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 Updated on 04 September 2026. The programme is subject to change.

The schedule for this programme follows the Summer time zone in Lisbon (GMT+1/WEST).

Wednesday, 09 September 2026

08:00 - 17:00 Registration
Room: Front Desk
09:00 - 09:30 Opening Session
Room: Aqua
09:30 - 10:40 Plenary Session 1 - From Traditional Fault Detection and Isolation (FDI) to Learning: an Industrial Perspective on AI-Driven FDI in Civil Aviation
Speaker: Philippe Goupil (AIRBUS)
Room: Aqua
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee Break
Parallel Sessions A - Wednesday
11:00 - 13:00
Session WeA1 - Control in Energy Systems
Chairs: Luís Brito Palma and André Milhorance de Castro
Room: Aqua
11:00 - 11:20
Less Conservative H2 and H-infinity Guaranteed-Cost Estimates for Discrete-Time Systems Subject to Polytopic Uncertainties
Authors: Glauco C. P. Soares, Artur C. Silva, Jonathan M. Palma and Cecília F. Morais
Paper ID: 1181
11:20 - 11:40
New LMI conditions for D-Stable Digital Redesign
Authors: Sergio Valdivia, Critobal Palma, Jonathan M. Palma and Cecília F. Morais
Paper ID: 6188
11:40 - 12:00
A Robust PI-Like Voltage Controller for PMSG-Based Aeronautical Applications
Authors: Paolo Roberto Massenio and David Naso
Paper ID: 3584
12:00 - 12:20
FPAA-Based Experimental Implementation of Observer-Based Cascaded PI Control for a DC–DC Buck Converter
Authors: Julio Cezar Oliveira de Souza Lescano, Carlos Eduardo Capovilla and Alain Segundo Potts
Paper ID: 3976
12:20 - 12:40
Battery Energy Storage Scheduling for Economic and Grid-Support Services in Distribution Networks via Receding Horizon Control
Authors: Brenno Mainente, Henrique Conti and André Milhorance de Castro
Paper ID: 6102
12:40 - 13:00
Lyapunov Redesign for Interleaved Boost Converter in PV-Based DC Microgrids
Authors: Aqeel Ur Rahman, Filippo Pellitteri and Georgios Tzounas
Paper ID: 6556
11:00 - 13:00
Session WeA2 - Control in Biomedical and Healthcare Systems
Chairs: Alberto Cardoso and Paula Rocha Malonek
Room: Ignis
11:00 - 11:20
A Fuzzy Logic-Based Recommendation System for Healthy Lifestyle Promotion Using Wearable Sensor Data
Authors: José Freitas, Isa Albergaria, Daniela Rodrigues and Alberto Cardoso
Paper ID: 2055
11:20 - 11:40
On Closed-Form Cheap-Control LQR for Three-Compartment Pharmacokinetic Systems
Authors: Lio Gonçalves and Ranan Venancio
Paper ID: 2362
11:40 - 12:00
Structural Applicability of Ziegler-Nichols Tuning to Three-Compartment Pharmacokinetic Models with Effect-Site Dynamics
Authors: Ranan Venancio and Lio Gonçalves
Paper ID: 7453
12:00 - 12:20
Vision-Based Ultrasound Probe Robotic Positioning
Authors: Francisco Barreto, Carlos Azevedo, Gabriel Gonçalves, Gabriela Simões and Rui Cortesão
Paper ID: 8195
12:20 - 12:40
Online Estimation Strategies for a Reduced Parameter Model in Neuromuscular Blockade Control
Authors: Hugo Alonso, Cláudia Sousa, Teresa Mendonça and Paula Rocha
Paper ID: 8972
12:40 - 13:00
Modelling Behavioural Transitions in Young Adults Through Multimodal Wearable Sensing
Authors: Isabel Dias, Matias Lemos, Daniela Rodrigues and Alberto Cardoso
Paper ID: 9103
11:00 - 13:00
Session WeA3 - SS-03. Geometric Control and Mechanics of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
Chairs: David Martin de Diego and Leonardo Colombo
Room: Aer
11:00 - 11:20
A Generalized Sasaki Metric on the Second-Order Tangent Bundle
Authors: Margarida Camarinha and Jacob Goodman
Paper ID: 3607
11:20 - 11:40
Riemannian Metric Preconditioning for Trajectory Tracking
Authors: Jacob Goodman and Hajg Jasa
Paper ID: 6339
11:40 - 12:00
Optimal Control of Incompressible Ideal Flows with Obstacle Avoidance
Authors: Alexandre Anahory Simoes, Anthony Bloch and Leonardo Colombo
Paper ID: 1160
12:00 - 12:20
Robust Geometric Control of Catenary Robots under Unstructured Force Uncertainties
Authors: Leonardo Colombo and Alexandre Anahory Simoes
Paper ID: 8277
12:20 - 12:40
