Dr. Narcís Palomeras - Researcher at the Universitat de Girona
Dr. Narcís Palomeras is a researcher at the Universitat de Girona (UdG). He is a member of the Computer Vision and Robotics Group (VICOROB). His primary research area lies in underwater robotics, more precisely in topics such as planning, exploration, intelligent control architectures, mission control, and localization. Dr. Palomeras is currently the coordinator of a Joint Degree Erasmus Mundus program focused on Intelligent Field Robotic Systems (IFROS).
Dr.Nuno Gracias - Senior Researcher at the Universitat de Girona
Dr. Nuno Gracias is a senior researcher at the Universitat de Girona (UdG). He received the MSc and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering (Control and Robotics) from the Technical Univ. of Lisbon, Portugal. From 2004 to 2006 he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Miami. Since 2006 he has been a member of the Computer Vision and Robotics Group (ViCOROB) of the University of Girona, and co-director of the Underwater Vision Lab (UVL) . His research spans underwater image processing, mapping and classification, and navigation and guidance of autonomous underwater robots. Dr. Gracias serves as co-coordinator of the Joint Degree Erasmus Mundus program on Intelligent Field Robotic Systems (IFROS).
Stjepan Bogdan, Ph.D. - Full Professor at the Laboratory for Robotics and Intelligent Control Systems
Stjepan Bogdan, Ph.D. is a Full Professor at the Laboratory for Robotics and Intelligent Control Systems (LARICS), Department on Control and Computer Engineering, University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (UNIZG-FER), where he teaches several courses in robotics and automation. His research interests include autonomous systems, aerial robotics, multi-agent systems, intelligent control systems, bio-inspired systems and discrete event systems. He spent one year as Fulbright researcher at the Automation and Robotics Research Institute, Arlington, USA, in Prof. Frank Lewis' lab.
Tamara Petrović - Research fellow at LARICS
Tamara Petrović was born on July 2, 1984. She obtained her Master's degree from the University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (UNIZG-FER) in 2007 and defended her Ph.D. thesis entitled "Centralized control of variable structure multi-vehicle systems based on resource allocation" in 2014.
Since 2008 she has been employed at UNIZG-FER at LARICS as a research fellow, and since 2014 as a post-graduate. Her main areas of scientific interest are multi-robot systems and discrete event systems. She has participated in the work of several international and domestic scientific research projects. During her studies, she was the recipient of the bronze plaque "Josip Lončar" (2007) and three "Josip Lončar" awards (2003, 2004, 2005) for outstanding academic success. She published 2 book chapters, 6 journal papers, and 17 conference papers and participates as a reviewer in several international scientific journals and conferences. She participates in teaching activities at the Faculty, Department of Control and Computer Engineering, which include exercises and lectures, co-mentoring of students, improvement of teaching content and materials.
Since the academic year of 2016/2017, she has been carrying out the duties of the Faculty Erasmus+ Coordinator for traineeships and the mobility of control engineering and automation students. She is a member of IEEE, and was vice-president (2012-2013) and president (2014-2015) of the Croatian section of the IEEE Society for Robotics and Automation.
