Antônio Padilha Lanari Bó - LARA

Antônio Padilha Lanari Bó
27, rue de la Providence Single, 29 years old
34000 Montpellier France Brazilian and Italian citizenships
Portable : + 33 (0) 6 81 65 65 74
Professional e-mail: antonio.bo@lirmm.fr
Personal e-mail: antonio.plb@gmail.com
Webpage: http://www.lirmm.fr/~bo
Education
10/2007 - present PhD in Automatic and Microelectronic Systems
Active compensation of pathological tremor on the upper limbs using Functional Electrical
Stimulation. Supervisor: Phillipe Poignet
LIRMM, Université Montpellier 2
03/2005 - 07/2007 MSc in Electrical Engineering (Automation and Systems)
3D localization for application on an aerial robot. Supervisor: Geovany A. Borges
Universidade de Brasília
8/2002 - 12/2002 Control and Automation Engineering
Exchange student for one semester.
Main disciplines: machine learning and control.
Kungl Tekniska Högskolan, Sweden
4/1999 - 7/2004 BS in Control and Automation Engineering
Graduation project: Experimental platform for RC helicopter control studies. Supervisor:
Geovany A. Borges
Awarded best student in his class.
Universidade de Brasília
Projects
10/2007 - present TREMOR Project member. The main goal of the project is to quantify pathological
tremor attenuation on the upper limbs using a portable Functional Electrical Stimulation
system.
LIRMM, MXM/Neuromedics, team-project DEMAR/INRIA, CHU Montpellier,
Centre Propara
08/2006 - 07/2007 CARCARAH Project member. Funded by Expansion S.A., the main goal of the project
was the development of an aerial robot for power lines inspection.
Universidade de Brasília
Academic and Professional Experience
10/2007 - present Research and development of FES applications for motor disorders.
MXM/Neuromedics, Vallauris

11/2004 - 07/2007 Science and technology analyst for robotics, automation, mechanical engineering,
aerospace engineering and naval engineering projects.
National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq),
Brasília
09/2004 - 11/2006 Coordinator of technology activities at Galois High School. The students have won the
local Robotics Challenge 2006.
Galois High School, Brasília
7/2003 - 8/2003 Intern at the maintenance section at Angra II, the Brazilian nuclear power plant.
Eletronuclear, Angra dos Reis
2/2002 - 11/2004 Co-founder of the junior enterprise of the University of Brasília mecathronics engineering
course.
Mecajun
Publications
Journal papers ZHANG, D. ; POIGNET, P. ; BO, A. P. L. ; ANG, W. T. . Exploring Peripheral
Mechanism of Tremor on Neuromusculoskeletal Model: A General Simulation
Study. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 56, no. 10, p.
2359-69, October 2009.
Peer-reviewed
conference papers
BO, A. P. L. ; POIGNET, P. . Tremor Attenuation Using FES-based Joint
Stiffness Control. 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
(ICRA 2010), 2010, Anchorage. Accepted for publication.
RICHA, R. ; BO, A. P. L. ; POIGNET, P. . Beating Heart Motion Prediction
for Robust Visual Tracking. 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and
Automation (ICRA 2010), 2010, Anchorage. Accepted for publication.
BO, A. P. L. ; POIGNET, P. ; ZHANG, D. ; ANG, W. T. . FES-controlled Cocontraction
Strategies for Pathological Tremor Compensation. 2009 IEEE
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2009), 2009, St.
Louis.
BO, A. P. L. ; POIGNET, P. ; GENY, C. . Filtering Voluntary Motion for Pathological
Tremor Compensation. 2009 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent
Robots and Systems (IROS 2009), 2009, St. Louis.
BO, A. P. L. ; POIGNET, P. ; WIDJAJA, F. ; ANG, W. T. . Online pathological
tremor characterization using extended Kalman filtering. In: 30th Annual
International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
(EMBC 2008), 2008, Vancouver.
RICHA, R. ; BO, A. P. L. ; POIGNET, P. . Motion Prediction for Tracking the
Beating Heart. In: 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering
in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2008), 2008, Vancouver.
WIDJAJA, F. ; SHEE, C. Y. ; ZHANG. D. ; ANG, W. T. ; POIGNET, P. ; BO, A.
P. L. ; GUIRAUD, D. . Current Progress on Pathological Tremor Modeling
and Active Compensation using Functional Electrical Stimulation. In: 6th
International Conference on Gerontechnology (ISG 2008), 2008, Pisa.

