Education
A Brazilian engineering doctorate in robotics, pivoting to product leadership in Denmark — with teaching, four languages, and a cross-continental perspective along the way.
Degrees
D.Sc. in Electrical Engineering
Control, Automation, and Robotics
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
Mar 2020
Thesis: Optimization of Nonlinear Systems with Uncertain Objective Functions via Sliding-Mode Control
Undergraduate Degree in Control and Automation Engineering
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
Oct 2015
Thesis: Modeling and Control of Quadrotor Vehicles (manuscript in Portuguese)
Publications
12 publications. Google Scholar
Robot device, and method for inspection of components of a belt conveyor
GM Freitas, MP Torre, GC Garcia, FAS Rocha, AS Franca, FR Da Fonseca, JC Monteiro
US Patent App. 17/056,622Patent
ARIEL: An Autonomous Robotic System for Oil Spill Detection
M Andreotti, AJ Peixoto, JC Monteiro, R Halfeld, I Azambuja, L Vargas
Offshore Technology ConferenceConference
Multivariable extremum-seeking by periodic switching functions with application to Raman optical amplifiers
AJ Peixoto, TR Oliveira, D Pereira-Dias, JC Monteiro
Control Engineering Practice 96, 104278Journal
Control Allocation for Wheeled Mobile Robots Subject to Input Saturation
JG Alves, F Lizarralde, JC Monteiro
IFAC-PapersOnLine 53(2), pp. 3904-3909Conference
Convergence and Stability Properties of a Dynamic Maximum Consensus Estimator
JC Monteiro, AJ Peixoto
IFAC-PapersOnLine 53(2), pp. 2885-2890Conference
Identificação e controle por torque computado de uma plataforma inercial para estabilização e rastreamento da linha de visada
MF Reis, JC Monteiro, GPS de Carvalho, AFNF Neves, AJ Peixoto
Congresso Brasileiro de Automática (CBA) 1(1)Conference
Super-Twisting Control with Quaternion Feedback for a 3-DoF Inertial Stabilization Platform
MF Reis, JC Monteiro, RR Costa, AC Leite
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pp. 2193-2198Conference
Efficient stairway detection and modeling for autonomous robot climbing
DS Chan, RK Silva, JC Monteiro, F Lizarralde
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)Conference
Sliding Mode Based Extremum Seeking Control of Two-Phase Flow Micro-Thermal-Fluid Cooling Systems
F Lizarralde, JC Monteiro, R Pereira, L Hsu
IFAC-PapersOnLine 50(1), pp. 5133-5138Conference
Optimal control allocation of quadrotor UAVs subject to actuator constraints
JC Monteiro, F Lizarralde, L Hsu
American Control Conference (ACC), pp. 500-505Conference
Control Allocation: Enhancing the Performance of Quadrotors High-Level Controllers
JC Monteiro, F Lizarralde, L Hsu
XXI Congresso Brasileiro de Automática (CBA)Conference
Detecção e modelagem eficiente de escadas para subida autônoma de robôs
JC Monteiro, F Lizarralde, DS Chan, RK Silva
XXI Congresso Brasileiro de Automática (CBA)Conference
Languages
Portuguese
English
Danish
Spanish
Teaching
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
Aug 2010 — Jul 2015