Quasi-Static Control of Discrete Cosserat Rod
Authors: Srishti Siddharth, Domenico Campolo and Ravi Banavar
Paper ID: 5525
12:40 - 13:00
A Geometric Variational Framework for Tendon-Driven Soft-Legged Quadruped Dynamics
Authors: Saumya Karan, Srishti Siddharth, Madhu Vadali and Ravi Banavar
Paper ID: 0812
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Visiting the Gardens of Quinta das Lágrimas
Parallel Sessions B - Wednesday
15:00 - 16:20
Session WeB1 - Model-Based and Optimal Control
Chairs: Asier Ibeas and Leonardo Colombo
Room: Aer
15:00 - 15:20
Initial Value Sets for Forward Completeness under Critical Bounds to a State Component
Authors: Simon Kappenstein, Lutz Gröll and Veit Hagenmeyer
Paper ID: 2086
15:20 - 15:40
Repetitive Control of Rolling Force for Periodic Disturbance Rejection in Skin-Pass Rolling
Authors: Joshua Groß-Gärtner, Mengmeng Zhang, Christopher Schulte, Heike Vallery, David Bailly and Sebastian Stemmler
Paper ID: 2882
15:40 - 16:00
Model-based Control for Earthquake Simulation on a Seismic Shaking Table
Authors: Afonso Henrique, Miguel Ayala Botto and Fernando Oliveira
Paper ID: 3486
16:00 - 16:20
Optimal Sampling for Quadratic Optimal Control of Scalar Bilinear Systems with Free Final Time
Authors: Asier Ibeas, Pedro Balaguer and José Carlos Alfonso
Paper ID: 6574
15:00 - 16:20
Session WeB2 - SS-01. Mathematical methods in optimal control
Chair: Nathalie Khalil
Room: Ignis
15:00 - 15:20
Influence of fractional-order PID control on the performance of a magnetic levitation system
Authors: Igor Reznichenko, Primož Podržaj and Aljoša Peperko
Paper ID: 9919
15:20 - 15:40
A Variational Surrogate Approach to Finite-Horizon Quantum Control via Hardware-Efficient Ansatz
Authors: Nahid Binandeh Dehaghani, Rafal Wisniewski and A. Pedro Aguiar
Paper ID: 2736
15:40 - 16:00
Bilevel Optimization for Smart Irrigation Control: A Framework for Enhancing Water-Use Efficiency in Agriculture
Authors: Roman Chertovskih, Nathalie Khalil and Luís Manuel Ribeiro de Sousa
Paper ID: 9129
16:00 - 16:20
Optimal irrigation control in layered soils with parameter uncertainty
Authors: Ana P. Lemos-Paião and Sofia O. Lopes
Paper ID: 7527
15:00 - 16:20
Session WeB3 - WiP. Cyber-Physical Systems and Industrial Automation
Chairs: Pedro Martins and Fernando Fontes
Room: Aqua
15:00 - 15:10
A Smart Wearable IIoT Device for Production Support and Human-machine Collaboration
Authors: Oussama Hadj Abdelkader, Hadjer Bouzebiba, Fernando Fontes and Amine Hadj-Abdelkader
Paper ID: 0141
15:10 - 15:20
Adaptive Scale-Aware Visual Servoing With Deep Perception and Online Jacobian Learning
Authors: Albert Owusu, Paulo Menezes and Rui Cortesao
Paper ID: 3431
15:20 - 15:30
A Remote and Intelligent Supervision Platform for Cyber-Physical Systems using Digital Twins
Authors: Tiago Lopes and Alberto Cardoso
Paper ID: 5647
15:30 - 15:40
Design of a Robotic System for Panel FOUP Handling in the Semiconductor Industry
Authors: Michael Xenya, Rui Cortesão and Joao Lourenco
Paper ID: 7700
15:40 - 15:50
A Production Support and Monitoring System on Mobile Application
Authors: Oussama Hadj Abdelkader, Hadjer Bouzebiba and Fernando Fontes
Paper ID: 8214
15:50 - 16:00
A Multi-Agent Distributed Architecture for Autonomous, Resilient and Reliable Industrial CPS
Authors: Jorge Alves, Pedro Sousa, Tiago Cruz and Jerome Mendes
Paper ID: 8775
16:00 - 16:10
Standards-Compliant Active-Inference Framework for Safe Human-Robot Collaboration
Authors: Alessio Caneschi, Kevin Alcedo, Pedro U. Lima, Matteo Bottin and Giulio Rosati
Paper ID: 9642
16:10 - 16:20
BSENSED - A Multi-Sensor-based Digital Twin Framework for Enhanced Border Surveillance and Situational Awareness
Authors: Bruno Cândido, Nuno P. Santos and Alexandra Moutinho
Paper ID: 1370
16:20 - 16:40 Coffee Break
Parallel Sessions C - Wednesday
16:40 - 18:20
Session WeC1 - Robot Localization and Motion Planning
Chairs: Jorge S. S. Júnior and Pedro Martins
Room: Aqua
16:40 - 17:00
