Publications
Key references
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2024.  Physics-Informed Neural Nets for Control of Dynamical Systems. Neurocomputing. 579
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2015.  On Learning Navigation Behaviors for Small Mobile Robots With Reservoir Computing Architectures. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. 26:763-780.
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2012.  Learning Slow Features with Reservoir Computing for Biologically-inspired Robot Localization. Neural Networks. 25:178-190.
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2011.  Reservoir Computing Architectures for Modeling Robot Navigation Systems. 
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2007.  Generative Modeling of Autonomous Robots and their Environments using Reservoir Computing. Neural Processing Letters. 26:233–249.
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2024.  Hierarchical Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning with Mid-level Input Generation for Autonomous Driving on Urban Environments. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles. 
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2024.  Physics-Informed Neural Nets for Control of Dynamical Systems. Neurocomputing. 579
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2024.  Physics-Informed Neural Networks with Skip Connections for Modeling and Control of Gas-Lifted Oil Wells. Applied Soft Computing. 158
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2023.  Benford's law: what does it say on adversarial images? Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation. 93
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2023.  Investigation of Proper Orthogonal Decomposition for Echo State Networks. Neurocomputing. :126395.
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2022.  Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of Electrical Submersible Pumps based on Echo State Networks  . Advanced Engineering Informatics. 52
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2021.  Cone Detection with Convolutional Neural Networks for an Autonomous Formula Student Race Car. 26th ABCM International Congress of Mechanical Engineering (COBEM 2021). 
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2021.  Echo State Networks for Practical Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of Unknown Dynamic Systems. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. :1-15.
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2021.  Face Reconstruction with Variational Autoencoder and Face Masks. 18th Encontro Nacional de Inteligência Artificial e Computacional (ENIAC 2021). 
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2021.  Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning for End-to-End Autonomous Driving on Urban Environments. 2021 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI). :1-7.
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2021.  Proximal Policy Optimization with Continuous Bounded Action Space via the Beta Distribution. 2021 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI). :1-8.
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2020.  It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver: disturbing classifiers against adversarial attacks. 2020 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC). :160-165.
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2019.  On importance weighting for electric fraud detection with dataset shifts. IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC). :3215-3222.
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2019.  Online Learning Control with Echo State Networks of an Oil Production Platform. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. 85:214-228.
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2018.  Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of an Oil Well with Echo State Networks. IFAC-PapersOnLine (3rd IFAC Workshop on Automatic Control in Offshore Oil and Gas Production OOGP 2018). 51:13-18.
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2018.  Reservoir Computing for Detection of Steady State in Performance Tests of Compressors. Neurocomputing. 275:607.
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2017.  Echo State Networks for Data-driven Downhole Pressure Estimation in Gas-lift Oil Wells. Neural Networks. 85:106-117.
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2017.  Recurrent Dynamical Projection for Time series-based Fraud detection. International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN). :503-511.
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2017.  Recurrent Neural Network based control of an Oil Well. XIII Brazilian Symposium on Intelligent Automation (SBAI). :924-931.
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2016.  Predicting Air Compressor Failures with Echo State Networks. Third European Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society 2016, Bilbao, Spain, 5-8 July, 2016. 
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2015.  An Echo State Network-based Soft Sensor of Downhole Pressure for a Gas-lift Oil Well. 16th International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 517:379-389.
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2015.  On Learning Navigation Behaviors for Small Mobile Robots With Reservoir Computing Architectures. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. 26:763-780.
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2015.  System Identification of a Vertical Riser Model with Echo State Networks. IFAC-PapersOnLine (2nd IFAC Workshop on Automatic Control in Offshore Oil and Gas Production). 48(6):304-310.
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2012.  Learning Slow Features with Reservoir Computing for Biologically-inspired Robot Localization. Neural Networks. 25:178-190.
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2011.  Learning navigation attractors for mobile robots with reinforcement learning and reservoir computing. Proceedings of the X Brazilian Congress on Computational Intelligence (CBIC). 
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2011.  Reservoir Computing Architectures for Modeling Robot Navigation Systems. 
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2010.  Supervised Learning of Internal Models for Autonomous Goal-oriented Robot Navigation using Reservoir Computing. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. :2959-2964.
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2009.  On Different Learning Approaches with Echo State Networks for Localization of Small Mobile Robots. Proceedings of the IX Brazilian Conference on Neural Networks (CBRN). 
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2009.  Modular reservoir computing networks for imitation learning of multiple robot behaviors. Proc. of the IEEE Int. Symp. on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation (CIRA). :27-32.
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2009.  Towards Autonomous Self-localization of Small Mobile Robots using Reservoir Computing and Slow Feature Analysis. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC). :3818–3823.
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2009.  Unsupervised Learning in Reservoir Computing: Modeling Hippocampal Place Cells for Small Mobile Robots. ICANN '09: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks. 5768:747-756.
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2008.  Event detection and localization for small mobile robots using reservoir computing. Neural Networks. 21:862–871.
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2008.  Imitation Learning of an Intelligent Navigation System for Mobile Robots using Reservoir Computing. Proceedings of the 10th Brazilian Symposium on Neural Networks (SBRN). :93-98.
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2008.  Mobile Robot Control in the Road Sign Problem using Reservoir Computing Networks. Proceedings of the IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). :911-916.
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2008.  Modeling Multiple Autonomous Robot Behaviors and Behavior Switching with a Single Reservoir Computing Network. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. :1843–1848.
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2007.  Event detection and localization in mobile robot navigation using reservoir computing. Artificial Neural Networks -- ICANN 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4669:660-669.
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2007.  Experiments with Reservoir Computing on the road sign problem. Proceedings of the VIII Brazilian Congress on Neural Networks (CBRN). 
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2007.  Generative Modeling of Autonomous Robots and their Environments using Reservoir Computing. Neural Processing Letters. 26:233–249.
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2006.  Modular Neural Network and Classical Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Navigation: Inhibiting Undesirable Behaviors. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). :498-505.
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2006.  A Neural Reinforcement Learning Approach for Behavior Acquisition in Intelligent Autonomous Systems. Master of Science with a major in Computer Systems Engineering
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2005.  Evolutionary fuzzy system for architecture control in a constructive neural network. 6th IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation. :541-546.
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2005.  Intelligent autonomous navigation for mobile robots: spatial concept acquisition and object discrimination. Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation. :553-557.
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2004.  Autonomous intelligent systems applied to robot navigation: spatial concept acquisition and object discrimination. 2nd National Meeting of Intelligent Robotics (II ENRI) in the Congress of the Brazilian Computer Society (in Portuguese). 
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2002.  Neural structures for modeling of biological declarative memory applied to robot autonomous navigation systems. 4th Forum of Informatics and Technology of Maringá (FITEM) (in Portuguese). 

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