Diogo Peralta Cordeiro

Supervisor: Prof. João Tasso de Figueiredo Borges de Sousa.

Research area: software-intensive interactive systems, machine perception, spatial/projection-based interaction, robotics-adjacent sensing and systems engineering.

Relevant activities:

• Supervisor of Porto Space Team.
• Member of the ANTAEUS CubeSat project context.
• Technical talks and workshops for engineering audiences.
• Research-to-deployment work connecting prototypes, users, evaluation and maintainable software.

180 ECTS, of which 54 ECTS in Mathematics.

Activities and societies:

• Member of EUGLOH's Joint Curricula Design work package and Student Board (2020-07-13 → 2021-07-30)
• Member of the Faculty of Sciences' Pedagogical Council (2019-11-05 → 2022-06-17)
• Freshers' teaching assistant for the Computer Science Department (2019-09-10 → 2021-07-30)
• Founding member of the Hackers at Porto student society (since 2017-11-01)

Key contents:

• Mathematics — numerical analysis, stochastic processes, operations research, linear algebra, analytic geometry, multivariable calculus, differential equations
• Computing theory — graphs, logic and proof, computability, complexity, reactive systems
• Computer systems — computer architecture, computer networking, operating systems
• Programming — compiler construction, advanced algorithms and data structures, multiprocessor programming
• Applications and professionalism — intelligent systems, interaction design, security, privacy, databases
• Electrical engineering — automatic control, digital signal processing

A training week introducing university students to the concurrent design of a CubeSat mission. Guided by ESA experts, students learn to use COMET (Concurrent Model-based Engineering Tool) and to identify design drivers; divided into teams, they first create a subsystem concept and then realise an identified mission concept, function tree and product tree using concurrent engineering.

Key topics:

• Introduction to concurrent engineering, systems engineering and requirements — Robin Biesbroek
• CubeSat missions and technologies — Camille Pirat
• CubeSat architectures — Ilja Skrypnyk
• Increasing RAMS for CubeSats — Silvana Radu

ANTAEUS, a prospective Fly Your Satellite! Portuguese team, attended this training week to deepen its knowledge of spacecraft design and project management.

Covered topics included: project management principles and COTS; legal aspects of CubeSat missions; communications and outreach; systems engineering principles; AIV and testing; introduction to MBSE; data-handling subsystem design and verification; flight-software development; EPS design and verification; structural, thermal and mechanisms design and verification; project management for CubeSats; AOCS design and verification; spacecraft operations; TT&C and ground segment; RAMS of CubeSats (FMEA, HSIA, FDIR); space-debris mitigation and trackability; and CubeSat mission analysis — delivered by ESA specialists including Alexander Kinnaird, Tomasz Szewczyk, Volkan Salma, Silvana Radu and David Evans.

A 36-hour course on the acquisition, processing and analysis of EEG signal, held at the Laboratory of Neuropsychophysiology. Topics included introductions to EEG and ERP, ERP research design, principles of EEG data collection, signal processing and data extraction, statistical analysis of ERP data, and reproducibility and open-science practices in EEG/ERP research — taught by Fernando Ferreira-Santos, Fernando Barbosa, Tiago O. Paiva and colleagues.

Organised by the Research Centre for Systems and Technologies (SYSTEC) in collaboration with the ARISE associated laboratory, providing experience with applications of cyber-physical systems in robotics, energy, mobility, production systems and health.

Covered topics: introduction to drones; deep and machine learning; optimisation; path-following control for autonomous vehicles; optimisation in industrial settings; designing robotic solutions with freeware tools; and electric mobility case studies.

Credential ID F751769/2024. Final grade: 5 — Excellent.

Acquired competencies: analysing the context of intervention for a training programme; designing the programme; developing didactic and multimedia resources; planning learning activities; applying techniques of pedagogical interaction and group facilitation; managing diversity in the training context; using and managing collaborative and learning platforms; developing evaluation tools for training and learning outcomes; and assigning and reporting results.

Covered the foundations of project management; project initiation; project planning; project execution; and Agile project management.

Covered leading teams (developing as a leader; building effective team cultures), designing and managing the organisation, and business and corporate strategy.

Covered why smart executives fail (common mistakes and warning signs); decision-making as a blend of art and science; superbosses — managing talent and leadership; and lessons on wisdom and personal leadership.

Objectives: manage a software project for space and ground applications; understand the significance and procedures of the process; know what ESA expects; identify potential sources of project failure as early as possible; and bridge the system and software domains.

Credential ID B6703928. Scores: Reading 200 (grade A, C2); Use of English 201 (grade A, C2); Writing 190 (C1); Listening 193 (C1); Speaking 195 (C1).

Covered the modelling of quad-rotor drones (configurations, reference frames, block diagrams, dynamics); analysis of each subsystem in Scilab/Xcos, from rotor actuation to the dynamic and kinematic equations linking forces and moments to motion; and control of quad-rotor motion — common control solutions, stabilisation of vertical and angular motion, horizontal guidance, and approximations towards a more realistic simulator.

DCE23, the Doctoral Congress in Engineering, was held on 15–16 June 2023 at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. This hands-on workshop gave participants the fundamental concepts of version control and the features Git offers for code — or any text, including a thesis.

Topics: rsync, diff and patch; an overview of revision-control systems with briefings on RCS and Subversion; configuring Git and setting up GPG for signed commits; hands-on practice with many Git commands; tags; branching and merging; storage areas; a brief look at Git internals; and version-control etiquette.

A one-hour talk delivered twice in May 2023 — on the 4th at the Faculty of Engineering via Porto Space Team, and on the 17th at the Faculty of Sciences via NuCC-FCUP and Hackers at Porto.

Topics: model-driven development; introduction to real-time embedded systems (with emphasis on hard real time); functional, temporal and dependability requirements; execution management; introduction to reliability, availability, maintainability and safety (RAMS); architecture and components in space avionics; and safeguard mechanisms, with emphasis on redundancy.

A series of six thematic television documentaries addressing essential technological questions: cryptocurrencies and blockchain, social networks and the public space, artificial intelligence and privacy. I discussed the impact of algorithmic decision-making on the content we consume and the discussions we have.

A presentation of FEP-2100 — its context and how we created it. Distinguished as the Best Oral Communication in the Engineering area of this edition.

My internship on parametric human-body models was distinguished as the best of the MCT category by the jury of the Summer@CTM 2022 internship programme.

“GNU social v3 and Unbound Actors” was distinguished as the best oral communication in the Engineering area.

Funding awarded through the EU's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (2021-02 to 2022-02) to lead the development of GNU social v3.