P. Moraes

A Heterogeneous UAV UGV Methodology for Aerial Tracking of Mini Autonomous Cars

Santiago Fernandez, Angel da Silva, Hiago Sodre +3

Aerial tracking of autonomous ground vehicles can provide useful situational awareness in environments where fixed external perception infrastructure is unavailable. However, visua…

Stress-Query and Temporal Reliability of Vision-Language Models as copilots in Autonomous UAV Navigation

Hiago Sodre, Sebastian Barcelona, Vincent Sandin +3

Integrating Vision-Language Models (VLMs) into autonomous UAV navigation enables high-level semantic reasoning but introduces critical temporal bottlenecks that can destabilize fli…

Vision-Language Models as copilots for Autonomous UAV Navigation: Analysis of Latency and Reliability in Degraded Environments

Hiago Sodre, Sebastian Barcelona, Vincent Sandin +6

The integration of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) offers unprecedented semantic reasoning capabilities. However, real-time closed-loop…

Situation Aware Locomotion for Dual Mobile Cobots in Shared Environments

William Moraes, Igor Nunes, Ahilen Mazondo +4

This paper presents a situation aware locomotion framework for two mobile collaborative robots operating in shared industrial environments. The proposed method models situation awa…

Situation Aware Frontier Prioritization for Quadruped Search and Rescue

Kevin Farias, Santiago Martin, Barbara Flores +5

Quadruped robots are a promising platform for search and rescue missions because they can navigate cluttered indoor environments that may be restrictive for wheeled systems. Howeve…

Hybrid Attention Estimation Pipeline for Adaptive HRI Using an Expressive Robotic Head

Pablo Moraes, Monica Rodriguez, Christopher Peters +4

This paper presents an applied case study on hybrid visual attention estimation for human-robot interaction using an expressive robotic head based on the InMoov ecosystem. The prop…

Mini Autonomous Car Driving based on 3D Convolutional Neural Networks

Pablo Moraes, Monica Rodriguez, Kristofer S. Kappel +5

Autonomous driving applications have become increasingly relevant in the automotive industry due to their potential to enhance vehicle safety, efficiency, and user experience, ther…

UruBots Autonomous Cars Challenge Pro Team Description Paper for FIRA 2025

Pablo Moraes, Mónica Rodríguez, Sebastian Barcelona +6

This paper describes the development of an autonomous car by the UruBots team for the 2025 FIRA Autonomous Cars Challenge (Pro). The project involves constructing a compact electri…

RoboCup Rescue 2025 Team Description Paper UruBots

Kevin Farias, Pablo Moraes, Igor Nunes +12

This paper describes the approach used by Team UruBots for participation in the 2025 RoboCup Rescue Robot League competition. Our team aims to participate for the first time in thi…

UruBots RoboCup Work Team Description Paper

Hiago Sodre, Juan Deniz, Pablo Moraes +9

This work presents a team description paper for the RoboCup Work League. Our team, UruBots, has been developing robots and projects for research and competitions in the last three…

Behavior Cloning for Mini Autonomous Car Path Following

Pablo Moraes, Christopher Peters, Hiago Sodre +6

This article presents the implementation and evaluation of a behavior cloning approach for route following with autonomous cars. Behavior cloning is a machine-learning technique in…

UruBots UAV -- Air Emergency Service Indoor Team Description Paper for FIRA 2024

Hiago Sodre, Sebastian Barcelona, Anthony Scirgalea +9

This document addresses the description of the corresponding "Urubots" Team for the 2024 Fira Air League, "Air Emergency Service (Indoor)." We introduce our team and an autonomous…

UruBots Autonomous Cars Team One Description Paper for FIRA 2024

Pablo Moraes, Christopher Peters, Any Da Rosa +12

This document presents the design of an autonomous car developed by the UruBots team for the 2024 FIRA Autonomous Cars Race Challenge. The project involves creating an RC-car sized…