Track-Based Position Estimation and Localization for Differential Drive Line-Following Robots
Authors: Joana Moura, José Lima and Paulo Costa
Paper ID: 1035
17:00 - 17:20
Investigating Communication-Induced Action Spaces for Decentralized Multi-Agent Exploration of Unknown Environments
Authors: Gabriele Calzolari, Vidya Sumathy, Christoforos Kanellakis and George Nikolakopoulos
Paper ID: 1236
17:20 - 17:40
Humanoid Localization Based on Feature Detection and Extended Kalman Filtering
Authors: Luis Manuel Leitao, António Paulo Moreira and António Fernando Ribeiro
Paper ID: 1752
17:40 - 18:00
Motion planning and orientation estimation of a non-holonomic orienting platform
Authors: Janusz Jakubiak
Paper ID: 2590
18:00 - 18:20
LiDAR Characterization and Localization in Robot@Factory 4.0: A Cost-Effective Approach
Authors: Nuno Parente, José Lima and Paulo Costa
Paper ID: 6967
16:40 - 18:20
Session WeC2 - SS-04. Geometric and Riemannian Methods for Data Analysis and Optimization
Chairs: Knut Hüper and Luís Machado
Room: Aer
16:40 - 17:00
Unsupervised Classification of Industrial Alarm Behavior Using Persistent Homology
Authors: Rafael Larraz Mora
Paper ID: 8642
17:00 - 17:20
A polar-factor retraction on the symplectic Stiefel manifold with closed-form inverse
Authors: Ralf Zimmermann
Paper ID: 1378
17:20 - 17:40
Riemannian polynomials on SPD manifolds equipped with the affine-invariant metric
Authors: Luís Machado, Margarida Camarinha and Fátima Silva Leite
Paper ID: 2757
17:40 - 18:00
Geometric optimization for the reconfiguration of regular planar formations
Authors: Luís Machado, Fátima Silva Leite and Knut Hueper
Paper ID: 4554
18:00 - 18:20
Elastica Old and New
Authors: Knut Hüper and Fátima Silva Leite
Paper ID: 6389
16:40 - 18:00
Session WeC3 - WiP. Applied Control in Emerging Domains
Chairs: Silvana Roxani Revollar Chávez and Rodrigo Salles
Room: Ignis
16:40 - 16:50
Learning Eigenstructure of Underwater Acoustic Propagation Using Computational Intelligence: A Study on the VTUAD Dataset
Authors: Dmytro Dehtiarov and Susava Vieira
Paper ID: 3490
16:50 - 17:00
On single defective identification in Nested Ordered Testing
Authors: Viktor Skorniakov
Paper ID: 5215
17:00 - 17:10
Statistical Process Control and Circular Economy: Challenges and Potential Applications
Authors: Luz Alejo, Alexander Feil and Kathrin Greiff
Paper ID: 6210
17:10 - 17:20
Adaptive Robotic Gripping for Flexible Manufacturing: A Work-in-Progress Approach
Authors: Eliana Inca Cabrera, Artur Mateus, Catarina Fernandes, Duarte Silva, Fabio Roleiro and Gonçalo Fabião
Paper ID: 8445
17:20 - 17:30
Control Strategy of a Laboratory-Scale Carnot Battery Experimental Rig
Authors: Marcio Santos, Tiago Fernandes, Erik Vass, Ricardo Mendes, Jorge André and Jose B. Ribeiro
Paper ID: 7756
17:30 - 17:40
Fuzzy Logic-Based Optimization of the Energy Consumption in Wastewater Treatment Plants under Variable Climate Conditions
Authors: Silvana Roxani Revollar Chavez, Mario Francisco, Montse Meneses, Ramón Vilanova and Pastora Vega
Paper ID: 9236
17:40 - 17:50
Closed-Loop Identification and Structural Modeling of Power Assist Control System
Authors: Hironao Yamada, Satoshi Ueki and Takahiro Ikeda
Paper ID: 9562
17:50 - 18:00
New control system for the IAC80 telescope
Authors: Teodora Aleida Viera Curbelo
Paper ID: 9676
18:30 - 20:30 Welcome Reception
Room: Romantic Garden

Thursday, 10 September 2026

08:00 - 17:00 Registration
Room: Front Desk
Parallel Sessions A - Thursday
09:00 - 10:40
Session ThA1 - Fault Detection and Intelligent Manufacturing Systems
Chairs: Francisco Cruz and Luís Conde Bento
Room: Aqua
09:00 - 09:20
Anomaly Detection on Vibration Bearing Data Using AutoEncoder
Authors: Luís Conde Bento, Urbano J. Nunes and Ricardo Lopes
Paper ID: 3157
09:20 - 09:40
Adaptive Sequential Sensor Placement for Robust and Efficient Online Fault Diagnosis
Authors: Frank Döhner, Zahra Sadat Hajseyed Nasrollah, Julius Pfrommer, Tobias Würth and Jürgen Beyerer
