Publications
Chauhan, A., and L. Seabra Lopes (2011) Using Spoken Words to guide Open-ended Category Formation, Cognitive Processing, vol. 12(4), Springer, p. 341-354.
Lau, N., L. Seabra Lopes, G. Corrente, N. Filipe, and R. Sequeira (2011) Robot Team Coordination using Dynamic Role and Positioning Assignment and Role Based Setplays, Mechatronics, vol. 21 (2), p. 445-454.
Seabra Lopes, L. and A. Chauhan (2008) Open-Ended Category Learning for Language Acquisition, Connection Science, Taylor & Francis, 20 (4), 277-297.
Seabra Lopes, L. and T. Belpaeme (2008) Beyond the Individual: New Insights on Language, Cognition and Robots, Connection Science, Taylor & Francis, 20 (4), 231-237.
Seabra Lopes, L. and A. Chauhan (2007) How many Words can my Robot learn? An Approach and Experiments with One-Class Learning, Interaction Studies, 8(1), p. 53‑81.
Seabra Lopes, L. and J.H. Connell (2001) Semisentient Robots: Routes to Integrated Intelligence, IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 16, n. 5, Computer Society, p. 10-14.
Seabra Lopes, L. and J.H. Connell (2001) Sentience in Robots: Applications and Challenges, IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 16, n. 5, Computer Society, p. 66.
Seabra Lopes, L.; Camarinha-Matos, L.M. (1996) Example Generation and Processing in Robot Programming by Demonstration, Studies in Informatics and Control, 5 (3), 191-204..
Camarinha-Matos, L.; Seabra Lopes, L.; Barata, J. (1996) Integration and Learning in Supervision of Flexible Assembly Systems, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, vol. 12 (2), pp. 202-219.
Camarinha-Matos, L.; Pinheiro-Pita, H.J.; Seabra Lopes, L.; Rubio, E.; Ibarra Zannatha, J.M.; Malo, A. (1994) Interactive Assembly Task Planning and Execution Supervision, Studies in Informatics and Control, June 1994.
Santos, F., L. Almeida, L. Seabra Lopes, J.L. Azevedo, and M.B. Cunha (2010) Communicating among robots in the RoboCup Middle-Size League, In Baltes, J.; Lagoudakis, M.G.; Naruse, T.; Shiry, S. (Eds.), RoboCup 2009: Robot Soccer World Cup XIII, LNCS/LNAI, Vol. 5949, Springer, p. 320-331.
Ribeiro, J., P. Mariano and L. Seabra Lopes (2009) DarkBlade: a program that plays Diplomacy, L. Seabra Lopes, N. Lau, P. Mariano, L. Rocha (edrs.), Progress in Artificial Intelligence: 14th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2009: Aveiro, Portugal, October 2009, Proceedings, LNCS/LNAI 5816, Springer, 485-496.
Chauhan, A., A. Nascimento, B. Werneck, and L. Seabra Lopes (2009) Embodied Language Acquisition: a Proof of Concept, L. Seabra Lopes, N. Lau, P. Mariano, L. Rocha (edrs.), Progress in Artificial Intelligence: 14th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2009: Aveiro, Portugal, October 2009, Proceedings, LNCS/LNAI 5816, Springer, 263-274.
Lau, N., L. Seabra Lopes, G. Corrente, and N. Filipe (2009) Roles, Positionings and Set Plays to Coordinate a RoboCup MSL Team, L. Seabra Lopes, N. Lau, P. Mariano, L. Rocha (edrs.), Progress in Artificial Intelligence: 14th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2009: Aveiro, Portugal, October 2009, Proceedings, LNCS/LNAI 5816, Springer, 323-337.
Pereira, R., L. Seabra Lopes, and A. Silva (2009) Semantic Image Search and Subset Selection for Classifier Training in Object Recognition, L. Seabra Lopes, N. Lau, P. Mariano, L. Rocha (edrs.), Progress in Artificial Intelligence: 14th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2009: Aveiro, Portugal, October 2009, Proceedings, LNCS/LNAI 5816, Springer, 338-349.
