My name is Sandro Magalhães and I’m a PhD candidate researching in Active Perception

Contrary to popular belief, agricultural robotics does not reduce jobs opportunities, but increases life and crops quality.

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Experience

PREVIOUS ASSOCIATIONS THAT HELPED TO GATHER EXPERIENCE

 
 
 
 
 

ERASMUS+ research internship

Nottingham Trent University

Jun 2021 – Oct 2021 Clifton, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Research in Deep Learning (DL) solutions using FPGAs

  • Test and deploy DL models in Vitis-AI and PYNQ
  • Test and deploy Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) in FINN and Brevitas
 
 
 
 
 

Researcher

INESC TEC - Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science

Sep 2018 – Present Porto

Research in robotics and IoT applications for agriculture. Main responsabilities:

  • Mobile manipulation and grasping for fruit harvesting
  • Sensors development for grape quality, soil and slurry monitoring
 
 
 
 
 

Lab Tutor

Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto

Jan 2017 – Dec 2016 Porto
Support laboratory classes of Programming 1. Taught beginning topics of C language.
 
 
 
 
 

Lab Tutor

Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto

Jan 2016 – Dec 2016 Porto
Support laboratory classes of Programming 2. Taught advanced topics of C language and programming algorithms.

Recent Publications

Some publications I have recently published