Conference papers
selected for books
or journals
BORGES, G. A. ; BO, A. P. L. ; ISHIHARA, J. Y. . An IMU/Magnetometer/GPSbased
localization system using correlated Kalman filtering. In: XVII Congresso
Brasileiro de Automática (CBA 2008), 2008, Juiz de Fora.
MARTINS, A. S. ; BO, A. P. L. ; BORGES, G. A. ; ISHIHARA, J. Y. . Design and
Experimental Evaluation of Rotor Speed Regulators for Model Helicopters
in a Test Bench. In: 2007 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and
Systems (IROS 2007), 2007, San Diego.
BO, A. P. L. ; BORGES, G. A. . Desenvolvimento de um sistema de localização
3D para aplicação em robôs aéreos. In: V Simpósio Brasileiro de Engenharia
Inercial (SBEIN 2007), 2007, Rio de Janeiro.
BO, A. P. L. ; BORGES, G. A. . Low Cost 3D Localization System for Applications
on Aerial Robots. In: 19th International Congress of Mechanical Engineering
(COBEM 2007), 2007, Brasília.
BO, A. P. L. ; BORGES, G. A. . Sistema de Baixo Custo para Determinação de
Atitude com Aplicação em VANTs. In: VIII Simpósio Brasileiro de Automação
Inteligente (SBAI 2007), 2007, Florianópolis.
MARTINS, A. S. ; BO, A. P. L. ; BORGES, G. A. ; ISHIHARA, J. Y. . Projeto e
avaliação de reguladores da velocidade do rotor principal para robô aéreo
baseado em helimodelo. In: XVI Congresso Brasileiro de Automática (CBA 2006),
2006, Salvador.
WIDJAJA, F. ; SHEE, C. Y. ; ZHANG. D. ; ANG, W. T. ; POIGNET, P. ; BO, A. P. L.
; GUIRAUD, D. . Current Progress on Pathological Tremor Modeling and Active
Compensation using Functional Electrical Stimulation. Gerontechnology,
vol. 7, no. 2, p. 240-245, May 2008.
Bo, A. P. L.; Borges, G. A. . Low Cost 3D Localization System for Applications
on Aerial Robots. In: ABCM Symposium Series in Mechatronics, 2008, v. 2, p. 355
- 362.
Technical Notes Borges, G. A.; Bo, A. P. L.; Martins, A. S.; Cotta, L. C.; Fernandes, M.; Beckmann,
E. Development with Atmel AVR microcontrollers. 2006 (in portuguese)
Bo, A.P.L. Development with Atmel AT91Sam7 microcontrollers. 2006 (in
portuguese)

Skills
Automation Design and implementation of digital controllers (PID, optimal, polynomial, adaptive),
system identification (linear and nonlinear least squares, recursive methods, neural
network), stochastic filtering (Extended and Sigma-Point Kalman filter, particle filter)
and pattern recognition.
Systems Windows, Linux and RTAI/Linux.
Programming C, Matlab Language, Pascal, AIML, Java.
Microcontrollers
and hardware
AVR ATmega (avr-gcc) and AT91Sam7 (arm-gcc) from Atmel and embedded systems
design.
Tools Matlab, Protel DXP, Scilab, Autocad.
Languages
Portuguese First language
English Fluent (CAE certificate)
French Fluent
Italian Intermediate
Swedish Notions
Others
Science education Lectures on high schools and universities about mechatronics engineering and robotics.
Sports & related Triathlete and duathlete for 7 years. Brazilian duathlon team member and Ironman
Brazil 2000 winner (18-19 age group).
Football, outdoor (skiing, sailing, hiking) and farm activities.
Cultural & related Brazilian popular and instrumental music, dancing, acoustic guitar, literature, cooking.