Short Biography

Miguel F. M. Lima was born at 1963, graduated with the ‘Licenciatura’ degree (1986) in Electronics and Telecommunications at the University of Aveiro, Msc. degree (1997) in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the “Instituto Superior Técnico” of the Technical University of Lisbon and PhD. degree (2009) in Electrical Engineering at the University of Coimbra. During 1986-1988 he worked as Engineer at the Portuguese Telecom. During 1988-1998 he worked as Engineer at the Portuguese Aeronautical Company. During 1989-1994 he had a Scholarship at the National Institute of Industrial Engineering and Technology where he developed a Flexible Manufacturing Cell. Since 1998 he is with the School of Technology of the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, Department of Electrical Engineering, where is a Professor.

Research Interests

The main research work is on the areas of Robotics, Automation, Instrumentation, Real Time Processing, Nonlinear Dynamics, Control, and Fractional Calculus.

Selected Publications

· Miguel F. M. Lima, J.A. Tenreiro Machado, Manuel Crisóstomo, Towards a Sensor Classification Scheme for Robotic Manipulators, CIRA, 7th IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, pp. 297–302, June 20–23, 2007, Jacksonville, Florida, USA, ISBN 1-4244-0790-7.

· Miguel F. M. Lima, J.A. Tenreiro Machado, Manuel Crisóstomo, Study of Experimental Signals During Impacts and Vibrations of a Robotic Manipulator, Euromech Colloquium 483, Geometrically Non-linear Vibrations of Structures, pp. 161–164, July 9–11, 2007, FEUP Porto, Portugal, ISBN 978-989-95208-2-0.

· Miguel F. M. Lima, J.A. Tenreiro Machado, Manuel Crisóstomo, and António Ferrolho, On the Sensor Classification Scheme of Robotic Manipulators, International Journal of Factory Automation, Robotics and Soft Computing, International Society for Advanced Research, pp. 26-31, Issue 3, July 2007, ISSN: 1828-6984.

· Miguel F. M. Lima, J.A. Tenreiro Machado, Manuel Crisóstomo, Fractional Dynamics in Mechanical Manipulation, Proceedings of the ASME 2007 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference IDETC/CIE, 6th International Conference on Multibody Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics, and Control (MSNDC), 2007, September 4-7, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, ISBN 0-7918-3806-4.

· J. A. Tenreiro Machado, Ramiro S. Barbosa, Isabel S. Jesus, Manuel F. Silva, Cecília M. Reis, Maria G. Marcos, Luís M. Afonso, Alexandra F. Galhano, Miguel F. M. Lima, E. J. Solteiro Pires, N. M. Fonseca Ferreira; Towards the Application of Fractional Calculus in Engineering Science; Symposium on Applied Fractional Calculus, Industrial Engineering School, University of Extremadura, Spain, October 15-17, 2007, CD-ROM.

· Miguel F. M. Lima, J. A. Tenreiro Machado and Manuel Crisóstomo, Experimental Signal Analysis of Robot Impacts in a Fractional Calculus Perspective, Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, Fuji Technology Press, pp. 1079-1085, vol. 11, No. 9, Nov. 2007, ISSN 1343-0130.

· N. M. Fonseca Ferreira, Fernando B. Duarte, Miguel F. M. Lima, Maria G. Marcos, J. A. Tenreiro Machado, Application of Fractional Calculus in the Dynamical Analysis and Control of Mechanical Manipulators, FCAA - Journal of Fractional Calculus & Applied Analysis, Vol. 11, No 1, pp. 91-113, 2008.

· Miguel F. M. Lima, J.A. Tenreiro Machado, and Manuel Crisóstomo, Fractional Dynamics in Mechanical Manipulation, Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics, Transactions of the ASME, Vol. 3, Issue 2, April 2008, available online 4 Feb. 2008, pp. 021203-1 – 021203-9, doi: 10.1115/1.2833488, ISSN 1555-1423.

· Miguel F. M. Lima, J. A. Tenreiro Machado and Manuel Crisóstomo, Pseudo Phase Plane, Delay and Fractional Dynamics in Robotic Signals, JESA – Journal Européen des Systèmes Automatisés, special issue on fractional differentiation, Hermes, vol. 42, n° 6-7-8, Aug-Out/2008, pp. 1037-1051, ISBN-978-2-7462-2262-5.

· Miguel F. M. Lima, J.A. Tenreiro Machado, and Manuel Crisóstomo, Robotic manipulators with vibrations: Short time Fourier transform of fractional spectra, book Intelligent Engineering Systems and Computational Cybernetics, Springer Netherlands, pp. 49-60, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4020-8677-9.

· Miguel F. M. Lima, J.A. Tenreiro Machado, and Manuel Crisóstomo, Filtering Method in Backlash Phenomena Analysis, Mathematical and Computer Modelling 49 (2009), pp. 1494-1503, DOI information: 10.1016/j.mcm.2008.08.015, published online: 3-MAR-2009

· Miguel F. M. Lima, J. A. Tenreiro Machado, Manuel Crisóstomo, Experimental Backlash Study in Mechanical Manipulators, accepted for publication in Robotica journal, Cambridge Univ. Press.

Reviewer of journals and conferences

· Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics, ASME transactions, 2007.

· CIRA, 7th IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, 2007.

· FDA'2008 - Third IFAC Workshop on Fractional Differentiation and its Applications.

· ICARCV 2008-The Tenth International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision.

· IROS2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.

· 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2009.

· 7th International Conference on Multibody Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics and Control ASME, 2009.

· 12th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2009.

Thesis

· Msc.: Desenvolvimento de células de fabrico flexível: Simulação e Controlo (in Portuguese).

· PhD.: Dynamic Analysis of Vibrations in Robotic Manipulators: Abstract, theses (in Portuguese).

Last update: June 29, 2009