Pereira, R., and L. Seabra Lopes (2009) Learning Visual Object Categories with Global Descriptors and Local Features, L. Seabra Lopes, N. Lau, P. Mariano, L. Rocha (edrs.), Progress in Artificial Intelligence: 14th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2009: Aveiro, Portugal, October 2009, Proceedings, LNCS/LNAI 5816, Springer, 225-236.
Almeida, L., F. Santos, T. Facchinetti, P. Pedreira, V. Silva and L. Seabra Lopes (2004) Coordinating Distributed Autonomous Agents with a Real-Time Database: The CAMBADA Project, Computer and Information Sciences -- ISCIS 2004: 19th International Symposium, Proceedings, Aykanat, Cevdet; Dayar, Tugrul; Korpeoglu, Ibrahim (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3280, p. 876-886.
Wang, Q. and L. Seabra Lopes (2004) One-Class Learning for Human-Robot Interaction, Emerging Solutions for Future Manufacturing Systems: IFIP TC 5 / WG 5.5 Sixth IFIP Int. Conf. on Information Techologies for Balanced Automation Systems in Manufacturing and Services, L.M. Camarinha-Matos (edr.), Springer, p. 489-498.
Wang, Q., L. Seabra Lopes and D. Tax (2004) Visual Object Recognition through One-Class Learning, Image Analysis and Recognition: International Conference, ICIAR 2004, Part I, A. Campilho and M: Kamel (edrs.), LNCS 3211, Springer, p. 463-469.
Seabra Lopes, L.; Camarinha-Matos, L.M. (1999) Learning a Taxonomy of Failures in Assembly, Making Robots Smarter: Combining Sensing and Action through Robot Learning, K. Morik, M. Kaiser and V. Klingspor (edrs.), Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Seabra Lopes, L.; Camarinha-Matos, L.M. (1998) Feature Transformation Strategies for a Robot Learning Problem, Feature Extraction, Construction and Selection. A Data Mining Perspective, H. Liu and H. Motoda (edrs.), Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Seabra Lopes, L.; Camarinha-Matos, L.M. (1995) Planning, Training and Learning in Supervision of Flexible Assembly Systems, Balanced Automation Systems, L.M. Camarinha-Matos, H. Afsarmanesh (ed.), Chapman & Hall, pp. 63-74.
Proceedings of international conferences and
workshops
Chauhan, A. and, L. Seabra Lopes (2010) Acquiring Vocabulary through Human Robot Interaction: A Learning Architecture for Grounding Words with Multiple Meanings, 2010 AAAI Fall Symposium Series on Dialog with Robots, Arlington, Virginia, November 11, 2010, p. 8-13.
Chauhan, A. and, L. Seabra Lopes (2010) Experiments with single-class support vector data descriptions as a tool for vocabulary grounding, Proc. Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science (NLPCS-2010), Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, p. 70-78.
Santos, F., L. Almeida, P. Pedreiras, L. Seabra Lopes (2009) A real-time distributed software infrastructure for cooperating mobile autonomous robots, Proc. 14th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR’2009), Munich Marriott Hotel, Germany.
Lau, N., L. Seabra Lopes, G. Corrente, and N. Filipe (2009) Multi-Robot Team Coordination through Roles, Positionings and Coordinated Procedures, Proc. 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2009), October 11 to 15, 2009 at St. Louis, MO, USA, p. 5841-5848.
Santos, F., L. Almeida, L. Seabra Lopes (2008) Self-configuration of an Adaptive TDMA wireless communication protocol for teams of mobile robots, Proc. 13th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies in Factory Automation (ETFA’2008), Hamburg, Germany, p. 1197-1204. [ “James C. Hung Best Paper Award for Factory Automation” ]
Santos, F., L. Almeida, L. Seabra Lopes (2008) Adaptive wireless communication for teams of mobile robots: a position paper, Anis Koubâa (ed.), Proceedings of 7th International Workshop on RealTime Networks (RTN’08), held in conjunction with the 20th Euromicro International Conference on RealTime Systems (ECRTS-2008), Prague, Czech Republic.
