Dr Guilherme Fróes Silva

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Research Fellow

Lecturer

Guilherme received his degree in Control and Automation Engineering in 2015 and his MPhil in 2017, both from PUCRS, Brazil. His PhD was awarded by QUT in 2023. Before moving to Australia, Guilherme was a Lecturer at PUCRS, and taught various control and industrial automation units. He is now a Lecturer in the School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics and an Associate Investigator with the QUT Centre for Robotics, working with aerospace characterisation regarding collision risk modelling and control of scalable networked systems.

At QUT, he has been involved with numerous units: Modern Control, Control and Dynamic Systems, Mechatronics Design I, Robot Systems and Research Methods for Engineers.

Key Publications

  1. A. McFadyen, G. F. Silva and B. Williams, “Adjacent Airspace Risk and Containment Requirement Estimation for Uncrewed Operations,” 2024 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), Chania – Crete, Greece, 2024, pp. 546-555, https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUAS60882.2024.10556826
  2. G. F. Silva, A. Donaire, M. M. Seron, A. McFadyen and J. Ford, (2021) “String Stability in Microgrids Using Frequency Controlled Inverter Chains,” in IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 6, pp. 1484-1489, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1109/LCSYS.2021.3114143
  3. G. F. Silva, A. Donaire, A. McFadyen, and J. Ford, (2021) “String stable integral control of vehicle platoons with disturbances”, Automatica, Volume 127, 109542, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109542
  4. G. F. Silva, A. Donaire, A. McFadyen and J. Ford, “String Stable Integral Control of Vehicle Platoons with Actuator Dynamics and Disturbances,” 2020 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Jeju Island, Korea (South), 2020, pp. 2837-2842, https://doi.org/10.1109/CDC42340.2020.9303743
  5. G. F. Silva, Grace B. Carneiro, Ricardo Doth, Leonardo A. Amaral, Dario F.G. de Azevedo, (2017) “Near real-time shadow detection and removal in aerial motion imagery application”, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Pages 104-121, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2017.11.005

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