Paper ID: 3747
09:40 - 10:00
Closed-Form One-Shot 3D Pose Estimation for Deformable Wire Insertion through RCD Toroid
Authors: Rui Martins, Luís F. Rocha, Carlos M. Costa and Roberto M. Silva
Paper ID: 7963
10:00 - 10:20
Multiclass Anomaly Detection for Characterizing Product Variation in Manufacturing
Authors: Shuai Wu, Milad Ashour Pour and Maria Riveiro
Paper ID: 8229
10:20 - 10:40
Modular Pneumatic Gripper for Multi-Variant Honeycomb Insertion in Furniture Manufacturing
Authors: Guilherme Osório, Luís F. Rocha and Roberto M. Silva
Paper ID: 9098
09:00 - 10:40
Session ThA2 - Identification and Control of Fractional-Order Systems
Chairs: Duarte Valério and Guilherme A. Barreto
Room: Ignis
09:00 - 09:20
Enhanced Fractional-Order Control of Time-Delay Thermal Systems via Smith Predictor and Anti-Windup Integration
Authors: Tiago Santos, Isabel Jesus and Ramiro Barbosa
Paper ID: 0807
09:20 - 09:40
Smooth multi-model boundary control of the Saint-Venant equations
Authors: Abderrazzak El Ammari, Catherine Choquet and Souad Bezzaoucha Rebaï
Paper ID: 0814
09:40 - 10:00
Step response identification of a second-species non-commensurate fractional order transfer function
Authors: António Sousa Medeiros and Duarte Valério
Paper ID: 7889
10:00 - 10:20
A Novel LMS-Based Algorithm for Fractional-Order System Identification
Authors: Igor Sousa and Guilherme A. Barreto
Paper ID: 8653
10:20 - 10:40
Joint Steering of State and Fractional Exponents in Linear Fractional-Order Networks via Alternating Convex Decomposition
Authors: Alessandro Varalda
Paper ID: 9374
09:00 - 10:40
Session ThA3 - SS-01/SS-02. Mathematical and Hybrid Control of Complex Systems
Chairs: Matilde Santos and Roman Chertovskih
Room: Aer
09:00 - 09:20
A Staged Framework for Trajectory Optimization of Airborne Wind Energy Systems
Authors: Manuel C.R.M. Fernandes, Rui C. da Costa and Fernando A.C.C. Fontes
Paper ID: 4634
09:20 - 09:40
Leader-based swarm synchronization in intermittent vortex flows
Authors: Sílvio Gama and Carlos Balsa
Paper ID: 7737
09:40 - 10:00
Optimal Control of Swarms in Rosenhead Flow with Adaptive Consensus
Authors: Carlos Balsa and Sílvio Gama
Paper ID: 2574
10:00 - 10:20
Enhancement of Wind Turbine Pitch Reinforcement Learning Control by PID action injection
Authors: J. Enrique Sierra García, Matilde Santos and Mario Peñacoba-Yagüe
Paper ID: 4208
10:20 - 10:40
Multiobjective Deep Reinforcement Learning MPPT Control for Large Wind Turbines Using DDPG and Parameter-Space Exploration
Authors: Roberto Diaz-Barrio, J. Enrique Sierra García and Matilde Santos
Paper ID: 4494
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00 Plenary Session 2 - Secure Control Systems
Speaker: André M. H. Teixeira (Uppsala University)
Room: Aqua
Parallel Sessions B - Thursday
12:00 - 13:00
Session ThB1 - Smart Energy Management and Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring
Chair: Matilde Santos
Room: Ignis
12:00 - 12:20
Hierarchical MPC Framework for Energy Management in Grid-Connected Microgrids
Authors: Ephraim Saback, Jérôme Mendes, Ana Soares and Pedro Moura
Paper ID: 9750
12:20 - 12:40
Non-Intrusive Monitoring of Electrical Loads from Centralized Low-Frequency Electrical Signals
Authors: Gonçalo Ramos, Pedro Sousa, Rui Araújo, Pedro Moura and Jérôme Mendes
Paper ID: 1746
12:40 - 13:00
Comparative Analysis of Time--Frequency Representations for Steady-State Appliance Characterization in High-Frequency NILM
Authors: Tomás Gonçalves, Pedro Sousa, Rui Araújo, Pedro Moura and Jérôme Mendes
Paper ID: 2388
12:00 - 13:00
Session ThB2 - AI Applications in Control and Monitoring
Chairs: Paulo Leitão and Rodrigo Salles
Room: Aer
12:00 - 12:20
Scale-based Approach for Active Wildfire Segmentation on Satellite Imagery
Authors: Matheus Kovaleski, Cristiano Premebida and João Paulo
Paper ID: 2250
12:20 - 12:40
AC-PRISM - A Framework with Responsible AI Scaffolding for Automatic Control Engineering Education
