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Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Portugal
2026

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
62
Citations
12557
World Ranking
1476
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Portugal Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Portugal Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Portugal Leader Award

Overview

Antonio M. Pascoal is affiliated with Instituto Superior Técnico in Portugal and has a broad research footprint primarily in Engineering and Computer Science. Their work is concentrated in several main fields and subfields, highlighting a multidisciplinary approach to autonomous and robotic systems.

The main fields of study for Antonio M. Pascoal are:

  • Engineering
  • Computer Science

Within these broader fields, their research spans notable subfields including:

  • Ocean Engineering
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Their research topics focus on key areas related to autonomous vehicles and control systems, including:

  • Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems
  • Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems
  • Robotic Path Planning Algorithms
  • Target Tracking and Data Fusion in Sensor Networks
  • Control and Dynamics of Mobile Robots
  • Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization
  • Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems

Antonio M. Pascoal has published numerous papers, with recent contributions including:

  • "Prescribed Performance Path Following Control of USVs via an Output-Based Threshold Rule," 2023, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
  • "A review of path following control strategies for autonomous robotic vehicles: Theory, simulations, and experiments," 2022, Journal of Field Robotics
  • "Cooperative path following of constrained autonomous vehicles with model predictive control and event-triggered communications," 2020, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control
  • "Cooperative Distributed Estimation and Control of Multiple Autonomous Vehicles for Range-Based Underwater Target Localization and Pursuit," 2021, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
  • "A unified ship manoeuvring model with a nonlinear model predictive controller for path following in regular waves," 2021, Ocean Engineering

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Nguyen T. Hung
  • Marcelo Jacinto
  • Rita Cunha
  • Francisco Rego
  • João Quintas

Antonio M. Pascoal's research appears regularly in venues such as:

  • IFAC-PapersOnLine
  • Sensors
  • Ocean Engineering
  • OCEANS 2021: San Diego - Porto
  • Journal of Field Robotics

Best Publications

  • Trajectory Tracking for Autonomous Vehicles: An Integrated Approach to Guidance and Control

    Isaac Kaminer;Antonio Pascoal;Eric Hallberg;Carlos Silvestre

  • Dynamic positioning and way-point tracking of underactuated AUVs in the presence of ocean currents

    A. P. Aguiar;A. M. Pascoal

  • Adaptive, non-singular path-following control of dynamic wheeled robots

    D. Soetanto;L. Lapierre;A. Pascoal

  • Issues, progress and new results in robust adaptive control

    Sajjad Fekri;Michael Athans;Antonio Pascoal

  • Brief paper: A velocity algorithm for the implementation of gain-scheduled controllers

    Isaac Kaminer;Antonio M. Pascoal;Pramod P. Khargonekar;Edward E. Coleman

  • Combined trajectory tracking and path following: an application to the coordinated control of autonomous marine craft

    P. Encarnacao;A. Pascoal

  • 3D path following for autonomous underwater vehicle

    P. Encarnacao;A. Pascoal

  • Challenges and future trends in marine robotics

    Enrica Zereik;Marco Bibuli;Nikola Miskovic;Pere Ridao

  • Coordinated Path-Following in the Presence of Communication Losses and Time Delays

    R. Ghabcheloo;A. P. Aguiar;A. Pascoal;C. Silvestre

  • Environmental Monitoring using Autonomous Vehicles: A Survey of Recent Searching Techniques

    Behzad Bayat;Naveena Crasta;Alessandro Crespi;Antonio M. Pascoal

  • Nonlinear path following with applications to the control of autonomous underwater vehicles

    L. Lapierre;D. Soetanto;A. Pascoal

  • Robotic ocean vehicles for marine science applications: the European ASIMOV project

    A. Pascoal;P. Oliveira;C. Silvestre;L. Sebastiao

  • Path Following for Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Using L1 Adaptive Augmentation of Commercial Autopilots

    Isaac Kaminer;Antonio Pascoal;Enric Xargay;Naira Hovakimyan

  • Vehicle and Mission Control of the DELFIM Autonomous Surface Craft

    J. Alves;P. Oliveira;R. Oliveira;A. Pascoal

  • Cooperative control of multiple surface vessels in the presence of ocean currents and parametric model uncertainty

    J. Almeida;C. Silvestre;A. Pascoal

  • Path Following for Autonomous Marine Craft

    P. Encarnação;A. Pascoal;M. Arcak

  • Synchronization of Multiagent Systems Using Event-Triggered and Self-Triggered Broadcasts

    Joao Almeida;Carlos Silvestre;Antonio Pascoal

  • Study and implementation of an EKF GIB-based underwater positioning system

    A. Alcocer;P. Oliveira;A. Pascoal

  • DEPTH CONTROL OF THE INFANTE AUV USING GAIN-SCHEDULED REDUCED-ORDER OUTPUT FEEDBACK

    C. Silvestre;A. Pascoal

  • Trajectory Tracking Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Autonomous Surface Craft

    Bruno J. Guerreiro;Carlos Silvestre;Rita Cunha;Antonio Pascoal

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlos Silvestre
Carlos Silvestre University of Macau
Paulo Oliveira
Paulo Oliveira University of Lisbon
Michael Athans
Michael Athans Instituto Superior Técnico
Naira Hovakimyan
Naira Hovakimyan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Pramod P. Khargonekar
Pramod P. Khargonekar University of California, Irvine
Asgeir J. Sørensen
Asgeir J. Sørensen Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Chengyu Cao
Chengyu Cao University of Connecticut
Gianluca Antonelli
Gianluca Antonelli University of Cassino and Southern Lazio
Joao P. Hespanha
Joao P. Hespanha University of California, Santa Barbara
Colin N. Jones
Colin N. Jones École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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