Seabra Lopes, L. and A. Chauhan (2007) Scaling Up Category Learning for Language Acquisition in Human-Robot Interaction, Language and Robots: Proceedings of the Symposium. 10-12 December 2007, Aveiro, Portugal, Universidade de Aveiro, p. 83-92.
Quinderé, M., L. Seabra Lopes and A.J.S. Teixeira (2007) An Information State Dialogue Manager for a Mobile Robot, Proc. Interspeech’2007, Antwerp, Belgium, August 27-31, p. 162-165.
Quinderé, M., L. Seabra Lopes and A.J.S. Teixeira (2007) A Dialog Manager for an Intelligent Mobile Robot, Proc. Workshop on natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science (NLPCS-2007), Funchal, Madeira, June 12-13, p. 191-200.
Seabra Lopes, L. (2007) Failure Recovery Planning for Robotized Assembly based on Learned Semantic Structures, IFAC Workshop on Intelligent Assembly and Disasembly (IAD’07), Alicante, Spain, May 23-25, p. 65-70.
Seabra Lopes, L. (2007) Failure Recovery in Robotics based on Acquired Semantic Information, ICRA2007 Workshop on Semantic Information in Robotics (SIR), Rome, Italy, April 10, 2007, poster, p. 63.
Seabra Lopes, L., and A. Chauhan (2006) Seabra Lopes, L. & Chauhan, A. (2006) One-Class Lifelong Learning Approach to Grounding, Workshop on External Symbol Grounding. Book of Abstracts and Papers, Plymouth, UK, p. 15-23.
Seabra Lopes, L., A.J.S. Teixeira, M. Quinderé and M. Rodrigues (2005) From Robust Spoken Language Understanding to Knowledge Acquisition and Management, Proc. Interspeech’2005, Lisboa, Portugal, p. 3469-3472.
Seabra Lopes, L., A.J.S. Teixeira and M. Quinderé (2005) A Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Module for a Dialogue System in a Mobile Robot, Proc. 2nd International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Cognitive Science, NLUCS’2005, Miami, USA, p. 172-177.
Santos, F., L. Almeida, P. Pedreiras, L. Seabra Lopes, T. Facchinetti (2004) An Adaptive TDMA Protocol for Soft Real-Time Wireless Communication among, Mobile Autonomous Agents, Proc. WACERTS'2004, Int. Workshop on Architecture for Cooperative Embedded Real-Time Systems (in conjunction with RTSS 2004), Lisboa, Portugal, p. 1-4.
Rodrigues, M., A.J.S. Teixeira and L. Seabra Lopes (2004) A Hybrid Approach for Spoken Natural Language Understanding applied to a Mobile Intelligent Robot, Proc. 1st International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Cognitive Science, NLUCS’2004, Porto, Portugal, p. 145-150.
Wang, Q. and L. Seabra Lopes (2004) An Object Recognition Framework based on Hidden Markov Trees and Kullback-Leibler Distance, Proc. of ACCV'2004: Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Jeju Island, Korea, p. 276-281.
Wang, Q. and L. Seabra Lopes (2003) Indoor Object Recognition through Human Interaction using Wavelet Features, Proc. IEEE Int'l Conf. on Robotics, Intelligent Systems and Signal Processing, RISSP'2003, p. 166-171.
Seabra Lopes, L., A. Teixeira, M. Rodrigues, D. Gomes, C. Teixeira, L. Ferreira, P. Soares, J. Girão & N. Sénica (2003) Towards a Personal Robot with Language Interface, Proc. Eurospeech'2003, p. 2205-2208.
Wang, Q. and L. Seabra Lopes (2003) Wavelet-based Indoor Object Recognition through Human Interaction, Proc. Int'l Conf. on Advanced Robotics, ICAR'2003, Coimbra, p. 959‑964.
Seabra Lopes, L., A. Teixeira, M. Rodrigues, D. Gomes, J. Girão, C. Teixeira, N. Sénica, L. Ferreira & P. Soares (2003) A Robot with Natural Interaction Capabilities, Proc. IEEE Int'l Conf. on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA'2003, vol. 1, p. 605-612.
