proceedings of the 20th IFAC World Congress (IFAC), Toulouse, France, July 9-14, 2017, pp. 11434-11440, doi: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2017.08.1811
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