Overview of Institute for Systems and Robotics
The Institute for Systems and Robotics – ISR-Lisboa – is a multidisciplinary research institution in the areas of Robotics and Information Processing, including Systems and Control Theory, Signal Processing, Computer Vision, AI and Intelligent Systems and Biomedical Engineering.
Research at ISR-Lisboa spans a multitude of key topics, ranging from fundamental theoretical issues to the applications of engineering methods and tools to the design and analysis of complex systems. ISR-Lisboa is organized in the following 5 research groups/labs:
Computer and Robot Vision;
Dynamical Systems and Ocean Robotics;
Evolutionary Systems and Biomedical Engineering;
Intelligent Robots and Systems Group;
Signal and Image Processing Group.
Across this broad spectrum our methodologies are rooted in solid mathematical principles, providing, whenever possible, formal guarantees of performance.
ISR-Lisboa is located at the North tower of the Lisbon campus of IST (Técnico – Lisboa) and is home to more than 100 researchers from many nationalities, including 32 faculty members, research fellows and Post-Doc researchers. They are responsible for the supervision of 65 post-graduate and 27 undergraduate students.
At ISR-Lisboa, we attach special attention to international scientific research cooperation and to advanced training and education initiatives through master, doctoral and post-doctoral programs. Grants are available for international students and researchers who wish to enroll in these programs.
ISR-Lisboa offers an international environment with its teams being engaged in several vibrant international collaborative projects. Two types of activities are specially noteworthy: firstly, participation in R&D projects with premium universities, research centres and businesses, under the auspices of programs funded by the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation, European Community and other agencies; and secondly, advanced training and education initiatives, primarily through master, doctoral and post-doctoral programs for Portuguese and foreign researchers.
promote scientific research and technological development in Robotics, Systems and Information Processing; adopting different scientific backgrounds and a multidisciplinary perspective to address grand challenges with a strong societal and economic impacts;
nurture talent, by providing education and research experience for graduate and undergraduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and industrial fellows, providing exposure to leading-edge research and introducing the students to large-scale collaborative research ventures;
Disseminate
promote the diffusion of scientific culture and results through publications, outreach activities and by organizing seminars, conferences, exchange visiting programs and scientific meetings at a national or international setting;
promote active intellectual collaboration among researchers with different scientific backgrounds, covering theoretical, computational and experimental research, and involving a variety of different stakeholders: university, industry, governmental and regional administration;
build a multi-cultural, multinational research ecosystem and foster the scientific exchange among Portuguese and international universities, R&D centers and industries, through the exchange of researchers and students, and the involvement in joint projects and partnerships;