Authors: Vítor Carvalho, Filomena Soares, Aida Guerra and Niels Lyngdorf
Paper ID: 2542
12:40 - 13:00
Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Model for Predictive Maintenance Explanations
Authors: Leonardo Mendonça, José Barbosa and Paulo Leitão
Paper ID: 5764
12:00 - 13:00
Session ThB3 - SS-08. PhAIRoS: Physical AI in Intelligent Robotic Systems
Chair: Tiago Barros
Room: Aqua
12:00 - 12:20
A MIMU-Based Framework for Decoding Workspace Context in Human–Robot Teaming
Authors: Greta Di Vincenzo, Elisa Digo, Stefano Pastorelli and Laura Gastaldi
Paper ID: 6744
12:20 - 12:40
GLIDE: A Coordinated Aerial-Ground Framework for Search and Rescue in Unknown Environments
Authors: Seth Farrell, Chenghao Li and Henrik Christensen
Paper ID: 7288
12:40 - 13:00
Semantic-weighted ICP for LiDAR Odometry: Class-Aware Residual Reweighting for Robust Scan Registration
Authors: Vasco Carvalho, Tiago Barros and Urbano J.Nunes
Paper ID: 1130
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Plenary Session 3 - From Fuzzy Systems to Hybrid Intelligence Ecosystems: Bridging Explainability, Learning, and Control
Speaker: Susana Vieira (University of Lisbon)
Room: Aqua
Parallel Sessions C - Thursday
15:00 - 16:20
Session ThC1 - Intelligent Control and Monitoring of Wastewater Treatment Plants
Chairs: Cristóvão Sousa and Jérôme Mendes
Room: Aqua
15:00 - 15:20
Ontology-Driven Semantic Modeling for Multi-Symbiotic Wastewater Treatment Plants
Authors: Rui Brandão, Rafael Silva, Cristovão Sousa and António Baptista
Paper ID: 4164
15:20 - 15:40
Online Environmental Impact Assessment in WWTPs Using Machine Learning: Bridging Optimization and Life Cycle Analysis
Authors: Madalena Rosmaninho, Rodrigo Salles, Vanessa S. M. Magalhães and Jérôme Mendes
Paper ID: 1198
15:40 - 16:00
Machine Learning-Based Prediction of Sustainability Indicators in WWTP
Authors: Amanda Pina Amorim, Pedro Lôbo Amorim, Rodrigo Salles, Jorge S. S. Júnior and Pedro Martins
Paper ID: 6144
16:00 - 16:20
Towards Sustainable Wastewater Treatment: A Fuzzy-Based Optimization Strategy for Dynamic Setpoint Adjustment
Authors: Rodrigo Salles, Jorge S.S. Junior, António J. Baptista, Pedro Moura and Jérôme Mendes
Paper ID: 8767
15:00 - 16:20
Session ThC2 - SS-03/SS-04. Geometric Methods in Control and Optimization
Chairs: Margarida Camarinha and Alexandre Anahory Simoes
Room: Ignis
15:00 - 15:20
Consensus Amongst Two Classes of Multiagent Systems on Lie Groups
Authors: Kashish Talwar, Rama Seshan C and Ravi Banavar
Paper ID: 4241
15:20 - 15:40
A Structural-Residual Parametrization Approach to DREM-Based Adaptive Feedback Linearization
Authors: Gustavo Corlaite, Nelson Barroso, Lucas Oliveira and Valter Leite
Paper ID: 0937
15:40 - 16:00
The sketched landing method for large-scale optimization under orthogonality constraints
Authors: Florentin Goyens, Simon Mataigne and P.-A. Absil
Paper ID: 3796
16:00 - 16:20
Geodesic flows associated to statistical models with Lie group symmetry and gamma distributions
Authors: Daisuke Tarama and Yukiya Yokomizo
Paper ID: 6887
15:00 - 16:10
Session ThC3 - SS-09. Operational Research and Optimisation
Chairs: Filipe Alvelos and Samuel Moniz
Room: Aer
15:00 - 15:10
Optimal Carbon Pricing of Closed-Loop Supply Chains: A Global-Optimisation of a Bi-Level Mixed-Integer Problem
Authors: Marcelo Pinto, Paulo Nascimento, Cristóvão Silva and Samuel Moniz
Paper ID: 3877
15:10 - 15:20
Multi-Task Learning for Vehicle Routing Problems via Preference Learning and Local Refinement
Authors: Arthur Corrêa, Samuel Moniz and Paulo Nascimento
Paper ID: 5770
15:20 - 15:30
Optimizing the Vehicle Routing Problem with Heterogeneous Fleets and Loading Constraints Using Machine Learning
Authors: Elsa Silva, Leonor Ribeiro and João N. C. Gonçalves
Paper ID: 0127
15:30 - 15:40
Fast heuristics for wildfire initial attack
Authors: Filipe Alvelos and Elsa Silva
Paper ID: 3007
15:40 - 15:50
Scalable Optimization Methods for Integrated Nesting and Scheduling in Additive Manufacturing
