Docente
Daniel Silvestre

Resume

Dr. Daniel Silvestre received his B.Sc. in Computer Networks in 2008 from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon, Portugal, and an M.Sc. in Advanced Computing in 2009 from the Imperial College London, United Kingdom. In 2017, Dr. Silvestre got his Ph.D. (with the highest honors) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the former university. Dr. Daniel Silvestre holds a tenured Assistant Professor position with the School of Science and Technology of the NOVA University of Lisbon. Since 2017, he has participated in 4 projects and has written 3 successful project proposals (2 for the University of Macau and 1 for FCT) considered for funding totaling around 840k €, with a finished FCT project PCIF/MPG/0156/2019 – FirePuma dealing with sensor fusion of crowdsourced data and trajectory design to increase the likelihood of an early forest fire detection. All the indicators from FirePuma surpassed the initial proposal with the highlights being the publication of 15 journal papers and 19 MSc thesis. He has conducted research in nonlinear optimization, Fault Detection and Isolation in dynamical systems and networked control systems leading to the publication of 1 book chapter, 27 papers in Q1 journals (14 being in venues over the 92th percentile) and 28 conference papers with visibility in the control community denoted by 661 citations in Google Scholar (506 since 2020), an h-index of 15, Associate Editor for the Control Systems Society of IEEE and invitation to serve as session Chair in multiple American Control Conference and IEEE Control Decision Conference.

Graus

• Master
  Advanced Computing
• Licenciatura
  Engenharia de Redes de Comunicações
• Doutoramento
  Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores

Publicações

Pré-impressão

Artigo em revista

• 2024-07, Conceptual Design of an Unmanned Electrical Amphibious Vehicle for Ocean and Land Surveillance, World Electric Vehicle Journal
• 2024, Convex MPC and Thrust Allocation With Deadband for Spacecraft Rendezvous, IEEE Control Systems Letters
• 2024, Conceptual Design of an Unmanned Electrical Amphibious Vehicle for Ocean and Land Surveillance
• 2022-11, A resilient continuous-time consensus method using a switching topology, Systems & control letters
• 2022-08, Set-valued estimators for Uncertain Linear Parameter-Varying systems, Systems & control letters
• 2022, Constrained Convex Generators, IEEE Control Systems Letters
• 2021-07-10, The robust minimal controllability and observability problem, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control
• 2021-07, Resilient Desynchronization for Decentralized Medium Access Control, IEEE Control Systems Letters
• 2021-01-01, Node and network resistance to bribery in multi-agent systems, Systems & Control Letters
• 2020-12-30, General resilient consensus algorithms, International Journal of Control
• 2020-12-20, Distinguishability of discrete-time linear systems, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control
• 2020-02, A microscopic-view Infection model based on linear systems, Information Sciences
• 2020-01, OPTool—An optimization toolbox for iterative algorithms, SoftwareX
• 2020, Reputation-based Method to Deal with Bad Sensor Data, IEEE Control Systems Letters
• 2019-06, Broadcast and Gossip Stochastic Average Consensus Algorithms in Directed Topologies, IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems
• 2019, Desynchronization for Decentralized Medium Access Control based on Gauss-Seidel Iterations
• 2018, A PageRank Algorithm based on Asynchronous Gauss-Seidel Iterations, 2018 Annual American Control Conference (ACC)
• 2017-08, Fault detection for LPV systems using Set-Valued Observers: A coprime factorization approach, Systems & Control Letters
• 2017, Stochastic and deterministic fault detection for randomized gossip algorithms, Automatica
• 2017, Set-based fault detection and isolation for detectable linear parameter-varying systems, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control
• 2015, Set-Consensus using Set-Valued Observers, Information Sciences
• 2015, Distributed fault detection using relative information in linear multi-agent networks, IFAC-PapersOnLine
• 2013, Gossip average consensus in a Byzantine environment using stochastic Set-Valued Observers, This paper addresses the problem of consensus in the presence of Byzantine faults, modeled by an attacker injecting a perturbation in the state of the nodes of a network. It is firstly shown that Set-Valued Observers (SVOs) attain finite-time consensus, even in the case where the state estimates are not shared between nodes, at the expenses of requiring large horizons, thus rendering the computati

Tese / Dissertação

• 2024, Mestrado, Six Floor Origin A Media JIT Packaging And Storage Platform
• 2024, Mestrado, Prevention of forest fires using computer vision
• 2023, Mestrado, OUTLIER AND ATTACKER RESILIENT METHODS BASED ON RATING AND REPUTATION SYSTEM
• 2023, Mestrado, Automatic Event Detection for Tennis Sport. This thesis will focus on the development of a solution for automatic events detection for Tennis matches
• 2017, Doutoramento, Fault-tolerant Stochastic Distributed Systems

Capítulo de livro

• 2020, Decentralized Control for Multi-agent Missions Based on Flocking Rules, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer International Publishing

