Dr. Filipe Santos

Prof. Dr. Filipe Santos currently works at the INESC TEC—Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência. He earned a Licenciatura in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2003 from Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP), an M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, in 2007, and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Faculdade de Engenharia (FEUP), Universidade do Porto, Portugal, in 2014. He is focused on developing and researching robotic solutions for the agriculture and forestry sectors, where higher efficiency is required for the world's self-sustainability. Considering his closer regional reality, he has set a goal to promote agricultural robotic-based projects and develop robots that can operate fully autonomously and safely in steep-slope scenarios, which is a common reality in the North of Portugal and in a large number of other regions globally. As such, he is interested in exploring and developing robots for specific agricultural and forestalling tasks, such as monitoring (by ground), spraying, logistics, pruning, and selective harvesting. The successful execution of these tasks is largely dependent on the robustness of specific robotic systems.