Diogo Peralta Cordeiro

Dependable Computing in the Aerospace Sector

In September 2022, I joined the ANTAEUS project as a member of the On-board Data-Handling (OBDH) team. Our mission is to design and launch a 2U CubeSat to perform scientific measurements in the 100keV - 10MeV energy band and to validate a 2U instrument for future space high-energy astrophysics observatories. The project is led by the University of Coimbra in partnership with the Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particles Physics (LIP) and the University of Beira Interior and will contribute to developing enhanced instrumentation that should fly in M-class high-astrophysics mission proposals where the UC is participating, as well as in high-energy astrophysics based on a CubeSat constellation.

In October 2023, I became a supervisor of the Porto Space Team student society. In July 2022, I had joined Porto Space Team to lead the Department of Software and Computer Engineering, responsible for the Data-Handling in project INVICTUS. The project's goal is to develop a hybrid-propellant (H3 category) rocket for the European Rocketry Challenge (EuRoC 2023), with an apogee of 3000 meters and a safe landing on the ground via a parachute recovery system.

Lead developer of GNU social - The free software social networking platform

I joined GNU social in 2018 as a student supported by Google Summer of Code (GSoC). In 2019, I became the lead software engineer, having contributed with the development of version 2 and mentored twelve students (three of which were supported by GSoC (2019, 2020)).

In 2021, I received funding through the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the NGI0 Discovery Fund grant agreement No 825322, during the period 2021-02 to 2022-02, to lead the development of version 3, which features a high degree of accessibility, customisation and expansion via plugins. This fund is an European Commission initiative that aims to shape the development and evolution of the Internet into an Internet of Humans.

https://www.gnusocial.rocks/

Internship at Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia, INESC TEC

With the advent of machine learning methods, there has been extensive research in areas such as human detection, tracking and activity recognition. Inherent to this is the analysis of the human pose with methods relying on human skeleton models that establish a connection between the information extracted from the scene and the human body. This information can also be used by human parametric models to create virtual 3D representations of the human body.

In July 2022, I studied the state of the art of parametric models of humans to perform their representation in 3D. This required understanding the models, implementing the necessary infrastructure for their test, and final analysis and comparison.

Robotics Engineer internship at Underwater Systems and Technology Laboratory (LSTS) - Developing and deploying robotics systems for ocean operations

In 2020, I completed the FEUP course "Introduction to Robotics for applications in Ocean Observations, Archaeology, and Ecosystems Mapping" and its final student internship with a Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology BII research grant.

Our interdisciplinary student team further developed a low-cost ASV, designed a docking station and started work on a manoeuvre to enable autonomous docking in the LSTS' ToolChain. This manoeuvre uses a Vector Field Guidance algorithm to find the optimal trajectory. When closer to the station, tracks a target with the camera module.