Vivian Suzano Medeiros

Dr. Vivian Suzano Medeiros


Biography

Vivian Suzano Medeiros is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Mobile Robotics Lab of the University of São Paulo, Brazil. She graduated in Control and Automation Engineering at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil, in 2012. She received her Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the same institution in 2020 and 2015, respectively. During her doctorate, she spent one year as a Visiting Ph.D. Student at the Autonomous Systems Lab, at ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, where she worked with research on trajectory optimization and control for hybrid wheeled-legged robots. From 2013 to 2022, she worked as a research engineer at the Research Center for Inspection Technology (CPTI) at PUC-Rio, carrying out projects in the field of non-destructive testing, inspection of flexible risers and embedded systems. In addition, she is an associate professor at PUC-Rio, teaching Control Systems to undergraduate engineering students. Her research interests include Autonomous Mobile Robots, Motion Planning for Legged and Wheeled-legged Robots, and Control Systems.

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