Seabra Lopes, L. (2002) Carl: from Situated Activity to Language Level Interaction and Learning, Proc. IEEE Int'l Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'2002), Lausanne, Switzerland, p. 890-896.
Seabra Lopes, L. and Q.H. Wang (2002) Towards Grounded Human-Robot Communication, Proc. 11th IEEE Int'l Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN'2002), Berlin, Germany, p. 312-318.
Seabra Lopes, L. (2001) Carl, a Learning Robot, serving Food at the AAAI Reception, Proc. of the AAAI Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition Workshop, Seattle, WA, USA, p. 1-7.
Seabra Lopes, L. and A.J.S. Teixeira (2000) Human-Robot Interaction through Spoken Language Dialogue, Proceedings IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems(IROS'2000), Japan, p. 528-534.
Seabra Lopes, L. and A.J.S. Teixeira (2000) Teaching Behavioral and Task Knowledge to Robots through Spoken Dialogues, My Dinner with R2D2: Proceedings for the 2000 AAAI Spring Symposium on Natural Dialogues with Practical Robotic Devices, Stanford University, California, p. 35-43.
Seabra Lopes, L., K.L. Doty, F. Vaz & J.A. Fonseca (2000) Service Robotics and the Issue of Integrated Intelligence, Proc. ECAI Workshop on Service Robotics - Applications and Safety Issues in an Emerging Market, Berlin, Germany, p. 35-44.
Seabra Lopes, L., N. Lau, L.P. Reis (2000) Intelligent Control and Decision-Making Demonstrated on a Simple Compass-Guided Robot, Proc. of the 2000 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Nashville, Tennessee, 2419-2424.
Seabra Lopes, L. (1999) Failure Recovery Planning in Assembly Based on Acquired Experience: Learning by Analogy, Proc. of the IEEE International Symposium on Assembly and Task Planning (ISATP’99), Porto, Portugal, p. 294-300.
Seabra Lopes, L.; Camarinha-Matos, L.M. (1996) Robot Programming by Demonstration in the Assembly Domain, Proc. 5th UK Mechatronics Forum International Conference with 3rd International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice, Guimarães, Portugal, vol. 1, pp. 125-130.
Seabra Lopes, L.; Camarinha-Matos, L.M. (1996) Towards Intelligent Supervision of Flexible Assembly Systems, Proc. IEEE International Conferece on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Beijing, China, vol. 2, pp. 1225-1230.
Seabra Lopes, L.; Camarinha-Matos, L.M. (1996) Learning Failure Recovery Knowledge for Mechanical Assembly, Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Osaka, Japan, vol. 2, pp. 712-719.
Seabra Lopes, L.; Camarinha-Matos, L.M. (1995) Planning and Supervision in Assembly Systems: a Machine Learning Approach, Proc. of the 3rd European Workshop on Learning Robots, MLnet Familiarization Workshop Series, April 28-29, 1995.
Seabra Lopes, L.; Camarinha-Matos, L.M. (1995) Inductive Generation of Diagnostic Knowledge for Autonomous Assembly, Proc. 1995 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'95), Nagoya, Japan, May 24-26, 1995, pp. 2545-2552.
Seabra Lopes, L.; Camarinha-Matos, L.M. (1995) A Machine Learning Approach to Error Detection and Recovery in Assembly, Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'95), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 1995, vol. 3, pp. 197-203.
Seabra Lopes, L.; Camarinha-Matos, L.M. (1995) Example Generation and Processing for Inductive Learning in the Assembly Domain, Proc. 4th European Workshop on Learning Robots, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Camarinha-Matos, L.; Seabra Lopes, L.; Barata, J. (1994) Assembly Execution Supervision with Learning Capabilities, Proc. of the 1994 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, San Diego, California, May 8th-13th, 1994, pp. 272-279.
Seabra Lopes, L.; Camarinha-Matos, L.M. (1994) Learning to Diagnose Failures of Assembly Tasks, Proc. of the IFAC Symp. on Artificial Intelligence in Real-Time Control, Valencia, Espanha, October, 1994, pp. 125-131.