Authors: Paulo J. Nascimento and Samuel Moniz
Paper ID: 5927
15:50 - 16:00
Supervisory LLM Control of Simulated Annealing for Constrained Engineering Design Optimization
Authors: António Forno, Samuel Moniz and Paulo Nascimento
Paper ID: 8683
16:00 - 16:10
A Constraint Programming Approach for the Multi-Satellite Imaging Scheduling Problem with Variable Observation Durations
Authors: Margarida Caleiras, Samuel Moniz and Paulo Nascimento
Paper ID: 2283
16:20 - 16:40 Coffee Break
Parallel Sessions D - Thursday
16:40 - 18:20
Session ThD1 - Digital Twins and Advanced Control for Cyber-Physical Systems
Chairs: Mihail Babcinschi and Steffi Knorn
Room: Aer
16:40 - 17:00
Hybrid Neural Controller Design and Evaluation on the DTS-200 Benchmark
Authors: Luís Brito Palma and Rui Azevedo Antunes
Paper ID: 2222
17:00 - 17:20
Service-Oriented Architecture for Fault-Resilient Cyber-physical Systems
Authors: Hector Hostos, Lala Rajaoarisoa, Patrick Sondi and Virginie Goepp
Paper ID: 2694
17:20 - 17:40
A Virtual Plant Approach for Progressive Learning in Control Engineering Laboratories
Authors: Rui Neves-Silva
Paper ID: 5424
17:40 - 18:00
A Digital Twin of a Bio-Reactor allowing for Model-Based State Estimation and Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of Bioprocesses
Authors: Daniel Stors, Fiete Fellenberg, Terrance Wilms, Rainer Stark and Steffi Knorn
Paper ID: 5356
18:00 - 18:20
Digital Twin based Economic Model Predictive Control for Heating in a Large Office Building using a Reversible Heat Pump
Authors: Max Bergström, Matviy Khotyaintsev and Steffi Knorn
Paper ID: 8556
16:40 - 18:40
Session ThD2 - Advanced Nonlinear Vehicle Control
Chairs: Rafael de Angelis Cordeiro and Juan J. Gude
Room: Aqua
16:40 - 17:00
Quadratic-kinematics approximation for the unicycle reachable sets
Authors: Gleb Merkulov, Vladimir Turetsky and Tal Shima
Paper ID: 0340
17:00 - 17:20
Hierarchical Nonlinear Control for Swarm Encirclement Around a Moving Target UAV
Authors: Filipe Cavalheiro and Bruno Guerreiro
Paper ID: 0386
17:20 - 17:40
Attitude Tracking of a Micro UAV using Incremental Nonlinear Control Strategies
Authors: Fabricio Custodio Jacinto, Luiz Miguel Tavares, Daniel Khéde Dourado Villa, Mario Sarcinelli-Filho and Rafael de Angelis Cordeiro
Paper ID: 3017
17:40 - 18:00
Nonlinear Reaching Laws for Sliding Mode Control Using Fractional Tilt Dynamics
Authors: Oscar Camacho, Antonio Di Teodoro, Sebastian Vega, Luis Caiza, Juan J. Gude and Pablo Garcia-Bringas
Paper ID: 0544
18:00 - 18:20
Supervised PD Gain Prediction for Rapid Attitude Tuning of the Quanser QDrone 2
Authors: Mutaz Ryalat, Ghaith Al-Refai, Natheer Almtireen, Hisham Elmoaqet and Nathir A. Rawashdeh
Paper ID: 7579
18:20 - 18:40
Hierarchical AMPC-ISMC Control Strategy for Lateral Stability of Four In-Wheel Motor Electric Vehicles under Critical Conditions
Authors: Luana Roysen, Thayson Alves, Lucas Silva and Vilma Oliveira
Paper ID: 3261
16:40 - 18:00
Session ThD3 - SS-05. Incremental Learning for Prediction and Control under Nonstationarity (Evolving, Intelligent, and Learning-based Systems)
Chair: Fernando Gomide
Room: Ignis
16:40 - 17:00
Incremental Level-Set-Based LQR Residual Control for Nonstationary Crane Systems
Authors: Daniel Leite, Fernando Gomide, Igor Skrjanc and Goran Andonovski
Paper ID: 9246
17:00 - 17:20
Iterative Behavioral Identification for Covert Misappropriation Attacks
Authors: Victor Mattos, Amit Bhaya, Daniel Sadoc Menasche and Alan Oliveira de Sá
Paper ID: 1633
17:20 - 17:40
Online Level-Set Fuzzy Modeling for Data Stream Regression
Authors: Alisson Marques Silva, João Pedro Freitas de Paula Dias, Fernanda Rodrigues and Daniel Leite
Paper ID: 3519
17:40 - 18:00
Evolving Participatory Learning: A Self-Organizing Level Set-Based Fuzzy Modeling Algorithm
Authors: Lucas Oliveira, Nelson Barroso, Marcela Coelho and Fernando Gomide
Paper ID: 8265
18:00 - 19:00 APCA General Assembly
Room: Ignis