Relatório

• 2022, Quality assessment of positioning and orientation data collected by mobile devices, https://www.uc.pt/en/org/inescc/res_reports_docs/RR_01_2022
• 2020, Notas de Automação e Controlo II 2019-2020, http://hdl.handle.net/11144/4504
• 2019, OPTool - Documentation v1.2, http://hdl.handle.net/11144/4367

Documento de trabalho

• 2020, Notas de Automação e Controlo II 2019-2020
• 2020, Notas de Automação e Controlo 2019-2020
• 2019, Notas de Automação e Controlo 2018-2019
• 2018, Notas de Sistemas de Robótica 2017-2018

Artigo em conferência

• Stochastic and Deterministic Fault Detection for Randomized Gossip Algorithms
• Source Localization and Network Topology Discovery in Infection Networks
• Rendezvous Algorithm for Disconnected Topologies
• Presentation on Set-membership techniques applied to Sensitivity Analysis
• Presentation of "Fault Detection for Cyber-Physical Systems: Smart Grid case"
• Presentation of "Desynchronization for Decentralized Medium Access Control based on Gauss-Seidel Iterations"
• Presentation of "Desynchronization for Decentralized Medium Access Control based on Gauss-Seidel Iterations"
• Economia Circular e Objectivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável: a Ilha de Príncipe
• Asymmetric Randomized Gossip Algorithm for Average Consensus, LarSYS meeting
• A Rendezvous Algorithm for Multi-agent Systems in Disconnected Network Topologies
• 2023-11-22, Exact Set-valued Estimation using Constrained Convex Generators for uncertain Linear Systems
• 2023, Privacy Assessment for Linear Consensus using Constrained Convex Generators
• 2023, Development and Experimental Validation of a LoRa Wireless Sensor Network for Wildfire Surveillance
• 2022, Accurate Guaranteed State Estimation for Uncertain LPVs using Constrained Convex Generators
• 2020-12, A General Discrete-Time Method to Achieve Resilience in Consensus, 2020 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)
• 2019-12, Sensitivity Analysis for Linear Systems based on Reachability Sets, Conference on Decision and Control
• 2019-07-10, Desynchronization for Decentralized Medium Access Control based on Gauss-Seidel Iterations, American Control Conference (ACC)
• 2018-07-16, Fault Detection for Cyber-Physical Systems: Smart Grid case, 23rd International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems
• 2015-07-15, Self-Triggered Set-Valued Observers, European Control Conference (ECC)
• 2015, Finite-time convergence policies in state-dependent social networks, American Control Conference (ACC)
• 2011, Average consensus and gossip algorithms in networks with stochastic asymmetric communications
• 2010, Digital preservation based on federations of data grids, IBERGRID - Iberian Grid Infrastructure Conference
• 2010, A geographic unicast routing algorithm using no location service, Ninth IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications

Poster em conferência

• 2016, Stochastic and Deterministic State- Dependent Social Networks, Encontro Ciência FCT

Outra produção

• 2020, Resilient Desynchronization using Nesterov Method, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) - a network composed of nodes using a wireless medium in Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA). No centralized infrastructure - implies the need for a decentralized algorithm to perform desynchronization of transmissions. Applicable to surveillance - a group of vigilant robots that want to periodically visit sites to be monitored.
• 2019, Reputation-based Resilient Distributed Algorithms, In this talk, the problem of designing distributed algorithms is presented and discussed its main challenges. Setting the task of having a distributed algorithm in a multi-agent system to achieve consensus of a variable of interest, we present a discrete-time reputation-based consensus algorithm that eliminates attacked agents' information for the case of a static topology and synchronous communic
• 2015, Self-Triggered Set-Valued Observers, This paper addresses the problem of high computational requirements in the implementation of Set-Valued Observers (SVOs), which places stringent constraints in terms of their use in applications where low computational power is available or the plant is sensitive to delay. It is firstly shown how to determine an overbound for the set-valued estimates, which reduces the overhead by limiting the num
• 2015, Finite-time Convergence Policies in State-dependent Social Networks, This paper addresses the problem of finite-time convergence in a social network for a political party or an association, modeled as a distributed iterative system with a graph dynamics chosen to mimic how people interact. It is firstly shown that, in this setting, finite-time convergence is achieved only when nodes form a complete network, and that contacting with agents with distinct opinions red
• 2015, Distributed Fault Detection Using Relative Information in Linear Multi-Agent Networks, This paper addresses the problem of fault detection in the context of a collection of agents performing a shared task and exchanging relative information over a communication network. We resort to techniques in the literature to construct a meaningful observable system and overcome the issue that the system of systems is not observable. A solution involving Set-Valued Observers (SVOs) is proposed
• 2010, A Geographic Unicast Routing Algorithm using no Location Service, In this paper, we present a geographic routing algorithm which can adapt to different levels of mobility by changing its parameters according to the network in which it is running. Routing decisions are based on directions and geographical positions of the nodes and there is no need for an external location system. Discoveries are done using unicast messages resulting in few control messages being