Adolfo Bauchspiess

Prof. Adolfo Bauchspiess
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Adolfo Bauchspiess graduated and got a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Brasília (UnB)-Brazil (1986, 1990) and a Dr.-Ing. in Electrical Engineering from the Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (1995). He spent a post-doc month at the European Center for Mechatronics, Aachen, 1997. A sabbatical year at the Technical Universität Kaiserslautern (2005-2006). Six months in 2014 at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is currently Associate Professor at the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Brasília and member of the LARA - Automation and Robotics Laboratory. He was the general coordinator of IX SBAI - Brazilian Symposium on Intelligent Automation, held in Brasilia in 2009. His main expertise is intelligent systems (machine learning), energy saving in building automation, identification of dynamic systems, and computer vision. From 2015 to 2017 he was the coordinator of the Mechatronics Engineering/UnB (aka Control and Automation). From 2017 to 2018 he served as a Superior Council member of the Brazilian Automation Society (SBA). IEEE member.  More recently he enjoyed a sabbatical leave at ITIV-KIT - Karlsruhe Institute for Information Processing Technology with Prof. J. Becker, Jan. 2022 - Mar. 2023.
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30th Jubileum - Dr.-Ing. Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, August 1st, 1995.
 
i)The Dr.-Ing. hat.


  ii) Supporting the sensor-guided "Dr. task"

  iii)  A pneumatic, 5:1 functional robotic manipulator


euro-ship

iv) The M.A.N. task - continuous coal unloading.
     Erlangen, in-land, euro-channel harbor.
MAN-redundant manipulator

v) M.A.N. continuous coal unloading
    redundant mobile manipulator.
 KAR-Erlangen
vi) Erlangen proof of concept camera-guided robot.
     Predictive path-tracking over exact-linearization.

i) Crafted Doctor Hat - a tradition! A periscope like sensor guided unloading manipulator for MS Enir, driven by a vacuum-cleaner.
The unofficial, gaudi "Dr.Task" (after concluding the official defense): Without any idea of what was "acommodated" over my head.
"Now you can open your eyes", to see only through the periscope's eye hole. "This is the field of view of your unloading crane's sensor".
"Empty the given load (wooden balls), following the indicated load surface, only having the 2-DOF periscope shafts". "You programmed it! Now it is time 'you feel' what you are asking from your automation!" The entire IRT (Institut für Regelungstechnik) crew was represented as play-doh models on that  ship! I was represented playing ping-pong with my "elastic" arms. Dr.-Ing. Thesis 1 Aug 1995 (in german).
 
ii) Helping hands for the heavy hat: Privat Dozent Dr.-Ing. Christoph Wurmthaler and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernhard Wagner.
 
iii) Dr.-Ing.'s Party. An extra gift: a functional pneumatic actuated replica (5:1) of my "sensor-guided predictive model-following robotic manipulator". Prof. Dr.-Ing.Dr.h.c. Wolfgang Bär - Doktor-Vater aka the Advisor.



Academics - ENE/FT/UnB

    Oferta Disciplinas 2026.1
        - ENE0167 - Controle Digital - Ter-Qui 8:00-19:00
        - ENE0477 - Automação Predial com IoT (2/3 IoT + Aplicações) Ter-Qui 16:00-17:50

    Propostas de temas hardwarebr - embarcatech: Automação com CSI-HAR  

    Propostas de temas de IC/PFC/TCC 2026.1
        1) Estudo comparativo de sensores de ocupação em ambientes prediais: infravermelho, ultrasom, vídeo e CSI.
        2) Eficiência energética predial HVAC/Iluminação por ocupação (CSI - Crowd-Counting).
        3) Controle MPC de processo de nível de liquidos.
            (Model-Based Predictive Control considera "presente, passado e futuro" - como o motorista que "vê", considera, referências futuras).
        4) Estimação conjunta few-shot de sinais e parâmetros de um processo de nível em cascata.


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Last Updated: Brasília, 12 Oct 2025