(Restricted to APCA members)
18:30 - 19:30
Session ThO - Intelligent Mechatronic Control (Online)
Chair: Pedro Neto
Room: Aer
18:30 - 18:50
Embodied Learning-based Optimal Tracking using Quadrotor and Mobile Robot Hardware
Authors: Maxwell Geiger, Landon Meyer and Sarangapani Jagannathan
Paper ID: 4045
18:50 - 19:10
Performance Comparison of PI, Fuzzy and Neural-Network Current Controllers in a QUANSER Magnetic Levitation System
Authors: David León, Gian Machicado and Dante Inga
Paper ID: 7181
19:10 - 19:30
Neural-Network-Enhanced Fixed-Time Sliding-Mode Control for Electro-Hydraulic Active Suspensions
Authors: Rachid Fattah, Khalid Benjelloun, Saad Maarouf, Jean-Pierre Kenné and Ahmed Chebak
Paper ID: 3117
19:30 - 21:30 Gala Dinner
Room: Tent

Friday, 11 September 2026

08:30 - 13:00 Registration
Room: Front Desk
Parallel Sessions A - Friday
09:00 - 10:40
Session FrA1 - Guidance, Control and Path Following for Aerial and Tethered Systems
Chair: Luís Tiago Paiva
Room: Aqua
09:00 - 09:20
Motion Primitives, Trim and Control of Tethered Aircraft Under Wind
Authors: Sérgio Vinha, Gabriel M. Fernandes, Manuel C.R.M. Fernandes and Fernando A.C.C. Fontes
Paper ID: 0944
09:20 - 09:40
Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Circular Take-Off and Landing of Tethered Aircraft
Authors: Gabriel M. Fernandes, Sérgio Vinha, Manuel C.R.M. Fernandes, Luís T. Paiva and Fernando A.C.C. Fontes
Paper ID: 3503
09:40 - 10:00
Lookahead-Augmented Control Barrier Functions for Safe Trajectory Tracking in Autonomous Vehicles
Authors: Pedro Lopes and Luís Tiago Paiva
Paper ID: 5235
10:00 - 10:20
Direct Vector Field Guidance for Path Following
Authors: Amit Shivam, Nikhil Kumar Singh, Luís Tiago Paiva and Fernando A.C.C. Fontes
Paper ID: 4806
10:20 - 10:40
Synchronization and Capture Control of a Kite-Cart System for Tethered Circular Landing
Authors: João Brito Fernandes, Pedro João Peixoto, Sérgio Vinha, Gabriel M. Fernandes, Manuel C.R.M. Fernandes, Luís Tiago Paiva and Fernando A.C.C. Fontes
Paper ID: 9142
09:00 - 10:40
Session FrA2 - SS-10. Human-Centric Cyber-Physical Systems: Intelligent Control, Robotics, and AI for Industry and Society
Chair: João Ruivo Paulo
Room: Aer
09:00 - 09:20
A Human-Centric CPS Framework for Data-Driven Supervision in Sustainable Digital Textile Manufacturing
Authors: Hugo Ferreira, Rui Pinto and Gil Gonçalves
Paper ID: 3334
09:20 - 09:40
Comparison of Linear and Non-Linear Control Strategies for Multispectral LED Irradiance Regulation in Precision Agriculture
Authors: Alessandro Lugo Figueroa, Moises Nuñez and Dante Inga
Paper ID: 5218
09:40 - 10:00
Human-Centricity in Industry 5.0: A Survey of Worker Sensing, Adaptive Operations, and Human-in-the-Loop Systems
Authors: Lara Pereira, Luís Ferreira and João Paulo
Paper ID: 5188
10:00 - 10:20
M-CSM: A Governance-Oriented Complementary Strength Model for Hybrid Human–Machine Decision-Making
Authors: Esmaeil Kondori, Nuno Soares Domingues and Rui Neves-Silva
Paper ID: 3036
10:20 - 10:40
Usability evaluation of a fully portable vision-based protective device for human-robot shared workfloors
Authors: Gustavo Assuncao, Andrey Solovov, Jorge Monteiro and Paulo Menezes
Paper ID: 5150
09:00 - 10:30 Workshop 1 - Robotics in Industrial Settings
Instructors: Jorge S. S. Júnior and Amanda Pina Amorim
Meeting point: UC Factory Lab
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00 Plenary Session 4 - Multi-agent Systems as a Key Enabler Technology to Realize Smart, Reconfigurable and Sustainable Cyber-Physical Systems
Speaker: Paulo Leitão (Polytechnic Institute of Bragança)
Room: Aqua
Parallel Sessions B - Friday
12:00 - 13:00
Session FrB1 - Robotics and Machine Learning Applications
Chair: Armando Sousa
Room: Aqua
12:00 - 12:20
Novel Robotic Platform for Inventory Handling
Authors: Fadi Aldeeb, António Alves, Luís Leão, João M.C. Sousa and Paulo J.S. Gonçalves
Paper ID: 3308
12:20 - 12:40
Will it be born? Discovering surrogate feasibility equations for metabolic models with genetic programming
