Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Electrical and Electronic Engineering is an open access journal that provides rapid publication of articles in all areas of the subject. The journal welcomes the submission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence.

Carla Pinto

Editorial Board Member of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Professor, Instituto Superior De Engenharia Do Porto, Portugal

Research Areas

Dynamical Systems, Animal and Robotic Locomotion, N

Education

2004Ph.DMathematics, since January
1999MasteComputational Methods in Science and Engineering
1996BachelorApplied Mathematics and Computer Science

Academic Achievement

Gulbenkian Foundation Award: "Prémio Gulbenkian da Ciência de Estímulo à Investigacao 2003"

Membership

Member of the Program Committee of the IASTED International Conference on Control and Applications ~CA 2011~ Vancouver Canada
Member of the Program Committee of the International Conferences on Modeling Identification and Control 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011, Innsbruck, Austria
Member of the Program Committee of The Eleventh IASTED International Conference on Control and Applications ~CA 2009~, Cambridge 2009
Member of the Program Committee of "The IASTED International Conference on Modelling, Simulation, and Identification MSI 2011", November 7--9, 2011 Pittsburgh, USA
Member of the Program Committee of "The IASTED International Conference on Automation, Control, and Information Technology Control, Diagnostics, and Automation ACIT-CDA 2010", Novosibirsk, Russia
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Mathematical Methods in Engineering International Symposium MME'10, October 2010, Coimbra, Portugal
Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Conference New Trends in Nanotechnology and Nonlinear Dynamical Systems 2010, July 2010, Ankara, Turkey
Chair of a session in the "3rd Conference on Nonlinear Science and Complexity 2010", Ankara, Turkey
Chair of two sessions in the "Mathematical Methods in Engineering International Symposium, MME'10", Coimbra, Portugal, October 2010
Chair of a session in "3rd IFAC Workshop on Fractional Differentiation and its Applications" (FDA08), Ankara, Turkey, 2008"

Publications: Conferences/Workshops/Symposiums/Journals/Books

[1]  Carla M.A. Pinto. Exotic dynamics in networks of coupled rings of cells. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, accepted for publication, (2011).
[2]  Carla M.A. Pinto, A.P. Santos. Gait transition in two-legged animals. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulations, accepted for publication, (2011).
[3]  Carla M.A. Pinto, J.A. Tenreiro Machado. Complex order biped rhythms. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, accepted for publication, (2011).
[4]  Carla M.A. Pinto, J.A. Tenreiro Machado. Complex-order van der Pol oscillator. Nonlinear Dynamics, (2011).
[5]  Carla M.A. Pinto, J.A. Tenreiro Machado. Fractional Central Pattern Generator for Bipedal Locomotion. Nonlinear Dynamics, (2010).
[6]  Carla M.A. Pinto, J.A. Tenreiro Machado. Bipedal locomotion: a fractional CPG for generating patterns. Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Dynamical Systems Theory and Applications, DSTA 2009, (2009).
[7]  C. P. Santos, V. Matos, Carla M.A. Pinto. A Brainstem-like Modulation Approach for Gait Transition in a Quadruped Robot. Proceedings of The 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems, IROS 2009, (2009).
[8]  F. Antoneli, A.P.S. Dias and C. Pinto. Quasi-periodic states in coupled rings of cells. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulations, (2009).
[9]  F. Antoneli, A.P.S. Dias and C. Pinto. New Phenomena in Coupled Rings of Cells. Proceedings of the 3rd IFAC Workshop on Fractional Differentiation and its Applications, (2008).
[10]  F. Antoneli, A.P.S. Dias and C. Pinto. Rich phenomena in a network of two rings coupled through a 'buffer' cell. Proceedings of the International Conference on Nonlinear Science and Complexity, (2008).
[11]  C. Pinto. A New Architecture for the Central Pattern Generator of a Humanoid Robot. Proceedings of the International Workshop on New Trends in Science and Technology, 53, 474-489, (2008).
[12]  C. Pinto. Central Pattern Generator for Legged Locomotion: a mathematical approach. Proceedings of the Workshop on Robotics and Mathematics, RoboMat07, (2007).
[13]  M. Krupa and C. Pinto. Curious Phenomena in Two Coupled Neurons. Proceedings of the 26th IASTED International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control, (2007).
[14]  C. Pinto and M. Golubitsky. Central pattern generators for bipedal locomotion. Journal of Mathematical Biology, 53, 474-489, (2006).
[15]  C. Pinto. Numerical Simulations in Two CPG Models for Bipedal Locomotion. Journal of Vibration and Control, 13 (9-10), 1487-1503, (2007).
[16]  I.S. Labouriau and C. Alves-Pinto. Loss of Synchronization in Partially Coupled Hodgkin-Huxley Equations. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 66, No 3, 539-557, (2004).
[17]  M. Golubitsky and C. Alves-Pinto. Bipedal locomotion. EQUADIFF 2003. Proceedings of the International Conference on Differential Equations. (F. Dumortier, H.W. Broer, J. Mawhin, A. Vanderbauwhede and S.M. Verduyn Lunel, eds.) World Scientific Publ. Co., Singapore, 452-457, (2005).
[18]  C. Alves-Pinto and M. Golubitsky. Central Pattern Generator for Bipedal Locomotion. Proceedings of the Workshop of Robustness and Partial Hyperbolicity, Búzios, Rio de Janeiro, (2003).