Paulo José Cerquira Gomes da Costa received the M.Sc. and PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering on Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto, Portugal in 95 and 2000. He joined Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto in 1992, and currently he is a Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department. He is also a senior researcher in Centre for Robotics in Industry and Intelligent Systems group of the INESC-TEC (Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering of Porto, Portugal). He has published more than a hundred papers in international scientific journals and conference proceedings. In addition, he participated in many autonomous mobile robotics competitions. Moreover, his research interests are in the field of robotics and automation: simulation, path planning, artificial vision, mobile robot localization and navigation, obstacle avoidance and perception. He participated in some national, International and H2020 funded projects such as PRODUTECH SIF, ScalABLE4.0 and CARLoS.