Authors: Diogo F. Oliveira, Miguel S.E. Martins, Gonçalo M. Marques, Tiago Domingos, Susana M. Vieira and João M.C. Sousa
Paper ID: 6414
12:40 - 13:00
From Real to Fake: Investigating Classifier Bias through Implicit-Conditioned Wasserstein GANs
Authors: Dinis Almeida, Filipe Santos, João Sousa and Susana Vieira
Paper ID: 9105
12:00 - 13:00
Session FrB2 - Marine Robotics and Autonomous Surface Vehicle Systems
Chair: Mihail Babcinschi
Room: Ignis
12:00 - 12:20
Estimated States for the CyberShip II Using the Unscented Kalman Filter: A Comparative Simulation
Authors: Sajjad Fakhar Shahreza, Luis Orihuela, Guillermo Bejarano and Pablo Millán
Paper ID: 3513
12:20 - 12:40
Cleanup System for Hydrocarbon Spills in Aquatic Environments Using a Fleet of Autonomous Surface Vehicles
Authors: Guillermo Bejarano, Laura Pérez, Ana Vera, Manuel Gantiva-Osorio, Federico Peralta and Pablo Millán
Paper ID: 5522
12:40 - 13:00
A Natural Language Interface for Autonomous Multi-Robot Coordination in Water Surface Simulations
Authors: Sahil Gidwani, César Antonio Ortiz Toro, Ryad Haldy, Juan Parras and Álvaro Gutiérrez
Paper ID: 9850
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
Parallel Sessions C - Friday
14:00 - 15:00
Session FrC - Deep Learning and Vision-Based Control for Robotics
Chair: Jorge S. S. Júnior
Room: Ignis
14:00 - 14:20
Vision-Based Landmark Tracking and Guidance of a Quadcopter using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Authors: Conrado Costa, Gabriel Fernandes, Rui Costa and Armando Sousa
Paper ID: 3393
14:20 - 14:40
Performance Evaluation of Vision-Language Models for Robot Trajectory Planning in E-Waste Recycling
Authors: Marta Castro, Pedro Dias, Marcelo Petry and João Souza
Paper ID: 3872
14:40 - 15:00
Reinforcement Learning Reward Shaping for Robotic Grasping
Authors: Diogo Monteiro, Armando Sousa and João Souza
Paper ID: 6677
14:00 - 15:30 Workshop 2 - Fine-tuning LLMs 101
Instructor: Daniel Voigt Godoy
Room: Aqua
Parallel Sessions D - Friday
15:00 - 16:20
Session FrD1 - Motion Planning and Control of Autonomous and Space Systems
Chair: Luís Brito Palma
Room: Aer
15:00 - 15:20
Solving the parking problem for nonholonomic vehicles subject to non-negative forward velocity constraint
Authors: Riccardo Ballaben and António Pedro Aguiar
Paper ID: 2668
15:20 - 15:40
Obstacle Avoidance for Quadrotor UAVs with Minimal Sensing Using DRL
Authors: Mohammad Reza Ranjbar Divkoti and A. Pedro Aguiar
Paper ID: 4009
15:40 - 16:00
Dynamic Promotion Optimization for Perishable Inventory with Multi-Product Portfolio and Restocking Decision
Authors: Rui Rodrigues, Martim Lousado, José P. Carvalho and A. Pedro Aguiar
Paper ID: 5703
16:00 - 16:20
Design and Simulation of a Magnetorquer-Based Attitude Control Algorithm for the ICARUS 1U CubeSat
Authors: José Serôdio Canha and António Pedro Aguiar
Paper ID: 8400
15:00 - 16:20
Session FrD2 - SS-06. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Modeling, Optimization and Control of Complex Systems
Chair: José Luis Calvo Rolle
Room: Ignis
15:00 - 15:20
A Hybrid Soft-Computing Decision-Support System for Injection-Mould Quotation
Authors: Mateus Aleixo and Eugénio Rocha
Paper ID: 7648
15:20 - 15:40
Model-Free Intelligent Control and Soft Computing Strategies for Temperature Regulation
Authors: Juan Tello and Gustavo Acosta
Paper ID: 0331
15:40 - 16:00
Early Fault Detection in Two-Stroke Marine Main Engines Using Neural Healthy Baselines
Authors: Paulo Barata and Luis Mendonça
Paper ID: 5351
16:00 - 16:20
Prognostics as a Catalyst for Industry 5.0: A Comparative Analysis of Advanced Deep Learning Algorithms for RUL Prediction
Authors: José Carlos Almeida, Bernardete Ribeiro and Alberto Cardoso
Paper ID: 7493
16:20 - 16:40 Coffee Break
16:40 - 18:00 Closing Session & Awards Ceremony
Room: Aqua
20:45 - 22:45 UC by Night
Meeting point: Porta Férrea, Paço das Escolas (Iron Gate, Palace of Schools)