Browsing by Author "Pereira, António Manuel de Jesus"
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- Elder Care Modular SolutionPublication . Marcelino, Isabel; Pereira, António Manuel de JesusThe Elder Care solution has two primary goals: monitoring vital signs, sending alerts to family and specialized help and provide a social network in order to wrap all older population to avoid social isolation [1][2]. In this paper we will show the methodology used to obtain Elder Care's architecture and point some guidelines to our present work: Elder Care's implementation.
- Service Oriented Platform for Drones CompetitionPublication . Ramos, João; Safadinho, David; Ribeiro, Roberto; Pereira, António Manuel de JesusDrones are facing a huge success. They are available almost anywhere, either online or at a near shop, not only for enthusiasts but also for professionals of many areas, such as agriculture, construction, multimedia and military missions. In the same way, online platforms are growing fast. Many applications that we were used to be installed and ran locally in our devices are now deployed in the internet, with the benefits like high availability, high scalability and high compatibility with almost any laptop, computer, smartphone or tablet. Thus, the high level of interest and utility of drones and the crescent demand of service-oriented platforms surged up to be a great fusion of concepts. Nowadays, training and competition requires users to have their own aircraft(s) and to move, usually, to an arena where they can play with each other. Having it in consideration, in this work it's proposed a platform that combines real-time online gaming and drones' training and competition, in which users from around the world can socialize and play together. This paper runs through an overview of the concept, presenting the specifications and the requirements that the platform must meet to accomplish the desired objective. The proposed platform provides access to anyone, anytime, anywhere and with any device. It opens the possibility for users to communicate with each other and to control aircrafts with real-time video transmission, only achievable due to the distributed architecture designed, that minimizes the existence of single points of failure.
- Software projects’ most important activities of quality management: A Delphi studyPublication . Catarino, Márcia Filipa Lopes; Gonçalves, Dulce Cristina dos Santos Iria; Pereira, António Manuel de Jesus; Varajão, João Eduardo Quintela Alves de Sousa;Quality management is a very important contributor for the success of software project management. In quality management area we can find multiple activities to carry out, however organizations cannot always execute all those tasks and many times it is indispensable to make choices about what can and should be made. In order to help the organizations to identify the most important activities in quality management, we carried out a Delphi study with the participation of several senior project managers. The result is the identification of several groups of activities, ordered by importance for the project success.
- UAV for Everyone : An Intuitive Control Alternative for Drone Racing CompetitionsPublication . Ribeiro, Roberto; Ramos, João; Safadinho, David; Pereira, António Manuel de JesusAs many technological innovations, the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) were created for military purposes. However, these aircrafts are now a reality accessible for common civilians and are used to explore new possibilities in areas like cinema, photography or surveillance. The technology easily reached other application fields and turned into a new sports category as well, supported by many drone racing competitions that happen around the world. There are many alternatives to control a quadcopter, but the most accurate relies on a robust and heavy handheld remote controller that requires dexterity to be a good pilot. This limits the control of the UAV to users comfortable with this kind of interaction, discarding people with reduced fine motor skills, hand malformations or elders with low learning capacity from the possibility of piloting a quadcopter and participate in competition events. An alternative to these remote controllers should be developed to overpass the mentioned disadvantages. The solution proposed in this paper is an intuitive and accurate control system made of two small and lightweight wearable devices capable of detecting patterns based on motion events. These patterns are then sent to a mobile application responsible for controlling the drone. Wearing the described devices like a high-tech glove, the users can pilot the UAV through simple and intuitive upper limb movements, being the changes in the orientation of each device over time identified as a specific pattern. This solution presents a new approach to the control of UAV that improves the ease of piloting them and decreases the time that is required to learn how to handle them.
- UAV Proposal for Real-Time Online Gaming to Reduce StressPublication . Safadinho, David; Ramos, João; Ribeiro, Roberto; Pereira, António Manuel de JesusSports practice is a common way people find to relieve the high stress levels. Sometimes it is impossible to move around and look for a place to do that, but the new technologies allow the practice of sports and recreational activities afar through the internet, in a comfortable way. The technological progress is responsible for the virtualization of many tasks. Nowadays, online multiplayer games try to be real, but they only focus on scenery virtualizations. As we know there already exists various UAV competitions, but sometimes, due to the many rules imposed by the aerial space, it isn't possible and safe to train when and where we want. To promote a better quality of life, it is being developed a platform with a totally distributed architecture based on the Internet of Drones concept, as it is shown in this article, that will allow the control of real unmanned aerial vehicles at anytime, from anywhere. The solution is composed by a high-scalability and a low-cost modeling system that will permit UAV users to practice their control skills in a comfortable and safe way. This interaction with a real vehicle will relieve the high stress levels caused by daily life.