Camarinha-Matos, L.; Pinheiro-Pita, H.J.; Seabra Lopes, L.; Rubio, E.; Ibarra Zannatha, J.M.; Malo, A. (1993) Interactive Assembly Task Planning and Execution Supervision, Proc. of the ECLA.CIM'93, Lisbon, p. 3-10.
Seabra Lopes, L.; Camarinha-Matos, L.M. (1993) Learning in Assembly Task Execution, Proc. of the II European Workshop on Learning Robots, Turim, Itália, October 26, 1993, pp. 129-142.
Bartolomeu, P., L. Seabra Lopes, N. Lau, A. Pinho, L. Almeida (2005) Integração de Informação na Equipa de Futebol Robótico CAMBADA, Electrónica e Telecomunicações, vol. 4 (4), Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal, p. 467-477.
Almeida, L., J.L. Azevedo, M.B. Cunha, V. Santos, L. Seabra Lopes (2003) Robótica'2002: Segunda Edição do Festival Nacional de Robótica, Robótica, nº 51, p. 8-12.
Seabra Lopes, L., A. Teixeira, D. Gomes, C. Teixeira, J. Girão & N. Sénica (2003) A Friendly and Flexible Human-Robot Interface for Carl, Proc. Festival Nacional de Robótica - Encontro Científico, Lisboa, Maio de 2003, p. 105-112.
Teixeira, A., L. Seabra Lopes, L. Ferreira, P. Soares & M. Rodrigues (2003) Recent Developments on the Spoken Language Human-Robot Interface of Carl, Proc. Festival Nacional de Robótica - Encontro Científico, Lisboa, Maio de 2003, p. 97-104.
Ferreira, L., P. Soares, M. Rodrigues, L. Seabra Lopes, A. Teixeira (2003) Desenvolvimentos Recentes na Interface Humano-Robô baseada em Linguagem Natural Falada do Carl, Electrónica e Telecomunicações, vol. 4, nº 1, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal, p. 51-63.
Wang, Q. & L. Seabra Lopes (2002) A DCT-based Feature Transformation Strategy for Fast Object Recognition, Proc. of the 12th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, RECPAD 2002, Aveiro Portugal.
M. Rodrigues, L. Seabra Lopes & A. Teixeira (2002) Interacção Humano-Robô ao Nível da Linguagem, Electrónica e Telecomunicações, vol. 3, n. 6, p. 509-514.
Ferreira, N., N. Ferreira, M. Rodrigues, A. Teixeira, F. Vaz, L. Seabra Lopes (2001) Interacção com um Robô através de Linguagem Natural Falada, Electrónica e Telecomunicações, vol. 3, n. 3, p. 233-241.
Seabra Lopes, L., N. Lau, L.P. Reis (1999) Dom Dinis: Um Robô com Sentido de Orientação, Electrónica e Telecomunicações, 2 (6), Universidade de Aveiro, p. 811-813.
Seabra Lopes, L.; Silva, J.C.; Camarinha-Matos, L.M. (1995) Supervisão, Aprendizagem e Integração de Serviços em Robótica de Montagem, Proc. 5as. Jornadas de Projecto, Planeamento e Produção Assistidos por Computador (5as PPP/AC), Guimarães, May/June, 1995.
Camarinha-Matos, L.; Osório A. L.; Seabra Lopes, L. (1992) Integração de Informação para Arquitecturas CIM, 1992, Ingenium, nº 59, Abril 1992.
Camarinha-Matos, L. M.; Osório, A. Luís; Seabra Lopes, L. (1991) Integração de Informação para Arquitecturas CIM, 3ªs Jornadas Nacionais de Projecto, Planeamento e Produção Assistidos por Computador, Ordem dos Engenheiros, Lisboa.
Theses / Dissertations
Seabra Lopes, L. (1997) Robot Learning at the Task Level. A Study in the Assembly Domain, Ph.D. thesis, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Monte da Caparica.
Seabra Lopes, L. (1991) Sistema Integrado de Indução, Licenciatura dissertation, (Technical report of the Robotics Group, GR-RT-SD-7-91), Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
Last update: January 2012