Robotics and autonomous systems

João Manuel Leitão Quintas

Description of Activities

My fellowship aims to contribute to ongoing efforts related to standardisation and European policy, advising on topics related mainly to Robotics and Autonomous Systems and Artificial Intelligence.

Fellow's country

Portugal

Open Call Topics

Robotics and autonomous systems

Impact on SMEs (2nd Open Call)

SMEs related to robotics and/or developing artificial agents with a certain degree of autonomy can be impacted by this contribution, as the standard being developed aims to bring added value for integration and interoperability in solutions based on robotic and autonomous systems.

Impact on SMEs (4th Open Call)

Impact on society (2nd Open Call)

Solutions integrating robotics and autonomous systems that adhere to the standard should result in more interoperable, intelligent, sustainable, and cost-effective technologies, enabling people. to carry out tasks related to personal assistance.

Impact on society (4th Open Call)

One of the direct impacts of my activity is widening the stakeholders' network that can also learn from the standard development and share domain-specific information that is relevant to implement use cases for the standard. It may be of particular interest to the TEF-Health European Project, which is establishing a test and experimentation facilities network across the EU, and I am part of the team and IPN which is leading the Portuguese node.

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Open Call

OC#2 2026

OC#4 2026

Organisation type

Academia/Research

Organization

Coordinator of RTD unit - Laboratory of Automatics and Systems, Instituto Pedro Nunes

Organization website

Instituto Pedro Nunes

Personal website

Github

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Proposal Title (2nd Open Call)

Contribution to a new standard for autonomous robotic systems IEEE1872.3

Proposal Title (4th Open Call)

Contribution to new standard for autonomous robotic systems IEEE1872.3

IEEE Standards

Role in SDO

convenor

Standards Development Organisation

IEEE

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

2024

Topic (2nd Open Call)

Robotics and autonomous systems

Topic (4th Open Call)

Robotics and autonomous systems

Paulo Gonçalves

Description of Activities

In the proposed activity the gaps related to standards will be tackled within three working groups (WG) where I am contributing to: IEEE P1872.3, IEEE P1955 and IEEE P1872.1.1, related to multiple robots, reasoning, 6G for robotics and task representation and planning.

Country

Portugal

Fellow's country

Portugal

Open Call Topics

Robotics and autonomous systems

Impact on SMEs (6th Open Call)

The contributions will make significant impact for the description of the robotics requirements on an industrial intralogistics scenario, where robots and humans operate. This will impact robot communication services that will use 6G.
Moreover, the fellowship strongly focuses on ontologies, to achieve a better interoperability of concepts to enhance robot to robot and robot to humans’ communications. The use of the standardizes DOLCE upper ontology makes a significant difference.
Also, EU have within its borders numerous renowned robotics companies. An increasing number of cutting-edge robotics and autonomous systems now rely on AI-driven reasoning to handle their growing complexity. Today, global regulations are shaping how knowledge is represented for robotics services and tasks, and EU SMEs must comply with these standards. As a result, these knowledge representation standards will significantly influence the development of future robotic and autonomous systems.

Impact on society (6th Open Call)

The outcomes of this activity are very important for the robotics industry because it tackles concepts very close to real world deployment of robots to perform tasks, autonomously, within a robot group, and/or cooperating and/or collaborating with humans. This is a clear evolution of the IEEE RAS standards portfolio (previously focused on high-level concepts and definitions) and a valuable contribution to the robotics standards landscape in Europe and worldwide.

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Organisation type

Organization

Professor - Instituto Politecnico de Castelo Branco

Organization website

IPCB